Music: 70s CounterCulture: Perennial fave -- The Grand Wazoo, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

Frank Zappa gave the world a masterpiece of instrumentation, and vocalizations used as instruments of a musical expressiveness perhaps not witnessed before. I have in mind his work, The Grand Wazoo. Zappa's life of vocation (realization of calling, that I woud say in his case is obviously God-given, whatever his faith and his doubt) resulted in a laurel celebrating nothing less than creative genius in poetic-music performance and recording production.

Below is a set list he drew up and took on stage with him when his band, The Mothers of Invention, performed at the Fillmore East counmtercultural music theatre in June 1971. The next year, after he had been attacked in London and was in convalescence, he created the mentioned album, The Grand Wazoo which is often labelled, as to its genre, "jazz fusion." Beyond the labels, all hail this poet musician and this great work.

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