Paul Hof

Paul Hoff, who's been travelling four years with Zappa, is the unofficial head of the Mother roadies. He was selling clothes, into a heavy drug thing, and knew nothing about the technical aspects of rock and roll before starting work with Zappa. Hoff said he "was living with a woman that was Frank's secretary, went down where they were doing a gig, asked if I could have a job, and was hired."

[...] Hoff remains backstage during the shows to keep an eye on the equipment. During setup, Paul said he's responsible for seeing that "all the equipment on stage, lights, sound, band, equipment, is hooked-up and running right." It takes the roadies about three hours to unload and set up the 11 tons of equipment for Zappa and the nine Mothers.

Charles Ulrich

He's credited as one of the "technicians" on Fillmore 1971, for "special technical assistance" on The Grand Wazoo, and for "technical" on Apostrophe ('). Someone quoted on Patrick's page for Miss Janet referred to him as "equipment manager".

Here's what FZ himself said in an interview on WGOE, 11/3/72:

"Paul Hof is our main technician, who's been with me for a number of years. And he sees to it that everything works when we go onstage."

And at some point Paul Hof was married to Janet Neville Ferguson Hof.

Patrick Neve

He's credited with co-writing Spider Woman from the Ruben and the Jets album, "For Real!"

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