Mark Farner: Can He Succeed In A Ted Nugent World? You Betcha!

[Since he wasn’t available in L.A., we tracked down Mark Farner at his Michigan farm. He interrupted his chores to comment upon Zappa and the new album.—Ed.]

CREEM: What did you think of Zappa?

Mark: I thought he was neat because he wasn’t anything like what I had related him to before. He’s ... a real good person.

CREEM: Not like his image?

Mark: Uh uh. Not to me. Well, every person gets a kind of different view of it, but what I’ve heard of him, and I don’t have none of his albums, but I’ve listened to some of his songs before and other people that I know had his albums, and 1 know of him.

CREEM: Frank said that you’re a band that “farts on each other,” and he liked that. You know what he meant by that?

Mark: Farts on each other? Yeah, we back up against each other and fart.

CREEM; You just let loose, huh?

Mark: Yeah, just grab legs and—ha ha ha. CREEM: I guess he thought you were down-toearth.

Mark: Yeah.