“That moment of discovery is so special – the floodgates just open up – and the great thing is, it can continue to happen your whole life. And he was doing all those things that West Side Story did, so that was very attractive to me. It’s not even my favourite Frank Zappa record, but it’s the first one I heard – it introduced me to his music. “I put Freak Out! on, and it was like, ‘Whoa…’ It was really different from Led Zeppelin or anything else I was listening to. I saw Freak Out! one day and bought it – I also bought Deep Purple’s Machine Head, too, which on any other day could also be on this list.
I didn’t know who Frank Zappa was at the time, although I’d heard funny stories about him. When I was old enough to cross Westbury Avenue by myself, I used to go to Korvettes and pretty much live in their record department. “There was a department store called Korvettes that was literally a five-minute walk from my house.
The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! (1966)
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