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Category Archives: Frank Zappa
ZPZ In Rome
Francesco Gentile (now there’s a Zappa-nick waiting to happen!) kindly sent me a bunch of pictures taken at yesterday’s ZPZ concert in Rome. Here’s the Flickr set — nice close shots of Vai and Dweezil.
Posted in Zappa Imagery, Zappa Plays Zappa
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From The Bitter End
YouTube really is a godsend for digging up rare video. Here‘s some sort of compilation which includes (at around 1:30) The Mothers Of Invention miming to Suzy Creamcheese on a TV show called “From The Bitter End”, back in 1967 … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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Won’t Get Fooled Again?
An anatomy of conservative rock songs. The number one omission, according to the criteria for this list, would have to be “Who Needs the Peace Corps?,” by Frank Zappa. Released in 1967, at the height of the flower-power summer of … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Pop Cult
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San Carlos CA, ’74
For the next two weeks, we have for you another concert from the Roxy-era: Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, July 20 ’74. Enjoy!
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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Zappa Gibson SG
Gibson (you know, that obscure little guitar factory) just posted an interesting interview with Dweezil — I guess it’s safe to say the ZPZ promotion machine is now running at full speed. Interesting little find: there is apparently talk of … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles, Zappa Plays Zappa
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FZ & Ponty, Valbonne ’70
Rhymin’ Title Man’s what I am. Via The Idiot, here’s a full download “in glorious mono” of Zappa and J.-L. Ponty live at the Festival de Valbonne, France, July 25th 1970. The pair were supposed to play together at the … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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Zappa On The Mike Douglas Show
Frank Zappa on The Mike Douglas Show, November 1976! When Frank comes on, you can see him think “oh great, I’m gonna have to shake hands with these bozo’s”, heheh. (YouTube link. Via, of all places, a comment on my … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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Whatever Happened to Punky Meadows?
Well, why don’t you read for yourself: Today, he wears perfectly creased form-fitting jeans and an unbuttoned-to-below-the-sternum silk shirt; the look is no less immaculate than the one the now-52-year-old sported before he came back to the D.C. area almost … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Pop Cult, Zappa Misc
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Cal’s Specials
Got a couple hundred bucks to spend? Cal Schenkel has some new artwork for sale at “special prices”…
Posted in Frank Zappa, Visual Arts
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The Relix Zappa Special
I dunno how it is where you’re at but outhere, it’s been raining cats and dogs all day week. What better circumstances to scan Relix Magazine’s April/May Zappa special, eh? So here it is: Zappa In Relix Magazine.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles
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Touring Can Make You Blog
Well duh, this hadn’t crossed my radar until Bob Again mentioned it: the official ZPZ Tour Blog. They really should have enabled comments though…
Posted in Zappa Plays Zappa
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Amsterdam Pics
Nice set of pictures of ZPZ in Amsterdam, from a couple of days ago. If anyone else has put their ZPZ photos online, hesitate not and drop me a note. Edit: this one’s even nicer! (See comments)
Posted in Zappa Plays Zappa
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Zappa In Humo
This week’s Humo Magazine has an article on the Zappa’s featuring interviews with Dweezil, Ahmet and Gail. I may be putting up a translated version later. For now though, here’s their intro, which I found rather amusing: On 15 November … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles
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FZ On Arsenio
Video: FZ on the Arsenio Hall show, ’89. Many of you will have already seen this, but still a fun clip to watch.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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