"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.






10th November 1971
54 years ago
1 hour 38 minutes
Finishes at 2:46pm
$679,000 ($5,548,924 today)
Revenue unknown


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