Monthly Archives: July 2007

Chicago ’80

This week’s Friday Boot: Chicago, 28 November 1980. A short review of this tour: This is not Zappa at his best, simply because he did not take the musical chances that he did on past and future tours. It is, … Continue reading

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Capt. Cheese-Beard & The 7 Sisters Of Prevention

A nice version of Black Napkins to liven up your drab Thursday, brought to you by Capt. Cheese-Beard & The 7 Sisters Of Prevention: Via zappafan.net via urbangraffito. PS: Anyone interested in joining my new band, President Garlic-Breath & The … Continue reading

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ZPZ DVD Previews

Zappa.com’s what’s new section really needs permalinks, because I can’t link to any entries directly. Which is why I’m copying them here: * * * ZPZ DVD Previews, Posted 03 July 2007 Ladies and Gentlemen, for your audio & visual … Continue reading

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It Sounds Just Like A Telefunken U47 (Again)

The restoration of Frank Zappa’s vintage mic collection, begun in 2005, is now complete: “We went through three Telefunken U47s, four Neumann M49s, a beautiful matched pair of Neumann M50s, circa 1950, and four AKG C24s, circa 1960. We also … Continue reading

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The Gigantic Spoken Word Project

This looks to be a very cool project, aiming to compile a very large collection of Frank Zappa spoken word releases. There will be some music in there but there won’t be any live concerts in the GSW Project. They … Continue reading

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The Voice Of Cheese: Ghost Pilot

This week’s VOC comes to us from the Chicago based band Ghost Pilot. Keyboard player Eric Ahlgren sent in a track entitled “Singing Of The Sun”. Eric says: It includes a looped sample of electromagnetic emanations from our sun which … Continue reading

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