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

Courtesy of Ian Gray | Posted on October 17, 2013

Where

Underground Arts
1200 Callowhill St.
Philadelphia, PA
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When

Thu, October 24, 2013
Doors: 8 Show: 9

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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...

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