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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #8

Posted on January 2, 2011 by urbangraffito

For as long as I have been a Zappa/Mother‘s freak – going four decades strong and showing no evidence of slowing down – almost every fan of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention I’ve encountered has also been a … Continue reading →

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Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere, 1980, Excerpts

Posted on July 16, 2010 by urbangraffito

In this 1980 Austrian TV Documentary, interviews with Frank Zappa are interspersed with concert footage from New York’s Mudd Club on May 8th, 1980 (“Mudd Club” and “Chunga’s Revenge“) and Upper Darby Township’s Tower Theatre on May 10th, 1980 (“Beauty … Continue reading →

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Frank Zappa, WFMT-FM Chicago, August 1968

Posted on December 6, 2009 by urbangraffito

Frank Zappa is interviewed by Studs Terkel in these two excerpts from his August 1968 interview on WFMT-FM Chicago. Zappa talks about his music, his lyrics, and the state of America in the summer of 1968:

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The Chicago Ate present Joe’s Garage

Posted on June 15, 2009 by urbangraffito

On March 9th, 2009, the Chicago Ate (or) The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen Employees’ Union Memorial Band (Chicago Chapter) presented “Joe’s Garage” at the ‘Martyr’s’ club in Chicago.

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