One Size Fits All By Steve Rosen From Guitar Player, Jan. 1977
Frank Zappa - guitarist, composer, producer, avid Roller Derby
fan, and leader of The Mothers Of Invention - is at 36 probably
the elder statesman of progressive rock and roll. Though most
people first credit Zappa for his advanced, avant-garde
songwriting, it takes his own exceptional and original guitar
technique to put forth those ideas.  In addition to leading his
ever-changing, ever-expanding Mothers - which has included such
notables as French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, multi-
keyboardist George Duke, drummer Aynsley Dunbar (now [1977] with
Journey), and Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (presently known as
Flo and Eddie) -Zappa has continually served as one of the most
articulate and controversial satirists on "pop music weirdness."
Some of the Baltimore-born artist's side projects have included
producing an album by Grand Funk Railroad, leading a Fifties
rock revival put-on called Ruben & The Jets, and producing
several films, such as 200