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ZigZag was the name of a cutting-edge UK rock music magazine. Started in 1969 by Pete Frame the magazine was famous for its thorough interviews, well-researched articles, innovative "rock trees" ... and taste in American songwriters ... (wikipedia)
 

Issue 3
1969 July

ZigZag Unzips
Frank Zappa interviewed by Dick Lawson at Royal Albert Hall, 4 pp
 


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Issue 53
1975
Volume 6, No. 3

The Earliest Days Of The Mothers – Just Another Band From L.A.
Tree by Pete Frame, 1 p
 


In terms of fax and info, this is hardly the most spectacular family tree we've printed in ZigZag, but on the other hand it does offer a detailed chronological breakdown of the Mothers' pre-fame incubation period – complementing the more recent history depicted in ZigZag 25.

All quotes are Frank Zappa's, lifted from an obscure interview he did in Spring 1968.

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For subsequent Mothers/Zappa activities, see ZigZag 25.
Drawn by Pete Frame in May 1975 for ZigZag 53.
For Urban Gwerder, Craig Pinkus and July – you're still some woman.

 

Many thanks to slime.oofytv.set for this entry.