Music Is The Best Trivia Quiz

Answer: Freak Out!

"Freak Out!" is arguably the first concept album and one that purportedly inspired Paul McCartney to come up with the idea of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

Answer: Terry Bozzio

According to the introduction to the song: "Terry recently fell in love with a publicity-photo of a boy named Punky Meadows, lead guitar player from a group called Angel. In the photograph, Punky was seen with a beautiful shiny hairdo in a semi-profile which emphasized the pootched out succulence of his insolent pouting rictus, the sight of which drove the helpless young drummer MAD WITH DESIRE!"

Answer: Ike Willis

"Joe's Garage" was the first album on which Ike Willis appeared. Ike ended up continuing with Zappa longer than any other member of the ever-changing band lineup.

Answer: Flo and Eddie

Flo (The Fluorescent Leach) and Eddie were at the time better known as Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles. Contractual obligations required that they perform under a different name when they joined The Mothers.

Answer: Moon Unit Zappa

"Valley Girl" was Zappa's highest charting single ever in the United States, reaching #32 ("with a BULLET!").

Answer: Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" was a true story about how the band Deep Purple came to record a live album in Switzerland. At the time, "Frank Zappa and the Mothers had the best place around, but some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground." A member of the audience shot a flare gun into the ceiling, burning the whole building down.

Answer: A Sofa

From "Once Upon a Time" to "Sofa #2" to "Stick It Out" to many more found on rarer discs, when Zappa sings German, he sings about a Sofa.

Answer: John Lennon

Yoko Ono also plays on the album, mostly performing high-pitched shrieks. In fact, the album includes the "song" called "A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono" on which the band plays strange ethereal music while Yoko does her stuff.

Answer: No Not Now

This is the freaky and unsatisfying conclusion to the "play" that Zappa wrote called "Thing Fish".

Answer: We're Only In It For The Money

This is largely considered to be Zappa's masterpiece, although I humbly disagree. It is Zappa's third album (and third concept album), and it pokes fun at the "phoney" world of hippies, their parents, the police, feminists, and rock stars. On the second half of the album, Zappa offers an alternative to these choices: be who you are, avoid being put into a category, and don't be afraid to go against the grain in your own way.