These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make Our Music
What it is. Please Do Not Hold it Against them.
... followed by a long list of people. Here is the list, with a an
AFF-Z survey of what these celebrities means to them.
These people have contributed materially in many ways to make this list
what it is. Please do not hold it against them. Matt-a-roo, John Purves,
Frank Hudson, Patrick Neve, Spider Gecko, Ray Dittmeier, Cal Schenkel,
Paul Hinrichs, David F Lynch, Biffyshrew, Fred H. Banta, Konrad,
FthrRiley, Charles Ulrich, Gregory J. Sandell, John Henley, Jonno, Frank
Zappa (via interviews), Mike Keneally, D.G. Porter, Michael Gushulak,
David Wilcher, Hank Davis, Patrick & Cathy Moore, Mark Clark, Larry
Huntley, J S Fleisher
And don't shoot me for REORDER'ing, HTML'ing, INDEX'ing and even
CORRECT'ing it
a little bit. After all I'm a maintainer, I have no choice...
- AERNI, DAVE
Singer. Was "The Rotations" (Heavies) together with Paul Buff, and was
also the manager of "The Tornadoes" (Bustin' Surfboards). Released
pre-MOI, Ron Roman recording of FZ's "Love Of My Life." (overdubbed on
FZ's instrumental tracks. Credited himself and Roman as co-composers.)
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- ALLBERG, JERRY
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- ALLEN, LEONARD
Boyhood friend of FZ..
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- AREL, BULENT
Another modern composer. Works include, Electronic Study No. 1, Sacred
Service Prelude and Postlude, Fragment/DAVIDOVSKY: Electronic Study No.
2/USSACHEVSKY: Linear Contrasts, Metamorphosis, and Improvisation-4711
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- ATLER, BOBBY
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- BAEZ, JOAN
Folk singer
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- BAKER, DIANE
American film actress, sex symbol. Appears in "Journey to the Center of
the Earth."
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- BALLARD, MR.
Music teacher at Antelope Valley High School. This "run" (of names)
implies that Shirley Eiler was also a faculty member.
From TRFZB, p.35:
Mr. Ballard was the high school music instructor at Antelope Valley
High.
He let me conduct the orchestra a couple of times, let me write music on
the blackboard, and had the orchestra play it.
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- BARBER, DICK
Mothers of Invention's road manager. Appears in 200 Motels as the Gypsy
Mutant Vacuum Cleaner. Snorked on WOIIFTM. He
now lives in Nevada and flies a plane he built himself.
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- BECK, JOHN
Charles Ulrich wrote:
The of member of The Leaves. See also Bob
Reiner here.
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- BEE, MOLLY
Cute & perky hillbilly singer in the Dolly Parton mold - was a regular
on
The Jimmy Dean Show on TV in the 1960s. Was a regular on Pinky Lee and
Steve Allen TV shows (the latter at the time when FZ appeared).
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- BELLI, MELVIN
Flamboyant American defense attorney, also actor ("Star Trek").
Defended
Jack Ruby in his trial for shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.Recently deceased.
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- BERRY, RICHARD
Wrote the song Louie Louie.
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- BOKELMANS, THE
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- BOULEZ, PIERRE
French conductor/composer. Later conducted an FZ album.
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- BRIGHAM, SYLVIA
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- BROSSMAN, DR.
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- BROWN, CHARLES
Blues singer. Main influence of Ray Charles.
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- BROWN, CLARENCE GATEMOUTH
R&B singer and guitarist.
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- BRUCE, LENNY
Comedian/orator. Performed with the Mothers.
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- BUFF, PAUL
Original owner of Studio Z. Built a multi-track recorder when such a
thing
was unheard of. Alive and well & living in Nashville.
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- BUNN, TEDDY
American jazz and blues guitarist of the first half 20th Century.
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- CAROL
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- CERVERIS, DON
FZ's high school English teacher. Writer of Run Home Slow. Appears on
cover of WOIIFTM.
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- CHEKA, MARK
Manager before Herb Cohen. Manager of the Soul Giants?
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- COHEN, HERB
Frank's manager. Artists' rep & manager a/k/a agent. Handled a number
of folk acts at the same time as he handled the MOI.
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- COLLINS, ALBERT
Blues guitarist/singer who at the time was best known for killer blues
instrumentals. Died suddenly 3-4 years ago.
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- CORDY
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- CRAFT, ROBERT
As Stravinsky's confidante, he was able to document the details of his
thoughts and experiences so Igor could just compose. Conducted Varese,
Stravinsky, and Webern. Recorded all of Stravinsky's works in the 1990s
with the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
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- CROSBY, DAVID
American guitarist/singer. Former AA member.
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- CRUMP, DADDY-O CURTIS
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- DALI, SALVADOR
Catalan surrealist painter with a big moustache.
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- DE CAMP, ROSEMARIE
American TV actress who played Mom on "The Adventures of Dobie Gillis"
as
well as Bob Cummings' sister on "Love That Bob." She also made TV
commercials.
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- DE COVA, FRANK
De Kova, misspelled on the Freak Out list. Played in the tv series "The
Untouchables."
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- DE SANTIS, JOE
American film actor, usually played tough guys. Played in the tv series
"The Untouchables."
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- DE WEES, RANDY
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- DI CARL, GEORGE
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- DIAMOND, SKIP
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- DIXON, WILLIE
Blues producer, bass player, and writer of a great many classic blues
songs (Spoonful, Little Red Rooster, Back Door Man, etc. etc.) Worked
extensively with Muddy Waters.
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- DOBBS, FRED C.
The greedy & amoral character played by Humphrey Bogart in "The Treasure
of the Sierra Madre" (1948). Also a great little mid 60's Sunset Strip
club (just down from Ben Franks)
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- DOLPHY, ERIC
American jazz saxophone/clarinet player. Performed with Charlie Mingus.
His name & work popped up as a theme in FZ's music around Weasels Ripped
My Flesh.
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- DON & DEWEY
West coast R&B duo. Don "Sugarcane" Harris was the Don.
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- DONNA #1
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- DONNA #2
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- DYLAN, BOB
American folk singer. AKA Robert Zimmerman.
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- ECONOMIDES, JIM
Producer for Capitol records, tried on suits in the studio while telling
an engineer to put "more bass" on "Surfer Girl" by the Beach Boys while
FZ was there trying to pitch him his Studio Z recordings.
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- EILER, SHIRLEY
Faculty of Antelope Valley High School?
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- EPSTEIN, BRIAN
Manager of the Beatles and some other bands. Died in 1967 or so.
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- EVANS, BILL
Jazz pianist, harmonic innovator, composer. Member of one of Miles
classic
quintets.
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- EVY
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- FEIFFER, JULES
Cartoonist/author beloved by 60's bohemians. Influenced a lot of folks
(Woody Allen, Gary Trudeau)
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- FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE
S.F. Poet, publisher, author, book store owner City Lights Bookstore.
Important west coast bohemian. Published Howl and was therefore involved
in censorship court battles.
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- FLOYD
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- FORSYTHE, CECIL
Forsyth misspelled on Freak Out list. British musicologist. Published a
book entitled "Orchestration" in 1914.
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- FRANKLIN, JOHNNY
Played with FZ in the Blackouts.
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- FREEMAN, ERNIE
R&B musician. From the Ernie Freeman Band?
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- FYLLIS
Because her name follows Wilson's on the list, Biffy thinks this is
Wilson's secretary, Phyllis Altenhaus. (Monster victim in Uncle Meat.)
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- GARRET, SNUFF
Noted record producer of the 50s-70s.
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- GENE & EUNICE
American R&B duo of the 1950s. Recorded the original version of "This
Is My Story".
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- GORCZYCA, LEONARD
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- GORDON, BRUCE
Ditto. Played Frank Nitti in the tv series "The Untouchables."
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- GREENE, VERNON
Recorded "The Letter" with the Medallions, one of FZ's favorite records.
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- GREENHOUSE, CARL
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- GUERCIO, JIM
James William Guercio. Briefly was a member of the MOI. Made his name
circa 1970 as producer of very big-selling records by Blood Sweat &
Tears and Chicago Transit Authority. Also produced an album in 1968
called The Illinois Speed Press which anticipated the Allman Brothers
twin-guitar sound. Parlayed this success into one-shot attempt as film
director, "Electra Glide in Blue" w/Robert Blake.
Lent Roy Estrada a bass amp for the party gig from Mondo Hollywood.
(Evidence: Apocrypha narrative)
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- GUITAR SLIM
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter.
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- GUY, BUDDY
Blues guitarist/singer. At the time considered one of the blues "young
lions".
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- HABA, ALOIS
Composer who experimented with microtonal intervals including not only
quarter tones but also fifth tones and sixth tones.
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- HANCOCK, HUNTER
R&B and rock DJ
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- HARRIS, JEFF
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- HIGGINS, CHUCK
R&B sax player.
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- HOWARD, JOHN TASKER
American musicologist, composer, author, first half of 20th Century.
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- HOWLIN' WOLF
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter. Second only to Muddy in
his
generation of Mississippi singers, and a strong influence on
Beefheart.
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- HUGGY BOY
So. Cal. DJ (and later TV host).
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- HUSTON, JOE
R&B sax player. Houston is misspelled on Freak Out list.
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- HUXLEY, ANIMAL
LA Freak related to Aldous Huxley. Actually Aldous Huxley's
granddaughter,
according to Society Pages.
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- HYPNOTIST, THE
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- IRWIN, LEW
LA radio newsman of the 60's, original member of The Credibility Gap,
which started as a satirical news radio troupe and mutated into a kind
of
Firesign Theatre-esque comedy group with Harry Shearer, Michael McKean
and
David Lander (the first two are two members of Spinal Tap, the last two
were Lenny and Squiggy). Lew Irwin also was producer and voice of the
syndicated radio program "Earth News", which aired forever and might
still
be airing if he's alive, which I can't comment on one way or another.
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- IVES, CHARLES
Composer from Connecticut who predicted many ideas typical to 20th
century
music such as serialism, polytonality, et cetera before they were
"popular."
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- JAMIESON, BOBBY
Another R&B guy, I think.
Charles Ulrich wrote:
Bobby Jamieson is probably Bobby Jameson, an LA freak who appeared in Mondo
Hollywood. FZ arranged both sides of his "Gotta Find My Roogalator" 45 in
1966.
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- JEEPERS
Character in a few songs FZ produced in Studio Z, Letters from Jeepers
and
Dear Jeepers. B-movie talk show host around where he lived.
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- JOHNSON, LYN
Patrick Neve wrote:
That would be Lyndon B. Johnson
Thirty-Sixth US President 1963-1969.
Biffy the Elephant Shrew wrote:
I strongly doubt this one. Who ever referred to him as "Lyn"?
Patrick Neve wrote:
I figure he's an easy target, and a cute way to refer to him, like if
you
were to say "Willy Clinton" everybody would know what you meant.
From: John Henley
But if you were to refer to him as "Lyn Johnson" in 1966 (or even now),
very few would know whom you meant. He was strictly "LBJ" to nearly
everyone. (Also "that sonofabitch" to many, and "that baby killer" to
some, and even "the greatest civil rights president" to more than a
few.)
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- JOYCE
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- JOYCE, JAMES
Irish author of Ulysses, which was involved in a landmark censorship
case.
Whom FZ never actually read more than a few pages of.
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- JULIAN, DON
R&B singer with the Meadowlarks.
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- KAGEL, MAURICIO
Contemporary classical composer. He has written some scores that are
entirely text. He also has a piece whose score is prefaced by 202
symbols, 150 of which are not in standard usage. Used prepared pianos
in
some of his pieces.
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- KAYE, JESSE
Old-time producer or recording engineer for MGM and Verve. Used to do
lots of soundtrack albums. Tried to "palm" a ten-dollar bill to Frank
during the recording of "Freak Out" so burgers could be bought from the
joint downstairs. Frank botched the hand-off, revealing Jesse for the
genuine nice guy that he was, despite the hard-bitten, cigar-smoking
exterior he portrayed. Frank said in The Real Book that if it were not
for
Jesse Kaye's kindness, the Freak Out album might not have existed.
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- KEENE, BOB
Owner of Donna/Del-Fi Records.
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- KIRK, ROLAND
Rashaan Roland Kirk - Unbelievable jazz woodwind musician, composer.
Famed
for playing multiple wind instruments at once.
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- KIRKMAN, TERRY
A member of The Association ("Along Comes Mary").
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- KOHN, KARL
20th Century composer. Music professor at Pomona College. FZ sat in on
his
class until thrown out after a disagreement about Webern.
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- KRONHAUSEN, EBERHARD
Author. Wrote THE SEXUALLY RESPONSIVE WOMAN. Art critic and filmmaker,
most of whose works concern erotic art.
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- LABOE, ART
Owner Of Original Sound Records, where Frank recorded the music for "Run
Home Slow";also encouraged FZ to produce struggling groups in the
L.A/Lancaster area. DJ'd a 50's am radio station KRLA in L.A. in the
seventies and probably earlier.
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- LAL, CHATUR
Indian tabla player - Ravi Shankar's accompanist until his death in
1965.
He probably would have become known to American fans if he'd lasted.
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- LAUREN
Lived with FZ at Studio Z, participated in the party tape for which FZ
was
busted.
Charles Ulrich wrote:
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- LIGHTNIN' SLIM
Another American bluesman.
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- LITTLE WALTER
One of the greats of blues harmonica. Played on many Muddy Waters
records.
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- LOEB & LEOPOLD
Mid twentieth century "thrill killers" famed for cooly plotting
unmotivated murder. Probably included for shock/dada value. Better known
as Leopold & Loeb: Homosexual lovers convicted of some gruesome murder
in the thirties. Subjects of Hitchcock's film "Rope" (though they're
renamed).
Michael Gushulak sez:
Are we sure that FZ didn't mean the two Garrick Theater-goers that he
mentions in TRFZB (p. 96)? I realize the Mothers played the Garrick the
year after Freak Out was released, but the original L&L strike me as a
less likely influence on Frank than their namesakes. You'll recall
reading that one of the twosome who went to the Garrick fell on the
stage and begged to be spewed upon with Coca-Cola. Now *that* must have
made a deep impression on FZ; I have only to cite "Do You Like My New
Car" to make my case.
To which Charles Ulrich replies:
I thought of that too, but consider what he says in TRFZB: "There were
two suburban Jewish guys who attended the Garrick shows relentlessly."
If they were LA freaks who followed the band to NY, don't you think he
would have mentioned that in the book? It's possible that they got the
idea for their pseudonyms from the list in Freak Out!
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- LOVE, PRESTON
Sax player with Johnny Otis show.
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- LUCILLE
Biffy strongly suspects she is associated with Tom Wilson & "Fyllis."
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- MADEO, JUNIOR
Elwood "Junior" Madeo, leader of the Ramblers, in which FZ played. Cf.
TRFZB, p. 30.
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- MANN, STEVE
Guitarist who played with FZ prior to the Mothers. Acoustic fingerpicker
who was on the L.A. club scene in the mid-60s playing old blues and
ballads, but checked out early thanks to an o.d. There is one album of
recordings by him, and the guitar teacher Stefan Grossman still
celebrates his memory.
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- MARIO
Doorman at the Whiskey A-Go-Go.
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- MATTHEWS, LITTLE ARTHUR
Singer with Johnny Otis show.
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- MIDDLETON, CHARLES
Old-time Hollywood supporting player who, among hundreds of other roles,
played "Ming the Merciless" in the "Flash Gordon" serials with Buster
Crabbe.
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- MINGUS, CHARLES
American jazz bassist and composer.
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- MORTENSON, VIC
Played drums on some Studio Z tunes.
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- MULLICK, N. C.
Nodu C. Mullick, Indian tamboura player who also worked with Ravi
Shankar
in pre-Beatles days.
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- MURNANE, JERRY
Another of FZ's high school teachers.
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- MacGUIRE, BARRY
Sang "Eve of Destruction," a protest song.
Didn't write Eve (PF Sloan). Former folk singer.
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- McNEELY, BIG JAY
Blues Saxophonist. Still tours.
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- NARCISO, BARB
Early FZ fan.
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- NONO, LUIGI
Contemporary classical composer. Integral serialist until 1960. Member
of post-Webern school. Communist sympathizer. Wrote puzzle canons.
Wrote an anti-American piece called A Floresta. Pointillist.
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- ORNSTEIN, LEO
th Century Russian-American pianist & composer who among many other
pieces wrote one called, I kid you not, "Impromptu: A Bit of Nostalgia,
for piano."
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- OTIS, JOHNNY
Important west coast R&B band leader, record producer and "talent
scout".
Was considered totally authentic while being white. Father of Shuggie
Otis
who played on Hot Rats. Longtime Pacifica radio show host, and model for
Frank's mustache.
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- PEPPER
According to an article quoted in Society Pages, Pepper was a friend of
FZ
and babysitter for his kids. That must have come later, since FZ didn't
have any kids at the time in question.
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- PERISCHETTI, VINCENT
American composer/conductor of music primarily for symphonic band.
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- PERRINO, JOE
Of Joe Perrino and the Mellotones, a bar band Zappa played in.
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- PETE
I always thought the reference to PETE was Frank's old girlfiend Pete.
It
was my understanding that it was she who "lived with FZ at Studio Z,
participated in the party tape for which FZ was busted," not Lauren, (I
could be wrong, or they could be two of them, or the same person
maybe??)
Yeah, now I remember: "PETE" is Lorraine Belcher.
--Calvin
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- POLLY, JOE
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- PRESLEY, ELVIS
Truck driver, singer. Fat. Helped found southern white-guy R&B.
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- RANK, J. ARTHUR
Movie theater mogul. Preeminent British film producer & founder of The
Rank Organization, film producers & distributors. Attributed with
playing
his trademark gong on the Bonzos' "The Intro and the Outro".
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- RAVEL, MAURICE
Early 20th century impressionist composer. Wrote Bolero.
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- REARDON, LANCE
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- REED, B. MITCHELL
Famous west coast DJ. Helped innovate the underground FM radio stations
in the late sixties. Last heard him on KMET (94.7) in LA in late
seventies (now an easy listening station...)
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- REINER, BOB
This COULD be Rob "Meathead" Reiner, from "All In The Family" fame, and
later, "Spinal Tap", son of
comedy writer/director Carl Reiner, and I would imagine acquainted with
many in the L.A. club scene of the 60s.
Charles Ulrich pointed out:
The of member of The Leaves. See also John Beck here.
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- REYES, NADINE
Friend of FZ's from Lancaster.
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- RIVUELTAS, SILVESTER
Mexican 20th-century avant-garde composer. Name misspelled on the list.
Should be "Revueltas"
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- RUDIN, HERMAN
Herman, Joe De Santis, Frank De Cova, and Bruce Gordon - all
"Untouchables" - Also appeared on "Perry Mason" and "Man From
U.N.C.L.E".
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- RUDOLPH, LILLIAN
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- RUTHIE
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- SABICAS
Spanish Flamenco guitar virtuoso.
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- SABU
Indian actor who performed in the 1940s films of "The Thief of Bagdad"
and
"The Jungle Book."
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- SACCO & VANZETTI
Labor organizers executed for murder, believed as a left wing cause to
have been a frame up. Coupling with the above adds to shock/dada value.
Italian-immigrant U.S. factory workers, arrested for the murder of a
paymaster, identified as "anarchists" and convicted of the murder, and
executed in the 1920s. Their case was VERY controversial and drew much
public comment from both sides. Among the first "pets of the liberal
entertainment establishment."
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- SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD
20th century Austrian composer who popularised serialism. Taught at
UCLA.
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- SCHWANEKAMP, SANDY
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- SESSIONS, ROGER HUNTINGTON
American composer & musical educator - said to have been revered by his
fellow composers even as most of his music went unheard by the public.
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- SHANKAR, RAVI
Sitar virtuoso, teacher of George Harrison.
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- SHECKLEY, ROBERT
Science fiction writer and mystery author.
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- SHERMAN, KAYE
FZ's first wife.
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- SHERWOOD, JIM
Friend of FZ's from high school. Played saxaphone in the Mothers. AKA
"Mototrhead."
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- SIMMS, FRANKIE LEE
Texan blues singer. Sims is misspelled on Freak Out list.
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- SLIM HARPO
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter.
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- SMITH, CORDWAINER
Cordwainer Smith--Was the pseudonym that Dr. Paul Linebarger used to
write science fiction. (Under his own name, he was an expert on China;
died late 1960s.)
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- SPECTOR, PHIL
American record producer, noted for using a lot of instruments. This
technique is called the "wall of sound."
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- STEFFE
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- STEWART, ALICE
Guitarist with blues influences. Wasn't she in the Mothers and got
kicked out cause she couldn't play Louie Louie?
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- STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ
Avant-garde 20th century composer. Known for his use of complex rhythms.
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- STOKER, BRAM
Author of Dracula.
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- STRAVINSKY, IGOR
Russian composer. Wrote the Rite of Spring. A favorite of FZ's.
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- STULLA, BILL
Host of So. Cal. children's show, Engineer Bill.
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- STURGEON, THEODORE
Great SF author and critic. Author of "Sturgeon's Law": 90
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- SULLIVAN, TIM
Producer of Run Home Slow.
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- TANGUY, YVES
French surrealist, d. 1955
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- TANZINI, PHIL
Co-owner of the Whiskey. See Elmer Valentine.
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- TAYLOR, CECIL
Modern jazz pianist, composer, writer. Inspired a section of "Monster
Magnet".
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- THORNTON, WILLIE MAE
"Big Mama" Thornton - Blues songstress, wrote "Ball and Chain" as
covered
by Big Brother & the Holding Company (Janis Joplin). Wrote "Hound Dog."
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- TILLAR, JACK
There is a recent film music composer named Jack K Tillar. Probably not
the same (I believe he did friday the 13th)
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- TINY TIM
Ukelele virtuoso. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."
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- TOSI, ERNIE
Vice principal of Antelope Valley High School.
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- TUFTS, SONNY
Character actor or lead or second lead in bad movies. See "The Radio Is
Broken."
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- UNCLE ED
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- VALENTINE, ELMER
Owner of the Whisky-a-go-go in LA.
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- VARESE, EDGARD
Franco-American composer. Developed musique concrete.
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- VENET, NICK
Record producer at Capitol involved in getting FZ to record Lumpy Gravy.
He was also the producer for the Stone Poneys, who introduced Linda
Rondstadt to the world, and possibly to Frank.
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- VESTINE, HENRY
Guitarist of Canned Heat, blues record collector/revivalist. Was
contracted as a member of the Mothers at one time; don't know why it
didn't pan out. Lived in Eugene, Oregon and played mean guitar with
local bands and Canned Heat reunions.
Passed away 10/21/97 in Paris while on tour with Canned Heat, cause of
death attributed to failing health.
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- VLIET, DON
AKA Captain Beefheart.
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- WATERS, MUDDY
Preeminent Mississippi Delta-to-Chicago bluesman, the most influential
of
his day.
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- WATSON, JOHNNY GUITAR
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter. Later to be very
affiliated
with FZ.
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AKA The Duke. American actor and hat adjuster.
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- WEBERN, ANTON
Austrian composer. Student of Arnold Schoenberg.
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- WILLIAMSON, SONNY BOY
Name used by two great blues harmonica players/singers.
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- WILSON, TOM
Record Producer. For a few years in the 60's the "hot guy" with his name
on Mothers, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel etc. records. A&R man, or staff
producer, for MGM/Verve. Produced Freak Out and Absolutely Free,
executive-produced We're Only In It For The Money. African-American.
Died in the 1980s of heart disease.
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- WIMBERLY, TERRY
Played with FZ in the Blackouts.
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- WOLFMAN JACK
Preeminent American disc jockey, a vocal influence on Beefheart, who
pioneered across-the-Mexican-border "outlaw" radio and turned millions
of
kids on to R&B and rock'n'roll. Acted in the film "American Grafitti."
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- WOODS, DONALD
Leader of the Bel-Aires and author of "The Man From Utopia".
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- ZAGON, LEE
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- ZARUBICA, PAMELA
a.k.a. Suzy Creamcheese.
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- ZEIGER, HAL
Hal Zeiger (one of the first big promoters of rock entertainment during
the 50's) says, "I knew that there was a big thing here that was basic,
that was big, that had to get bigger. And I further knew that they would
carry this with them the rest of their lives." - From FZ, The Oracle Has
It All Psyched Out.
To ABC
- ZILDJIAN, AVEDIS
Turkish cymbal maker. His company has been in business over 375 years.
To ABC
Any proposal? I'd like to hear!