How Frank Zappa Formed The Mothers of Invention

Called last minute by friend Ray Collins, Frank Zappa joins The Soul Giants for a Friday night gig. One thing leads to another and The Muthers are formed. eventually becoming The Mothers of Invention.
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In the early 60's, Roy Estrada and Dave Coronado formed a band called the Viscounts. When their drummer quit, Roy bumped into Jimmy Carl Black in a local music store and Black immediately offered his services as a drummer. The band soon changed its name to the Soul Giants. When the Soul Giants auditioned at a newly opened club in Inglewood called The Broadside, the club owner told them that they would get the job if they would take Ray Collins as a singer (Collins had been working as a carpenter at The Broadside at the time). The Soul Giants added Ray, who eventually replaced their singer and the line-up was thus: Roy Estrada - bass / Jimmy Carl Black - drums / Ray Collins - vocals / Dave Coronado - saxophone / Ray Hunt - guitar.
When Hunt left the band, Collins contacted his acquaintance from Pal Studios Frank Zappa. Black: "Frank came down and tried out with the band and he liked what we did, and we liked what he did, so he joined. A month later the saxophone player Davey Coronado left the band, leaving the position of leadership wide open. Frank took over as leader, and his very words were, "If you will play my music, I will make you rich and famous."
According to FZ, the band changed it's name to The Mothers on Mother's Day, 5/10/1964; however, by all accounts, FZ joined the Soul Giants after his arrest on pornography charges on 3/26/1965. Unless Frank was referring to "the Muthers" power trio (with Les Papp and Paul Woods), which is unlikely, this is the first minor (?) discrepancy in the documented history of The Mothers.
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BACKGROUND (by way of) EXPLAINATION
I have been obsessively listening to Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention since the summer of 1979. Nonstop Zappa consumerism with some MOI thrown in. These videos seek to provide context to Frank Zappa’s entire body of work.
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A few have suggested that I re-double my efforts and invest a little time in Audacity training for consistency in my audio editing. Thank you for the suggestions. This recording was normalized to -1db and compressed to -20db.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL:
All the news that’s fit to consume: www.zappanews.co.uk/
Articles spanning FZ's career can be found at: www.afka.net/index.htm
Interviews and more: / lagzatzappateers
Original lossless quality audio can be found at: www.zappateers.com
Complete discography can be found at: www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/inde...
Show listing with set lists at: www.zappateers.com/fzshows/in...

[@POODLEBITES]

It is my intention to continue to find interesting Frank Zappa interviews and songs that serve to shed light on the topic of Conceptual Continuity.

[@alancumming6407]

I was aware of all the information but I really like the way you put it all together. Historically very important in Zappa's conceptual continuity. Thank you.

[@mvl2232]

Love this stuff.

[@HakanTunaMuzik]

There is a recording of the original mothers at the broadside released on mystery disc, would have been great if it was included here as well.

[@periurban]

Great edits!

[@zolaarczakle]

Great! as always ;)

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Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian in the group

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