Author Archives: Balint

YouZap – Audio/Video

Posted on Wednesday, 11/28/07 by Balint

Or should it be ZapTube?… Anyway, I’ve made a collection of the collectable videos – from the Steve Allen Show (63) till Dweezil’s ZPZ shows. Just to have them together. Have fun! (The collection is constantly growing.)

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Sexual Harassment In The Workplace

Posted on Tuesday, 11/20/07 by Balint

Yes, the way it was played in San Diego, 12.12.1981 (late show). Some more interesting facts: the very last show of the tour, with Frogs With Dirty Little Lips as a closer, but Whipping Post as a second (!) tune … Continue reading →

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Interview With Dweezil

Posted on Tuesday, 11/20/07 by Balint

In The Oregonian, Saturday, November 17: ED CONDRAN: Project Object takes exception to your work. This is what PO’s Andre Cholmondeley told me recently: “Our band is the closest to how (Frank) Zappa did it. We leave room for experimentation. … Continue reading →

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Missing Links: RDNZL, Cosmik Debris – Stockholm

Posted on Wednesday, 11/14/07 by Balint

Have you seen the Stockholm show, 1973? You did? Maybe the 50 minute version. But here are some missing gems, previously unseen (at least by me): RDNZL and Cosmik Debris. Great tunes! Watch the fun the band has during and … Continue reading →

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Zappa Radio at zappa.com

Posted on Saturday, 11/03/07 by Balint

After a few months of “coming soon”, here it is finally: the Zappa Radio. A fine mix of FZs music, constantly playing online. Unfortunately the playlist shows only what you have listened 5 minutes ago.

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A Zappa-picture

Posted on Monday, 10/29/07 by Balint

A nice picture. I’ve found it on David Ocker’s blog, but it’s originally from Richard Emmet’ homepage (go there to see some more), and the pictures were taken possibly in ’81, one of these used for the cover of You … Continue reading →

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Wohs Sdrawkcab Eht

Posted on Saturday, 10/20/07 by Balint

The members of our rockin’ teenage combo don’t know this right now that we’re not gonna open the show the normal way we usually open it. Gonna start with Green Genes… the whole show backwards. And it’s 1 March 1973, … Continue reading →

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Remembering Frank

Posted on Wednesday, 10/17/07 by Balint

In my dream Frank and I were laughing and talking, having a lively conversation about music and things. It felt good, like a friendship. A real nice story by Adrian Belew – Anectode nr. 46.

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Envelopes – MR Symphonic Orchestra

Posted on Monday, 10/15/07 by Balint

Made by Nándi – thanks, man!!!

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100% Zappa!

Posted on Sunday, 10/14/07 by Balint

100% extasy! I’ve just arrived home. A real Zappa-celebration, a celebration of Music, with 3 concerts in a row. Beginning with the warm-up concert of Mike Keneally and Ed Mann, playing in duet – jazzy, improvisational, zappaesque: fun. Then came … Continue reading →

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Foot Badminton

Posted on Friday, 10/12/07 by Balint

..well, with nothing to do with Frank Zappa, sorry. But it looks crazy! Here are some pictures of the recent world-championship – and here’s a tiny video. Isn’t it amazing?

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What A Pumpkin!

Posted on Thursday, 10/11/07 by Balint

The world’s largest pumpkin – in Scituate, Rhode Island, now in the Guinness Book of Records. Arf.

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28. 10. 1977 New York City, Late Show

Posted on Sunday, 09/30/07 by Balint

A few days before the Baby Snakes show, with a setlist quite similar to that one. From aaafnraa.de. Though the Tape Reviewing Society says: This is one of the few tapes of this band that I don’t recommend. I can … Continue reading →

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Wolfgang’s Vault: Fillmore West, 11/06/1970

Posted on Friday, 09/21/07 by Balint

Like a tidal wave of total weirdness, the Mothers of Invention splashed down on the Fillmore West for a series of shows in November of 1970, then washed back into the seedy ocean of L.A., leaving the landscape forever changed … Continue reading →

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Later Works

Posted on Sunday, 09/16/07 by Balint

The new Japanese Zappa Box is out. It’s called “Zappa Box – Later Works” and it looks beautiful. Nothing new, just very, very beautiful. Including Does Humour Belong In Music?; Playground Psychotics; Ahead Of Their Time; The Yellow Shark; The … Continue reading →

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