New Mothers

“I’d like to clean you boys up a bit and mold you. I believe I could make you as big as the Turtles.” --A NOTED L.A. DISC JOCKEY, quoted in the liner notes to Freak Out. “The present-day Turtle refuses to die!” -Howard Kaylan, August, 1970 Never caught without a surprise or two, Frank Zappa unveiled the most recent incarnation of his Mothers of Invention at Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Friday, August 21.