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Bow Tie Daddy - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (1968)
Take a psychedelic jaunt down Tin Pan Alley with The Mothers.
From their third album We’re Only In It For The Money which is a bizarre and wonderful collage of pop music, telephone conversations, skits and freak-outs. A landmark of frazzled, yet precise production.
In the spring of 1967, Zappa was hard at work plotting out what would be The Mothers’ next album, which he planned to be a mixture of their music and Lenny Bruce comedy routines. But all that changed on June 1st, when The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Too large an event for Zappa to let go by unnoticed, he immediately shifted gears and by August they were hard at work piecing together their own vision of what The Summer of Love was all about.
One needs to look no further than the cover of We’re Only… to see the influence of Pepperdom. It’s possibly the first and in my opinion the best parody of the cover in existence.
So the question still remains: Is this phase one of Lumpy Gravy?
