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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Tunes, Treats & Torrents – The Muffin Men
Anyone who has followed my posts knows that I’m a avid downloader of torrents from Zappateers (and a fantastic bunch of freaks they are – I tip my hat to them for all the excellent Zappa torrents I’ve downloaded through … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, Zappanale
Tagged 1993, bunk gardner, don preston, Frank Zappa, jimmy carl black, the muffin men, torrents, tribute band, zappateers
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Varèse At The Southbank
Our pal MagicFingers writes: Any of you KUR afficionados who happen to be in the London area over the weekend of April 16-18 might be in for a bit of a treat. There’s something rather special happening down at the … Continue reading
Revised Music for Marimba and Orchestra
From Simon Boyar: We didn’t get the whole thing and its kind of wobbly but here is about 2/3 of The World Premiere (2/20/10) of Frank Zappa’s Revised Music for Marimba and Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Haas with The NYU … Continue reading
Yellow Shark Rehearsal – September 16, 1992
Although in obvious pain and discomfort (you can hear it in his voice) – in this five part, never broadcasted rehearsal footage, one can easily see the tenacity with which Frank Zappa approached all of his musical endeavours, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1992, ensemble modern, Frank Zappa, yellow shark rehearsal
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Cucamonga Era Recordings Re-released
This just in, by way of Andrew: Crossfire Publications is making the first six of 32 download-only albums taken from Paul Buff’s recordings made at Pal Studios and Original Sound Studios available at CDBaby.com and iTunes (others companies will also … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In The News, Music
Tagged crossfire publibcations, cucamonga, greg russo, pal studios, paul buff
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RIP Herb Cohen
Herb Cohen, the tough, litigious manager and label operator who introduced such notables as the Mothers of Invention and Tom Waits during the ’60s and ’70s, died Tuesday of unknown causes in Napa, Calif. He was 77.
The Don and Bunk Show
This just in via Andre Cholmondeley: The Don and Bunk Show…on tour!! THIS SUNDAY – for those of you in the Wilmington DE, Philly, Baltimore area — Don’t miss an amazing and rare show with the two and only DON … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged avant garde, experimental music, jazz, the don and bunk show, the mothers of invention
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The Senate Committee Hearing Video
Have you ever wanted to watch the entire testimony of Frank Zappa, John Denver and others on the PMRC hearings? Because since C-SPAN has opened its massive 160,000 hours archive of videos dating back to 1985, now you can. Say … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Politics, Pop Cult, YouTubery
Tagged C-SPAN, pmrc, Tipper Gore
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The Voice Of Cheese Revisited
Those of you who’ve been hanging around here long enough will remember KUR’s The Voice Of Cheese project. It ran for a couple of months back in 2007, featured some great music created by you and generally got wonderful feedback. … Continue reading
Chat Roulette Piano Improv
Ah, the wonders of Chatroulette: advertised as “instant video-chat” with complete strangers, in my experience it’s mostly a place where young desperate men log on to, erh, yank their crank for all the world to see. That and loads of … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Heh Heh, Pop Cult, YouTubery
Tagged chatroulette, improvisation, piano
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