Category Archives: Zappa Imagery

From Zappa To Lenin

Found on the Where On Earth blog (via zappafan.net), about FZ’s bust in Vilnius, Lithuania: A few years ago, I had the good fortune to share some beers with one of the students responsible for this very odd monument. He … Continue reading

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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

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A Zappa-picture

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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Poolside

File under ephemera: candid pictures of Frank & Gail enjoying a splash in the pool — one, two, three. Via Gilles.

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Who Could Play Frank In A Biopic?

Quoth Scott and Dr Sharleena: — Scott: I wonder who could play Frank in a biopic? — Dr Sharl: I say Adrien Brody! Magic Ink, I say! Behold: Before: After adding in an Imperial, some hair and some eyebrow: Et … Continue reading

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ReminderVille

… a good place to raise your kids up! Lame joke, as I’m sure you’ll agree. However, allow me to state again that: Anyone who wishes to contribute to KUR’s World Tour Scrapbook is still more than welcome to apply. … Continue reading

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Frank In Pictures

Via Kevin: a cool bunch of never before published pictures of Frank Zappa (the Frank photos start here). They were taken by Mark Estabrook during a press conference in Austin Texas, prior to a concert at the Armadillo World Headquarters. … Continue reading

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Lemme See Your Thumb

Mike Newman sent me this cool picture of Zappa which he took in 1980: Thanks Mike! I wonder who he’s aiming that gesture at…

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Wanted: Copywriter

See also: douchebags, every creative department has at least one. Picture by elmada, found at Flickr’s Frank Zappa Pool.

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El Hijo Del Señor Green Genes

This Mexican vinyl version of Hot Rats lists all the songtitles in Spanish. I had no idea these records were “localized” that way — perhaps only in Spanish speaking countries?

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Spot the Jewels

Do you see any in this picture? I did recently, in Buenos Aires while visiting the Rio de la Plata galleria: Upon asking Rik, owner of Soundtrack Records, for the price, I hastily ran out of the shopping mall to … Continue reading

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Freak Out Ale

From Lagunitas Brewing comes a new beer called Freak Out Ale, celebrating 40 years of Freak Out! — with Gail Zappa’s permission, no less. Here’s the label:

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Episode One

You’ll have to cross over to the dark side if you want this as a poster…

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Grunt People Revisited

Rare Captain Beefheart vs The Grunt People movie poster discovered! Read all about it!

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Cucamonga

Frank Zappa, around ’65 ’66. This is a drawing I made of FZ featuring Roy Estrada, Don Preston, Jimmy Carl Black and the other usual suspects.

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