Frank Zappa (VIDEO) / Mothers / Jean Luc Ponty - Australia 1973 

@Eduardo - I'm happy to help you get to know him!

it's extraordinary that in his relative short time composing music , he had released 62 Albums, and since at least 57more by the FZTrust ,but his albums are beyond music, his composing, is a biological ride ,and he being a product of his generation, he would have been a great politician , except he has moral Density , haha , not funny but , it's like the more things change the more they stay the same , stagnate , Computers will destroy mankind , but not how the science fiction writers would have it , no one in my street knows their neighbour , kids don't wake up the neighbourhood on Christmas morning, they inside on the. two k iPhone you bought them for Crissy , not a footy ,not a bike , got them things, But the kid with Curly hair in my class Whats his name , Wilson, yeah , someone Wilson, he got a computer and a phone, I want a phone , what has averice done to humanity, ,Laugh when someone say use yah common sense , COMMON, nuthin common About it at all , probably the rarest comodity on the planet , just a rant , havin a vent , I'm really just a pony so forgive me coz I'm stoned luv on-yah RARA

It’s the one thing that I’m Grateful for having seen just about every Band formation that Frank had from the Fillmore East to the Greatest Band that He Ever Assembled with some of the hottest session players that ever walked the Earth back in 1988 at the Beacon Theater in my hometown of New York City. I met FZ for the first time in 73-74 up in Montreal Canada. He treated me & my partner in crime, Conklin, like We Were old Friends. Then in 78 was where We all became like family, staying at the same Hotel for about a week eating Cheese Burgers for Breakfast at the side of the Pool. Frank would give us a lift to the shows in his Cadillac. We’d hang in His Suite till 4:30-5:am listening to the new album before any other humans, drinking Coffee and Smoking Winston. He showed me a Pristine copy of the Musical Manuscript for, Moe’s Vacation, which His Copyist had just dropped off at His Suite. I couldn’t move as I was trying to read it. But it was way too complicated for me and I began shaking. I couldn’t imagine being in the band and Frank putting that in front of me without me keeling over clenching my chest. It was terrifying! I witnessed all the rehearsals and they were brutal. FZ demands perfection and He’d rehearse the Band 4-6 hours before the show. They would do the show and afterwards another 4-6 hours of rehearsals. He didn’t fool around. By the way, Frank christened me, Erazerhead back in 78 and that name has stuck ever since. Anyway, thought you would enjoy some inside scoop from someone who was there and became Good friends with Frank. Take care, Dude!

Join the club fool you were beside me many times ​@@ERAZERHEAD-54

I was lucky enough in September '73 to see them.

WORD 🥹

I concur thankfully I got ti see this ensemble in NYC which was terrific....

copy them< I know some one that might be interested in them.

I would be happy to have dropped one of the drummers from the ROXY-era band and keep Ian and Ponty in there. Frank George Ruth Nappy Ian Ponty Chester Tom Walt Bruce That would be un-fucking-stoppable

That can be said over and over again about Frank and his Rockin Teenage Combos.

best incarnation of the mommys

'76? Duke and Ruth left in '75

dreggymon Yes more please.

They played it live pretty often as the third movement of Farther Oblivion.

Yes.......😎

That's sounds amazing. Ponty has quite the resume

Me, too. In Detroit. Awesome concert.

the meek shall inherit nothing. legends dont need publicity

That's show business. Also, as Robbie Robinson explained somewhere in the comments Frank planned to record everything on high quality level for producing a live album. Then the electricity workers went on strike and the whole plan failed. That is really really unfortunate for us all, it would have been an epic album. So, the camera work fit to Frank's planning, though he probably had little control over it since it was public television. Actually I like the close up filming, you feel as if you are on stage yourself!