Come Home to your Mothers Trivia Quiz

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The Original Mothers
Roy Estrada and Jimmy Carl Black founded The Soul Giants along with Ray Collins. When Frank Zappa joined them, the band evolved into the Mothers of Invention.

Estrada played bass guitar and sometimes vocals (including his signature falsetto harmonies) and Black, famously "the Indian of the group", played drums and percussion. Keyboardist Don Preston would join the band for their second album "Absolutely Free" in 1967.

All three appeared on the original Mothers' albums up until the group's dissolution in 1970. Afterward, Estrada continued his work with Little Feat, while both Black and Estrada performed with Captain Beefheart to various extents. Preston became a somewhat sought-after commodity, performing with a diverse array of artists from John Lennon to Al Jarreau.

The Flo and Eddie Years
Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan made up the dynamic duo of Flo and Eddie from quite possibly the weirdest period of the Mothers of Invention. Vocalists originally from The Turtles, they joined The Mothers of Invention around 1970. They first appeared on Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge" but made their big splash on the live album "Fillmore East", where they performed as a rock star and a vexing groupie with very particular interests.

The Roxy Lineup
Woodwindist and vocalist Napoleon Murphy Brock became a big voice in Zappa's mid-'70s Mothers of Invention lineup, joining around 1973. He delivered some of the band's more theatrical highlights on "Roxy & Elsewhere", "One Size Fits All", "Bongo Fury". His live antics, including improvisational conversations with Zappa, are a thing of legend.

Keyboardist and vocalist George Duke first showed up with The Mothers during the Flo & Eddie era, with his studio debut with Frank Zappa being "Chunga's Revenge". He became a fixture in the lineup (with some breaks) through "Bongo Fury" in 1975, which is the last album credited to The Mothers of Invention.

Fan favorite and percussionist Ruth Underwood was one of the most technically brilliant members of the Mothers, joining around the late 1960s/early 1970s after studying classical percussion at Julliard. Drawn in by the band's complexity, she became a key part of Zappa's sound on albums like "Over-Nite Sensation", "Apostrophe (')", and "One Size Fits All", where her hypnotic marimba and vibraphone runs turned Zappa's dense, weirdly metered compositions into something magical.

The New Kid
Drummer Terry Bozzio joined the Mothers around 1975, just as Zappa was about to move toward a more rock music style (or as close as Zappa could be to "rock"). He played on 1975's "Bongo Fury" and several other albums, doing standard power drumming as well as handling some insanely complex material. Polyrhythms, odd meters, and tuned toms were just the beginning. He was asked to play solo drum pieces that sound more like melodies than rhythm (and he would occasionally have to do it while wearing a devil mask).