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Jimmy Carl Black

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I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#also #arthur #behold #decided #fan

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#brother #frank #friendship #had #him

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#doing #earth #every #feel #format

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#been #earth #exception #i #indian

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#done #every #i #long #since

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#bruce #i #in my opinion #influence #know

It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#anymore #frank #i #i think #lifestyle

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#chance #crazy #crazy world #creative #creative art

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#cool #i #mind #most #people

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.


— Jimmy Carl Black


#fame #hall #i #know #sticks






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In the seventies he toured with Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band and with Geronimo Black the band he founded with Mothers wind player Bunk Gardner. Band chronology
The Keys (1962 - ?)
The Soul Giants (1964)
The Mothers of Invention (with Frank Zappa 1964–1969)
Geronimo Black (1970–1973)
The Mesilla Valley Loboys (mid/late 1970s)
The Grandmothers (1980 onwards)
Jimmy Carl Black and the Mannish Boys (1987)
Brown Black & Blue with Arthur Brown (1988)
The Jack & Jim Show (with Eugene Chadbourne 1991–1994 2007)
The Farrell and Black Band (1995 onwards)
The Muffin Men (1992 onwards)
Sandro Oliva & the Blue Pampurio's (1996 onwards)
Jon Larsen's Strange News From Mars Band (2006–2008)


Discography


Solo
Clearly Classic (1981)
A Lil' Dab'l Do Ya (1987) − as Jimmy Carl Black & Mannish Boys
When Do We Get Paid? (1998)
Drummin' the Blues (2001)
Is Singin' the Blues (2002)
Hamburger Midnight (2002) − as BEP (Jimmy Carl Black Roy Estrada and Mike Pini)
Mercedes Benz (2003) − as Jimmy Carl Black & the X-Tra Combo
Indian Rock Songs from Jimmy Carl Black (2005) − live album
How Blue Can You Get? (2006)
Where's the $%&#@ Beer? (2008)
I Just Got in from Texas (2008) − as Chris Holzhaus Jimmy Carl Black & Louis Terrazas
Can I Borrow a Couple of Bucks Until the End of the Week? (2008)
I'm Not Living Very Extravagantly I'll Tell You for Sure. Jimmy Carl Black (February 1 1938 – November 1 2008) born James Carl Inkanish Jr.

was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.

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