With Frank Zappa
At their chance meeting, seeing potential in Bozzio, Frank Zappa hired her to voice the part of Mary in his rock opera, Joe's Garage, which was under development at that time. In that role she promoted Zappa's views towards the Roman Catholic Church, sexuality, and the culture of rock bands. In "Scene Sixteen-Packard Goose", Bozzio expressed Zappa's philosophy concerning how information, knowledge, wisdom, truth, beauty, love, and music relate to each other, with music as the best.
Bozzio's voice can also be heard in the film Baby Snakes (1979), and in the single "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" (1980), a criticism of the US military draft policy at that time. I Don't Wanna Get Drafted was also included on the album The Lost Episodes (1996).
In 1984, Bozzio was cast in Frank Zappa's musical, Thing-Fish. In voicing the part of Rhonda, she played opposite her real-life husband at the time, Terry Bozzio, who voiced the character, Harry, Rhonda's husband. In Thing-Fish, Bozzio articulated Zappa's early 1980s perspective on feminism, female sexuality, young urban professionals (Yuppies), and the state of Broadway musical theater.
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