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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: Over-Nite Sensation (Discreet)

Noe Gold, Crawdaddy!, December 1973

THERE HE sits, perched atop his Olympian toadstool, dropping farts and thunderbolts into a tape recorder. Few have escaped his world unscathed by his grungy sensibility, fewer still have approached the level of his visionary complexity.

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