Frank Zappa cost Jeb Bush all but one wedding photo
Theres only one photo that exists from Jeb Bushs 1974 wedding to his wife, Columba, and its all because of Frank Zappa.
The former Florida governor posted a smiling pic of him and his blushing bride on Twitter on Monday to mark the couples 41st anniversary:
Happy anniversary to my beautiful wife of 41 years, Columba. pic.twitter.com/70yJ0riIhn
Jeb Bush (@JebBush) February 23, 2015But the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate didnt exactly have a trove of photos from his big day to choose from, after his brother suffered from a snapshot snafu.
Marvin Bush served as the official photographer for the ceremony. In an excerpt in Doro Bush Kochs tome, My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush, first highlighted by Time and penned by Marvin Bush, he writes he was processing the wedding pictures in a darkroom when he realized I had rerolled previously used film that had been taken at a Frank Zappa concert Every single photo of the Bush and Garnica families had either a photo of Frank Zappa and/or members of his band, the Mothers of Invention, superimposed onto their own images.
Bush says that he remembers thinking that while a Frank Sinatra photo may have been acceptable, pics of the Dont Eat the Yellow Snow singernot so much.
The Zappa goof marked the end of Bushs photography career, he writes. Fortunately, Bushs mother managed to capture a sole photo of her son and his new wife with her Kodak pocket Instamatic camera that day.
And there was a slight silver lining for Marvin Bush too: I submitted a picture of the bride and groom (yes, with Zappa) in an art show at school. I called the picture something clever like Zappas Bride and won third prize in the photography category.
Presidential material right there.
I think that a person who could become POTUS should be one who is careful enough not to rely on only one photographer at his/her wedding, especially on a photographer who is most likely an amateur, a sure sign of nepotism. I would have liked to have seen Marvin's photos - because on the one occasion that I went to a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention live concert I had no camera and in any event was somewhat "self-medicated" at the time.
It Can't Happen Here - Suzy Creamcheese. (...but it IS happening here)
Oh no!!! Poor Jeb Bush!
It took me years to find the really good Zappa.
Apostrophe and Hot Rats are both amazing.
Are those groups of today, Dean? I'm not up on today's music, beyond that which my son listens to... I don't remember those names!
No they are what I believe to be two of Zappa's best records.