"track was representative of the band's theatrical performances in which songs were used to build up sketches based on ""200 Motels"" scenes as well as new situations often portraying the band members' sexual encounters on the road. In December 1971, there were two serious setbacks. While performing at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, the Mothers' equipment was destroyed when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino. Immortalized in Deep Purple's song ""Smoke on the Water"", the event and immediate aftermath can be heard on the bootleg album ""Swiss Cheese/Fire"", released legally"
"1971 Rainbow Theatre concert, performed shortly before Zappa was pushed from the stage by an audience member. Zappa's liner notes state that after he played his solo the attack happened ""moments later,"" but in his autobiography he wrote (consistent with the memories of other band members) that the incident took place after the band had finished its encore, a cover of the Beatles song ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"". The album contains performances of ""Cocaine Decisions"" and ""Nig Biz"" from a concert in Palermo, Italy on July 14, 1982. During ""Cocaine Decisions"", an audience riot began and police shot"
"with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, by Salvador Dalì. Frank Zappa's face replaces that of Voltaire's in the original, among other changes. All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa. At the concert, ""Big Swifty"" was played between ""The Adventures of Greggery Peccary"" and ""Penis Dimension"". The Mothers of Invention / Hot Rats / Grand Wazoo: Wazoo (album) Wazoo is a live album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released in October 2007 as a 2-CD set consisting of the complete concert given by ""The Mothers of Invention/Hot Rats/Grand Wazoo"" 20-piece big band on September 24, 1972 at the Music Hall,"
"play the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago when Ian Gillan took ill with hepatitis, forcing the band to play without him, with bassist Glover singing the set. After this, the rest of the US dates were canceled and the band flew home. In early December 1971, the band traveled to Switzerland to record ""Machine Head"". The album was due to be recorded at the Montreux Casino, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, but a fire during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention gig, caused by a man firing a flare gun into the ceiling, burned down the Casino. This"
"were not as popular. The group broke up shortly after. There has been one more recording released by the group, ""Yellow Shoes/Pretty Polly"" on Everest Records, however there is some dispute about the authenticity of the record. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention covered the song in 1969, releasing it in 1970 on the album ""Burnt Weeny Sandwich"". This version was both a satire of and a homage to the original, and Zappa has conceded admiringly that he could not have written a song any more absurd. The song prompted a rock radio station in New York (see WPLJ)"
"from the touring scene due to the injuries he suffered from an assault during a concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on December 10, 1971. The material showcases Zappa's endeavors into jazz-based music, and many of the compositions were featured on the 1972 studio albums ""The Grand Wazoo"" and ""Waka/Jawaka"" and on the 1978 studio album ""Studio Tan"". Rehearsals leading to these albums and concerts are documented on ""Joe's Domage"" (2004), while ""Imaginary Diseases"" (2006) presents live recordings with a stripped-down version of the big band named 'Petite Wazoo'. The album cover is a visual parody of Slave Market"
"The band had performed there in May 1971 and enjoyed both the location and Claude Nobs, founder and general manager of the famous Montreux Jazz Festival. Amongst others, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath had all performed there. The Casino closed for refurbishments each winter, and so the band arrived there on 3 December. One last concert date remained, following which they were to have the location to themselves. Frank Zappa's concert of 4 December at the Casino was made infamous when a member of the audience fired a flare into the building's roof. Although there were no fatalities,"
"200 Motels (soundtrack) The 200 Motels soundtrack to Frank Zappa's film ""200 Motels"" was released by United Artists Records in 1971. Like the film, the album covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town of Centerville and bassist Jeff quitting the group, as did his real life counterpart, Jeff Simmons, who left the group before the film began shooting and was replaced by actor Martin Lickert for the film. The album peaked at No. 59 on the ""Billboard"" 200, though reviewers deemed it a peripheral part of Zappa's catalog. The rock and comedy"
"Stravinsky's ""The Rite of Spring"" is heard during one song. Zappa and the Mothers of Invention returned to Los Angeles in the summer of 1968. Despite being a success with fans in Europe, the Mothers of Invention were not faring well financially. Their first records were vocally oriented, but Zappa wrote more instrumental jazz and classical oriented music for the band's concerts, which confused audiences. Zappa felt that audiences failed to appreciate his ""electrical chamber music"". Recorded from September 1967 to September 1968 and released in early 1969 Uncle Meat was a double album of varied music and the final"
"mostly written in motel rooms while on tour with the Mothers of Invention. Some of it was later featured in the movie ""200 Motels"". Although the concert was a success, Zappa's experience working with a symphony orchestra was not a happy one. His dissatisfaction became a recurring theme throughout his career; he often felt that the quality of performance of his material delivered by orchestras was not commensurate with the money he spent on orchestral concerts and recordings. Later in 1970, Zappa formed a new version of the Mothers (from then on, he mostly dropped the ""of Invention""). It included"
"unable to tour after being assaulted and pushed offstage into an orchestra pit during a concert on December 10, 1971 at the Rainbow Theatre in London, UK. The album is mostly made up of instrumental pieces, similar in style to those of three previous albums: ""Hot Rats"" (October 1969), ""Burnt Weeny Sandwich"" (February 1970), and ""Waka/Jawaka"" (July 1972). Zappa was also producer and principal composer for Jean-Luc Ponty's album """" (1970) during this period. All songs written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa. with: with: The Grand Wazoo The Grand Wazoo is a Jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa and"
"Wazoo (album) Wazoo is a live album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released in October 2007 as a 2-CD set consisting of the complete concert given by ""The Mothers of Invention/Hot Rats/Grand Wazoo"" 20-piece big band on September 24, 1972 at the Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the third installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete Zappa concerts, following the releases of """" (2002) and ""Buffalo"" (2007). It is the last concert of a brief series of shows that marked Zappa's return to the stage after his forced temporary retirement"
"Muffin Man (song) ""Muffin Man"" is a song recorded live by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It appears on his 1975 mostly live album ""Bongo Fury"" made with Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet). The song begins with studio-recorded spoken word lyrics delivered by Zappa and is followed by the chorus. The song was inspired by the traditional nursery rhyme, The Muffin Man. The song closes the album, as well as the compilation ""Strictly Commercial,"" and was also used as a finale in concerts for many years afterwards. The song's tone was compared to Jimi Hendrix's style. An alternative"
"Led Zeppelin's ""Led Zeppelin III"" (1970) and ""Led Zeppelin IV"" (1971), much of the Rolling Stones' ""Sticky Fingers"" (1971) and ""Exile On Main St."" (1972), as well as the Stones' 1969 Hyde Park concert. The unit was used in a large variety of locations, everywhere from halls to barns to castles and the casino at Montreux, Switzerland. During the making of the sixth Deep Purple album, ""Machine Head"", the Mobile nearly caught fire as it stood next to the casino, which was set ablaze during a Frank Zappa concert. This incident became the inspiration behind Deep Purple's most famous song,"
"The Grand Wazoo The Grand Wazoo is a Jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, released in November 1972. It was written and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence after being assaulted in December 1971 in London, UK. Along with its predecessor ""Waka/Jawaka"" (July 1972), this album represents Zappa's foray into big band music, the logical progression from ""Hot Rats"" (1969) (which used a much smaller lineup). This was the last release on Zappa's own Bizarre Records label. This was the third Zappa album released in a period where he was forced to use a wheelchair. Zappa was"
"""freak"" appeared throughout the liner notes of the 1966 Mothers of Invention album, ""Freak Out!"". At the first Mothers of Invention concerts, audience members were invited to ""freak out!"", which meant to express themselves freely, be it through dancing, screaming, or letting a band member spray them with whipped cream. In terms of concert culture, the freak mentality influenced similar bands of subsequent musical generations. The freaks, by Zappa's reckoning, resisted the binaries of right versus left, dominant culture versus counterculture, or squares versus hippies, preferring instead to align themselves with an aesthetic not narrowly defined by fashion or political"
"during the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour on August 8, 1992, Metallica frontman James Hetfield was the victim of a severe pyrotechnics accident during the song ""Fade to Black"", in which a pyrotechnic charge exploded. Hetfield's guitar protected him from the full force of the blast; however, the fire engulfed his left side, burning his hand, arm, eyebrows, face and hair. He suffered second and third-degree burns, but was back on stage 17 days later. In 2003, improper use of pyrotechnics caused a fire in a Rhode Island nightclub called The Station. The Station nightclub fire was started when fireworks"
"then we sold about 300,000 on the flip of 'Lovin' Thing'. But then the following year, the bloke who'd written the bloody song suddenly turned up out of the woodwork!"". Frank Zappa recorded a parody of the song, titled ""Flower Punk"", on the Mothers of Invention album ""We're Only in It for the Money"" in 1968. The song was one of several on the album that parodied the fashionable hippie lifestyle. Lyrics in Zappa's version included ""Hey Punk, where you goin' with that flower in your hand?/Well, I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band."" Zappa also included"
"Ripped My Flesh"" and ""Burnt Weeny Sandwich"" (both released in 1970). Later in 1970, Zappa formed a new version of the Mothers (from then on, he mostly dropped the ""of Invention""). It included British drummer Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of the Turtles: bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the stage name ""The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie"", or ""Flo & Eddie"". This version of the Mothers debuted on Zappa's next solo album ""Chunga's Revenge"" (1970),"
"Beat the Boots! II Beat the Boots II is a box set by Frank Zappa. It compiles bootleg recordings which were previously available illegally, and was released through Rhino Entertainment in 1992 as part of Zappa's campaign to dissuade his fans from buying illegal recordings of his concerts. The set contains material from between 1968 and 1978, including ""Swiss Cheese/Fire!"" which documents a famous 1971 concert at a casino in Montreux where the venue burned down, inspiring the lyrics of Deep Purple's ""Smoke on the Water"". All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted. Recorded at Palais Gaumont, Paris December"
"presidential candidate George W. Bush. During a concert in Palermo, Italy in 1982, a riot occurred during ""Cocaine Decisions"" in which the police shot teargas into the crowd. Zappa was reported stating ""We played for an hour and a half with tear-gas in our face and everything else, and when it was all over we went off stage and we were trapped inside this place"". The riot inspired the back cover of the album ""The Man From Utopia"". A.""Cocaine Decisions"" - 2:56 B.""SEX"" - 3:00 Cocaine Decisions ""Cocaine Decisions"" is a 1983 single by Frank Zappa, from the album ""The"
"1967 hit single ""For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey, What's That Sound)"" was written by group member Stephen Stills in response to the riots around Pandora's Box. Later, Stills said: ""Riot is a ridiculous name, it was a funeral for Pandora's Box. But it looked like a revolution."" ""Plastic People"", a song recorded by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention in November 1966, directly mentions Pandora's Box in its lyrics: ""I hear the sound of marching feet... Down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights... and there... at Pandora's box... We are confronted with... a vast Quantity of... Plastic people..."". The"
"cult film, where all the unintended hilarity comes from the film's overly serious approach, ""cheesy"" production values, and ludicrous plot. One of the film's more notable fans was Frank Zappa, who referenced the film in the title of an instrumental composition, ""Manx Needs Women"" (a pun on the inhabitants of the Isle of Man), which was regularly performed by Zappa in concert in 1976; recordings of the song's performances appear on Zappa's albums ""Zappa In New York"" and ""Philly '76"". Samples from the film appear in the track ""Mars Needs Women"" by Meat Beat Manifesto, the B-side of the God"
"punctuation. The UK underground artist Mick Farren covered the song on his album ""Vampires Stole My Lunch Money"" (1978). Australian stoner rock band Tumbleweed covered the song as a B-side on their 1993 single Daddy Long Legs. The Frank Zappa tribute band Trouble Every Day named itself after this song. French filmmaker Claire Denis named her 2001 film ""Trouble Every Day"" after the song. Trouble Every Day (song) ""Trouble Every Day"" (labeled in early prints as ""Trouble Comin' Every Day"") is a song by The Mothers of Invention, released on their 1966 debut album ""Freak Out!"" Frank Zappa wrote the"
"on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled ""Swiss Cheese/Fire!"" The song ""Smoke on the Water"" by English rock group Deep Purple is about the incident: The Casino was subsequently rebuilt, and during the interim the Montreux Jazz Festival was held in other auditoriums in Montreux, until it could return to the newly re-opened Casino in 1975. The Festival continued to be hosted there until 1993, when it moved to a larger Montreux Convention Centre located approximately one kilometre from the Casino. From 1995 through 2006, the Festival occupied both the Convention Centre and the Casino. Beginning with the 41st Festival"
"of London, knocking over the British Telecom Tower. The controversial World War II Dutch resistance fighter Christiaan Lindemans — eventually arrested on suspicion of having betrayed secrets to the Nazis — was nicknamed ""King Kong"" due to his being exceptionally tall. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention recorded an instrumental about ""King Kong"" in 1967 and featured it on the album ""Uncle Meat"". Zappa went on to make many other versions of the song on albums such as ""Make a Jazz Noise Here"", ""You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3"", ""Ahead of Their Time"", and ""Beat the"
"Milan on 5 July. This festival appearance in front of an audience of 15,000 people was abandoned when hundreds of tear-gas wielding riot police charged into the crowd. The group were forced to leave the stage and many fans were injured. Some of the group's equipment was also damaged in the chaos. The band's singer Robert Plant later recalled: The concert has been described as one of the low points of Led Zeppelin's career, and the band never again returned to Italy. All track written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, except where noted. The fairly typical set list for"
"The Trammps The Trammps were an American disco and soul band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of ""Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart"". The first disco track they released was ""Love Epidemic"" in 1973. However, they are best known for their Grammy winning song, ""Disco Inferno"", originally released in 1976, becoming a UK pop hit and US R&B hit. After inclusion in the ""Saturday Night Fever"" soundtrack, the song was re-released in 1978 and became a US pop hit. The"
"heyday of the hippie counterculture on the west coast, many teens and young adults that were disillusioned with the austere confines of the postwar, suburbanite American way of life, and the resultant countercultural and New Left movements defined themselves as ""freaks"". American musician and composer Frank Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention were central to the freak scene in the mid to late 1960s, both in the Los Angeles/San Francisco Bay Area music scene and in New York City, where the band had a now infamous residency at the Garrick Theatre. '""On a personal level"", wrote Zappa, ""Freaking"
"at the California Jam festival in 1974, where he dropped one guitar over the edge of the stage, smashed a second against a TV camera, then set his amplifier on fire, which then subsequently exploded. When Deep Purple reformed in 1984, this extended arrangement was reworked, and later included snippets of other songs. During the Man Of All Ages tour, the final part of the song, which originally featured high-pitched screaming by Gillan (now 71), instead featured high-pitched guitar in the same key as his original vocals. On the remastered version of their 1982 album ""Live in London"", there is"
"mammy figure of Aunt Jemima to subvert traditional notions of race and gender. Frank Zappa includes a song titled ""Electric Aunt Jemima"" on his 1969 album ""Uncle Meat"". Electric Aunt Jemima was the nickname for Zappa's Standel guitar amplifier. Zappa's composition ""Magdalena"" on his 1971 album ""Just Another Band From L.A."" tells the story of a Canadian maple syrup-maker (""...for the pancakes of our land."") who lusts after his teenage daughter. His 1974 album ""Apostrophe (')"" continues the pancake and syrup theme on the tracks ""St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast"" and ""Father O'Blivion."" Faith Ringgold’s first quilt story ""Who's Afraid of"
"sexual arousal, powerful orgasms and potential female ejaculation. Zappa went to the Parents Music Resource Center Senate Hearing, a former committee formed in 1985 by the wives of many Deputies with the stated goal of increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related or sexual themes by labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers. Zappa spoke with William Rehnquist (then Chief Justice of the United States), justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, and Al Gore, who declared himself a fan of The Mothers of Invention. ""G-Spot tornado"", arranged in 1992 by Ali N. Askin, was part"
"tampering with national property, and removed the parts from Symphony Hall."" The incident soon established itself as a myth in which Stravinsky was supposedly arrested for playing the music. One of the most notable renditions of the anthem was Jimi Hendrix's solo guitar performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, captured on the documentary film of the event. Hendrix played the anthem with a number of distorted regressions — some mimicking the ""rockets"" and ""bombs"" of the anthem's lyrics — to great acclaim from the audience. It was voted 52nd on the list of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all"