The Grand Wazoo Tour

The Grand Wazoo was Frank Zappa's name for his band that toured in September of 1972. He used this name on stage and in the "Reprise Circular", but ads for the tour billed the concerts as being performed by "Frank Zappa", "The Mothers Of Invention", "The Mothers", and/or "Hot Rats".

The twenty musicians in the Grand Wazoo band were:

For many years, no live Grand Wazoo recordings were officially released.

Thirty-five years later, the Zappa Family Trust released a Grand Wazoo CD, entitled Wazoo!


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