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Monthly Archives: August 2006
All Music Videos on YouTube?
“What we really want to do is in six to 12 months, maybe 18 months, to have every music video ever created up on YouTube,” co-founder Steve Chen told Reuters. “We’re trying to bring in as much of this content … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
5 Comments
Vancouver ’75
For the next 2 Fridays, Gilles has prepared the following show for you: Vancouver Canada, 1 Oct. 1975. In other news: don’t you find it terribly annoying when the postman rings your doorbell carrying a Very Important Package while you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots, Personal
6 Comments
More On The Freak Out! Anniversary Release
This just in via Marco over at the Dutch Zappa-list. I haven’t been able to track down the following Gail Zappa quote on the zappa.com site which if you ask me suffers from a severe case of mystery meat navigation, … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video, Zappa News
2 Comments
Time And Those Waves
Nigey Lennon remembers David Walley. Anyone who knew David, or read his work, or picked his brain for editorial suggestions, or made even the most casual contact with him, generally found that they’d been changed, transformed by the contact. It … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Zappa Misc
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Freak Out Ale
From Lagunitas Brewing comes a new beer called Freak Out Ale, celebrating 40 years of Freak Out! — with Gail Zappa’s permission, no less. Here’s the label:
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Imagery
24 Comments
Zappa On The TNT Show
Duncan writes in with a little conundrum: spot FZ in this trailer for “The TNT Show”. He’s looped the relevant bit here for convenience. Questions: Why was he there? Is the guy on his left talking to him? If so … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
4 Comments
When Woody Met Billy
Woody Allen interviews Rev. Billy Graham, ca. ’69: (…and here’s part two)
Posted in Amusing, Film, Religion
4 Comments
Sydney ’73 (2)
Part Two of Hordern Pavilion, Sidney, July 8 ’73 is available.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
3 Comments
Hype Machine
Cool beans: The Hype Machine, an “audio blog aggregator” which allows you to track down audio within blog-entries that mention any band/artist you enter and lets you play the audio in the player of your choice, or subscribe to the … Continue reading
Posted in Music
2 Comments
A A A – D D – E E E *
Are online guitar tabs soon to be a thing of the past? The US Music Publishers’ Association is doing all it can to make that happen. Already, the Online Guitar Archive and Guitar Tab Universe sites have gone black. “It … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Music
9 Comments
Sweet Dreams
Ha! Lullaby renditions of rock songs — from Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd to Metallica. I can hardly wait for the Beefheart Edition! (via)
Freak Out! Turns Forty
Quoth the zappa.com newsletter: In commemoration of the FOURtieth Anniversary of a World That Contains Freak Out! we are so very pleased to present the FZ Audiography and Documentary Evidence (for the first time this century) of those certain recording … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video, Zappa News
33 Comments
Honk 4 Frank Now
Studio Z is alive! Filmmakers Adam Fiorenza and Derek Miley are about to finish their documentary focusing on Zappa’s “Cucamonga years” and started a smart marketing campaign both for the city to pay some recognition and also for the -soon … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc
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Dunbar’s Blue Whale
Plucked from an RSS-feed that wishes to remain anonymous: Aynsley Dunbar’s 1970 album “Blue Whale”, available for download. It features four jazzy progressive pieces, and a 16 minute version of Zappa’s Willie The Pimp. I’m only posting this because I … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
2 Comments