Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention FREAK OUT Hot Spots Map - Rare

Description: Freak Out Hot Spots Map - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - 1966 Here is your opportunity to own a beautiful copy of the original Freak Out Map from 1966. With the release of Freak Out!, The Mothers' debut LP, listeners could send in a dollar and get this map of LA's counter-culture. This is a top-quality item that will look great framed. Note that the maps were folded for easy mailing, but still look fantastic on the wall. Original 1st Editions were double-sided, these are one-sided. Those originals go from $1,000 to more than $10,000! Don't miss out. Only a few left. Due to the Holidays, items will not be shipped until January 2, 2025. Back story: My mother was in the industry and worked for Verve, A&M, and other studios. When she passed, I found these in a box marked "2nd run." I took one to a collector who said that because they are labeled "2nd Run," they were meant to be included in The Mothers' 2nd LP, Absolutely Free. Verve had spent $20,000 on Freak Out! but the album sold poorly. Subsequently, Verve reduced the production costs for Absolutely Free to $10,000 and nixed the idea of including the map. I have no reason to doubt the collector, but I am still selling these as copies, simply because they do no have a Certificate of Authenticity. More: The map was a separately published companion to Freak Out!, and a love letter to an emerging “Freak” counterculture. (Per the liner notes, a Freak “casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”)The map depicts a large slice of Los Angeles between Hollywood and Laurel Canyon in the north and Beverly Boulevard a few miles south, and from Doheny Drive in the west to Vine Street several miles east, perhaps eight or nine square miles in all. Three dozen locales are numbered (from 1-35 and, in a nice Zappa-esque touch, 69), all described in long text columns flanking the map. They include clubs (such as The Troubadour, “stunning in its concept” and the Red Velvet, “HQ for the plastic & pompadour set”); places to eat (Nikki’s Too, among others, offering “surprisingly good hamburgers” “in the company of a lot of really creepy people”); motels (including the Tropicana, “a groupie’s paradise”); and police stations (like the West L.A. Sheriff’s Station, a “moral arsenal” where one can hear “bold Aryan operatives rave about long hair freakos and the last John Birch meeting”).The anti-authoritarian tone is much enhanced by the small orange icons of explosions and mushroom clouds indicating the many busts and “police-terror situations” near known freak “hotspots”; a facsimile of “a cop-out card carried by finks for protection during a routine investigation”; a photo of three cops manhandling a suspect; and a subscription form for the L.A. Free Press, “cognoscenti HQ, beacon of truth, champion of teen & otherwise justice, nice people and more”. The “freak sanctuary” of Laurel Canyon is shown at upper left, surrounded by bright-orange[?] trees and mercifully free of police presence. In a nice counterpoint, a “cultural desert” is shown in the opposite corner, populated by faceless people and dotted with identikit houses.

Price: 35 USD

Location: Audubon, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-01-21T20:37:08.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD