Category Archives: Frank Zappa

Friday Moot

Last year, on Friday 13th February to be exact, the Friday Boot was Fréjus, France (82/5/29). Last night, I uploaded the exact same show thinking it hadn’t been featured here yet. Meet Barry’s Imaginary Idiot. So kids, you still want … Continue reading

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Memories Of El Monte

Shocking news from the world of Little League Baseball: The team says El Monte is 12 and has a Web site to prove it. Born on April 7, 1989, Kenny’s mother was a groupie who traveled with Frank Zappa’s Mothers … Continue reading

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On ebay Shopping Mall

1968 Zappa WE’RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY w/ Insert. With several censored lyrical edits on rare version. Looking good!

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Zappa And Linux

Duncan writes: My son has just informed me that a programme on TV last night mentioned FZ getting a credit in the Linux manual…. He seems to be all over the Linux world. Did we know about this already? No … Continue reading

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Painting Air Molecules

Good stuff: paintings inspired by the music of Frank Zappa. (via Gilles)

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Zappateers Radio

I’m a bit late with this, but if you tune in to Zappateers Radio you’ll be able to listen to some FZ-related gems such as a ’72 KMET interview, a concert in Toronto from ’84, some acoustic Project Object — … Continue reading

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Wichita Radio Ad

Listen to a rare Zappa radio ad for a concert from Friday – April 11, 1980 at Henry Levitt Arena in Wichita, Kansas from local Wichita radio KECT 95. (via)

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It’s From Kansas City, Which Is Not In Kansas!

Ready to roll? Here’s KC, Nov 11 ’77, Part Two. As if that weren’t enough, you can also download Chalk Pie over at zappa.hu. Oh, and Balint: is this the picture you’re looking for?

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Billy The Musical

And then there was Billy The Mountain, The Musical. “With this show we’re just trying to get people to be more discriminating about where they get their information, what they take away from it and how they balance it.” says … Continue reading

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One Of These Days These Boots…

Please excuse the poor attempt at anything remotely humourous in this post’s title. However, here’s a question for you: how do you guys go about managing the various boots you download here and there? Textfiles? Access-databases? Copy-paste Word documents *shivers*? … Continue reading

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At The Gas Station

A short film based on audio from Lumpy Gravy (see also). Proof that the music on this album is as crispy fresh and relevant as it was at the time of release…

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From Kansas!

It’s Friday ladies & gentlemen, and that can only mean we have another nifty tuff ‘n bitchin’ show lined up for you: Kansas City, Nov 11 ’77 — have at it.

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El Hombre de la Síndone

In the “People Who Have Way Too Much Time On Their Hands” department, I give you this: — El Hombre de la Síndone es Frank Zappa! Via Balint who also babelfished the Spanish text to English.

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Gadget CC

Top 100 gadgets of all time — first one to spot the Conceptual Continuity clue there gets a Gmail account will not be flooded with Gmail invites! (Thanks Frippe!)

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Up, Up And Away

Zappa.com is back up (downtime was due to heavy rains in Southern California), and all is well again in the land of Hungry Freaks.

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