Jimmy Carl Black — American Musician born on February 01, 1938,

Jimmy Carl Black, born James Carl Inkanish, Jr., was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention... (wikipedia)

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.
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
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.
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.