You say you're aware of the overall shape of the group's output so far?

I'd say we were not only aware of it, we control it. It's an intentional design.

You think this makes the Mothers better than some other groups?

It makes the Mothers different, certainly. We do not claim that control of conceptual continuity automatically ensures superiority on any level. The reason for explaining this process is to simply let you know it exists and to give you .... some criteria by which to rationally judge what we do. It is not fair to our group .... to review detailed aspects of our work without considering the placement of detail in a larger structure.

Listen, nobody put together a pop group, simultaneously planning years of absurdly complicated events, lives out those events, then writes about it in a press kit and expects somebody to believe it

The basic blueprints were executed in 1962-63. Preliminary experientation in early and mid 1964. Construction of project/object began in late 1964. Work is still in progress.

No wonder you guys never had a hit single.

I'm sure you realise that total control is neither possible nor desirable. (It takes the fun out of it). The project/object contains plans and non-plans, also precisely calculated event structures, designed to accomodate the mechanics of fate and all bonus statistical improbabilities attendant thereto .... What we sound like is more than what we sound like. We are part of the project/object. The project/object incorporates any available visual medium, consciousness of all participants (including audience), all perceptual deficiencies, God (as energy,) The Big Note (as universal basic building material) and other things. We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers.

I still don't get it. Art? What art? 'Rolling Stone' and all other groovy important publications have convinced me that you guys are nothing but a bunch of tone-deaf preverts, faking it on the fringe of the real rock & roll world All you guys do is play comedy music So should I believe all this crap about a conceptual program spanning decades?

Yes.

Why don't you guys just play rock & roll like everybody else?

Sometimes we do play rock & roll like everybody else (sort of). Our basic stylistic determinant is Rock, only sometimes it gets extrapolated into curious realms.

You probably get into that 'classical rock' Real intellectual with ugly chords and the beat's no good.

Any association we might have about 'serious music' has to be considered from a rock viewpoint because most of us are strictly Rock music. There is also the element of humour to consider.

I would also like to bring to your attention at this time to one of the tenets of our group philosophy: it is, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, theoretically possible to be heavy' and still have a sense of humour .... And another precept which guides our work: Somebody in that audience out there knows what we're doing and that person is getting off on it beyond her/his wildest comprehensions';

— The Bizarre Public Relations Dept.