History
After leaving Warner Bros. Records, Zappa founded the label Zappa Records in 1977, and formed a deal with Phonogram Records, which distributed the label's releases in the United States. Its first release was the live album Sheik Yerbouti, followed by the dystopian rock opera Joe's Garage.
L. Shankar's Touch Me There was released on Zappa Records in 1979.
After Phonogram refused to release the single "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted", which criticized Jimmy Carter's reintroduction of the military draft, Zappa founded Barking Pumpkin Records, and died in 1993.
In 2006, the label was revived with the release of Dweezil Zappa's Go with What You Know and Frank Zappa's Imaginary Diseases and Trance-Fusion were released by Zappa Records, followed by The Dub Room Special (2007), One Shot Deal (2008) and Feeding the Monkies At Ma Maison (2011).
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