The Mothers Of Invention Family Tree

The Soul Giants #1 (December 1964 or January 1965 to January 1965)

1) Roy Estrada bass
2) Ray Hunt guitar
3) David 'Dave' Coronado sax
4) Jimmy Carl 'Jim' Black drums

5) Dave vocals

The Soul Giants #2 (January 1965 to April ?, 1965)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Ray Hunt
3) Dave Coronado
4) Jim Black
5) Ray Collins vocals

The Soul Giants #3 (April ?, 1965 to April 2?, 1965)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Dave Coronado
3) Jim Black
4) Ray Collins
5) Frank Zappa vocals, guitar

The Soul Giants #4 (April 2?, 1965 to May 1 or 2, 1965) / Captain Glasspack and his Magic Mufflers (May 1 or 2, 1965 to May 8, 1965) / The Mothers #1 (May 9, 1965 to August or September 1965)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Ray Collins

4) Frank Zappa

The Mothers #2 (August or September 1965 to October 1965)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Ray Collins

4) Frank Zappa

5) Alice Stuart vocals, acoustic guitar

The Mothers #3 (October 1965 to January 1966)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Ray Collins

4) Frank Zappa

5) Henry 'The Sunflower' Vestine guitar

The Mothers #4 (January 1966 to February 1966)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Steve 'Lemon' Mann guitar, harmonica

5) Jim Guercio vocals, guitar

The Mothers #5 (February 1966 to June 2?, 1966) / The Mothers Of Invention #1 (June 2?, 1966 to August 2?, 1966)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Ray Collins

5) Elliot Ingber guitar

The Mothers Of Invention #2 (August 2?, 1966 to September ?, 1966)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Ray Collins
5) Elliot Ingber
6) Denny Bruce drums

The Mothers Of Invention #3 (September ?, 1966 to September 1?, 1966)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Ray Collins

5) Elliot Ingber

6) Billy Mundi drums, percussion

The Mothers Of Invention #4 (September 1?, 1966 to September 2? or October ?, 1966)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Ray Collins
5) Billy Mundi
6) Delton 'Del' Kacher guitar
7) Van Dyke Parks electric harpsicord (part-time member)

The Mothers Of Invention #5 (September 2? or October ?, 1966 to October 3? or November ?, 1966)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Ray Collins
5) Billy Mundi
6) Del Kacher
7) Don Preston keyboards, electric piano, electric clavichord

The Mothers Of Invention #6 (October 3? or November ?, 1966 to November 1?, 1966)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Ray Collins
5) Billy Mundi
6) Don Preston
7) Jim Fielder 12-string rhythm guitar

The Mothers Of Invention #7 (November 1?, 1966 to February 19, 1967)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Ray Collins

5) Billy Mundi

6) Don Preston

7) Jim Fielder

8) Bunk Gardner flute, piano, sopran sax, alto sax, tenor sax, clarinet

The Mothers Of Invention #8 (February 20, 1967 to June or July 1967)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Ray Collins

5) Billy Mundi

6) Don Preston

7) Bunk Gardner

The Mothers Of Invention #9 (June or July 1967 to July or August 1967)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zapa
4) Billy Mundi
5) Don Preston
6) Bunk Gardner
7) Ian Underwood vocals, guitar, organ, piano, electric harpsicord, celeste, alto sax

alto, baritone sax, clarinet, flute

The Mothers Of Invention #10 (July or August 1967 to August or September 1967)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Billy Mundi
5) Don Preston
6) Bunk Gardner
7) Ian Underwood
8) Sandy Hurvitz (aka Uncle Meat) vocals, piano

The Mothers Of Invention #11 (August or September 1967 to September 16, 1967)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Billy Mundi
5) Don Preston
6) Bunk Gardner
7) Ian Underwood
8) Ray Collins

The Mothers Of Invention #12 (September 17, 1967 to October ?, 1967)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Billy Mundi
5) Don Preston
6) Bunk Gardner
7) Ian Underwood
8) Ray Collins
9) Jim Sherwood (aka Motorhead) tenor sax, baritone sax, sopran sax, tamburine

The Mothers Of Invention #13 (October ?, 1967 to October 1?, 1967)

1) Roy Estrada
2) Jim Black
3) Frank Zappa
4) Billy Mundi
5) Don Preston
6) Bunk Gardner
7) Ian Underwood
8) Jim Sherwood

The Mothers Of Invention #14 (October 1?, 1967 to October 2?, 1967 (one week))

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Billy Mundi

5) Bunk Gardner

6) Ian Underwood

7) Jim Sherwood

The Mothers Of Invention #15 (October 2?, 1967 to November 1967)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Billy Mundi

5) Bunk Gardner

6) Ian Underwood

7) Jim Sherwood

8) Don Preston

The Mothers Of Invention #16 (November 1967 to December 1967)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Billy Mundi

5) Bunk Gardner

6) Ian Underwood

7) Jim Sherwood

8) Don Preston

9) Ray Collins

The Mothers Of Inventon #17 (December 1967 to August 13, 1968)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Bunk Gardner

5) Ian Underwood

6) Jim Sherwood

7) Don Preston

8) Ray Collins

9) Artie Tripp drums, percussion, xylophone, timpani, vibes, marimba

The Mothers Of Invention #18 (August 14, 1968 to November ?, 1968)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Bunk Gardner

5) Ian Underwood

6) Jim Sherwood

7) Don Preston

8) Artie Tripp

The Mothers Of Invention #19 (November ?, 1968 (two days))

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Bunk Gardner

5) Ian Underwood

6) Jim Sherwood

7) Don Preston

8) Artie Tripp

9) Buzz Gardner trumpet

The Mothers Of Invention #20 (November ?, 1968 to May 24, 1969)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Bunk Gardner

5) Ian Underwood

6) Jim Sherwood

7) Don Preston

8) Artie Tripp

9) Buzz Gardner

10) Lowell George vocals, rhythm guitar

The Mothers Of Invention #21 (May 25, 1969 to August 19, 1969)

1) Roy Estrada

2) Jim Black

3) Frank Zappa

4) Bunk Grdner

5) Ian Underwood

6) Jim Sherwood

7) Don Preston

8) Artie Tripp

9) Buzz Gardner