Zappa is said to have replied, " You have a wooden leg ; does that make you a table?

Frank Zappa admonished his audience that " we all wear a uniform "; the San Francisco clown / hippie Wavy Gravy said in 1987 that he could still see fellow-feeling in the eyes of Market Street businessmen who had dressed conventionally to survive.

Composer Frank Zappa said in his autobiography The Real Frank Zappa Book that he agreed with many of the beliefs of the church, but refrained from joining as a full member.

* " Village of the Sun " ( 1974 ): A song by Frank Zappa about " rasing turkeys " as Zappa said during the song's introduction.

Frank Zappa said of McLaughlin in Guitar Player, Jan. 1977: " A person would be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin's technique.

Although the pairing of pop stars Grand Funk and the esoteric Zappa seemed bizarre, Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer said, " His whole viewpoint on what rock and roll is all about is basically the same as ours .... Keep it as simple as possible and really bring the balls out of this thing.

" Zappa said, " All I did was in a documentary way make a record which tells you exactly what they really sound like.

Kaye later said Zappa was good-natured and understanding about her qualms and they remained on friendly terms.

During his teen years in Lancaster, California, Van Vliet developed an eclectic musical taste and formed " a mutually useful but volatile " friendship with Frank Zappa, with whom he sporadically competed and collaborated.

While attending Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager Frank Zappa, the pair bonding through their interest in Chicago blues and R & B.

Van Vliet is portrayed in both The Real Frank Zappa Book and Barry Miles ' biography Zappa as fairly spoiled at this stage of his life, the center of attention as an only child.

After Zappa began regular occupation at Paul Buff's PAL Studio in Cucamonga he and Van Vliet began collaborating, tentatively as " The Soots ".

" In a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Van Vliet requests " don't ask me why or how " he and Zappa came up with the name.

" After managing a Kinney's shoe store, Van Vliet relocated to Rancho Cucamonga, California, to reconnect with Zappa, who inspired his entry into musical performance.

Van Vliet seated left on stage with Zappa in 1975.

Van Vliet met Frank Zappa when they were both teenagers and shared an interest in rhythm and blues and Chicago blues .< ref name = Taylor > Steve Taylor They collaborated from this early stage, with Zappa's scripts for ' teenage operettas ' such as " Captain Beefheart & The Grunt People " helping to elevate the Van Vliet persona of Captain Beefheart.

The friendship between Zappa and Van Vliet over the years was sometimes expressed in the form of rivalry as musicians drifted back and forth between their groups.

Van Vliet embarked on the 1975 Bongo Fury tour with Zappa and The Mothers, mainly because conflicting contractual obligations made him unable to tour or record independently.

Zappa became irritated by Van Vliet, who drew constantly, including while on stage, filling one of his large sketch books with rapidly executed portraits and warped caricatures of Zappa.

Van Vliet also played the harmonica on two songs on Zappa albums: " San Ber ' dino " ( credited as " Bloodshot Rollin ' Red ") on One Size Fits All ( 1975 ) and " Find Her Finer " on Zoot Allures ( 1976 ).

The strands of this logic emanating from Vliet's Beefheart persona having been ' written in ' as a character in a ' teenage operetta ' that Zappa had formulated, along with Van Vliet's renowned ' Pepsi-moods ' with his mother Willie Sue and his generally spoilt teenage demeanor.

Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and poet mystic Z ' EV, both pioneers of industrial music, cited Van Vliet along with Zappa among their influences.

Produced by Mick Glossop ( Van Morrison, Frank Zappa, The Waterboys etc.

), it also featured Johnny Scott ( Van Morrison ) on guitar, and James Lascelles ( Frank Zappa ) on hammond, mini-moog, piano, hammered dulcimer and percussion.

These singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Grace Slick, Dave Mason, Jim Croce, Fred Neil, Roger McGuinn, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Donovan, Stephen Stills, Randy Newman, Steve Goodman, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Jesse Winchester, Johnny Tillotson, Sylvia Tyson, Ian Tyson, Nick Drake, Tim Hardin, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Eric Andersen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Armatrading, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Nick Gravenites, Rick Nelson, Richard Fariña, Tuli Kupferberg Mark Spoelstra, Don Mclean, Patrick Sky, Jimmy Buffett, Mickey Newbury, Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Van Ronk, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Frank Zappa.

The music for the show was provided by a diverse set of musicians, including Mark Mothersbaugh, The Residents, Todd Rundgren, Danny Elfman ( who provided the score for both of the Pee-wee movies ), Mitchell Froom, Van Dyke Parks, George Clinton and Dweezil Zappa with Scott Thunes ( spelled ' Tunis ' in the credits ).

Around this time Van Vliet's high school friend Frank Zappa started his own pair of record labels, Bizarre and Straight, and offered Van Vliet, by then better known as Captain Beefheart, a name Zappa had given him, the opportunity to record an album with complete artistic freedom.

The Omens ' guitarists Alexis Snouffer and Jerry Handley would later become founders of " The Magic Band " and The Blackouts ' drummer, Frank Zappa, would later capture Vliet's vocal capabilities on record for the first time.

Vliet's ' Pepsi-moods ' were ever a source of amusement to band members, leading Zappa to later write the wry tune " Why Doesn't Someone Give Him A Pepsi?

Zappa would say of Van Vliet's approach that it was " impossible to tell him why things should be such and such a way.

" The Blimp " was recorded by Zappa in his studio while on the phone with Van Vliet prior to the album's sessions ; Jeff Cotton was put on the phone to recite Van Vliet's latest poem, which Zappa recorded and put over a Mothers of Invention backing track ( which had been known to the Mothers, unacknowledged on Trout Masks credits, as " Charles Ives ", the name of the modernist American composer ).

Don Van Vliet proposed that half of the tracks from Bat Chain Puller be included on Ice Cream for Crow, but Zappa refused Vliet's request, leading Vliet to compose new material for the album.

" He notes that " Claypool's voice is sometimes searching for breath or a touch buried in the mix ", but " anyone who likes the Zappa / Beefheart goofy voice approach Claypool is fond of will be perfectly happy with his nutty lip-flapping ".

In a retrospective review, Allmusic gave it 4. 5 stars out of 5, calling it a " fascinating collection ", and stating that " Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance between his extremes are what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating " In his book Viva Zappa !, Dominique Chevalier wrote that the album is " one of Zappa's most aggressively bizarre works, full of cross-references to free jazz and modern classical musicians such as Luciano Berio.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

Soon after, third guitarist Colin Bayley was added to the band's touring lineup, and Kennedy was replaced by prodigious young drummer Chad Wackerman ( ex Frank Zappa ).

* Frank Zappa dreamed he was Nanook in his 1974 song " Don't Eat The Yellow Snow ".

In a mockery of William Brevard Hand, a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled secular humanism as a religion, the musician Frank Zappa, who was also a free speech advocate, established the " Church of American Secular Humanism ".

When Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore on June 5, 1971, Ono joined in as well.

During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).

The Synclavier was also employed by experimental musicians, such as John McLaughlin, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa and Peter Buffett who used it extensively in their music.

This led to the urban legend that Zappa was the son of Hugh Brannum, who played Mr. Green Jeans, a myth Zappa officially dispelled in his 1989 autobiography, The Real Frank Zappa Book, as did Keeshan in his 1996 autobiography, Good Morning, Captain.

( Producer Frank Zappa was then able to record most of the album in less than five hours.

The Bat Chain Puller project went ' on ice ' and did not see an official release until 2011, when it was announced that the Zappa Family Trust would release the album.

One track on Trout Mask Replica, " The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )", features Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton talking on the telephone to Zappa superimposed onto an unrelated live recording of the Mothers of Invention ( the backing track was later released in 1992 as " Charles Ives " on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.

The genre was also parodied by Frank Zappa in his satirical 1984 song " Be In My Video ".

Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa.

Zappa attempted to sue over the obvious capitalization on his song, but the lawsuit was thrown out.

Frank Zappa was invited to perform, but refused because he believed that money raised by Live Aid did not address the core problems facing the developing world.

After Malmsteen left Alcatrazz, he was replaced by the extravagant Steve Vai, who had previously been playing with the Frank Zappa band.

Pardo subsequently reprised this role on the live-recorded version of the song for the Zappa in New York album ( it was not featured on the first release in 1978, but it appears on the 1993 CD re-release ).

He also provided narration for the songs " The Illinois Enema Bandit " and " Punky's Whips " ( a business dispute between Zappa and his then record company led to " Punky's Whips " being removed from the 1978 album, but the song was reinstated on the 1993 CD ).

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, formed in late 1972 by Richard Elfman, was a musical theater troupe in the tradition of Spike Jones and Frank Zappa, performing an eclectic repertoire ranging from Cab Calloway covers to instrumentals in the style of Balinese gamelan and Russian ballet music.