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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jimmy Carl Black
Drummer
1-Feb-1938 1-Nov-2008 Original Mothers of Invention drummer
George Duke
Jazz Musician
12-Jan-1946   Jazz/Funk keyboardist
Aynsley Dunbar
Drummer
10-Jan-1946   Prolific drummer, ex-Zappa, Bowie, Journey
Howard Kaylan
Singer
22-Jun-1947   The Turtles
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jazz Musician
29-Sep-1942   Electric jazz violinist
Don Preston
Musician
21-Sep-1932   Keyboard mad scientist, occasional monster
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Musician
10-Sep-1944   Percussionist for Zappa and Beefheart
Ian Underwood
Musician
22-May-1939   Multi-instrumentalist for The Mothers of Invention
Ruth Underwood
Drummer
23-May-1946   Whirlwind percussionist for Frank Zappa
Mark Volman
Singer
19-Apr-1947   The Turtles
Frank Zappa
Composer
21-Dec-1940 4-Dec-1993 Joe's Garage

DISCOGRAPHY

Freak Out! (1966, Verve/MGM)
1Hungry Freaks, Daddy
2I Ain't Got No Heart
3Who Are The Brain Police?
4Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
5Motherly Love
6How Could I Be Such A Fool
8Wowie Zowie
9You Didn't Try To Call Me
10Any Way The Wind Blows
11I'm Not Satisfied
Disc 2
1You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
2Trouble Every Day
3Help, I'm A Rock
4It Can't Happen Here
5The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1987 and in a different digitally remastered version in 1995.

Absolutely Free (1967, Verve)
1Plastic People
2The Duke Of Prunes
3Amnesia Vivace
4The Duke Regains His Chops
5Call Any Vegetable
6Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
7Soft-Sell Conclusion
8America Drinks
9Status Back Baby
10Uncle Bernie's Farm
11Son Of Suzy Creamcheese
12Brown Shoes Don't Make It
13America Drinks & Goes Home (with Terry Gilliam)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1988 and in a different digitally remastered version in 1995 with the additional tracks Big Leg Emma and Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?.

We're Only In It For The Money (1968, Verve)
1Are You Hung Up? (with Eric Clapton)
2Who Needs The Peace Corps?
3Concentration Moon
4Mom & Dad
5Telephone Conversation
6Bow Tie Daddy
7Harry, You're A Beast
8What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
9Absolutely Free
10Flower Punk
11Hot Poop
12Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (with Eric Clapton)
13Let's Make The Water Turn Black
14The Idiot Bastard Son
15It's His Voice on the Radio
16Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (reprise)
18Mother People
19The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

The original release of the album had certain parts censored; an even more thoroughly censored version was also briefly in circulation. Reissued in a digitally remastered, modified, uncensored and partially re-recorded version (new bass and drum tracks) on CD by Ryko in 1986, also combining the album with Lumpy Gravy. The 1995 CD edition used a digitally remastered version of the original vinyl release, with the track It's His Voice on the Radio re-named as Lonely Little Girl.

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968, Bizarre/Verve)
1Cheap Thrills
2Love Of My Life
3How Could I Be Such A Fool
4Deseri
5I'm Not Satisfied
6Jelly Roll Gum Drop
7Anything
8Later That Night
9You Didn't Try To Call Me
10Fountain Of Love
11"No. No. No."
12Anyway The Wind Blows
13Stuff Up The Cracks

Reissued in a digitally remastered and extensively modified version on CD by Ryko in 1987 and 1995.

Mothermania: The Best Of The Mothers (1969, Bizarre/Verve)
1Brown Shoes Don't Make It
2Mother People (alternate mono)
3Duke Of Prunes
4Call Any Vegetable (edit)
5The Idiot Bastard Son (alternate mono)
6It Can't Happen Here (alternate mix)
7You Are Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (alternate mix)
8Who Are The Brain Police? (alternate mix)
9Plastic People
10Hungry Freaks, Daddy (alternate mix)
11America Drinks And Goes Home

The Spanish edition replaced the tracks Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Mother People and The Duke Of Prunes with Who Needs The Peace Corps? and Concentration Moon.

Uncle Meat (1969, Bizarre (US), Trans-Atlantic (UK))
Disc 1
1Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
2The Voice Of Cheese
3Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
4Zolar Czakl
5Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
6The Legend Of The Golden Arches
7Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) (Richard Berry cover)
8The Dog Breath Variations
9Sleeping In A Jar
10Our Bizarre Relationship
11The Uncle Meat Variations
12Electric Aunt Jemima
13Prelude To King Kong
14God Bless America (live at the Whisky A Go Go) (Irving Berlin cover)
15A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
16Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)
Disc 2
1Mr. Green Genes
2We Can Shoot You
3"If We'd All Been Living In California... "
4The Air
5Project X
6Cruising For Burgers
7King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)
8King Kong (II) (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)
9King Kong (III) (as Motorhead explains it)
10King Kong (IV) (the Gardner Varieties)
11King Kong (V) (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)
12King Kong (VI) (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival... the Underwood ramifications)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version as a double CD by Ryko in 1987 and in 1995 with the additional tracks Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Part I, Tengo Na Minchia Tanta and Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Part II and with a remixed version of Mr. Green Genes.

The **** Of The Mothers (1969, Verve)
1Status Back Baby
2Wowie Zowie
3You Didn't Try To Call Me
4Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
5Soft-Sell Conclusions
6Bow-Tie Daddy
7Uncle Bernie's Farm
8Concentration Moon
9Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
10Flower Punk
11Motherly Love

A compilation album.

Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))
1WPLJ (The Four Deuces cover)
2Igor's Boogie, Phase One
3Overture To A Holiday In Berlin
4Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich
5Igor's Boogie, Phase Two
6Holiday In Berlin, Full-Blown
7Aybe Sea
8The Little House I Used To Live In
9Valarie (Jackie and the Starlites cover)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1991 and by Ryko in 1995.

The Mothers Of Invention (1970, MGM)
1Mother People
2Who Needs The Peace Corps?
3Flower Punk
4I Ain't Got No Heart
5Concentration Moon
6Wowie Zowie
7America Drinks & Goes Home
8Call Any Vegetable
9Son Of Suzy Creamcheese
10Absolutely Free

A compilation album.

Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))
1Didja Get Any Onya?
2Directly From My Heart To You (Little Richard cover)
3Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
4Toads Of The Short Forest
5Get A Little
6The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
7Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
8My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
9Oh No
10The Orange County Lumber Truck
11Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

Chunga's Revenge (1970, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))
1Transylvania Boogie
2Road Ladies
3Twenty Small Cigars
4The Nancy & Mary Music (parts 1, 2 & 3)
5Tell Me You Love Me
6Would You Go All The Way?
7Chunga's Revenge
8The Clap
9Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink
10Sharleena

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

The Worst Of The Mothers (1971, MGM)
1Help, I'm A Rock
2Anyway The Wind Blows
3Flower Punk
4You Didn't Try To Call Me
5Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
6Motherly Love
7Mom & Dad
8Mother People
9Wowie Zowie
10Status Back Baby

A compilation album.

Fillmore East, June 1971 (live) (1971)
1Little House I Used To Live In
2The Mud Shark
3What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
4Bwana Dik
5Latex Solar Beef
6Willie The Pimp Part One/
7Willie The Pimp, Part Two
8Do You Like My New Car?
9Happy Together (The Turtles cover)
10Lonesome Electric Turkey (with Don Preston)
11Peaches En Regalia
12Tears Began To Fall

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995, but lacking the track Willie The Pimp, Part Two.

Just Another Band From L.A. (live) (1972, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))
1Billy The Mountain
2Call Any Vegetable
3Eddie, Are You Kidding?
4Magdalena
5Dog Breath

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

Over-Nite Sensation (1973, DiscReet)
1Camarillo Brillo
2I'm The Slime (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)
3Dirty Love (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)
4Fifty-Fifty (with Ricky Lancelotti)
5Zomby Woof (with Ricky Lancelotti and Tina Turner & The Ikettes)
6Dinah-Moe Humm (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)
7Montana (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)

The Spanish edition replaced Dinah-Moe Humm with Eat That Question. Combined with Apostrophe (') and reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1986; reissued again as a separate CD in 1995.

Roxy & Elsewhere (live) (1974, DiscReet)
1Penguin In Bondage
2Pygmy Twylyte
3Dummy Up
4Village Of The Sun
5Echidna's Arf (Of You)
6Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
7Cheepnis
8Son Of Orange County
9More Trouble Every Day
10Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1992 with a remixed version of Cheepnis; this edition was reissued again in 1995 by Ryko.

One Size Fits All (1975, DiscReet)
1Inca Roads
2Can't Afford No Shoes
3Sofa No. 1
4Po-Jama People
5Florentine Pogen
6Evelyn, A Modified Dog
7San Ber'dino
8Andy
9Sofa No. 2

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1988 and in 1995.

Bongo Fury (1975, DiscReet)
1Debra Kadabra
2Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy
3Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top
4Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
5200 Years Old
6Cucamonga
7Advance Romance
8Man With The Woman Head
9Muffin Man

A collaboration between Zappa/The Mothers and Captain Beefheart. Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1989 and in 1995.

Playground Psychotics (1992, Barking Pumpkin (US), Zappa (UK))
Disc 1
1Here Comes The Gear, Lads
2The Living Garbage Truck
3A Typical Sound Check
4"This Is Neat"
5The Motel Lobby
6Getting Stewed
7The Motel Room
8"Don't Take Me Down"
9The Dressing Room
10Learning "Penis Dimension"
11"You There, With The Hard On!"
12Zanti Serenade
13Divan
14Sleeping In A Jar
15"Don't Eat There"
16Brixton Still Life
17Super Grease
18Wonderful Wino
19Sharleena
20Cruisin' For Burgers
21Diptheria Blues
22Well (Walter Ward cover, with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
23Say Please (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
24Aaawk (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
25Scumbag (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
26A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
Disc 2
1Beer Shampoo
2Champagne Lecture
3Childish Perversion
4Playground Psychotics
5The Mudshark Interview
6"There's No Lust In Jazz"
7Botulism On The Hoof
8You Got Your Armies
9The Spew King
10I'm Doomed
11Status Back Baby
12The London Cab Tape
13Concentration Moon, Part One
14The Sanzini Brothers
15"It's A Good Thing We Get Paid To Do This"
16Concentration Moon, Part Two
17Mom & Dad
18Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra
19Billy The Mountain
20He's Watching Us
21If You're Not A Professional Actor
22He's Right
23Going For The Money
24Jeff Quits
25A Bunch Of Adventures
26Martin Lickert's Story
27A Great Guy
28Bad Acting
29The Worst Reviews
30A Version Of Himself
31I Could Be A Star Now

Reissued in 1995 by Ryko.

Ahead Of Their Time (live) (1993, Barking Pumpkin (US), Zappa (UK))
1Prologue
2Progress?
3Like It Or Not
4The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson
5Holding The Group Back
6Holiday In Berlin
7The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves The Stage
8Undaunted, The Band Plays On
9Agency Man
10Epilogue
11King Kong
12Help, I'm A Rock
13Transylvania Boogie
14Pound For A Brown
15Sleeping In A Jar
16Let's Make The Water Turn Black
17Harry, You're A Beast
18The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part I)
19Oh No
20The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part II)

Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London on October 25, 1968 with members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Reissued in 1995 by Ryko.



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