• 200 Motels is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production...
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  • 200 Motels, the soundtrack album to Frank Zappa's film of the same name, was released by United Artists Records in 1971. The original vinyl release was...
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    was mostly written in motel rooms while on tour with the Mothers of Invention. Some of it was later featured in the movie 200 Motels.: 109  Although the...
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    2013, they have been billed as Martha Davis and The Motels. The first incarnation of The Motels formed in Berkeley, California in 1971. Lisa Brenneis...
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    (1970), which was followed by the double-album soundtrack to the movie 200 Motels (1971), featuring the Mothers, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ringo...
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  • she appeared in the UK premiere of her late father's orchestral work 200 Motels at the Royal Festival Hall, London, playing the role of Groupie 2 (Lucy)...
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  • Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a documentary film made and released by Frank Zappa in 1987, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels. It was released...
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    The Movie 200 Motels Baby Snakes The Dub Room Special The Amazing Mr. Bickford Video From Hell The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels A Token of...
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    tracks on five albums, toured to support them, and appeared in the film 200 Motels, a semi-documentary film directed by Zappa. They were compelled to use...
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  • with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the world premiere of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels under the baton of Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen. She played the role of Lucy...
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    appeared on the soundtrack to Zappa's humorous pseudo-documentary film, 200 Motels. In 2015, Kaylan and Volman celebrated their 50th year, touring and performing...
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    dating back to when this company made the cartoon scenes in Zappa's film 200 Motels. Flo & Eddie did the music for their films Down and Dirty Duck and The...
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    of Zappa's music by other artists is also included here. Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (Cinema 1971, VHS 1984, DVD 2009) A Token of His Extreme (TV 1976, DVD...
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    fellow drummer Keith Moon. He starred as Larry the Dwarf in Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1971). His voice is also featured in Harry Nilsson's animated film The...
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    pursued a career as an actress, appearing in movies (including Zappa's 200 Motels), doing commercials, and playing a recurring role on the soap opera Search...
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    East – June 1971, and Just Another Band from L.A., as well as the film 200 Motels. He filled in for Flo and Eddie when they left the Zappa group after an...
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  • Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, around the time of the film 200 Motels. The live material on Playground Psychotics is interspersed with excerpts...
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    also appeared in Playboy's classic August 1976 Helmut Newton pictorial "200 Motels, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation", from which 11 original prints were...
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    (1964), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and 200 Motels (1971). For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958)...
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    Mothers. Black was also addressed as such by Theodore Bikel in the film 200 Motels. He has been credited on some Mothers albums as playing "drums, vocals...
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  • Flesh (1970) Chunga's Revenge (1970) Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971) 200 Motels (1971) Just Another Band from L.A. (1971) Over-Nite Sensation (1973) Apostrophe...
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  • time and budget constraints, couldn't be included in the similar movie 200 Motels. The most famous part of the album is "The Mud Shark", a telling of a...
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    Playground Psychotics. Pons portrayed himself in Zappa's 1971 surrealist film 200 Motels, starring the members of the Mothers Of Invention. In 1973 Pons left the...
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  • Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, which previously worked on The Point! and Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, both from 1971. RLR Associates of New York City was another production...
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    Caveman (1981). In 1971, he starred as Larry the Dwarf in Frank Zappa's 200 Motels and was featured in Harry Nilsson's animated film The Point! He co-starred...
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  • well as certain subsequent Zappa albums. He also appeared in the films 200 Motels, Video from Hell and Uncle Meat. Sherwood was born in Arkansas City, Kansas...
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  • Invention's late 1960s recordings and one song ("Lonesome Cowboy Burt") from 200 Motels. It was re-issued in 1995 and 2012 along with his entire catalogue. The...
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    several acting roles. His first was in 1971, a cameo in Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as a nun afraid of dying from a drug overdose. Although it only took 13...
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  • sleeve of both the vinyl and CD, are a preview of the then forthcoming 200 Motels film/album, and date from the summer of 1970 after the formation of the...
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    Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour '74) and Frank Zappa (200 Motels), to his classical portraits which include profiles of Maria Callas, Margot...
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