Herb Cohen
person
6 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
↑2 this month
American music manager and record label co‑owner with Frank Zappa
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Peak in the day, 3 Sep — 2 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentAndrew HickeyA History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic... · 2:08:38 · 3 Sep
…Zappa and Herb Cohen would instead form discrete records soon after, and the next few releases would be on Warner Brothers, the label which had distributed Bizarre and Straight and would continue to distribute Discrete.…
Andrew HickeyA History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic... · 1:59:33 · 3 Sep
…Though annoyingly legal issues between Zappa and Herb Cohen, which we'll talk about later, have meant that it keeps going in and out of print over the years, and it's currently not legally available anywhere in any format, which also means that the streaming playlist for this episode is rather less comprehensive than I would like.…
Andrew HickeyA History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · Song 185: “Peaches En Regalia” by Frank Zappa · 53:40 · 21 Jul
…Zappa, for all his abstruse music, actually had a keen commercial instinct and an understanding of advertising, and he was at this point actually in the process of putting together an ad agency, named Nifty Tough and Bitchin', with Herb Cohen, to provide services to companies who wanted to advertise to the counterculture and underground.…
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