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 1978
January
Volume 2 Number
1
Phi Zappa
Crappa Interview
Peeking into the bizarre mind of rock & roll's original
madman
By Dave Fass and Dave Street, 9 pp
STREET: Where did the concept for the Mothers begin at?
ZAPPA: At a club called the Broadside in Pomona.
STREET: Did you just wake up one morning and have a flash of the name Mothers?
ZAPPA: I thought it was a cute name.
STREET: Did it signify anything to you in terms of the youth culture in America
at that time?
 ZAPPA: There wasn't any. Madison Avenue hadn't begun to talk about youth
culture yet.
STREET: Do you think that youth culture began when Madison Ave. started
promoting it?
ZAPPA: Yes.
STREET: How did you see yourself fit into the acid rock scene of the sixties,
in terms of the philosophy that was going around and the lifestyle that was
going down?
ZAPPA: I was laughing at it. (read
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