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The first three Mothers albums, released between June 1966 and March 1968, come packaged as a ruthless, mind-bending, (and now, midline) monster. During this period of remarkable and unprecedented creativity, Zappa and the Mothers produced ambitious, far-ranging, unsettling, provocative, and wholly original psychedelic rock--simultaneously ridiculing psychedelic rock as they raised it to a completely new level. The musical trail brilliantly meandered (bulldozed?) through garage rock, groovy R&B, avant-garde jazz, blissful pop, and patchwork sonic experimentalism. Lyrically, Zappa delivered serious political and social commentary in ways that were completely nonsensical; he delivered utter nonsense in ways that were completely sober. In the process, he left no sub-sect of society unscathed, impaling hippies, capitalists, police, and anyone else he could think of. From 1966's Freak Out! through the following year's Absolutely Free to 1968's crowning We're Only in It for the Money , Zappa and crew provided a creepy and menacing counterpoint to flower-power optimism, and did it using the counterculture's own psychedelic language. Together these three albums form the ultimate bad trip trilogy. --Marc Greilsamer
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The three CDs collected here, from his stunning 1969-1972 period, find Zappa toning down the wild experimentalism of his late-'60s work with the Mothers of Invention, veering away from psychedelic-rock surrealism and careening toward jazz-rock fusion jamming. The focus of these mostly instrumental affairs is on his powers as a composer and an instrumentalist. Billed as a Zappa solo album, 1969's Hot Rats , the most accessible of the three, supports Zappa's guitar work with soaring electric violins (often by Jean Luc Ponty), some blistering sax work, and a variety of keyboard textures (the latter two elements courtesy of Ian Underwood), not to mention Captain Beefheart's vocal cameo on the gritty "Willie the Pimp." Waka/Jawaka , also a "solo" effort from 1972, added country and blues shadings to the diverse musical mix. The Grand Wazoo , a grand pseudo-concept album released later in 1972, was credited to Frank Zappa and the Mothers and featured the work of nearly two dozen musicians, including jazz heavyweights such as George Duke and Ernie Watts. --Marc Greilsamer
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