**Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention** were the avant-garde provocateurs who shattered musical conventions in the 1960s and beyond. Led by Zappa's razor-sharp wit and compositional genius, the band became synonymous with satirical, genre-definì rock that blended doo-wop, jazz, classical, and absurdist theatre.
Their 1966 debut Freak Out!—one of rock's first double albums-mocked consumer culture and hippie pretensions, while later masterpieces like We’re Only in It for the Money (1968) lampooned the counterculture itself.
Known for virtuosic musicianship and chaotic live shows, The Mothers (with rotating members like Ian Underwood and George Duke) became a training ground for experimental talent. Zappa's sardonic lyrics
(Don't Eat the Yellow Snow), complex suites (The Adventures of Greggery Peccary*), and fearless attacks on censorship (his infamous 1985 PMRC testimony) cenented their legacy as rock's ultimate iconoclasts.
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