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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Jimmy Carl Black

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Jimmy Carl Black
Age: 70 †
Born: 1938
Born: February 1
Died: 2008
Died: November 1
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