Monthly Archives: September 2006

El Hijo Del Señor Green Genes

Posted on Monday, 09/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This Mexican vinyl version of Hot Rats lists all the songtitles in Spanish. I had no idea these records were “localized” that way — perhaps only in Spanish speaking countries?

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Nothing But The Best For My Dog

Posted on Monday, 09/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This entry was “co-blogged” with Hanan Levin of the incredible Grow A Brain. Zappa beers – Get Your Freak Out Ale from Lagunitas Brewing. The lyrics. Also, Joe’s Garage 12-pack Plastic Ono Mothers (John & Yoko+ Mothers) perform “Scumbag” – … Continue reading →

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Nappy Whips It Out

Posted on Sunday, 09/10/06 by Dr Sharleena

We should have posted this ages ago, but hey: it is never too late! Napoleon Murphy Brock interviewed by Pisspot the rabbit, from gAD TV dot com team. (thanks ben)

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Hannover ’79 (2)

Posted on Friday, 09/08/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Hannover, West Germany, 26 March 1979: get it while it’s hot.

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Googling Zappa

Posted on Thursday, 09/07/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Google has introduced archive search to their news service. That’s 200 years of news articles right at your fingertips (some of which you have to pay a small fee for unfortunately). Any Zappa articles? You bet — right back to … Continue reading →

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A Note On “Fake” Comments

Posted on Wednesday, 09/06/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

In response to this comment from someone pretending to be Joe Travers, the real Joe Travers writes: Only a true asshole zappa fan would go up on a site like this & say that it was me. Do you guys … Continue reading →

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Spot the Jewels

Posted on Tuesday, 09/05/06 by Dr Sharleena

Do you see any in this picture? I did recently, in Buenos Aires while visiting the Rio de la Plata galleria: Upon asking Rik, owner of Soundtrack Records, for the price, I hastily ran out of the shopping mall to … Continue reading →

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A Proper Reaction

Posted on Monday, 09/04/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

In the comments of the previous post, Balint says: What if ALL the FZ-tribute pages would accept a kind of “statement” or something, and all would present in their homepages at the same time? Telling what we think about it, … Continue reading →

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Chrome Dinette To Be Shut Down?

Posted on Saturday, 09/02/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

John Healy, curator of the wonderful Chrome Dinette has apparently received a cease & desist letter, courtesy of the ZFT’s lawyers. We are hereby formally advising you that you must immediately disable the above-referenced website and cease and desist any … Continue reading →

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Tiny Music Makers

Posted on Friday, 09/01/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Music Thing has a great series of posts up on “tiny music makers”, the people responsible for the sound of your Mac/Windows OS starting up, the “Intel Inside” tune, and more. Brian Eno who composed the Windows 95 tune: The … Continue reading →

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Hannover ’79

Posted on Friday, 09/01/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This and next week’s Friday Boot: Hannover, West Germany, 26 March 1979. Gilles had uploaded the tracks as .wma, so I had a bit of fun converting to 192 kbps .mp3’s using Switch and the truly craptacular flip4mac. Anyway, enjoy.

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