Le Noise

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Nobody plays distorted guitar in the absence of Crazy Horse the way Neil Young does it – Long May He Run.

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A Special Paris Halloween

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Grande Mothers at Trabendo

Veuillez visiter Les Fils de l’Invention pour plus d’info…

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Fuck Yeah Frank Zappa!

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Fuck Yeah Frank Zappa

I heartily recommend that you direct your browser to this tumblr blog.

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78 Years Ago Yesterday…

Posted on September 22, 2010 by urbangraffito

In a house that someone used to live in, little Donny Preston, also known as little Dom DeWilde or little Biff Debrie, was born on September 21st, 1932 in Flint, Michigan.

Happy Birthday, Don!
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Berklee Interviews Gail

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

You know something? I was going to write a massive post related to this interview with Gail (mailed to me by many), but to be honest: I figured life is too short as it is. I’ll leave you with a couple of choice quotes though.
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FZ Interview – KYUU-FM San Francisco, 1984

Posted on September 18, 2010 by urbangraffito

In this three part KYUU-FM radio interview with Frank Zappa broadcast on May 17th, 1984 in San Francisco, California, Zappa talks about some his early guitar influences (Johnny Guitar Watson and Clarence Gatemouth Brown, for instance), the reasons which led to his decision to stop writing orchestral music after the Berkeley Symphony performance of his orchestral work at Zellerbach (and some of the ugliness of that world which he describes at length), his views concerning the usefulness and place of drum machines in recording music and concert performances, as well as other Zappa news circa 1984. This interview certainly reminded me how much Zappa became a bridge for me across so much of the awfulness which became known as 80s music.
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UG’s Semi-Orchestral Low Budget Memorial Barbecue

Posted on September 15, 2010 by urbangraffito

This month I have put together a special mixtape for Zappa/Mothers Die-Hards with many of my favorite instrumental, semi-orchestral, and orchestral Zappa works – many of which I’m mixing here for the first time – from some of the best of Zappa‘s individual bands to the Petit Wazoo Band to his Grand Wazoo Orchestra to The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra to the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra to the Ensemble Modern to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to The Orchestra of Our Time to Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest & Cappella Amsterdam – punctuated with interviews by and about Zappa from Kent Nagano and David Ocker and Studs Terkel.
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200 Motels DVD – Review by SOTCAA

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Balint

Frank Zappa’s 1971 big-screen venture 200 Motels has not been particularly well-preserved on VHS over the years. Although there have been several releases and re-releases, these have tended to be sourced from the same slightly iffy video masters with no attempts at any kind of upgrade.

The first ever (official) DVD release of the film last month on the Voiceprint label should have been the perfect opportunity to rectify this. Sadly, this release – overseen and ‘restored’ by original co-director Tony Palmer – stands out as not only the worst edition of the film ever commercially released but could actually hold the honour of being the worst DVD ever compiled. (…)

It looks like shit.

Full – very very detailed – article here (see our previous post about the DVD!) Just one side-note: on the official site of the DVD one will find where the trailer should be: “This video is no longer available because of copyright reasons – belonging to  Metro-Goldwin-Mayer”.
(Sorry, the latter had to be translated back to English from Hungarian… I’m not sure whether it’s perfect, but you’ll understand anyway.)

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Impact (Parte Tre)

Posted on September 12, 2010 by alex

The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

With this very simple rule in mind, all I had to think of was the albums that blew my mind on first listen. Not albums that eventually clicked with me – although that would make an interesting list (it would include The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society and more than a few FZ albums) – but the albums that when it was over, all I could say was, “Holy fuck, this was INCREDIBLE.”

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Public Service Announcement

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Via Dangerous Minds, hat tip Mike McCroy.

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