Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Remember That Baltimore Bust?

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

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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The Tom Waits Book Has Materialized

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

You’ll remember my going on and on about the Tom Waits book Sharl and I illustrated. Ah, well a couple of days ago we finally got our copy: The front- and back-cover with some of the postcards. Some more postcards. … Continue reading →

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French FZ-Fans To Boycott ZPZ’s Paris Concert

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This just in via Uni-Muta: French FZ fansite Les Fils de l’Invention are calling for a boycott of the upcoming ZPZ Concert in Paris. Translation: Just after last month’s dismissal of the case of the ZFT against the Arf Society, … Continue reading →

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One Year Old Scotch Milk

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Today this weblog turns one (although technically, it’s to turn eight in July)! Having made the switch in February 2008, we instantly lost a whole bunch of readers. The new KUR started out with about 12,000 views per month. We … Continue reading →

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Odds & Ends Some More

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Time for another bag of miscellany that may or may not be of interest to you: In search of the click track: guess who wins, guess who loses. The Hush Now – free album download. I was given this link … Continue reading →

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Confessions Of Robert Crumb

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Am posting this just so I can watch it myself later: a fifty-five minute documentary from 1987 on one of my heroes, Robert Crumb. This film was apparently written by the man himself. Via Non-Stick Plans.

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On/Off

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A mix of things that you may or may not already know… New ZPZ tourdates are announced. Gail and Dweez talk about an upcoming Ruben & The Jets release (mp3 link), akin to, or so it seems, the MOFO project. … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Continuity, Anyone?

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A while ago, I was sent a link to a course on the music of Frank Zappa, given between 2001 and 2007 by one Jason Klein of the University of North Texas. Browsing around, I stumbled across this PDF (caution: … Continue reading →

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The Berlusconi Protest Song Project

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Michel Delville of Belgian FZ tribute band The Wrong Object writes in to announce an interesting project: There is a new myspace page devoted to musical responses to the New Fascism in all its guises and disguises. Please come and … Continue reading →

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ZPZ Wins At The Grammys

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Dweezil Zappa’s ZPZ band has won this year’s Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Did you feel it? The world actually fell off its axis,” said Dweezil Zappa, accepting the award for best rock instrumental performance for “Peaches en Regalia,” … Continue reading →

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