Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica w/ Mothers of Invention

["Ben FELTEN [ML]" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was a guy a few years back called Craig Stewart who said his firts 
gig(s) were playing with Zappa and the Mothers.

He had an interesting style, I seem to recall, but I never heard him 
play w. Zappa.
> There's a fragment of a wonderful very early Mothers concert at the 
> Fillmore available on the Wolfgang's Vault website.  (This is a site 
> that owns a bunch of recordings done at concerts produced by Bill 
> Graham.)
>
> This show was recorded, partially, in June of '66, when they opened 
> for Lenny Bruce.
>
> In the fourth song, Handsome Cabin Boy Jam, someone, probably lead 
> singer Ray Collins, whips out a diatonic harp and plays along with a 
> beautiful Frank Zappa melody.  It's kind of rough and not especially 
> long (two bits), but it's actually pretty good.  I don't recall any 
> other harp in any of the Zappa recordings.  If you're a Zappa fan this 
> whole recording will be a turn-on.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2g7nvx
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