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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
One Person One SUV
Speak Up has a great post about wartime propaganda posters — both real and parody. Much of the conservation messages during the World Wars was brought about by actual need. Those wars devastated trade between western nations, and the need … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Pop Cult, Visual Arts
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More ZappaTubeâ„¢
Some Zappa videoclips to soften your Monday-blues: The Black Page, ’88 Watermelon in Easter Hay, ’88 Let’s Make the Water Turn Black, ’68 (Thanks Abe!)
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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Steve Mann
Steve Mann is one of the “people who contributed materially†as listed on the â€Freak Out†album (he played some with the early Mothers just after Henry Vestine). He has a new CD called “Alive and Pickin†and you can … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Misc
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El Hijo Del Señor Green Genes
This Mexican vinyl version of Hot Rats lists all the songtitles in Spanish. I had no idea these records were “localized” that way — perhaps only in Spanish speaking countries?
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Imagery
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Nothing But The Best For My Dog
This entry was “co-blogged” with Hanan Levin of the incredible Grow A Brain. Zappa beers – Get Your Freak Out Ale from Lagunitas Brewing. The lyrics. Also, Joe’s Garage 12-pack Plastic Ono Mothers (John & Yoko+ Mothers) perform “Scumbag†– … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa
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Hannover ’79 (2)
Hannover, West Germany, 26 March 1979: get it while it’s hot.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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Googling Zappa
Google has introduced archive search to their news service. That’s 200 years of news articles right at your fingertips (some of which you have to pay a small fee for unfortunately). Any Zappa articles? You bet — right back to … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles
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A Note On “Fake” Comments
In response to this comment from someone pretending to be Joe Travers, the real Joe Travers writes: Only a true asshole zappa fan would go up on a site like this & say that it was me. Do you guys … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Site News
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A Proper Reaction
In the comments of the previous post, Balint says: What if ALL the FZ-tribute pages would accept a kind of “statement†or something, and all would present in their homepages at the same time? Telling what we think about it, … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In The News
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Chrome Dinette To Be Shut Down?
John Healy, curator of the wonderful Chrome Dinette has apparently received a cease & desist letter, courtesy of the ZFT’s lawyers. We are hereby formally advising you that you must immediately disable the above-referenced website and cease and desist any … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Zappa Misc
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Tiny Music Makers
Music Thing has a great series of posts up on “tiny music makers”, the people responsible for the sound of your Mac/Windows OS starting up, the “Intel Inside” tune, and more. Brian Eno who composed the Windows 95 tune: The … Continue reading
Hannover ’79
This and next week’s Friday Boot: Hannover, West Germany, 26 March 1979. Gilles had uploaded the tracks as .wma, so I had a bit of fun converting to 192 kbps .mp3’s using Switch and the truly craptacular flip4mac. Anyway, enjoy.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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At First It Was A Hobby
Meet Alfred, the Belgian Penguin Man. Throw in the Poodle Woman from a couple of entries ago, and we have ourselves some nice Conceptual Continuity brewing!
X-Ray Sound
A different type of bootlegging: in the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were records etched into discarded X-ray film. (…) enterprising young people … Continue reading