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As a teenager, Zappa was simultaneously enthralled by black R&B (Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Guitar Slim), doo-wop (The Channels, The Velvets), the modernist 20th century composers, such as Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern and Edgard Varèse.
I was an atheist. Zappa was atheist.
GC: We didn't know the Tubes at the time, probably not until we were on song number twenty or so, but we got to realise they were deep into what we were doing, while both Zappa and Captain Beefheart were an inspiration to us.
Demento called Zappa "the most major musical inspiration for me when I began the Dr. Demento Show, and he remains one of our half dozen most requested artists to this day."
It was also the year Zappa and his band, a blues-rock outfit called the Mothers of Invention
Zappa regularly used structured improvisation in a Jazz-like context but also occasionally used what he called "spontaneous composition"
