With Wilson credited as producer, The Mothers of Invention and a studio orchestra recorded the groundbreaking double album "Freak Out!" (1966). It mixed R&B, doo-wop, and experimental sound collages that captured the "freak" subculture of Los Angeles at that time.
The Mothers were formerly a bar band called the Soul Giants. Zappa said many years later that Wilson signed the group to a record deal in the belief that they were a white blues band. The album features vocalist Ray Collins, along with bass player Roy Estrada, drummer Jimmy Carl Black and guitar player Elliot Ingber, who would later join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band under the name Winged Eel Fingerling.
The album immediately established Zappa as a radical new voice in rock music, providing an antidote to the "relentless consumer culture of America".
The anthemic "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" features great guitar work, vibraphone, and even kazoo in the background.
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