No further details could be obtained at press time, but it is understood that, if Ronald Foulk cannot clinch the Mothers' booking, he would welcome the appearance of Zappa's new group, Hot Rats, whose first album was voted MM LP Of The Month. Isle Of Wight Festival "IOW Bid For Zappa," Melody Maker, April 11, 1970įrank Zappa may re-form his original Mothers Of Invention group for this year's Isle of Wight festival. It's also the title of their next album, called Chunga's Revenge. While on the subject of Zappa, please note that his other new group is not called the Hot Rats any longer. Pete Senoff, "Be Bop Alua," Sundial, April 3, 1970 And somewhere along the line all these other plans started popping up. So I brought him to the United States, in the first place to make a successor to the "Hot Rats" album which was what "Chunga's Revenge" turned out to be. I heard Aynsley (Dunbar) play at this pop festival in Belgium and I really liked the way he played. In order to synchronize both drummers they had to be limited in the type of things they could play. Because if there was one weak point in the old Mothers it was the rhythm section. I wanted not just to play more guitar but play it in the context of a stronger rhythmic feeling. I got interested in playing more guitar and that's when I started playing with the Hot Rats group. Hot Rats Band/Chunga FZ, interviewed by Robert Green, Hit Parader, June, 1971 They tossed a coin and Mitch got the job. Chas and Jimi could'nt decide who to pick between Mitch Mitchell and AD. He was also originally considered by Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix to play drums in the JH Experience. Tommy was also offered the job in Mothers of Invention, but at the last minute Ian Underwood decided to stay, so Tommy didn't join.
soon after, Aynsley breaks the band to join him. shared bill with Frank Zappa band in Belgium, in the Amougies Festival, in October 1969, and in Paris, where Zappa puts his eyes on Dunbar, and. It was only after very careful consideration and thought that I decided to join." Miguel Terol, "Tommy Eyre Biography," The Musicians' Olympus, c. "I turned it down because I had just formed Blue Whale but I thought about it and a week later accepted. "When I rang him up, he offered me the job of playing with him," Aynsley said. When Frank had been in London around Christmas-time, he'd tried to make contact with Aynsley, leaving messages for him at the Speakeasy. been impressed by Aynsley when they jammed at Amougjes he reckoned his own playing "took off within a couple of bars". Aynsley Dunbar Neil Slaven, Electric Don Quixote-The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa, 2003, p. l during MIDEM convention, which ran 01/16-01/23.January, 1970-FZ In Europe Charles Ulrich, Frank Zappa Gig List: 1970įZ jammed with Docda
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