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Author Archives: urbangraffito
FZ’s Them or Us – Rereleased, 2010/12/1
In 1984 Frank Zappa self-published Them or Us, created with a dot matrix printer. A new facsimile edition – published by Pinter & Martin Ltd of the United Kingdom (which means they can only ship this book to the UK … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Official Releases, Zappa Family Trust
Tagged 1984, 2010, facsimile edition, Frank Zappa, Pinter & Martin Ltd, rerelease, Them or Us
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Elvis Has Just Left The Building
Have you ever wondered where Frank Zappa got his inspiration for his song, “Elvis Has Just Left The Building” which appeared on his 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album?
Posted in Bizarre, Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Personal, Pop Cult
Tagged 2009, elvis presley, Frank Zappa, the foolz, wal-mart
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Sore TappaZ Plays Zappa – Amsterdam Blue Note, June 2010
Based in Leverkusen, Amsterdam – band leader and vocalist Christopher Klassen‘s home town – Sore TappaZ plays Klassen‘s original compositions as well as and the music of Frank Zappa.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2010, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Blue Note, Christopher Klassen, Sore TappaZ, zappa covers
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Ensemble Modern on BBC Radio 3
Our good friend Xorg, a KUR regular and frequent mixer of the sardonic lipids, informs us that BBC Radio 3 is currently broadcasting (probably for only a few more days) via the BBC iPlayer – the Ensemble Modern performing Arnold … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged 1912, 2010, Arnold Schoenberg, bbc radio 3, ensemble modern, Pierrot Lunaire, Sounds New Festival, Sprechgesang
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Arthur Jarvinen – In Memoriam (1956-2010)
Arthur Jarvinen, musician, composer, founder of the California E.A.R. Unit, and music copyist for the late Frank Zappa, himself passed away on October 4th, 2010.
Posted in Frank Zappa, In The News, Miscellany, Music
Tagged 2010, Arthur Jarvinen, david ocker, Frank Zappa, Kyle Gann, music copyist, While You Were Art
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Duo Disecheis plays Frank Zappa
Recorded Live at Incontri Musicali a Pergola – Sala dell’Abbondanza, Pergola (PU-Italy) on October 26th, 2008. The superimposition of two sounds with different pitches. It was considered dysechia: an unpleasant and disagreeable sound. Yet time and again things that have … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2008, bebop tango, David Brutti, Duo Disecheis, Filippo Farinelli, Uncle Meat, zappa chamber music, zappa covers
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In the Beginning…
In the beginning there was a word, and the word was secret, and the secret word was…Mudshark! And for fifty years the Mudshark ruled supremely as the only secret word on the planet Earth, but one day the Mudshark became … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Bizarre, Frank Zappa, Music, Personal
Tagged 2010, ike willis, Zappanale 21, ZAPPATiKA!
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78 Years Ago Yesterday…
In a house that someone used to live in, little Donny Preston, also known as little Dom DeWilde or little Biff Debrie, was born on September 21st, 1932 in Flint, Michigan. Happy Birthday, Don!
FZ Interview – KYUU-FM San Francisco, 1984
In this three part KYUU-FM radio interview with Frank Zappa broadcast on May 17th, 1984 in San Francisco, California, Zappa talks about some his early guitar influences (Johnny Guitar Watson and Clarence Gatemouth Brown, for instance), the reasons which led … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Interview, YouTubery
Tagged 1984, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Frank Zappa, johnny guitar watson, orchestral music
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UG’s Semi-Orchestral Low Budget Memorial Barbecue
This month I have put together a special mixtape for Zappa/Mothers Die-Hards with many of my favorite instrumental, semi-orchestral, and orchestral Zappa works – many of which I’m mixing here for the first time – from some of the best … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Interview, Music
Tagged Frank Zappa, instrumental, mixtape, orchestral zappa, streaming audio, zappa covers
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