The Mothers of Invention

Q: Who influenced The Mothers of Invention?

Edgard Varèse. Each connection on MusicRoots cites a published source.

USA, 1964–1975

Frank Zappa's band. Freak Out! (1966) combined avant-garde, satire and rock — conceptual ambition without genre boundaries.

MusicRoots documents 1 artist who influenced The Mothers of Invention and 1 artist The Mothers of Invention influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Who influenced The Mothers of Invention?

Edgard Varèse — Zappa's Varèse obsession is founding rock legend — he phoned the composer as a teenager and put 'the present-day composer refuses to die' on Freak Out!.

Which artists did The Mothers of Invention influence?

Parliament-Funkadelic — Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention were the model of conceptual freedom and satirical madness for Funkadelic's aesthetic.