Freak Out!

And on top of that, I, I, I must be honest, I was never a Zappa fan.

I kinda liked the early, you know, Zappa records, you know, Freak Out! and, uh, We're Only In It for the Money.

I mean, I kinda liked those records, but I, I never th- cared much for him as a guitar player.

I mean, I thought he was kinda all over the road, you know? So that was probably part of the thinking.

Okay.

Well, very recently, the 60th anniversary edition of Frank Zappa's debut album, Freak Out, was just released.

And it's a wonderful five CD, one Blu-ray disc collection.

And I have been in full-on early Frank Zappa and the Mother's Mood for the last...

They're a group from Canada.

And I personally think.

And, you know, don't let this get back to Ferguson, but I think it's the best debut album I've worked on because these guys produced it in their their home studio in Canada.

But it sounds like a million bucks, like the production value is very high.

That's what's happening with almost all of these releases now.

Yeah, like the alb- the w- the w- for, I know there's a lot of Frank Zappa fans in the Audiophile community, and Mark Smotroff just reviewed Freak Out! , which is the 60th anniversary-

Mm-hmm

... super deluxe version that has the mono mixes-

In England, was there some sort of a character known as Suzy Creamcheese? The reason why I ask is because I had just recently bought, and I'm gonna pull it out just to confirm here, yes, it's right here.

The newly released five CD, one Blu-ray version of the Mothers of Invention Freak Out!

Mm.

Frank Zappa.

Okay.

Oh, wait a minute.

So it says here the Freak Out! was the '66-

Ah, right.

But he clearly supported the Muslim invention.

He supported, got funding for, and then produced one of the first double albums in rock, you know, Freak Out, in 1966, and gave Zappa enormous amount of artistic freedom in the studio to conduct and to write and arrange as well as to then play.

Interestingly, speaking of genre hybrids, he was combining doo-wop and psychedelic rock and 20th century avant-garde music by composers like Stravinsky and Varese, and bringing freaks in off the streets.

They called themselves that, you know, the freak scene in LA, and he would bring these people in that he knew to play instruments and to make animal noises and to chant.

I'm your host, Ryan Janson.

Coming up, music from the Mothers of Invention from the new Freak Out! 60th Anniversary collection.

Some recurring dreams gave Peter Gabriel the imagery for this next song: red wine, bottles shaped like people falling and shattering, followed by a downpour of red liquid.

The dreams helped inspire the song while leaving its meaning open to interpretation.

Blow your harmonica, son.

[instrumental music]

[instrumental music]That was the Mothers of Invention and Trouble Every Day from the newly released Freak Out! 60th Anniversary collection.

Band member Frank Zappa wrote that in response to the 1965 Watts uprising in LA.

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As we slide back into the 60th anniversary release of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from this week, their debut record, Freak Out! and from the 2026 remix, here's "Wowie Zowie".

[singing] Wowie Zowie, your love's a treat.

Wowie Zowie, you can't be beat.

Closing up with the title track from Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive album from 1981, and there was live Doors from the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, When the Music's Over.

We had Doors guitarist Robby Krieger covering the title track from Zappa's Chunga's Revenge on his 2020 record, The Ritual Begins at Sundown, and Sting getting in on the Zappa covers, hitting up We're Only in it for the Money's Idiot Bastard Son at LA's Wiltern Theatre in 1988.

And we started with the brand-new five-d- set 60th anniversary reissue of the Mothers of Invention's 1966 debut Freak Out! with the '50s-tinged 2026 remix of Wowie Zowie.

And this has been Pick of the Pack, BRYH&H, volume 541 for October 1st, 2026, and I hope you've enjoyed the show.

So it really was a good record store day for me.

So the first one was, and you know, I've been looking for a copy of the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out.

They had an OG pressing.

And this was actually really cool.

This is Zappacast, the official Frank Zappa podcast.

This is episode 79, the freak out 60th anniversary deluxe deep dish spectacular.

Here's your host, the creator of the Zappacast, Scott Parker.

Howdy, folks.

Flash pots.

Ladies and

gentlemen, the freak out 60th

anniversary.