Monthly Archives: May 2006

Another View At ZPZ Brussels Edition

Last post about ZPZ in Brussels, promise! Here’s what they’re thinking about the show over at zappa.com’s tourlog: Tonight’s show in Belgium was totally amazing. Over 4000 screaming fans packed into the Forest National and the show was spectacular. The … Continue reading

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Pete Griffin

He’s the ‘eavy bass player of ZPZ. Did you know he has his own homepage – kind of a blog? ZPZ from the inside. Fine.

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Ziggy’s Gums

Moving on, here’s everything you always wanted to know about David Bowie’s teeth throughout the years.

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Wherein Barry Goes To Vorst

For those interested, you can find my review of yesterday’s ZPZ in Brussels right over here. Apart from the music, a couple of notes: For anyone outside of Brussels, Vorst Nationaal is insanely hard to find. I mean, we’d gone … Continue reading

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Teaspoon Slide Guitar

“Tapping” is a guitar technique. What about“spooning”???

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ZPZ In Rome

Francesco Gentile (now there’s a Zappa-nick waiting to happen!) kindly sent me a bunch of pictures taken at yesterday’s ZPZ concert in Rome. Here’s the Flickr set — nice close shots of Vai and Dweezil.

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From The Bitter End

YouTube really is a godsend for digging up rare video. Here‘s some sort of compilation which includes (at around 1:30) The Mothers Of Invention miming to Suzy Creamcheese on a TV show called “From The Bitter End”, back in 1967 … Continue reading

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Won’t Get Fooled Again?

An anatomy of conservative rock songs. The number one omission, according to the criteria for this list, would have to be “Who Needs the Peace Corps?,” by Frank Zappa. Released in 1967, at the height of the flower-power summer of … Continue reading

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San Carlos CA, ’74

For the next two weeks, we have for you another concert from the Roxy-era: Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, July 20 ’74. Enjoy!

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Zappa Gibson SG

Gibson (you know, that obscure little guitar factory) just posted an interesting interview with Dweezil — I guess it’s safe to say the ZPZ promotion machine is now running at full speed. Interesting little find: there is apparently talk of … Continue reading

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Weirdo Swag!

In the “Blatant Self Promotion” Department, have we got news for you! If you liked the weirdo ecards Dr Sharl and I provide over at weirdocards.com, you’ll be glad to know that some of those designs are now available on … Continue reading

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FZ & Ponty, Valbonne ’70

Rhymin’ Title Man’s what I am. Via The Idiot, here’s a full download “in glorious mono” of Zappa and J.-L. Ponty live at the Festival de Valbonne, France, July 25th 1970. The pair were supposed to play together at the … Continue reading

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Zappa On The Mike Douglas Show

Frank Zappa on The Mike Douglas Show, November 1976! When Frank comes on, you can see him think “oh great, I’m gonna have to shake hands with these bozo’s”, heheh. (YouTube link. Via, of all places, a comment on my … Continue reading

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Peanuts

As a US citizen, what could you possibly do for your country now that your president has proven himself to be an unbelievably inadequate, lying, disastrously shortsighted hand puppet for corporate America? Why, censure Jimmy Carter! Yeah! That’s the ticket.

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Another Day, Another Device

So you’re a typist doing your job and then — suddenly: gas attack! Good thing, you ponder, I’m wearing one of these! (via)

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