Ian Underwood
Sound
Biography
Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player, who was a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band the Mothers of Invention. Following the original band's split in late 1969, Underwood continued to work with Zappa extensively during the 1970s. Underwood graduated from The Choate School in 1957 and Yale University with a bachelor's degree in composition in 1961 and a master's degree in composition at UC Berkeley in 1966. He began his career by playing …

Zappa
2020
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975

200 Motels
1971
Member of Mothers of Invention

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016
Self (archive footage)

Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
Self

Classic Albums
1997
Self

Uncle Meat
1987
Self

Video from Hell
1987
Self

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988
Self

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014
Self

Burnt Weeny Sandwich
1969
Self

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968
2024

Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
2010
Himself

Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden
1973