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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Exclusive FZ-Audio at Rolling Stone Dot Com
An exclusive Audio feature from the Rolling Stone: …his estate is releasing a three CD concert set taped at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1978. The shows were the source of some tracks on 1979s Sheik Yerbouti, but the complete unedited … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, FZ's birthday, Music
Tagged City of Tiny Lites, online music, Rolling Stone
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Jean-Luc Ponty at Zappanale, 2010
You might want to listen to the original King Kong (’69) album – collected temporarily here.
Posted in Alumni, FZcovers, Jean-Luc Ponty, YouTubery
Tagged Jean-Luc Ponty, Zappanale 2010
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Cover Freak’s Zappa Tribute
Eleven Zappa covers from a variety of bands, a year in the making + free download equals coolness! Mucho kudos to Cover Freak, a blog well worth following I should add.
Posted in Frank Zappa, FZcovers, Music
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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #7
I had a completely different artist in mind for this week’s listening session before the sad, untimely passing of poet, painter, musician and all round iconoclast, Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart).
Too Big to Fail – new album from FiDOplaysZAPPA
The new Fido Plays Zappa album called Too Big to Fail is coming soon – itt will be acoustic! FiDOplaysZAPPA – Black Napkins by mistergreen Check out their homepage for more! (found at United Mutations)
Unreleased Lumpy Gravy Cover Photos – Part 6
The final (6th) part of these unreleasesd photo series (see our earlier post). From the Commodore Crush blog, with no Zommify Widget this time, but watermarks – read the accompanying text there also, hehe.
The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle
By now you may have read about this elsewhere: the ZFT yesterday released another Birthday Bundle. It’s a digital-download compilation album featuring various artists including Macy Gray, Holland Greco and of course FZ himself. Full tracklist here, a bit more … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, FZ's birthday, Official Releases
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Beautiful & Heartbreaking – Vliet Recites Poetry, 1993
Both beautiful and heartbreaking, Don Van Vliet recites his offbeat poetic lyrics:
Strictly Genteel (All Versions Mix)
This is a mix of four different arrangements / recordings of “Strictly Genteel,” synchronized measure for measure and then re-synchronized to the video. It’s worth watching it in it’s original Youtube page, reading the detailed description of the amazing mix. … Continue reading
Stravinsky’s First Childhood Memory Of Sound
… and I quote: …an enormous bare legged peasant seated on the stump of a freshly cut tree singing a two-syllable nonsense song and accompanying himself with what we as kids used to call “arm farts.” … and so: The … Continue reading