Some Words from the Bird

 Hello again! This is post number 50! Looking back over the older posts, I see that I have been at this for six years. And this is the 10 percent mark. This task may never get completed if I don't get my butt in gear. If you have read along with me up to this point, thank you for your time. If you are just stumbling across this... welcome!  When I was an early teenager, my slightly older uncle had a cassette tape of Zappa's "Sheik Yerbouti". My adolescent mind was overjoyed to hear bad words and barely veiled sexual innuendos. I have listened to much of the essential Zappa over the years, in fact, an old beat up vinyl record of  "Overnite Sensation" is one of my prized possessions. So I'm a fan. Today we check out the first album recorded by the Mothers. One look at the cover, and you can tell we are on the express train to the psychedelic trappings of the then swelling counterculture. But don't use the word Hippie... Frank wouldn't like that. ...