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Posted on Sunday, 08/29/04 by Dr Sharleena

…sunday link: Top Ten Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics Of All Time. (via attu)

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Weekend Edition

Posted on Saturday, 08/28/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Good morning! Some various bits and pieces to keep you occupied during the weekend: Mike Keneally has launched radiokeneally.com featuring “non-stop streaming audio featuring music from all of my albums (including titles long out of print), unreleased live and studio recordings, collaborations with other artists, demos and alternate mixes, schoolchildren singing Keneally songs and, I think, more!”. Go rip him off! You might also enjoy a complete live broadcast of italian band Orchestra Spaziale performing Zappa (grazie evaristo)! Lastly, I’m transcribing an interview Dweezil Zappa had with Sound On Sound Magazine (Sept issue) about the technical side of things at The Vault – many thanks to Ian for sending me the scans. Class dismissed!

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Halloween At The Palladium

Posted on Friday, 08/27/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

I know at least one person who’ll be happy with this week’s Friday Boot: an early Halloween show at the Palladium, NYC – 28 Oct 1978.

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Silly me

Posted on Tuesday, 08/24/04 by Dr Sharleena

I just noticed the Chrome Dinette is serving Joe’s Corsage this month! I’m listening to it as i type this. Sound is very good so far, hurry up and give it a go!

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He’s got it!

Posted on Monday, 08/23/04 by Dr Sharleena



His first taste of big city life…Ain’t that cute?

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On Moving And Testicle Crushing

Posted on Monday, 08/23/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Service Announcement. I’m back at work now, and the company I work for is in the process of moving to another city. Hence: no internet connection for the better part of this week – posting is going to be scarce. I will of course be monitoring comments and such from home, making spammers’ shit rise up to kiss them where possible. In the meantime, here’s some ways by which you can crush your own testicles in your own home. Thank me not.

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Quaudiophiliac

Posted on Friday, 08/20/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

It figures.
I go on holiday for a week, and stuff happens at the ZFT.
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GZ: “Not a hunch, not a rumor. We have announced a DVD-Audio release. It is scheduled for a street date of 14 September on DTS label. It is surround sound and is made up of tracks originally mixed/recorded by FZ during the 70’s. It is essentially an audio documentary of ideas by FZ about quad and 4 channel mixes and multichannel recordings. Dweezil tweezed these items into a full on program now entitled QuAUDIOPHILIAc. Obviously, it will not translate on ordinary radio.” Can you say “petite wazoo“?
(artwork via FrenchPowered)

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Zomby woof

Posted on Wednesday, 08/18/04 by Bertanya

Having seen Napolean Murphy Brock play with The Grandmothers, it is something of a surprise to find that he may be one of the walking dead. Well at least it didn’t affect his playing, this being the era of Apostrophe, and Roxy and Elsewhere.

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Les Vacances de Mr. Barry Part Deux

Posted on Friday, 08/13/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Ladies and gents, I am now off for a week of holidays. Catch you later!

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Montpellier Redux

Posted on Friday, 08/13/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

I’ve made Part Two of Montpellier ’88 available for 7 more days because a) it was only up for 4 days the first time ’round courtesy of the B-word and b) I was too lazy to prepare another boot this week :)

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YYMQIIA

Posted on Thursday, 08/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Real, unmanipulated examples of Scrabble-tile-choosing ineptitude, hands so mind-bogglingly unfair in their horribleness that pictures just had to be taken. Hey, he could’ve made GEMS with this one!

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Doo-Rag

Posted on Thursday, 08/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

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Loeb & the Dweez

Posted on Thursday, 08/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Was Dweezil a weasel? Loeb’s new CD all about her former love: “the lyrics tell the tale of all stages of her relationship from good to bad to single and OK with it. The songs are personal, but not Fiona Apple-esque — raw and painful. ” (Note #1– can someone tell me what ‘Fiona Apple-esque’ stands for? Note #2– yes: absolutely nothing is happening, so I link to this kind of story. Sad, I know.)

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FZ Gig List Now With Playlists

Posted on Wednesday, 08/11/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

If you head over to the FZ Gig List (at least, my version of it), you’ll note that I’ve now cross-matched it with Jon Naurin’s FZ Shows. When available, the play-list for any given concert will now be listed underneath the city/venue/country. This cross-match is not perfect though, as both txt-files were formatted in very different ways so I’ve had to jump through quite a few hoops to make them hook up. From brief testing, I’d say the match is about 99% accurate. Have a look and tell me what you think…

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Ye Olde Grey Gym Sock

Posted on Monday, 08/09/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A whole bunch of free video-downloads of comedian Bill Hicks’ performances throughout the years including “Ye Olde Grey Gym Sock”, described by some as Hicks’ best routine ever.

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