Yeah, I know that Mothers Day is actually supposed to be about "Mothers" as opposed to the "Mothers of Invention" but on the universe aboard "So It Goes" I get to define holidays (well except those that fall in the month of March) so on Mothers day, it IS all about the Mothers of Invention!
Frank Zappa was as close as it comes to a true Renaissance man of his time. Keen political thinker, multi-faceted musician/composer, and an astute businessman who both played the music industry to his own interests (a very rare accomplishment) and seeing the future demise of the music industry as it was, began to adopt what has become the model for independent music and media as we know it today...
I count myself very lucky to have both had the pleasure of seeing Zappa and his various bands play on many occasions, visit with him a few times, and, even once, opened a show that included Frank headlining...
Happy Mothers Day...
Listening to Hot Rats
So it goes...
