Category Archives: Zappa Misc

Zappa Tributos

There’s a spanish guy publishing Zappa-tribute albums – made by spanish groups, sometimes in spanish, now he’s at nr. 7. You can check out samples of earlier Zappa covers here. Some of them are fun.

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A Poll Is A Poll Is A…

Why do you love Zappa?

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RIP Mercedes

Actress Mercedes McCambridge, star of Run Home Slow (see also here and here), died yesterday at age 87.

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Connie the Cone

The Coneheads at home – with FZ as guest, really crazy. So that’s where the lyrics of the song comes from. I even like the disco-version of it (by ZombyWoof)

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Zappanale #15

Alright, so who’s planning a visit to this year’s Zappanale #15? A meet-and-greet among KUR readers would be great, so drop a comment if you’ll be attending what has to be the coziest FZ-festival this side of the globe. We’ll … Continue reading

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Moon

…is here again. It seems after the beautiful she wanted to make something ugly. “Unit is my middle name.”

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Absolute Zappa

On Thursday 1 April 2004 7.30pm at Barbican Centre, the electro-acoustic Absolute Ensemble is giving a concert entitled “ABSOLUTE ZAPPA“. The 20-piece band lend their own distinctive jazz-inspired style to heart-pumping remixes, reinventions, re-imaginings and rearrangements of Zappa originals. Special … Continue reading

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Something to cheer up

Something to cheer up our french readers: Les Fils de l’Invention announce a Special Zappa Evening, to take place in Paris, 27 August. Several Z-movies will be projected (including one where both the Monkees and Frank appear!), and rumour has … Continue reading

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A damn fine Zappa-page

A damn fine Zappa-page was recently added to Barry’s Add A Page section. Click ZapGuz and behold the goodies! On a side note: are you a FREAK?

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News you say? Loads

News you say? Loads of interesting poop at UK-based idiot bastard, including an exclusive Muffinz-mp3 called Another Bag Of Spoons (from a live concert at Kln 98). Now go away! I’m watching Homer take the ride on the MonoRail – … Continue reading

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On the internet, this

On the internet, this is old news but – did anyone catch this thread off of affz ? It appears Patrick Neve, eminent Grand Wazoo of the Upper Echelon affz crowd (they fuck you if you don’t like their hat, … Continue reading

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