Kill Ugly Radio: Frank Zappa & Elsewhere

Der Spiegel, on the day of the ZFT vs Arf Society/Zappanale trial:
Mother Of Intervention: Zappa Festival Defends Itself from… Zappa.

Quoth Goil Zeepee:

“One of the reasons you file a trademark is to protect the works of a person,” Gail Zappa told SPIEGEL ONLINE in a telephone interview. “I felt we were getting into territory where we were putting the audience at risk in terms of who Frank was. You become concerned.”

Thomas Dippel:

Dippel says that the Zappanale has long tried to get the kind of official rubber stamp that Gail Zappa insists is available. He claims that letters have been sent and that Zappanale people even met with Gail in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 1990s. He also says that he invited the Zappa family — including Gail, Dweezil and Moon — to an unveiling of a Zappa statue that now graces Bad Doberan.

Gail — who refers to the statue as an “impish creature” that “doesn’t look like Frank Zappa unless you argue that putting a moustache on any face looks like Frank Zappa” — says that very little communication has taken place with the Zappanale.

I guess you know where our sympathies lie, right?

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Thomas, aka Head Honcho of Zappanale, just confirmed the following bands for this year’s edition:

• Anti Agressive Action Band aka “Underground Sensation”, USA, feat. members of Voice of Cheeze, Ugly Radio Rebellion Band, DOOT
• Low Budget Research Kitchen, Portugal
• Wrong Object, Belgium
• Finnish Zappa Tribute Band, Finnland
• Paul Green School of Rock plays Zappa and YES, USA
• Electric Orange, Germany
• Panzerballett, Germany
• Delicious Band Research Kitchen, France
• INDUKTI, Poland
• Alamaailman Vasarat, Finnland
• Zappa Circus, Hungary
• UZVA, Finnland
• Jazzproject Hundehagen, Germany
• Fattore Zeta, Italy
• Bogus Pomp Semi Acoustic Orchestra, USA

Special guests:

• Denny Walley
• Napoleon Murphy Brock
• Stanley Jason Zappa

Muchos kudos to Thomas for gathering such an eclectic slash exquisite mix of bands — especially in view of the upcoming ZFT vs Zappanale trial (April 9).

We’re with you bud. Music Is The Best.

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With Zappanale #19 right around the corner this August, I figured people will need some appropriate apparel.

Say for instance, a long sleeve T-shirt (click image for details):

… or how about a nice trucker hat (click image for details):

Now, we have no idea who this Gail person is, but it just sort of sounded right in a mysterious way — and the “to protect and serve” only makes it more intriguing…

Hungry for more? Check out the store!

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