Jimmy Carl Black Mother Quotations

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

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.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

I had met Arthur in the 60's when I was with the Mothers and had become good friends. He had moved to Austin because his wife was from there.