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Needs, Kris (December 7, 2017). "Freak Out! The Roots of U.S. Prog Rock". Record Collector. Archived from the original on June 29, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2023. The Mothers Of Invention's Absolutely Free is a single album displaying Zappa's ever-complex arrangements and cutting socio-political satire in two mini-suites, enhanced by new woodwind player Bunk Gardner, keyboardist Don Preston and drummer Billy Mundi. Presaging prog's classical heists, Absolutely Free is riddled with Stravinsky references and Gustav Holst rears up on Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin.

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Beware the fanboy.

Like the first album, almost every genre under the sun can be found either being used and performed expertly or being barbed at and musically disemboweled by the outstanding performers of the Mothers of Invention — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.126.184 (talk) 04:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

-Yeah, that needs work. The first album doesn't go farther then Rock, R&B, Blues, and Musique Concrete anyway. (Doowop too, but that feels redundant.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.57.222 (talk) 04:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

== == So Absolutely Free (song), which was on the following Zappa album, had absolutely nothing to do with this one, correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.215.97 (talk) 07:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

-You are right, there is no direct connection other than the title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.64.234 (talk) 20:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

I have removed the reference to Terry Gilliam in the credits. Though there are rumors that he created sound effect for this album it has never been confirmed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.64.234 (talk) 20:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Is Captain Beefheart on this album? I thought I heard him on Brown Shoes Don't Make It — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdebellis (talk • contribs) 04:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

No. There is a section of Call Any Vegetable that sounds as if it may have been intended as a pastiche of CB, but it's not him in person. BTLizard (talk) 14:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

...actually it's in Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin. I'm used to the Mothermania edit, where it's all one songBTLizard (talk) 14:39, 29 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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