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If you don’t know who Frank Zappa is then I don’t want to be the one responsible for telling you. The man, his music, and his legacy are complex and a full elaboration would likely require revealing demi-mondes which I cannot, in good conscience, expose to my beloved readers.

Singer/Songwriter Frank Zappa performs at The Fox Theater in Atlanta Georgia. October 25, 1981

Zappa’s music delighted in the absurd, avart-garde, and profane.

Zappa was, by any account, an iconoclast and musical innovator who used his art to expose the venality and duplicity of American society. His music delighted in the absurd, avart-garde, and profane.

“Hot Rats” was, (except for “Willie the Pimp”) an instrumental, jazz-fusion recording, what Zappa in his liner notes called “a movie for your ears.” It was one of the first to upgrade the traditional 8 track recording technique to 16 track recording, thus making “Hot Rat…