Category Archives: Frank Zappa

Eddie Loves Frank

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Balint

Me loves Ed Palermo. His new CD will be released May 19, 2009 on Cuneiform Records. (Don’t miss the back cover… it’s funny!) 🙂

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Live Uncle Remus

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Sharleena

I’m not keeping track if this was posted before, but if it was: enjoy it again! and again! and again! Have a happy weekend…

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What’s My Line? FZ’s Guest Appearance, 1971

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Balint

“Is there anything musical about your work?” “Some people think so.”

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FZ Don’t Mess Around

Posted on April 15, 2009 by urbangraffito

Frank Zappa – We Don’t Mess Around-1 After the recent tease of ‘The Son of Roxy’ what better salve, I thought, than the complete broadcast of Zappa’s ‘We Don’t Mess Around‘? Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunkt (BR) on July 1, 1980, … Continue reading →

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Frank Zappa On FNN

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

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

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

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

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

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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Zappa & Mothers TV Special, 1974

Posted on April 4, 2009 by urbangraffito

On Tuesday afternoon of August 27th, 1974, sometime after 5:30pm, Frank Zappa, George Duke, Chester Thompson, Tom Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Ruth Underwood took to KCET-TV Channel 28’s Sound Stage B in Culver City, Los Angeles to film a … Continue reading →

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Joe’s Garage – by Desert Rain

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Balint

Later that night: Jennifer Lettelleir gets Bests Choreographer award for the theatrical version of Joe’s Garage.

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Alien Orifice: Scott Thunes’s Complete Bass Line

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Balint

“In 1988, Frank gave me no direction. None! He never said no to anything I did.” In that spirit, Thunes made the ornery composition “Alien Orifice” [Make a Jazz Noise Here] his own personal showcase of what a bassist could … Continue reading →

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