ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Good news for all you Mothers Of Invention buffs—Flo & Eddie keyboardist Andy Cahan has produced a new record on Rhino, Grandmothers, which features all the old gang of misfits (sans Zappa): Motorhead Sherwood, Jimmy Carl Black, Elliott Ingber, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner and Buzz Gardner, on a compilation of Mothers tapes spanning a decade.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Good news for all you Mothers Of Invention buffs—Flo & Eddie keyboardist Andy Cahan has produced a new record on Rhino, Grandmothers, which features all the old gang of misfits (sans Zappa): Motorhead Sherwood, Jimmy Carl Black, Elliott Ingber, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner and Buzz Gardner, on a compilation of Mothers tapes spanning a decade. Grandmothers boasts a Cal Schenkel cover, "looks and sounds like a Mothers LP," and has prompted the guys to tour in the near future. Other new Rhino stuff to look for: Welcome Back, Geronimo Black (Cahan and Jimmy Carl Black's early 70's band)...
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