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Viva Zappa! 1940-1993

Richard Gehr, Spin, March 1994

THE SUMMER between eighth and ninth grades — the same mystical season I smoked pot, read V, and almost had sex with someone else for first time — my friends and I were introduced to Frank Zappa's newly released Freak Out. 

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