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Let's make it clear to the ZFT that we don't agree with how they're dealing with zappa devoted websites, bands that play zappa's music and festivals where they play zappa's music.
We endorse the Aggressive Action by the Zappa Family Trust Petition to Zappa Family Trust. Read the Aggressive Action by the Zappa Family Trust Petition --- |
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| 2008 06 29 | |
| next weekend in Paris: the third
international esemplastic zappology conference !!
newsflash * newsflash * newsflash * newsflash 2008/07/05 & 06 - "La Grande Freak Out Party", Paris, France including debates, exhibitions & concerts... ICE-Z #3 http://lesfilsdelinvention.net/ newsflash * newsflash * newsflash * newsflash
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- The Astronotes are a 10 piece band lead by trombone player Joost Buis. The have been together since the late nineties. Influences are the smaller groups of Duke Ellington, and notably Sun Ra's Arkestra. May 30, 2008, BBC Radio 3 did a broadcast of the "Jazz On 3" series featuring the Trio Braam / DeJoode / Vatcher, and The Astronotes. The Astronotes pieces were recorded in concert at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, NL, on the 11th of April, 2008. The band has one album out. A new one is scheduled for later this year. - |
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Last month, I got a new internet provider. The main reason for this was that I couldn't handle the limited up- and download quota with py previous provider. With my new subscription I'm able to enjoy a lot more material that is offered on the Zappateers site. Here's a couple of Muffin Men video recordings that I have enjoyed recently. The make a great companion for the Muffinz Moovies series... Roddie Gilliard : guitar, vocals
Roddie Gilliard : bass, vocals
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July 4, Ossi Duri will present
thei new movie called "LA IV" at Cafè des Art, via principe
amedeo, at the corner with via s. massimo, at 9. pm, Turin. The
DVD movie contains only live performances between 2006 and 2007, with
mainly original tunes, plus Florentine pogen with italian rock star
Elio, (this song i authorized directly from Gail Zappa, Frank 's wife).
In the extra menu there also a live perfomance of the Ossi Duri with
David Surkmap, Pavlovìs dog Leader, from a tv show in Italy on 2001. It's
a movie about their imaginary world with animation, like Bruce Bickford,
and some fiction. With this dvd Ossi Duri start to release material for
their own label "LaZaRiMus": they would like to theri
contribution to the bands that have "no commercial potential"
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| The swedish Opus 3 record label recently
celebrated its 30th anniversary. Well, 'recently' as in 'a couple of
years ago'...
As the label's new direction is all about sound quality, they released two samplers. The first one is an SuperAudio CD, the second one a 180 gram vinyl album:
Both of these samplers include The Omnibus Wind Ensemble with Zappa's
"Sinister Footwear, 2nd Movement".
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cleaning up the "zappa bootlegs" section. I've made a
seperation between the vinyl albums & the CDs, and I've been adding
some info from Dieter Jakob's book. Mostly just titles, but still, it's
a start. I've also added pictures of the cover and of the vinyl of the "In Europe" album from a couple of months ago. Any extra info & pics are apprecitated. |
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06 16 server was busy & out, so there's a little delay... |
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Over at www.residents.com,
our Resifriends have made a couple of mp3's available:
The same blog mentions a new album-project & tour: "The Bunny Boy"... If these mp3's are pieces of the new album, we're sure in for a suprise...
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tracklist
Is this the famous Un-Concert recording? Check out the discussions over at Zappateers and at affz. |
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| - Zappa Plays Zappa drummer (and ZFT Vaultmeister) Joe Travers is featured in the February issue of Modern Drummer. - |
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Euroralph is no more. German record label and Residents distributor / record shop Euroralph will be closing its doors. |
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| The Zappa Wazoo / Joe's Domage
bootleg is out.
It's a 3LP 180gr vinyl set: 3 lps, each with its own cover, in a slipcase. lp1 and lp2 = ZAPPA WAZOO
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| So it's three albums in a slipcase.
The slipcase should have the same cover as the first album cover. (Famous) picture on the right. Album number two has the below cover, and album number three the cover below right. A rip off? Yes. But still, it does look very nice :-) |
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black vinyl, there's also 100 copies on yellow vinyl.
You can find more pictures through the links:
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spectacular colour variations...
You've got the 'red one', the 'dirty red one', and the 'dark red one'...
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and then there's the exceptional marbled
coloured vinyl one, also to be found in a couple of slightly different
variations...
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impressive batch of magazine covers.
Frank Zappa in the papers, from the sixties until today... |
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2008 06 07 Pojama
People performing the music of Frank Zappa New CD "footsie notes" now available. Lotsa wacky moments culled from previous shows with Ike Willis in that truly unique Pojama style you've come to know & love. T-shirts are still available too! Write to gleonard333 at gmail dot com Und schpieling of Sam Bond's.... Our good friend & national treasure Brian Kenney Fresno will be on tour soon. Look for him in WA/OR/CA starting June 10. He will be at Sam Bond's June 12. Check out his audio, check out his video....and then.....whatever you think.....go see him live because he must be EXPERIENCED. http://www.myspace.com/briankenneyfresno bonghitrecords.com
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| Scott Parker's excellent "Hungry Freaks Daddy - the
Recordings of Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention - volume one 1959 - 1969"
has been rereleased and is now available from Amazon.
The title says it all. And recordings include albums, singles, circulating tapes, bootlegs, you name it. It's in there. Essential reading.
http://www.scottparkerbooks.com/
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From: Mike
Ort Check 'em out ! Comments are welcome... http://www.mikeort.de/Downloads.htm Keep up the good work...
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from: the
grandmothers THE
GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED IN CANADA THANKS FOR ALL YOUR CONTINUED HELP IN GETTING THE WORD OUT June
20, 2008 June
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From: the voice of cheez
Page includes lovely band photos (they can't take that away from us!)
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| Dutch band Kraak & Smaak has
a second album out, entitled "Plastic People". It is said to
be a mixture of dance, funk, soul & electro.
There's no Zappa link here. 'Plastic People' is the name of a composition that they wrote together with Mark Brydon (of Moloko fame). -- info: W.G. |
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Dutch band Plastic People started out in 1967 and was named after the Frank Zappa song that appeared on "Absolutely Free". The band recorded 6 singles and one album. Shortly after the release of their sixth single, in 1973, the band stopped.
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Stops" is out on DVD. It can be ordered over at the Zappa dot com
site.
Yes, you read it right, the Halloween 1981 show... [1] 1981/10/31 - early show - concert 'palladium', nyc, ny, usa Frank Zappa * Ray White * Steve Vai * Scott Thunes * Tommy Mars * Bobby Martin * Ed Mann * Chad Wackerman Frank Zappa - 10/31/1981 - Early/Late Show
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Here's a picture of "The Residents
Unmasked" triple cassette package.
Entries have been added. |
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| Thanks to an old acquaintance, I
recently got hold of a digital version of "The Residents
Unmasked". I'm making entries for each contributor while you're
reading this. I wonder if I'll be able to find any extra info on any of these bands. If you can add some info, I'd appreciate it.
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Two Jean-Luc
Ponty concert recordings have been seeded on Dime recently:
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| Jay Phlitman and Kim Kangaroo
over at MySpace. Check it out:
http://www.myspace.com/phlitmanandkangaroo
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| The Grand Wazoo is a dutch
band. They borrowed their name from the famous Zappa album, and have
various Zappa-references in their repertoir. Think of songs entitled
'Plastic People', or 'Guacomole Queen'.
They have three albums out:
from the band's website: On the phenomenon of Grand Wazoo [statement] [flashback]
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2008 05 Concert announcement for the Concertgebouw in Brugge, Belgium: Saturday, January 31, 2009: Pitié!, by Les Ballets C. de la B., Alain Platel & Fabrizio Cassol. Alain Platel and Fabrizio Cassol draw their inspiration from Bach's
'Matthew Passion'. concept: Alain Platel 2009/01/3 Aka Moon / Les Ballets C. de la B. - concert / performance "pitié!", Concertgebouw, Brugge, Belgium
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05 27 okeli dokeli... internet & e-mail provider change has been carried out... what a hassle... anyway, glad to be back |
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The Imperial City Orchestra is a semi-professional projectbigband. Each year, the orchestra takes on a special project.. In 2008, the project focussed on composition and young musicians: 6 professional musicians / arrangers teamed up with eleven young and creative musicians for a series of concerts. The band was called The Imperial City Orchestra and consisted of:
more info at www.pimpyoursong.nl
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2008 05 26 Corvallis Gig May 31 Zappa Music -- Absolutely FREEEeeeeee e e e e e e e e Pojama
People performing the music of Frank Zappa sahaliewine.com
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Purple Vishnu is:
The band is scheduled to perform in Liège, Belgium on 2008/05/30.
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| A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the new
"Sous les Pavés" bootleg. A little correction / addition is
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300 copies have been released:
The stickers on the covers will tell you the colour of the vinyl... Pictures have been added to the bootleg section. |
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05 18 lots and lots and lots of news... although it's mostly bootlegs. but there's a nice picture of the 1968 tour book as well, and some new concert dates. in the meantime, i changed my internet provider, but I hope that this won't be visible too much. anyway, here we go... |
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A new Zappa bootleg box has been
issued. Four albums, that are also available seperately.
Here's a little picture-story of what the box looks like.
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It all starts with a brown cardboard box. In the box, there's another box. A pizza box. And in the pizza box, there's a fake pizza, plus a plastic box,, a menu and four vinyl albums... |
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Thanks to Dieter Jakob for info & pictures. |
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splattered colored vinyl.
Here's a couple of examples...
-- pictures taken from Burkhard Schempp's exellent http://www.aaafnraa.de (Thank you Burkhard !) |
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| Thanks to Ton van Mierle, some
nice shots of the 1968 Mothers Of Invention program booklet have been
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It's the tourbook for the 1968 european tour, published by Lippmann en Rau. |
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According to the ZpZ website, the
concert date (and venue) for Mardid has changed, and two new dates have
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2008 05 14 Jerry Outlaw and friends will be opening for Adrian Belew at skipper's on friday, May 30th. They will play from 8 until 9pm and then Adrian and his band will rock the house. Jerry and the guys will be playing songs by such greats as... Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra and some cool originals. Be there!!!
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The big band has a couple gigs
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collage / drawing by illustrator Peter Max entitled "Audio
D.N.A." from 1967.
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new vinyl bootleg album, released on the Hoffman label.
It got released on blue and red vinyl.
The album also got released as a part of the "Simply The Best" 4 lp box, in different (splattered) colour variations. -- pictures taken from Burkhard Schempp's exellent http://www.aaafnraa.de
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Jams" is a new vinyl bootleg album, released on the Hoffman label.
It got released on blue, red and black vinyl.
The album also got released as a part of the "Simply The Best" 4 lp box, in different (splattered) colour variations. -- pictures taken from Burkhard Schempp's exellent http://www.aaafnraa.de |
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2008 05 09 Bogus
Pomp to perform the inaugural concert at the newly renovated Ritz
Theater in Ybor City. Bogus
Pomp will be performing the inaugural concert event at the newly
renovated Ritz Theater in Ybor City on Saturday, June 7 at 9 pm. Past
concert events have resulted in Bogus Pomp becoming known world-wide for
their exceptional performances of Frank Zappa's material. Bogus Pomp
will be performing a special acoustic set to be followed by a more
traditional electric set. Formerly
known as The Masquerade, the The Ritz Theater has recently completed a
total renovation, bringing it back to it's original splendor after years
of abuse and neglect. The acoustics in this venue are exceptional and
should serve to make the performance very enjoyable. A
full liquor bar will be open for those who wish a cool libation (or
two!). There is plenty of parking available in the parking garage which
is located less than 100 feet from the venue.
The Ritz Theater is located at 1503 - 7th Avenue in Ybor City. Tickets
are $25.00 (general admission) and are available thru Ticketmaster and
at the door. For information, call (813) 247-2555.
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| Bruno Le Tohic (better know as
the Central S. of http://lesfilsdelinvention.net/)
supplied me with all the data of the 1994/07/20 concert of Les
Percussions de Strasbourg. here's the complete info of the fm broadcast / recording: MONTPELLIER,
France 20
July 1994 broadcast:
France Culture, July 1994 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IGOR STRAVINSKY [1882-1971] :
Les
Noces ("Svadyebka" 1914-23), version 1919 :
FRANK
ZAPPA [1940-1993] :
GEORGE
ANTHEIL [1900-1959] :
BELA
BARTOK [1881-1945] :
Sonate
pour deux pianos et percussions (1937) :
Total
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remarks:
02
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1923 version was also performed but not broadcasted. 05-08
: French Premiere
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13-15
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| YouTube freaks, check this out:
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| - February 2008, John Trubee and Carl Franzoni were guides at one of the "Los Angeles Tours" that is offered by Esotouric. There's an article about it in the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/09/TRGI10FU31.DTL
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2008 05 ZXZW is an extensive festival for independent culture.
With a solid musical base, the festival also brings visual arts, dance,
theatre and movies. Over 200 cutting edge artist present themselves in
an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to
free jazz. Street art next to academic dance. ZXZW takes place from the 14th untill 21st of September
2008 in the city of Tilburg in the Netherlands. From a squat to the
mayors room. From music venue to museum. The big music-happening is on
September 20-21. For all confirmed acts, check our last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/event/361621
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One of my favourite bands, Cuccurullo Brillo Brullo, has a very special concert scheduled in July. The band invited Pierrejean Gaucher, Jeff Hollie
and Martin Smith for a concert in Delft !!
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http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2279205,00.html Lithuania
presents Baltimore with a Frank Zappa statue When we were last in eastern Europe, we almost made a sidetrack to Vilnius. We were enticed by Lithuania's fascinating history and rich cultural heritage. But mostly we just wanted to see their statue of Frank Zappa's head. Now, at last,
Baltimore is taking a page from Vilnius' book. Zappa had died of cancer just two years before, in 1993, but Lithuania's capital city was an odd place for a tribute. Zappa was not, after all, Lithuanian (or Belgian, for that matter). He had never even visited the place. But his music was dearly loved by the avant-garde hipsters in the Lithuanian independence movement - and these same intellectuals were the ones running the show after the Baltic state declared independence from Russia in 1990. "The opportunity for this Zappa statue was also like a trial for the new system and the newly established democracy," Paukstys explained to the Associated Press this week. Before long the Zappa bust had become Vilnius' second-most popular tourist attraction (behind the rather-less-quirky Museum of Genocide Victims). This week, Paukstys journeyed to Baltimore, USA, to make an offer to Frank Zappa's hometown: would Baltimore like a bronze Zappa-head of its own? Baltimore's Public Art Commission voted unanimously to accept the gift. "I think it's incredibly generous," said commissioner Steve Ziger. "I find the piece a good piece of art that I think we would be honoured to have here. We just need to find an appropriate placement." Paukstys and his comrades had already arranged for the casting of a replica, and were just awaiting the OK from Baltimore authorities before shipping it across the ocean. The cost of creating and shipping the bust is estimated at $50,000 (£25,000), but the city will be responsible only for installation and maintenance. Vilnius's mayor, Juozas Imbrasas, said he approved heartily of the project. "I hope that replication of the original statue of Frank Zappa in Vilnius and bringing it to Baltimore will perpetuate the memory of one of the greatest artists of the [20th] century," he wrote. Frank Zappa's widow, Gail, is also understood to have given her blessing. All that Baltimore needs now is a better source of Lithuanian dumplings.
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a replica of a bust of musician Frank
Zappa in an art studio in Vilnius, Lithuania. The original bust,
which typically sits in a public square in Vilnius, can be seen in the
background. (AP photo / May 7, 2008)
By Jonathan Pitts | Sun reporter May 8, 2008 "What's new in
Baltimore?" Frank Zappa used to sing at the end of a long,
characteristically off-the-wall rock jam he called Clowns on Velvet. Until they met last
night, some members of the Baltimore Public Art Commission, which voted
unanimously to accept the gift of the bronze sculpture - valued at about
$50,000 - were also unaware of Zappa's connection to Charm City.
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2008 05 12 - Happy Mothers' Day Pojama People will be celebrating the month of May with two free shows. Welcome new member B-Bo to his first full gig in Eugene. This will be The Qullier Kwintet. Look for us with Ike in Septemeber --- hopefully right in your neighborhood. May 17 Sat 3:30pm FREE May 31 Sat 9pm FREE
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| 2008 05 07 - a newsflash from Capt.Cheese-Beard & The 7 Sisters of Prevention Inca Roads 4th Track. Enjoy J.
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| Did you know that Olli Virtaperko (from Ensemble
Ambrosius) wrote a paper on Zappa in 2005?
You can find out more about it on the Ensemble Ambrosius website.
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May 08 Update Ugly Radio Rebellion performs the music of Frank Zappa... The Summer 2008 'Non-Dramatic' Tour is set for 5/29 - 6/14!!! Please check the site for information or email me for details... We are listed in the Spring 2008 issue of Berklee Today magazine, volume 19, number 4... posted on the site!!! We are looking forward to a great summer and hope to see you all at the shows!!!! Thanks for all your support!!! Scott/John/Layla/Ike arf!
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| There's a lot of speculation
about what will be on the new Zappa album...
Read more about it at the Zappa dot com forum, or over at the Zappateers site. ... Also from the zappa dot com forum: Dweezil says it includes one of the first versions of yellow snow, some guitar solos FZ had recorded and "some orchestral stuff." He says "it's really good" and notes FZ has a lot of fun on it, laughing quite bit. A red cover with a black picture of frank which looks likes it's from early 70s. - |
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concert by the Clazz Orchestra (students of the Tilburg Conservatory).
The performed a couple of Zappa pieces, and one fabulous Jaco Pastorius composition. Here's a couple of pictures for starters. |
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| Don't tell me that you're staying home
today... There's a Zappa night in a pub in Ghent, Belgium; there's the Clazz Orchestra playing Zappa in Tilburg, NL, and there's the Kelderkunsten Festival in Brussels:
Saturday, may 3 & Sunday, may 4, 2008: KELDERKUNSTEN FESTIVAL at Jeugdhuis Basement with Vitalski, The Schoofs - Duchateau Trio, and more... |
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| Originally announced as a show with
Underground Sensation, but it looks like they didn't make it onto the
flyer...
Hey Kids, here it is. The announcement you've all been waiting for... |
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2008 05 01 INFORMATIVO: SHOW: 2008/05/04 Central Scrutinizer Band – concert ‘café Piu Piu’, São Paulo, Brazil
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they have a nice poster for sale.
Wendy Bannister adds: I have 2 of the original 1971 European tour posters with a tear in the corner and I have reduced the price to £45, as you know they are huge: 35 ins by 47 inches. November 1971. One week before the Montreux fire and theRainbow Theatre incident... So check it out at http://www.rockmusicmemorabilia.com/posters.html and contact Wendy through the site.
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2008 05 01 on
sale now at MooseMart! Mayday!
Mayday! We
have finally finished work on Wine And Pickles, the album of unreleased
or otherwise rare and/or scintillating material recorded in the studio
between 1998 and 2006. We've been working hard on this release since
February. You wouldn't think it would take so much time to put together
an album of material that's already been recorded. But it does. Because
we care. It's mostly unreleased tracks from my own album sessions, but
it also collects a couple of tracks from other projects (such as
"Inhale," a collaboration with Lyle Workman, and "Thou
Shalt Not Kill," my track from the 156 Strings acoustic guitar
compilation on Cuneiform), some unreleased solo recordings not attached
to specific album projects, and some of the soundtrack work I did for
Court TV in the late 90s. Originally
this collection was going to be only available for download, but we're
such album geeks at Exowax and we were so happy with the way the album
was turning out, we just needed to make it a real-life thing you could
hold and fling. I've done two paintings for the package and three tons
of liner notes, and Atticus Wolrab has done his customarily
spine-tingling job designing the package. Why
don't I just tell you what's on the album?:
We're
shipping the album in early June, and it's available for pre-sale now,
right now, at http://www.MooseMart.com. When
I completed my work with the Paul Green School of Rock late last year, I
looked back over 2007 and realized that I hadn't gotten very close to
completing a new album for release in all that time. Once I settled down
to continue work early this year on my upcoming, absurdly ambitious
double-CD-plus-book Scambot, I realized I was months away from
completing it, and I wanted to put out new music much sooner than that.
I knew years ago that I wanted to compile an outtakes album and call it
Wine And Pickles -- I think I made reference to it in a Keneallist
around four years ago -- and now was the time to make it happen. I am
really thrilled and somewhat stunned at how well it's turned out. And,
concurrent with work on Wine And Pickles this year, hopefully you'll be
glad to know that I've made enormous progress on Scambot as well --
there are 36 tracks presently in various forms of completion, after
recent sessions with Marco Minnemann and with the Guitar Therapy version
of the Keneally Band, and I'll be making a lot more headway on it this
month before I head out on the road with DETHKLOK in June. And this
weekend I'll be making a lot of progress on my Normalizer 2
collaboration with Marco Minneman. During the DETHKLOK tour I'll be
working on the Scambot artwork and a new saxophone quartet commissioned
by Co de Kloet, and after the tour I'll be knuckling down with the
second Vai Piano Reductions volume. And I plan to kick my collaborations
with Andy Partridge into higher gear later this year. Your boy is busy. Stockhausen,
baby! We
love you, mk MK in concert: Dethklok:
The Dethtour, Summer 2008
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2008 05 02 The Tetzepi Bigtet in May Tetzepi plays ‘Seed’ In 2008 Tetzepi plays the program ‘Seed’. The (musical) Seeds are made by Canadian composer John Korsrud and are inspirational material for composers Corrie van Binsbergen (Ned), Fabrizio Puglisi (It), Marco C de Bruin (Ned), Jorrit Dijkstra (VS/Ned) and Hans Leeuw (Ned). There are also new compositions by Esmée Olthuis, Oene van Geel and Natalio Sued. Tetzepi Zaal 100 evening.
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Mann and friends perform at BMS http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_8859863 Noted percussionist Ed Mann will bring Frank Zappa's revolutionary "Black Page" piece to the Berkshire Music School at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The
performance, organized by the BMS and Fran Curley, is a fundraiser for
the school's percussion department.
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On About Town April 9: “Beefheart Night” features, among other attractions, a somewhat rare appearance by Fast ’n Bulbous, the Beefheart band led by the former Don Van Vliet cohort, Gary Lucas, on guitar, and the Microscopic Septet’s Phillip Johnston. A number of downtown luminaries, including Lee Ranaldo, Alan Vega, Roswell Rudd, Kurt Loder, Danny Fields, and Hal Willner, will be on hand to read Van Vliet’s poems and to reminisce about him.
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Marius Hesby og Sverre Riise, tromboner
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2008 04 17 Good things DO come in threes! Oh first among the favorites - as deepest Gong friends and devotees of good humour and long standing we are delighted to be able to announce this to you first:- Two Gong Concerts in London this June and the release of the special Gong UNcon Limited Edition Double DVD. THE CONCERTS For the latest transmission from the luminous green planet Gong dada 'hymn-self', Daevid Allen, is joined by co-founder Gilli Smyth, the motherbeat bass of Mike Howlett, master drummer Chris Taylor, incomparable jazz saxophonist Theo Travis - and for the first time in the UK since 1975 - Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy! New energies are in the air – new recording plans are being discussed – a new DVD from the legendary 2006 Amsterdam Uncon event is being released – and these two June 2008 London shows are an important step along a new pathway. Both these special events also have a special limited 'Early Bird' ticket offer available to you. Saturday 14th June 7.30pm – GONG at Massive Attack’s Meltdown Tickets are £18.50 (rear stalls) and £22.50 (front stalls) To get tickets in advance of the general on-sale date of 25th April and claim a 5% discount you need to call 0871 663 2500 (UK) or +44 871 663 2500 (from abroad) and quote 'Fan offer'. This offer is for phone and in person sales only. Sunday 15th June 7.30pm – GONG To get tickets online with reduced booking fee and transaction costs visit:- http://www.artistticket.com/artist/?s=gong This offer is limited to the first 500 tickets. Tickets are priced at £19.50 THE UNCON DVD Gong UNcon Limited Edition Double DVD - Pre Sale Orders Being Taken Now! Disc 1 - A professional four camera shoot of the magical Uncon Gong set with Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, Gilli Smyth, Mike Howlett, Miquette Giraudy and Didier Malherbe, Theo Travis and Chris Taylor. Disc 2 - A documentary style film that delivers a real vibe of and insight into the magic of the Unconvention with many illuminating and humourous interviews and footage of Mother Gong, Kangaroo Moon, Acid Mothers Gong, University Of Errors, Here & Now and more, as well as Steve Hillage Band - for the first time since 1979! Time travel made real - love it --
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra & his Arkestra
The Sun Ra All Stars
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stumbled upon a reproduction of a painting by European artist H.R. Giger
titled "Landscape No. 20: Where We Are Coming From." The
painting, which features dismembered, ugly genitals copulating in what
looks like sludge, had been reproduced in many books and magazines over
the years, and Biafra secured the rights to include it as part of the
Frankenchrist package. About the painting, Biafra says "I began to
realize, 'My god, we have met the enemy and it is us, this is what we do
to each other every day in consumer-oriented society. Wait a minute,
this is what we're talking about on a lot of the Frankenchrist songs.' I
thought the Giger painting would be a great way to drive home the point,
even if some people in high positions of power with no sense of humor
didn't seem to understand." Originally,
the painting was meant to be the gatefold inner cover for Frankenchrist,
but a member of DKs vehemently objected and it was instead inserted into
the album as a poster. Although the poster was expected to raise some
eyebrows, no one expected it to cause as much trouble as it did. A
warning sticker, albeit a sarcastic one, was affixed to the cover,
partially to parody the warning stickers that the Parents Music Resource
Center (PMRC) was demanding at the time, partially to cover themselves
in case there was difficulty. The sticker read : "WARNING : The
inside fold out to this record cover is a work of art by H.R. Giger that
some people may find shocking, repulsive or offensive. Life can
sometimes be that way." When
a San Fernando Valley mother complained that her 13- year old daughter
had purchased the record as a gift for her 11-year old brother (at a
Wherehouse Records outlet in a large mall), the LA City Attorney's
Office decided to prosecute the case. Deputy city attorney Michael
Guarino, the prosecutor in the case, admitted they chose to prosecute
the DKs because it would be a "cost-effective" way to send a
message to other musicians, record companies and fans. Guarino had been
considering prosecuting several other groups when this case came along,
and he thought he could win this one. The
first Biafra heard of all this was when he was awakened from his sleep
one morning by the sound of his window being broken and several police
officers invading his house, supposedly to seize the
"evidence." ( No one bothered to knock.) They took numerous
personal effects, including his address book, as well as a few copies of
Frankenchrist and the business ledgers of Alternative Tentacles, making
it impossible to conduct business for a while. Charged
in the case were Biafra, and four others, including the 67-year old man
whose company pressed the Frankenchrist disc. Conspicuously not charged
were Wherehouse Records which sold the offending album. They had agreed
to stop selling Frankenchrist and all other Dead Kennedys albums when
the controversy first surfaced. Biafra and the others decided to fight the charges of distributing harmful matter to minors, and set up the No More Censorship Defense Fund, which along with helping with the legal fees in the Frankenchrist case, makes available copies of articles dealing with censorship and plans to help others who are being harassed. Contributions came in mostly from fans of alternative music; envelopes of teenager's allowance and an encouraging note were common. Not so common were contributions from those popular figures who stood to suffer if Biafra lost the case. Three notable figures who did come to Biafra's aid were Frank Zappa, Little Steven Van Zandt and Paul Kantner.
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~ALSO~
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2008 04 15 Ugly Radio Rebellion performs the music of Frank Zappa... Summer 08 Tour
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03 10 from:
Chris Opperman Hello,
everyone! This
e-mail is to let you know that my fifth album, The Lionheart, will
finally be released on May 27th, 2008!
You can pre-order it at www.chrisopperman.net through PayPal for
$10 including domestic shipping to the United States ($15 for
international orders). Now,
if that's not reason enough to pre-order, here are 10 other reasons!
So
please consider visiting www.chrisopperman.net and pre-ordering your
copy today. Thanks! Chris Opperman 2008
04 13 from:
Chris Opperman "I
believe that as a composer, Chris is a truly brilliant presence in
Amercian music, and that he has made and continues to make priceless
contributions to modern musical literature.
His solo piano album "Klavierstücke" is a classic
collection which has moved many listeners.
His erudition and creativity as an orchestrator have been of
immense value to me, and his enthusiasm and love for music is absolutely
infectious." - master musician Mike Keneally The
news! Firstly,
thank you so much to everyone who has pre-ordered The Lionheart so far.
We've gotten pre-orders from the United States, Canada, the
United Kingdom, France, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and
Denmark so far and it excites me beyond measure to know that people all
over the world are interested in my compositions. Very cool. Thank
you. And if you haven't
pre-ordered yet, there's still time!
Please do as I'm still only half-way to my goal w/the pre-sale! www.chrisopperman.net Secondly,
I had a lovely afternoon with NPS Radio 6 Holland's Creative Catalyst Co
de Kloet a few weeks ago. Co
is putting together a one-hour radio documentary about my music
(specifically the making of The Lionheart) which will culminate in the
world broadcast premiere of "The Porpentine" which is the
12-movement piece for full orchestra plus rhythm section which concludes
the album. He also has some
other amazing ideas that I hope come to fruition.
So stay tuned! Thirdly,
I will be performing on Thursday, May 8th @ The Derby (4500 Los Feliz
Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90027) opening for my friend Beth Jean
(www.myspace.com/bethjean) who is having her CD release party there that
night. I haven't decided if I'm going to play solo or invite a few
friends, but I will be performing some new pieces including
"Helenesque" which I wrote for "The Trojan Women"
last year as well as some of the music that I'm currently writing for my
sister's wedding. Lastly
(but certainly not leastly), I need to give a big shout-out to Scott
Chatfield who really helped me out getting the website back up. Oppymusic.com is still down for now, but will be back soon.
In the meantime, you can always check me out at
www.myspace.com/chrisopperman which has a blog that I update pretty
regularly. Subscribe, won't
you? I
would also like to give a shout-out to Hiroshi Ota who was kind enough
to draw some kanji symbols for Mark Buckingham and I to use in the liner
notes of The Lionheart and for helping spread the word about this music
in Japan (http://www.mf.ccnw.ne.jp/openup/keneally.html). Oh!
And a shout-out to Vienna's own Cornelia Pesendorfer who did an
amazing job with the oboe parts for "The Porpentine" as well
as my dear friend Neil Citron who started mixing the final version of
"Miles Behind" Friday night, which sounds very beautiful.
Jen Kuhn's effortlessly melodic and searching cello solo gets me
on that every time. And
that's it! Hope everyone's well and music is the best! Chris Opperman
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The 7 Sisters Of Prevention in concert the other day. It did start with
a bit of a blurry sound, and with a couple of mistakes, but once the
band got to 'Outside Now' things had been straightened out and
they played an impressive second part. The thing that surprised me the most was that there were only something between 60 and 80 people in attendance. For a concert with Zappa music. In Brussels. What some might consider the centre of the world (... just kidding with that last bit...) And that was a pity. 2008/04/10 concert 'Atelier 210', Brussels, Belgium
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and of the red vinyl edition of the "Austin 26 Oct" bootleg,
but recently a clear vinyl edition, and a yellow edition showed up as
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spotted. It's a single vinyl album, on colored vinyl in a limited
edition of 300 numbered copies.
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It's been released as a double vinyl (bootleg !) album, and it's available in black and in marbled white vinyl. It presents the first part of the 1988/05/25 Mannheim concert. Pictures and info from Dieter Jacob. More pictures from Dieter can be found on the entries for both albums:
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Hello
there... appearantly
things don't go too well for Gail in court. A decision from the
Landgericht Düsseldorf will take at least 3 months and so far the judge
has said that the Zappa logo and the zappanale logo are quite clearly
two different things which people will not confuse. Also the judge
pointed out that the ZFT knew all along over the last 18 years that the
Zappanale festival took place and did nothing against it. There
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says
DELICIOUS
- LIVE in APRIL 2008 hello..... Lots
going on -- Lots of music all around... on the road now with DELICIOUS,
will be back out tour managing in May/June with the Adrian Belew Trio,
eastern USA. Then some more shows in May..We are trying to get some
Project/Object shows together as well-- stay tuned..! Come
out and rock with Delicious. We are a three-piece band, dealing with the
thorny issue of..Sonic Mayhem and What to Do About It. It's heavy...but
we can induce quite the cough-medicine style buzz as well, and keep it
rhythmically interesting.. We're
honored on some of these shows to be sharing the stage with the great
ATOMIC BITCHWAX (Finn Ryan, Chris Kosnik and Bob Pantella of MONSTER
MAGNET) and on some shows with the fantastic CRESCENT MOON (Eric Slick
on double duty drums, and Dave Dreiwitz of WEEN). More
info below. Check the sites for details or email back. For more on our
fellow bands .....Check out: http://www.myspace.com/theatomicbitchwax http://www.myspace.com/davedreiwitz and
for those of you far afield - THERE IS A WEBCAST: Thanks!! André DELICIOUS
- LIVE http://www.myspace.com/delicious APRIL
2008
(crescent
moon= eric slick and dave dreiwitz (ween bassist)) MAY
2008
DELICIOUS/BLACK
LODGE VIRAL VIDEO , PHILA PA, FRI 25 JAN 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyupQfm0Ib8 ALSO: unedited JAN 2008 NYC show....warts and all: http://www.bigupload.com/code.php?code=QU7N4C25IC DELICIOUS
is:
http://www.myspace.com/delicious more info at www.projectobject.com as well
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copy of the rare Big Sonny And The Lo Boys 7" "Play Your Music
/ Funny Money".
This means that both tracks will probable get released on one of the Jimmy Carl Black compilation albums that he will be releasing on his Crossfire record label. Talking about side-projects and old, pre-Mothers releases, Greg also confirmed that the Roy Estrada and the Rocketeers single was definitely made by the 17-year old Roy Estrada who later played with JCB & FZ... - |
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2008 04 08 A
few years ago, Frank Zappa's eldest son Dweezil decided that his
father's music had been missing from the musical landscape for far too
long. He created ZAPPA
PLAYS ZAPPA, an extensive concert tour that brought selected
compositions from Frank's body of work to the stage.
In 2006 two ZAPPA PLAYZ ZAPPA shows were filmed and recorded to
capture the experience to reach an even larger audience on DVD.
APRIL 3RD, 2008 RAZOR & TIE
ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA DVD APRIL 29TH NEW ZPZ TOUR DATES
ANNOUNCED (New York, NY) - On April 29th, Razor & Tie
Entertainment will release ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA on DVD. The DVD features the astounding music of Frank Zappa played
by an expert ensemble led by his son, Dweezil, an accomplished musician
in his own right. Considered by many to be a genius composer, guitarist
and producer, Frank Zappa's body of work is as vast, as it is diverse.
His untimely death in 1993 left legions of loyal fans missing his
satirical flair and brilliant musicianship.
A few years ago, Dweezil decided that his father's music had been
missing from the musical landscape for far too long and chose to dive
headlong into the massive undertaking that became ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA.
This extensive concert tour respectfully brings selected
compositions from the elder Zappa's body of work back to the stage.
Dweezil states, "Frank's music is unique. It
deserves to be discovered by today's audience.
They don't have any idea what they are missing.
His music is not going to suddenly appear on popular radio or TV
programs and it's not going to get massive exposure in the media, so the
only way to introduce it to new people is to play his music live.
Frank always called his music the 'World's Finest Optional
Entertainment' and it really is."
The ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA tour offers audiences an opportunity to
spend an evening with Frank Zappa's music, performed meticulously by a
group of top-flight musicians who were schooled in its subtleties. The ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA tour will be playing select dates
(including festivals) beginning in June, with more dates to be announced
for the fall. This year's
ZPZ line-up features: Dweezil Zappa (guitar, vocals), Aaron Arntz
(keyboards and trumpet), Scheila Gonzalez (saxophone, flute, keyboards
and vocals), Pete Griffin (bass), Billy Hulting (marimba, mallets and
percussion), Jamie Kime (guitar), Joe Travers (drums and vocals) and
special guest Ray White (guitar and vocals).
Please see below for confirmed shows to date.
In 2006, two ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA shows were pristinely
filmed and recorded (in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA, respectively) to
capture the experience. The
result is a double-DVD set with a 12-track bonus audio CD.
Produced by Pierre and Francois Lamoureaux for Strobosonic, the
DVDs feature over three hours of performances of Dweezil's "rocking
teenage combo", including previous 2006 tour special guests: Steve
Vai, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Terry Bozzio.
A limited edition fanpack will also be available which features
the two-DVD set and three CDs containing the entire audio content,
totaling 270 minutes.
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA DVD DISC ONE
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA DVD DISC TWO
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA AUDIO CD
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April
2, 2008: A message from Mike Happy
April Second Day! On April 2nd you're only allowed to say very TRUE
things. Welcome
to the fabulous NEW LOOK Keneallist! More fun than boxes! Or boats! Co
de Kloet and the lovely Linde were visiting in California this week.
They made me and Sarah and Scott and Claudia a truly wonderful dinner,
and they are truly wonderful people. Thanks kids! Wine
And Pickles, the magical outtakes/rarities record that could, is
complete, the audio at least. We're in artwork mode now. I'm doing two,
possibly three paintings for it and I've done a major bunch of liner
notes, the polar opposite of Dog where I was hiding everything for some
reason, this time around everything's on the table for you to pick
through. Ordering information will come your way after Scott gets back
from Europe in mid-April. But
the main thing I need to do today is pack for Portugal, 'cause I'm
flying there in the morning to play at the Gouveia Art Rock festival
this weekend. Van Der Graaf Generator dude! I'm going to have a good
time. Thanks Thomas Olsson (my buddy who I met last year at the Isildurs
Bane fest) for hooking this one up. It's another solo set, like I did
last year in Germany and earlier this year in Japan. Every time it's a
little less nerve-wracking to do the solo thing. But it's still slightly
nerve-wracking. How
about last week's gig at the Baked Potato? "Smart Patrol/Mr.
DNA," dude. That was a result of Joe Travers and I watching a live
Devo concert from the late 70s a few weeks ago and dying inside over how
cool they were; we NEEDED to play that song. Eric Vesbit said it was the
best cover he'd ever heard us do. And Jamie Kime was awesome, playing
the whole second set with us. Oh,
Bryan Beller is going to also be sitting in with Janet Feder and myself
at Alva's on April 12. Good times, yes! And Andy Partridge and I have
re-engaged on our project which was started four years ago now, sheesh.
This year we're going to actually finish the songs we started writing
together, I hope, I hope. Here's
some names of songs which I'll be recording with Bryan, Rick and Joe
after I get back from Portugal: Cornbread
Crumb Life's
Too Small Saturate Popes I
think "Popes" is going to be a big, big hit. People love
popes. And
last night I heard the finished Assumptions album (the songs of Layne
Sterling as performed by Layne, myself, Jon Kanis and Brian Nucci) on
VINYL, and it sounds utterly fantastic. More about this release soon,
you need to check it out. Now,
to put clothes in things! See you in Portugal! Malkmus, mk
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MOTHERS RE:INVENTED http://www.thegrandmothers.com/CDs.htm with
the GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED GRANDE
MOTHERS PLAY ENGLAND 2008/UNCLE MEAT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEODv5ywrTE GRANDE MOTHERS PLAY ENGLAND 2008/PYGMY TWYLYTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4lIMjCJyn0 GRANDE MOTHERS PLAY ENGLAND 2008/I AM THE SLIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQAC9yvgi8&feature=related GRANDE MOTHERS IN ZAGREB 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLsCFzKIlVg GRANDE MOTHERS IN HAMBURG 2004 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwGHPkcm5y4&feature=related - |
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The Harry Kapeliaris Group performed Frank Zappa's 'Watermelon In Easter Hay' live on "1000+2 nights", June 2007. Harry Kapeliaris - guitar guests Mike Tsikos - clarinet, Marina Manolakou - voice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwi0DnYrUNE&feature=related - |
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Shawn Lane performed Frank Zappa's 'Watermelon In Easter Hay' in concert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMDVMIfkxg - |
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Maurizio Perri has arranged and recorded several Frank Zappa compositions for fingerstyle guitar. The results can be seen at YouTube: Lumpy Gravy (F.Zappa) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xrhmrdCZo4&feature=related Let's Make The Water Turn Black (F.Zappa) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xrhmrdCZo4&feature=related Let's Move To Cleveland (F.Zappa) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFus5WbQgo&feature=user Watermelon In Easter Hay (F.Zappa) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFus5WbQgo&feature=user - |
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Rastop performed Frank Zappa's 'Black Napkins', live at 'Pianos' in
New York City, NY, usa in 2008.
John Macaluso on drums, Jack Maiorino on bass, Jerry Z on keyboards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR9y7owsNrU&feature=related - |
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Here's
the Zappanale#19 Line-Up
Special
guests:
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2008
The
Illegailly Live Tour continues... November:
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... wowie zowie...
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a nice little piece of an interview with Frank Zappa, as published in
Society Pages (the US zappa fanzine) number six. We're talking 1991.
It's quite interesting to read how Zappa is amused and pleased by some
of the things that his fans are doing. And even the Arf Society gets a
mention... I remember reading the interview when it came out, years ago, and I was quite suprised. Not only because FZ had taken the time to talk with Denn & Rob, but also because he seemed really interested. It looked like it might become an interesting symbiosis, FZ and Society Pages. Unfortunately, the mag folded in 1992 (not mentioning the 1994 issue). |
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