Frank Zappa’s band tried to call themselves “The Mothers” as a reference to being able to “play like a motherf*cker”, but their label Verve Records objected, so (coincidentally) on Mother’s Day 1964, they became “The Mothers of Invention”.
Frank Zappa’s band tried to call themselves “The Mothers” as a reference to being able to “play like a motherf*cker”, but their label Verve Records objected, so (coincidentally) on Mother’s Day 1964, they became “The Mothers of Invention”.
