Category Archives: Zappa Audio/Video

How I Got To See Artis The Spoon Man

So I post an entry linking to David Ocker’s blog, who in turn links to Duncan’s Zappa-page, which in turn links to his weblog where today’s post links to some cool YouTube footage of Artis The Spoon Man — but … Continue reading

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Dweez, Dude: Impeccable Timing

Dweezil has a new album out entitled Go With What You Know (click some squares on the picture to hear excerpts). How’s that for timing?

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Dink Lump

Ready? Here we go… Des Moines’ well-endowed flood control Whodunnit? The German, in the library, with the Bockwurst. Two rather nice covers of “My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama” 6 videos 6, para pensar Let’s Move To Scotland! Mortality, … Continue reading

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FZ OZ TV

More YouTube nuggets! Hank writes: that bloke interviewing fz is the norman gunston/gary macdonald, the same guy who turned up at the hordern gigs and played harp with frank. he appears on FZOZ. Thanks Hank! In this clip, Frank is … Continue reading

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Want Roxy?

Sign the petition! Edit: it would appear some people think that I originally created this petition. That is not the case. I just linked, that’s all.

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From The Bitter End

YouTube really is a godsend for digging up rare video. Here‘s some sort of compilation which includes (at around 1:30) The Mothers Of Invention miming to Suzy Creamcheese on a TV show called “From The Bitter End”, back in 1967 … Continue reading

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FZ & Ponty, Valbonne ’70

Rhymin’ Title Man’s what I am. Via The Idiot, here’s a full download “in glorious mono” of Zappa and J.-L. Ponty live at the Festival de Valbonne, France, July 25th 1970. The pair were supposed to play together at the … Continue reading

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Zappa On The Mike Douglas Show

Frank Zappa on The Mike Douglas Show, November 1976! When Frank comes on, you can see him think “oh great, I’m gonna have to shake hands with these bozo’s”, heheh. (YouTube link. Via, of all places, a comment on my … Continue reading

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FZ On Arsenio

Video: FZ on the Arsenio Hall show, ’89. Many of you will have already seen this, but still a fun clip to watch.

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Frank Whips It Out

Another jem found at jam.zappafan.net: Frank Zappa at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, way back in ’86. This man truly died a decade too soon. I would’ve loved to see him trash the current Bush administration. (YouTube link) Update! Scott … Continue reading

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Dummy Up Videoclip

Aaah one can dream… video from the Dummy Up routine as performed at the Roxy! It’s actually an outtake from The True Story of 200 Motels which I don’t own, so I hadn’t seen this snippet yet. (via Balint!)

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Hidden X-Masages

Joyeux Joel — wherein the intrepid Evaristo discovers part of a hitherto unheard orchestral composition lurking beneath the mix of two Joe’s X-Masage tracks.

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NYC ZPZ Video

Here’s a little audio/visual taste of what we can expect from Zappa Plays Zappa, as recorded at the Jammy Awards last April 20. From the looks of it, the Dweez may be somewhat lacking in showmanship but by golly, he’s … Continue reading

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Zappathon ’06 Post Scriptum

For those of you who missed out on last Sunday’s wusb.fm’s ’06 Zappathon, a stream of the entire show is available here. Alternatively, you can sign up for the snailmail vine over at the Uncle Beat Forum. Oh, and by … Continue reading

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ZPZ Video Clips

Flat Top Sam (no really) sent in links to video clips of Zappa Plays Zappa during rehearsal. They’re short but sweet, have a look: Florentine Pogen (one, two) and The Black Page.

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