Zappa's Hot Rats LP

摘要

This movie for your ears was produced and directed by Frank Zappa', heralded a sleeve note inside the gatefold cover of Hot Rats. The year was 1969. Two years had passed since the 'alternative' lifestyle of the hippie counterculture movement had reached public awareness during 1967's 'Summer of Love'.rnMeanwhile the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy in '68 meant that memories of the Summer of Love were fading fast. Political commentators and historians now cite 1969 as marking the death of the American dream.rnFor scholars immersed in the 'conceptual continuity' of the late Frank Zappa's immense body of recorded work that spanned more than 30 years starting with The Mothers of Invention, 1969 marked the end of one Zappa era and the beginning of another.