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A word from the photographer This project dates back
to 1968 when I photographed the two Mothers of Invention concerts in
the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen. More recently I've been hunting
down US locations associated with Frank Zappa and the Mothers; the location
of Tommy Sandi's Club Sahara where FZ played cocktail music with Joe
Perrino and the Mellotones; the site where Frank lived with his first
wife, Kay Sherman; the Broadside Bar in Pomona where Frank hooked up
with the Soul Giants; the house in LA that was Frank's "Little House
I Used To Live In"; the studio in Hollywood where Freak Out!
was recorded; the site of the Garrick Theatre in NYC where the Mothers
had a 6-month 1967 residency; and the ruins of the legendary Log Cabin
in Hollywood. I dug up the precise addresses of some of these "long
gone" locations on microfiches or in actual copies of early 1960's telephone
books in the Los Angeles main library, in the "California Room" of the
San Bernardino Library and in the Pomona Library. Also see photos from
Zappanale #13, 2002 Backstage
with the
Mothers 1968 The
Village Inn |