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the big nOte files - august 2006 |
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updated August 02, 03, 07, 08, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25,
26 & 27, 2006
please send additions & corrections to bignOte@yucom.be
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I'm bit too late with this, but the good news is that Glenn Leonard (the Artist Formerly Known as Project/Object's Drummer) has started a new Zappa project. Pojama People featuring Ike Willis
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I've told you about Dieter Jakob's book on Zappa bootlegs. Here's an update: |
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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. List of vinyl bootlegs (photos wanted):
The discs marked with ** are only known by name from
various more or less reliable sources. I’m quite sure that they are not
existing and results of misinterpreted labels or just homemade fakes of
“serious” bootlegs. Anyway, if somebody should know something about
these discs, I’d appreciate a lot to get the information. Anyway, I’d
be happy if anybody from the huge Zappa fan community could help me to get
a photo or a scan of all these missing boots. Music is the best! Dieter
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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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Adrian Belew
Allan Holdsworth: guitar / Steve Hunt: keys / Jimmy Johnson: bass / Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band [Don Van Vliet / Jeff Moris Tepper / Richard Snyder / Eric Drew Feldman / Robert Williams / Gary Lucas]
The Ike Willis Band
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hitweek
- het best uit hitweek 1965 - 1969 (2003, book, nl, het spectrum) compiled by willem de ridder and frank dam - this book is some sort of "best of" of the dutch
underground magazine "hitweek" that got published from 1965
until 1969. Here's a complete list of the Hitweek Mothers related articles:
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DANIEL ROHR'S ALLES UEBER FRANK |
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Daniel Rohr's "Alles über Frank" will be performed at:
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Added the picture for the 1994 split 7" record by Tranquil and Wrong:
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Added a picture of the "Pink Floyd Meets Frank Zappa" bootleg; Added a better picture for the "Europe, Backstage & The Mystery Side" bootleg; Added pictures of the Hot Rats Picture Disc bootleg. |
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- added info for:
thanks to Charles Ulrich
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* P R O X I M A M E N T E * TONY MOLITERNI & SUL DIVANO PRESENTAN SU MUSICA & INTERPRETAN A FRANK ZAPPA Músico invitado ANDREA PRODAN VIERNES 1 DE SEPTIEMBRE 21
HS. Auditorio BAUEN Un
show imperdible, donde harán lo imposible
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Cosmik Debris / Totally Zapped was the first fanzine that
was published by Rob Cerreta. Later Rob also did Mother People.
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This 7" ep was originally intended for a Japanese fanclub, but when the deal didn't happen the EP found its way through other channels. Limited to 50 (numbered) copies, this 7" gets the "impossible to find" label...
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Residential Friend...or fiend... This is the first offering in a series of a few more volumes from the obscure Residents instrumental collection! This first one contains a lot of great stuff, some previously unreleased, including pieces from the Tweedles sessions (upcoming release). Here's the track list: Pollex Christi (1997's super limited edition instrumental, and first limited RA release), Haeckel's Tale (main title - written for Showtime's Masters of Horror, but never used), The Mad Gasser (unreleased from the Animal Lover sessions), Tired Old Man (from the Part Three of the Mole Trilogy sessions, previously unreleased), Hidden Hand (from the Demon's Dance Alone sessions (on the Deluxe version of DDA), Pickle (from the DDA sessions, released on the Golden Goat DVD single), Dead Men (from the Animal Lover sessions, previously unreleased), Mr. Skull's New Year's Eve Song (a studio reworking of Mr. Skull's intro - from Stranger than Supper), Dream Wheel (from I Murdered Mommy), Daydreams in Space (from Daydream B-Liver), The Rubber Robber (from the Tweedles sessions) In the Outhole (from the Kettles of Fish DVD), In an Ugly Mood (from the Tweedles sessions), Jack's Lament (from the Animal Lover sessions, previously unreleased). Go reserve yer copy now... the Ralph Gang... |
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Here's a message from Gail, taken from the forum at zappa dot com: "Yes,
there is a certain manifestation of Freak Out! but there are 3 other discs
- approximately 3 hours of alternate tracks from the sessions for the most
part, some crazy surprises, and a little bit of FZ talking about. There
are a few FZ edits here and there. You will enjoy the disc/overy I am
sure, almost as much a s we did. And then there is the packaging which we
are also very excited about. This is truly one for the fervent and
devout...it is good to know that some of what I say makes sense to some of
the people who read it. So just so you heard it from me, there is nothing
on the discs, 3 of which are about an hour of mostly (MOSTLY!) UNRELEASED
materials, that is me talking for 30 minutes - why would I do such a thing
to you or to FZ!!!! But we do have him in his own words too. And yes, it
is all about Freak Out! What more do I really have to say."
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New concert dateS added for the Ed Palermo Big Band:
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== newsflash from the radiodupree blog == A
special event of Zappa music will happen in Montreux on September 1st.
It's the composer/arranger Ali N. Askin (of Ensemble Modern fame) who has
gathered a band to perform some of Frank's music. The band includes
special guests keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren. Mats
tells that the band will perform Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget
Orchestra, Village Of The Sun, Echidna's Arf (Of You) and Don't You Ever
Wash That Thing?, plus stuff from Zappa In New York. The event includes music by Zappa and Varèse, including some arrangements and transcriptions of Zappa's music by Ali N. Askin. In
the early 1990's Askin was Zappa's assistant for the project The Yellow
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Adrian Belew Power Trio
Sting & Branford Marsalis
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In the meantime, on the Zappateers website, Amaretto is seeding an excellent Zappatistas show. An excellent concert in excellent quality. John Etheridge - guitar, voice
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FZ BOOTLEG INCOGNITO |
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In 1971 (!!) Piet Davelaar started "Inventions", a Frank Zappa & Mothers fanzine published by the Frank Zappa Society. To my knowledge, "Inventions" was the first
Zappa fanzine. The first issues were published about 35 years ago. A true piece of history...
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| inventions no.3 - september 1971 / 22 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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| inventions no.4 - december 1971 / 22 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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| inventions no.5 - november 1972 / 18 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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| inventions no.6 - february 1973 / 18 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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| inventions no.7 - february 1973 / 18 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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| inventions no.8 - 1973 / 20 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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| inventions no.10 - october 1973 / 16 pages
published by the frank zappa society
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Here's some more paperwork. Both of these magazines are very impressive
(and big and heavy) art magazines, carrying an article on Don Van Vliet.
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Seeing Soft Machine at Zappanale was one of the absolute highlights of the festival. The result is that I have been listening to a lot of SM lately... And as Danny Mathys says: "You can't go wrong with their first
albums".
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"VPRO PIKNIK" is one of the oldest Zappa bootlegs around. It's
also known as "Schischgebab" or "Wino Man".
The cover of the first pressing was a blank white sleeve consisting of two pieces of cardboard folded into a hexagon and rivited together. Reissus were available in regular square covers. |
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Cuccurullo Brillo Brullo will be performing the music of Frank Zappa in Rotterdam and in Delft this weekend. If you're in the neighbourhood, you have to check them out. 2006/08/18 Cuccurullo Brillo Brullo - concert 'Op Staande Voet', Straatweg, Rotterdam, NL 2006/08/19 (22.00 h) Cuccurullo Brillo Brullo - concert "Delft Jazz Festival", 'De Joffer', Nieuwstr 14, Delft, NL
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Good grief, it looks like André is on a mission... Here's another two
of his newsletters. Check it out.
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André
Cholmondeley 2006 08 13 BELEW
POWER TRIO!!!! tomorrow in Philadelphia...don't miss it...also IKE WILLIS
Live..in OREGON!! hey
everyone... FIRST
OFF - Since so many people keep asking -- a few things about ZAPPA PLAYS
ZAPPA: 1-yes
we know about it, we in fact PLUGGED it from stage all during the spring
PO tour 2-I,
and the band, still say - SUPPORT ALL ZAPPA RELATED ACTIVITIES. 3-yes
there will be another one, this fall, with a similar lineup to the other
tours so far 4-yes
GAIL ZAPPA hates us with a passion - just as she hates most or all of the
Zappa-repertoire bands planet-wide. She has spent a small fortune trying
to sue us since, oh, 1995 or so..and NEVER has she gotten a fcuking DIME
ooutt ame..though I have had to spend a grand or so on P/O's lawyer. ONE
gig was cancelled as a result of her insane anti-zappa activities. 5-Gail
dislikes, or seems to be disliked by - the VAST MAJORITY of Zappa-alumni.
Just take a look at how many more she will get on this tour. Where are the
MAJOR players..the MOTHERS.. Ike Willis...The Fowlers... the 1988 band
guys......????? There
are a handful of fantastic people she still talks to - but she will just
as quickly dismiss them..for playing with little old project/object, as
she has done to certain fine alumni. Also-thanks - we KNOW she has
'copywritten' the name 'project/object' - it doesn't affect us and is a
typical waste of her money. Even if it did, we'd carry on under a
different name 'cos FRANK -on his deathbed-asked all fans to PLAY HIS
MUSIC. OK - i am feeling sick - enough of this and hope that answers a
couple dozen emails in one swell foop. OK
_ ADRIAN
BELEW NEWS!! well-
many of you are seeing this BELEW incredible tour -- if not -- make plans
and GO!. Adrian's rare solo tours are a thing of wonder, always have been.
But his current lineup -- man oh man can you saw nukular energy??? Yep - I
admit it - i'm TOTALLY biased, his rhythm section is made of of good
friends - THE SLICKS from Philly. many of you were regaled with ERIC SLICK
on the spring 2006 Project Object Tour. Well- he and sister Julie Slick
(bass) are now driving the BELEW POWER TRIO. The show early this week in
NYC was a-m-a-z-i-n-g to say the least.. (and YES, to answer a couple of
you -- they ARE related to GRACE, she is their 2nd cousin by marriage. So-
bring them Airplane boots to pass along to me. BTW -- speaking of
Airplane-Project/Object continuity --- Airplane's vocalist for a decade or
so is DIANA MANGANO -- cousin of ROBBIE "SEAHAG" MANGANO!!) CHECK
OUT ERIC SLICK's BLOG
>>>http://adrianbelewpowertrio.blogspot.com/ CHECK
OUT ROBIN SLICK's BLOG>>> http://inherownwrite.blogspot.com/ Adrian
-with his new POWER TRIO, featuring ERIC SLICK (drums) and JULIE SLICK
(bass) - The NYC show at BB King's on tuesday was just INCREDIBLE -- huge
sound,
power-pop-fusion-experimental-soundpainting-madness-exhilirating-guitarification!!
Don't miss this tour -- It's short but sweet and only hits a few stops -
GET TICKETS NOW!! SOME SHOWS ARE SELLING OUT, you do NOT want to miss this
-- Setlist includes the BEST of Adrian's ENTIRE catalog, great new stuff
from SIDES 1,2,3, and of course some 80s KING CRIMSON CLASSICS!!: ●Tomorrow
NIGHT -- Get tickets NOW this may sellout! ●08/14 Philadelphia, PA -
World Cafe Live ●08/16 Chastain Park - Atlanta, GA ●08/17
Freebird Live - Jacksonville, FL ●08/18 State Theatre - St.
Petersburg, FL ●08/19 Bamboo Room - Lake Worth, FL
SURF
TO >>> http://www.adrianbelew.net IKE
WILLIS NEWS IKE
WILLIS now lives in LA, nuff said. He is doing some shows in OREGON with
ex-PO drummer and apparent masochist GLENN LEONARD. Check these shows out
!! See Ike tear it up again in the Northwest!! Pojama
People featuring Ike Willis performing the music of Frank Zappa Aug
22 The Rainbow 722 NE 45th Street Seattle, WA 206-634-1761
TheRainbowLive.com Aug
23 DANTE'S 1 SW 3rd Avenue & Burnside Portland, Oregon
97204503-226-6630 www.danteslive.com Aug
24 WOW Hall 291 W 8th Ave Eugene, OR 541-687-2746 wowhall.org To
join the Pojama People mailing list, send a request to:
gleonard9@earthlink.net ANDRE'
CHOLMONDELEY NEWS OH
- BTW --Below we have my typically self-aggrandizing photo of the day --
about a month ago I was lucky enough to jam a bit with a major hero -= Mr
Adrian Belew hisself - onstage July 16 , Bad Doberan Germany - one of my
FAVORITE little towns anywhere. So tranquil... air so incredible coming
off the Baltic..mmmmm. Right here we were jamming the solo vamp from
Zappa's "Packard Goose", earlier we did "Muffin Man"
and i blew the easiest words in the universe since i never sing the damn
song. Oh well - all Pilsner-inspired fun. having seen Adrian live since
Feb 1982 (King Crimson, Rutgers University) when i was about 17... then
many MANY solo tours, also - a fave Adrian show-with one of my top 5
artists DAVID BOWIE when Ade toured with DB's greatest hits band in 1990
(amazing tour!! when will the dame release that stuff!!) So - this was a
very cool, wacky honor and i thank the mad genius PAUL GREEN for dragging
me up there as utility guitarist/bassist and to generally make a fool of
myself. And
-- LET ME PLUG MY OWN MUSIC ... - wow-- from the last email I actually had
a couple people order my CD - thanks!! So-- if you are into the weirder
side of things -- check it out , give alisten and you can buy one track, 6
tracks or the whole damn CD, digitally or 'actual'. To
check out :Andre' Cholmondeley "ENIGMA WITH ATTITUDE" and get
Soundbytes/Download MP3s/Buy it as a CD!! CLICK
HERE>>> http://store.itsaboutmusic.com/andre.html It's
mostly solo weirdness, done on a VS 880, a laptop , one track of my band
HIDDEN AGENDA live in NYC and one track recorded live by engineer Frank
Bellina in Philly as part of a Don Preston concert in sep2005 when i had a
featured moment. Check it out! And SCROLL DOWN for even more news --- the DON PRESTON akashic tour is coming soon. I wish you could xeck it out.....
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Cholmondeley 2006 08 10 BELEW...PRESTON...KENEALLY news.......Zappa Alumni on the Loose !......and ZAPPA 'freak out' reissue + CANDY ZAPPA CORRECTION Hey y'all. Hope you are well. Oh boy - as I start to write this.....Here we go again -- Red Alert..whew...the cable news is filled with the madness. Humans. What a mess. What a bunch of crazy monkeys we turned out to be. Watch that movie Space Odyssey: 2001 again. Meanwhile - in the only dimension that seems to consistently make sense to me -the SONIC DIMENSION, we have some news. All of it Zappa related in one way or another. Thanks for signing up on our email list. Please let me know if you're getting duplicates. ALSO -- anyone with PRESS CONTACTS - please drop me a line!
CANDY
ZAPPA NEWS Oops -- I mis-interpreted the info on the ZAPPA SINGS ZAPPA page -- and told y'all that CANDY ZAPPA will be at those upcoming shows. She IS part of the overall project - BUT WILL NOT BE ON THE AUGUST 2006 shows. In fact - on vocals will be Napoleon Murphy Brock and John Tobacco - one show each. Nigey Lennon clarifies all in this letter: their site http://www.myspace.com/zappasingszappa "Hi
Andre -- "Sorry for the confusion. The site was actually designed by a fan in Belgium, and it is in need of some reorganizing which I haven't had time for so far. Candy is definitely part of the Zappa Sings Zappa project. We hope to tour this fall. In the meanwhile, I thought it would be good to list Ed's gigs, since John appears with him, and Ed's band and L/T/Z share musicians: it's the same basic band, playing the same basic material as arranged by Ed. Future gig listings will be clear as to whether Candy is appearing.....AGAIN --- Candy won't be singing at either of these two shows. John Tabacco will be handling the vox at Hecksher Park, and Napoleon at Detroit. Thanks for your help! --Nigey"
ADRIAN
BELEW NEWS
Adrian is on tour right now with his amazing new POWER TRIO, featuring my good buddies ERIC SLICK (drums) and JULIE SLICK (bass) - as you probably know--Eric is the DRUMMER FOR PROJECT/OBJECT! The NYC show at BB King's on tuesday was just INCREDIBLE -- huge sound, power-pop-fusion-experimental-soundpainting-madness-exhilirating-guitarification!! Don't miss this tour -- It's short but sweet and only hits a few stops - GET TICKETS NOW!! SOME SHOWS ARE SELLING OUT, you do NOT want to miss this -- Setlist includes the BEST of Adrian's ENTIRE catalog, great new stuff from SIDES 1,2,3, and of course some 80s KING CRIMSON CLASSICS!!: (PS - Look out for the CURREN tour ●Tonight
-08/10 Turning Point - Piermont, NY (SOLD OUT!!!) ●08/11 Buffalo
Icon - Buffalo, NY ●08/12 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe ●08/14
Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live ●08/16 Chastain Park - Atlanta,
GA ●08/17 Freebird Live - Jacksonville, FL ●08/18 State
Theatre - St. Petersburg, FL ●08/19 Bamboo Room - Lake Worth, FL
DON
PRESTON NEWS Don will be lecturing on the History Of Synths/Avant Garde Electronic Music and unique Scores. This time around we'll stop at Yale, U MASS, and Cornell Universities. Don will demonstrate and perform on his highly *modified* vintage Minimoog, once owned by his buddy -Tangerine Dream's Michael Hoenig. There will also be performances after each lecture, some at the lecture halls, some at local venues. Email me for details or see the links. We'll be playing several new pieces by Don, and he will be performing some solo jazz-piano. MOOG technology will figure heavily, the group will also have a MOOG RME Voyager as well as some MOOGERFOOGER pedals onstage!! More info from those wackos at http://www.moogmusic.com. Here are our dates - come out and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY DON - he'll turn 74 on Sep 21!!
DON
PRESTON AKASHIC ENSEMBLE TOUR SEPT 2006
TUE
5 BURLINGTON VT Nectar's http://www.liveatnectars.com THU
7 MONTREAL QUEBEC Mile End Cultural Center -AKA "Main Hall" SAT
9 TBA http://www.myspace.com/donpreston SUN
10 TBA http://www.myspace.com/donpreston MON
11 ITHACA NY Cornell Univ. -midday/lecture/performance
http://www.cornell.edu TUE
12 TRUMANSBURG NY Rongovian Embassy http://www.rongo.com WED
13 NEW HAVEN CT Yale Univ. midday/lecture/performance http://www.yale.edu WED
13 HAMDEN CT The Space - http://www.thespace.tk THU
14 LOWELL, MA University of Mass., Lowell -midday/lecture/performance FRI
15 CAMBRIDGE MA Lily Pad (was "zeitgeist")
http://www/lily-pad.net SAT
16 PROVIDENCE RI AS220 -evening/lecture/performance http://www.as220.org SUN
17 NEW YORK CITY NY The Monkey http://themonkeynyc.com/
MIKE
KENEALLY NEWS
Didja
order the new MK band CD/DVDD "Guitar Therapy" - well - you
should -- it rules!! DON'T
MISS the Mike Keneally Re-Master/Re-Issues of the classics "BOIL THAT
DUST SPECK" and "HAT" get thee to http://www.keneally.com ALSO
- enjoy this great little vid of MK & band tracking
"weekend" back in 1994 http://www.keneally.com/av/weekend.mov
ZAPPA
RE-ISSUE NEWS
Finally!!!
Freak Out is gonna be re-issued, with all kinds of extra schwag. A little
hefty at $70 but .. it's a FOUR-CD set. Check it out at
http://www.zappa.com Xicks dig it!! ANDRE'
CHOLMONDELEY NEWS I
recently released a NEW CD!! It's a chunk of wacked out guitar, synth
loops and sampled madness to make you laugh at the news for relief. I will
have it at all upcoming shows. Andre' Cholmondeley "ENIGMA WITH
ATTITUDE" Soundbytes..Download
as MP3s....Buy a CD! http://store.itsaboutmusic.com/andre.html ALSO.....I
am now the TourManager/Guitar Tech for - The Al DiMeola Project. Let's
hear it for *another great Italian* !! We'll be on tour starting about SEP 22 in Virginia, throughout the east coast USA till OCT 23, then over to Europe OCT 27-NOV 20 or so, then the West Coast USA from NOV25 on!! Then..spots around the globe. Chile, Asia and more. Wow. Stay tuned, and come say hi. Al's new CD features special guests Chick Corea, John Pattitucci, Steve Gadd and his 70s/80s keyboard player Barry Miles !! give a listen at http://www.aldimeola.com
PROJECT/OBJECT
NEWS
Look
for some activity after Christmas 2006.....We are on hiatus right now --
as you see Eric Slick (BELEW BAND) and I are real busy!!! Eric Svalgard is
real busy running his School Of Rock in Wilmington DE,
http://schoolofrockde.com/ and David Johnsen is busy with the Mahavishnu
Project -check out their insanity at http://www.mahavishnuproject.com
Xeers.!!
Oh..and
OK. See you on tour SOMEWHERE....back to the grindstone.... Xiao
and thank you, Andre'
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André Cholmondeley Don
Preston - BUY NYC tickets! /also.....MAHAVISHNU ORGAN TRIO tomorrow
night/NYC Folks, i'll be blunt. Last time we were booked at this place (THE MONKEY) in NYC, we had to cancel due to poor pre-sales. Sadly, i was fielding emails for days after the event explaining this to disappointed fans...SO--if you want to catch the NYC show on sun sep 17 - PLEASE PLEASE go now and get tickets. It is an audiophile, high-end listening environment -- only about 40 seats, and rigged for 5.1 surround sound! Due to the special circumstances and expense of the venue - we have to guarantee revenue before the doors are open. Since it's NOT a bar - tickets are the only revenue. It's on the 12th floor of a midtown office building..... Click on the Monkey site for more ticket info. Pre-sales will guarantee this show goes on... SUN SEP 17 NEW YORK CITY NY The Monkey SHOW / 8pm http://themonkeynyc.com/ DON PRESTON AKASHIC fall tour 2006 DON
PRESTON - MINIMOOG, Air Synth, Air Fx, Apple computer, toy piano, vocals "DON IS THE ORIGINAL SYNTH PLAYER IN ZAPPA'S MOTHERS OF INVENTION. HE IS A JAZZ PIANO GENIUS, ORCHESTRAL AND AVANT GARDE COMPOSER-- HAS PLAYED WITH EVERYONE FROM ELVIN JONES, HERBIE MANN AND CARLA BLEY TO LOU RAWLS, JACK BRUCE AND ROBBIE KRIEGER...HE HELPED CREATE THE MODERN SYNTH REVOLUTION....DON'T MISS THIS CHAPTER!!" TUE SEP 5 BURLINGTON VT Nectar's LECTURE/8pm SHOW/9pm http://www.liveatnectars.com THU SEP 7 MONTREAL QUEBEC Mile End Cultural Center (Main Hall) http://www.mileend.ca SUN SEP 10 PHOENIXVILLE PA Steel City Coffeehouse http://steelcitycoffeehouse.com/ MON SEP 11 ITHACA NY Cornell Univ. -LECTURE & PERF/12:15pm - FREE to public http://www.cornell.edu TUE SEP 12 TRUMANSBURG NY Rongovian Embassy SHOW/7pm http://www.rongo.com WED SEP 13 NEW HAVEN CT Yale -Sprague/Morse Recital Hall - LECTURE &PERF/10:30am http://www.yale.edu WED SEP 13 HAMDEN CT The Space - SHOW/7pm http://www.thespace.tk THU SEP 14 LOWELL, MA University of Mass., Lowell -LECTURE/PERF 1:00pm-3:00pm FRI SEP 15 *POSTPONED/RESCHEDULING*club CLOSED DOWN for NOISE /re-booking --http://www/lily-pad.net SAT SEP 16 PROVIDENCE RI AS220 -LECTURE/8:30pm SHOW/10pm http://www.as220.org SUN SEP 17 NEW YORK CITY NY The Monkey SHOW/8pm http://themonkeynyc.com/ MAHAVISHNU ORGAN TRIO NEWS In other news -Check out this fractal-offshoot of the amazing MAHAVISHNU PROJECT! http://www.mahavishnuproject.com
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Kilissa Cissoko says Zydeco-Reggae
Fest If you're in Buffalo next weekend... this is a great festival... and the fourth year promises to be even bigger and better. Always a nice time... great food and music. I'll be there... playing with the Dreadbeats. Spread the word! Begin forwarded message: ZYDECO-REGGAE FEST FOUR FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "We
are excited about the continuing success of our Zydeco-Reggae
Festival," say event organizers, Ron Davis of LeeRon Zydeco and Jim
Iarocci of The Dreadbeats. "We are happy to provide a community event
where people can bring their families and relax while enjoying some
good-time Cajun-Caribbean grooves, food and fun." Admission is five
dollars at the gate with children 12 and under admitted free. The event is
in a spacious tented grove and will run rain or shine. Alcoholic beverages
will be available on-site. For additional information, please see above
contact names. Also see www.leeron.com and www.Buffaloheardmusic.com.
Contacts: Ron Davis 716-835-9014 lrzydeco@leeron.com Jim Iarocci
-716-871-0296 Buffaloheard@adelphia.net Rose Garden -716-632-9871 ###
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Jerry Outlaw says: Please remind everyone that Adrian Belew is at the State theater on Friday night. "Jerry Outlaw and friends" is opening the show and it's gonna be a great night of very cool music that rarely gets seen or heard live. Adrian doesn't tour that much at all without King Crimson so this is a very special performance for this area. I am personally asking ALL Bogus Pomp fans to please come out and support this event. Friday
night, August 18th at the State Theater 687 Central Ave. --
Jerry
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Unfortunately, not many people know what Lex L. Bronkowitz can do with Zappa's music. Both "The Dangling Kitchen Session" and "Lex L. Bronkowitz Orchestra Plays FZ" are absolute highlights.
If you get the opportunity to buy one of his demos / albums, don't hesitate. This guy needs a record-deal.
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Here's another Pink Floyd / Zappa bootleg with the Amougies recordings:
The album has been released on regular black and on yellow vinyl.
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Last month, I told you that 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 includes
The following discs are examples of the recordings that were included with the box set. These recordings are audience recordings (recorded by someone in the audience), so the quality of the recording is not the strongest point, but nevertheless, these recordings give a nice impression of the performances.
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| "The Spirit Of Knebworth" gives an impression of what the festival must have been like; the disc presents 50 minutes of the various editions of the Knebworth festivals between 1974 - 1979, featuring The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and Genesis. |
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Hi there, In commemoration of the FOURtieth Anniversary of a World That Contains Freak Out! we are so very pleased to present the FZ Audiography and Documentary Evidence (for the first time this century) of those certain recording sessions that occurred in Los Angeles between March and April of 1966. Who Could Imagine??? Well, we all know the answer to that question. This exciting and Deluxe, Limited Edition contains FOUR historically magnificent discs for your Audio Gratification. And a Gorgeous booklet - with the original art and lots of special surprises - and your name too. Read on. And yes, directly from the Vault to you, this is your once in a lifetime opportunity to have your name included in the List of Lists - as a person of interest who contributed in a material way to make this music possible. With all due respect to AAAFNRAA, this is a limited offer and you must act quickly or forever hold your peace. (No, we did not say to withhold Peace!) This is Exclusive to Barfko-Swill. Shortly after you receive this email with all of this stunning information you will be able to go to Zappa.com and see that the Pre-Order is for real. And we also want to assure those of you who are possibly frightened of something that costs as much as Ms Pinky in these days of (speaking of) highly inflated gas prices and unseasonably rising global tensions and air temperatures that there will also be available a Very Wonderful Two Disc FZ Audio Documentary Release that might well turn up in greater convenience in your favorite record store (Is there such a Beast Anymore?). But for those of you without FEAR, who crave the Origin of the Species in all its Tactile and Audiophile MAGNIFICENCE, you know what to do. And we thank you for allowing us the pleasure of you r audience for FZ. We feel it is our duty . . . xxx, the Barfies
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A couple of weeks ago, I received a recording of the 2002/11/19 dutch radio 4 broadcast: "is dit nog wel jazz?", featuring the second part of the 2002/08/31 concert of CVB4, the Corrie van Binsbergen Quartet. This is great stuff. If you don't know what Corrie sounds like, buy one of her albums. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
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All of these concerts will feature Steve Vai as special guest
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DOOT!
and their triumphant return... ...from
the land of the "beer people". The dirty little secret of
central Europe is that everyone makes decent beer, some of it excellent,
but they will all begrudgingly admit that Belgium makes the good stuff. We
had some amazing beer. Belgian ales were among the best. The Corsendonk in
Turnhout was, in some ways, THE best. We
had a warm up gig at the Flora Theatre in Delft, NL. Our hosts were
Reinier Parengkuan and Derk Groen from Cucurullo Brillo Brullo. See
pics here: http://chollyhoss.com/doot/pics/doot-z17/ Zappanale
is like what everyone wants their high school reunion to be. Lots of very
cool folks who share your interests, soaking themselves in beer and not
starting fights or bragging about their kids. Nirvana, to be short. The
first artist of the festival was Corrie van Binsbergen. Haven't heard of
her? Your loss, punk. See
the Zappanale website for more info on the Z17 acts. Our
set commenced at 10:30 in the A freakin' M on Sunday, the last day of the
festival. As usual we had a few technical glitches before the soundcheck
could start, then we got off to a balky start. A rubber chicken detuned
Pete's bass. Really. But we got that fixed after Chunga's Revenge and the
rest of the set went fine. We will have the Zappanale set available from
the DOOT! websitein the near future. Until then, the aforementioned
Zappateers have a very nice audience tape available. http://www.zappateers.com/ More pics than you can shake a stick at! And some of them are kinda Speaking of the Zappateers: DOOT! owes them a beer or something because they turned out to see the Sunday "hangover set" and made it a really fun gig, instead of a re-enactment of Spinal Tap's "Jazz Odessy". At least we didn't place second to the puppet show! Have you hugged a Zappateer today? A brief rundown of the highlights of our trip: - Playing at the Flora Theatre in Delft This is where it gets sad. After the Zappanale Andre pulled me (Pete) aside and introduced me to Adrian Belew's engineer, Ken Latchney. He is also known as Kengineer. We all had this very "roller-coaster-ish" chat about cooking for a living (something that Ken and I have done), why cooks drink heavily, the workings of the superheterodyne radio receiver, FAA safety regs, and microphone selection. It was an amazing experience for us, maybe a relaxing chat with some fellow Americans for Ken. 10 days later the news was out that Ken had died. Ken was a singularity. You knew that he loved what he did for a living, even though the unpredictability was rough. Ken did what he loved and did it with peoplem and music that he loved. DOOT! would like to extend their deepest sympathies to Ken Latchney's
family, the Belews, Robert Fripp, The Bears, and the many others that he
touched in his life. For more information you can visit Keep checking in at the DOOT! website, Stephen,
Pete, Andre, and Nate
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE OFFICIAL STEVE VAI NEWSLETTER NEWS FLASH! Issue Three, Volume Three: Aug 5, 2006. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI & FRIENDS BENEFIT CONCERT - SEPT. 30 Steve and Joe will be holding a special benefit concert for their friend and music industry veteran Cliff Cultreri. The Cliff Show will take place on Saturday, September 30th at the House Of Blues, Hollywood, and will feature performances by both Satriani and Vai, as well as special guests to be announced. Steve Lukather and Scott Henderson are among the special guests already confirmed for the show. Cliff Cultreri is the A&R executive who discovered both Satriani and Vai as well as many other popular recording artists, while working at Relativity Records. Cultreri is currently suffering from a host of Auto-Immune and Connective-Tissue disorders that are attacking his immune system, a one in 100 million occurrence that causes severe pain and physical problems. Satriani and Vai hope to raise funds to help Cultreri and his familys financial needs. Tickets to the show will be $100, and go on sale August 12th. A limited number of tickets will be available for pre-sale @ $75 on Tue, Aug 8 through Ticketmaster.com. Stay tuned to Vai.com for password information. G3'06 AUSTRALIA:
JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI & JOHN PETRUCCI STEVE ON NEW MEAT
LOAF ALBUM: "BAT OUT OF HELL III" CARVIN
60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The Carvin Factory is located at: 12340 World Trade Drive, San Diego CA 92128. The event runs from 10am to 6pm. POD and Allan Holdsworth will also be appearing at the event, and there will be live performances from Off Track, Social Green, RDG, CAB (featuring Bunny Brunel, Tony MacAlpine, Patrice Rushen, Virgil Donati), Steve Oliver, Craig Chaquico and LiT. For more information, visit Carvin.com |
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André Cholmondeley hello all just a quick.(and kinda late) note to tell you that the very
great PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK kids are on the road!!! check 'em out-- doing
the best of all kinds of rock n roll, prog rock and other oddities, even a bit
of Zappa!! DETAILS>>>>>>> SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL STARS!!
Andre' Cholmondeley, Next Performances:
Andre' Cholmondeley -Tour Booking ON TOUR SOON- FALL 2006 USA and EUROPE with: The Al DiMeola
Project Various DiMeola VIDEOS!
Check out my NEW CD!! Andre' Cholmondeley "ENIGMA WITH ATTITUDE"
Soundbytes/Download as MP3s/Buy it as a CD!! http://store.itsaboutmusic.com/andre.html André Cholmondeley hey folks message #2. I know-- it's been a WHILE..since late June perhaps..??? I was in
England, Holland and Germany, played some gigs on mainland Europe.... and did
the tourist/couch surf thing in holland and UK... it was amazing!! Check out these specials shows – ZAPPA music performed by ED PALERMO BIG BAND, with CANDY ZAPPA _ Frank's younger sister!!! 2006/08/17 Ed Palermo Big Band
- concert (8:30PM) Hecksher Park, Chapin Rainbow Stage
Huntington, NY 2006/09/04 Ed Palermo Big Band -
concert (6:00PM) Detroit
Jazz Fest Detroit, MI here's a note from NIGEY LENNON, old friend of FZ..... See you there! Cheers, The ZAPPA SINGS ZAPPA East Coast Sub-Assistant Promotion Team Andre'
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| Frank Zappa cover, Los Angeles Times Magazine October 10 1988. Pitchman for Democracy, posing in Uncle Sam suit to get people to register to vote. It was a supplement in the LA times Sunday paper. |
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I probably told you this already, but if you're looking for some nice
pictures of the bands that participated to the Zappanale festival, you
should check out the Zappateers Scrapbook.
Both Apostrophe and Doot have added their pics as well. Go to http://www.zappateers.com/ and click on "Scrapbook". The picture on the right shows headliner Adrian Belew, picture taken by Fred Williamson / Apostrophe. |
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"MAC
EDITION RADIO" SHREDDING INTERVIEW with THE GREAT KAT by HARRIS
FOGEL! "The
Great Kat on Speed Guitar, Classical Music, & the LISTEN
NOW! or click: http://maceditionradio.com/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=3&pid=35
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jimmie d made a comparison of Ed Palermo's first album with its advance promo. Official album titled "The Ed Palermo Big Band Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa" 53 minutes 17 seconds
Advance promotional copy version titled "Ed Palermo Big Band: Big Band Zappa" 60 minutes 49 seconds
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(a message from Fred Hemmer)
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Welcome
to Chunga Radio Online Hi
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Here are some collected reviews that I received from the Grande Mothers promoter: GRANDE
MOTHERS PRINT MEDIA AND WEB MEDIA REVIEWS FOR CANADA JULY 2006 The
following reviews are taken from several print media outlets as well as fans
reviews posted on the internet. the
Grande Mothers Re:Invented They
will be at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival in November CANADIAN PRINT MEDIA REVIEWS "Rare
are the musicians who can even play Zappa's music, let alone make it live and
breathe. So Thank the Lord for the Grande Mothers. The people who loved their
music last year ranged in age from 16 to 60, and it's safe to say that a fine
time was had by all." "These
days Roy Estrada, along with Don Preston, and Napoleon Murphy Brock from Zappa's
mid to late 70's Mothers, are touring the world as the Grande Mothers and
keeping Zappa's music alive. They were here at the Folk Festival last year and
due to public demand are returning. "the
quintet known as the Grande Mothers served up vintage psychedelia - rock songs
with surreal lyrics, jazz-like harmonies and melodic complexity, with flashes of
wacky satire on a par with Monty Python's Flying Circus." "Fans
of Frank Zappa are going to freak out for the Grande Mothers. Zappa and his band
were creating a mixture of acid rock, psychedelia, doo-wop, avant-garde, tape
experiments, funk and jazz. With three different Zappa eras represented, the
Grande Mothers have a wide palette of material to choose from." "So
if necessity is the mother of invention, does than mean that the Grande Mothers
gave birth to necessity? Could be true, considering this is a band that
needs to be seen........." CANADIAN FAN REVIEWS WINNIPEG
FOLK FEST I was at the Ottawa show last night. Don, Napoleon and Roy were signing albums for people before the show. The show itself was one of the most incredible things I've witnessed. Unfortunately we didn't get Peaches or Slime (but Montana was played) but what impressed me was how much of WOIIFTM was played. We got Lonely Little Girl (which was greatly extended from the album version), Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? and The Idiot Bastard Son. We also got a lot of material from One Size Fits All, the highlights being excellent versions of Poegen and Sofa. A real highlight was Village of the Sun which was played like on the Roxy album. Napoleon mentioned the Helsinki live show at one point; "If anyone shouts out anymore requests it's gonna cost you 20 marcs!" Roy even did a very brief aria. He started by teasing us with little 10 second bits and saying "That's all you get" before giving in and singing a bit of Baby Snakes. The signing session after the show was great as well. Roy Estrada was especially nice to me. Near the end of the show two young women got up on the stage to dance. I joked around with Napoleon about his reputation as a lady's man, reminding him of about his great line from the Pisspot the rabbit interview, "If you shake your booty, anything is possible." He chuckled and grinned sheepishly. I said thank-you so much for coming to Ottawa and giving such an excellent show and he promised the Grande Mothers would come to Canada again." "Just got back from the show,suffice to say it was amazing!!!! I enjoyed it more than ZPZ, the vibe was just so much more a zappa show, (despite only having five band members.) The guitar solos were monstrously beautiful, and the drumming was interstellar! Nappy!!!! dear god that was impressive!!!! and Roy, hey, I thought he didn't play bass good since he was a mexican!!! he's better than he was on FZ:OZ even, trust me!!! and Don's solo on Trouble Every Day was unbelievably perfect. PLUS!!! they didn't shy away from the political comments, which, ZPZ playing Trouble Every Day without making it fit the modern time was ridiculous. All in all, it was amazing!!!" "I too was at this concert, it was INCREDIBLE! Seriously, I thought ZPZ was great and all, but this just blew my mind (I was at a lack of words during the intermission). One thing I really appreciated was that these Mothers really went out there and experimented onstage, in true Zappa fashion. A personal pick of the evening was their rendition of Twenty Small Cigars, a choice I was not expecting. They played with so much soul, so much love, it was incredible. Napoleon's sax playing during this number was heart wrenching. Beautiful. One of the best non-musical moments of the night was when they talked about Zappa's legacy, and then lead the audience in a round of applause for Frank himself. All in all, a great show. I can't help but wonder when the next Zappa-themed show will come around here. I hope that the Grande Mothers (or as they really should be called, as pointed out by the announcer at the concert, The Mothers of Invention) come back soon, I'd go to another concert without hesitation. I could go on for another 25 pages, I hardly even scratched the surface of all my feelings about the show. But I'll tastefully stop now." "It definitely was the other side of the coin, and makes me feel like i had a full Zappa experience this summer. I wish someone else would post the setlist, cause I am going to mess up the order.... but they opened with Help I'm a rock, with all members, except the guitarist, contributing familiar vocal noises to the building cacophony until it sequed into, Florentine Pogen???? I think? see I'm going to mess this up. But then they went into Big Swifty, which was chaotic and delightful, the jam I mean. roy immediately started singing I come from nowhere, it devolved into Don's solo rendition of Evelyn a Modified dog, then boosted up into some Call Any Vegetable teases, then back into the theme. I believe during this medley was where they played Black Napkins. I know it's a forbidden song, but the guitarist nailed it, his solo was amazing and georgeous, judging from the smiles on the audiences faces during this number, how could playing it be bad? This band is awesome. Their guitarists solos were sooo great, short, but technically awe inspiring, and INTERESTING!!! which sadly, dweez's solos are not. They then played Twenty Small Cigars, (nappy "when I think about Bill Clinton, I start to really like that title!" hahhah) which was a highlight. Nappy was playing the theme, and then going off and out into his magic solo land. not enough solo nappy time either, actually, noone got enough time, the concert was too short dagnammit! once the live Zappa starts flowing I'm insatiable! I need more! Roy's
bass playing was uberstellar as well, he's more amazing than any live documents
from Frank's bands proves, which I suppose means he's improved over the
years. Talking to Don before the show, (wow, uncle meat!!!! eating pie at the
table next to me!) he was saying how once Roy got on board with the Grande
Mothers, that's when it all clicked, that his bass playing, taught specifically
by zappa, (he used the example how instead of getting the bass to play the
tonic, he'd write a major seventh) brought the band together. other song's
played were Oh no, into Trouble everyday, which don sang, and made about bush.
yes, they didn't shy away from making trouble ABOUT something. Don's solo in
trouble was amazing. sadly there was so little soloing from him, this was his
only monster of the night. they played Echidnas, which admittedly was not as
good as ZPZ's version, but they did play the beginning of Don't you Ever wash
that thing, which I REALLY appreciated. now here are some things I never would
have expected. they played Debra Kedabra!!! a total favorite of mine! I couldn't
believe it! with the drummer doing his best don van. I couldn't contain
myself!!!! and into Carolina hard core ecstacy! OW!!! oh ya, somewhere in there
let's make the water turn black, Idiot Bastard son (napoleon's voice on this
just took the cake, took the mothafuckin cake! ) and Harry You're a beast!!
there was also a slow doowoppy song, but I forget which one.(The Air) "Now for some of my favourite numbers played that night. The first mind-blower of the evening was Big Swifty. They played the opening effortlessly before delving into unknown territories. Roy singing I Come From Nowhere, a hilarious midsong version of Evelyn, A Modified Dog... it was nuts! A personal pick of the evening was their rendition of Twenty Small Cigars, a choice I was not expecting. They played with so much soul, so much love, it was incredible. Napolean's sax playing during this number was heartwrenching. Beautiful. One of the best non-musical moments of the night was when they talked about Zappa's legacy, and then lead the audience in a round of applause for Frank himself. They played Debra Kadabra, which was an obscure choice. Chris Garcia handled the vox, and did a fantastic job of a song that is very hard to do well (The Captain is very hard to imitate). Very rocking performance. I'd say my favourite performance of the night was Trouble Every Day, sung by Don, adding in current political commentary. Roy and Nappy added in many asides which made me laugh out loud. The song was played with unbridled fury, which left me completely amazed."
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New free download
from WM Recordings:
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Steve and Ed Fowler's "No Hyenas" was released in 2000 by world alchemy records. www.worldalchemy.net 100%
of World Alchemy's proceeds go to ALS (Lou Gehrig Desease) Therapy
Development Foundation (Steve's illness) Music
can be downloaded at http://music.msn.com/album/?album=48552759 http://www.rhapsody.com/steveandedfowler/nohyenas http://www.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12105175 Please
link to our page and contribute to a great cause Thanks, Jaime Valenzuela
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Those of you who visit these pages on a more regular basis, will
probably know that UM is mostly about "news", and about
archives. Every once in a while, I try to add some really old stuff to the
archives. It's fun and I like the visual thing. Below, you can find info & pictures on the ten issues of Hot Raz
Times that Urban Gwerder put out between 1973 and 1974.
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hot raz times vol. I - no.1 / 1973
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hot raz times vol. I - no.2 / 1973
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hot raz times vol. I - no.4 + 5 / 1973
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hot raz times vol. I - no.6 / 1973
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hot raz times vol. II - no.1 / 1974
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hot raz times vol. II - no.2 / 1974
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hot raz times vol. II - no.3 / 1974
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hot raz times vol. II - no.4 / 1974
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Here's some more collectables: the impossible to find japanese promo cd; a copy of downbeat magazine from 1978, and an almost coverversion from 1967.
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Adrian Belew Trio continues:
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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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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):
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