Frank Zappa :

Zappa kept composing music for symphony orchestra while playing and recording with the Mothers of Invention. He made contact with conductor Zubin Mehta and a concert was arranged in May 1970 where Metha conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic amended with a rock band. The music, “200 Motels,” was according to Zappa the result of three years work, and was mainly written in motels while on tour. While the concert was a success, Zappa’s experience of working with a symphony orchestra was not a happy one. This would be a recurring issue in his career, where he often felt that the money he had to spend on getting his classical music performed rarely matched the resulting output.

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