- Jazzmosis recorded Frank Zappa's 'Blessed Relief' on their selftitled album
- Ossi Duri  : New Live album "Gnan Gnam" - due out in december
- SAF Publishing has another Zappa-related book coming out in June: "Academy Zappa" by Ben Watson and Esther Leslie
 

TRUBEE GOES AT IT AGAIN

I remember 2 bitches in particular--Mrs. Jones, my 4th grade teacher at Johnson Park School, and my 5th grade teacher Miss Mathers at John Witherspoon School in Princeton, New Jersey. They'd stand at the head of the class throughout the school year hectoring us and telling us what little brats we were. A couple of girls might be whispering at the back of the classroom, Miss Mathers would see them, and in turn spend the next half hour hectoring the shit out of the whole classroom.

One time our gym teacher, Mr. Plummer, had to receive medical attention and take some time off work for a back problem. Asshole Millie Mathers told us that it was our fault, that we were so demanding and ungrateful that we broke Mr. Plummer's back.

As kids we had to just sit and listen to this shit, uncomprehending and innocent of what she was bitching about. As a child I remember being hectored by adults that I felt I was repeatedly mauled by tigers and was powerless to stop it.

Many people who become teachers have no business having children under their charge. This tenor of adults, in the public school classrooms and elsewhere, hectoring and screaming at and scolding children, led me to loathe the adult world and vow to never become one if them, not unlike the alienated protagonist of Gunther Grass' 'The Tin Drum'.

The echoes of hectoring scolds still fill my ears today, and I still perceive human relations as one of dominance and control, not unlike how adults treat children. My solution to this tiresome, exhausting, timewasting, obstructionist, enervating dominance by other people is to stay the hell away from them as much as possible.

I thought that as time progressed--as people became more intelligent and experienced and enlightened and tolerant--that the obnoxious, scolding bitches would be weeded out and eliminated from humanity as their overt assholism is recognized, exposed, and expunged from the human dungheap. I have sadly discovered that this is not the case.
People do not become more intelligent over time. People are idiots.

Which brings me to Dr. Laura. Those tiresome, hectoring bitches still thrive today because so many people just LOVE to bully others with their damnedable rules. To them, Dr. Laura is their patron saint. I love when stupid people, mostly women, unfortunately, call up Dr. Laura proudly stating "I am my kid's mom", explain their family problem or situation, then have Dr. Laura rip them a new asshole telling them how greedy, selfish, evil, or stupid they are for not submitting to her dictates and ethics. If someone stupidly wanders into the tiger cage, then they rightfully deserve to be mauled by the tiger.

I enjoy listening to Dr. Laura with the same delighted sense of relief as one who has been repeatedly mauled by tigers delights in using a stick to taunt the tiger locked behind bars. Dr. Laura is on the radio, I hear her voice as vibrations from the cones of my stereo loudspeakers moving as the result of distant radio waves. The bitch can't hurt me, she can't dominate me, she can't control my life, her blathering rules are just so many impotent gaseous emissions.

Now do you understand why we must destroy the obnoxious, bitchy rulemongers?

Now do you understand why we must escape to sunny, summer countryside hilltops and let the hectoring rulemongers shit on their stupid adult victims in the torture chambers down below?

NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

-- John Trubee
 

CHRIS OPPERMAN 20050125

* Chris Opperman Presents @ Level One - Feb. 1st & 15th

SPECIAL OPPS will be performing on Tuesday, February 1st in our first full band show in months!  I've been working the new line-up (Andre LaFosse (guitar)/Jen Kuhn (electric cello)/Daren Burns (electric bass)/David Gaziel (drums) and myself) extra hard for this show and it's going to be great! 

SPECIAL OPPS goes on at 8:30, followed by the Andre Comeau Band (from the original "Real World"), and a solo performance by Andre LaFosse at 10:30.  There will also be drink specials! 

$5/21+.  Level One is located at 6311 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. 

Feb. 15th's line-up is Jen Kuhn's ensemble Triple Helix, opera-expatriate-turned-singer/songwriter Arden Kaywin (who played my wife in "A Very Space Opera"), and everyone's favorite country-rock ensemble Jettson.

* New Videos Now On-line!

• Parcelona: http://www.oppymusic.com/files/Parcelona2.wmv

• Miles Behind: http://www.oppymusic.com/files/MilesBehind.wmv

Two new videos from my 26th birthday party at Room 5 last Novemeber compiled by myself and Johnny D featuring Clark Freeman on drums, Jen Kuhn on the electric cello and Talia Mays on vocals!  Enjoy!

Music is the best.

-- Chris Opperman
 

TRUBEE # 9

-- John Trubee
 

JOE TRAVERS AND THE VAULT

Unlocking Zappa Treasures
Preservation and restoration results in releases from legendary Zappa Vault

GRAMMY.com
Laurel Fishman

Frank Zappa

Under Frank Zappa's family house in Los Angeles, the "Vault" is jam-packed from floor to ceiling with every possible recordable audio, video and film media. Within its concrete walls, the temperature-controlled Vault contains literally thousands of tapes, all neatly organized and labeled. "The Vault is infamous among Zappa fans as a treasure trove of material," says Joe Travers, official "Vaultmeister." Bit by bit, the gems are emerging.

These jewels represent the late Zappa's prolific output, spanning 30-plus years and musical genres from doo-wop to classical. Decades before the global economy, Zappa was selling out international venues that other popular musicians of the time never even dreamed of playing. From his early days around Los Angeles in the 1960s with the original Mothers Of Invention, to world tours, experiments on the Synclavier, and his orchestral works, Zappa relentlessly recorded his musical
adventures.

The limitations of existing technology made it generally prohibitive for most artists to do so, but Zappa used mobile recording gear to capture his lengthy concerts. Travers learned how to "bake" the resulting tapes, heat-treating them in a convection oven at 130 degrees for four to eight hours. "Baking the tapes secures the oxide to the tape's backing so it won't shed when it's being played back," Travers explains. "If it sheds and turns into gummy residue, it's gone forever." So far, Travers has baked about 100 tapes.

When he started as Vaultmeister in the mid-'90s, Travers' job was to identify and catalog the material. He created a database, designating Zappa's ever-changing band personnel and determining song titles and which material had already been released. Travers pored over documents, publications and Web sites, and talked with the musicians involved.

Inside the Vault, Travers also found "a helluva lot of film and video, from 8 mm all the way up to one- and two-inch masters." Travers says there is early-'60s footage of Zappa's original Studio Z and from later years at the family house. There are outtakes from Zappa films Uncle Meat and Baby Snakes, and Zappa concerts on Halloween 1977 and live at
the Roxy in 1973, and more.

The Vault also houses rehearsal tapes, Zappa interviews, trim reels and other remnants. "After Frank got a mix using razor-blade edits, this was the stuff that didn't make it onto the record," Travers says. "There are a lot of rough mixes and versions of albums before Frank ripped them apart. I get to hear the missing pieces of the large puzzle."

Prior to becoming Vaultmeister, Travers already held some of the pieces. A drummer who played with Zappa sons Dweezil and Ahmet in their band Z during the mid-'90s, Travers was a serious Frank Zappa fan from an early age. "I had a massive collection," he says. "I read every book and had every Zappa record, dozens of bootlegs. And this was before eBay!"

One day in 1995, Joe requested a tour of the legendary Vault. "Just by looking at the names on the boxes," Travers remembers, "I knew more about the contents of the Vault than anyone working there at the time," including various audio experts. "The staff went back and told [Frank's widow] Gail that I knew more about what's in the Vault than anybody
else. She said, 'Great, he's the Vaultmeister.'"

Before 2003, Travers focused on refining his digital editing skills while cataloging and baking the tapes. Then the Zappas refurbished the recording studio adjacent to the Vault, allowing Travers to "dive into other tape formats with the best possible technology," he says.

In EQ-ing and mastering Zappa's music, Travers is salvaging arcane nuggets to appeal to hardcore Zappa fanatics, "material that otherwise wouldn't find a home on a major Zappa release." These obscurities are becoming the "Joe's" album series, starting with the current Joe's Corsage , whose title is a play on Zappa's 1979 Joe's Garage albums.

Joe's Corsage includes Zappa demos from 1965, '60s interview snippets, and perhaps the rarest of all Zappa rarities, a love song: "I'm So Happy I Could Cry." In typical Zappa fashion, it later mutated into the irreverent "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" from the classic Zappa album We're Only In It For The Money.

Starting in 2002, Vault packages are being released on the Vaulternative label, created by Gail Zappa. Among its live concert recordings, a possible documentary and other as-yet-unreleased projects, "we're working on four different albums right now," Travers says. "I submit material to Gail and Dweezil for them to decide upon, or they come to me and say, 'We need material from this-or-that era.'"

While Dweezil Zappa concentrates on remixing his father's recordings into surround sound for future Vaulternative albums, Gail Zappa is instituting a subscription service for purchasing Vault releases. "There are most likely 40 albums that can come out of the Vault, not including the series I'm doing," says Travers.

"There's so much I don't even know about yet. The more I dive into the Vault, especially in the formats I wasn't able to document or play before now, the more possibilities keep coming up."

(Laurel Fishman is a writer and editor specializing in entertainment media. She reports regularly for GRAMMY.com, writes the EducationWatch column, and is an advocate for the benefits of music-making, music-listening, music education, music therapy and music-and-the-brain research.)

-- info: Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek
 

CHRISTOPHE DELBROUCK

• "Frank Zappa et la dinette de chrome" &
• "Frank Zappa et l'Amérique parfaite",

both by Christophe Delbrouck.

Also scheduled in France for 2005 is the re-edition of French version of The Real Frank Zappa Book...

The picture on the right shows the cover of the latest album by the Nasal Retentive Orchestra. One of my favourite albums from 2004. Also from France:

• nasal retentive orchestra: live
      (2004, cd, fr, pickaboo nro 004)

TRUBEE # 8

-- John Trubee
 

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

• captain beefheart: live 'n' rare
      (2004, 2cd, uk, ozitcd 9003)
   
  • Oh, what can I say about this latest Ozit Morpheus Records release?
    It's limited, handnumbered, comes in a cardboard box and includes some postcards, but all this packaging can't hide the fact that I had expected a bit more...
    
    Completists and collectors only, I'd say.

new * new * new * new * new * new * new * new * new

THE HENTCHMEN

• the hentchmen: formsfollowsfuntion
      (2004, cd, usa, times beach)
   
  •  The Hentchmen recorded Frank Zappa’s ‘Why Don’t You Do Me Right’ on their latest “FormsFollowsFunction” album. It’s the hidden track (after number 12).

-- info: Zjakki Willems

new * new * new * new * new * new * new * new * new

THE STEALING ORCHESTRA

website  http://www.stealingorchestra.com

Netlabel - You Are Not Stealing Records  http://www.stealingorchestra.com/mainrecords.htm

albums   http://www.stealingorchestra.com/secretlink.htm
 

TRUBEE # 7

"Enervating workaday drudgery sucks the music out of our souls. Stop the universal zombification of humanity by the demands of our mindless consumer culture. Quit your job today and come play in the park with me!"

-- John Trubee

STEVE VAI - UPDATE

Check out http://www.vai.com/News/tourdates.html for more info.

• 2005/03/01  Marquee Theatre,  Phoenix, AZ, usa

• 2005/03/02  Sunshine Theatre,  Albuquerque, NM, usa

• 2005/03/04  Verizon Wireless Theatre,  Houston, TX, usa

• 2005/03/05  Granada Theatre,  Dallas, TX, usa

• 2005/03/06  Antone's,  Austin, TX, usa

• 2005/03/08  New Daisy Theatre,  Memphis, TN, usa

• 2005/03/09  The Cannery,  Nashville, TN , usa

• 2005/03/10  Boutwell Auditorium,  Birmingham, AL, usa

• 2005/03/11  House of Blues,  New Orleans, LA, usa

• 2005/03/14  Tampa Theatre,  Tampa, FL, usa

• 2005/03/15  Julius Littman PAC,  Miami, FL, usa

• 2005/03/16  House of Blues,  Orlando, FL, usa

• 2005/03/17  Freebird Live,  Jacksonville, FL, usa

• 2005/03/18  House of Blues,  Myrtle Beach, SC, usa

• 2005/03/19  The Roxy,  Atlanta, GA, usa

• 2005/03/20  The Orange Peel ,  Asheville, NC , usa

• 2005/03/22  Ziggy's,  Winston Salem, NC, usa

• 2005/03/23  Birchmere,  Alexandria, VA, usa

• 2005/03/24  Rams Head Live,  Baltimore, MD, usa

• 2005/03/25  Webster Theatre,  Hartford, CT, usa

• 2005/03/26  Town Hall,  New York, NY, usa

• 2005/03/28  The Trocadero Theatre,  Philadelphia, PA, usa

• 2005/03/29  Westbury Music Fair,  Westbury, NY, usa

• 2005/03/30  Starland Ballroom,  Sayreville, NJ, usa

• 2005/03/31  Avalon Ballroom,  Boston, MA, usa

• 2005/04/01  Metropolis,  Montreal, QC, usa

• 2005/04/02  Massey Hall,  Toronto, ONT, usa

• 2005/04/04  Univ. Buffalo Center for Arts,  Buffalo, NY, usa

• 2005/04/05  Rex Theatre,  Pittsburgh, PA, usa

• 2005/04/06  House of Blues,  Cleveland, OH, usa

• 2005/04/07  Newport Music Hall,  Columbus, OH, usa

• 2005/04/08  State Theatre,  Detroit, MI, usa

• 2005/04/09  Bogart's,  Cincinnati, OH, usa

• 2005/04/10  The Pageant,  St. Louis, MO, usa

• 2005/04/12  The Eagles Club,  Milwaukee, WI, usa

• 2005/04/13  House of Blues,  Chicago, IL, usa

• 2005/04/14  To Be Announced,  To Be Announced

• 2005/04/15  Fitzgerald Theatre, St. Paul, MN, usa

• 2005/04/16  To Be Announced

• 2005/04/17  To Be Announced

• 2005/04/19  Fox Theatre,  Boulder, CO, usa

• 2005/04/20  The Venue (formerly Brick's Club),  Salt Lake City, UT , usa

• 2005/04/21  The Big Easy,  Boise, ID, usa

• 2005/04/22  Showbox,  Seattle, WA, usa

• 2005/04/23  Commodore Ballroom,  Vancouver, BC, usa

• 2005/04/24  Roseland Theatre,  Portland, OR, usa

• 2005/04/26  The Fillmore,  San Francisco, CA, usa

• 2005/04/27  The Grove,  Anaheim, CA, usa

• 2005/04/28  House of Blues,  Las Vegas, NV, usa

• 2005/04/29  4th and B,  San Diego, CA, usa

• 2005/04/30  Wiltern Theatre,  Los Angeles, CA, usa

TRUBEE # 6

-- John Trubee
 

FRANK NUYTS  *  HARDSCORE

• 2005/01/29 concert ‘rekkelinge’, deinze, belgium

• 2005/02/11 concert koksijde, belgium: “britannis”

• 2005/02/16 concert deinze, belgium: “low key music”

• 2005/02/27 concert veurne, belgium: “1^st suite from bekket”

• 2005/03/05 concert ‘cc’, lokeren, belgium : “britannis”

more info at  http://www.hardscore.be
 

TRUBEE # 5

-- John Trubee
 

MORE ARCHIVES STUFF

"the complete guide to the music of frank zappa"

by ben watson
    (1998, book, uk, omnibus press)

Sal Marquez' solo album, a tribute to Miles Davis:

• sal marquez: one for dewey
      (1992, cd, usa, grp records)

from the archives * from the archives

TRUBEE # 4

-- John Trubee
 

JEFF HOLLIE

• ike willis: shoulda gone before i left
      (1988, lp, us, enigma records  3292-1)

• ike willis: dirty pictures
      (1998, cd, us, muffin record productions 037)

DOMINIQUE JEUNOT

He co-wrote the book "Zappa de Z à A" with Guy Darol (picture on the right).

He participated to the International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology.

My sympathy goes out to those that he left behind.

TRUBEE # 3

-- John Trubee
 

MARQUESON COY

I knew Marqueson when we were 15 years old and he went by Greg. He took me to see Hendrix in '69 (last show with EXP). I never thought Greg would amount to much let alone working for Frank! I should have stayed in touch! Marque was a crazy kid and his folks saw fit to separate the two of us long ago. When I bought the CD "Them or Us" I wondered who Marqueson was, little did I know it was Greg Coy, my partner in crime, at one time....

---------------------

Bob Wyman is a songwriter and has a fabulous looking website www.bobwyman.com.
& be sure to check out a couple of his songs.
 

WM RECORDINGS

Happy Elf is multi instrumentalist Jeroen Elfferich's solo project.
First Contact is a 4 track cd which gives you an idea of Happy Elf's music.
The tracks are from the earlier albums Bright Normal Deep and Bingo in the Country.
For more information check out his site: www.happyelf.nl

As always this release is freely available in mp3 format.

Upcoming projects: D'r Sjaak (Dutch lo-fi pop), Uncle Neptune (children's music for grown ups) and much, much more!

-- Marco Kalnenek  /  WM Recordings
 

ANNELLSSON, MATS & MORGAN

• 1994/05/22 concert 'malmö konsthall', malmö, sweden

  • "en akustisk afton med musik av frank zappa" (an acoustic evening with the music of fz)

    • hans annéllsson, mats & morgan & others...

    • twenty small cigars, number 6, sheik yerbouti tango, treacherous cretins

    • an excellent 13-minute soundboard recording of this performance circulates

-- info: Charles Pater
 

HSK ARNHEM

-- info: Charles Pater
 

TRUBEE # 2

-- John Trubee
 

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY

Gustav Svedung: vocals
Peter Knudsen: keyboards
Tobias Grim: guitar
Karl Ekström: tenor sax
Henrik Johnsson: trombone
Jenny Bengtsson: bass
Johannes Persson: percussion
Anders Johansson: drums

• 2003/11/10 concert gothenburg
  • florentine pogen * echidna's arf (of you) * pygmy twylyte * leather * oh no! * the orange county lumber truck * son of orange county * montana * cosmic debris
  • All arrangements made by Anders Johansson except 'Montana', arranged by Peter Knudsen

-- info: Charles Pater
 

SAXOFOURTE

Line-up:

• Thomas Sälze: soprano sax

• Dieter Kraus: alto sax

• Simon Hanrath: tenor sax

• Ralf Ritscher: bass sax

The show got broadcast on the radio:

1. Radio Introduction
2. Stage Introduction
3. Let's Make The Water Turn Black - Zombie Woof - Catholic Girls - Sofa - Cheap Thrills
4. RDNZL
5. Peaches En Regalia -  We Are Not Alone

-- info: Charles Pater
 

TRUBEE # 1

-- John Trubee
 

THE VOICE OF CHEESE: SHOW UPDATE

THE TROUPE

Extra performances were given in 2004, and a couple of new ones have been scheduled for early 2005:

• 2005/02/05 The Troupe - concert 'de naald', naaldwijk, the netherlands

• 2005/02/16 The Troupe - concert 'kennemer theater', beverwijk, the netherlands

• 2005/02/22 The Troupe - concert 'koningstheater', den bosch, the netherlands

• 2005/02/23 The Troupe - concert 'koningstheater', den bosch, the netherlands

• 2005/02/24 The Troupe - concert 'de meerse', hoofddorp, the netherlands

• 2005/04/12 The Troupe - concert 'goudse schouwburg', gouda, the netherlands

• 2005/04/16 The Troupe - concert 'schouwburg', amstelveen, the netherlands

-- info: Ton Rückert
 

NECESSITY IS...

new * new * new * new * new * new * new * new * new

• necessity is… the early years of frank zappa & the mothers of invention
  by billy james
      (2005, book, uk, saf publishing)
   
  • Maybe some of you recall Billy James' excellent book on the early years of the Mothers Of Invention that got published in 2000? Well, this superb book has been revised, it has been given a different cover and (!!) it has been made available again.
    If you want to know more about the early years of Your Mothers, this is the book for you. Billy James has done an enormous amount of research, including a bunch of interviews with some of the original Mothers. Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner and even Richard Kunc, share their memories with you. This is essential reading.
     
  • Order your copy at www.safpublishing.com or at your bookstore.

JOHN TRUBEE'S TRIP TO THE ART MUSEUM

A while back I visited the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art with a friend to check out some art.
I remember seeing an elongated painting by Edward Ruscha, about 1 1/2 feet high by 10 feet long. It simply depicted a dark horizon behind which glowed an apparent dawn. The work was entitled 'America's Future' and its title was stenciled directly into the lower central part of the painting.

Many of Ruscha's works incorporate text directly onto the artwork; many of his paintings are solely comprised of a word or words painted onto a flat surface.
I was intrigued by the work. My favorite times of day are the dawn and the dusk because they look eerie and strange and beautiful. They almost let us observe time itself move as the sun traverses the horizon. The image of the artwork and its title remained in my mind for weeks afterward as I contemplated it.

I then realized that the painting could just as surely be a depiction of twilight as it could be of a dawn, and the connection to which part of the day it depicted in relation to its title further revealed its significance.

In this country we like to appear optimistic, we nurture the notion that better days populate our future, we maintain some archaic 19th century notion of "progress" taking us up on higher to better things. To live without this quaint hope, however delusional, would make life unbearable to most people. Politicians like to say "America's best days are ahead of us". To publicly declaim otherwise would be career death for a politician. We like to call ourselves a nation of optimists.

This mindset is probably why I automatically assumed Ruscha's glowing horizon depicted the dawn.

But what if the painting 'America's Future' depicts the final glowing of a glorious day descending into a darkness reigned over by hideous demons? What if all the best years of this country are behind us as we degenerate into evening shadows of corruption, decadence, hypocrisy, loss of treasure and wealth, loss of vaunted myths with no new ones to supercede them, loss of youth, loss of spirit, loss of will, loss of hope, loss of life?

In light of the recent contentious national election, the controversy over the bloody debacle in Iraq, the numerous publicized corporate scandals mocking the virtues of capitalism and the work ethic as taught to us by our elders and right-thinking people everywhere; in light of the of the sorry absence of civility and intelligence in public debate; in light of the humongous national debt and obscene trade deficit and grotesquely widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots; in light of public education's failure to graduate crops of thoughtful citizens capable of making intelligent contributions to their culture and world and civic life; in light of the commodification of everything into a business transaction in which we are merely passive, sheeplike consumers of what we've been told and sold and nothing more--and its resultant effect visually evident in the obesity epidemic; in light of the depressing lack of sense of humor and the worship of rules which everyone so desperately lusts to cram down everybody else's throat; in light of sex as once something joyful and desirable now transmogrified into something that Michael Jackson does to little boys--or is a threat to the workplace and consequently YOUR JOB and livelihood--or which will kill us with an incurable contagion--or is the source of Dr. Laura's shrill, odious dictates; in light of the mindless worship of celebrities and the constant need for insipid diversions and entertainments while profound issues continually elude serious and intelligent public discussion; in light of the politicized fearmongering of the Homeland Security apparatus condescending to us as if we are all weak and helpless infants vulnerable to dark forces and submissive to the will of an inept and mendacious government; in light of the universal vulgarity and stupidity  and lack of civility enveloping us everywhere in daily life...

--I could safely state that Ruscha's painting 'America's Future' could just as clearly be depicting its twilight as well as its dawn. I have not decided for myself and I am still contemplating it and it's doubtful I'll ever arrive at a definitive answer. My lifetime and perceptions are necessarily stunted and limited in observing the lifeline and overarching history of the republic.

This is why I love art. The artist creates an object, an image, a song, a work, a collection of words strung together in a poem or a novel and posits it before the world. What we get out of it is a reflection of what we bring into it. The idiosyncratic matrix of our experiences and memories and temperament and world view color what meaning or significance we discover in an art object.
Its significance results from how our minds perceive the art object in the dynamic interplay between our minds and the image-form so deftly spun into existence by the artist.

I remember my mother once took me on a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when I was a child. She realized my interest in art even then.
I do not know Ruscha's intent nor do I care. I saw a beautiful work in a museum and its meaning for me resulted from viewing it through the prism of my experiences and perceptions. It set me to thinking about things I would not have otherwise considered.

Art is the religion of the future.

-- John Trubee
 

THE FOOLZ

Mark your calendar !

More info at: http://www.boerderij.org/index.cfm/4,507,eve10000446,html

• 2005/02/04 The Foolz - concert 'de boerderij', zoetermeer, the netherlands

RESIDENTS NEWS

• the residents: not available
• the residents: duckstab

Both on black and on (very) limited colored vinyl. And "Not Available" has been reissued (again) on CD (Euroralph) as well.

And I haven't even told you about the beautiful buttons...
 

KUR FORUM

SOFA (from www.thebignote.com) typed out the following message at the kill ugly radio forum at www.killuglyradio.com.

Greetings Forum Denizens!
The inimitable Magic Fingers and I are involved in a nifty new project. In this regard, we are seeking the late show from Nov. 23, 1973 - specifically the "Big Swifty/Eat that Question" track.
Does anyone out there have this show in their library, and could help us out?
Please LMK ASAP if this might be available.
Regards,
SOFA

As I was convinced that I had this show, I told SOFA that I would help him out.
However, when I pulled out the disc labeled 1973/11/23-late show, I was completely astonished that it carried the first part of the 1973/11/18 concert instead.

Damned.

To make it even worse, the trader who sent me the disc, thought his recording was the 1973/11/23-L show, so he can't help me out.

If YOU can lend a hand to SOFA, let me know (bignOte@yucom.be) and I'll forward your message to him. I know that some of you can, I just don't know if you will, so show me wrong...

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THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER BAND

FRANZIE 2005 !!!

A The Central Scrutinizer Band vai tocar dia 27 de janeiro, quinta feira...de volta ao CaféPiupiu !

A gente adora tocar no Piupiu...ops...pegou mal....

Primeiro show do ano !!! Venha se divertir novamente conosco nesse tributo ao mestre Frank Zappa...

Dia 27 de Janeiro - quinta feira - às 22 horas

Café Piupiu - R. Treze de Maio 134 no Bixiga - 3258 8066 - www.cafepiupiu.com.br

Which probable translates into something as

• 2005/01/27 the central scrutinizer band - concert 'cafe piupiu', são paulo, brasil  

JOHN TRUBEE'S WEIRD DREAM

"About a week ago I dreamt a weird dream that I still vividly remember.

I dreamt that I had killed someone and had hidden the body, but the existential dread and guilt of my deed haunted me. (Simply the awareness of being human imbues us all with Cain's guilt).

I felt a heightened awareness and paranoia of one who feels guilty and I was packing my belongings to move elsewhere. I was in a room which resembled my father's study in a house in which my family resided years ago. I have not lived in that house since 1980.

I fled to some other place and found myself in a motel room with my belongings, trying to organize them, packing and unpacking them and rearranging them.
A group of my musician and bohemian friends were in the motel room with me, socializing and being loud.
I was sitting cross legged on the floor listening to an old mono turntable playing records softly, as it was late at night. My friend Carl Franzoni came over and turned up the volume on record player.

Several older, overweight, tall, completely bald men were staying in the motel room next door to mine.
One was shaving and naked from out of a shower and had a towel wrapped around his waist--he opened the door separating the two motel rooms and poked his head into the room and gruffly asked me to turn down  the record player.
Someone in my room sassed him and he and a couple of his buddies--completely naked and tall and bald and overweight like him--hustled into the room to confront me.

Before I could turn down the volume one of my friends jumped on the back of the baldie confronting me. A melee in my motel room ensued in which my friends were jumping on and beating the old bald guys who were falling to the floor.

The whole scene was creepy and queer and I wanted to get the hell out of there. Then I woke up."

 

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TONY ORTEGA

METROPOLIS ORCHESTRA

INTERVISTA ALLA METROPOLIS ORCHESTRA

Giovedì 20 gennaio alle ore 11,30

in diretta su Radiolombardia.

Seguiteci: la diretta su www.radiolombardia.it

Fm: 100.2 – 100.3 – 100.4
 

THE KENEALLIST: January 18, 2005

But for now --

Hear ye, all you NAMM revelers --- if you're going to be attending this week's NAMM convention in Anaheim, CA, here's my performance schedule for Taylor Guitars:

• Thursday 2005/01/20 - 1:20 PM - Mike Keneally & Rick Musallam - Taylor Guitars performance room
   
• Friday 2005/01/21 - 12:45 PM - Mike Keneally & Bryan Beller - Taylor Guitars performance room
   
• Sunday 2005/01/23 - 1:20 PM - Mike Keneally & Bryan Beller - Taylor Guitars performance room

Also I'll be helping Taylor unveil a new instrument onstage, each morning of NAMM at 10:30.  On Saturday night I'll be jamming at the Guitar Player Magazine party in one of the hotels, don't know which one (I'm guessing either the Marriot or the Hilton) but you can find out at their booth or via the white hot buzz of partymonger word of mouth.

To all of my friends reading this who will be at the convention, I hope we can find time to hang, in the midst of it all.

My current music fixations – Pavement and Glenn Gould.   Never say I'm not a man of extremes.

Website to check out – http://www.bradblog.com. 

Quick update: All last week I played on sessions for the debut album by a tremendous songwriter, Brian Judah.  Also playing were Matt Chamberlain, Viktor Krauss, Tommy Simms and Dan Phelps – an assemblage built to glitter.  The tracks are severely powerful and this will be an album to hear.  The day I got home I went right into the studio with Jon Kanis, a San Diego songwriter whose album I've been producing and collaborating on for a good long time now.  We had a very creative and satisfying day in the studio and Jon's album, ‘Cult Of One,' will be something else you'll want to check out.  Both these albums should be released this year.  I'm also continuing work on the new sadhappy album featuring Evan Schiller and Michael Manring, and writing and demoing for the next solo releases. 

It's taking, as usual, a while to firm up touring plans but when everything aligns it'll be a good thing, worth the wait. 

I was hanging laundry so I'd best get back to it.  More power to you.

Steathily,
Mike
 

BOZZIO RADIO BROADCASTS

• 2005/01/31, dutch national radio 4 will broadcast (part of) the concert with the  metropole orchestra (2005/01/09 concert  ‘013 popcentrum’, tilburg, NL)
   
• 2005/04/11, dutch radio station "concertzender" will broadcast part of the 2005/01/07 opening concert of the "traces of rhythm" festival, featuring Terry Bozzio, Arnold Marinissen, Arno van Nieuwenhuize en Lê Quan Ninh.

And while we're at it, the 2005/01/07 concert was opened by Jenny Spanoghe (violin), accompanied by Toon Bierman (piano), performing Zappa's 'The Black Page'.
 

• terry bozzio: drawing the circle
      (1998, cd, usa, tb)
   

ZAPPA BOOK BY MILES

This new book on Zappa has been out a little while, and if I'm not mistaken I did a copy / paste job on a review that I had received.
And Kilissa was kind enough to send the picture on the right.

I haven't seen or read the book myself (yet), but it is widely available.

CONCERT DATES & SETLISTS, ANYONE ?

after crying recorded a frank zappa tribute

the band from utopia & the seattle symphony orchestra

• 1995/04/08 concert
  • the perfect stranger * naval aviation in art * dupree's paradise * chunga's revenge * sofa * the idiot bastard son * hot plate heaven at the green hotel

bleeding romeo

• 1986/12/21 concert “zappa meeting”, the netherlands
  • willie the pimp * cosmik debris * sharleena * daddy, daddy, daddy * mary lou

conservatory students of arnhem

• (date, place and venue unknown)
  • lucille has messed my mind up * uncle meat * cosmik debris * g-spot tornado * cruisin’ for burgers * stolen moments * 24 cigarettes

ed palermo big band

• 2001/02/12-L- concert ‘bottom line’, nyc, ny, usa
  • strictly genteel * moggio * oh no * shove it right in * holiday in berlin * zoot allures * let's move to cleveland * regyptian strut * idiot bastard son * whipping post medley * in held was i * the end * suzy creamcheese * peaches en regalia
• 2001/08/21 concert ’bottom line’, nyc, ny, usa
  • penis dimension * peaches en regalia * run home slow * call any vegetable incl. echidna's arf (of you°) * regyptian strut * ed at his best * king kong incl. 21st century schizoid man * sofa * i want you * i am the walrus * rdnzl * directly from my heart to you * uncle remus * mom & dad * evelyn, a modified dog * i'm the slime
• 2002/09/26-E- concert ‘bottom line’, nyc, ny, usa
  • cletus awreetus alrightus * penguin in bondage * pygmy twilight * village of the sun * echidna's arf (of you) * don't you ever wash that thing * cheepnis * son of orange county * more trouble every day * be-bop tango * improvisation * anything you wanna do * we are not alone
• 2002/09/26-L- concert ‘bottom line’, nyc, ny, usa
  • i'm the slime * king kong * 21st century schiziod man * peaches en regalia * for calvin and his next two hitchhikers * the grand wazoo * cletus awreetus-awrightus * eat that question * blessed relief * cheepnis * son of orange county * more trouble every day * village of the sun * echidna's arf (of you) * don't you ever wash that thing * we are not alone
• 2003/03/28-E- concert ‘bottom line’, nyc, ny, usa
  • bogner regis * peaches en regalia * willie the pimp * son of mr. green genes * little umbrellas * the gumbo variations * it must be a camel * inca roads * can't afford no shoes * sofa #1 * po jama people * florentine pogen * evelyn a modified dog * san berdino * andy * sofa #2
• 2003/03/28-L- concert ‘bottom line’, nyc, ny, usa
  • bogner regis * peaches en regalia * willie the pimp * son of mr. green genes * little umbrellas * the gumbo variations * it must be a camel * inca roads * can't afford no shoes * sofa #1 * po jama people * florentine pogen * evelyn a modified dog * san berdino * andy * sofa #2

element performed 'Joe's Garage'

• (date, location & venue unknown)
  • scrutinizer * joe-s garage * catholic girls * mary don-t go * crew slut * wet t-shirt * lucille-s seduction * why does it hurt * lucille * token * stick it out * sy borg * outside now * cut the grass * packard goose * watermelon * green rosetta * keep it greasy

ensemble intercontemporain - pierre boulez

• 1984/01/09 concert ‘theatre de la ville’, paris, france
  • intro 1 * three places in new england (charles ives) * intro 2 * dupree's paradise * intro 3 * naval aviation in art
• 1984/01/09 dressrehearsal ‘theatre de la ville’, paris, france
  • dupree's paradise * naval aviation in art * the perfect stranger

eraserheads recorded ‘punk zappa three’

fast 'n bulbous, the captain beefheart project

• 2002/02/09 concert ‘the knitting factory’, nyc, ny, usa
  • pachuco cadaver * abba zabba * she's too much for my mirror * a carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond * click clack * icecream for crow * when i see mommy i feel like a mummy * golden birdies * uncle meat * willie the pimp * the blimp * infragrams * (???)* suction prints * tropical hot dog night

freddie wadling performed don van vliet's ‘ella guru’

great googly moogly

• 2003/11/10 concert gothenburg
  • florentine pogen * echidna's arf (of you) * pygmy twylyte * leather * oh no! * the orange county lumber truck * son of orange county * montana * cosmic debris

hermann schindler

• there are recordings circulating from herman schindler that have a zappa link: ‘2 doppler aus der sonnenstadt (2 double bars from sun village)’ * ‘you-nique!’ * ‘was schreima uban tzappa’ (what shall we write about zappa? - now that he's dead)

nf & i virtuosi dal pianeta talento

• 2003/08/02 concert abbadia, san salvatore, italy
  • bolero * intro - outside now * city of tiny lights * tryin' to grow a chin * mr green genes * florentine pogen * andy * inca roads * sofa * orange county lumber truck medley * dinah-moe humm

joseph benzola

• ... is preparing his fourth tape, "the sound of one hand clapping." this magnum opus will sport well over an hour of music, including the intriguing "portraits of the dead" , a multi-section work in which benzola addresses various dead musicians -- frank zappa, john cage, sun ra and miles davis among them.

meat xxl

• 2001/03/10    concert 'de tobbe', delft, the netherlands
  • meat announcement * band intro * cosmik debris * i'm the slime * let's move to cleveland * take your clothes off when you dance * what's the ugliest part of your body * what's new in baltimore * titties 'n' beer * montana * tink walks amok * evelyn a modified dog * the torture never stops * sofa * why does it hurt when i pee * po-jama people * easy meat * piano intro little house * city of tiny lights * whippin' post * sandra announcement * why does it hurt when sandra pees

meridian arts ensemble

• 1993/04/11 wqxr nyc - 'on air' with the meridian arts ensemble
• 2002/06/07 concert

mia kempf and bohuslan big band: ‘find her finer’

paul green school of rock music

• 2003/07/27 concert “zappanale #14”
  • uncle meat * andy * zombie woof * yellow snow * tell me you love me * peaches en regalia * montana * a pound for a brown-soli * inca roads * magic fingers * apostrophe * camarillo brillo\muffin man * my guitar wants to kill your mama * keep it greasy * king kong * city of tiny lites

perfect blue recorded ‘dancing fool’ (manga video clip)

remco 'petjep' serban (aka zappacheers)

• 2004/03/07 petjep on sibbz birthday (unplugged)
• 2004/03/14 zappateers ls#100 - live internet jam session

project/object

• 1997/06/20 concert ‘court tavern’, nyc, ny, usa
  • broken hearts are for assholes * chunga's revenge * easy meat * honey don't you want a man like me * take your clothes off when you dance * what's the ugliest part of your body * son of orange county * more trouble every day * king kong - echidna's arf (of you) * sofa #1 * hot plate heaven at the green hotel * andy (incomplete) * inca roads * band intro * cruisin' for burgers * my guitar wants to kill your mama * crew slut * more band intro * joe's garage * keep it greasy (cut)
• 2001/05/18 concert ‘lexington’, ky, usa
  • intro * chunga's revenge * i have been in you * flakes * pygmy twylyte * the black page drum solo * the black & bluegrass page * who needs the peace corps * uncle meat * andy * inca roads
    intro set 2 * fembot in a wet t-shirt * big swifty * baby snakes * pick me, i'm clean * bamboozled by love * titties n beer * filthy habits * jones crusher * zomby woof
• 2001/05/22 concert ‘sherlock's eerie’
• 2001/12/29 concert rochester
• 2002/02/13 concert winooski, vt, usa
• 2002/02/18 concert ‘bb king's’, nyc, ny, usa
• 2002/03/10 concert eugene, or, usa
• 2003/03/10 concert pittsburgh, pa, usa
  • preston’s sound sculpture * sinister footwear * talk * cant afford no shoes * talk * montana * talk * blessed relief * talk * call any vegetable * amnesia vivace * pick me i'm clean * bamboozled by love * talk * any way the wind blows * black napkins * talk * big swifty * talk * cosmik debris * talk * tune up * chungas revenge * nap and don talk * florentine pogen * talk * pentagon officials * echidnas arf * duke of prunes * talk * andy * talk * keep it greasy * outside now * talk * city of tiny lites * talk * pygmy twylyte * dummy up * idiot bastard son * talk * king kong * talk * san berdino
• 2003/03/10 rehearsal pittsburgh
  • canard toujours rehearsal * kaiser rolls rehearsal

sex without nails bros.

• 2003/07/26 concert “zappanale #14” - joe's garage audio version
  • central scrutinizer * joe's garage * catholic girls * crew slut * fembot in a wet tee-shirt on the bus * why doe's it hurt when i pee * lucille has messed my mind up * scrutinizer postlude * a token of my extreme * stick it out * sy borg * dong work for yuda * keep it greasy * outside now * he used to cut the grass * packard goose * watermelon in easter hay * a little green rosetta
• 2003/07/27 concert ”zappanale #14” - roxy 'n elsewhere
  • dirty love * sofa * dancing fool * bobby brown * apostrophe medley * i have been in you * uncle remus * penguin in bondage~pygmy twylyte * village of the sun~echidna's arf (of you) * cheepnis * oh no * orange county medley * city of tiny lites

sheik yerbouti

• 2003/07/26 concert „zappanale #14“
  • zombie-woof * black-page * keep it greasy * packard goose * florentine pogen * andy * inca roads * heavy duty judy * stink foot * i'm the slime * you didn't try to call me * joe's garage * trouble every day * easy meat * bamboozled by love

sting

• 1988/07/27 concert, los angeles, ca, usa
  • incl. 'the idiot bastard son'

stockholm's trio: igor's boogie

the daughters of invention

• 2004/07/12 concert “live at logway”
  • heavy duty judy * whippin' post * red baron * mr. green genes * finding a cool sound * misery * from a jazzclub to a rainforest * bobby brown * stolen moments * let's make the water turn black * girl from ipanema * black napkins * magic fingers * unknown tango * autumn leaves * broken hearts are for assholes * georgia on my mind * peaches en regalia * herbie hancock medley * robert's dream * my own angel * blessed relief * camarillo brillo * muffin man

the foolz

• 2003/08/29 concert “bluescafe apeldoorn”, apeldoorn, nl
  • heavy duty judy * sanberdino * joes garage * why does it hurt when i pee * you didnt try to call me * tell me you love me - bamboozled by love * montana * tryin to grow a chin * alien orifice * torture never stops * city of tiny lites * i am the slime * cathollic girls * keep it greasey * lucille * florentine pogen * zoot allures * dancin fool * inca roads * elvis has just left the building * cosmic debris * lets move to cleveland * suicide chump * ms pinky * easy meat * drafted * more trouble every day
     
• 2004/10/01 concert apeldoorn, nl
  • mammy anthem * dancing fool * inca roads * love of my life * you didnt try to call me * san berdino * suicide chump * jumbo go away * miss pinky * cosmik debris * i dont wanna get drafted * trouble every day

the fos brothers: the torture never stops

the grand wazoo

• 2004/03/12 concert ancona, italy
  • the torture never stops * city of tiny lights * outside now * a pound for a brown on the bus * florentine pogen * village of the sun - hungry freaks daddy * lucille has messed my mind up * regyptian strut * stick it out - more trouble every day * let s move to cleveland * inca roads * easy meat -muffin man

the grandmothers

• 2000/08/22 concert buffalo, ny, usa
  • call any vegetable - invocation & ritual dance of the young pumpkin - sleeping in a jar * what was zappa really like? - the little house i used to live in * who are the brain police? - can i have another piece of pie? * lonely, lonely nights - mom & dad * money (lennon & mccartney) - drum solo - lady queen bee (j.c.black) * retirement plans, talking to audience * love of my life * hungry freaks, daddy - the great white buffalo (black/bailey) * ain't been in the jungle - holiday in berlin * the indian of the group * junk food (oliva) - mr.green genes * big leg emma - brown shoes don't make it * ? - uncle meat - oh no! -the orange county lumber truck - trail of tears (black/bailey) * lonesome cowboy burt
     
• 2000/10/14 concert nashville,tn, usa

the grandmothers re:invented

• 2003/10/05 concert frankfurt, germany
  • intro (in german) * pound for a brown * oh no * more trouble * harder babies * sweet 50 * 20 small cigars * amsterdam - blues for all * carolina hardcore extacy * a motor or something different * frankie`s not around * idiot bastard son * montana * memorial bbq * stolen moments * village of the sun * outro (in german)
     
• 2004/01/10 concert florence, italy
  • florentine pogen - intro * twenty small cigars * lonely little girl - take your clothes off - what's the ugliest part of your body * big swifty * andy * t'mershi duween * uncle meat * pound for a brown * i'm the slime * hungry freaks daddy * sofa * carolina hard core ecstasy * let's move to cleveland * oh no - son of orange county - trouble every day * village of the sun - echidna's arf (of you * the idiot bastard son * montana * in the sky * mother people * all right * can't afford no shoes
     
• 2004/01/13 concert nuernberg
  • day's, audience behaviour, wetness, balls... and more * florentine pogen~intro * twenty small cigars * lonely little girl~take your clothes off~what's the ugliest part of your body * big swifty (incl. evelyn, a modified dog * andy * t'mershi duween * uncle meat * pound for a brown (with story * i'm the slime * hungry freaks daddy * sofa * carolina hard core ecstasy * let's move to cleveland * oh no~son of orange county~trouble every day * village of the sun~echidna's arf (of you) * the idiot bastard son * can't afford no shoes * montana * in the sky * mother people * everything you wanna do
     
• 2004/02/01 concert weert, nl
  • florentine pogen * 20 small cigars * lonely little girl~take your clothes off~what's the ugliest part of your body~chunga's revenge * big swifty ~introducing billys gas mask~evelin a modified dog * andy * uncle meat~ t'mershi duween * pound for brown * i am the slime (heavydropouts * hungry freaks daddy * sofa no 1 * carolina hardcore extasy * lets move to cleveland * oh no~son of orange county~trouble every day * village of the sun~echidna's arf (of you) * the idiot bastard son * montana * in the sky * mother people * everything you wanna do
     
• 2004/02/04 concert den haag, nl
  • introductions * florentine pogen * twenty small cigars * lonely little girl * take your clothes off when you dance * what's the ugliest part of your body * chunga's revenge * big swifty pt1 - return of the dutch gas mask * evelyn a modified dog * big swifty pt2 * andy * uncle meat - t'mershi duween * a pound for a brown (on the bus * i'm the slime * hungry freaks daddy * sofa#1 * carolina hardcore ecstacy * let's move to cleveland * oh no i don't believe it - son of orange county - more trouble every day * village of the sun - echidna's arf * the idiot bastard son * montana * in the sky * mother people * everything you wanna do

the muffin men

• 2003/07/25 concert zappanale#14
  • eat that question * peaches en regalia * my guitar wants to kill your mama * marqueson's chicken * let's move to cleveland * take your clothes off when you dance * oh no~trouble every day * lucille has messed my mind up * easy meat * why does it hurt when i pee * bamboozled by love * outside now * florentine pogen * black napkins
• 2003/07/26 concert zappanale#14
  • kong medley~wino man * big swifty~lonely little girl~t'mershi duween * plastic factory * big leg emma * great white buffalo * hey flower punk * come together~drive my car * lonesome cowboy burt * willie the pimp * king kong plinky-plonky stylee * road ladies

the newts

• 1999/03/06 concert herbolzheim

the other people

• 1994/05/28 concert ‘the mobile’, alabama
  • zoot allures * road ladies * titties and beer * peaches en regalia * mom & dad * wino man * magic fingers

the prophets of old: ‘go cry on somebody else's shoulder’

the voice of cheez

• 2001/05/12 concert buffalo, ny
  • we are not alone * green motel * mr green genes * status back * wowie zowie * suzy creamcheese * dog breath * let me take you to the beach * village of the sun * dirty love * lonesome cowboy burt * what will this morning * do you like my new car * cheepnis * trouble every day * motherly love * peaches en regalia * probably wondering * electric aunt jemima * take your clothes off * my guitar wants to kill * flakes * suicide chump * uncle remus * sofa * cleetus alreetus * hot plate again * cozmic debris * joes garage * i'm the slime

underkarl

intro * stolen moments * max 505 * dancing queen * caravan + eat that question

wagga jawaka

• live at the clarendon and the elite cinema
  • stinkfoot * waka jawaka * oh no * holiday in berlin * son of orange county * filthy habits * king kong * cosmik debris * i'm the slime * city of tiny lights * zoot allures * eat that question * black napkins * yo mama * camarillo brillo * muffin man

warsaw: 'warsaw zappa meets c pixie’

wickerl adam & hallucination company

• a tribute to frank zappa
  • how could i be such a fool * village of the sun * dirty love * the black page * why don't you love me * i have been in you * fine girl * rdnzl * easy meat * love of my life * talk

yamagata

‘cosmik debris’

zappanoia

• 2003/07/25 concert zappanale #14
  • intro * willie the pimp * i've been in you * dirty love * jewish princess * black napkins * i'm the slime * bobby brown * cosmik debris * my guitar wants to kill your mama * apostrophe * more trouble every day * hot-plate heaven at the green hotel * uncle remus * watermelon in easter hay * camarillo brillo\mufin man * zoot allures * village of the sun * peaches en regalia

zapp stee toot

• 1990/02/?? from swedish radio
  • inca roads * zombie woof * any kind of pain * i'm a beatiful guy * beauty knows no pain * easy meat

EDDIE LAYTON

Beloved organist at Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden, who left us 12/26/2004. Eddie was known to break out "Peaches en Regalia" at Rangers games.

-- David Golden

WM RECORDINGS

Only a few days after our very succesful release by Roy "Chicky" Arad we have something new to offer:

Driving me backwards - Phil Reavis [WM007]
http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm007.htm

A selection from tapes Phil made outside of the many bands he played in.
As always this release is available for free in mp3 format.
Enjoy!

best wishes,
Marco Kalnenek
WM Recordings/Weirdomusic.com
 

THE PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK

I figured I would drop you a line with some interesting updates:

1-A documentary film about our school, entitled 'Rock School,' (not to be confused with...) has been acquired by big indie distributer NewMarket Films, and will begin making the festival rounds with a premiere at Sundance. After that it travels to the Berlin Film Festival, before a wide US release April 15th. Of interest to you is the fact that the film features no fewer than 3 Zappa songs (yes, Gail gave us the rights), including some great performance footage from Zappanale 14.
More info can be found here: www.rockschoolthemovie.com

2-We are getting back to our Zappa program with 3 performances featuring the kids and Ike Willis, March 4-5-6. The 6th is set for BB Kings in NYC. I will get you the other details shortly.

• 2005/03/04 The Paul Green School Of Rock & Ike Willis concert (more info soon)

• 2005/03/05 The Paul Green School Of Rock & Ike Willis concert (more info soon)

• 2005/03/06 The Paul Green School Of Rock & Ike Willis concert 'bb kings', nyc, ny, usa

3-We will also be playing Zappanale 16, headlining Sat night with a Pink Floyd show. Friday evening we will be doing a set called 'The Esoteric Frank Zappa.' In other words, no Peaches.
So far we are working on Sinister Footwear II, Jesus Thinks, I come from nowhere, America Drinks, and Debra Kadabra. Any requests?

-- Paul Green
 

THE SCHOOFS-DUCHATEAU TRIO

At the same time, they will kick off their exhibition (graphic works) at the same location.
 

CORRIE VAN BINSBERGEN

• 2005/01/16 concert 'rasa', utrecht, the netherlands - feat. corrie van binsbergen

FRANK ZAPPA BOOTLEGS

• fillmore east,1971 unreleased tracks & trance fusion  (cd, fop 006)
   
• two faces of zappa  (cd, be twisted btcd-017)

-- info: James
 

MORE TRUBEE, AGAIN

--John Trubee
 

from the archives

The pics below are the covers of German fanzine "Frank's Chronicles", a collection of xeroxed articles, of which 4 issues got published in the early ninetees.

MORE TRUBEE

--John Trubee
 

KLIMPEREI

There's news about a couple of news albums and a bunch of superb links that will bring you to a new musical horizon...

• a new Klimperei album on the Prikosnovenie label
• re-releases on Underground Productions
• a new compilation CD on the Absurd label (from Greece)
• and a brand-new tribute album on which Klimperei contributed: Ignoble Vermine : a tribute to PTÔSE

ZAPPA IN GERMAN MAG

-- info: Willem / alt.fan.frank-zappa

TERRY BOZZIO  & TILBURG

If you happen to be in the neighbourhood of Tilburg (NL) next weekend, be sure to check out the concert that Bozzio is scheduled to play at the Paradox jazz club. The latest news is that he will be playing / jamming with a couple of Dutch jazz musicians: Eric van der Westen (double bass), Guido Nijs (sax) and Martin Fondse (keys & flute).

Scans on the right and below:

• terry bozzio: chamber works
      (1998, cd, usa, tb)
• terry bozzio: solo drum music cd I
      (1994, cd, usa, slam)
• terry bozzio: solo drum music cd II
      (1994, cd, usa, slam)

JOHN TRUBEE

-- John Trubee  
 

STEVE VAI

• vai: piano reductions vol 1 - performed by mike keneally
      (2004, cd, usa, favored nations)
   
  • Dispate the bad scan on the right, the package of this album is beautiful: digipack  and all, nice picture on the back... you catch my drift.
    The music itself is as astonishing. Mike Keneally performs the music of Steve Vai. Solo piano stripped down versions of Vai classics such as 'All About Eve', Ballerina 12/24', 'Sisters' and 'Junkie' to name a few.
    No feedback whammy bar tricks on this one. Just plain, nude melodies. And a tip to the hat for MK for the very fine arrangements.
    I like it a lot.

NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW
 

EUGENE CHADBOURNE AND DOCTOR DARK

2004/12/05 concert 'the cafe nine', new haven, ct, usa  (backing Eugene Chadbourne)

• plastic factory * click clack * moonlight on vermont * they died for bread * everyone knows it's lindy * pursuance * riverman * sandy lynn's blues * ring of fire (phillipino labor mix) * backwardstown * up against the wall, redneck mother * i talk to the wind * girl from al-quaida * beat it * steal softly through snow * dust blows forward * orange claw hammer * booglarize ya, baby * veterans day poppy * doctor dark * pachuco cadaver * smithsonian institute blues

• a 1 hour and 52-minute audience video recording of this concert circulates

CHAD WACKERMAN

chad wackerman:  drum kit
leon gaer:  bass
james muller:  guitar
daryl pratt:  vibes

• 1998/04/05 concert 'continental café', melbourne, australia
  • set-list
    • set one: close to home * introduction * april 15th * across the river * forty reasons * no net * the city
    • set two: . tell me * timeless * [unknown] * holiday insane * starry nights * all 7's * percussion piece/scream * black coffee
  • an excellent 118-minute audience recording of this concert circulates

NEW LINK

PETULANT FRENZY

DAVID GREENBERGER

"Legibly Speaking is a collaboration between David Greenberger, creator of The Duplex Planet, and the musical ensemble 3 Leg Torso. It features new stories derived from conversations with elderly residents of Portland, OR.
The music composed by 3 Leg Torso provides shadings of character and shifting moods.
With subtle wit and nuance, the music introduces changing characters reflecting on universal subjects; everything from gambling and pets to painting and the foundations of Western thought. Ultimately, David Greenberger's goal is to expose the richness of the whole person through humor and intelligence, with genuine tenderness. In a singular listening experience, this disc provides a brief journey alongside eleven consecutive characters, and the listener finds familiarity in meeting these irresistible new friends.

Twenty-five years ago, David Greenberger started a magazine using stories he collected from residents of the Duplex Nursing Home. The Duplex Planet continues today as a periodical, but has gained wider renown in some of its other forms: book collections, a comic book adaptation, two documentaries, CDs and performances.

As with Greenberger's previous works, Legibly Speaking is being excerpted and featured in NPR's All Things Considered."

Available at http://www.duplexplanet.com
 

Zappa Hoot Night #3

    from Brian Dean (aka Lonnie Velvet, from Extract)
    december 2004
    subject: Zappa Hoot Night #3

We had a great time that night.  If I didn't have to have a real job for a living, I would love to do a Zappa tribute band full time - maybe one day!  But for now, once-a-year hoot nights will have to suffice, while focusing on other non-Zappa projects.

Actually, I'd be scared to think what we could do devoting full-time to such a project...when its pretty amazing that we can do a decent job of pulling stuff like that off after only a week of rehearsal.  We're certainly not Zappa-band caliber musicians, but the heart is there.  Actually, when I moved to Austin 4 years ago, I had never played an instrument before I dropped $4000 on a vibraphone and started taking lessons - all with the intent of starting a Zappa/Beefheart tribute band that I had wanted to get together for many years...

-- Brian Dean

FAST 'N BULBOUS - THE CAPTAIN BEEFHEART PROJECT

• 2004/12/17 cd release party and concert 'bowery poetry club', nyc, ny, usa

The album will be called "Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind".
 

JOHN TRUBEE

• Secretly Begging For A Little Pussy
   
• Genuflecting To The Bullying Yuppie Pigs
   
• Let's Sacrifice Our Lives To The Very Important Pimp Tyrants
   
• Little Miss Snothead Pukes In Our Faces
   
• Cell Phone Assholes Killing You With Indifference And Stupidity
   
• Weak, Infantile Mediocrities Shopping For Shit At The Mall

-- John Trubee
 

CHRIS OPPERMAN - DEC 20, 2004

[Chris Opperman Mailing List - Monday, December 20th, 2004]
Episode #30: War on Science

• "Beyond the Foggy Highway: Live 2002-2004" Pre-Ordering Information

• Vai/Metropole Repeat Broadcast - Wednesday, December 22nd

• "The Universe Will Provide" chosen as one of the "Best of 2004" by the All-Music Guide

• Oppy Music Still on Sale!

 * "Beyond the Foggy Highway: Live 2002-2004" Pre-Ordering Information

So last weekend I went down to Chatfield Manor to master the album formerly known as "Made-up Songs" (Yes, I know that changing album titles at the last minute is starting to become an Oppy tradition) and had a truly wonderful time.  Scott Chatfield and I were able to clean-up the bulk of the audio issues concerning the original recordings (I was lucky to have these shows recorded at all) and we were able to get them sounding really good from a sonic standpoint.  Once Keneally arrived on the scene, we started making some edits and we built all the segues between songs.  I don't want to ruin any of the surprises, but the album came out about 500% better than I ever imagined it would. 

So in the interest of presenting you with a better product, we've decided to take a few weeks and listen to the album as is and make notes of any additional cuts or changes we want to make and make them.  Also, I have come to the conclusion that it would be a grevious disservice to you, the musicians who all played or sang at their very best for these shows, and most of all to the music itself to do the artwork and packaging in a half-assed way so I've delayed the release of the album until March so I can do that stuff properly.

That having been said, I have now opened up pre-orders on the album which you can order by cutting and pasting this entire link into your browser.  The price of the album is $15 plus $2.50 domestic shipping, $5 overseas shipping:

http://www.madphat.com/cgi-bin/sc/order.cgi?storeid=*12a9f9be09930c689740aa&dbname=products&itemnum=3432&function=add

I would really appreciate your pre-order because manufacturing is expensive.  I'd also like to thank everyone who wanted to get this album in their hands before Christmas for your patience and let you know that in the end it'll be worth the wait.  It's really quite special.
 

* Vai/Metropole Repeat Broadcast - Wednesday, December 22nd

The second Vai/Metropole bonus show on NPS Radio Holland is this Wednesday, December 22nd @ 10:55 pm Dutch time (4:55 pm East Coast time, 1:55 pm West Coast time).  This will be featuring the final version of Steve's new guitar ballad "Lotus Feet" which will be included on his forthcoming studio album "Real Illusions" due out in February.  The rest of the Vai/Metropole music is due out in 2006. 

Also, I'm proud to say that my orchestration of Vai's classic guitar ballad "For the Love of God" was the second most-requested song for the repeat broadcasts @ NPS, second only to "Lotus Feet."  That made me really happy because I honestly feel that my orchestration of that piece is the single greatest thing I've ever done in my entire musical life.  Period. 

Anyway, here is the link to the radio broadcast: http://portal.omroep.nl/radio/mplayer4

The main NPS/NPS Output site is http://www.4fm.nl/.
 

* "The Universe Will Provide" chosen as one of the "Best of 2004" by the All-Music Guide

"The Universe Will Provide," the orchestra album featuring Mike Keneally and The Metropole Orkest which was composed by MK and orchestrated by MK and myself was chosen as one of the "Best of 2004" by the All-Music Guide along with Bjork's "Medulla" album, Nellie McKay's "Get Away from Me," Modest Mouse's "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," Brian Wilson's "SMiLE," and Kanye West's "The College Dropout."  For the complete list, go to http://www.allmusic.com/.

Also, the latest issue of "Guitar Player" featuring Allison Robertson of The Donnas on the cover has a feature article on Keneally, who gives me some very nice props in his interview.
 

* Oppy Music Still on Sale!

My entire (current) catalog is still on sale for the special sale price of $30 (plus shipping), which includes Oppy Music I, Klavierstucke, and Concepts of Non-linear Time, so it's basically buy 2 and get 1 free. 

Here is the link to order!  They make great stocking stuffers!  (You will need to copy this entire link into your browser...if you need any help, just e-mail me or call 1-877-MAD-PHAT).
http://www.madphat.com/cgi-bin/sc/order.cgi?storeid=*1eb18c95ca0023947870e496d99f6fba0b&dbname=products&itemnum=876&function=add

That's all for now!  Thank you so much for all of your support.  I hope that all of you and all of your families have a wonderful holiday season.  See you next year.

-- Chris Opperman
 

THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER BAND

STEVE VAI ON TOUR

2005/0

• 2005/03/04 concert Houston, TX, usa

• 2005/03/10 concert Birmingham, AL, usa

• 2005/03/11 concert New Orleans, LA, usa

• 2005/03/14 concert Tampa, FL, usa

• 2005/03/19 concert Atlanta, GA, usa

• 2005/03/22 concert Winston Salem, NC, usa

• 2005/04/01 concert Montreal, QUE, can

• 2005/04/05 concert Pittsburgh, PA, usa

• 2005/04/12 concert Milwaukee, WI, usa

• 2005/04/13 concert Chicago, IL, usa

• 2005/04/15 concert St. Paul, MN, usa

• 2005/04/22 concert Seattle, WA, usa

• 2005/04/24 concert Portland, OR, usa

• 2005/04/26 concert San Francisco, CA, usa
  
  http://www.vai.com

LEBOCAL IN CONCERT

• 2005/01/22 LeBocal - concert 'le Sc'Art à B', Bonneville (74), France
   

THE INVISIBLE GUYS

UGLY JANITORS OF AMERICA musicians Art Jarvinen and MB Gordy play tonight in Pasadena if you have the time or interest:

A rare sighting of The Invisible Guys

• Arthur Jarvinen - all compositions, bass, baritone guitar, vocals
• Sean Heim - guitar
• Robert Jacobson - guitar and 12 string guitar
• Hunter Ochs - keyboards
• M.B. Gordy - drums

Performing music from "a real soundtrack for an imaginary spy film"

Come enjoy some nouveau-retro surf music at the closing party of TEN! featuring new works by ten cool artists.

January 2, 2005
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond in Old Pasadena
Newtown (626) 398-9278
The Armory (626) 792-5101
 

THE VOICE OF CHEEZ

Happy New Year Fans of Frank Zappa!!

Get out your brand new 2005 calendars and mark this date:

Voice of Cheez
Saturday, February 19, 8 - Midnite
'Nietzsche's', 248 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY

• 2005/02/19 The Voice of Cheez - concert 'Nietzsche's', buffalo, ny, usa

STAY TUNED FOR SHOW UPDATES:
http://users.adelphia.net/~kilissa/pages/where.html

SAMPLE OUR TASTY CHEEZ HOME PAGE:
http://users.adelphia.net/~kilissa/pages/voice_of_cheez.html

In Western New York and Southern Ontario
CHECK OUT 107.7 The Lake — A RADIO STATION THAT PLAYS ZAPPA!!!
And— if that ain't cool enuf all by itself — our gleeming singer, TIna Peel, is an on-air jock.
Tune in to Tina Peel 10-3 on 107.7 The Lake (WLKK).
http://www.1077thelake.com/

Call in to request FRANK!!!

The Lake also plays Local Bands. Support our amazing local music scene.
http://www.1077thelake.com/music/localplaylist.php

Peace in the New Year!
Kilissa
 

NORMA JEAN BELL

In addition to being a Zappa fan I am also a Tommy Bolin fan. The entry about Norma Bell doesn't hold water if one studies the gig dates. The "story" says that she quit FZ when she was offered a spot in Bolin's band. But her last date with FZ was five or six months before she played with Tommy. The last Norma Bell gig with Frank was in Toronto Dec 9, 1975. On that day Bolin was touring the Far East with Deep Purple. It wouldn't make any sense for him to be hiring to fill his solo band until after the Deep Purple Tour was finished.  Bolin probably started recruiting his band after that Purple tour, which lasted until Feb 1976. Norma's first documented show with Tommy was 4/28/76. I suppose its possible that Tommy offered her the job before he started his tour with Purple, but I'm skeptical. I think it's more likely she quit or was fired by  FZ, months before Bolin offered her a job.

-- one day later, Andrew added --

I found this interview with Bozzio which suggests she was fired for drugs. She would have fit right in with Bolin's lifestyle (deathstyle?). She was touring with him when he died from an overdose on December 4, 1976 (FZ died on the same day in 1993) 

snippet from Terry Bozzio interview:
(http://www.idiotbastard.supanet.com/interviews/TERRY%20BOZZIO,%2027.9.92.htm)

Terry Bozzio: Norma Bell was a woman who came from Detroit. She’s a really good saxophone player. She played with Tommy Bolin and, I think, Ralph Armstrong who was being considered for the gig at the time. He was the Mahavishnu’s bass player. He suggested her. She played with us on stage somewhere like Detroit, where she lived, and then Frank brought her along on the road. By the time we got back to LA at the end of the tour she had pretty much succumbed to, you know, hanging out with the wrong people and doing a lot of drugs. And so Frank said, “Forget this!” She wasn’t showing up for rehearsals. She didn’t last very long. I don’t think we recorded anything with her.

-- Andrew Wissing
 

Norma Jean Bell was a part of Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention from september 1975 until the end of the year. She only appears on the "Frank Zappa Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa" album that got released in 1996.
Besides Zappa, Norma Jean Bell has also performed with Tommy Bolin, Dave Mason, Raydio, Narada Michael Walden and Milt Jackson.

In the early nineties she started the very succesfull Detroit based Pandamonium record label, a famous 'house and dance music' label. She is a very famous saxophone player, producer and singer in the 'house and dance music' scene.

discography

JAPANESE ZAPPA BOOTLEG

THE MUFFIN MEN

coming in FEBRUARY...

a NEW DVD, nearly 4 HOURS of material
MUFFINZ MOOVIES VOL ONE (1990-1997) - PAL - region0 - 4:3 - dolby stereo

a NEW TSHIRT- new skull and bones design, available in black with silvergrey print - M, L or XL

both items will be available to order soon directly from our site expect a web update in early jan

www.muffinmen.co.uk

there is UK TOUR in MARCH

The band line-up for the March tour is confirmed as:

• Roddie on bass and vocal
• Carlo on guitar
• Tilo on drums and vocal
• Martin on trumpet and horn
• Mike Smith (no relation) on keyboards and saxes
• Jimmy Carl Black on vocal

here are the dates...

• 2005/03/04 concert 'Cwmaman Public Halls', Abardare, UK
• 2005/03/05 concert 'Queens Hall', Narberth, UK
• 2005/03/07 STOCKPORT to be confirmed
• 2005/03/08 concert 'Rosehill Theatre', Whitehaven, UK
• 2005/03/09 concert 'Renfrew Ferry', Glasgow, UK
• 2005/03/10 concert 'Springhead, Hull, UK
• 2005/03/11 concert 'LA3', Liverpool, UK
• 2005/03/13 concert 'Limelight', Crewe, UK
• 2005/03/15 concert 'Komedia', Brighton, UK
• 2005/03/16 concert 'South Parade Pier', Southsea, UK
• 2005/03/17 concert 'Mr Kyps, Poole, UK
• 2005/03/18 concert 'The Acorn', Penzance, UK
• 2005/03/19 concert 'The Wharf', Tavistock, UK
• 2005/03/21 concert 'Alexanders', Chester, UK
• 2005/03/22 concert 'Met Arts Centre', Bury, UK
• 2005/03/23 concert 'New Roscoe', Leeds, UK
• 2005/03/24 concert 'Boardwalk', Sheffield, UK
• 2005/03/26 concert 'Flowerpot', Derby, UK
• 2005/03/27 concert 'Robin', Wolverhampton, UK
• 2005/03/30 concert 'Huntingdon Hall', Worcester, UK
• 2005/03/31 concert 'Borderline', London, UK
• 2005/04/01 concert 'Mill', Banbury, UK
• 2005/04/02 concert 'Leisure Centre', Market Harborough, UK

note: Jimmy Carl is currently attending a clinic at his home town in Germany for chemotherapy treatment, relating to his leukaemia. His doctor is aware of the forthcoming tour and has given Jimmy the all clear to go on the road.

then  later in the year

IRISH TOUR end of APRIL

EUROPEAN TOUR in OCTOBER

also in october, expect DVD - MUFFINZ MOOVIES VOL TWO (1998-2005)

-- info: the Muffin Men Newzletter
 

Corrections, additions, ...

• Ralphe Armstrong
• Larry Grossman

NEW ZAPPA BOOTLEG

• frank zappa: wind up shitting in a gas station
      (????, cd, ??, bowel recordings)
   
  • Here's another (factory pressed) bootleg CD. I had never seen it before, so I'm guessing that it's rather new (?).
    Anyway, it presents a part of the 1976/11/19 Detroit concert, including The Poodle Story and a nice guitar solo by Ray White.

NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW

 (additions) ...OUT OF THE ARCHIVES

• mallard: mallard / in a different climate

• frank zappa: el paso or die

• captain beefheart: best batch yet

• captain beefheart: somebody in my home

• captain beefheart: original 1976 shiny beast version

• captain beehfeart: hot dog night

• captain beefheart: easy teeth

• captain beefheart: it's too hard - it's beefheart

• captain beefheart: another chapter from the lives and times of captain beefheart

• captain beefheart: don's birthday party

• frank zappa: safe muffinz

• frank zappa: rustic protrusion

• frank zappa: frankie boy

• frank zappa: rustic protrusion

• frank zappa: the interview

• frank zappa: the history & collected improvisations of the m.o.i.

• frank zappa: confidential

• frank zappa: läther

• frank zappa: it's been a long time comin'

• frank zappa: sono di passaggio

• frank zappa: good evening vienna

• frank zappa: no bacon for breakfast vol.2

• frank zappa: spic & span

• frank zappa: frankie goes to paris

• frank zappa: wet t-shirt nite

thebignotefiles - 2004/12
 

the concert calendar * the concert calendar

• 2004/07/22 - Zappanale
  • Remko Serban
  • "Billy The Mountain", a movie by Jürgen Fischer - Music: Captain Ahab
  • a special lecture by a secret "Stone-ethnologist", assisted by Zappa-expert, Jim Cohen
    
    
• 2004/07/22 steve vai - concert ‘metro city’, perth, australia
  
  
• 2004/07/23 - Zappanale
  • Jim Cohen - Talk about FZ
  • The Foolz
  • Arf
  • Frogg Café featuring Ed Mann
  • Mats/Morgan Band
  • Ensemble Creativ
  • Captain Ahab
    
    
• 2004/07/24 - Zappanale
  • Daniel Rohr: Homage to Lou Reed
  • Przasniczki
  • Cellomania
  • The Wrong Object featuring Ed Mann
  • Tornadoes
  • Daniel Rohr and friends: Genesis concept-album 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'
  • Kraan
    
    
• 2004/07/24 steve vai - concert ‘the barton theatre’, adelaide, australia
  
  
• 2004/07/25 - Zappanale
  • Frank Goos - Surprise
  • Ole Lukkoye
  • The Grandmothers
  • Zappa Graduates
  • Ed Mann & friends
  • finale
    
    

• 2004/07/25 steve vai - concert ‘the palace’, melbourne, australia
  
  

• 2004/07/26 The Grandmothers concert 'Roxy', Flensburg, Germany
  2004/07/26 steve vai - concert ‘the enmore theatre’, sydney, australia
  
  

• 2004/07/27 The Grandmothers concert 'Kantine', Köln, Germany
  2004/07/27 steve vai - concert ‘the arena’, brisbane, australia
  
  

• 2004/07/28 The Grandmothers concert 'Sinkkasten', Frankfurt, Germany 
  

• 2004/07/29 steve vai - concert ‘suntec’, singapore

• 2004/07/29 The Grandmothers concert ‘objekt 5’, halle, germany
  
  

• 2004/07/30 The Grandmothers concert ‘star club’, dresden, germany
  
  

• 2004/07/31 Mike Keneally Band - concert 'The Baked Potato', North Hollywood, CA, usa
   

• 2004/08/01 The Grandmothers concert 'Fabrik', Hamburg, Germany
  2004/08/01 steve vai - concert ‘taipei city music hall’, taipei
  2004/08/01 frogg cafe  &  the wrong object  -  concert 'chez bouldou', liège, belgium
  2004/08/01 Sul Divano - concert 'la revuelta', capital federal, argentina
  
  

• 2004/08/02 The Grandmothers concert 'Knaack', Berlin, Germany
  

• 2004/08/03 steve vai - concert kowloon, hong kong  
  

• 2004/08/04 The Grandmothers concert 'B 72', Wien, Austria
  

• 2004/08/05 The Grandmothers concert 'Sudhaus', Tübingen, Germany
• 2004/08/05 steve vai - concert ‘tjm squeare hall’, beijing, china
  

• 2004/08/06 The Grandmothers concert 'Café Central', Weinheim, Germany
  

• 2004/08/07 The Grandmothers concert 'faust', Hannover, Germany 
  2004/08/07 Afroskull - concert 'the maple leaf bar', new orleans, la, usa
   

• 2004/08/12 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘the rainbow room’, seattle, wa, usa: Zappa Show w/Napoleon Murphy Brock
  http://www.therainbowlive.com
   

• 2004/08/13 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘nocturnal’, portland, or, usa: Zappa Show w/Napoleon Murphy Brock
  http://www.nocturnalpdx.com/
  2004/08/13 The Wrong Object - concert "paulusfeesten", oostende, belgium
   

• 2004/08/14 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘wow hall’, eugene, or, usa:
  1-Classic Rock Show (Matinee)
  2-Zappa Show w/Napoleon Murphy Brock (Evening)
  http://www.wowhall.org/
   

• 2004/08/17 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘the starlight’, ft collins, co, usa: Zappa Show w/Napoleon Murphy Brock
  http://www.thestarlight.com/
  
  2004/08/17 Mike Keneally - concert 'Level One', Los Angeles, CA, usa
   

• 2004/08/18 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘cervantes masterpiece ballroom’, denver, co, usa: Zappa Show w/Napoleon Murphy Brock
  http://www.quixotes.com/
   

• 2004/08/19 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘(venue to be announced)’, salt lake city, ut, usa
  1-Classic Rock Show (matinee)
  2-Zappa w/Napoleon Murphy Brock (evening)
   

• 2004/08/20 The School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock
  concert ‘the wild wild west casino’, las vegas, nv, usa: Zappa Show w/Napoleon Murphy Brock
  http://www.lvjbs.org/
   

• 2004/08/21 The Bogus Pomp Orchestra - concert 'The Tampa Theatre', ??, usa

• 2004/08/21 Eugene Chadbourne - concert the 'Plusetage' in Baarle-Nassau, NL
   

• 2004/08/28 Afroskull - concert 'Tazza Cafe', Providence RI
   

• 2004/08/29 Afroskull - concert 'The Unity Ball' - a Bands Against Bush event in NYC
   

• 2004/09/03 Afroskull - concert 'The Parkside Lounge', NYC
   

• 2004/09/05 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert "Progday Festival", Chappel Hill, NC, USA
  2004/09/05 mike keneally band concert 'lestat's', san diego, ca, usa
   

• 2004/09/07 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert 'The Attic Bar', Detroit, MI, USA
   

• 2004/09/08 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert 'Wilbert´s', Cleveland, OH, USA
  2004/09/08 4FM radio show: in concert: steve vai & the metropole orchestra: the aching hunger - part one
   

• 2004/09/09 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert 'Montage Grill - Prog 90', Rochester, NY, USA
  2004/09/09 Afroskull - concert 'Freddy's Bar and Backroom', Brooklyn
   

• 2004/09/10 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert 'Berklee College Of Music', Boston, MA, USA
  2004/09/10 4FM radio show: spotlight on steve vai: steve & co de kloet discuss the aching hunger
  2004/09/10 absolute ensemble, feat.mike keneally - concert "absolute zappa", musikfest Bremen, bremen, germany
  2004/09/10 The Troupe - performance "joe's garage", 'tivoli', utrecht, the netherlands
   

• 2004/09/11 lulu strings & ataraxia orchester schwerin, feat.mike keneally
  - concert / filmmusik 'stadthalle ludwigslust', ludwigslust, germany
  2004/09/11 mike keneally - concert 'piano bar / galerie ander bleiche, ludwigslust, germany
  2004/09/11 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert 'NJ Prog House', Metlar Bodine, Piscataway, NJ, USA
  2004/09/11 The Troupe - performance "joe's garage", 'patronaat', haarlem, the netherlands
  2004/09/11 The Wrong Object - concert ‘l’an vert’, liège, belgium
   

• 2004/09/12 The Mats / Morgan Band - concert 'Tribeca Rock Club', New York, NY, USA
  2004/09/12 The Troupe - concert ''De Kleine Komedie', Amsterdam,NL
  2004/09/12 The Troupe - performance "joe's garage, 'de kleine komedie', amsterdam, the netherlands
   

• 2004/09/13 The Troupe - performance "joe's garage", 'schouwburg', enschede, the netherlands
   

• 2004/09/14 mike keneally and friends - concert 'waldsee', freiburg, germany
   

• 2004/09/15 4FM radio show: in concert: steve vai & the metropole orchestra: the aching hunger - part two
   

• 2004/09/16 the Central Scrutinzer - concert 'café piupiu', são paulo, brasil
  2004/09/16 mike keneally and friends - concert 'objekt 5', halle, germany
   

• 2004/09/17 mike keneally and friends - concert 'der club', heiligenhaus, germany
  2004/09/17-25 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford)
    "Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video", Victoria, BC, Canada
   

• 2004/09/18 the Absolute Ensemble, feat. M Keneally & NM Brock - concert cologne, germany
   

• 2004/09/22 & 25 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Ottawa Animation Festival", Ottawa, ON, Canada
   

• 2004/09/23 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'guitar center', fairfax, va, usa
  2004/09/23-26 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival", Birmingham, AL, usa
  2004/09/23 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Space 538", Portland, ME, usa
  2004/09/23-27 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Red Vic Movie House", San Francisco, CA, usa
   

• 2004/09/24 Afroskull - concert 'Cafe 111', Brooklyn
  2004/09/24 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'music central', egg harbor township, nj, usa
   

• 2004/09/25 mike keneally & bryan beller - concert 'orion sound studios', baltimore, md, usa
   

• 2004/09/27 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'guitar center', manhattan, ny, usa
   

• 2004/09/28 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘iron horse music hall’, northampton, ma, usa
  2004/09/28 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'union music', worcester, ma, usa
   

• 2004/09/29 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘valentine's’, albany, ny, usa
  2004/09/29 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'guitar center', colonie, ny, usa
   

• 2004/09/30 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the call’, providence, ri, usa
  2004/09/30 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'guitar center', totowa, nj, usa
   

• 2004/10/01 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the conduit’, trenton, nj, usa
  2004/10/01 mike keneally & bryan beller  - workshop 'pro line music', fairless hills, pa, usa
   

• 2004/10/02 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘funk box’, baltimore, md, usa
  2004/10/02 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford)
   "20,000 Leagues Under the Industry Film Festival", Cleveland, OH, usa
   

• 2004/10/03 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "New Genre Festival", Tulsa, OK, usa
   

• 2004/10/04 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘club café’, pittsburgh, usa
   

• 2004/10/05 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘club café’, pittsburgh, usa
  2004/10/05-16 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Flanders International Film Festival Ghent", Ghent, Belgium
   

• 2004/10/06 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘club infinity’, buffalo, ny, usu
  2004/10/06 The Central Scrutinizer - concert 'bar avenida', são paulo, brasil
   

• 2004/10/07 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘magic bag’, detroit, mi, usa
   

• 2004/10/08 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the agora’, cleveland, oh, usa
  2004/10/08-10 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Red Bank Film Festival", Red Bank, NJ, usa
   

• 2004/10/09 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘martyrs’, chicago, il, usa
   

• 2004/10/10 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘martyrs’, chicago, il, usa
   

• 2004/10/11 4FM radio show: the universe will provide on cd! mike keneally & co de kloet discuss TUWP
   

• 2004/10/12 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the fox’, boulder, co, usa
   

• 2004/10/14-24 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Starz Denver International Film Festival", Denver, CO, usa
   

• 2004/10/15 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the rainbow’, seattle, wa, usa
  2004/10/15-17 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "FilmFest Kansas City", Kansas City, MO, usa
   

• 2004/10/16 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the rainbow’, seattle, wa, usa
   

• 2004/10/17 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘dante’s’, portland, or, usa
   

• 2004/10/18 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘wow hall’, eugene, or, usa
  2004/10/18 4FM radio show: chamber works: the radio premiere of the studio version of chamber works, by terry bozzio and the metropole orchestra
   

• 2004/10/19 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the bean scene’, chico, ca, usa
   

• 2004/10/20 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the independent’, san francisco, ca, usa
  2004/10/20-21 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Starz Denver International Film Festival ",Denver, CO, usa
   

• 2004/10/21 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘last day saloon north’, santa rosa, ca, usa
   

• 2004/10/22 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘brookdale lodge’, santa cruz, ca, usa
  2004/10/22 4FM radio show: spotlight on chris opperman. opperman & de kloet discuss and play oppy music, including material only heard on this show
  2004/10/22-28 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Indie Memphis Film Festival",Memphis, TN, usa
   

• 2004/10/23 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘winston's’, san diego, ca, usa
   

• 2004/10/25 Sul Divano - radio shows "la rock & pop) - fm 95.9
   

• 2004/10/26 mike keneally - workshop 'a sharp music', renton, wa, usa
   

• 2004/10/27 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘quixotes’, denver, co, usa
  2004/10/27 mike keneally - workshop 'guitar center', eugene, or, usa
  2004/10/27 Sul Divano - concert 'centro cultural ricardo rojas', capital federal, argentina
   

• 2004/10/28 4FM radio show: exclusive acoustic studio session with mike keneally and bryan beller
  2004/10/28 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'guitar center', beaverton, or, usa
  2004/10/28 The Central Scrutinzer Band - concert 'cafe piupiu', são paulo, brasil
   

• 2004/10/29 4FM radio show: spotlight on bryan beller: beller and de kloet talk about view
  2004/10/29 mike keneally & bryan beller - workshop 'guitar center', tacoma, wa, usa
  2004/10/29 & 31 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Cleveland Museum of Art", Cleveland, OH, usa
   

• 2004/10/30 Doctor Dark concert 'cafe nine', new haven, ct, usa
   

• 2004/11/01 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘ciceros’, st. louis, mo, usa
   

• 2004/11/04 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘variety playhouse’, atlanta, ga, usa
  2004/11/04 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Get Real Film Festival", Minneapolis, MN, usa
  2004/11/04 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Asheville International Film Festival", Asheville, NC, usa
  2004/11/04-07 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Midwest Entertainment Industry Conference", Lexington, KY, usa
   

• 2004/11/05 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘visulite’, charlotte, nc, usa
   

• 2004/11/06 P/O, feat. IW - concert ‘stella’, asheville, nc, usa
   

• 2004/11/08 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘world café’, philadelphia, pa, usa
   

• 2004/11/10 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘the middle east’, cambridge, ma, usa

• 2004/11/10-E- the Ed Palermo Big Band - concert 'iridium', nyc, ny, usa

• 2004/11/10-L- the Ed Palermo Big Band - concert 'iridium', nyc,ny,  usa
   

• 2004/11/11 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘webster theatre’, hartford, ct, usa

• 2004/11/11 Steve Vai - dutch radio 4 radio show - 2300-24.00 h
   

• 2004/11/12 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘stone pony’, asbury park, nj, usa
  2004/11/12 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Detroit Docs International Film Festival", Detroit, MI, usa
   

• 2004/11/13 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - – /  concert ‘river st jazz cafe'’, wilkes barre, pa, usa

• 2004/11/13 Voice oF CheeZ - concert 'nietzches', buffalo, ny, usa
   

• 2004/11/14 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘knitting factory’, nyc, ny, usa
• 2004/11/14 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) "Daytona Beach Film Festival", Daytona Beach, FL, usa
   
• 2004/11/15 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert – portland, me, usa
   
• 2004/11/16 P/O, feat. IW & NMB - concert ‘nectars’- burlington, vt, usa
• 2004/11/16 - 7:00 p.m. Mike Keneally - guitar workshop, 'Sam Ash Music', Carle Place, NY, usa
   
• 2004/11/17 - 7:00 p.m. Mike Keneally - guitar workshop, 'Sam Ash Music', Springfield, NJ, usa
   
• 2004/11/18 Wrong Object - concert ‘colors café’ (rue souverain pont), liège, 21h00
• 2004/11/18 - 7:00 p.m. Mike Keneally - guitar workshop, 'Sam Ash Music', New Haven, CT, usa
   

• 2004/11/19 - 7:00 p.m. Mike Keneally - guitar workshop, 'Sam Ash Music', King of Prussia, PA, usa
   

• 2004/11/20 -  4:00 p.m. Mike Keneally - guitar workshop, 'Sam Ash Music',Richmond, VA, usa
   

• 2004/11/22 George Duke concert 'Doelen', Rotterdam, NL
   
• 2004/11/24 George Duke - concert 'de melkweg', amsterdam, NL
   
• 2004/11/25 The Central Scrutinizer Band - concert 'café piupiu', são paulo, brasil
   
• 2004/11/27 Michael Borstlap + the Metropole Orkest, feat.Napoleon Murphy Brock
      concert 'oosterpoort', groningen, NL
   
• 2004/11/30 G3 - concert 'auditorio nacional', mexico city, mexico
   
• 2004/12/03 G3 - concert 'claro hall',  rio de janeiro, brazil
   
• 2004/12/04 G3 - concert 'credicard hall',  sao paulo, brazil
• 2004/12/04 Petulant Frenzy - concert 'the Basement', Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
• 2004/12/04 John Trubee - concert 'mr.t's', highland park, ca, usa
   
• 2004/12/05 G3 - concert 'credicard hall',  sao paulo, brazil
• 2004/12/05 Doctor Dark  //  Eugene Chadbourne - concert 'the cafe nine', new haven, ct, usa
   
• 2004/12/07 G3 - concert 'luna park',  buenos aires, argentina
• 2004/12/07 MONSTER ROAD (Bruce Bickford) 'Two Boots Pioneer Theater', New York City, ny, usa
   
• 2004/12/08 G3 - concert 'luna park',  buenos aires, argentina
   
• 2004/12/09 G3 - concert 'luna park',  buenos aires, argentina
• 2004/12/09 Wrong Object - concert ‘phoenix club’ (rue de la sirène), liège, 21h00  (w. Rêve d'Eléphant Orchestra)
• 2004/12/09 Sul Divano - concert for tv-show, 'teatro rojas', junin 1930, capital federal, argentina 
• 2004/12/09 the central scrutinizer band, concert São Carlos, brasil
   
• 2004/12/11 G3 - concert 'estadio chile',  santiago, chile
• 2004/12/11 Zappafest at the Shank Hall in Milwaukee
   
• 2004/12/15 Steve Vai - dutch radio 4 radio show -  23.00-24.00 h - the aching hunger bonus show - part one
   
• 2004/12/18 The Metropolis Orchestra - concert 'scimmie', milano, italy
   
• 2004/12/22 Steve Vai - dutch radio 4 radio show -  23.00-24.00 h - the aching hunger bonus show - part two
   
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• 2004/12/29 Marc Godfroid & Rony Verbiest  - concert 'zaal alma', sint-jozef rijkevorsel, belgium
   
• 2005/01/-- Napoleon Murphy Brock  -  dutch radio show "Blindfold Test", with Charles Pater
   

• 2005/01/07 Terry Bozzio - concert ‘concertzaal’, tilburg, NL (with afternoon rehearsal), concert at 20:30 h
   

• 2005/01/09 Terry Bozzio + the Metropole Orkest- concert  ‘013 popcentrum’, tilburg, NL with metropole orchestra - seated, at 15.00 h
   

• 2005/01/10 Terry Bozzio - masterclass '013 popcentrum', tilburg, NL – small set, at 20:00 h

• 2005/01/10 cucamonga radio show, belgian radio 1: wrong object feat. ed mann
   

• 2005/01/11 Terry Bozzio - lecture/dialogue 'fontys conservatoire', tilburg, NL – with students, informal, at 15:00 h
   

• 2005/01/12 Terry Bozzio - masterclass 'hedon', zwolle, NL – small set, at 15.30 h

• 2005/01/12 Terry Bozzio - concert 'hedon', zwolle, NL - standing audience, at 20.45 h
   

• 2005/01/13 Terry Bozzio - concert 'boerderij', zoetermeer, NL - standing audience, at 20.30 h
   

• 2005/01/15 Terry Bozzio - concert 'jazzclub paradox', tilburg, NL – small venue, informal, small set, at 21.30 h
   

• 2005/01/16 Terry Bozzio - project "railway location project", tilburg, NL – with advanced amateurs, at 19.30 h

• 2005/01/16 Corrie van Binsbergen - concert 'rasa', utrecht, the netherlands
   

• 2005/01/19 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'rock café', catania, italy
   

• 2005/01/20 - 1:20 PM - Mike Keneally & Rick Musallam - Taylor Guitars performance room,
  at NAMM, Anaheim, CA
   

• 2005/01/21 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'marabu club', napoli, italy

• 2005/01/21 - 12:45 PM - Mike Keneally & Bryan Beller - Taylor Guitars performance room,
  at NAMM, Anaheim, CA
   

• 2005/01/22 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'flog', firenze, italy

• 2005/01/22 LeBocal - concert 'le Sc'Art à B', Bonneville (74), France
   

• 2005/01/23 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'jailbreak', roma, italy

• 2005/01/23 - 1:20 PM - Mike Keneally & Bryan Beller - Taylor Guitars performance room,
  at NAMM, Anaheim, CA
   

• 2005/01/24 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert "jazz festival", 'citta' di castello (pg), italy
   

• 2005/01/25 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'alcatraz', milano, italy  - with special guest
   

• 2005/01/26 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert savona, italy
   

• 2005/01/27 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'america', torino, italy

• 2005/01/27 the central scrutinizer band - concert 'cafe piupiu', são paulo, brasil
   

• 2005/01/28 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'naima', forli, italy
   

• 2005/01/29 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'magic bus', venezia (marcon), italy
   

• 2005/01/30 The Grandmothers Re:Invented - concert 'teatro rossetti', trieste, italy
   (with seminary of pfm drummer franz di cioccio and music critic riccardo bertoncelli)
   

• 2005/01/31 dutch national radio 4 will broadcast (part of) the Terry Bozzio concert with the  metropole orchestra (2005/01/09 concert  ‘013 popcentrum’, tilburg, NL)
   

• 2005/02/01 Special Opps - concert 'level one', los angeles, ca, usa
   

• 2005/02/04 The Foolz - concert 'de boerderij', zoetermeer, the netherlands
   

• 2005/02/05 Steve Vai - concert paris, france

• 2005/02/05 The Troupe - concert 'de naald', naaldwijk, the netherlands
   

•  2005/02/15 Special Opps - concert 'level one', los angeles, ca, usa
   

• 2005/02/16 The Troupe - concert 'kennemer theater', beverwijk, the netherlands
   

• 2005/02/22 The Troupe - concert 'koningstheater', den bosch, the netherlands
   

• 2005/02/23 The Troupe - concert 'koningstheater', den bosch, the netherlands
   

• 2005/02/24 The Troupe - concert 'de meerse', hoofddorp, the netherlands
   

• 2005/03/01 Steve Vai - concert Phoenix, AZ, usa
   

• 2005/03/02 Steve Vai - concert Albuquerque, NM, usa (Note: 21+ Venue)
   

• 2005/03/04 The Muffin Men - concert 'Cwmaman Public Halls', Abardare, UK
• 2005/03/04 Steve Vai -concert Houston, TX, usa
• 2005/03/04 The Paul Green School Of Rock & Ike Willis - concert (more info soon)
   
• 2005/03/05  Steve Vai - Granada Theatre,  Dallas, TX, usa
• 2005/03/05 The Muffin Men - concert 'Queens Hall', Narberth, UK
• 2005/03/05 The Paul Green School Of Rock & Ike Willis - concert (more info soon)
   
• 2005/03/06  Steve Vai - Antone's,  Austin, TX, usa
• 2005/03/06 The Paul Green School Of Rock & Ike Willis - concert 'bb kings', nyc, ny, usa
   
• 2005/03/07 The Muffin Men - STOCKPORT to be confirmed
   
• 2005/03/08 The Muffin Men - concert 'Rosehill Theatre', Whitehaven, UK
• 2005/03/08 Steve Vai - concert Memphis, TN, usa
   
• 2005/03/09  Steve Vai - The Cannery,  Nashville, TN , usa
• 2005/03/09 The Muffin Men - concert 'Renfrew Ferry', Glasgow, UK
   
• 2005/03/10 The Muffin Men - concert 'Springhead, Hull, UK
• 2005/03/10 Steve Vai -concert Birmingham, AL, usa
   
• 2005/03/11 The Muffin Men - concert 'LA3', Liverpool, UK
• 2005/03/11 Steve Vai -concert New Orleans, LA, usa
   
• 2005/03/12 The Voice of Cheez - concert 'Nietzsche's', buffalo, ny, usa
   
• 2005/03/13 The Muffin Men - concert 'Limelight', Crewe, UK
   
• 2005/03/14 Steve Vai -concert Tampa, FL, usa
   

• 2005/03/15  Steve Vai - Julius Littman PAC,  Miami, FL, usa

• 2005/03/15 The Muffin Men - concert 'Komedia', Brighton, UK
   
• 2005/03/16  Steve Vai - House of Blues,  Orlando, FL, usa
• 2005/03/16 The Muffin Men - concert 'South Parade Pier', Southsea, UK
   
• 2005/03/17  Steve Vai - Freebird Live,  Jacksonville, FL, usa
• 2005/03/17 The Muffin Men - concert 'Mr Kyps, Poole, UK
   
• 2005/03/18  Steve Vai - House of Blues,  Myrtle Beach, SC, usa
• 2005/03/18 The Muffin Men - concert 'The Acorn', Penzance, UK
   
• 2005/03/19 The Muffin Men - concert 'The Wharf', Tavistock, UK
• 2005/03/19 Steve Vai -concert Atlanta, GA, usa
   
• 2005/03/20  Steve Vai - The Orange Peel ,  Asheville, NC , usa
   
• 2005/03/21 The Muffin Men - concert 'Alexanders', Chester, UK
   
• 2005/03/22 The Muffin Men - concert 'Met Arts Centre', Bury, UK
• 2005/03/22 Steve Vai -concert Winston Salem, NC, usa
   
• 2005/03/23  Steve Vai - Birchmere,  Alexandria, VA, usa
• 2005/03/23 The Muffin Men - concert 'New Roscoe', Leeds, UK
   
• 2005/03/24  Steve Vai - Rams Head Live,  Baltimore, MD, usa
• 2005/03/24 The Muffin Men - concert 'Boardwalk', Sheffield, UK
   
• 2005/03/25 Steve Vai - concert Hartford, CT, usa
   
• 2005/03/26 The Muffin Men - concert 'Flowerpot', Derby, UK
  2005/03/26  Steve Vai - concert 'Town Hall', NYC, NY, usa
   
• 2005/03/27 The Muffin Men - concert 'Robin', Wolverhampton, UK
   
• 2005/03/28  Steve Vai - The Trocadero Theatre,  Philadelphia, PA, usa
   

• 2005/03/29  Steve Vai - Westbury Music Fair,  Westbury, NY, usa
   

• 2005/03/30 The Muffin Men - concert 'Huntingdon Hall', Worcester, UK
• 2005/03/30 Steve Vai - concert Sayreville, NJ, usa
   
• 2005/03/31 The Muffin Men - concert 'Borderline', London, UK
• 2005/03/31 Steve Vai - concert Boston, MA, usa
   
• 2005/04/01 The Muffin Men - concert 'Mill', Banbury, UK
• 2005/04/01 Steve Vai -concert Montreal, QUE, can
   

• 2005/04/02  Steve Vai - Massey Hall,  Toronto, ONT, usa

• 2005/04/02 The Muffin Men - concert 'Leisure Centre', Market Harborough, UK
   
• 2005/04/04  Steve Vai - Univ. Buffalo Center for Arts,  Buffalo, NY, usa
   
• 2005/04/05 Steve Vai -concert Pittsburgh, PA, usa
   
• 2005/04/06  Steve Vai - House of Blues,  Cleveland, OH, usa
   

• 2005/04/07 Steve Vai - concert Columbus, OH, usa
   

• 2005/04/08  Steve Vai - State Theatre,  Detroit, MI, usa
   

• 2005/04/09  Steve Vai - Bogart's,  Cincinnati, OH, usa
   

• 2005/04/10  Steve Vai - The Pageant,  St. Louis, MO, usa
   

• 2005/04/11 dutch radio station "concertzender" will broadcast part of the 2005/01/07 opening concert of the "traces of rhythm" festival, featuring Terry Bozzio, Arnold Marinissen, Arno van Nieuwenhuize en Lê Quan Ninh.
   

• 2005/04/12 Steve Vai -concert Milwaukee, WI, usa

• 2005/04/12 The Troupe - concert 'goudse schouwburg', gouda, the netherlands
   

• 2005/04/13 Steve Vai -concert Chicago, IL, usa
   

• 2005/04/15 Steve Vai -concert St. Paul, MN, usa
   

• 2005/04/16 The Troupe - concert 'schouwburg', amstelveen, the netherlands
   

• 2005/04/19  Steve Vai - Fox Theatre,  Boulder, CO, usa
   

• 2005/04/20  Steve Vai - The Venue (formerly Brick's Club),  Salt Lake City, UT , usa
   

• 2005/04/21  Steve Vai - The Big Easy,  Boise, ID, usa
   

• 2005/04/22 Steve Vai -concert Seattle, WA, usa
   

• 2005/04/23  Steve Vai - Commodore Ballroom,  Vancouver, BC, usa
   

• 2005/04/24 Steve Vai -concert Portland, OR, usa
   

• 2005/04/26 Steve Vai -concert San Francisco, CA, usa
   

• 2005/04/27  Steve Vai - The Grove,  Anaheim, CA, usa
   

• 2005/04/28  Steve Vai - House of Blues,  Las Vegas, NV, usa
   

• 2005/04/29  Steve Vai - 4th and B,  San Diego, CA, usa
   

• 2005/04/30  Steve Vai - Wiltern Theatre,  Los Angeles, CA, usa