the Mothers of Invention
American musical group
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Wilson
- In Tom Wilson: Work at MGM/Verve and beyond
…signed was Frank Zappa’s group, the Mothers of Invention. The band was strikingly unconventional, and its debut album, Freak Out! (1966), drew on rock and pop conventions as it satirized them, expanding rock’s musical base by incorporating a mix of studio manipulations, doo-wop melodies, shifting time signatures, rhythm-and-blues riffs, and…
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Zappa
- In Frank Zappa
…under the rubric of the Mothers of Invention and under his own name; an erudite lover of the most esoteric traditions of rock and roll and of rhythm and blues; an innovative record producer whose use of high-speed editing techniques predated the later innovations of hip-hop; and one of the…
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