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Category Archives: Personal
Mo’s Vacation
Funny how some people who adore FZ’s “regular” music tend to shy away from his “more serious”, “classical instrumental” music. They tend to see it as impenetrable, obscure, entirely inscrutable — in short, way over their heads. Not so. The … Continue reading
Posted in Classical music, Frank Zappa, Personal
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This One Goes To Eleven
Yes, the entire internet may have beaten me to it, but what the hey. Happy New Year everyone!
Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #5
From the very start, Led Zeppelin was a band whose essential ingredients were a ”crushingly loud interpretation of the blues”, “heavy, guitar-driven blues-rock sound”, a style that crossed many music genres, and their unbound male sexuality. It pulsed beneath the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Personal, Sunday Big Note
Tagged 1975, led zeppelin, Long Beach, streaming audio, sunday big note
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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #2
It would be another year – the last week of April and the early weeks of May 1973 – before the Mahavishnu Orchestra found themselves on the road opening for Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention on the tour … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany, Music, Personal, Sunday Big Note, YouTubery
Tagged 1972, jazz fusion, Mahavishnu Orchestra, original line-up, The Inner Mounting Flame
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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #1
Over the last few weeks and months, fellow KUR-Meisters, while compiling the various mixtapes for Kill Ugly Radio, I had an idea for an ongoing weekly “listening session” of various artists and groups, both Zappa-related along with his contemporaries, as … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany, Music, Personal, Sunday Big Note
Tagged 1976, Alphonso Johnson, billy cobham, george duke, John Scofield, new orleans, The Billy Cobham/George Duke Band
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Yugen & Rock In Opposition
For as long as I have been a music listener, it has very often perplexed me that the music, and the artists, with which I listened to on an increasingly regular basis, and increasingly over the years and decades – … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Official Releases, Personal, YouTubery
Tagged 2010, Italy, rock in opposition, streaming audio, yugen
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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
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And Now For A Bit Of Perspective
The Powers Of Ten.
Posted in Miscellany, Movies, Personal
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