The Big Note’s November edition! Expect, among other goodies, the usual musical splendor and last but not least: TBN’s archived version of the original Hustler Thing-Fish pictorial!
Category: Zappa Audio/Video
FZ discography
What a nice piece of discography I found. Did you know this one? Shows tons of releases (including many bootlegs) with a few words to each of them – and (YES!) this is what I like. You will find a few words on the Joe’s series and the freshly published QuAUDIOPHILIAc, too.
Over The Valley
Have a listen to this 1.05Mb Zappa-collage, submitted to me by a TBN‘er. I found it amazing, a little creepy on the side, and rather fitting on this day…
Great Googly Moogly!
Being a bit late to the party, I’ve decided to give Google Ads a try on these pages. I settled for a pretty unobtrusive ad-placement (they’re below the “Recent Chatter” box to the right). Does this mean we’re only in it for the money? Well to the degree that, yes, we do have bills to pay and a gentle click every so often from our esteemed readers could help in doing just that (wow, that came out very subtle!). We’ll see how it works out.
Speaking about bills, this morning I went to the post-office to pick up my Barfko-Swill package. Thanks to the Belgian customs services I had to shell out an extra whopping 25.32 € (!!) just to get my sweaty hands on it. Got home and started listening to “Joe’s Domage“. It’s still playing but, from what I’ve heard so far, it ain’t half as bad as some had made it out to be! Stay tuned…
Zappa Misc
Baby Snakes
Every so often I need a reminder of why I spend money on KUR. Every so often, I get the answer. Today’s answer was purchasing the Baby Snakes DVD. Two hours plus of sheer musical heaven — man I love this one (right down to the five year old Roxy DVD Yet To Come To Fruition Trailer, but I digress). Two questions though: is Roy Estrada’s hairdo real? And is that girl Angel-With-The-White-Painted-Face high on quaaludes or what?
Joe’s Domage: A Rip-Off?
Ouch! Joe’s Domage is getting very harsh reviews here at KUR so far… Anyone want to chime in with their point of view? (I’ve yet to receive this release so I’ll reserve my judgement.)
Streaming Quaudio
Listen to three full streaming Quaudiophiliac tracks here. (Or you could just decide to buy the damn thing!)
The Big Note’s Halloween Edition
The Big Note has rolled out its Halloween edition — once again chock full of good stuff. Of particular interest: “Trick Or Treat”, Warren Cuccurullo and L. Shankar’s “The Blue” and TBN member MM7’s monster Halloween compilation. Oh, and also, this… ;)
Invoice No. 17548
Got a mail from Barfko-Swill: “Your order has been shipped!” Let the salivating commence! :)
The Case Of The Vanishing Release
Where is QuAUDIOPHILIAc?
Zappa Torrent
There’s a BitTorrent of Zappa’s band rehearsing on Dec 23 ’87 (without Frank) doing the rounds (mp3 sample track here), but naturally, yours truly finds it impossible to download this thing. If anyone can recommend a good BitTorrent client for Mac OS X (I’m using Tomato Torrent right now), that would be nice.
Zappa Slash StoreFront Dot Bok
Today, September 19, I purchased “Halloween“, “QuAUDIOPHILIAc” and “Joe’s Domage” from zappa.com’s online services all in one time (hey gimme a break: gotta be strategic with these things, me being belgian et all). Truth be told: payment through Paypal was a breeze. Now let’s wait and see when and how I receive the goods…
Joe’s Domage
Domage? D’hommage? Dommage?
QuAUDIOiNFoUpPerLOWerCaSePHILIAc
More info on the upcoming QuAUDIOPHILIAc release: “[it] debuts previously unreleased performances, both live and from the studio, of compositions such as “Rollo” and “Venusian Time Bandits,” and features experimental multi-channel recordings from Zappa’s basement, as early as 1970. The DVD-A includes tracks from Sheik Yerbouti, Shut Up ‘N Play Yer Guitar and Orchestral Favorites superbly mixed in surround.”