Essra Mohawk & Frank Zappa's "Bizarre Beginnings"

[ageoftheinnocent]

electric aunt jemima?



[TiniNormi]

This made me hard.

[fecinny]

@TiniNormi  Ahhh... the power of music.

[cavemanfarts]

what song is this?

[fecinny]

@cavemanfarts The song is Bizarre Beginnings and Essra talks about her days with Frank in the MOI in the April 22nd issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[angie4josh]

sounds a bit like Muffin Man

[freespeech4u2]

@angie4josh  not really

[angie4josh]

@freespeech4u2 sounds a bit like muffin man not really

[Chronepsis5]

Essra Mohewk awsome cause you can,t forget to thank the band Frank always had such awsome people behind him . Sometimes I forget that shame on me.

[gwamba]

crazy, this has been here for awhile...and first time s/hearing it....thanks for the post....not too many good things on here, but this was a good thing!

[wizardeal]

thank you for the share

[fecinny]

You are very welcome.

[RaiderEleven]

I never knew that Essra was swept up in Zappa's Mothers of Invention maelstrom. She is fantastic!

[fecinny]

Thank you. I wholeheartedly agree.

[tomtiddler]

The rich tapestry of Rock N' Roll.. 5*****

[fecinny]

Tom,

I couldn't agree more...

Thnx,

Frank

[chezzerhawk]

Eh??????

[muzfan]

Thanks for putting Essra's music out here for the world. She is a great songwriter and performer.

[fecinny]

You are welcome & it is my pleasure to musical mankind.

[jogschneider]

Ahoy, '09 March 5th, Mates, Memory: 1/2: who sang "Midnight at the Oasis?"Maria Muldaur(sp).DockRocker of MdDS Supp.Site

[Colortinis]

A lovely, though short track. Nice things come in small packages, at it were.

[graffitize]

aye, lovely stuff...

[MUZIKNFILMZ]

INTERESTING..is this the lady who played the vibes for Zappa?

[fecinny]

Essra's response to query:

No, I didnt play vibes. I sang with the band. Also I sang and played piano as their opener. That means when they did 3 sets a night, I did 6. Plus opening to whoever was playing downstairs at the Go Go (Cream, Procol Harum, Grateful Dead, etc.).

[MUZIKNFILMZ]

Amazing! The stories u must have!

I wish I had been born 20 yrs earlier, so I could've experienced those times! Such originality & freeness! You could still surprise & shock people then. Everybody wasn't as jaded & "seen it all" like they are today! I got to taste a bit of that growing up & coming of age in the late 70's. I didn't get turned on to Frank until the late 80's when I was 25. But I came from the school of P-Funk, Sly Stone, Prince & David Bowie, so Zappa was no stretch by then!

[sparksmediagr]

Ruth Underwood played vibes for Zappa