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Category Archives: Music
Snider Marching Band
Ever heard a high school marching band play G-Spot Tornado and Pound For A Brown? These kids pulled it off. Also check the video! Hat tip: Francesco G.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged cool, g-spot tornado, high school, pound for a brown
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The Voice Of Cheese: SOFA (II)
VOC #35 has our buddy SOFA chiming in once more. He says: The band is called “Reckless” and it is the brainchild of my buddy Scott, and the drummer Jim. The idea is for this band to play American Country-Pop … Continue reading
100% Zappa!
100% extasy! I’ve just arrived home. A real Zappa-celebration, a celebration of Music, with 3 concerts in a row. Beginning with the warm-up concert of Mike Keneally and Ed Mann, playing in duet – jazzy, improvisational, zappaesque: fun. Then came … Continue reading
FM TV — Documentary
A special type of entertainment for a specialized audience. That’s how Frank Zappa describes his own music in this obscure FM TV documentary first broadcast on July 13, 1982 — featuring interviews with FZ, Don Preston, Adrian Belew, and Terry … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged audio/video, interviews, mothers, obscure, Zappa
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The Voice Of Cheese: Pablo Contursi
VOC #34! Pablo says: Here it is my contribution to VOC. This tune is named “La danza de los colibrÃes esquizofrénicos” (“Dance of the Schizophrenic Hummingbirds”) and I did it all by myself on my PC. I don’t have much … Continue reading
The Voice Of Cheese: Toupé
VOC#33, with Grant Sharkey. Grant says: We’re called Toupé (myspace link) from the UK. Get compared to FZ a lot (mainly lyrically) and to Primus, musically – though there is a lot more in there. We’ve just released our third … Continue reading
28. 10. 1977 New York City, Late Show
A few days before the Baby Snakes show, with a setlist quite similar to that one. From aaafnraa.de. Though the Tape Reviewing Society says: This is one of the few tapes of this band that I don’t recommend. I can … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged mp3 download, nyc, wild love, zappa live
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Clapton Goes Jazz
Subtle, complex, intricate, multi-layered — in one word, beautiful: More? Sure thing. How about some Steve Vai?
The Voice Of Cheese: David Hulbert
If it’s Tuesday, this must be The VOC — this week featuring David Hulbert and his buddy Rob. David says: Me and my mate Rob a.k.a Erroneous Apostrophe used to have a regular Zappa night, playing Frank’s music and discussing … Continue reading
Exorcising Boulez
Roger Bourland on being interviewed by a young French composer: He was brimming with happiness. Seeing that he clearly needed some articulation of this newfound freedom, I grabbed my Chair’s Wand and zapped him saying “YOU DO NOT HAVE TO … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Music
Tagged classical music, dogma, pierre boulez
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Music And Amnesia
In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his brain concerned with memory. He was left with a memory span of only … Continue reading
The Voice Of Cheese: The Lost Bees
Undaunted, the Voice of Cheese continues… This week’s tune, “Billy-a-Dick”, was sent in by Rick Wood. Rick says: The song “Billy-a-Dick” was written by Hoagy Carmichael during WWII and arranged for use in the film “For the Boys” with vocals, … Continue reading
Album Art Grabber
Need a good quality version of a certain album’s artwork? Been browsing Google’s image search ’til your eyes bled? Album Art Grabber to the rescue. It works by querying Apple’s iTunes database, and returns images up to 1425x1425px and above. … Continue reading
The Big Rock Off!
Dr Sharl and I got to see Tenacious D & The Pick Of Destiny on DVD last night. Good times, and funny as hell (eh heh heh): Jack Black’s a genius! Must buy the soundtrack.
Posted in Film, Music, Silly
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