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Cheaper Than Cheep’ was initially filmed in 1974 at the band’s rehearsal space, but technical difficulties kept it unseen for ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped ... theater” that they made was groundbreaking right down to the album-cover art. In fact, the group’s debut LP, 1966’s “Freak Out!,” ...

Fifteen years gone, and Frank Zappa still casts a long shadow ... Gold records and old album covers. A “Nixon for Governor” poster hangs on a far door. Scores of “Zappa” license plates ...

Frank Zappa‘s estate ... this three-disc set centers on an album originally envisioned as a sequel to 1969's Hot Rats before the ever-restless Zappa moved on to something else.

A previously unaired Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention ... who was responsible for many of Zappa’s album covers, and Claymation animator and director Bruce Bickford, a frequent Zappa ...

FEATURES 25 UNRELEASED AND RARE TRACKS AND MORE THAN THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD COMPOSITIONS, COVERS ... disbanded, Frank Zappa released his groundbreaking solo debut, Hot Rats.

“I understand that they don’t like the album very much, but I thought it was an important piece of social comment at the time,” Zappa said in a 1975 interview with Let It Rock (via Far Out).

It must have been maddening for Frank Zappa ... Soul Giants before Zappa joined. With Zappa as band leader, the group signed to Verve Records and released their debut album Freak Out!

RELEASED STATESIDE in October 1969, Hot Rats was Frank Zappa’s breakout solo album, an assertion both of his compositional ... Willie The Pimp from Hot Rats, a cover of Little Richard’s 1956 R&B ...

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Intimate performance from June 21, 1974 — long-shelved due to now-fixed syncing issues — arrives May 9 as Cheaper Than Cheep Blu-ray/CD/vinyl boxset ...