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Page 49, Circus Magazine, January, 1972.
Zappa's Two-Tune Concert.
Only a Frank Zappa audience could outdo a Grateful Dead crowd when it comes to looking underground. The kids looked about sixteen, very stoned and dressed to undermine the whole concept of formality. The concert was in Carnegie Hall, probably the most respectable auditorium left in New York City since the Fillmore closed. The Persuasions opened the evening. They are five black guys with an a cappella (no instruments, just unaccompanied vocal harmonies), Apollo-type act. Sort of a weird ombination with Zappa. They did oldies like "Speedo" plus some new things, and laced it all together with a running patter. There was no break in the act - they sailed straight through. The six Mothers filed on stage amidst much screaming and enthusiasm. The two Turtles, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who have joined Zappa were up in front with him. They started tuning and before a minute was up, Zappa made an announcement to be patient, they were having trouble with the Moog synthesizer, Mark Volman, who seems to have lost a little weight, took this time to munch on some nuts from a big can he had brought on stage, occasionally tossing a few into the audience. Howie was given a present by a front-row boy. It turned out to be a Barbie doll with wires sticking out of her head, her entire body painted. The kid said it was an inspiration created on an acid trip. Zappa was wearing knit pants and a short- sleeved, purple T-shirt, Mark dressed in his usual white T-shirt and jeans, but removed his T-shirt after the first song (which ran about twenty minutes), revealing all his expansive loveliness. Zappa announced that they usually started with an up-tempo thing but "on this auspicious occasion of the desecration of Carnegie Hall" they would deviate and start with thier German song, sung half in German and half in English. After they completed it, they seemed in no hurry to go on. Frank lit a cigarette, drank some beer, tuned a bit, then announced the next song would be ""Billy the Mountain," which would include singing, dancing and rapping. "Billy the Mountain" lasted half an hour and that was the show. Two songs. The audience screamed and stamped for an encore. Finally Zappa appeared onstage and revealed the fact that by union house rules they couldn't do an encore because it would cost an extra $600.00 in overtime. This brought boos from the audience. "But," said Zappa, "The Mothers will pay the $600.00 out of thier own pockets and do an encore for you." And they did.
and this, on the opposite page
Yoko Gets Her Label On The Mothers?
The Lennon's Snatching candy from the Mother's
'Twas sometime after The Mothers At The Fillmore (Warner Bros.) album had climbed to a respectable position on the charts, then fallen off again and Warner Bros, were clamoring for another Mothers LP Zappa and the gang were none to anxious to drudge in the studio for weeks when there was already a nine record set completed and on its way to the public. So they came up with an idea. Why not make the next LP out of the Fillmore session when John and Yoko had jumped onstage and jammed? Everyone agreed that the session was dynamite, including the Lennon's business manager Allen Klein. In fact Allen felt it was too good to come out as a Mother,s LP. According to a disgruntled Mother, Allen and or the Lennon's are now issuing the tape under the name of the Plastic Ono Band.
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hey punk, where you going with that borscht on your shirt?
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