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the big nOte files - july 2007 |
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the big nOte files - july 2007 |
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| updated August 07, 08, 11, 15, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 29, 2007 | ||
| please send additions & corrections to bignOte@yucom.be |
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| short bits: * * * joe satriani's "surfing with the alien" has
been re-released as a cd + dvd set * * * *
* * a new dvd bootleg with the barcelona 88 zappa concert should be out *
* * Octafish has a new album ready "Party Alarm" * * * and
check out http://idiotbastard.bravehost.com/20xIBS.htm * * *
another bootleg 2CD album has been spotted:
"saint
mothers in saint paul", a concert recording from 'st.paul
auditorium', st. paul on 27th november 1974 ; it's a so-called zappa
fan trust release (no. 008/009) and it's limited to 600
numbered copies. *** the zappa
2008 calendar is out as well ***
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MUFFIN MEN GERMAN TOUR DATES - update
The Muffin Men homepage, also has three mp3 radio shows for your enjoyment: Check out http://www.muffinmen.co.uk/
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| Roddie Muffin says:
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2007/10/20 "Frank Zappa Kongres 2007"
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Thanks to Andrew G., here's an additional couple of Zappanale setlists:
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| Here's another gem. From almost 40 years ago, here's a picture of the labels of a Mexican split 7" featuring The Mothers and... Nancy Sinatra !!
-- info & scans: Hans-Peter Schmidt |
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RAINER TANKRED PAPPON |
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PROXIMAMENTE Tony
Moliterni & Sul Divano Presentan
su Música e interpretan a Frank Zappa
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Brainpang says: ...
stumbled across the following on a Tom Waits site. Ain't
never heard about it before. It's a footnote, but check out the whole
thing for yourself. Best,
bp http://www.tomwaitslibrary.com/extras/cops.html Terran T. Steinhart: "1974-1981: Associate of music business lawyer, Martin Cohen, then partner in Cohen and Steinhart, Hollywood. Handled all of the entertainment litigation, trials and appeals, and did some music business transactional work. Handled litigation matters for various music producers, personal managers, private record labels, songwriters and artists, including artists of note: Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Bobby Womack, Eric Burdon, George Duke, and John Mayall. The more memorable trials in this era include: representing Frank Zappa against Alice Cooper for breach of contract and unfair competition; representing Tom Waits against Los Angeles County for law enforcement abuse at Duke's Restaurant (nicknamed by Tom, Dukeing it Out at Duke's)." (Copied from: Steinhartlaw.com. Copyright Terran T. Steinhart 1999, All Rights Reserved) |
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Eazy Teeth was a project of Paul Young, Robert Williams and Tito Larriva. Don Van Vliet did the artwork of their "Car Noise / Her Blade" 7" from 1980. Below are the pictures of the front and back cover, as well of the labels. -- info & pictures: Hans-Peter Schmidt |
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Here's the complete list of dates for the Yuripean ZpZ
tour, including the Düsseldorf gig on October 2 !
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And here are the new dates:
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a message from RalphAmerica Hi
Rez Friends: ...remember that there is a new Residents release coming from Mute in October. Ralph will be doing a special promotional presale for Voice of Midnight, and it'll be one that you won't want to miss. The presale package will have something very special. But it's still shrouded in mystery. I can tell you what it will NOT be: The bonus item will NOT be a shirt, a poster, a wristband, a mousepad, pad thai, Edweena's Mushrooms, or a baby's arm holding an apple. But it certainly WILL be BONUS. So before you preorder with any other online retailer, remember the BONUS that you'll miss that will not be available from that particular online retailer. Just sayin... More exciting Ralph stuff coming...stay tuned... The
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| Till A. says:
Dear
all, this
is my latest video new on U Tube. This video contains material which a
truly free society would neither fear nor suppress. Do not take any
biological or chemical drugs before watching this video. It may confuse
your database. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NxwNw7YB9LI - |
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| If you're familiar with DimeADozen, you
should check some of the recent PJ Harvey
shows that have been added. There's some excellent 1995 shows from the
North American tour, as well as from the following Yuripean tour. Both line-ups include ex-Magic Band member Eric Drew Feldman on bass. Check them out. |
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| This second volume of The Residents' "Best Left Unspoken" series, included another batch of 'hard-to-find' and unreleased items. Food for hardcore Rezfanatics? Well, ... probably, yes. But it's still an excellent addition to your Residents collection, and as these are only released in limited quantity, you might not want to wait too long... | |
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| On the occasion on the day
after the last date of the most recent leg of Zappa Plays Zappa, we are
pleased to pronounce that not only is the CD, The Dub Room
Special now shipping to a mailbox near you and live at Barfko-Swill
(12:00 PST), but here are some new dates for the Tour
de Frank in Europe and another large continent. Maybe even two. And speaking of two, as in altogether and including, you should expect to hear with your two ears more fabulousness from The Vault ere the dawning of a new year in which to vote in these here parts. xxx, the barfies |
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| I don't think that I mention The Residents
often enough in this webthing... What these guys (and girls) do, keeps amazing me. The last year or so, The Residents have collected various more or less rare recordings, and released them in their "Best Left Unspoken" series. Three volumes have been released so far, each in a limited edition of 1000 copies. One can argue wether or not these albums add enough 'new' material to
the Residents fan, as most Residents fans buy almost everything the band
releases, and the "Unspoken" series only includes a handful of
previously unreleased material...
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"Buffalo" album has been released as a triple vinyl bootleg album
set. It's out in two editions: on black vinyl, and, as a limited release
of 200 copies, on blue vinyl.
The source for this bootleg release was the official CD. |
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newsflash from crossfire publications:
for one of the next releases on crossfire publications, Greg Russo is looking for a clean, lossless, raw version (no noise-reduction!) of the Lo Boys single called "Play Your Music"/ "Funny Money." It was released on the Goldust label. If you have it, drop me a line, or mail Greg through his crossfire publications website.
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| The Low Budget Research Kitchen has
updated their MySpace website.
The band has added pictures from their concert at the "Festival Paredes de Coura", Aug 13, 2007.
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| Debutante Daisy's upload of her Zappanale
pictures crashed the Zappateers Scrapbook for a little while...
Check them out: http://www.zappateers.com/scrapbook/thumbnails.php?album=103
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| BigElectricChat the adrian belew e-newsletter august 17, 2007 ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO TOUR (SUMMER 2007) ADRIAN'S ELEPHANT BLOG STILL GOING STRONG LOTS OF DOWNLOADS AT STOREBELEW ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO TOUR (SUMMER 2007) Adrian, Julie, and Eric will be braving the heat and hitting the streets in August thru September. Don't miss them.
ADRIAN'S ELEPHANT BLOG STILL GOING STRONG |
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let's go back a couple of weeks, to 2007/08/04 to be more exact: Zappanale – day 2 Saturday morning, start of the second day of Zappanale madness. Friday had been the most impressive day in my five (or was it six) years of Zappanale. I saw a lot of impressive bands and heard tons of great music. For Saturday, I had made a mental note not to miss Octafish and Kimono Draggin. It turned out a good decision. |
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| The Chen Unst performance took place at ‘the other side’ of the festival ground. Somewhere between the pancake and the “freak festival” stall. I hadn’t been too impressed with the band on Thursday, where they had some technical problems. Still, with all their gear intact, they couldn’t convince me.
The picture below was taken by Bazbo. It shows the stage / truck where the Chen Unst performance was taking place.
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| Next up was Team Zappa, a
band from Norway: great musicianship, a very fine choice of Zappa
compositions and very impressive vocals. Not all opinions agreed, but
for my taste, Team Zappa did a great job. This was excellent
acquaintance. I really liked the soulful vocal touch.
Goosebumps.
A video recording of the concert was made available on DVDR in a limited edition of 20 copies.
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| Here's a video fragment (shot by Till A.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvNxbHsjXG0 If you want to see more of Till's experiments, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9OeH0sX_NA http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xNbOIPLxJO8 - |
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next. You should know that Octafish is one of my favourite bands. Their
“Land Unter” and “Hai Girls” albums are essential listening. I
can recommend these to everyone. The band completely fulfilled the
expectations. Octafish will have a new album out very soon. If it
will be anything like their Zappanale concert, it sure promises to be
good. I love progressive rock with a zappa twist.
Another highlight. The band spiced up their setlist with some very fine Zappa tunes: 'G-Spot Tornado', 'King Kong' and 'Let's Move To Cleveland'. A video recording of the concert was made available on DVDR, in a limited edition of 20 copies.
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| This year’s surprise was a quiz. The
questions were compiled by Ben Watson, and I was under the impression
that quite a lot of people took part in this contest. This was nice
change, and a good opportunity for me to have a bite and a beer. Congrats to Andreas, Jack, Andrew, Billy, Jaromil and all the other Zappateers who took home some very spectacular prizes. |
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took the stage around 8 p.m. and they played one of the most powerful
sets of the festival. This was right up my alley. Kimono Draggin
frontman Joe Nolan, who you should recall as the guitar man in Doctor
Dark, played some mean guitar. Josh Hatton (bass and vocals) and Chris
Swirski (drums & vocals) completed this insane trio. I loved it.
The picture on the right shows Joe Nolan, plucking his guitar, picture taken by xal & ke. The picture below shows Stephen Chillemi, special guest with Kimono Draggin', at Zappanale 18, performing Captain Beefheart's 'Electricity'.
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Kimono Draggin' has been doing concerts in the UK and in France
recently.
Here's a link to some pictures: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8IZt2rNoycOmg
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Without Nail Bros. are becoming a yearly returning event at
Zappanale. I like what this Austrian band does, and it does sound okay,
but I do think that it’s a bit too clean. They played the entire Roxy
album, and performed the music the way that it sounds on the album. A
great job, but nothing unexpected. There were a lot of people on the stage (they have something like four lead vocalists), but I didn’t hear any ripping solos, spectacular arrangements, or other freaky stuff… I think that that’s a pity, because the band showed some incredible musicianship, so they should be able to do whatever they want… Noteworthy: Napoleon Murphy Brock did join Sex Without Nails Bros for a couple of songs.
(thanks to kdj for the setlist) A video recording of the concert was made available on DVDR, in a limited edition of 20 copies.
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| At this time, I had reached my limit, so I
called it a night. I went to Big Blue (the zappateers tent), had a beer
and listened to an acoustic set of The Foolz. An excellent way to
close another excellent day... And yess, this means that I missed Space Debris. I was / am unfamiliar with the band, so I did want to hear them, but I was running out of energy. Space
Debris is:
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| Zappanale – day 3 After a good night’s rest, I was completely ready for Day 3. My check-list said: Harmonia at 5 p.m. and Chad Wackerman at 8 p.m. |
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| German band The
Polytoxicomane Philharmonie kicked off the day at 11 a.m.
with some nice, psychedelic music. This was a great way to start the
final day of a festival. We heard a fragile voice combined with some
spacey guitar and saxophone solos.
The picture below was taken by xal & ke.
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two albums out. The first one got released on CD in 2003, but has been
re-issued on LP on Nasoni Records. Earlier this year, The Polytoxicomane
Philharmonie released their second album, also on the Nasoni label.
Especially for Zappanale, the band released a 7" vinyl picture disc with two Zappa compositions:
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| The Great Googly Moogly comes from
Sweden. They're a 9-piece band, and they play the music of Frank Zappa. I had heard
a recording of one of their concerts, and I'm familiar with their demo,
so I was pretty excited to see them.
Great
Googly Moogly is:
with special guests:
They played a rather impressive set. I was not convinced by the vocal
capabilities, but that's the risk that you take when you want to play
some songs that were made famous by Flo & Eddie...
(thanks to kdj for the setlist) The picture on the right was taken by Bazbo and shows bandleader Anders Johansson, on drums. The below picture was also taken by Bazbo.
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Hundehagen has performed at least 6 times at the Zappanale
festival. For this occasion, they had added an electric violin to the
band.
Jazzprojekt
Hundehagen is:
with
special guest:
The band played some McLaughlin / Mahavishnu material, and of course, a lot of Zappa stuff as well.
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| Sunday had started out just fine. The Polytoxicomane
Philharmonie was very nice, Great Googly Moogly did a good
job, and the Jazzprojekt Hundehagen had played an impressive set.
The weather was great as well, to say the least. After standing in the
sun for three concerts, my body needed a rest and, most important of
all, shadow and water. This meant that I missed the first part of the Harmonia
Ensemble. A pity, because what I did see, really blew me over.
Harmonia
Ensemble is:
The Harmonia performance was another highlight of the festival. Incredible arrangements, superb performances, ... what else do you need?
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| Around 8 p.m., the Chad Wackerman Trio took the
stage: Chad Wackerman on drums, Mike Miller on guitar, and Doug Lunn
on bass.
Pictures taken by Bazbo. Another superb concert. Fusion, yes. A lot of Wackerman and Mike Miller compositions. I was surprised that Chad played a lot of his older compositions. I had expected some new material, or maybe even a Zappa tune. But the set was perfect. I'm not just a huge fan of Chad Wackerman, both Mike Miller and Doug Lunn are on top of my list as well. It was fusion, and it rocked. :-) |
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| I've probably
said it before, but Zappanale just keeps getting better. The quality of
the performances, the audience, the crew, the organisation,...
This was an incredible experience. Thank you very much. |
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for the up coming documentary on Carl
O. Franzoni by David Borboa. www.DavidBorboa.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8soJk00V_n8 David Borboa is currently seeking funding to complete this project. Go to his website and donate, or e-mail him suggestions at his website. -- info from John Kaminski |
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WM RECORDINGS |
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New
free release, available now: Gorowski - Simulators can [WM067] - http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm067.htm Still
in the pipeline: the Chenard Walcker tribute (yes, it will really see
the light of day; most likely we'll split it up into a series of mini
albums), a new Century of Aeroplanes album, Italian weirdness by
3Sacchetti and more iTunes goodies. Keep an eye on our site! best
wishes,
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2007 08 13 Friday august 17, Mike Keneally will be vip-co-host in
nps studio 6, and will present the show together with Co de Kloet. Immediately after the show Mike and Co head for Geldern, Germany, where Mike will play his first full length european solo show ever on saturday 18 !
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2007 08 07 On
a bus to Detroit, surrounded by sleeping All-Stars, with a hotel
complimentary "breakfast" burning a hole in my gut, four hours
of sleep, so all is well. I
arrived in Chicago from Austria last night. The Outreach Festival was
sublime. We did two wonderfully well-received shows, including the
"Heavy Metal Miles" show with Adam Holzman and Franz Hackl.
Franz organizes this Festival in Schwaz every year, brilliantly, but he
is also a superb trumpeter-- perfectly in touch with the Miles vibe
without resorting to mimicry. Adam, of course, played keys with Miles
and he knows this music inside and out. He played fantastically. It was
a privilege to play this material with him, and wicked fun to hear Bryan
and Marco digging their teeth into these tunes (songs included the
"Jack Johnson" theme, "What I Say,"
"Mademoiselle Mabry," "Black Satin," "Its About
That Time," and several others). I wondered what those two would
think of the Miles material-- they loved it! Now
it's School of Rock All-Stars time. I got back to the U.S. too late to
do Lollapalooza with them, but they say they had an awesome time there,
and the glow from it should continue to shine over this next batch of
shows. It's always an honor to present these players on stage, and to do
what I can to provide some direction and inspiration for them. I can't
wait to hear them play tonight. Next
week-- the Offside Open festival in Gelderland, Germany. Another
collaboration with our dear friend Co de Kloet, and my first solo
concert performance in Europe. I'll do some singing, guitaring and
keyboarding, maybe a little dance or two. I'll present some Scambot
material for the first time, plus some older tunes which don't get
played too often. Got a couple of weird ideas for a cover song also.
This should be great fun. We
might mess with the look of The Keneallist again pretty soon-- as long
as we've got these graphic possibilities to play with, I thought I might
like to personalize it a little bit. You'll see what I mean soon. Coming
in October, more festivals in Budapest and Sweden, and then something
really crazy, which I'll have to tell you about a little later. But
here's a hint: Metal. When's
the last time you listened to RadioKeneally? Just wondering. Now
it's time for Pepto-Bismol and bus sleep. Just passed the Power Rangers
Super Legends Hummer limo. It's covered with orange flames and I guess
it's filled with Power Rangers Super Legends. Thanks
my friends, MK Upcoming
Keneally appearances: School
of Rock All-Stars (Mike does not perform, but presents
the concerts performed by students aged 13 to 18) Aug
7 Aug
9 Aug
10 Aug
11 Aug
12 Mike
Keneally Keneally
Solo Mike
Keneally Sunday,
September 9, 2007 Mike Keneally Band (Mike Keneally, Rick Musallam, Doug Lunn & Marco Minnemann) Saturday,
September 22, 2007 Mike
Keneally Band (Mike Keneally, Rick Musallam, Doug Lunn & Marco
Minnemann) Friday,
September 28, 2007 in short:
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2007 08 15 Things were a bit hectic last week. I arrived home from Bad Doberan on Monday the 6th; had to get back to work on Wednesday the 8th; and have been trying to get into the usual rhythm since then. Not that the holidays are completely over. We have scheduled a couple of days to visit LegoLand (in Germany) somewhere next week. The kids have been getting pretty excited about it the last couple of days. About Lego, I have always been wondering: there's LegoCity, there's Harry Potter in Lego, there's Star Wars and castles and knights and dragons,... but there are no jambands, no concert halls, no freaks, no jazz musicians, ... so I guess Lego still has a long way to go. Anyway, here's another attempt for a "Zappanale report". |
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I already told you that that my trip to BD had a very impressive start.
Half an hour befored I actually took off, these three little gems arrived
at the United Mutations HQ. Not that I consider these albums 'music for on
the road', but they made the trip quite pleasant. In the meantime, as you can imagine, I've also listened to these discs with the headphones on ('cause that's the way that I prefer it), and I even did the review thing, right over here. |
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Arriving in Bad Doberan felt like coming home. I got there in the early evening on Wednesday and started with a little walk through the centre of the town. Quite enjoyable, especially since I also found a couple of friends having a beer outside the KampTheater. The previous years, we (my wife and I) always arrived on Friday morning. This means: driving at night, missing the first evening / opening of the festival, already being pretty tired, and getting there only a couple of hours before the start of 'Day One'. Quite exciting, but it's all in a rush. This time, I went on my own, and I had made it my goal to do it all in a more relaxed way. I was also very fortunate that I could have a bed in the Zappateers Ranch, a house with something of ten rooms and twenty beds plus a remarkable land-lady (I'm putting it mildly here...). The Zappateers Ranch: Most of the people that were staying over at the Zappateers Ranch arrived on Wednesday. And all of these were at the KampTheater on Wednesday evening. Add to that Hasi, Steve, Magdalena, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Andre Cholmondeley and Cheri Jiosne (plus a buch of others whose names I can't remember), and you can tell that we had a nice start.
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Thursday, the 2nd of August, was the perfect example of what a holiday
should look like: a good night's rest, breakfast with friends, nice
weather, good company, a ride with Molli, a barbecue, seeing friends in
person after a year, meeting people that you only know from the internet,
and an opening of a festival...
Well, not just 'an opening of a festival'. No. The opening, or "Warm-Up Party" of Zappanale 18, at the KampTheater.
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First up, was "Derailroaded", a documentary about Wild
Man Fischer. The documentary was shown at the KampTheater. The
KampTheater, of Kino, as they also call it, is the Bad Doberan movie
theater. The perfect spot to show this documentary.
If you have never seen this documentary, you really should try to. It's available on DVD, so it shouldn't be too hard to find. Derailroaded is a very interesting document. It shows that there's a very thin line between being original and being creative on the one hand, and being considered too weird and even dangerous on the other hand. If Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer would only have been half as 'mad' as he is, he might have been thought of as a genius. Mark Mothersbaugh also appears in the movie (as do Frank Zappa and his wife Gail), and he says something like: "In other cultures, Larry Fischer would have been worshipped". |
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The first 'real' concert of the evening was by Christophe
Godin.
Godin's band was scheduled to perform on Friday, but he gave an impression of what we should expect on Thursday evening. He performed solo, standing on a platform of a truck, on the street, accompanied by a backing tape (cdr). During the gig, his amplifier fell over, but Christophe, who hadn't noticed at first, just kept on playing while a couple of roadies put everything up again. Fun. This remarkable little incident, however, added a little surprise
factor to the concert. Before each song, Christophe would ask the
sound-guy to start a certain backing-track on the cdr. The little paper
with the setlist and cdr-track-numbers had been lying on the amplifier... The weather wasn't too good that night and it even started raining again near the end of the concert. Godin's concert, however, was fabulous. Incredible and fabulous. The picture on the right was taken by Bazbo.
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Next up was Chen Unst. Lots of samples, a vocalist, and a drummer,
doing a Beefheart Project.
Chen Unst would be doing two performances at Zappanale 18: they would do the "Warm-Up Party" on Thursday, 2008/08/02, and another performance at the festivalground on Saturday 2008/08/04. Appearantly some of their gear didn't function properly on Thursday evening (hard disc crash?). I wasn't too impressed, but wanted to check them out on Saturday anyway. |
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I had no idea of what to expect on Friday. It did look rather impressive
with Mörglbl, with Project/Object and with Trigon...
The day started out fine, as Pete Brunelli was kind enough to transmorph into the United Mutations Photographer. We met another bunch of crazy people, and we were ready to go. !! thanks to kdj for the setlists !! |
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Preston's Akashic Ensemble features Don on synths and samples,
Andre Cholmondeley on synth guitar and vocals, and Cheri Jiosne
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I really liked this. The Akashic Ensemble has one album out, "The
Inner Realities Of Evolution", and that's a very impressive disc, but
seeing the trio perform this sort of experimental music live, just gives
it an extra touch. Great pieces, plus impressive improvisations and
interactions between the musicians on stage. They also played two old
Mothers tunes.
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I had heard some good things about Monty
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band had contributed to the UK Zappateers festival, and they had made a
good impression.
They played an OK gig. Good vocals, good bass playing. Lotsa Zappa, and I enjoyed their own material as well. These guys can get somewhere.
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Thursday night, Christophe Godin
had mad quite an impression on all of the KampTheater visitors. Friday
afternoon, after he took the stage with Mörglbl, he turned the entire
festival-ground upside down. I never saw this many people in front of the
stage for an afternoon concert.
These guys had it all: great songs, great chops, and a lot of humour. They even threw in a couple of Zappa tunes (first time performances by Mörglbl). Another highlight of this year's edition. When the concert was over, I remember saying to someone "This is it. It has been enough for one day. An excellent Don Preston concert and a fantastic Mörglbl gig... For me the day can't get any better than this. I can go have a beer, and go to bed..."
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Even though I was completely blown away by Mörglbl, I decided to
hang around. Even if it was just to check out Project/Object later
that night.
I was having a chat with some of my German friends, with Jack and his lovely wife (they flew over from Guam !!), and with XYQA and Daisy when my ears were drawn to the stage. This sounded really good. I know the I Virtuosi Dal Planeta Talento ensemble from their contribution to the "Frank You, Thank" sampler, and even might have a concert recording of the band, but this sounded really good. Especially the guy on the chromatic harmonica was great. And if that wasn't enough, Napoleon Murphy Brock joined the band for a couple of songs. Excellent.
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What does Italy have with Zappa's music? The last couple of years we've
seen some excellent italian bands performing at Zappanale. I Virtuosi Dal
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Thursday evening, the news had reached us that Ike Willis had
missed his flight. No Ike Willis at Zappanale 18. A pity, but then again, Project/Object
is an excellent band. The guys did an excellent job. Another highlight. Project/Object is:
With special guests:
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German power-trio Trigon had the difficult task to close the first
day. And what a day it was...
I mentioned the above pictured Trigon albums a couple of weeks ago. Check them out here and here. Trigon played a very nice set. It sounded good. The first hour was very stong. For my ears, their set was a bit too long, but still, a very nice show and a perfect band to close the first day.
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Thanks to my favourite Doot!onians, I was able to add a lot of extra info
to the Doot! discography section.
Remember: Doot! is everywhere, and everywhere is Doot!. Even Bad Doberan. Shortly after I arrived in Bad Doberan I had this superb Doot! moment. Take a look at these:
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Here's a great way to raise money for charity: http://www.cmarket.com/catalog/itemDetail.do?ID=274f486554a4a5aa23983423ef4dabd6 Check it out !! AN INCREDIBLE TWO-HOUR ZAPPA AUDIO SNACK! The winning bidder will be allowed an exclusive visit to The Vault at Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (UMRK) in Los Angeles, famously, the home of all Frank Zappa Masters. An opportunity to be one of the few insiders in history, but more importantly, you will be the personal guest of Gail Zappa and Joe Travers (Vaultmeister & Drummer for Zappa Plays Zappa, starring Dweezil Zappa) to tour The Vault and listen to selections of Zappa music that have not been previously released. -- info through the zappateers site
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As you probably know, I was in Bad Doberan the last couple of days.
Getting my yearly dose of Zappanale.
It was just fabulous. It just keeps getting better and better each and every year. I will get back to it, of course, but for starters, you might want to check out debutante_daisy's and the doochessofprunes' diary over at zappa dot com: http://www.zappa.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12501 (finally something interesting to read over at z dot com...) 2007/08/03 - 05 "Zappanale 18" opening night at the kampftheater - 2007/08/02
day one - friday - 2007/08/03 day two - saturday - 2007/08/04
day three - sunday - 2007/08/05
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L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie is an 18-piece, professional orchestra: 12 string instruments, 5 wind instruments and 1 piano. The orchestra is conducted by Jean Luc Rimey-Meille. January 2008, the ensemble will do a tour entitled "The Big Note - Frank Zappa Alchimiste". For these concerts, a number of extra instruments will be added: guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, trumpet and a trombone. The pieces to be performed include:
the orchestra:
the added musicians:
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Dieter Jakob's vinyl bootleg bible is scheduled to be out & ready to
ship somewere at the end of September.
This will be one big book...
The
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According to cekman, over at the zappateers site, the audio CD of
"The Dub Room Special" is out and available at the ZpZ shows.
tracklist
total time: 64:28 liner notes by Gail Zappa, and by Peppers guitarist John Frusciante Gail Z also announced it on the Z dot com forum in her own cryptic way: "Yes! These are yer ackshul tape segments from the Vault, floor, reels of UMRK. Live on the road until 24 August." which should translate into something like: the album is available at the ZpZ shows until August 24, and, if you look closely, the cd-case includes a little piece of actual tape ! (nice touch)
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The Whip It Out Ensemble is from Calgary, Canada. The ensemble has
been performing Frank Zappa's music since 2002. Until today, they have
done some 20 concerts, and after I listened to their new CD set, and
watched their DVD, I have to say that these concerts sure sound like a lot
of fun...
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Hans-Peter Schmidt's flowing stream of data included cover, back-cover and
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The Bogus Pomp Website: www.boguspomp.net
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Here's another one of those albums from twenty years ago... R.T.C.'s
"Seropositive". Niek Roovers and Ron Overbeek...
Does anyone out there have a copy of R.T.C.'s "Tomorrow We Talk About Your Career"? It should include a Zappa tune as well, but I'm not sure about that. Anyone...? Anyway, I'm looking for the info, as well as for a copy of the album... |
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Alarm Will Sound is a 20-piece chamber orchestra / new music
ensemble / band from New York, that performs contemporary classical music.
They have performed works of both Zappa and Varèse.
Zappa's 'Dog Breatch Variations' and 'Uncle Meat' have been performed on various occasions.
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It looks like the Czech Frank Zappa FanClub is working on a groovy outfit.
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Yes, you heard it right. There's two new Bogus Pomp DVDs out. The first
one is from the end of last year and is a recording of the Zappaween XI
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Adding another bunch of book covers to the Zappa bookshelf section... (thanks to Hans-Peter Schmidt) zappa vox
by yasuo yagi
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dominique
chevalier - "Zappa Vox" consists of a slipcase with two books. Both books are pictured below
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zappa par zappa
french re-edition with extra material of
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Captain Cheese-Beard & the 7 Sisters of Prevention are scheduled to perform at "Route 66" in Verviers, Belgium on September 11, 2007.
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I've been a fan of Frank Zappa's music for a long time. I listen to his
albums. I buy every new album. I go to concerts where they play Zappa's
music. I have a lot of friends who have the same hobby. Usually, we don't
call it a hobby, we call it a way of life. You want to know why? Because every fan needs a new release from time to time, because every fan wants to go to a concert to get to hear his favourite music from time to time... Thanks to organisations like the Arf Society and to bands that play Zappa's music, his music is still alive. We want to listen to Zappa's music. We want Zappa's music to be alive.
We're in it for the music. FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Zappa
Wife Threatens Musicians' Collective; Fan Club Responds Bad
Doberan, July 24, 2007 - This Saturday, the city of Berlin will dedicate a
street to the memory of Frank Zappa. But Gail Zappa, wife of the late rock
iconoclast, has threatened to sue the musicians' collective behind the
naming unless Germany's formally-chartered Zappa fan club withdraws from
the event. A
letter from a Dusseldorf law firm accuses Arf-Society e.V. (the fan club)
of exploiting the street dedication for its own purposes, and of copyright
violations and other rights infringements. The letter also contends that
Gail Zappa did not know about the street-naming, and that she should have
been contacted for approval. In
response, Thomas Dippel, Arf-Society chairperson, released the following
statement: "How
this all came about: Acting on a proposal by the ORWOhaus musicians'
collective, the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district board approved renaming 'Road
13' as 'Frank-Zappa-Strasse', the first street in Germany named for a rock
musician. This major recognition of Frank pleased us greatly, of course.
We immediately contacted ORWOhaus to assure them of our help in any way we
could. "When
Ahmet Zappa [Zappa's second son] was in Berlin on November 6, 2006,
publicizing his first book, members of ORWOhaus invited him to take part
in the preparations and the event itself. By making contact with the Zappa
family, ORWOhaus hoped to spark a dialog about plans for the event. The
family never responded to these overtures. "So,
Arf-Society began to help by contacting Zappa tribute band 'Sheik
Yerbouti', and by arranging the participation of Napoleon Murphy Brock,
revered Zappa band member and star of last year's Zappa Plays Zappa tour.
In fact, Arf-Society is paying half of Mr. Brock's travel expenses, which
enables ORWOhaus to put a serious representation of Zappa's music on stage
for the celebration, despite a very limited budget. "But
then ORWOhaus received a letter from Thomas Schmitz, of the Dusseldorf law
firm Reiman Osterreith Kohler Haft, dated July 10, 2007, saying that they
were retained to represent the legal interests of Gail Zappa and her
children after press releases saying that Arf-Society would be involved in
the street-naming. Gail Zappa would sue because Arf-Society 'is constantly
violating her trademark rights and copyrights, and exploiting the artistic
heritage of Frank Zappa. Our client will under no circumstances put up
with that Society taking publicity from the street renaming for their own
purpose.' "These
groundless accusations hurt us deeply, as we have strived for almost two
decades to honor and preserve Frank Zappa's musical heritage. Long before
2004, we repeatedly invited Gail Zappa and her family to work together
with us, especially since they would profit from our work promoting
Frank's legacy. Yet, Gail Zappa's only answer reads: 'If you want to play
with me, you have to play it by my rules!' She has also threatened other
Zappa tribute bands and artists with restraining orders for quite some
time." "Mrs
Zappa, we protest explicitly against the unwarrented claims you raised. As
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Webradio as you have never experienced it before:
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The Rockin' Rebellions, from Birmingham, Alabama, recorded and released Frank Zappa's 'Anyway The Wind Blows' as a B-side for their 'Don't Let Go" 7". Hans-Peter Schmidt adds that three different versions / labels of this release exist. They have been added to the Rockin' Rebellions' entry.
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Charles Ulrich noticed a bunch of bad links of the Ray
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The Ensemble Ascolta is a German ensemble that performs contemporary music. The band recently performed two 'unheard' Zappa pieces in concert: 'I Was In A Drum' and 'Reagan At Bitburg'. March 2007, the band had agreed a long-term co-operation deal with Gail Zappa to arrange a number of these unpublished pieces, plus the possibility to produce a CD on the Zappa label. -- info from the Zappateers site & from www.idiotbastard.bravehost.com/ |
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Every last Tuesday of the month, at the Jansen Bar in Berlin, Germany, a
"Zappa Listening Session" will take place.
Jansen Bar [
www.jansenbar.de
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Here's a couple of setlists from last year's zappanale. Audience recordings of these shows were available through the Zappateers site.
The Paul Green School of Rock, feat.Adrain Belew as special guest
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webnews!!
www.frankzappa.at is no more. the beautiful sofa has found a new place on the web: Burkhard Schempp did an excellent job with this
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For Immediate Release Zappa/Mothers Keyboard Legend Don Preston To Tour Europe
Composer/Pianist/Electronic
Artist Don Preston And Akashic Ensemble Scheduled To Perform In Austria,
Czech Republic And Famed ZAPPANALE Festival in Germany.
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André Cholmondely says: Hey everyone Hope all is well. Lots going on.... too much at times, I can't think straight We're about to leave for EUROPE -- one show at Zappanale
with Project/Object, one set with Don Preston Akashic, then we go onwards with
Don to Prague and then Vienna. Being a musician really sucks sometimes.....LOL. ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO SUNDAY 19 AUGUST 2007 Stella Blue Adrian Belew Power Trio. 21+ Tickets $18 adv, $20 day of
Join Legendary Adrian Belew in a rare appearance in
Asheville NC. Catch one of his few USA dates this summer. The Power Trio will be
fresh back from a week-long engagement in Japan (where they survived the
earthquake!!). Adrian Belew is noted not only for his incredible and varied solo
albums since 1982, but also for his countless tours and sessions with Herbie
Hancock, Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, The Bears, Tom-Tom Club, Talking Heads,
David Bowie, Jean-Michel Jarre, Paul Simon, Nine Inch Nails, Jars Of Clay, Mike
Oldfield and more. Prog-heads know him well as the lead-vocalist and
guitar-partner to Robert Fripp in KING CRIMSON since 1981. His trio since 2006
has consisted of Eric Slick/Drums and Julie Slick/Bass. (some of you may know
Eric from his drum-chair position in PROJECT/OBJECT)
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Brazilian journalist / writer Fabio Massari,
collected a number of articles and artwork by various writers, composers,
musicians, illustrators,... on the subject of Frank Zappa.
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I noticed that there were still quite some pictures
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I have to keep repeating it. This is one hell of a project:
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Here's another collectable item from Russia:
blue
vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side mono
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German band Trigon play what some people call JamProg (JamBand / Progressive Rock). They themselves call it "HeavyZenJazz". The band consists of
Trigon is scheduled to take part in the 2007 edition of the Zappanale festival. They headline Friday! The band has a new album out, called "Emergent".
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2007 07 20: Stefan Lange, bass player for Trigon, answers some questions UM: How do you feel about playing at Zappanale? Stefan: I feel good. No ... let me try again: AWESOME! :-) UM: Had you heard of the festival before? Stefan: Yes I did. But I never had the chance to visit it as normal
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French guitar player Christophe Godin
will be performing at Zappanale!!
Christophe says: "On Thursday, I will be performing solo, with playbacks. Concerning the Mörglbl show (on Friday), we will present our newest release "Grötesk", as well as some Zappa covers for the first time !" http://www.christophegodin.com
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Musician and composer Michael Mantler recorded two albums with Don Preston. The first one, in 1985, was called "Alien". The second one was a registration of a concert at the Art-Rock Festival in Frankfurt, Germany. Mantler was asked to participate in this festival, and formed a group with Nick Mason, Jack Bruce, Rick Fenn, Don Preston and John Greaves. This resulted in "Live" in 1987.
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Meredith Monk was born in 1942. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and began composing while there. In 1967, Meredith Monk collaborated with Don Preston. The result "Candy Bullets And Moon" got released on 7". The picture of the label of this 7" is shown on the right. In 1968, Monk formed The House, a record company-of-sorts for interdisciplinary works relating both to music, dance, and film. She signed to the ECM label in the late '70s and has recorded avant-garde works encompassing jazz, classical, and theater music consistently since. |
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I added a couple of new pictures to Miss
Pamela / Pamela Ann Miller / Pamela Des Barres entry.
On the right is the picture of the reprint of "I'm With The Band" from a couple of years ago. Nice picture. Watch the flowers hide her nipple. Below left is the cover of the french edition of "I'm With The Band". Less flowers... Below right is Pamela's latest book: "Let's Spend The Night Together", where she talks with various groupies. As in her other books, The GTO's are mentioned quite often.
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Scott Thill, editor of Morphizm dot com, asked me some questions regarding Zappa Plays Zappa. Here they are, along with my answers: Q:
What
do you think about the Zappa Plays Zappa tour? I
like it. I love to hear Zappa’s music performed by good musicians.
During their last tour, I saw the band in Amsterdam, Brussels and Düsseldorf,
and all of these shows were great. The idea to bring along musicians that
once played with Frank is excellent. Terry Bozzio, Steve Vai and Napoleon
Murphy Brock have their own, typical sound. To hear them play Zappa’s
music gives it a little extra. Besides the fact that they are great
musicians, it gets the sound closer to the real thing. Q:
Is
it a good way for new fans to experience his music? Of
course it is. That’s why I couldn’t understand that the Zappa Plays
Zappa tour didn’t bring a “Frank Zappa Record Store” along. If you
create new fans, you should give them the opportunity to buy a couple of
the original albums, to take home with them. Q:
How
long have you been a fan of Zappa's? Since
1980. I started out with Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
Listened to them at a friend’s house. He had an older brother (with good
taste). I saw the Zappa band live for the first time in 1982. Q:
How
long has United Mutations been up? Any idea how big your readership is? Early
2002, Patrick Neve asked me if was interested in webmastering his
"Splat's Zappa Pages", an essential site about Frank Zappa that
carried lots of info that came from the affz-newsgroup. Q:
Do
you think the tour faithfully represents Zappa's experiments with media
and music? Of
course not. Each Frank Zappa shows and/or projects was different. With
Zappa Plays Zappa you get a very fine attempt to get as close to the
original as possible. But you get it the same way every night. My two cents...
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The Polytoxicomane Philharmonie will open the Zappanale festival on Sunday morning. Their web-site already mentions the vinyl EP that they're about to release, entitled "Polytoxicomane Philharmonie Plays Zappa". http://www.polytoxicomane-philharmonie.de
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One of the bands that I really don't want to miss at Zappanale, is Kimono Draggin'. Their "My Summer In Paris" album is from two years ago, but it still sounds as crazy as the first time that I heard it. Check Kimono Draggin' out at: http://www.myspace.com/kimonodraggin
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Ugly Radio Rebellion
performs the music of Frank Zappa...
7/20/07 (our last 'local' show until October)
7/21/07
7/22/07
7/28/07
8/3/07
8/4/07
In the works; Sept/Oct/Nov Sept 26-29 October 25-28 Press/Promo http://www.clevescene.com/blogs This is the online article for the clev. scene which we are also listed in the newspaper listings for the clubs/bars/shows... we also have an article coming out in the Athens Messenger on sat's show!!! URR will be mentioned and a play on the radio on WHFR 89.3 Thurs 7/19
between 5-6pm (est) to be a part of the listening audience log onto: http://www.alternativeworldfanzine.com/ there's an article coming out in this online magazine about us and Laylas win at the Best East Coast Drummer compeititon starting in the new issue July 23rd... other stuff Scott is moving to Atlanta, GA on 8/8/07 and we are looking for some agency support to do more gigs and touring on a wider scope, if anyone would like to be involved or has any ideas, please contact us!!! New Audio!!! We have a ridiculous amount of live recordings covering most of our ever growing playlist and want to make it available to anyone that might be interested... we will post a new song every month for anyone that will request one from our playlist!!! Layla requested 'Andy'... check it out on the 'sounds' page and also some new visuals and other minor site updates...also we will have new Tshirts in a few weeks!!! Advanced 'reservations' are encouraged as it will be a limited supply... and URR '07 PromoPaks are still available!!! arf! Scott/Layla/John |
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German record label World In Sound Record is about to release the two albums that Jeff Simmons released on Zappa's Straight label. Jeff Simmons, started out in Easy Chair, before joining the Mothers, released both "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" and "Naked Angels" on Zappa Straight label. The "Lucille" album features Zappa on guitar on two tracks, and includes 'Wonderful Wino', co-written by Simmons / Zappa.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM KINNELL HOUSE RECORDS We
are happy to announce that Malcolm McNab will
be the in-studio guest on Jim Svejda's Show, Thursday, July 19th, from 7
PM until midnight PST (Pacific Standard Time) on KUSC 91.5 FM in Los
Angeles and KUSC.org on the Internet. Malcolm
will be interviewed about his successful career and new CD, EXQUISITE. Jim
will also be playing the entire CD throughout the program as well as
excerpts from several motion picture sound tracks featuring Malcolm. To listen to the program on the Internet, please click or go to: http://www.kusc.org/php/Programming/listen.php also, Royer Labs has posted a feature page on Malcolm and his new CD, "Exquisite" complete with photos and audio clips. To view click or go to: http://www.royerlabs.com/session_photos/malcolm_mcnab.html For more information please also visit: http://www.malcolmmcnab.com/
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2007 07 10 The venue for the show on 8/4 has been changed to Champs
Rock Room in Burbank, IL...
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from PJP the illustrious 3-cd pojama people compilation from the feb 07 run is now available for trade. drop me a line.
(gleonard9 at earthlink.net) Pojama People featuring Ike Willis performing the music of Frank Zappa August 15th Wed
August 16 Thur
August 17 Fri
wanna host your own pojama party like those lucky people in WA? drop us a line. best,
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Richard Kolke, dramaturge for the Whip It Out Ensemble, was kind enough to send me the giglist of the Whip It Out Ensemble. So here's the corrected, improved and complete giglist (so far):
Richard Kolke adds: All shows to the end of November 2003 consist of
the band's rendition of "We’re Only In It for the Money". All
shows afterwards consist of ‘Money’ as the first set with a second set
consisting of: Heavy Duty Judy / Trouble Every Day / The Return of the Son
of the Hunchback Duke / Call Any Vegetable / Love of My Life /
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The Low Budget Research Kitchen is preparing video material that they shot during their Lisbon concert. It should be available through their MySpace website soon.
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É isso aí...a The Central Scrutinizer Band volta a tocar grandes pérolas de Frank Zappa Num evento diferente reunindo vários artistas: ZAPPA´S DAY Vai ter livros, exposições, pinturas, dvds e muito som !! Dia 25 de Julho - quarta feira - às 21 horas No Bar Avenida R. Pedroso de Moraes 1036 - pertinho da FNAC preço único R$15,00 Fone: 011 3814 7383 Mais informações: zappasday@gmail.com www.scrutinizer.com.br
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2007 07 05
Look, it's a picture of Allan Holdsworth and me. I opened for Allan in San Diego a few nights ago. Great fun which seemed to go by in a flash. Right now I'm about to do laundry, then drive to San Pedro for the show at Alva's. Never played this venue before but Marco M. has spoken very highly of it and I'm really looking forward to it, not to mention another night of revelry at the Baked Potato tomorrow. On July 3 my students at the Paul Green School of Rock San Diego played their first performance of The Wall. It was triumphant and beautiful. I hope as many of you as possible can make it to the next two performances next weekend at the Epicentre. Best to all of you -- see you soon -- mk
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New on WM Recordings: daghoti. - how tall is robin gibb? http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm066.htm "guess what - i think i saw robin gibb in front of the drugstore." "the robin gibb?!?" "yeah." "and what did he do there in front of the drugstore?" "dunno, he was just standing there." daghoti. is a.hofmann (who is not exactly tall) - husband, father, teacher, crank from cologne/germany. how tall is robin gibb? is his latest album, freely available from WM Recordings. get it. now. best wishes, -- Marco Kalnenek |
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2006 07 10 MOVIES WITH A VIEW Monday, august 6, 2007, at the Groothandelsgebouw in Rotterdam, a series of short movies about Rotterdam will be shown. The project is entitled "Movies With A View". One of these short movies is "Distant City Sounds". Originally a piece on Co de Kloet & Menno Kalmann's "Hardcore Ambience" album, it has been transformed by Co and Menno into a movie!! (the picture on the right is the cover of their Hardcore Ambience album.) |
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Und noch eine Überraschung Chen Unst - Cpt. Beefheart Project Arend Zwicker ist wie Captain Beefheart auch Maler, Bildhauer und Musiker in einem. Er fühlt sich dem Schaffen von Don van Vliet sehr verbunden. Die Projektidee dafür gibt es schon einige Jahre und nun soll sie endlich: auf die Strasse, auf die Zappanale, auf die eigene Bühne. Die Performance wird erstmals im Rahmen der Warm-Up Party und dann auf der ZAPPANALE aus einem autonomen Truck heraus aufgeführt. Die Band wird für diesen Anlass neu formiert und setzt sich aus den Projekten - chen unst - und - Balog - zusammen. Es ist keine Coverband, sondern die Jungs arbeiten frei mit dem Text-, Bild-, Film- und Tonmaterial von Captain Beefheart. Es werden Songs und Sounds zu hören sein, die nicht nur an Captain Beefheart erinnern, sondern auch originale Teile (Sequenzen, Loops ) enthalten.Vorgesehen ist eine Soundcollage vor und nach dem eigentlichen Live-Konzert einschließlich diverser Projektionen. Das Konzert selbst wird ca. eine Stunde dauern und sich auch der Weiterführung der Beefheart'schen Ideen widmen. Damit soll die Besonderheit der musikalischen Haltung von C.B. (Improvisation, Urwüchsigkeit, Freestyle, Experiment usw.) herausgestellt werden. Also: Wie kann man mit dem Material heute frei und innovativ im Geiste des Meisters umgehen? |
And yet another surprise
Chen Unst - Captain Beefheart Project Arend Zwicker is a painter, sculptor and musician, just like Captain Beefheart. He feels very connected to Van Vliet's work. The idea has been around for a couple of years, and now, finally: on the street The performance will take place at the Warm-Up Party, and on Zappanale, each time from an autonomous truck. For this occasion, the band will consist of chen unst, and Balog, together. They will not play coverversions, but they will be experimenting with texts, images, movies and sounds of Captain Beefheart. The songs and sounds that you'll be hearing, will not only remind you of Captain Beefheart, but will also be using original samples (sequences & loops). Also, before and after the actual concert a sound-collage combined with images will be shown. The concert itself will take about an hour and will focus on the various aspects of Beefheart's ideas: improvisation, freestyle, experiments,... A free and innovative approach to the music of a genius. |
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Over at the Zappateers site, arriverderci.roma1 pointed out a couple of concerts, including one by Giovanni Mancuso...
November 2003, the Ensemble Laboratorio Novamusica, conducted by Giovanni Mancuso, did a project called "ZZZZ...ZAPPAZORN!" with music and films by John Zorn and Frank Zappa. These concerts took place in Padova and in Venice. 2006/05/10, Italian composer and pianist Giovanni Mancuso played a concert entitled "You Can't Do That On Piano Anymore" in which he performed various Frank Zappa compositions. The picture on the right was borrowed from the Laboratorio Novamusica website and shows Giovanni Mancuso and Cecilia Vendrasco.
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Mancuso's latest project is called "OBRA MAESTRA", an opera inspired by Frank Zappa. The music is written by Giovanni Mancuso, the libretto is by Pilar Garcia.
The performances will premiere at
concerts "ZZZZ...ZAPPAZORN!"
"You Can't Do That On Piano Anymore"
"Obra Maestra" - Giovanni Mancuso / Pilar Garcia / OTLiS (Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto)
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June 25 until June 29, "Mixtuur", which is a (late night) show on belgian national radio Klara, did a "From Zappa to Berio" special. Each day, a guest could pick the play-list. The first composition had to be one by Berio, and the last one should be a Zappa piece. An interesting concept. The guests were:
To introduce this week of contemporary music in Mixtuur, the played one hour of Zappa music on 2007/06/08:
An excellent choice. A fabulous 60 minutes of music. You can still listen to the shows on webradio through: http://www.klara.be/html/audioMIX.html -
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I spotted this one on ebay a little while ago. (and, no, I didn't buy it)
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2007 07 03 Ugly
Radio Rebellion performs the music of Frank Zappa... Upcoming
shows;
other
FZ; 200707//27
- Zappa Plays Zappa - concert 'Meadowbrook Music Theater', Rochester
Hills, MI, usa We
wish you all a safe and Happy 4th of July!!! arf! Scott/Layla/John www.myspace.com/uglyradiorebellion
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2007 07 01 Hi,
We have this Videos on Line:
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Jean-Paul Estiévenart: trumpet - Olivier Stalon: bass - Joe Higham: saxophone picture taken at:
2007/06/22 - Al-Orkesta - concert 'Jazz Experience', Rijkevorsel,
Belgium http://www.myspace.com/joehigham
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poetry - frank zappa
by frank zappa
& markos reagos This is a greek songbook, with the american lyrics and greek translation of 29 of Zappa's songs, plus one song by Ambrosia (?): titties & beer, big leg emma, honey ... man like me, enema bandit, yellow snow, stinkfoot, road ladies, dirty love, inca roads, can't afford no shoes, po-jama people, fl. pogen, evelyn a modified dog, san ber'dino, andy, sofa 2, nice nice very nice [non-zappa song by ambrosia], i'm the slime, cam. brillo, montana, dinah moe h, 50-50, zomby woof, motherly love, you're prob. wondering, peace corps, concentration moon, village of the sun, cheepnis, call any vegetable
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go wmca (1969/10/17, magazine, usa)
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Mike Keneally has a painting for sale on ebay.
It's called "God" and measures 36" x 24".
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2007 06 28 The Keneallist, June 28, 2007 Mike's
Live Appearances: FRIDAY
NIGHT! Mike
Keneally Band (Mike Keneally, Rick Musallam, Doug Lunn & Joe Travers) Mike
Keneally Band (Mike
Keneally, Rick Musallam, Doug Lunn & Joe Travers) Mike
Keneally - Keneally Solo
Upcoming
appearances with other groups: MK
with the Playground Slap
Mike
Keneally presents PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK MUSIC -- SAN DIEGO performing
Pink Floyd's THE WALL Mike
Keneally is the National Music Director of the Paul Green School of Rock,
and the Music Director of the new San Diego branch. Since the beginning of
April, MK has been training a group of 7 to 18 year-old musicians of
varying experience to play the entire "Wall" album. The three
shows below are the public debut of Mike's first School of Rock class.
Mike will not be performing but he will present, conduct, cajole and make
a nuisance of himself all night. The musicians are fantastic and will rock
you ferociously. Gig
info: Tuesday,
July 3 4:00 PM Friday,
July 13 8:00 PM & Saturday, July 14 1:00 PM
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New album, available for free download from WM Recordings:
Jan Turkenburg - Packages to the moon Ten tracks, some recent, some a little bit older, most of them previously unreleased. Soon on WM Recordings: new albums by daghoti., Century of Aeroplanes and Gorowski. best wishes, |
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Here's another nice picture: the cover of the Apocrypha bootleg box.
4 cd's, and with a beautiful booklet. For the track-list, check out:
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info for this "the ark" reincarnation bootleg has been added:
1968/07/18
concert 'the ark', boston, ma, usa
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The first two Mike Keneally album, "Hat" and "Boil That
Dust Speck" have both been reissued. You probably have read about it
in one of Mike's Keneallist newsletters. Both albums have been remastered and come with an extra dvd. They're incredible. Both of them. Here's the track-list, just to give you an idea of what's on it:
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2007 07 01 The new Vai album, a nice Paulekas slide show and and a couple of pictures of some Zappa-related Phish bootlegs... a nice way to start July. |
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Here's the covers and track-lists of three Phish bootlegs that include the
band performing Zappa's 'Peaches En Regalia'.
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Here's a slide-show that Leslie Michel made of some xeroxes of Vito Paulekas sculptures: http://homepage.mac.com/eilsel/VitoSculpture/index.html
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The Budapest Autumn Festival has been the major contemporary arts festival in Hungary for over 16 years. The next edition will take place between October 12 and 21, 2007. The organisation is planning a Frank Zappa Tribute Day. There is talk about concerts with Ed Mann, Mike Keneally and the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio (conducted by Adam Fischer). -- info: Bohouš
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Do you have plans for August? How about a stay in
Vienna? Not too far away from the 'Porgy & Bess' jazz club...
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2007 06 08 Lol Coxhill & The Wrong Object October 27, Lol Coxhill & The Wrong Object will be performing at 'De Singer' in Rijkevorsel, Belgium. Soprano sax player Lol Coxhill is a huge name in the
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Now here's what I call an impressive project: Andrew Greenaway, aka The Idiot Bastard, has teamed up with Cordelia Records to bring you what might become a very fine selection of songs. Read all about it on Andrew's essential site: http://idiotbastard.bravehost.com/20xIBS.htm Contributing artists include
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Dweezil Zappa says: Hello
Everyone, I've
noticed that there seems to be a bit of confusion surrounding the lineup
of this year's tour. I would love to clarify things for all of you. First
of all it is important to keep in mind that Frank's music is the only
reason this tour exists. We all love it and want to see and hear more of
it. It is the true focus and Star of the Show. It's a nice bonus for the
fans to have the chance to see musicians who've had previous experience in
Frank's band playing his music once again. By no means should their
presence on stage be over-emphasized. The mission of everyone on the stage
is to present the Music! As
you all know Frank has a vast catalog of multifarious compositions. Over
the years he led numerous incarnations of band lineups. Some people stayed
for a while, some people left and came back etc. This is not a new concept
when it comes to executing Frank's music. In our continuing efforts to
provide you with a thrilling concert experience we have embraced some
changes in material and in personnel. The ZPZ core band has not changed
but we do have a new addition as well as a few probable surprises. I
am extremely excited to be able to present some new songs to you in our
setlist this year, aided by the talents of our special guest vocalist, Ray
White. I have personally always been a huge fan of the sound of his voice.
Hearing him sing "Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Doreen"
at rehearsals has been a lot of fun. But hearing him on other songs I've
never heard him sing has been even more fun. I'm sure you all will agree
when you get your chance to hear him for yourself. Our
special video footage with performances from Frank is also going to be
quite provocative. Later
in the year we may even have an international reunion with Steve Vai and
Terry Bozzio but that has yet to be confirmed. I'll keep you posted on the
status of that as well as any other additions to our lineup. I
have also noticed a few of our European friends requesting ZPZ to come to
your hometowns. I would personally love to do more of an extended European
tour and visit places like Finland and return to places like Manchester. I
have already made my own inquiries into the possibilities of increasing
the number of European dates. If it can be done it will done. I
would also like to remind those of you who might be feeling left out for
missing last year's tour that the DVD of that tour will be available at
the upcoming shows. You can see all 3 + hours of your favorite songs with
last years special guests right in your own living room. take a look at
the DVD trailer link below. I'm very happy that we were able to capture
some of those performances in such fine style for all of you. Thank
you for your continued support. I look forward to seeing all of you out
there this year. Dweezil
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SPECIAL GUEST: Ray White Guitar and Vocals Ray White is a rock and blues guitarist most well-known
as a member of Frank Zappa's touring ensembles. He was drafted into
Zappa's band in the fall of 1976, being featured on rhythm guitar and
vocals. He participated on such albums as Zappa in New York (featuring a
powerful lead vocal on "The Illinois Enema Bandit"), Tinsel Town
Rebellion, and You Are What You Is amongst others in Zappa's voluminous
catalogue.
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A couple of months ago, I mentioned a new album by Markus Stauss:
The "Trank Zappa Grappa in Varese?" will be performed live again.
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THE
OFFICIAL STEVE VAI NEWSLETTER: NEWS FLASH May
3, 2007 EVO
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