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Category Archives: Frank Zappa
Announcement about the Zappa Plays Zappa Fall Tour
• Hand-picked intimate venues; • Every attendee will be able to get a free MP3 concert download within a week of performance; • Hagstrom guitar giveaway at every show; • Submit your song requests for each show. Well, sounds good, … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery, Zappa Plays Zappa
Tagged download, tour 2008, Zappa Plays Zappa
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Interview With Jimmy Carl Black
A few months back Just a week ago, Andrew Greenaway did an interview with Jimmy Carl Black. Despite health problems, Jimmy’s in good spirits, performing with The Muffin Men and recording with various other artists across Europe. Just one project … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In Writing, Interview, Music, Personal
Tagged grandmothers, jimmy carl black, the muffin men, Zappanale
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Re-burnt Weeny Sandwich
Fraz Knapp came up with a wizard wheeze to follow-up the unqualified success that was the 20 Extraordinary Renditions CD. And Cordelia Records is happy to do the biznis again. So I’m now liaising with 20 artists, asking them to … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged Burnt Weeny Sandwich, cordelia records, Fraz Knapp, remix
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Joe’s Garage: The Musical
I for one would love to see this: The Open Fist Theatre Company in California will present the world premiere of Joe’s Garage, a new stage production based on the Frank Zappa album of the same name. Directed by Pat … Continue reading
Zen Through Zappa
I’m shamefully late in reporting this, however our pal Kevin Hoover writes: Guess what? There’s a new Zappa show on KHUM debuting Friday night, and I have an introductory post about it on the Crush All Boxes blog. Let’s all … Continue reading
Eight ’88 Ways To Cruise For Burgers
One of my favourite FZ tracks has to be Cruising For Burgers — the ZINY version that is. Back in ’06, he who goes by the name of Magic Fingers had delighted me with a CD consisting of unofficial ’88-tour … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged '88 band, cruising for burgers, live zappa, zappa in new york
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Substitutes in Baltimore
A few different covers of “Baltimore” – and instead of being “only” covers, being different from the “real” thing, these performances show me the sheer beauty of the melody line itself. And some pretty good musicians. I love these.
Frank Zappa’s Jukebox
Slated for release next August 4th: Frank Zappa’s Jukebox: Via The Idiot Bastard.
FZ Alumni Muxtape
After spending the good part of the last two weeks packing all my beloved FZ albums, tapes, CDs, (as well as everything else I own) into more boxes than I care to count in preparation for the big move downtown … Continue reading
ICE-Z #3
It’s been a couple of weeks since La Grande Freak Out came to Paris. Les Fils de l’Invention who organised the event this year, have just published an “incomplete” transcript/draft of the various sessions that took place. Some interesting reading … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Frank Zappa, In Writing
Tagged freak out in france, ICE-Z, les fils de l'invention, transcript, zappa events
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