The first date I went on with the young lady who would eventually be my first wife was a Mothers concert. It was in the fall of 1970 when Flo and Eddie, formerly of The Turtles, were doing vocals.

Also, Frank's dad was a teacher at a private prep school/academy in my hometown during my high school days. I attended public school myself, but met a fair number of students from the academy at track meets. They all said Mr. Zappa was the easiest teacher in the world to sidetrack into wasting an entire class period talking about Frank's exploits instead of teaching history like he was supposed to be doing.