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Frank Zappa On FNN

FZ, 1990, sitting in for Bob Berkowicz on Financial News Network’s Focus show. He interviews Vladimir Zvyagin, bureau chief of Soviet television in the United States:

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A Lumpy Legacy

Yesterday, an eight minute feature aired on NPR entitled Frank Zappa: A ‘Lumpy’ Legacy’. From the intro: Gail Zappa is going after cover bands she accuses of “identity theft.” Her lawyers have sent scores of cease-and-desist letters. But many of … Continue reading

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Echidna’s Arf (Of You): Piano Version

Have a little patience while the guy Ian Tanner wrestles his way through Village Of The Sun first, then… check it out: Far from Not perfect, yet really impressive. I mean: would you have the balls to record yourself having … Continue reading

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Ray White Leaves Zappa Plays Zappa

… and not a lot of ink was spilled over it either, apparently — Dweezil Z: He doesn’t answer any of his phones and they all say they are disconnected. Is he suddenly in the witness protection program? What has … Continue reading

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The Results Are In…

We will be emailing all seven winners shortly requesting their snail mail addy. Congrats to those who won, apologies to those who didn’t get picked… Regardless: thanks all for participating. It’s been a fun ride!

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Musik & Mythos Giveaway!

Update: Contest closed! Winners to be announced shortly — stay tuned… Now that the book is finally up for sale, Sharl and I are giving away: A/ one copy of Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos, the book, along with one … Continue reading

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Italo Zappa

Funniest thing: two Italians writing in with Zappa related links almost simultaneously. First up, Andrea Rizzardo, who pointed me to this Italian band called Elio e le Storie Tese, in concert with special guest Ike Willis: There’s more… Then there’s … Continue reading

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In Search Of Maria

I may be a grumpy old man, but this made me smile: Warning: contains music from “The Sound of Music”!

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On The One

What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated YouTube videos/clips edited together to create ThruYou. In other words – what you see is what you hear: (and to the multitudes that have already seen this I say: … Continue reading

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Remember That Baltimore Bust?

Back in May 2008, KUR was notified of the fact that an FZ statue donated by the state of Lithuania, risked being put on the outskirts on the city of Baltimore — “because Frank Zappa was not an appropriate image … Continue reading

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