Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

The Cigar Box Guitar, the Bamboo Saxophone, the Gas Tank Orchestra whip it out.

Wait a minute, I’ve got it, you’re an italian…

Michael Kenyon is alive and kicking and has migrated to Japan.

Apocrypha, from A to Z. A great read.

Each FZ discography entry’s rating now also displays the number of votes/ratings made on the album in question. Rather than to turn the rating system into a FZ album popularity poll, the effect of this is that it shows which … Continue reading →

No DSL at work for 6 friggin’ days already. So instead of surfing the web, I’ve been reading every single goddamn manual there was to read back at the office. Freehand? Pagemaker? 4th Dimension? Flash? XHTML? PHP? How To Build … Continue reading →

The strapless, heaving, revealing History of Boobs. (Yes it’s Sunday, and no, I don’t have anything better to do.)

“Citizens For Legitimate Government is a multi-partisan activist group established to expose the Bush coup d’etat, and to oppose the Bush occupation in all of its manifestations.” Meanwhile, Bush couldn’t care less.

Eugene Chadbourne and Jimmy Carl Black are both playing at Zappanale 14. Cool! Are you reading this, Doctor Sharleena? (Nappy will be there too…)

I’ve added a new article to the erh articles section, taken from Guitarworld, Feb. 1999. In it Steve Vai and Mike Keneally pay tribute to the memory of Uncle Frank. (Thanks to

From The Zappa List – Ed Palermo is calling it quits: “There are quite a few factors causing me to make this decision, but the long and short of it is this: 9 years is enough. Of course, Frank’s music … Continue reading →

Must cut down on my Optional Recreation posts… Well okay, maybe just one more… (via Juul!), and this last one! (via Reverse Cowgirl)

By now some of you have generously donated to KUR. You know who you are. I want to a) give you a mighty big thank you, and b) assure you, I will not be using your donation for my next … Continue reading →

The ever amusing Uffish.com has posted an mp3 of John Lennon & Frank Zappa doing a makeover of Baby Please Don’t Go. Slap me with a rubber chicken and call me an ignorant nitwit, but I hadn’t heard this before.

I know this is getting old, but once again I’ve had to put the current Friday Boot offline because of bandwidth limits. Sorry about that. “Peepers Pt. 2 & 3” was made available on June 13 (last Friday), and since … Continue reading →