12/16/2023 0 Comments Music collector reviewAs soon as we would leave the room there was all this, “Frank, what the fuck are you doing? Those aren’t the guys! They’re pop idiots and they’re gonna bring the band down.” And Frank said, “I don’t think so, I think they know what they’re doing.” They were waiting for whoever came through the door and thought it might be someone like Gregg Rolie but when it was us there was so much scepticism. They knew there was gonna be a new Mothers that were gonna make this movie 200 Motels and go to Europe. When we walked into that first rehearsal, Jeff Simmons looked at George Duke, looked at Ian Underwood and looked at Aynsley Dunbar, and went, “What the hell is Frank doing?” They knew he was gonna audition new singers. The musicians in Frank’s band were the most shocked. So when we he heard that The Turtles had broken up – we were friends of his – he asked us to join. He wanted to add a pop sensibility to the Morhers who were always sort of cast off as being the least playable band in music. I know why he wanted Mark and I in the band. In every band, there’s only one real player and when those players get together to make music it’s going to be incredible and that’s the future.” That’s what he thought. There’s gonna be these supergroups where a guy from this group, a guy from this group and a guy from this group are gonna get together and make real music. Way back in the 70s he was the first guy who said to us, “Wait and see, nobody’s going to be in a band. To some that may seem an incongruous match.įrank always knew something nobody else knew. After The Turtles, you did a 180 degree turn and you and Mark joined The Mothers 0f Invention.
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