Ike Willis with We Used to Cut the Grass: A night of Frank Zappa music at Underground Arts

We Used to Cut the Grass is absurdly proud to present one of our heroes, Ike Willis, former Frank Zappa guitarist and lead vocalist, at the helm of our bandstand. We will be performing a full night of laborious home-made arrangements of Frank Zappa's music, drawing a lot of material from his early work with the Mothers of Invention juxtaposed with his final tours in the 80's, written by Cody McCorry and Ian Gray.

The band at its fullest will consist of:

Ike Willis; Guitar, Vocals and Conducting
Jon Francis; Backup Vocals and Post-Exotic Expressionism
Joe Gullace; Trumpet and Flugelhorn...

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We Used to Cut the Grass is absurdly proud to present one of our heroes, Ike Willis, former Frank Zappa guitarist and lead vocalist, at the helm of our bandstand. We will be performing a full night of laborious home-made arrangements of Frank Zappa's music, drawing a lot of material from his early work with the Mothers of Invention juxtaposed with his final tours in the 80's, written by Cody McCorry and Ian Gray.

The band at its fullest will consist of:

Ike Willis; Guitar, Vocals and Conducting
Jon Francis; Backup Vocals and Post-Exotic Expressionism
Joe Gullace; Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Sam Greenfield; Soprano Sax, Clarinet and Tenor Sax
Ian Gray; Trombone, Slide Whistle, Train Whistle
Sean Marks; Baritone Sax
Josh Nussbaum; Guitar
Cody McCorry; Bass, Saw and Conducting
Seamus Leonhardt; Drums, Saw and Percussion
Kevin Grossman; Drums, Glockenspiel, Garbage and CB Radio

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