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 1973
July 14-28
Issue 19
(1) Zappa a go
go
By Jennifer Lois Brown, 1 p
(2) After
Grand Wazoo - where to?
By Alan Watson, 1 p
(1)
At the Melbourne press conf. for
the Mothers of Invention, a Scotch 'n' Coke crowd swill amongst and to the band
in the American Dream of St. Kilda Road's Distillery discotheque ... mafiatic golden
mean.
"Hey! A picture of Nixon would look really neat on the wall here, don't you
think?" inserts Frank.
A pressured blonde skates through the meet, notebooks and lists bunched
dramatically against her boobs, bent on the organisation of interviews with
selected people in allotted time spaces.
Frank, wolf-eyed, has slunched his laconic, lanky self (entrenched in
greenbubble great coat) into a wicker chair in an adjoining room. He murmurs
husky answers to a disc jockey's mike and eyes newcomers. Omnipresent
bodyguard, Numbar Nagnew (Sweetness-But-Firmness) and the lost fold look on.
A slow coagulation of reporters organises into an adjoining room. Tossing jibes
like a fetid salad, they set up their machines, extract their notebooks, and
wait ... fiddlesome. (read more)
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