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the big nOte files - july 2004 |
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COUNTING THE DAYS TO ZAPPANALE... updated almost every day. July, 2004.
| The latest Zappa release is called "Joe's
Corsage" and it's great.
Show them that you want more were this came from, and order your copy today:
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| ZZZZZ | Trubee speaks |
| ZZZZZ | Mothers picture |
| More album covers | |
| ZZZZZ | Added a bunch of album covers |
| ZZZZZ | Scram magazine no19 |
| ZZZZZ | Steve Mann update |
| ZZZZZ | Kaosmik Kitty, performance artist & singer |
| ZZZZZ | The Ugly Janitors Of America are back |
| ZZZZZ | Ensemble Ambrosius on Belgian radio |
| ZZZZZ | The Paul Green School Of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock on tour !!! |
| ZZZZZ | Added a bunch of pictures, album covers |
| ZZZZZ | Frank You, Thank - Volume 2, a superb album |
| ZZZZZ | King Crimson North Sea Jazz Festival 2003 concert aired on Dutch radio |
| ZZZZZ | George Duke concert aired on Dutch NPS radio |
| ZZZZZ | setlists for The Grand Wazoo and for Ossi Duri at the Uncle Meeting 2004 Zappa happening |
| ZZZZZ | setlist for the Ed Palermo Big Band concerts in Bonn |
| ZZZZZ | setlist for the Zappa Corner Band |
| ZZZZZ | New albums |
| ZZZZZ | Louie Louie |
| ZZZZZ | Zappanale live on internet |
| ZZZZZ | Vince DeRosa - Richard Perissi |
| ZZZZZ | An extra performance by The Troupe |
| ZZZZZ | Eugene Chadbourne scheduled to performe in Holland |
| ZZZZZ | More Zappanale News |
| ZZZZZ | (Joe's) Garage Sale |
| ZZZZZ | The Mojo sampler: tracklist & picture |
| ZZZZZ | Ed Mann at Zappanale, Here's a bit of extra info |
| ZZZZZ | Some thoughts from Carl O. Franzoni |
| ZZZZZ | Downhillbattle |
| ZZZZZ | Italian big band Orchestra Spaziale played a Zappa Concert last month |
| ZZZZZ | Corrections to the John French entry |
| ZZZZZ | John Trubee spits it out |
| ZZZZZ | Magic Band live in Amsterdam - a review by teejo 'electricity' thieman |
| ZZZZZ | New Jean-Luc Ponty album |
| ZZZZZ | Pictures of the 1982 Zappa band |
| ZZZZZ | Zappa on Mojo Sampler |
| ZZZZZ | Corrections to the Aspen Wind Quintet entry |
| ZZZZZ | The bands that will be playing Zappanale... |
| ZZZZZ | Mike Keneally's Dog is out, and so is Pup... |
| ZZZZZ | Two new Zappa DVD bootlegs |
| ZZZZZ | News from Chris Opperman |
| ZZZZZ | The Keneallist, Mike Keneally's newsletter, July 30, 2004 |
| ZZZZZ | News from the Hungarian Frank Zappa Association |
| ZZZZZ | The Residents' Brumalia release faces a lot of troubles |
| ZZZZZ | Andre Lewis has a new e-mail address |
| ZZZZZ | Flo & Eddie / Frank Zappa bootleg album called "An Evening in Detroit" |
| ZZZZZ | The Zappanale program |
| ZZZZZ | Latest Zappa Album, and more to come |
| ZZZZZ | and the concert calendar |
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short bits - more info soon
- LeBocal has issued a mini-cd to promote their Zappa album
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July 21 Yep, skipped a day or two. And I'll be off to Zappanale now. Get back to you soon. |
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--John Trubee
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Aynsley Dunbar, FZ, (Chester Thompson ?? & Tom Fowler ???), Ian Underwood
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And here's some more album covers... All in an attempt to make it look the way it should... If you notice any errors, bad links, you should know that I'm working on that. Still a couple of hundred bad links and lost pages to go... |
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July 16 I received the album cover of Pipco's "In Cerca De Mr.Zappa" today. Thank you, Alvin. Reason enough for me to scan & add some extra album covers: |
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July 15 screams SCRAM! extra, extra, read all about it... |
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The latest issue of Scram magazine (number 19, the
spring 2004 one) has two articles that UM readers should know about:
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July 14 and there's a bit of news from Steve Mann. I'm trying to contact him to ask about his days with The Mothers... Also, John Trubee is back with his Ugly Janitors ... And Trubee also released 2 new documentary interviews, this time with Kaosmik Kitty... |
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From: Janet Smith - July 2003 Hello Hello from Steve Mann via Janet Smith of Bella Roma Music in Berkeley. You were right to ask if the featured artist on
Straight Life sounded like a person who O.D. It did not happen. Anyway, Stefan Grossman has been sending Steve CD’s, videos and now DVD’s over the years while Steve was hospitalized and then living in board and care half-way houses, still performing occasionally. Now in a good place up here in Berkeley and playing up a storm, He’s older now, but still has those incredible hands, plays blues and tons of other stuff as well, remembers everything, artists, tunes, recording sessions, he’s amazing. He has a few guitar students in the area, plays in the Berkeley chess club tournaments, and gets around to local concerts to catch up on old buddies. He’s older but still a ton of fun, surrounded by a musical global village. He saw Paul Geremia at Erik Schoenberg’s guitar shop in Tiburon recently. Paul played “Holly,” Steve’s signature piece, and gave a really nice acknowledgement to the author in the audience. Real heart-warming. Bella Roma Music is gathering recorded tracks of Steve from early concerts at the Ash Grove, the Jabberwok in Berkeley, and also some studio recordings not previously released. We hope to put together a nice CD project with booklet, lyrics, stories and photos, some time in the next year. Since he played up at the Boonville Blues festival
and had such a good time, maybe we can get him out on the road again, if
the environment is friendly enough to support his needs. He will need to
travel with another musician most likely. Hopefully there will also be a
web site where his CD will eventually be available, sold directly by Steve
who can autograph them personally. |
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UGLY JANITORS OF AMERICA |
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I just finished listening to a concert (recording) by the Ugly Janitors Of America, John Trubee's band. June 4th, 2004, they played at Kimo's in San Francisco, CA, usa. 2004/06/04 concert 'kimo's', san francisco, ca, usa
Not that he's ever been away, but Trubee sure is back !! If you live in the neighbourhood of San Francisco, you should try to
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Tuesday, July 13 |
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Cucamonga radio show. Monday, 2004/07/12, Belgian VRT 1 radio did a broadcast of (a part of) the Ensemble Ambrosius concert from 2004/06/25 at the 'concertgebouw' in Brugge, Belgium. Very
fine concert indeed. |
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Monday, July 12 Here's some big news from the School Of Rock: |
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THE SCHOOL OF ROCK, feat. NAPOLEON MURPHY BROCK |
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the School of Rock + Napoleon Murphy Brock tour is set, and here are the dates:
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Sunday, July 11 Frank You, Thank - Volume 2 has been coming through my speakers this afternoon. My youngest kid even danced to it... |
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FRANK YOU, THANK - VOLUME TWO |
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Yesterday, Saturday July 10, 2004, Dutch NPS radio aired another excellent show: the King Crimson concert from last year's North Sea Jazz Festival ( 2003/07/12 'north sea jazz festival', the hague, nl). Besides ex-Zappa sideman Adrian Belew, KC also featured Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto. 60 minutes of the show have been
broadcast preciously. I don't know they aired the complete concert
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June 13, Dutch NPS radio did a broadcast of the 2004/02/15 concert that the George Duke Band did at 'Paradiso' in Amsterdam, NL. Great, great, great. I wasn't there in February, so I'm glad that NPS, "4FM in concert", shared this one in FM-quality with us. (about 90 minutes of the 140-minute concert) Much to my surprise, though, the broadcast
didn't include the part where George Duke played his favourite Zappa
composition, 'Cosmik Debris', and the fabulous tune that he wrote with
Zappa, 'Uncle Remus'. During the concert, George Duke said that it had
been over twenty years that he had played 'Uncle Remus', but that he had
had various request to play the song. |
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July 10 Setlists. Most of them come from various Zappateers. Check out their site at www.zappateers.com |
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Told you about the excellent Bonn concerts of the Ed Palermo Big Band, didn't I? Here's the tracklist:
-- info: the zappateers |
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And speaking of setlists, there's more. This one's from the "Umeå Internationella Kammarmusik Festival" (Umea International Chambermusic Festival) that took place from 2003/06/09 to 2003/06/15. A big part of the festival was dedicated to the music of Frank Zappa.
-- info: the zappateers |
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May 2001, dutch VPRO radio did a one-hour special on 'Louie Louie'. The history of, and lots of coverversions. I received a recording of it yesterday. Very funny. |
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July 9. Yes, there's more news. There's always news.... Zappanale on the net; discographies, and an extra concert by The Troupe... |
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June 21, the following message was distributed: July 23, 24 en 25, Zappanale #15 will be broadcast live on the Internet. This webcast is an initiative of the Dutch "Frank Zappa Internet Object" foundation in cooperation with 2 providers BIT and XS4ALL and the Internet podium of Paradiso called Fabchannel. I would be pleased if you want to place the announcement on your site so many Zappa Fans will have the possibility to notice this event. If possible, please use the attached Webcast logo. Look at http://www.fabchannel.com/ for the necessary info and, of course, for watching. enjoy Henry
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Geoff Wills wrote: I was interested to see Charles Ulrich's additions and corrections regarding Vince Derosa and Richard Perissi in United Mutations. As a jazz fan, I'm very familiar with their names, and they have appeared regularly on LA big band sessions, in the case of DeRosa since the 1940s, and in the case of Perissi since the 1950s. Here are partial discographies of their jazz work: Vince DeRosa Boyd Raeburn Memphis In June 1946 Richard Perissi Man With The Golden Arm Soundtrack 1955 Best Regards -- Geoff Wills |
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The Troupe performed Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" in concert at the Juttersfestival in the Netherlands in 2003. Early July 2004, together with the Wervelwind Ensemble sextet and the Barbers & Bishops choir, they did "Het Notenapparaat" at another edition of the Juttersfestival, performing works of Zappa, Sweelinck en Janácek. This will be repeated at 'De Kleine Komedie' in Amsterdam,NL, on September 12, 2004. info from the nederzappa newsgroup |
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Saturday, august 21, Eugene Chadbourne will play at the 'Plusetage' in Baarle-Nassau, NL.
http://www.eugenechadbourne.com/ -- info: Tom Baeten |
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July 8 - A little change in the Zappanale schedule, and a picture of the latest Mojo sampler. Not bad for a Thursday. |
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Andrew Greenaway, from the excellent http://www.idiotbastard.supanet.com/ website, forwarded me the following Zappanale news: Instead of Captain Ahab (they are cancelled), Frank Goos will be playing in the theatre. Ole Lukkoye is playing as the last band on friday. -- Info: Andrew Greenaway & Thomas Dippel |
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posted by Suzycreamcheese on www.killuglyradio.com: The Zappas
sell a buch of stuff at their Joe's Garage Sale.
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-- info: Ive |
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July 7. Zappanale is coming closer every day. Talk again to you tomorrow. |
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ED MANN AT ZAPPANALE |
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Ed Mann will be headlining Zappanale. Ed was kind enough to give a bit of extra info: At Zappanale I will play with Frogg Cafe and with Wrong Object - introduced to me by Wolfgang. I have heard their CDs and communicated with them and they are great bands and nice people. Ed Mann and friends will be primarily Zappa music but played in
alternative versions that are highly improvisational - not the traditional
Zappa arrangements nor the traditional Zappa tunes that are most often
covered - also the form that is more like acoustic jazz than electric
band. Nothing like Repercussion Unit - but not like FZ's bands either. |
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recent poem by Carl Franzoni... We used to go to the cemetery, Catherine and Dara and i, and take pictures and i did a small movie in the rain. Carr st. leads to cemetery, Catherine family are in the crept, on the sunny side. Just thinking of U. i happen to be very intuitive , about people i like, Is that as scary as the dead people. Remember my Indian astrology, is death and the wind. Now poem i wrote: The year 2001 en-ron failing, pg&e stealing from california, martha stuart rip off, cushbush going in- to political toilet after 9 months in office, talaban inbush's pocket, this planned with the last president and gore the whore. who never contested the vote. and then wallstreet stealing from it's customers, that was what the hopi prediction is about, because they are stock customers too, several tribes and greenpeace protested and did one hour drumming in front of #7 building wallstreet, then were asked to come upstairs 37th. floor, and they protested and gave a prediction of total destruction of wall-street, this happened in april 2001. leman-brothers#7 building falling three weeks after u.s. marshals demolished their holly grounds august 2001 in mesa arizona . wall street had to fall, to hide everything. and to make sure, it was boomed from the inside with plastic. -- cof. |
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Have you ever heard of Downhillbattle? Read this and be amazed. |
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Italian Zappa cover band (big band) Orchestra Spaziale played a concert in Bologna, 2004/06/16. The following info comes from the Zappateers website (Info by AGI): Orchestra
Spaziale Giorgio Casadei : conductor, arrangements,
guitar on Outside Now
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The John French entry had a couple of errors. Thanx to Chris Fisher and Duncan Kimball. Here we go: Just a quick note to give you some info and possible corrections for your John French entry: FYI there are two John Frenchs. The 'other' John French is a noted Australian producer-engineer, based in Melbourne. He is not the same person as John 'Drumbo' French of the Magic Band. The following production/engineering credits you have listed on that page are for 'our' Aussie John French:
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GO BUSH/CHENEY '04! Copyright c 2004 John Trubee The collective psyche of
these ugly people All the turmoil and agony If he were an employee
of any company The electorate roils up like
a red-eyed dragon
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It looks like the Magic Band played an excellent concert in Amsterdam in June. Here's some comments by Teejo: last week i went to the concert by the magic band at paradiso in
amsterdam. the MAGIC BAND reunion
tuesday 22 june 2004 AMSTERDAM holland PARADISO diddy wah diddy * the smithsonian institute blues * circumstances *
nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man * hair pie bass bake * 'drumbo solo' *
on tomorrow * steal softly thru snow * abba zaba * my human gets me blues
* alice in blunderland * hair pie: bake 2 * i wanna find a woman that'll
hold my big toe till i have to go * veteran's day poppy * evening bell *
electricity * the floppy boot stomp * mirror man * grow fins * when it
blows its stacks * click clack REVIEW by teejo whatever the reasons might be, captain beefheart always has been more popular - i mean, better understood - in europe than in his home country. because of the similarity of the languages, it's logical great britain has the biggest number of fans - so touring our continent, most gigs took place at that island. but given the language barrier a maybe relatively even bigger group of 'followers' could be found on the mainland. during the visits to europe the band regularly went 'abroad' and especially holland and france were favourite destinations. as the reunion of the magic band lasted longer than many people had expected and invitations for more shows came in, it just seemed a question of time for the group to re-discover western europe. and indeed, on the first day of the summer of 2004 the old beefheart companions were back in amsterdam in holland, as the start of a two week tour mainly leading through the united kingdom (again). as i live only twenty kilometres away from that city, i no longer could hold on to the excuse that attending one of the magic band's concerts took too much time and money. i simply hád to go.... all preparations went smoothly: after a four hour car drive from
germany, detlef jürgens arrived at mine in time, and we headed for the
show at paradiso while listening to the 'back to the front'
more-than-a-tribute. once inside the former synagogue, i stumbled into a
stand with magic band memorabilia and in a seldom moment of goodness i
bought a t-shirt and we had arrived at the scene early enough for an easy acclimatization and a bit of 'investigation' into the background of the audience (continued during and after show). which appeared to be a strange mixture of 'sub-cultures'. of course, there was the core of dutch beefheart addicts which had come from far and near to see the performance, if they weren't from the neighbouring countries belgium and germany. remarkably, however, was the overwhelming presence of frank zappa fans who hoped to find out more about his legendary guest captain beefheart. due to its international character, amsterdam also houses many english speaking residents and tourists (like a guy from canada who video taped the event!). so, a quite astonishing fact was that half of the conversation was done in english. as is customary to 'difficult' music, the majority of the public was male, yet a considerable number of women had shown up. although the gig hadn't been sold out - the two balconies stayed closed - the central floor was well occupied, which according to regular visitors meant the magic band had attracted about 600 people. not only the fact that the audience wasn't pressed together made the stay a pleasant one, the circumstance that there were hardly any (fucked up) teens and twens also contributed to the general feeling of comfort. meanwhile, the sphere was very relaxed. no wonder, because the hall was filled with such thick clouds of hash smoke that everyone was high - even folks who dare to claim they never use drugs! the magic band was in a similar mood, beit that the guys at first had some trouble finding back the overall musical co-ordination after five months in which they hadn't seen each other. for instance: their first public performance of 'the smithsonian institute blues' wasn't as perfect as the rest of the program. and john french hadn't sufficiently warmed up his vocal cords (compared to the album versions), though not too dramatically. after opening with a couple of songs, the group switched to a set of instrumentals, which included solo pieces by gary lucas and mark boston (with the 'bass hair pie', of course). during this section the ensemble got as it should be, and you could see and feel how the growing joy the musicians had in playing led to excellent executions of particularly some 'trout mask replica' classics. consequently, the audience turned wilder and wilder from enthusiasm. with óne instrumental to go a funny misunderstanding happened when john french stood up from the drum stool to pick up his towel at the front of the stage, and michael traylor took his place thinking it was his time to take over. he was sent back to the side wings in good harmony.... when the magic band started with the second vocal part of the show, it appeared that the rest had been favourable to john's voice. he sang superbly, and gestured like beefheart himself, and inspired the other guys to follow his example with the same conviction. although we had no complaints about the performance till then, the finishing acts of the concert were really baffling. just like us, the band swung madly during especially 'electricity' and 'click clack'.... as expected, they also did a magnificent encore which contained blistering versions of two of our favourite songs. amazingly enough, after one and a half hour of great music we still had the foolish cheek to ask for more - but our desperate request was in vain. however, nobody cared, because it had been a very pleasant evening for all. despite a few technical misfortunes like no sound from denny walley's guitar during most of 'abba zaba' and occasional adjustments of the vocal microphone, the total mix was in fine balance, and the passionate performance proved that captain beefheart's unusual music still is very alive and kicking. i think, the magic band should come over more often.... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
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Jean-Luc Ponty has a new album out. It's called "Jean Luc Ponty in Concert" and it includes a concert Ponty did in Warschau, October 1999.
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July 6, check out Hanzo's picture pages. These are really great. And there's some extra info on some of the Zappanale bands as well. |
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Wanna see some nice pictures of the 1982 Zappa band, go to Hanzo's site: |
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Ive says: FREE CD with MOJO-magazine July 2004 "RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS JUKEBOX" |
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LeBocal, you know, this french band that made the superb Zappa album,
will be playing two concerts shortly. Don't know if they'll play any Zappa stuff, but I guess so, since it was / is their latest project:
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Charles Ulrich was kind enough to send me some corrections for the Aspen Wind Quintet entry.
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ZAPPANALE NEWS: the bands that will be playing ZAPPANALE |
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Once more the Zappanale unites extraordinary
musicians and bands for three days – a selection Captain Ahab Always very close to the frontier with absurdity
Captain Ahab has been celebrating a selection of Zappa numbers as well as
own compositions on stage for 12 years and therefore he explicitly
doesn’t see himself as a pure Zappa cover band! Listening to the partly
individual interpretations by Ahab it becomes obvious that the musicians
– based on deep respect for Frank Zappa - are playing for the fun of it
but still want to turn some of the wheels in Zappa’s universe a little
further. Ensemble Creativ Inspired by “Yellow Shark“ in the outstanding
recording by the Ensemble Modern and by a CD of the Finnish Ensemble
Ambrosius which recorded Zappa music with old instruments, Frieder Berger
and Bernd Born rearranged FZ tunes for the 17 piece ensemble. This way for
example typical German and Central European equals are compared to the
“archetypal American music icon” (F. Zappa). Another novelty: singer
Silke Gonska translated original lyrics into German (e. g.: “I’m The
Slime”, “Bobby Brown” or “The Torture Never Stops”). This is
meant to make it easier for the listener to penetrate the Zappaesque unity
of words and music. Let’s wait and see! The jazzy Frank Zappa
enthusiasts may look forward to a Grand Wazoo – Waka – Jawaka –
Reprise with lots of brass and woodwind acrobatics. Cellomania
– presented by the Airport Laage Four classically trained cellists let it rock! Just
like the Finnish group “Apocalyptica” the quartet from Berlin made it
its job to show the middle finger to the conservative classical music. By
means of exclusive and extremely ingenious arrangements Cellomania
experiments with rhythm, sound and effects and like this passes the
frontier between classical music and the best energy packed hits in rock
history. For this the gentlemen put on coloured suits and let rock
classics like “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Kashmir” or “Stairway To
Heaven” jump over their finger boards. Ole Lukkøye The story of Ole
Lukkøye from St. Petersburg goes back to the high times of the Russian
underground at the end of the 80s. Przasniczki For our Eastern neighbours the underground band has
been a guarantee for quality. Since their foundation in 1995 the musicians
from Lodz published four albums and so proved that flamboyant sounds have
a firm audience and are still getting new fans. The fact that Przasnicki
enrich their concerts with sarcastic wit and interaction with the audience
is highly remarkable and correctly to Frank Zappa’s mind. Mats
/ Morgan Band Mats Öberg and Morgan Agren work like mad. Partly
playing very hard with a sharp edged rhythm and limitless wildness – but
also playfully, with humour, affected and free. This band is the spearhead
of progressive rock with a very own intention. Intensive, intelligent,
geared towards rhythm. The
Wrong Object The quartet from Belgium, inspired by Zappa, Gong and
Soft Machine mixes psychedelic Jazz with modern rock elements. The Wrong
Object works very inspired, neither their interpretations of Zappa songs
nor their own compositions need to fear comparison with the original Zappa
songs. What is significant: In front of the background by the powerful
rhythm section and on the carpet of vital, fabulous compositions the
guitar often serves the song by holding back, instead the saxophone and
the clarinet are brilliant as solo instruments and leave their mark on
what’s happening. Frogg Café The musical roots of Frogg Café are to be found with
Frank Zappa, Yes, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, and Genesis as well as with
classics such as Stravinsky, Ravel, Copland and even with jazzers like for
example Charles Mingus and Coltrane. The band consists of five music
teachers from New York who started as the Zappa cover band “Lumpy
Gravy” in 1998 and meanwhile they’ve grown high out of their roots. visit www.zappanale.de,
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July 5, 2004 Yes, want to add some info every day now, as I'm counting the days to Zappanale. Please don't say that nothing's happening. There's this fabulous Mike Keneally Band album and some new Zappa DVD bootlegs as well. And I still have to put in all the info for Frank You, Thank - Volume Two. Let's see if I can keep this up... |
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lotsa lynx |
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got this weird message yesterday: Serebella.com has added a link to your page "United
Mutations" at http://www.united-mutations.com/
on our page about "Zappa, Frank" which can be found at http://www.serebella.com/directory/Arts/Music/Bands%20and%20Artists/Z/Zappa,%20Frank/.
We invite you to visit our page, and if you like what you find we would
appreciate a link back! |
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MIKE KENEALLY - DOG |
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FRANK ZAPPA DVD BOOTLEGS |
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No, I'm not talking DVDR copies that have been surfacing in the trade
circuit recently. These are factory pressed DVDs. Bootlegs, yes, released
without the permission of the ZFT.
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July 4, 2004 Lots of things are happening. The latest Keneally album just came in, there's good news from the Zappa vault, and Zappanale is only a couple of weeks away... Couldn't paste the Keneally album in today. Maybe tomorrow... And I'm terribly running behind in answering my e-mails as well.... |
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[Addendum: In addition to the Special Opps show on July 16th, I'll be playing a mostly solo set on Saturday, July 10th @ 6 pm @ The Space on 2020 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404 as part of TJ Moore's Los Angeles Art Gallery Debut. Also performing will be Co-Pilot, Candybox Violence, Hijack the Disco, Andy Mitton, Dan Rocket, and Arden Kaywin. The show is being sponsored by the Sight Unseen Theatre Group and is an RSVP-only reception (with hors d'oeuvres & an open bar from 6 - 9!). Cover is $10.] [Chris Opperman Mailing List -
Monday, June 28th, 2004] Episode #20: Episode
20 Quick & Easy: * The release date for my third solo album, Concepts of Non-linear Time (which was very briefly known as No Memories, Please), has been set for Tuesday, July 20th provided nothing goes wrong at DiscMakers (http://www.discmakers.com/)! Finally! Still time left to pre-order a signed copy! www.onesheet.com/chrisopperman.html Thank you so, so much to everyone who has already pre-ordered. The response has been fantastic. * On Friday, July 16th, my band Special Opps will be headlining the CD release party for Concepts of Non-linear Time along with live performance newbie Cosette Trombino (8:00), the sweet & sexy (or is that sexy & sweet?) Nikki Katt (8:30) (whom I will also be sitting in with), bodacious Brent Locke (9:15), and the eclectic Zach Sinick (10:00) at Room 5 Lounge @ 143 N. La Brea (between Beverly and 1st Street), Los Angeles, CA 90036. Special Opps starts at 11 and we will be having Mike Keneally (http://www.keneally.com/) as a special guest on guitar and Talia Mays from The Golden Ratio (http://www.g-ratio.com/) as a guest vocalist. The show is also being professionally recorded and videotaped, AND OppyList members get in for the discounted rate of $5! So you really should do your darndest to make this gig. Seriously. You'll be sad if you miss it. And it's all ages. I might even play Idaho Potato, but don't hold your breath. * In Late July/August, we will be compiling my 4th album and 1st live album, tentatively called Made-up Songs: Live in Los Angeles containing songs culled from my LA performances over the last three years. Special guests include the criminally underrated Andre LaFosse (http://www.altruistmusic.com/) on guitar, the more-appreciated-but-not-appreciated-enough Mike Keneally (http://www.keneally.com/) on guitar, Kat Parsons (http://www.katparsons.com/) on vocals, and more! Also includes performances by Chris Opperman & Friends and Special Opps. I guarantee you something from the July 16th gig will be included on this compilation. Between us, I'm hoping to get a completely outrageous full-band version of Kamp Keneally as well as lots of other musically mind-blowing things. * Last-minute/Secret Shows List: In order to build a solid fan base, you have to play all the time. However, if you play all the time, then you wind up always playing shows for 5 people because you've oversaturated your market. SO I've decided that I'm only going to promote the bigger shows (like the 7/16 show) and do several last-minute and/or secret shows to introduce new people into the music. That having been said, I would hate to exclude anyone who wants to know every single time I'm playing! So if you would like to be on my secondary list for last-minute shows, simply e-mail MrOppy@aol.com and let me know. Thanks for your extra interest! * Opulent Music Services: I've started a new division of my corporation, Mad Phat Enterprises, Inc., called Opulent Music Services which includes engraving/music copying, orchestration, arranging, and production services. Therefore, should you need any of those services, please don't hesitate to let me know. I am also interested in licensing out my compositions/recordings for use in film & television, so if there's a specific composition you would like to use for your project, e-mail me and we can work out a deal for that as well. I'm doing music full-time now so I need all the help I can get! * The Official Oppy Music Website v. 3.1 is coming! It's going to be a fairly massive update and I think the website will be a whole lot more fun and content-rich then. I'm looking forward to it. Check out http://www.oppymusic.com/ if you haven't already. Okay, that's all I have to report right now! Thank you all so much for your support. Music is the best. Hopefully I'll see a lot of you on the 16th! Love always, -- Chris Opperman |
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THE KENEALLIST June 30 04 |
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We finally managed to get "Dog" out the
door, and the response has been truly outrageous. I'm humbled and grateful
for the kind words I've been reading so far --- thank you everybody. Sincere thanks to everyone who pre-ordered --- your support allowed this album to exist in a very real way and our appreciation for you is immense. By the way, about half of the 2500 Special Editions are gone already (in addition to the pre-order, this is by far our fastest selling disc yet), so if you've been waiting, I wouldn't wait too much longer. Howdy all! For the moment, “Dog” is exclusively available at live gigs, at http://www.moosemart.com and at other selected sites (including Lou's Records in Encinitas, CA, which in addition to being Exowax's mail-order fulfillment angel is also a full-time and fully rocking record shop - everyone at Lou's is doing a great job getting Dogs into your hands - thanks Lou's!). “Dog” will officially hit the streets at retail outlets around late October, after the September 7 release of “The Universe Will Provide,” my album with the Metropole Orkest. This will be released on the new NPS Output label in association with Steve Vai's Favored Nations records. We're currently arranging with Favored Nations to get advance copies of “TUWP” to sell at Moosemart several weeks prior to the retail release date. Scott and I are highly energized by the response to "Dog" and you'll be seeing some more updates at http://www.keneally.com soon (I'm finally working on the discography again!, and we'll be posting the lyrics to "Dog" and "Wooden Smoke" soon), plus the launch of http://www.RadioKeneally.com in July. I spent a few hours today recording some bizarre voice IDs for the radio station, and I'm having a lot of fun choosing loads of unreleased material to play. 24 hours a day of streaming Keneally. It's the natural thing to do. And you know what else? Digital downloads of all Exowax Mike Keneally albums (including the currently-unavailable “Pup” and “Dancing With Myself”) will be available at iTunes, eMusic, Napster and other online music communities within a few weeks. We'll provide you with more details as they accure. But I guess the main reason I wrote right now is to encourage anyone who can possibly make it to come to Whittier, California this weekend...to wit:
FIRST POST-DOG-RELEASE CONCERT! Also on the bill are Neal Morse, Enchant, IZZ, and Erik Norlander. A great, full day of music and we'll play "Dog" in its entirety for the first time (will we devise a performable version of "This Tastes Like A Hotel"? I say yes! Come watch!), plus some of the more wicked Keneally oldies and one "prog classic" cover (I think it's classic, anyway). The band is champing at the bit, this should be a crazy show. NEARfest is sold out the following week. Here's the info for that show, just to annoy you.
Mike Keneally Band -
Saturday, July 10, 2004 -
NEARfest -
Zoellner Arts Center -
Lehigh University Sorry. And! And! I'll be playing with Oppy at the release party for his new album “Concepts of Non-Linear Time.” As Oppy is likely to say at any moment, here's the dealio:
Mike Keneally guests with Special Opps Just want to mention briefly that the Bryan Beller debut gig last week was completely mindblowingly wonderful, and I sure hope we can do it again sometime - how's about a double bill tour? I'd show up for that. And the festival in Sweden a couple of weeks ago was intense and pleasurable as well -- thanks very much to the musicians who did such a spirited, superb job on the premieres of my chamber pieces "Madge" and "Crumb" (thanks again to Oppy for his mighty orchestrating as well), and feverish thanks forever to Schroeder, Jaan Wessman, the completely unreasonably amazing Napoleon Murphy Brock, Erik Palm, Andrew Jones and all my great new friends in Sweden. I'm out of superlatives, it's late, I'm a woozy grateful person and I'm going to bed. See y'all soon. Thanks again - -- MK |
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THE HUNGARIAN FRANK ZAPPA ASSOCIATION |
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badblock says: Some news from Hungarian Frank Zappa Association:
the setlist:
and some picture:
30-06-2004 |
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THE RESIDENTS |
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Ralphamerica says: Dear Ralph Friend... Breaking news 6/30/04 Thanks for still being our friend, |
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This is the one: "Brumalia", the wrong cover.
Originally intended as a limited release of 1000 copies, and about 400
went out with the wrong cover. You probably know the music (or you should) as it has been available for download from the Rez site a while ago, but here it is in all its glory. |
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I told you last time that Andre Lewis is back, that he recently moved to L.A. and gave you his latest e-mail adress. Well, the e-mail address that I gave you was valid at that time, but now, it has changed as well: dremandre@hotmail.com.
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FLO & EDDIE / FRANK ZAPPA BOOTLEG |
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It's about time that I started making a lot of noise about the next edition of Zappanale. Here we go: Thursday, 22.07.2004 |
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NEW ZAPPA ALBUM and more to come |
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"Joe's Corsage" has finally reached Yurrip. Thanx again to slime.oofytv.set for probably being the first to spot it on www.zappa.com and to report it!
I really, really like this. Great concept to start an excellent series. And, finally, we get to know Henry Vestine as a mother.
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-----Original Message----- The doors to Frank Zappa's vault will be blown wide open via a new series of archival releases under the moniker "Joe's Corsage," a nod to both Zappa's 1979 album "Joe's Garage" and Zappa archivist Joe Travers. A disc bearing that title is now available via the iconoclastic late artist's official Web site and his estate's Vaulternative label, comprising demos and live recordings from the earliest stages of his band the Mothers Of Invention. "Around Mother's Day, it was the 40th anniversary of the day Frank named the group," his widow Gail Zappa tells Billboard.com. "That was May 10, 1964. It became the other Mother's Day. We thought, 'what can we do?' Then Joe said, 'Hey, listen to this!' It turned into 'Joe's Corsage,' because it's just a little thing only he knew about that he wouldn't normally bring to our attention. This will be the first in a series of piquant little items from the vault that only Joe knows about. There's so many other choices of things Frank set aside for one reason or another. It would otherwise be a long time before we got to them." Indeed, Gail Zappa estimates there are 40 albums' worth of material that could see the light of day, including complete live concerts. "But 'Joe's Corsage' the series will be separate," she says. "It could be anything, anytime, for no reason at all. We already know what the next one is. I hope it will be available before the summer is out." After Zappa died in 1993, the estate sold the rights to certain albums in particular formats to Rykodisc. That deal expires in October, potentially foreshadowing Vaulternative's release of alternate album editions. "The stuff in the vault, to me, comprises an equally valuable catalog, maybe even more so, because there's a lot of stuff that is interesting from the standpoint of hearing how the composer operated," Gail Zappa says. "We have a title called 'Everything Is Healing Nicely,'" she continues. "It's the prequel to [the 1993 orchestral release] 'The Yellow Shark'; the rehearsals and bits and pieces of things that Frank had actually mixed. Obviously he was going to do something with them. The minute we put that out, two weeks later we found a tape of the same material but cut together in a completely different way by Frank. I would like to put that out so you can compare it. "So really, the focus of this is more actually about the legacy than anything else is. Yes, you have his voice as he intended it on the catalog that Ryko has in release, as long as they preserve it and stop messing around with it. When they start cutting it up, especially the classical pieces, that drives me crazy. Of course they can legally do it, but why?" A Rykodisc spokesperson was unavailable for comment at deadline. Other Zappa projects in the family pipeline include an edition of the recent "Baby Snakes" DVD with DTS sound and a DVD of the 1971 film "200 Motels," which is said to be the first movie ever shot on video and then transferred to film for theatrical release. But DVD extras may be lacking, as the original video reels appear to have been destroyed. "It boggles the mind [distributor United Artists would] be so stupid as to dump it," Gail Zappa says. "First we have to get all the materials that we can together to put it back in one piece." "Everything you see is live," she says of the performances in the film. "What you see is what was happening. No one has ever heard, except some crazy people in Holland, the whole score. My idea would be to have a performance of that exactly the way the score is." -- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. |
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