“What people heard was arguably the first conceptual pop LP and way ahead of its time. Frank Zappa already had a clear vision of the mixture of music and satire that he wanted to put onto record. The LP’s sleeve came complete with a letter from the fictitious Suzy Creemcheese Salt Lake City, Utah. The letter implied just what Zappa wanted to get over about the group. With its talk of bearded weirdos who all smelled bad, it almost seemed to imply that the whole thing was an elaborate joke—which of course it wasn’t. Zappa couldn’t have been more serious about the music itself. However, he appeared to be smart enough to realize that the Mothers didn’t stand a chance in hell of gaining success in the rock world with their type of music if they came across as serious musicians” (Billy James, Necessity Is…The Early Years of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, 2000).
The Mothers of Invention “Who Are the Brain Police”
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