When I returned from a summer gig in Butte, Montana in 1966, friends in
the school of music at the UofW played me the Mothers album. When I
joined the folk rock group a little later on at the end of the first
rehearsal played it for them and then had them just play anything that
came to mind. I actually came off very well. I was familiar with the
concept from "happenings" which were a jazz phenomena of the early 1960s
with Don Ellis a lead experimenter. I had also done some work with
William O Smith who had joined the UofW faculty exploring this phenomena.
We added this venue to our gigs which made us very "psychedelic" early on.
On 11/08/2014 10:19 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
200 motels! I think he released the soundtrack to that, and I bought a
copy - I was too young to completely *get* Zappa when I first heard
him, but I recognized him as so original, and dramatic, it kept up my
interest, until he made more sense.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
The guitar player in my small town first band played with Zappa. Also
a Seattle bass player friend, Jeff Simmons, played with Zappa and when
he quit Zappa made a movie around it called "200 Motels" (definitely
rated Not for Buck). It was also one of the very first movies all
done with video. When I saw Zappa's show in Spokane in 1971 and
headed for the rest room before the show who should come out but Zappa
himself.
On 11/08/2014 06:04 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@...
<mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Ha-ha! So true - My fave zappa tune of all time is Peaches En
Regalia. Always enjoyed his album covers too.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>,
<no_re...@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
Hot Rats, one of my all time favorite albums. The fellow was a
genius but published too much of his enormous production.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <punditster@...>
<mailto:punditster@...> wrote :
Frank Zappa lived in a log cabin formerly owned by cowboy actor
Tom Mix on thid lot 1966 to 1968, when he left because too any
weirdos were dropping in (not including John Mayall, who lived
with Zappa when he first came to the U.S.).
*The L.A. Musical History Tour*
by Art Fein
Faber and Faber, 1990
p. 134
Other titles of interest:
*Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The
Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream*
by David McGowan
Headpress, 2014
*Freak out! My life with Frank Zappa:*
http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/groups/1963466
>
On 11/7/2014 11:08 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@...
<mailto:noozguru@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
>
...youmight have liked reading the link to the rather
extensive history of Laurel Canyon.
>
/Almost anyone who had any aspiration to being a singer
and/or song writer passed through Laurel Canyon and the old
Tom Mix Log Cabin. ///One of the strangest in the strange
cast of characters in Laurel Canyon in 1967 was Frank Zappa.
He rented the log cabin after we moved out - the strange
part is that he was formerly in the military and he neither
drank nor smoked - Frank was not a hippie - he was a "freak."
/
Laurel Canyon Blvd. and Lookout Mountain Road, CA
/>
After all you were there.
>
/Hotel Laurel Canyon://
//
//"A strange cast of characters congregated in the Hollywood
Hills where lots of rock bands seemed to be emerging into
the spotlight at the same time. Countless rumors have
materialized about what was really going there. Some people
interpret the song "Hotel California" to be about the
excesses of the Rock and Roll lifestyle, and as Don Henley
put it, 'The underbelly of the American Dream'..." //
//
//http://iamaphoney.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html/
