L.A. Free Press October 14, 1966 v3 n41 i117 pg 1: THE MOTHERS ARE ON FIRE pg 7, picture of: Vito & a cross-section of his Dancers & Freakers pg 9: ad for FREAK-IN presented by Pat Morgan for oct-15 pg 14: FREAK OUT THE official news OF The M.O.I. pg 15 Zappa's full page ad for A Genuine Olde-Tyme Freak Out coming soon; Help Legalize Therapeutic Abortion (Paid Advertisement - Page 14)

FREAK OUT THE official news OF The M.O.I. MOTHERS forced to cancel out Oct. 15th ... SUPERMANAGER! Story Below

PHONY FREAK INS, ZEIDLER DOPE ADS, & KARL FRANZONI'S LETTER Kindly Read This: A Statement of Policy, from Frank Zappa, for THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

Last week's issue of the L. A. F. P. contained 3 WE ARE NOT (no sir, buddy) THIRD: the article "A MOTHER items in print which, we feel, bear analysis FLATTERED OR ENTHUSED BY BARON AGAINST LSD" by Karl Franzoni and discussion. VON ZEIDLER'S IMBECILE ATTEMPT TO Karl's worthwhile and well-intended ASSERT (!) HIS teen-age (in the deepest letter to the editor was, FIRST: the FREAK-IN ad for the Shrine DICK CLARK sense of the word) coolness UNFORTUNATELY, incorrectly labeled Exposition Hall. BY USING OUR GROUP NAME (with all its as a public statement from a member of our The MOTHERS OF INVENTION are in no inherent rural cleanliness & protein value) TO: group. way, shape or form connected with this ersatz 1. Hustle Zeidler's MOD monstrosities (with KARL FRANZON IS NOT A promotion event. We repudiate this act of which we find it hard to identify) and/or ... MEMBER OF THE MOTHERS OF mercenary indiscretion on these grounds: 2. Endorse any psychedelic, narcotic or INVENTION 1. We do not wish to be associated in name laxative substance dispensed by FAIRIES or Nor does he claim to be or spirit with any CORNBALL effort to any other superficially aberrated person, by BUT FOR THE MOST PART, WE exploit FREE MUSIC, FREE DANCE, or means of LOVE LITE, VASELINE, State AS A GROUP AGREE WITH HIM IN FREE PEOPLE as we see it being done here: Welfare and/or Federal Aid to Education. HIS PLEA FOR A SANE DRUG POLICY We quote the ad: "The World Famous Artist IT APPEARS THAT BARON VON (basically: stick it up your ass and fly to & Sculptor VITO with his wife, his child, and ZEIDLER WANTS TO GO OUT IN A BLAZE the moon). his entire entourage of dancers and freakers" OF PSYCHEDELIC MARTYRDOM (we could WE, AS A GROUP, DO NOT 2. We find the ad itself, the promoter's be wrong) AS EVIDENCED BY HIS RECOMMEND .... VERILY, WE attitude toward his audience (of freakers), and APPARENT FETISH FOR ADVERTISING REPUDIATE ANY ANIMAL/MINERAL' the unethical implications of this misguided HIS KNOWLEDGE OF & AFFINITY FOR VEGETABLE/SYNTHETIC attempt to CORRUPT something we, as a "DOPE." THIS WILL, NO DOUBT, SUBSTANCE, VEHICLE and/or group, feel is VALID (and worth fighting for), PRECIPITATE SOME SORT OF MONSTRO PROCEDURE WHICH MIGHT TEND to be totally BULLSHIT ... that is to say: BUST AT HIS "PAD" (hep talk) & GIVE HIM TO REDUCE THE BODY, MIND, OR FREAK-INs (also FREAK-OFFs & TURN- A LOT TO WIMP ABOUT WHEN HE GETS SPIRIT OF AN INDIVIDUAL (any true ONs) OUT (is the status really worth it? wouldn't it be individual) TO A STATE OF SUB- DON'T MAKE IT more fun to go back to surfing & playing with AWARENESS OR INSENSITIVITY ... your crayons?)... THEREFORE: WE HEREBY SECOND: the ZEIDLER & ZEIDLER "dope that is to say: MAKE THIS KIND AND SUPERFICIALLY fiend calendar" ads WE ARE HERE TO TURN YOU LOOSE GENEROUS OFFER ... that is to say: THESE NIFTY SPECIMENS OF PRE- NOT TURN YOU ON We, The Mothers of Invention, agree to play PUBIC JUVENALIA (hand-lettered and TURN YOURSELF ON on Mr. Zeidler's front lawn NON STOP during cartooned by a frustrated pseudo-freako from the course of the routine Narco Bust tentatively THE SORT OF HIGH YOU REALLY Laguna Beach named Howard James (Baron described above (yes, from the moment they WANT Von) Lockway, who likes to advertise his kick down your door till the moment they kick IS A SPIRITUAL HIGH radiant Buddha-hood & worldly teen-age down your nose) ... AND YOU ARE BULLSHITTING knowledge of dope & drugs & stuff, along NON STOP, baby! YOURSELF with ZEIDLER'S threads) HAVE TWICE For only half of what we normally get at the IF YOU TRUST ANY CHEMICAL and/or INCLUDED REFERENCE TO FREAK- Whisky a Go Go, and all YOU have to do is get AGRICULTURAL SHORT-CUT" OUTS, AND TO US, AS A GROUP. a lot of extension cords to the front yard for our TO DO IT U YOU LAST WEEK, ZEIDLER & ZEIDLER, IN amplifiers (providing, of course, that the heat A FLUSH OF PSYCHEDELIC BAD lets us know about it a few days in front). YOU CAN'T GET BUSTED YET FOR JUDGEMENT, DRIVEN BY THEIR AWARENESS. INVINCIBLE & UNERRING SENSE OF ACCEPTED BY ...... maintain your THE SUPERFICIAL, ARMED ONLY WITH Zeidler & Zeidler aristocratic THEIR TOTAL LACK OF TASTE & coolness ... (a swell bunch of guys & PERCEPTION, SAW FIT (in their infinite a heck of a good sport, Sincerely, lack of WISDOM!) TO INCLUDE A GOD LOVE THEM) DEFTLY SECRETED BLURB WHICH Frank Zappa PLEADED: For further information, contact our For The MOTHERS "May The Good Dope Fairy Shine Her Love SuperManager, Herb Cohen, who will also Of Invention Lite give you a good price on weddings and On The Mothers of Invention" graduation parties, not that you'll ever need it.