Patrick O'Hearn

featuring fellow FZ alumni, Warren Cuccurullo on guitar

Frank Zappa

Johnny Guitar Watson

Johnny "Guitar" Watson makes appearances beginning on FZ's 1975 "One Size Fits All" .. then later on 3 releases 1984-1985 .. not to mention that his voice is sampled on FZ's 1988 live release, "Make A Jazz Noise Here"

Jean -Luc Ponty

original found on The Mothers 1967 sophomore release, "Absolutely Free"

Gordon Lightfoot

drums: Jim Gordon

Organissimo

FZ cover dating back to 1969's "Hot Rats"

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Jeff Simmons

Jeff Simmons appears on Zappa/Mothers 1974 live release "Roxy & Elsewhere" .. FZ recieves co-writing credit for this song and the title track .. in addition, Frank composed 2 more songs for "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up"; playing lead guitar on both .. later FZ covered both "Wonderful Wino" and "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up"

Jeff Beck

drums: Terry Bozzio

Patrick O'Hearn

this track features former bandmate Terry Bozzio on the Turkish Drum

Journey

Santana off-shoot band featuring Aynsley Dunbar [FZB 1970-1972] on drums

Stanley Clarke

keyboards: George Duke

Flo & Eddie

Flo & Eddie, aka Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan, formerly of The Turtles, performed with FZ's Mothers from 1970-1972

Weather Report

drums: Chester Thompson [FZB 1974-1975]

King Crimson

2nd guitar and vocals: Adrian Belew [2nd guitar and vocals on FZ's 1979 "Sheik Yerbouti"]

Jean -Luc Ponty

cover of FZ's Mothers Of Invention track (in shortened version) .. original song appears on 1969's "Uncle Meat"

Frank Zappa

The Vignola Collective

a cover of an FZ song originally from the "Läther" project (something FZ worked on during the mid-70's, while releasing other records simultaneously) .. upon completion of the 3-record set, when the record company refused to release it; Frank, on 31 October 1977, played "Läther" on the radio, saying, "you can have it for free, just tape it off the air" .. "Läther" was released posthumously in 1996

Missing Persons

this new wave band features 3 FZ alumnus: Patrick O'Hearn on bass, Terry Bozzio on drums & Wayne Cuccurulo [FZB 1979-1981] on guitar .. along with Dale Bozzio on vocals [who has a vocal-bit on FZ's 1984 "Thing-Fish"]

Joe Satriani . Eric Johnson . Steve Vai

1/3 guitar: Steve Vai [FZB 1981-1985] .. cover of an FZ/Mothers era song from 1970

Marcus Miller

trumpet: Sal Marquez [FZB 1972-1974]

Grand Funk Railroad

FZ produces this album, and plays lead guitar on this track

COMPILATIONS

FZ wrote a song for the 1970 Mothers Of Invention release, "Weasels Ripped My Flesh", entitled "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"

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judy henske & Jerry Yester

another release on FZ's Straight Records label

U. K.

featuring Eddie Jobson [FZB 1976-1978] on keyboards and violin .. being an original member of U.K., for this sophomore release, Eddie brought in someone whom he had toured and recorded with, while in FZ's band; to play drums; Terry Bozzio [FZB 1975-1979]

Jean -Luc Ponty

after making an appearance on FZ's 1969 "Hot Rats", violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and FZ developed this collaborative project .. "King Kong" features 4 Zappa/Mothers covers; plus 1 Zappa original, written especially for the project; and this song, written by Jean-Luc Ponty, featuring a guitar lead from Frank Zappa

Eric Clapton

drums: Jim Gordon [the popular session-drummer appears on FZ's Apostrophe(') in 1974]

George Duke

beginning with "Frank Zappa's 200 Motels" in 1970, keyboardist George Duke remained with FZ thru 1975's "Bongo Fury"

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

FZ produced this double album .. Captain Beefheart (aka Don Vliet) makes a few appearances thru-out FZ's career, most notably, his vocals on "Willie The Pimp" from 1969's "Hot Rats" & the 1975 Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers' joint-disc "Bongo Fury"

Lord Buckley

FZ produced a collection of work from Lord Buckley on his record label, Straight Records

Patrick O'Hearn

bassist Patrick O'Hearn was a mainstay in FZ's band from the (post-recording) cover-shoot for 1976's "Zoot Allures", thru "Sheik Yerbouti" in 1979 .. Patrick reappears on bass for a couple of songs on "Joe's Garage" in 1979

The Monkees

FZ makes an on-screen appearance in The Monkees feature film "Head", in 1968

Organissimo

Zappa cover circa 1973's "The Grand Wazoo"

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Jeff Beck

drums: Vinnie Colaiuta [FZ Band 1979-1981 .. also a couple of trax on "The Man From Utopia" in 1983]

Mothers Of Invention, The

Celebrating the 70th birthday of Frank Zappa (21 December 1940) .. featuring some very reasonable music from FZ 'imself .. Plus, some way-out sounds from (a small percentage of) music-A-cats that played along with 'im .. And on top of that (or on top of ol' smokey if you will), 'n' den sum ..