The Mothers of Invention - Mother's Day

The Mothers of Invention were led by composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa, a singular musical figure with a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop and avant-garde classical music; although the Mothers were called a rock & roll band for many of their years together, Zappa used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.