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Monthly Archives: January 2008
PERFECT and Corny
Nowadays I happen to meet really nice people. Does it have anything to do with nice music? I don’t know. But the thing is that conductor Tom Trapp was kind enough to answer my few questions about the 100% Zappa … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged 100% Zappa, improvisation, orchestration, Tom Trapp, Wazoo
15 Comments
The Continuing Saga Of Franko Zappacio
1. part Gail Zappa discovers that Isaak is Jane23’s real child’s father. Jane23 asks his husband not to take away Gail Zappa’s position, together wanted it to make jump they. Paul Sempschi obliged to reveal the old secret. His mother … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Silly
Tagged audience participation, Brazil, machine, stupidity, telenovela
29 Comments
Where’s Zappateers?
I’ve had a couple of emails asking me this, and I’d noted their site had gone offline myself sometime yesterday. I’ve no idea what’s happening but a quick domain name lookup says: “Domain Status: Registered And No Website” Perhaps a … Continue reading
Links For Jan 13th
St. Alphonzo’s Kitchen – The Boston Globe NDR Online – Zappa-Witwe verklagt Bad Doberaner Fanclub Frank Zappas Witwe klagt gegen deutschen Fanclub – General-Anzeiger Online Streit um Zappas Bart – nnn.de Frank Zappas Witwe klagt gegen deutschen Fanclub – Maerkische … Continue reading
Posted in Delicious Links, Frank Zappa, It Can Happen Here?
23 Comments
Petition: Aggressive Action by the ZFT
First, read it: We the undersigned petition the Zappa Family Trust (ZFT) to cease and desist from making threats of legal action against FZ tribute bands, FZ fan sites, Zappa music festivals and other related activities that are designed first … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, It Can Happen Here?
Tagged cease & desist, copyright, fair use, petition, zft
52 Comments
Zappa Alchimiste
Something pour nos amis français: the Ensemble de Basse Normandie is on tour during January with a show called The Big Note, Zappa Alchimiste. Because I’m lazy, find all the information at zappa.hu. Toot your own toot, Balint!! Toooot!!
Pictures Of You
These photos here were taken by our own very esteemed Magic Fingers on the Reading concert during 1975 (OMG!! WTF!!!8888 There he is…! Awesome!!!) :-) I’m very fond of this sort of pictures, and given the fact that the core … Continue reading
On Being A Zappa Completist
So you’ve bought the entire “official” catalogue (and in the case of some of us more silver-tinged freaks, more than once, and in many different formats: vinyl, cassette, compact disc), what do you do now? Just sit back and listen … Continue reading
Hit Me Baby One More Time
Terry Bozzio Clinic, December 15th 2007: I really like it – and enjoyed his solo on the Z*Z DVD, too. I like his dry sound, his rich, sensitive touch. See him also from 1988.
Uri Balashov On The Making Of The Cover of Civilization, Phaze III
Nice interview with the artist – thanks to Vladimir Sovetov. Well, Frank said that it’s very special record in his life, the very last. He said that his disease is incurable. In fact I know that he is seriously ill, … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Visual Arts, Zappa Imagery
Tagged albumcovers, Civilization Phaze III, Uri Balashov
33 Comments
Cease & Desist: YouTube Edition
This just in via The Idiot Bastard: guy posts little clips taken at a live ZPZ show on YouTube, receives The ZFT Treatment â„¢ we’ve all come to know so well: (…) come on, my vids of the show were … Continue reading
Homage to a Freak
I first met Royce in the summer of 1977 at a second-hand record shop. Greg, the gray haired, pony-tailed, slightly obese proprietor had just gotten a mint vinyl copy of Mothermania, and had absent-mindedly promised it to both of us. … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Personal, Zappa Misc
Tagged alumni, education, Freaks, nostalgia, technologies, vinyl records, Zappa
47 Comments
Zappa Legacy
With all the verbose verbiage over the Zappa legacy lately, I found the posting “on pop 13: mike keneally & the zappa legacy” over at Eugene Baak’s weblog, Another Beautiful Day, quite insightful.