
Episode 140: “Trouble Every Day” by the Mothers of Invention
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Zappa's Life by the Jewels
Young frank was such a big fan of ferez that for his fifteenth birthday, he actually asked if he could make a long distance phone call to speak to verres. He didn't know where verez lived, but figured that it must be in greenwich village because that was where composers lived. When you're 15 and living in the mahave desert and you find that the world's greatest composer, who also looks like a mad scientist, is working in a secret greenwich village laboratory on a song about your home town, so to speak, you can get pretty excited. A year later, zapper actually wrote to verez a long letter, which included him telling the
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