200 Motels What’s the Deal?

“What’s the deal?” Somebody gave weird old Frank Zappa a bunch of money to make a moving picture. Is that just like years ago when somebody gave Zappa a smaller bunch of money to make records? Well, sort of similar.

Over the last 6 years Zappa, both with the Mothers of Invention and under his own banner has made record albums. He has also written the music and words for these albums. Whatever the source of his inspiration, be it taco and burger stands in the Valley, Varese and Stockhausen, the Moonglows and the Codsters or his friends, Zappa has set a pace in expanding rock and roll creativity*