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Category Archives: Music
And In Case You’ve Been Wondering
… about the radio-silence around here in the last couple of days: I’ve sort of had my hands full with this: More here and here. Any Tom Waits fans in the house, I wonder?
Posted in Music, Personal
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Care To Sing Along?
Via SOFA: here’s a merry little singalong ditty which as he puts it, “pretty accurately represents how many americans feel right now”…
The Burroughs-Ponty Connection
… and that would be witchcraft: The original satanic footage here is from a 1922 silent film which was re-released in 1968 with a soundtrack by Jean-Luc Ponty and narration by Burroughs. Either the 1922 original or the 1968 re-release … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music, Pop Cult
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The Preston-Disney Connection
An interview with Don Preston, who just turned 74. On how his love for dissonance came to be: “When I was a kid, I saw Fantasia. Like 25 times. My favorite part was the dinosaurs, and behind them was Stravinsky’s … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Articles
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Fruitcake Ahoy
Homosexual rock stars! Groupies! SEX! SATAN! Oh boy: Rocker Frank Zappa (who discovered the awful truth December 4, 1993 the second he died) proudly boasted: “I’m the devil’s advocate. We have our own worshippers who are called ‘groupies.’ Girls will … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Pop Cult, Silly
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YouTube & Warner Strike Music Licensing Deal
Yes indeed: Under the deal, Warner Music has agreed to license its songs to the people who upload their videos to YouTube. Meaning that any video producer can now legally use Warner Music in their videos as theme or background … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
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Steve Mann
Steve Mann is one of the “people who contributed materially†as listed on the â€Freak Out†album (he played some with the early Mothers just after Henry Vestine). He has a new CD called “Alive and Pickin†and you can … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Misc
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Tiny Music Makers
Music Thing has a great series of posts up on “tiny music makers”, the people responsible for the sound of your Mac/Windows OS starting up, the “Intel Inside” tune, and more. Brian Eno who composed the Windows 95 tune: The … Continue reading
X-Ray Sound
A different type of bootlegging: in the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were records etched into discarded X-ray film. (…) enterprising young people … Continue reading
The Pikasso
Top 20 strangest guitars. Here’s the “Pikasso”: The guitar was built for Pat Metheny by luthier Linda Manzer in 1984 and it has 42 strings.
Posted in Music, Pop Cult, Silly
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The Vinyl Museum
No, this is not a photo from the set of Deliverance, it’s part of the cover art for an album entitled Jesus Is A Soul Man. Many more weird records including soundbites at Frank’s Vinyl Museum. (Via Used Wigs)
Straight Outta Lynwood
It’s “We Are The World” all over again: Weird Al sings Don’t Download This Song.
Tehran Dog Breath Variations
“It’s a good life when you are trying to get things started that are impossible,” he said. “Such as the Tehran Symphony Orchestra playing Frank Zappa.” Nader Mashayekhi, the orchestra’s new leader, takes it all in stride. In fact, he … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa News
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Two-Handed Tapping – Bob Zabek
I think that the stuff I do is original because it happened naturally, so I think that is good. I agree. He’s Bob Zabek. See his homepage for more videos – and here’s an interview with him.