Back on Memorial Day 1983, Missing Persons came on in the middle of the US Festival’s “Rock Day” — having escaped the ghetto of “New Wave Day” two days before — playing to the SoCal throng right after U2 left the stage. They were a pretty big deal, thanks in no small part to Frank Zappa band alums Terry Bozzio on drums and Warren Cuccurullo on guitar. Oh, and Dale Bozzio on vocals, whom FZ had deployed to play “Mary” on his 1979 Joe’s Garage opus.

I don’t think that even Frank’s most twisted dystopian concept could come up with Dale’s latest role — that of a broke cat lady doing time for animal cruelty in New Hampshire. Wow.