Mothers of Invention Don Preston and Bunk Gardner
Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, Winter 1992
DON PRESTON: a man whose career with Frank Zappa spanned the period 1966 to 1974 all told, with time off for good behaviour in between, effectively from the LPs Absolutely Free through to Roxy & Elsewhere.
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