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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
The Voice Of Cheese: Adam Irving
VOC #24 comes to us from Adam Irving. Adam says: The name is Adam Irving, been a musician (currently gigging and recording as half of Me&jay) and writer for ten years or so. Name of track is ‘Hocket’. Its a … Continue reading
Posted in Music, The Voice Of Cheese
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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
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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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
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
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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
Posted in Zappa News, Zappa Plays Zappa
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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
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc
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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
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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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
Posted in Music, The Voice Of Cheese
4 Comments
Virtual Guitar
Chordstudio is a fun guitar-chord generator that enables you to create and play your own tunes, without ever touching a string. Of course, nothing beats the real thing! :)
Posted in Music
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Osaka ’76
Well that was fun: we appear to have been off the airwaves for hours last night! Just be glad it didn’t happen today, as here’s this week’s Friday boot: Osaka, Japan, 3 February 1976 — aka The Eyes Of Osaka: … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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ZPZ II
The second edition of Zappa Plays Zappa kicks off next July 18, so the Dweez is starting to do interviews again: It’s been really hard learning a lot of the new stuff. We have a lot more vocal responsibilities this … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Plays Zappa
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G-Shot Tornado
Did FZ see it coming all those years ago? The G-Shot: By 4 p.m. she sat inside Dr. Justin Salerno’s office, readying to become the surgeon’s first patient to receive an injection called a G-Shot, also known as G-spot Amplification. … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Science, Sex
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Namer’s Remorse
… something Zappa obviously never suffered from. The Baby-Name Business: Karen Markovics spent months reading baby books and scouring Web sites before settling on Nicole Josephine. But now, four years later, Mrs. Markovics says she wishes she’d chosen something less … Continue reading
The Voice Of Cheese: Inflatable Henry
Well now: having contacted two VOC-contributors who ended up failing to deliver in time, I guess you’re going to have to put up with one of my ditties. The track in question is entitled “Counterfeit Antibodies” and dates back to … Continue reading
Posted in Music, The Voice Of Cheese
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