Only in it for the Money.' Was everyone in the group fully behind Frank's bold move to parody Sgt. Steve: Long-time fans first knew your personality by your repeated cheerful greeting 'I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group' on 'We're You can`t even get a cheap set of drums for that I bought that set of drums in 1958 - new off the showroom floor for 450 dollars, including cymbals and cases. And, yes, I still have my original set of Gretch drums that I used on all the recordings of the When heīought the rights to the name Fibes he asked me if I would play them in Eroupe. The new Fibes are owned by a dear friend of mine in Austin, Texas, named Tommy Robertson. I play Fibes Drums since I`m an endorser of the new Fibesĭrum Company My drums are wood shell and sound really great.

What drum set are you touring with? Do you still have any of your vintage drums that you used on the MOI recordings? Even when I play with my blues band, The Farrell/Blackīand, there are a lot of M.O.I. They want to see where it all started from and are very cool people, in ThereĪre many old fans that come to see me play and a lot of his younger fans that have gotten into the old recordings of the M.O.I. Jimmy: The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so. These past 30 years with the many bands you have formed and/or played with? What have your audiences been like?

Therefore, I wonder what the fan reaction has been to your touring Steve: Frank has been quoted as saying that many of the original Mothers of Invention fans seemed to have dropped out when he went with other players in theħ0's and 80's, and, conversely, many of the younger fans of his later works didn't fully appreciate the earlier, classic MOI albums. Here is one - of the following three - interviews we did together. Played in Frank's band and the movie 200 Motels. He was very much just like the character he In the late '90s I used my friendship with Don Preston to get to know Jimmy. I first saw Jimmy Carl Black playing drums for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention at the 1969 Atlantic City Pop Festival.

Fibes drums 1975