Jimmy Carl Black Quotes
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.
Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.
I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.
Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.