The Mothers of Invention

Mothers Of Invention Keyboard & Synthesizer Legend Don Preston Embarks On First European Solo Tour September 2024

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
September 20, 2024

Pianist & synthesizer legend Don Preston will be touring Europe starting in September (tour dates below). Don Preston leads a life filled with music, innovation, and experimentation in acoustic and electronic music. “Groundbreaking” is a phrase that is clearly overused. With Don it rings true. One of the first performers to drag a pile of oscillators and filters onstage, he brought his classical training to the avant-garde. In the early '60s Frank Zappa would come to see Don’s “electronic music ...
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New Aural Documentary On Legendary Mothers Of Invention Member Bunk Gardner Now Available For Digital Download - The Bunk Gardner Story

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
October 18, 2011

Norway—Much to the elation of Mothers of Invention fans across the globe, now available for digital download is the amazing audiobiography of the original Mothers Of Invention reed player BUNK GARDNER—joined by the hip to keyboard player DON PRESTON. A rare glimpse of the creation of the MOI, and a new perspective on this important chapter of the 20th century music. THE BUNK GARDNER STORY is an audiobook of nearly three hours, including ringside comments by Don Preston, and bonus ...
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Legendary Mothers of Invention Members Don Preston and Bunk Gardner to Tour East Coast

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 26, 2011

Los Angeles, CA—Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, both original members of the the legendary Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa, are gearing up to tour east coast once again with The Don & Bunk Show. The duo will be playing a full range of Zappa's music from Freak Out to Zoot Allures. The evening will be full of the zany antics, wild improvisations and strange electronic music the early Mothers were famous for, along with the expert mastery of their ...
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Herb Cohen Label Operator Introduced Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

Herb Cohen, the tough, litigious manager and label operator who introduced such notables as the Mothers of Invention and Tom Waits during the '60s and '70s, died Tuesday of unknown causes in Napa, Calif. He was 77.

After beginning his professional career as an L.A. club booker and operator, Cohen branched into management in the mid-'60s. His biggest clients were Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, the outre band that became a top attraction in venues on the Sunset Strip. After ...
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Former Mothers of Invention Members Don Preston and Bunk Gardner to Tour East Coast

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
March 9, 2010

Los Angeles, CA - Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, both original members of the the legendary Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa, are gearing up for an exciting east coast tour called The Don & Bunk Show. The duo will be playing a full range of Zappa's music from Freak Out to Zoot Allures. The evening will be full of the zany antics, wild improvisations and strange electronic music the early Mothers were famous for, along with the expert mastery ...
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Jimmy Carl Black Mothers of Invention Drummer Dead at 70

Source: All About Jazz
November 5, 2008

Jimmy Carl Black, the original drummer for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, passed away this past weekend after a bout with lung cancer. He was 70.

Black, the self-proclaimed Indian of the group, served with the Mothers from their acclaimed 1966 debut Freak Out! until Zappas 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Black is also known for donning a dress on the cover of Were Only In It For the Money.

Blacks drumming also formed the heartbeat during ...
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Crossfire Records Releases Archive Recordings from Former Zappa's Mothers of Invention

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
September 1, 2007

Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Jimmy Carl Black - all former members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention - have new releases in Crossfire's ongoing Zappa-related series of archival recordings. West Caldwell, NJ - Don Preston and Bunk Gardner joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention in 1966, just in time for the album Absolutely Free. Both were seasoned musicians with considerable recording and/or performing experience. Bunk Gardner first recorded with Bud Wattles' Orchestra in 1959 for the album Themes From The ...
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