James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes

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.

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• 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.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
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