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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Elvis Has Just Left The Building
Have you ever wondered where Frank Zappa got his inspiration for his song, “Elvis Has Just Left The Building” which appeared on his 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album?
Posted in Bizarre, Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Personal, Pop Cult
Tagged 2009, elvis presley, Frank Zappa, the foolz, wal-mart
4 Comments
And Now For A Bit Of Perspective
The Powers Of Ten.
Posted in Miscellany, Movies, Personal
5 Comments
Sore TappaZ Plays Zappa – Amsterdam Blue Note, June 2010
Based in Leverkusen, Amsterdam – band leader and vocalist Christopher Klassen‘s home town – Sore TappaZ plays Klassen‘s original compositions as well as and the music of Frank Zappa.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2010, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Blue Note, Christopher Klassen, Sore TappaZ, zappa covers
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Lumpy Gravy – Unreleased Photos
Found on the Commodore Crush Blog: Well, it’s about time I share these photos with everyone. I luckily found these at a yard sale in San Diego a few years ago. I bought about 10 different Frank Zappa photos, 8 … Continue reading
John Lennon’s 70th Birthday
Imagine Peace.
Ensemble Modern on BBC Radio 3
Our good friend Xorg, a KUR regular and frequent mixer of the sardonic lipids, informs us that BBC Radio 3 is currently broadcasting (probably for only a few more days) via the BBC iPlayer – the Ensemble Modern performing Arnold … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged 1912, 2010, Arnold Schoenberg, bbc radio 3, ensemble modern, Pierrot Lunaire, Sounds New Festival, Sprechgesang
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Arthur Jarvinen – In Memoriam (1956-2010)
Arthur Jarvinen, musician, composer, founder of the California E.A.R. Unit, and music copyist for the late Frank Zappa, himself passed away on October 4th, 2010.
Posted in Frank Zappa, In The News, Miscellany, Music
Tagged 2010, Arthur Jarvinen, david ocker, Frank Zappa, Kyle Gann, music copyist, While You Were Art
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FZ Toy
You won’t believe this – a cut-out figure of Frank Zappa. Oh yeah… (found on Fuck Yeah Frank Zappa!)
Duo Disecheis plays Frank Zappa
Recorded Live at Incontri Musicali a Pergola – Sala dell’Abbondanza, Pergola (PU-Italy) on October 26th, 2008. The superimposition of two sounds with different pitches. It was considered dysechia: an unpleasant and disagreeable sound. Yet time and again things that have … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2008, bebop tango, David Brutti, Duo Disecheis, Filippo Farinelli, Uncle Meat, zappa chamber music, zappa covers
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In the Beginning…
In the beginning there was a word, and the word was secret, and the secret word was…Mudshark! And for fifty years the Mudshark ruled supremely as the only secret word on the planet Earth, but one day the Mudshark became … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Bizarre, Frank Zappa, Music, Personal
Tagged 2010, ike willis, Zappanale 21, ZAPPATiKA!
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