Also in this incarnation of the Mothers was
Chad Wackerman, Ray White, and Tommy Mars.
The pic is from the Santa Monica Civic.
Chad, I saw him back Allan Holdsworth in Southern California in the early 80s. What a great drummer!
What was it like for your wife to work with all these people? I bet she has stories.
My aunt worked with a lot of these people and also Frank Sinatra, Mac Davis, and Joe Pass. Her stories are hilarious. Sessions pros all know each other and besides the movie about the "Funk Brothers", there needs to be more movies about the great backing musicians of rock and jazz.
Same with other similar session pros like Steve Smith (backed a lot of other solo artists like Mariah Carey, multi-instrumentalists like Frank's son Dweezil, other guitarists like Larry Coryell, and most famously popular band Journey). Chad himself, as you probably know, also has a long list of people he worked with in both rock and jazz.
I put Chad up there with Smith, Omar Hakim (Sting, and many jazz acts like Miles and Weather Report), and Tony Thompson (nearly everybody in rock like Jagger, Bowie, Robert Palmer, and Rod Stewart). Among my guitar playing set of friends, I turn people onto Chad's playing whenever possible as many in rock guitar fanboy circles may not be that aware of his playing like they would be with Phil Collins, Don Henley, Lars Ulrich, both Bonhams, or Keith Moon.