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Tag Archives: Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere, 1980, Excerpts
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
Posted in Frank Zappa, Interview, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1980, chicago, Frank Zappa, Mudd Club, New York, New York & Elsewhere, tour, Tower Theatre
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Immaculate Voodoo Butter Mix – Part V: Encores
While compiling the prior four installments of this mix – I was intrigued by the sheer energy, vitality, and variation Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention brought to each of their show’s encores. Traditionally, Zappa‘s contemporaries might toss out … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music
Tagged encores, Frank Zappa, mothers of invention, streaming audio
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Mothers of Invention on Vinyl
An audio treat for those Zappa and Mothers of Invention freaks who have only heard this music via digital CDs, and a bit of nostalgia for freaks like myself, who first got turned onto the incredibly warm analogue sound of … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1966, 1969, Audacity, Frank Zappa, freak out, mothers of invention, Ortofon 2M Blue
, Sony PS-X5 Turntable, Uncle Meat
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Richard Burke Photography – Frank Zappa
In the 1970s, Richard Burke had a small photography studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Recently, Burke rediscovered old negatives and has been scanning them. Most of them have never been seen. Images of Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Sal Marquez and others (of … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Visual Arts
Tagged 1973, b&w, Frank Zappa, photographs, Pittsburgh, Richard Burke Photography, Syria Mosque
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Immaculate Voodoo Butter Mix – Part IV
It’s that time of the month, fellow KUR-Meisters, when I dip into my personal, not-so-mythic, vault of Zappa field recordings to compile the latest KUR mix: the “Immaculate Voodoo Butter Mix – Part IV“. What is Part IV? Part IV … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, Personal
Tagged 1984 Band, 1988 Band, field recordings, Frank Zappa, streaming audio
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Best FZ Covers – Sandro Oliva’s “Watermelon In Easter Hay”
Sandro Oliva – former member of The Grandmothers, and one of my favourite guitarists – has been torturing Italian eardrums with his own band, The Blue Pampurio’s, since 1974. Sandro Oliva‘s cover of FZ’s “Watermelon In Easter Hay” (one of … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery
Tagged Blue Pampurio's, Frank Zappa, sandro oliva, the grandmothers, Watermelon In Easter Hay
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The Grande Mothers Re:Invented – Viva Brazil, 2010
KUR recently received an email from The Grande Mothers Re:Invented thanking “the fans, the promoters, the crews, and everyone behind the scenes who support their performances, making these concerts and tours possible.” THE POWER OF THE FANS The GMSRI receive … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2010, brazil, Frank Zappa, Inferno Club, São Paulo, the grande mothers re:invented, Virada Cultural
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One Size Fits All – Best Album Art
With the recent news of an upcoming Zappa release, my thoughts turned to releases of days gone by – in particular, 1975’s ‘One Size Fits All’ and its magnificent album artwork. Zappa fans who only know of FZ’s albums through … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, Official Releases, Visual Arts, YouTubery
Tagged 1975, album covers, Frank Zappa, One Size Fits All
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Frank Zappa’s Grand Wazoo EP, 1972
When Barry first emailed the link to the above excerpt from the bootleg EP of Frank Zappa and the Grand Wazoo Band‘s (mistakenly printed as Frank Zappa and the Petit Wazoo Orchestra on the front cover by the bootlegger) September … Continue reading
Call Any Vegetable – 1970 versus 2006
One of the fantastic advantages of the advent of current technologies such as YouTube and the Internet, is it allows one to compare and contrast particular songs – in this case, Frank Zappa‘s “Call Any Vegetable” – with particular groups … Continue reading