{"id":5437,"date":"2014-01-08T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2014-02-19T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T04:16:00","slug":"zappa-mothers-open-for-lenny-bruce-with-plastic-people-louie-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"Zappa &#038; Mothers open for Lenny Bruce with &#8220;Plastic People&#8221; &#8211; LOUIE of Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lenny-mothers-FILLMORE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lenny-mothers-FILLMORE.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lenny Bruce \/ Zappa &amp; Mothers FILLMORE\" width=\"465\" height=\"671\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lenny-mothers-FILLMORE.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lenny-mothers-FILLMORE-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lenny-mothers-FILLMORE-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lenny-mothers-FILLMORE-400x577.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To start 2014 with a bang, the first LOUIE of Week shall be a vintage recording of <strong>Frank Zappa &#038; the Mothers of Invention<\/strong>, opening for <strong>Lenny Bruce<\/strong> at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco sometime in June 1966.  <\/p>\n<p> The very first song of this set was &#8220;PLASTIC PEOPLE&#8221; &#8211; an inspired re-write of <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong>&#8216;s immortal melody.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/when_frank_zappa_the_mothers_of_invention_were_lenny_bruces_opening_act_196\">Dangerous Minds<\/a> for reminding me of this special moment, even if it wasn&#8217;t specifically mentioned.  <del datetime=\"2014-02-20T04:13:14+00:00\"> You can hear more about the Frank Zappa \/ Lenny Bruce connection by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/when_frank_zappa_the_mothers_of_invention_were_lenny_bruces_opening_act_196\">HERE<\/a>!<\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong> The YouTube link with the archival recording was removed!  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well&#8230;..  some recordings are like that&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start 2014 with a bang, the first LOUIE of Week shall be a vintage recording of Frank Zappa &#038; the Mothers of Invention, opening for Lenny Bruce at the Fillmore Auditorium&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,33,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-old-versions","category-san-francisco-bay-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}