Category Archives: Frank Zappa

Alice

Alice? Who the f* is Alice?

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Anything, Anytime

Billboard has a look at the “Zappa Vault Series”: Indeed, Gail Zappa estimates there are 40 albums’ worth of material that could see the light of day, including complete live concerts. “But ‘Joe’s Corsage’ the series will be separate,” she … Continue reading

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UMRK Redux

Here we go again: the UMRK rehearsals are back up.

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Anniversary – FZ’s last performance

It’s 13 years ago today that Zappa played in Budapest with hungarian jazz-musicians. Here’s an interview with Gyula Babos, guitar player – in english, for you. He’s from the jazz world, so I think he didn’t REALLY knew FZ’s stuff, … Continue reading

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Monster Road To Hit Ghent

A while ago I asked Jim Haverkamp if there was any possibility of getting to see Monster Road (see also) in Belgian theaters. He responded asking which filmfestivals he could submit the film to, so I told him about the … Continue reading

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Zappanale Webcast

Zappanale #15 will be webcast! Since it currently looks like KUR personnel won’t make it to Bad Doberan, this is great news. Thanks to Henry in Holland for passing it on.

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It’s A Barfie Jim, But Not As We (Etc)

KRIEEEEeeeeeek. Do you hear that sound? That is TheBigNote door opening on a whole bunch more exciting new opportunities to experience The Magic.

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Clue #1

Well I guess by now you’ve all had z.com’s Barfies email. For those who haven’t, here’s the poot: “Coming right up in June (not to be interfered or confused with our schedulement of a petite Wazoo outbreak in July) to … Continue reading

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Robi Draco who???

Humor still belong in news… With his boyish good looks and muscular arms, Rosa played the Latino heartthrob, but also threw his audience a few curves. At one point he spoke of passion and love, then added, “On that note, … Continue reading

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Lugo are you kidding?

In one episode of Walkman Busting, recorded in New York’s Union Square, D’Arcangelo talks to a woman listening to Brazilian Capoeira, while nearby, a couple of teenage rockers are listening to the rap metal band Korn. Someone else is listening … Continue reading

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Son of Uncle Beat

Peter (of United Mutations fame) just wrote me an email in which he makes an interesting proposal: “I like the Uncle Beat idea, but I’m allergic to compressed music, so here’s what I suggest: If you can create a relative … Continue reading

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Zappa-alumnis here and there

G3 tour with Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Robert Fripp has just started – there are rumours that Terry Bozzio joins them (this info is not really sure for me – we’ll see). And there are some news about the … Continue reading

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the muffin and the soul man

Has anyone seen the Muffin Men? Never mind, here some memoirs of the soul man, by Tom Fowler. Cheers!

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Bandwidth Report

Current (2 days): 10.33 GB Cycle Estimate: 154.8 GB Estimated Charges: $854.40 Ergo…

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A hearing for the PMRC

The infamous PMRC hearings seem to have been heard by a committee relating to commerce, science, and transportation. Since this is not supposed to have been a commercial question, and i doubt it is related to transportation, i guess this … Continue reading

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