Category Archives: Frank Zappa

Zappa Scrapbook

This guy is putting up a bunch of newspaper clippings, articles and pictures related to Frank Zappa. Nice reads, if you can ignore the background-music, the rotating smilies, and the fact that most of the articles are in dutch…

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Zürich ’79

Hope you have a really Good Friday with Part One of this little nugget: Zürich, Switzerland, 1 april 1979.

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In It For The Money

To sum up my week so far, I’m going to introduce a hitherto unused emoticon and be done with it: In other news, Xorg just mailed me a link to the US National Recording Registry picks for 2006. Guess who’s … Continue reading

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Wiesbaden ’77

Available for one week: Wiesbaden, 30 January ’77.

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Frank Who? (2)

In answer to the comments on Frank Who?, this snappy Gail Zappa quote from Relix Magazine‘s April/May ’06 issue (which was sent to me by its guest editor Richard Gehr — thanks so much for that bud!) should clear things … Continue reading

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Robert Carl Cohen On Mondo Hollywood

Interesting comment from Robert Carl Cohen on the Mystery Disc page: To Whom It May Concern I am the Writer-Producer-Director and owner of all rights to MONDO HOLLYWOOD. Among the various misrepresentations made about my film are the following: 1. … Continue reading

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Sift Through The Madness

Here’s a little video (wmv) of Dweezil promoting AMD. Interesting in that the ZFT is running on Windoze XP apparently…

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Frank Who?

Frank Filipetti: “Currently, he’s working on a re-release of Paul Simon’s Graceland in 5.1 surround sound as well as a 1974 Frank Zappa live concert project.”

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Duke Download

George Duke‘s 1975 album “I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry” is available for download in its entirety over at Soundsational. George recorded this album during the time he was playing with Zappa’s Mothers and several of the Mothers … Continue reading

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NYC, October 31 ’76

Another Big One, another Halloween but from one year later: Felt Forum, NYC, 31 october 1976.

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Zappa Recitations

In a thread entitled “I, for one, care less for them”, a member of a certain Zappa List I subscribe to, said: Mrs. P requests that I recite part of the Muffin Man intro periodically. I’ve promised to learn the … Continue reading

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Zappa Spruch Des Tages

Zappa Tagebuch discusses one Zappa-phrase a day. In German.

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Zappathon ’06: A Call To Arms By SOFA

This just in from our dear pal SOFA. Read carefully! Greetings One & All! April is right around the corner and we all know what that means: (Yeah, it means a shitload of things to a lot of different people, … Continue reading

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Addressing Wiki Spam

Zappa Wiki Jawaka has been getting an increasing amount of spam to deal with. Although I’m not very active on the wiki right now (shame on me), I am however subscribed to the Recent Changes RSS feed and have witnessed … Continue reading

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Bit Of Nostalgia

Lovely bit of nostalgia: pictures of the ’57 and ’58 Antelope High yearbooks, and some background information: Many of us girls were forbidden by our parents to attend the “wild” Blackouts dances, but of course we went anyway. The dances … Continue reading

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