The Polytechnic

 USA

 
The Rensselaer Polytechnic, which is also called The Polytechnic or The Poly, is the student-run news organization of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to 2018, it was published in print every Wednesday during the Institute's fall and spring academic calendars, but now publishes online. (wikipedia)

1969 November 19

Vol. 90 No. 9

 

Motherless Child's Latest Invention
By Art Quickenton, p 10


 I would recommend that you run out and purchase this album but for the majority of you it would be a waste of time and money. Frank Zappa is one of the finest modern composers working today, but you don't understand and you don't care. (read more)

 

 

1975 February 27

Vol. 90 No. 9

 

Zappa and crews live album showcases bizarre brilliance
By Chris Davis, p 9


 There is nothing like Zappa-rock; it is a category unto itself. The evolution of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention through the years since Freak Out parallels the evolution of rock music in general. Back in the good old days the Mothers played songs almost entirely written by dedicated '50's rhythm and blues fan Zappa, which sounded superficially like anything else of that era. (read more)