Creem Profiles
FRANK ZAPPA
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
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HOME: Phi Zappa Crappa—house he used to live in, but going to Montana soon to become a dental floss tycoon.
AGE: At least one album for everv vear of his life.
PROFESSION: Doting Mother (he's only in it for the money).
HOBBIES: Freaking out, dealing with The brain police, making the water turn black, cooking up hot rats and burnt weenie sandwiches, creating a litany of memorable characters from Suzy Creamcheese to Dinah Moe Hum, making misanthropy fashionable.
LAST BOOK READ: the U.S.
Constitution by Tipper Gore.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT:
He is the Duke of Prunes!
QUOTE: “Bowtie daddy, don’t you blow your top, everything’s under control...”
PROFILE: Starting with the Mothers of Invention, Zappa began zapping middle America with his classic Freak Out in 1966, and has been lampooning everything from flower power to valley girls ever since—making album after album, playing some dynamic guitar along the way, introducing us to Alice Cooper, Captain Beefheart, the GTOs, Wild Man Fischer and Ruben & the Jets,I helping Flo & Eddie forge a post-Turtles career, and just being if Zappa, a true American original.
BEER: Boy Howdy!
