Clearing out the inbox a bit…
- Don Preston to tour Europe this summer
- August 9 declared Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore
- Another interview with Dweezil
- FZ and ZPZ pictures by CookieDuster, who is apparently a good friend of the family
- ZPZ bassist Pete Griffin has a blog
- Zappa appreciation thread over at Metafilter (KUR gets a mention)
- Article about Zappa from The Wire, 1995
- Cringe: recite the most embarrassing excerpts from your old diaries in front of an audience. Fun!
Crikey, Ian Penman had to get something off his chest:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/essays/zappa.html
What do you guys think of his comments?
cheers,
itsonlydanny
Penman is somewhat the converse of Ben Twatson. As far as writers for the bloody awful Wire (the magazine with a rod up its butt) went, the only one who ever approached Zappa’s works reasonably and with perspective was Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey. Read one of his FZ reviews and you know more or less what you’re gonna get, neither fanboy drivel nor its hyper-critical diametrical opposite
Penman is a dweeb.
A few nice photos I took. I think the crowd was a bit smaller this year. Pretty much the same mix of local musicians and geezers dragging their kids…some more willingly than others. The show was great and Ray White was excellent.
http://web.mac.com/pripley01/iWeb/Site/ZPZ.html
Forgot to mention the show was Aug 17, Dodge Theater, Phoenix AZ.
I was at this show with my wife and it blew us away.