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the big nOte files - july 2006 |
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the big nOte files - july 2006 |
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updated July 05, 06, 09, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 26 & 27, 2006
please send additions & corrections to bignOte@yucom.be
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The December 1984 edition of Modern Drummer magazine had
Terry Bozzio on the cover:
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2006/07/26 |
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The people at Rock Music Memorabilia discovered a bunch of rare Zappa concert recordings that they will be including in their Zappa memorabilia set. The
Bath and Knebworth Frank Zappa commemorative set has been produced in
a limited signed edition of only 200. It is priced at £59.99 and
comes with a free gift of 6 live CDs from Bath and Knebworth,
including the very rare live Bath CDs and a Knebworth DVD
and includes the following:
For further details
email info@rockmusicmemorabilia.com
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Be sure to check out the Zappateers site for Zappanale pictures. A couple of hundred (!!) have been added the last seven days. Go to www.zappateers.com and click on Scrapbook.
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The recording of the next Afroskull CD is finally underway. After a brief six-year delay, we have been hunkered down in the studio this month, laying down the foundation of our next serving of monster funk. Come celebrate this long-awaited development with us on Friday, July 28th, on our home turf: the fabulous Parkside Lounge. AFROSKULL live at
the Parkside Lounge
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Adrian Belew Trio continues:
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info from Fred Hemmer - 2006/07/25 Just an update to remind everyone that Bogus Pomp will play at Skippers in Tampa on September 9. I will provide more details closer to the show date.
And in the meantime: Friday
August 18th, 2006
Jerry will open for former Zappa guitarist Belew. -- Fred
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from the Frogg Café newsletter: The Frogg Cafe group improv limited edition CD-R is now available for retail purchase only from 10T Records. http://www.10trecords.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=17 Here's a short blurb about the recording: "If you are familiar with Frogg Cafe’s two studio albums you know the band has always sported an inventive, improvisational spirit. On "Noodles" this spirit takes center stage. Recorded live in the studio on June 26, 2002, all of the material on the album was performed in one take over the period of four hours (with humorous voice over’s by Dr. Mac and Brother Bam). "Noodles", founding guitarist Frank Camiola’s Frogg Café swansong, is a fascinating look at a band’s creative process and demonstrates its many influences – jam, jazz and avante-garde classical and good old fashioned prog. Perhaps the album’s highlight is “Tagliarini” a 14 minute jam built on a fascinating rhythmic figure full of possibilities – somewhat reminiscent of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Bill Ayasse first offers a colorful violin lead before handing the figure’s reins to Nick Lieto and his trumpet. From there the piece builds in intensity in a very Crimsoid manner. While offerings of a band’s studio improvisations or demos often disappoint and sometimes seem gratuitously commercial, "Noodles" is a rare example that satisfies. "
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You can find Andrew's Zappanale diary at: http://idiotbastard.bravehost.com/17.htm Check it out. The picture below shows Andrew, and his two lovely assistants. (and don't forget to check out his news page !!) |
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corrie van binsbergen website: www.corrievanbinsbergen.com age website: www.age-1.de/ pikantik website: pikantik.blog.onet.pl/ (with a zappanale blog & picture) tripod website: www.tripod-theband.com (they've got a nice Zappanale picture on the site!) zappatistas website: www.johnetheridge.com/zappa/index.htm daniel rohr website: www.alles-ueber-frank.com jane website: www.jane-music.com jazzprojekt hundehagen website: www.jazzprojekt-hundehagen.de/ ikarisches ensemble website: www.ikarisches-ensemble.de fzle website: home12.inet.tele.dk/studs/FZenglish.html soft machine website: www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/softmachine.html the troupe website: www.thetroupe.nl the paul green school of rock music: www.schoolofrock.com doot! website: www.chollyhoss.com/doot les polissons website: www.lespolissons.org adrian belew website: www.adrianbelew.net but also http://adrianbelewpowertrio.blogspot.com/ (blog & pictures !!) everything else: www.zappanale.de various pictures at: www.mosemoses.de/ more pictures at: www.zappateers.com
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July 13 - 16, Bad Doberan was the place to be. Let's take a closer look to what went on:
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We only arrived on Friday, so unfortunately we missed Lexolo and Daniel Rohr. Those who were there said that it had been good. Picture on the right taken by Bazbo. |
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It's always a joy to see and hear Corrie
van Binsbergen play. She opened the festival on Friday, solo on
guitar. She brought two excellent pieces, where she improvises on Brokken & Zappa samples: 'More stories from the girl who wasn't talking' and 'I wasn't talking'. For me, this was the highlight of day one. It was a pity that Corrie had to play for only a handful of people. She deserved better. Top!
Picture on the right taken by Bazbo. |
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-- Berlin-based Age continued. Progressive rock. The compositions sounded OK, but I had the impression that the perfomance lacked preciseness. Nevertheless, an interesting encounter. -- |
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Next up was FZLE from Denmark. FZLE stands for Frank Zappa Live Event - and it sure was an event! These guys had a lot of fun, and I mean A LOT of fun: 'cosmik debris', 'advance romance', 'peaches en regalia', 'dinah-moe-humm', 'broken hearts are for assholes', 'teenage prostitute', ... The vocals were a bit off every once in a while, but that didn't matter too much. This was a fine performance and the crowd loved it. Not counting Daniel Rohr, FZLE was the only band on Friday to perform Zappa pieces, and they did a great job. Love those horns.
Picture on the right taken by Bazbo. |
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-- Tripod was up next. A progband that has no guitars... They had shared the bill with the Markus Stauss Project only a couple of days earlier for a concert in Verviers, Belgium, and I was told that they were something to look out for. Tripod is Keith Gurland on woodwinds, Steve Romano on drums & percussion, and Clint Bahr on 12-string bass & vocals. Nice. |
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Highlight number two on day one were the Zappatistas.
Yes, that's right, not only the Muffin Men are from the UK.
Not only have the Zappatsistas made one of the better records when it comes to playing Zappa's music, they also have an excellent live reputation. John Etheridge and Annie Whitehead are big names in the Canterbury scene so I was glad to see them perform. I would have liked to have a little chat with them. They played an excellent and very funny set. Steve Lodder (keyboard and arranger!!) and John Etheridge played 'Strictly Genteel' as a duo. Let's hope this makes it onto the Zappanale CD.
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Daniel Rohr had come over from
Switzerland to perform his"Alles über
Frank" (everything on Frank).
The stage looked just great: one big red sofa in the middle. Daniel Rohr sitting in it, or climbing over it or walking round it, while performing and explaining Zappa's songs in German. The band was placed around the sofa, hardly visible, but playing very tight. Daniel Rohr is a great performer, and he had brought along an impressive band. As German isn't my native tongue, I'm only wondering how much I missed on word plays, references and other little jokes. I liked it a lot.
Picture on the right taken by Bazbo. |
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-- I didn't stay for Jane. I was getting pretty tired, had seen two superb acts (Corrie van Binsbergen, and the Zappatistas), and I didn't want to take a risk with Jane. -- |
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Jazzprojekt Hundehagen
opened on Saturday. These guys had made a hell of an impression on me last
year, so I was looking forward to see them again.
Again, they played a good set. Not as impressive as last year, as the surprise was gone, but still a good set. For my ears, the set lasted a bit too long. They could have done without the 'rehearsal / show me the chord change' thing, but the overall impression was good. A nice opener.
Picture on the right taken by Xalke.
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Kroner Circus - Pikantik was up next. Together with the message that the Ikarischer Ensemble would be playing on Sunday because Discus (again) couldn't make it. As I understand it, the name of the band is Pikantik. -- PiKANTiK was established in Cracow (Poland) in 2006 by Michał "Mike" Worgacz - guitarist, vocalist, composer and lyrics writer, ex - leader of KRONER CiRKUS band. In the beginning - PiKANTiK had to be only a single project, some kind of "zappa tribute idea" - created for a while ... but when musicians were engaged to this project ... they've made a decision - to be a band and to use PiKANTiK as a name of new group ... Michał "Mike" WORGACZ (guitar / vocal), Krzysztof "Kris" WOJCiECHOWSKi (bass guitar), Rafał "Gooz" GUZiK (keyboards) and Filip "Phil" MOZUL (drums) established - PiKANTiK. -- I really liked the Pikantik performance. Michal Worgacz
knows how to play a mean guitar. Great stuff. I'd love to hear more of
them.
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-- Soft Machine, or The Soft Machine Legacy was up next. I'm pretty convinced that, for many fans, this was the absolute highlight of the festival. The band consisted of
and they were great. They played Elton Dean's 'Seven For Lee' as their second piece and the mood was immediately set. Fabulous. We all know that Elton Dean cannot be replaced, but Theo Travis did a great job on the saxophones. This should be released. Complete. Soft Machine at Zappanale.
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The Troupe had the impossible task to
perform after the Soft Machine Legacy.
Performing the complete "Joe's Garage", the band had the perfect setlist. The crowd was all warmed up ('overheated' might be an appropriote term), the Zappa songs are classics, and The Troupe is a fine troupe of musicians. Especially the voices of Frans van Deursen and Jeroen Zijlstra were very impressive. Another excellent concert.
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-- Headlining Saturday was the Paul Green School of Rock. The program said that they were to play Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath songs. Don't get me wrong, I like these kids and Paul Green is doing some
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Day three and Doot! opened.
I had seen the band (including André Cholmondeley) in Delft one week earlier where they looked like zombies, but played some of the best improvised contemporary stuff I had seen in a while. Their Zappanale performance was no different. Just great.
The picture on the right was taken by Bazbo. |
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Next up was the second appearance of the Paul Green School of Rock. This time playing Zappa music. Fun, as always. The kids stay rather close to the originals, only taking some liberty to solo. I saw some pretty impressive stuff. Adrian Belew came on the stage to perform 'City Of Tiny Lites' with them. Goosebumps all over. The Kids will be back the next years, each edition taking on another touring period. This means that they should be giving the "Freak Out" tour a try next year. So maybe then we'll hear the kids go for the String Quartet or for 15-minute jams or improvisations...
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Les Polissons continued the
strong line-up for Sunday. I hadn't heard them before and was pleasantly
surprised.
It had gotten extremely hot in the meantime and the biggest part of the crowd had gone searching for shade in the tent, which made vocalist Sarah curse them in french... Anyway, this was another highlight. Especially Sarah's vocal part kicked ass. She used two microphones, where one was connected to some sort of vocoder / effect box. To great effect. Somewhere near the end of the concert, she also did some great scatting. Absolutely great.
The picture on the right was taken by Bazbo. |
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-- I didn't catch much of the Ikarisches Ensemble, but I liked what I heard. -- |
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Headliner Adrian Belew did what
everyone expected from him. He played an astonishing set: old and new
songs, both from his solo career as from King Crimson.
I was told that his gear-box was missing, but I don't think anyone noticed. The loop-box worked and the feedback sounded like it should. Another highlight.
The picture on the right was taken by Bazbo. |
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Zappanale 17 was another very fine edition of the Zappanale festival. Corrie van Binsbergen, the Zappatistas, Soft Machine, Les Polissons and Adrian Belew impressed me most. I still regret that the internet broadcasts & video recordings weren't part of Zappanale 17, but I hope that a lot of the music will get released on CD and / or DVD. I also missed being able to meet the artists. There's nothing more informative than a short chat or interview. The internet interviews that we did during Zappanale 16 sure helped a lot & brought a lot of info to the UM files. Anyway, Zappanale 17 was great & we'll probably be there again next year. Thank you Arf Society !
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Sunday afternoon, almost one week ago, at Bad Doberan, (last day of the Zappanale festival), I encountered some members of the Czech Zappa Fanclub. They're a bunch of very friendly guys, wearing the best-looking Zappa T-shirts that I had seen during these three days. Here are two remarkable facts about the Czech Zappa Fanclub:
They also have a website at www.zappa.cz, but that's temporarily unavailable.
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| zappostrophe no.97 - 2005/02
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| zappostrophe no.99 - 2005/xx
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| zappostrophe no.100 - 2006/xx
incl.
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Zappanale was fun. I heard some good music, including a couple of nice surprises, and I saw a bunch of friends, a couple of which even made the local newspaper. The International Bad Doberaner Zeitung, or something like that... From left to right: Sven, Jean-Paul, Lex, Bengt, Audrey and Bill.
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| 2006/07/20 | |
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R.STEVIE MOORE ON CORDELIA |
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Marc Masson will be performing Frank Nuyts' revised fifth pianosonate at the 'Rode Pomp' in Ghent, Belgium on july 21. 2006/07/21 Marc Masson - concert 'de rode pomp', gent, belgium (performing a Frank Nuyts piece)
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Check out Gary's latest entry on Lost In The Grooves: Cruising with Uncle Frank’s Words http://www.lostinthegrooves.com/gary26
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Hello, Just wanted to let you know that my band SPECIAL OPPS will be performing LIVE @ The Palmer Room next Tuesday the 25th (a week from today) with a special 75-minute set from 8:00 - 9:15. The band will feature myself, special guest Scheila Gonzalez (recently back from the Zappa Plays Zappa tour) on soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, plus my regular rhythm section of Chris Spilsbury on guitar, Daren Burns on bass, and Craig Bunch on drums. We will be performing some new selections including a couple jams I composed specifically for this show. There will also be some surprises and other special guests. The show is being filmed for the pilot episode of IndieAppeal with Shannon B. along with the other artists performing that evening, but we're going to be the first band for the first show, and I think that's pretty cool. SPECIAL
OPPS - Tuesday, July 25th @ 8 pm - 21+/$10 cover I really hope to see you there! The next announcement will have DVD pre-ordering information for the first entry in our "DVD Bootleg Club," plus how you can order the poster of my "EnnEmmEss" painting. Music is the best! -- Chris Opperman
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FRANK ZAPPA - PINK FLOYD - CAPTAIN BEEFHEART |
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There's a new trend in bootleg land: very limited editions on coloured
vinyl.
Here's "Inter-Zappa Overdrive", limited to 200 copies, on beautiful multi-coloured vinyl. 1969/10/25 & 28 concert "actual festival", amougies belgium side one - frank zappa & pink floyd
side two - frank zappa & captain beefheart and his magic band
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Steve Mann has an official website. It can be found at: <http://www.stevemanngtr.com/index.htm>
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2006/07/20 (yes, that's tomorrow - typing this on wednesday), Humble Grumble will be performing in Ghent, Belgium. They're said to be Zappa-esque, and Pieter Claus (who plays the marimba in Whatchamacallit) does the percussion part for Humble Grumble. The concert will take place at the 'El Negocito' café. More info at the Humble Grumble website: www.humblegrumble.com discography
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OBNOXIOUS ANTIPOETRY FOR THE DAY... |
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Love |
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To Run And Play
And Dance In The Sun This adult world
life All so much shit None of it matters |
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Trubee PO Box 4921 Santa Rosa, CA 95402 USA "A junkyard dog staked to a short chain chasing himself in tight circles of sorrow and madness" |
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Just got back from Zappanale... Latest news from our friends in France: the Festival de l'Alembic Electrique has been cancelled !! C'est vraiment dommage. Je voudrais le visiter...
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Check out the Nasal Retentive Ochestra website. There's lots of videos, songs, etceteras for your amusement. I still had the old website address in the UM files, but this has now been corrected.
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2006/07/22 the
Metropolis Orchestra / The Grand
Wazoo / Orchestra
Spaziale - concert "la fontana dei desideri", malnate, italy |
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Last year's Zappanale was a blast. The combination of great bands and a
nice audience can't be beat. As you might recall, one of the 'new' things, was the live concert internet broadcasts. I was very happy to be contributing to this, even if it only meant that I had to chat (read: do some interviews) with the participating artists between the concerts to keep the internet audience interested between shows. I got some nice reactions, and it was a lot of fun. For a couple of reasons, these internet broadcasts won't be happening, which is a pity. I would have loved to do it again, and I'm also convinced that this is a missed opportunity. Not only to reach a wider audience, and to make it a more 'world-wide' event, but also to introduce a new and interesting Zappa-related site on the web. Anyway, we're off to Zappanale, and I pretty sure that I'll be enjoying it again. See you there. PS: the picture on the right shows the cover of "Promozeuch Object", a promotional release by Weirdo Naffn, one of the biggest surprises of the 2005 edition of the Zappanale festival. |
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a message from CP: After meeting The
Mirror Stage with Alice, exchanging some tasty recipes with the American
Frank Pahl (Music for desserts), and appearing in several compilations
released by In Poly Sons, Klimperei gets back with a new concept album
that we are proud to release ! It's a simple and popular concept which
allows to create a great deal of stories and variations in the delicate
music of the cranky Klimperei. |
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a message from Marco Kalnenek: Polish beats. With a
twist. Or in their own
words: Download Kinetic
Jane's self-titled album for free on WM Recordings: |
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just got back from antwerp... take a look at this elephant...made by royal de luxe, it has been wandering around the center of the city for the last couple of days... turned antwerp in a huge beautiful chaos ... can you get an idea of the size of this thing... |
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Here's a message from Nigey Lennon: Hello fans, fiends and friends -- ZAPPA SINGS ZAPPA now has its (their?) own little cubicle on MySpace Music, thanks to another great Belgian, Gina Vodegel! Please feel free to visit, add comments, or even list yourself as a friend of the group, should you feel so inclined. Watch the "Events" category for news on upcoming performances...there may even be a blog, when there's something noteworthy to report. http://www.myspace.com/zappasingszappa |
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Again, the Juttersfestival (the Netherlands) has a very promising program: Saturday 2006/07/08 SQUARE TENT
14.00
– 15.00: Zijlstra zingt Eykman 16.00 – 17.15: Willem Breuker Kollektief 18.00 – 19.00:
The Pheasant Pluckers 19.45 – 20.45:
Wende Snijders 21.30 – 23.00:
The Troupe plays Zappa Sunday 2006/07/09 SQUARE TENT 11.45 – 12.30:
Lavalu 13.00 – 13.55: Wende Snijders 14.45 – 15.45:
Beatrice van der Poel & band 16.30 – 17.30:
De Wereldband
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Saturday 2006/07/08 CIRCLE TENT 15.00 – 16.00: De Band Krijgt Kinderen 17.15 – 18.00: Drumbassadors 19.00 – 19.45: Alex van Holstein & Het Sentiment 20.45 – 21.30: Velatropa
Sunday 2006/07/09 11.00 – 11.45: Gerard van Maasakkers 12.30 – 13.00: Marcel de Groot 13.55 – 14.45: Way Out West 15.45 – 16.30:
Supersessie
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Happy 4th of July everyone! And to our British friends, sorry about the whole revolutionary war ass beating thing. For the record, the Frogg relatives were in Europe and Asia back then eating latkes, rigatoni, bratwurst and kim chi. But I digress. If you're in the Vermont area this Thursday, please come out and support our first headlining slot at Nectar's! Thursday, July 6 Nectar’s 188 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 658-4771 11 pm – Frogg Café will perform 2 sets Thanks! Frogg Cafe http://www.froggcafe.com |
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ZAPPANALE - THE FINAL PROGRAM LOOKS LIKE THIS |
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The program for the next edition of the Zappanale
festival looks like this:
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2006/07/12, in concert at the "Spirit of 66" in Verviers, Belgium: Tripod (from the US) and the Markus Stauss Project. http://www.fazzulmusic.ch/english/welcome.php -------------------------------------------------- here's the promo talk -------------------------------------------------- TRIPOD
(USA) “MORPHINE
AND KING CRIMSON MORPHED INTO A NEAT LITTLE PACKAGE" http://www.tripod-theband.com/ Tripod
is “David Sanborn/Tom Scott/Michael Brecker on acid !”
& MARKUS STAUSS PROJECT (B/Suisse) http://www.fazzulmusic.ch/english Sax “monster” Markus Stauss joins forces with three Belgian musicians "... wild happenings, festival creations... chamber music, rock, hard rock, funk, noise, modern jazz, free jazz and even contemporary music."
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In
concert Cuccurullo
Brillo Brullo (NL) & DOOT
(usa) "DOOT's first
Dutch performance" 2006/07/08 FLORA
THEATER Zaal
open : 19.15 uur reserveren
tot 6 juli via: Info
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Dieter Jakob is writing a book on Zappa bootlegs. Or to be more specific, I should say: "is writing THE book on Zappa bootlegs". Here's the message: I
am going to write a (picture-)book about Zappa vinyl bootlegs and try to
get together all photos of the bootlegs I know. As far as I know only the
photos of the below mentioned bootlegs are still missing for my book.
Maybe you can help me to get the one or the other photograph in order to
complete some empty pages? -
photo of front cover Thanks a lot for your help! Music is the best! Dieter List
of vinyl bootlegs (photos wanted):
So here's the deal, if you have any
of these bootlegs, and if you're able to take a digital picture of it, let
me know at bignOte@yucom.be and I
will forward you Dieter's e-mail address.
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The program for the next edition of the Zappanale festival looks like this:
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the concert calendar * the concert calendar |
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