Month: December 2003

Robert “Frog” Camarena of Ruben & The Jets fame is releasing a new album entitled “Ride Y etto Ride”. From the inbox: “(…) it is heavily influenced in sound by the time I spent
recording & performing with Frank Zappa as one of his Mothers of Invention. Frank was very influential on my musical styling. Traces & hints of Frank’s style can be heard in my music as well. Especially the endings as that was one of my favorite things about Frank’s songs was how they would always
seem to veer off into strange tangents.”

Recipient of the 2003 Surround Pioneer Award: “Zappa is being honored for his forward-thinking and for the extensive work he did in 5.1-channel surround’s predecessor, Quad. Attendees at the event will be treated to Zappa’s recording reproduced in surround, as well as tribute performance by his son, Dweezil.”

Citizen Kane
Orson Welles: Rosebud. (dies)
Reporter: What does it mean?
Everybody Else: We don’t know.
THE END

Our waiter in Italy is offering the Halloween DVD at La Chromo Dinetto this month. For the Young Sophisticates among our readers, the menu includes also Reverb Canneloni and Magic RA Compressed Lasagna. Bon apetit!

Gee Mr. Ross, here I was thinking your company sold sex toys. Silly me!

Tonight at 9 on Flemish Radio One, excerpts from Zappa’s first concert in Belgium
(PSK Brussel, 1970) and his last (Sportpaleis Gent, 1988). You can listen again after it’s aired by clicking the “Herbeluister” link.