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• Running to 6 minutes 16 seconds, this blues based Frank Zappa composition is described by his biographer Barry Miles as "a timeless rant against racial discrimination and the mindless commodification of news by American TV." Miles says Zappa wrote it while watching the 1965 Watts riots live on television, adding the riots lasted for six days and left 34 dead, more than a thousand wounded, and two hundred million dollars in damage. More than 30,000 Blacks took part in them, and there were around 4,000 arrests.
  
  Unlike the 1992 riots in the same city, Los Angeles, which were sparked by the acquittal of four police officers who had brutalized the motorist Rodney King, the Watts riots were sparked by the arrest of a motorist on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. In spite of appeals for calm by community leaders on the second day, the riots not only continued but worsened. It was only when the national guard were called in and a curfew implemented that the mayhem ceased.
  
  In March 1965, five months before the riots, Zappa himself fell foul of the law in an entrapment operation for a victimless crime; this left a bitter taste in his mouth for the rest of his life, and resulted in him writing many anti-authoritarian songs, most notably his three volume rock opera Joe's Garage about a world in which music was made illegal. Anti-authoritarian or not, Zappa was never any manner of bleeding-heart liberal, and "Trouble Every Day" clearly empathizes with the innocent victims of the riots.
• Provisionally called "The Watts Riot Song," this was released as a single backed by "Who Are the Brain Police?" and was the only one of their songs MGM Records producer Tom Wilson had heard before he signed The Mothers Of Invention on March 1, 1966. It was rewritten slightly and re-released years later as "More Trouble Every Day."
• Ray Collins plays harmonica on the track and Roy Estrada the guitarrón. >>

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