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Frank Zappa & the Mothers in Stockholm, 1973

Posted on December 10, 2009 by urbangraffito

One of my favorite performances by any Zappa ensemble is this particular performance by the early Roxy band (prior to the arrival of Napoleon Murphy Brock and Chester Thompson, and featuring Ian Underwood on woodwinds) at Soliden, Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden, … Continue reading →

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Tom Waits — Early TV Appearances

Posted on June 21, 2009 by urbangraffito

In the above clip, Tom Waits appears on Fernwood 2 Night, a parody talk show, hosted by Barth Gimble (Martin Mull) and sidekick/announcer Jerry Hubbard (Fred Willard), created by Norman Lear as a spin-off/summer replacement from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. … Continue reading →

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Small Screen Zappa – 67/68

Posted on June 8, 2009 by urbangraffito

On September 16, 1967, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention made a brief 10 minute appearance on Fred Weintraub’s WOR-TV New York show “From The Bitter End”. They lip synched “Son Of Suzy Creamcheese” from Absolutely Free, then performed … Continue reading →

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FZ Don’t Mess Around

Posted on April 15, 2009 by urbangraffito

Frank Zappa – We Don’t Mess Around-1 After the recent tease of ‘The Son of Roxy’ what better salve, I thought, than the complete broadcast of Zappa’s ‘We Don’t Mess Around‘? Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunkt (BR) on July 1, 1980, … Continue reading →

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Zappa & Mothers TV Special, 1974

Posted on April 4, 2009 by urbangraffito

On Tuesday afternoon of August 27th, 1974, sometime after 5:30pm, Frank Zappa, George Duke, Chester Thompson, Tom Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Ruth Underwood took to KCET-TV Channel 28’s Sound Stage B in Culver City, Los Angeles to film a … Continue reading →

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Zappa, Palais des Sports, Paris, 1980

Posted on March 20, 2009 by urbangraffito

This particular concert took place at the Palais des Sports, Paris, France on June 11th, 1980 and was first broadcast on France’s Antenne 2 in late 1980, and later rebroadcast on Europe2 TV on May 10, 2007. It features Zappa’s … Continue reading →

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