During this same period The Mothers also ventured overseas to Europe. Zappa calculated the approach and admitted, “we want to gear our product to the local market.” [Miles p. 150] His business mentality shocked people as musicians were only supposed to talk about fun, light topics. The truth is that Zappa was always a businessman at heart. “Before the group tour, Frank reminded the band that he was the spokesman for The Mothers and that no one else was to give any interviews. He was carefully cultivating an image for the band and he didn’t want any of the other Mothers messing it up.” [Mile p. 154] Zappa was openly against mainstream culture, he despised The Beatles and called them sell-outs, and yet he decided he was going to infiltrate it rather than fight it head on. For example, he agreed to appearances on the popular TV show of The Monkees and in their feature film, Head.
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