Havaianas

One of the great things about being married to a South-American girl is you get to discover all sorts of music you previously hadn’t really bothered with. These days Barry Towers is bugging the neighbours not so much with Frank Zappa ditties, rather than with the mellow, seductive rhythms of bossa, samba, tango and salsa. Antonio Carlos Jobim! Celia Cruz! Caetano Veloso! Gilberto Gil! This, my friends, is music that shines with an infectious lust for life while encompassing a deliciously refined, sophisticated complexity. Havaianas para siempre! … and now back to your regular schedule

Indian of the Tribute Group

Yesterday Cosmik Debris gave a really nice show here in Budapest. Special guest (3rd time here) Mr. Jimmy Carl Black – it was fun. See the pictures of the show – and check out this band, if you can – they’re gooooood!!!! You’ll always find news about them here (and later stuff to download).

Heavy Duty Judy (heavy brass section!!!)

Andy

Inca Roads

Zomby Woof

Whipping Post

Easy Meat

Cosmik Debris

Dancin Fool

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With JCB:

Big Leg Emma

Road Ladies

Poofter’s Froth Wyoming…

Trouble Every Day

Take Your Clothes Off

+ Willie The Pimp (slow reggae version, fine!)

A hearing for the PMRC

The infamous PMRC hearings seem to have been heard by a committee relating to commerce, science, and transportation. Since this is not supposed to have been a commercial question, and i doubt it is related to transportation, i guess this was about the science of the influence of words.

…Mtley Cre are attempting to practice in a rehearsal room in Hollywood.

“You know what’s wrong with those guys?” asks Nikki, walking off the sound- stage shaking his Revlon Blue/Black head sadly. “They have no sense of humor.”

In [sic] December 8, 6:38 p.m., a 1972 Pantera driven by Mtley Cre’s lead singer Vince Neil skidded into a lane of oncoming traffic in Redondo Beach, hitting a Volkswagen containing a 20-year old man and an 18-year-old woman. Both suffered severe injuries. Neil’s passenger, Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas Dingley, was pronounced dead en route to the hospital. Neil, who was not hurt in the accident, was arrested on charges of drunken driving and vehicular homicide. He is currently free on $2500 bail.

Another monster (some kind of…)

OK, I know, deep in our heart we all love Metallica’s St. Anger – I happen to REALLY like it – and now here’s a great parody of it (I made a corection in the link) – I could listen to it only once, second time I laughed so much, I couldn’t stand it…

And: their new documentary is finally in the movies now (here’s an article about it), so here we have as conceptual continuity: something free to download, a piece of a song, and (some kind of) monster…

Monster Road Hits LA

Those of you who live close to Los Angeles (as opposed to, oh, say Asscrack Belgium) may be interested to know that “Monster Road”, the Bruce Bickford docu, will be screening at the LA Film Festival on June 22 & 24. The normally-reclusive Amazing Mister will be in attendance, and word has it he’ll be offering some of the original clay figures from “Baby Snakes” and other assorted goodies.

Medium Cool

Tonight, at 23:50 GMT, BBC2 is broadcasting Medium Cool (’69), a movie which may ring a bell with FZ-fans as it features quite a few Zappa songs (Oh No, Are You Hung Up, Who Needs The Peace Corps, to name but a few). Patrick Neve had this to say about it: “Admittedly, the plot thins as the action kicks in, but this is the best blurring of genres I’ve ever seen. Add to all of this a soundtrack with heavy doses of Mothers music. I seem to remember a scene with some people getting the shit kicked out of them in the street and you hear Zappa’s ‘I will love the police and they kick the shit out of me in the street…'”