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How does your language shape the way you think? Fascinating photo gallery: American pictures Living with Jesus (dot com) The Coolness Index Mutiny! The Big Pirate Bay Sellout Your browser is the new OS – Kottke nailed it 5 years … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, google, language, neil young, photography, sociology, the beatles
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Zappanale (Then & Now) – Frank Zappa Memorial Pancake Breakfast
The Frank Zappa Memorial Pancake Breakfast, also known as Finnish Zappa Tribute band (featuring Napoleon Murphy Brock and Denny Walley) perform “Montana” at Zappanale 19 in Bad Doberan, Germany, on August 17th, 2008 before an enthusiastic and appreciative audience.
Zappa’s Universe — Revisited
Zappa’s Universe (the album and video of the same title) documents the big tribute concert thrown for Frank Zappa over four nights (November 7-10, 1991, although the footage on the album and video are from the first two nights), organized … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1991, dweezil zappa, Mike Keneally, steve vaï, video, zappa's universe
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Frank Zappa and Charles Bukowski
Kuiper en Berbée perform Charles Bukowski‘s poem “The Machinery of Loss” at the Leiden Poetry Festival on June 7th, 2009, accompanied by a medley of music by Frank Zappa, performed by Renk Jan Vissers (violin) and Ton Schijvens (drums and … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Frank Zappa, Heh Heh, In The News, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2009, Charles Bukowski, Frank Zappa, Leiden, medley, poetry, violin
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Ed Palermo Big Band – Live & Kicking
Anyone who knows me, knows my affinity for Big Band Zappa, so whenever I get an opportunity to hear Ed Palermo Big Band arrangements of Frank Zappa’s compositions, it’s a real treat. Today was no different, when I uncovered Palermo’s … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Heh Heh, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2009, audio/video, bruce mcdaniel, dix hills, ed palermo big band, free downloads, Iridium night club, john tobacco, napoleon murphy brock, Zappa
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Don “Sugarcane” Harris & Dewey Terry
Beginning his career as the guitar playing half of the 1950s rock duo, Don & Dewey, Don “Sugarcane” Harris, put down the guitar and picked up the violin after the lack of success for Don & Dewey. Recorded in 1962, … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1962, Alumni, don & dewey, Frank Zappa, rhythm and blues, sonny bono, violin
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Cruising With Ruben & The Jets — Vinyl Revisited
Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is a Mothers of Invention album released in 1968, and controversially reissued in an alternate mix with newly recorded bass and percussion in 1984 by Frank Zappa (all post-1984 reissues of the album have … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Music, Pop Cult, YouTubery
Tagged 1968, doo-wop, mothers of invention, original mix, ray collins, vinyl
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The Chicago Ate present Joe’s Garage
On March 9th, 2009, the Chicago Ate (or) The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen Employees’ Union Memorial Band (Chicago Chapter) presented “Joe’s Garage” at the ‘Martyr’s’ club in Chicago.