frank zappa

On many levels — creative, personal, and business-related — 1979 would go down as a banner year in his long and storied career.

This weeks interview is with a legend of the rock and roll world Frank Zappa. Frank had a different outlook on music and how it was presented and what the music business did to change rock and roll. Ha Ha I must say that my favorite Frank Zappa song was Dynamo Hum if you have never heard this song you should check it out...

Several months after the release of the fifth Mothers of Invention album, 'Uncle Meat,' in March 1969, Frank Zappa pulled the plug, at least for now, on the band.

Frank Zappa's most commercially successful album was released on March 22, 1974.

The project had its roots in a shelved, four-disc set that his record company refused to release.

The famous fire at the Montreux Jazz Festival took place on Dec. 4, 1971

A mysterious group of pompadoured cartoon faces turned back the clock to highlight the golden era of doo-wop.

Frank Zappa's ‘Studio Tan’ album was released in September 1978.

Keyboard pioneer George Duke, whose long list of credits included a lengthy stint with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, has reportedly passed away at the age of 67.

Other retrospective collections followed, but this remains the most definitive overall document of his live career.

The Zappa Family Trust, headed by Frank Zappa's widow Gail, has announced that select titles from the massive Zappa catalog will be finding their way to vinyl this summer. In June, Zappa's Barking Pumpkin label will put out editions of 1973's 'Over-Nite Sensation' and the 1966 classic 'Freak Out!,' joining the recently released 'Finer Moments,' a collection of live material from the early-'70s. Re

Frank Zappa was a musician either ahead, or completely outside, of his time. His elaborate music and bizarre stage theatrics were so one-of-a-kind that it almost isn't possible to accurately describe Zappa's work in words, and that often set him at odds with the mainstream media.