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Category Archives: Music
Baby Your Face Is Mutated
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based theatre rock band founded in the early 1970s and known for their live performances which combined lewd quasi-pornography and wild satires of media, showbiz excess, consumerism and politics. Influenced by the Mothers of Invention … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Misc
Tagged audio/visual, Captain Beefheart, covers, live acts, Mothers of Invention, The Tubes
29 Comments
Italy Passes Law Allowing P2P Music?
The Italian parliament passed a new copyright law in both houses that would allow citizens to share noncommercial and degraded music over the internet freely. That’s going to hurt – but some say it happened totally unknowingly – we’ll see … Continue reading
Paradise, Pomp & Puppets
David Ocker writes in to point out his “longest blog post ever” — about performing FZ’s orchestra music. An interesting read, coming from a man who obviously knows what he’s talking about; with an appreciative tip of the hat to … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged 100% Zappa, David Ocker, live zappa, orchestral, review
21 Comments
PERFECT and Corny
Nowadays I happen to meet really nice people. Does it have anything to do with nice music? I don’t know. But the thing is that conductor Tom Trapp was kind enough to answer my few questions about the 100% Zappa … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged 100% Zappa, improvisation, orchestration, Tom Trapp, Wazoo
15 Comments
Hit Me Baby One More Time
Terry Bozzio Clinic, December 15th 2007: I really like it – and enjoyed his solo on the Z*Z DVD, too. I like his dry sound, his rich, sensitive touch. See him also from 1988.
The Year Of The Freak Is Imminent
Oh yes it is. Let’s see which sites, bands and organisations have had legal action taken against them by the ZFT in recent weeks, shall we? Us here at KUR (fan site) Ugly Radio Rebellion (tribute band) Project/Object (tribute band) … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, It Can Happen Here?, Music, Zappa Misc
Tagged cease & desist, copyright, fair use, litigation, music is the best, play the music, zft
90 Comments
These Boots Were Made For Talkin’
This post is about how legal, or illegal, it is to offer up a non-officially recorded and/or released live show for download. Let us examine who is likely to download one of these shows in the first place. No, let … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, It Can Happen Here?, Music
Tagged bootlegs, cease & desist, copyright, live zappa, zft, zpz
47 Comments
Conceptual Continuity Circle
The last few days I’ve been listenning the wonderful CD of the Banned From Utopia (the best ever versions of some tunes!), and that led me to create this continuity-chain (or circle): Chad Wackerman plays beautifully on drums -> surprise: … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Plays Zappa
Tagged Bozzio, Conceptual Continuity, Korn, Wackerman, zpz
23 Comments
David Ocker About 100% Zappa
I really like it when someone speaks about something that is really close to him. And I’m also glad when it has something to do with a fine concert that I saw. …the results were as good or better than … Continue reading
The Mp3 Encoding Debate: Results Are In
A follow-up to this post: Cognitive Daily yesterday published its rather (un?)surprising results: For both recordings, there was a significant difference between ratings of the 64 kbps sampling rate and the 128 kbps sampling rate, but no difference between ratings … Continue reading
An mp3 Is An mp3 Is An mp3?
Cognitive Daily is carrying out an online poll to determine just how audible the fluctuation in quality is between mp3’s that have different encodings: I created three different versions of two song clips — 64, 128, and 256 kbps MP3 … Continue reading
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
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
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged 1981, aaafnraa.de, bootleg, live zappa, mp3, Sexual Harassment
14 Comments
Rufus At The Circus
Dr Sharl and I went to see Rufus Wainwright last night at the Cirque Royal in Brussels. Nuff said? :) Seriously though, here’s one talented singer/songwriter if ever I heard one. To switch effortlessly from rock to folk to campy … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Personal
Tagged composer, Live Music, rufus wainwright, talent
18 Comments
Zappa Radio at zappa.com
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.