·       Growing up in Philadelphia and seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and playing broomstick air-guitars 

·       First concert attended Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly in 1967

·       Ed tells us about meeting Ruth Underwood for the first time when working for Frank on, Zappa in New York overdubs on The Black Page

·       Frank inviting Ed over to jam at 1am with Adrian Belew, Terry Bozzio, and Patrick O’Hearn 

·       They played Montana, Ed reading the music and playing the marimba, was hired by Frank on the spot, Tommy Mars was hired s week later after a long, difficult audition 

·       Playing with Don Ellis band’s, Art Pepper liked him 

·       Preparing for tour in 1977, had to quit weed 

·       81-82 – Possibly Ed’s favorite band 

·       Ed talks about the Halloween shows he played with Frank 

·       Did MI6 take out Jimi Hendrix?  

·       Hear Ed’s take on the famous Zappa / Bowie encounter about Adrian Belew in Berlin

·       Being Clonemeister (Zappa’s band leader) and handing it over to Arthur Barrow 

·       And much, much more 

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