Category Archives: Zappa Misc

Sterbus Whips It Out

Sterbus — KUR forum member, Hot Poop commentator and Certified Italian, enquires: Hi bARRY, sorry if I’m disturbing you… but I would like to have zappa fans listen and give a free opinion on my music! Well hey… take it … Continue reading

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Pin-Up

Pin-ups for atheists. And who do we see featured there?

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Dust Bunnies

Howard Kaylan has released a new album entitled “Dust Bunnies”: Recorded in Billy Bob Thornton’s studio in Beverly Hills, and featuring the Oscar winner on guest vocals, “Dust Bunnies” is an album of little-known gems from the sixties and beyond.

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RIP Martin Lickert

Martin Lickert, the guy who played/replaced Jeff Simmons in Zappa’s 200 Motels, has died. Jeff Simmons, the Mothers’ bass player, had left the group and Zappa was unable to find anyone to play him. In exasperation, he told his entourage … Continue reading

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The Tornadoes

The Tornadoes, a surf band that recorded their first hits at Zappa’s early 60s PAL Studio’s, have a new album out called “Now and Then”. It apparently includes a recording of FZ’s “The Cruncher”. Five of the songs from their … Continue reading

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Beefheart In Belgium

Found this on youtube.com: something for the Captain Beefheart fans outthere: More Beefheart on YouTube…

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Frank Is Back

Our friend Evaristo sent me a couple of links that you may find interesting: – Frank Is Back: a mail-art project with a Zappa flavor to it, and – if you ever wondered where the phrase ““Eddie Are You Kidding?” … Continue reading

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Duke of Trombones

Who’d-a-thunk: back in the day, George Duke attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music – on a trombone scholarship: “They had too many classical piano players. I didn’t have their chops. I couldn’t keep up with them,” Duke said of … Continue reading

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Dear Idiot Bastard

Okay, well, somebody has to say it. Dear Idiot Bastard Son, For years I have been reading your excellent Zappa newspage. Navigating around your place was never easy (Powered by Lotus? Ody-frames?), but I hung around anyway because I’m not … Continue reading

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Zappa Misc

Quickie. FZ is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth annual Jammy Awards, The April/May issue of Relix Magazine is to feature FZ on the cover, announcing “At home with the Zappas, A trip through their fabled archives, … Continue reading

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Wild Man Download

Well I’ll be. The entire “An Evening With Wild Man Fischer” is available for (mp3) download here, where it is stated that: This 1968 legendary master piece has yet to see a re-release. Frank Zappa’s widow owns the right and … Continue reading

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Jazzappa

Jazzappa dot com is a cool, um, Zappa site which I hadn’t come across before. Loads of stuff to peruse, from pictures, midi’s, lyrics, guitar tabs, interviews to mp3’s and more. Plus, as the webmaster states, the site even has … Continue reading

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Potatoes On Broadway

In May 2003 we reported about an upcoming live onstage adaptation of Thing-Fish. Today, my inbox tells me a book is being written about the production: Rumours have it that the author of the book has completed the first bunch … Continue reading

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Ponty Talks

Interview with Jean-Luc Ponty in which he talks, among other things, about Frank Zappa: Some of his pieces were a total musical patchwork; a few measures of basic rock suddenly moving into jazz then into a Stravinsky like written section. … Continue reading

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Frank Zappa Str.

In Berlin, already on the map. Hehe, looks fine…

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