[x] Masters

the first Frank Zappa recording, but i'm not sure he was a member:
[www.bandtoband.com] http://www.bandtoband.com/index.php?PageField=Wiki&ActionField=var&Album...

anyone have any biographies that might clear this up?

I asked a buddy who knows more about FZ than anyone I know:


"Hi matt,

[globalia.net] http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/chronology/1940-1964.html

Scroll down to 1961.

Paul Buff owned Pal Studios (which Zappa later bought off him and changed the name of to Studio Z) and was a years ahead of the game multitracking boy genius type. He and Zappa (and others) wrote lots of songs and they were often recorded under different names – so lots of those recordings (often released and charting in local or Californian charts (one tune, Tijuana Surf was a number 1 in Mexico for x number of weeks, for example) aren’t by ‘real bands’, just the equivalent of session bands with new names.

.. this link - [fzsinglesfaq.w-i-s.net] http://fzsinglesfaq.w-i-s.net/Zappa_Involvement.html#TheMasters

It seems Zappa isn’t playing on 16 Tons, but is playing on the b-side, Breaktime.

Hope this helps!

Ashley x

Also...

The Ronnie Williams who’s playing bass and drums is the Ronnie from Let’s Make The Water Turn Black..."


So I'm prepared to suggest that if The Masters are a band at all (and by our rules, a bunch of "session men" getting together and calling themselves a band is a band) The Masters *is* a band and on this single there are two lineups, with FZ on the second one.

ok, if we're going with this as an inclusive session band, then i agree - 2 lineups, one with FZ.
thanks.