3 mistakes indeed lol!  Ruth was in the band when Tom Fowler broke his finger on tour and I got to fill in for him (early 70's)  for a few weeks on bass.  She is a monster.  No other way to describe it.  A beast.  I loved her!  But then, George Duke, Chester Thompson, Napoleon Brock, all monsters.  And then there was Frank who wrote all this stuff.  I miss him.  There are very few as unique as he was.

Ruth is the picture of grace and a sensational beauty.

Ladies and gentlemen....
Watch Ruth!

She is the undisputed queen of Frank’s sound in that era

I love you Ruth

"Jazz is not dead ... it just smells funny".

i was about to get on my feet and do the funky Alphonso but the video ended.

I had the honour and terror of meeting and interviewing Frank on August 16, 1969.  I had hoped to hitchhike to Woodstock from Montreal, but when my father saw the traffic jams on TV, I was forbidden to go.  My consolation prize was that Frank and the Mothers of Invention gave 5 free concerts at the former Expo 67 site that famous weekend, and I attended all 5.  The band was most of the crew that had recorded Uncle Meat: Bunk Gardner, Roy Estrada, Don Preston, Ian Underwood, Motorhead Sherwood, Jimmy Carl Black, and of course Frank.  Somehow, I wangled my way backstage, and got my 10 minutes with him, between the two Saturday afternoon shows, wedged between all the other actual reporters who each got their 10 minutes.  One of the things Frank told me was that he was always working on arrangements, and just like some of the pictures shown here, he brought a pad of music paper, a box of HB pencils, and an electric pencil sharpener with him, wherever he went, whether it was on the bus, in the hotel room, or backstage.  Any improvised segments were planned such that the personality characteristics of the band-member he pointed to would complement the piece.  Sadly, exasperated with what I gather was a frustrating tour (I think it was Bunk who told me the PA they had been promised for a show at a stadium turned out to be a 35 watt Bogen, of the sort for announcing that someone's headlights had been left on), he broke the band up on the Monday the 18th, declaring that "people wouldn't know good music if it bit them on the ass".  Hearing people in the front row yell out requests for "Louie Louie", I can understand his irritation, though I would imagine other things factored into the mix.  About 2 months later, he released Hot Rats.

I could listen to Ruth play all day!

I bought Apostrophe (') when it came out, listened to it immediately and when the Rollo section came around was absolutely stunned. All I could think was "This blows Emerson Lake and Palmer completely out of the water".

the make her entrance like a queen motif is genius

Ruth is wonderful.

Love you Ruth. So may memories of great music. And a lot of fun listening to it. Thank you.

The anniversary of his passing ,26 yrs is still tough! I've been a fan of his for 50 + yrs now!!

Thanks to Ruth we get an insight to Zappa's difficult compositional ideas.

Ruth is so awesome!

It's great to see Ms. Underwood play and speak, thanks for posting!

I Love Ruth!

First, Zappa imagined and wrote that music.
Second, Ruth played that music!
Zappa and Ruth. She should've lasted longer with the band, but while she was there, it was the best Mothers line-up, and that says a lot.

It's so obvious that Dweezil is the only member of the Zappa household who totally GETS his daddy's music & appreciates the rich musical legacy that has passed on to him.

I never tire of watching these interviews.

3 mistakes. one for each decade i'v been away from ... we surely miss the 74 line up  !