It's 13 vears since the Mothers of Invention burst on the rock scene trying to freak out the establishment and the hippies all at once. Judging from Frank Zappa's appearance at the Capitol in Passaic over the weekend, not much has changed in his act, the times have just passed him by. (read more)

[...] Frank Zappa has simultaneously paying homage to and subverting the rock tradition for over two decades, and his long set on Monday night at the Arts Center proved that he still has his rock basics down, and is still close to sacriligious in his lyrics and parodies of pop genres, With two guitarists in the front line with him, Zappa and his cohorts peeled off some exciting solos, the band manuevered through Zappa's obstacle course chords and rhythm changes with high elan, and the rhythm cooked mightily.
As for the lyrics, they careened wildly too, between the ridiculous, the malicious, the lewd and the downright obscene. Suffice it to say that Zappa's ribald sense of humor can not conveyed in the pages of a family newspaper.