Liborio’s Garage

Posted on Monday, 07/09/07 by Balint

With tons of downloads. Overdose.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video | 7 Comments

Chicago ’80

Posted on Friday, 07/06/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This week’s Friday Boot: Chicago, 28 November 1980.
A short review of this tour:

This is not Zappa at his best, simply because he did not take the musical chances that he did on past and future tours. It is, however, Frank at his most consistent and his nastiest, playing the guitar with a ferocious attitude that raises an oft overlooked tour to frequently great heights.

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Capt. Cheese-Beard & The 7 Sisters Of Prevention

Posted on Thursday, 07/05/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A nice version of Black Napkins to liven up your drab Thursday, brought to you by Capt. Cheese-Beard & The 7 Sisters Of Prevention:

Via zappafan.net via urbangraffito. PS: Anyone interested in joining my new band, President Garlic-Breath & The 24 Brothers-In-Law Of Commutation?

Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video | 7 Comments

ZPZ DVD Previews

Posted on Wednesday, 07/04/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Zappa.com’s what’s new section really needs permalinks, because I can’t link to any entries directly. Which is why I’m copying them here:

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ZPZ DVD Previews, Posted 03 July 2007

Ladies and Gentlemen, for your audio & visual gratification the upcoming Zappa Plays Zappa DVD proudly presents these delights:

Continue reading →

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It Sounds Just Like A Telefunken U47 (Again)

Posted on Wednesday, 07/04/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

The restoration of Frank Zappa’s vintage mic collection, begun in 2005, is now complete:

“We went through three Telefunken U47s, four Neumann M49s, a beautiful matched pair of Neumann M50s, circa 1950, and four AKG C24s, circa 1960. We also worked on an AKG C-12A that was missing a cable and power supply and rebuilt a custom Telefunken Ela M251 using the existing capsule. It was an impressive collection, but if microphones are unused they tend to deteriorate, so we’ve given them a renewed life and got them up and running for Dweezil’s upcoming projects.”

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc | 2 Comments

The Gigantic Spoken Word Project

Posted on Tuesday, 07/03/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This looks to be a very cool project, aiming to compile a very large collection of Frank Zappa spoken word releases.

There will be some music in there but there won’t be any live concerts in the GSW Project. They consist of radio interviews and journalist reporter type personal interviews.

I know people who will salivate over this, starting right about… now.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video | 9 Comments

The Voice Of Cheese: Ghost Pilot

Posted on Tuesday, 07/03/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This week’s VOC comes to us from the Chicago based band Ghost Pilot. Keyboard player Eric Ahlgren sent in a track entitled “Singing Of The Sun”. Eric says:

It includes a looped sample of electromagnetic emanations from our sun which forms the basic harmonic drone around which our song is built. It starts off mellow and builds to an orgasmic frenzy which is sure to really get you out there. When the Sun explodes in 100 million years it’ll become a dwarf nebula…hotcha!

Got some ten minutes to spend on optional, interstellar entertainment? Yeah? Have a listen:

[audio:http://www.killuglyradio.com/hot-poop/voice/023_Singing_Of_The_Sun_Ghost_Pilot.mp3]

Like it? Download it!

Posted in Music, The Voice Of Cheese | 4 Comments

Hey There People I’m Georgie Bush

Posted on Saturday, 06/30/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Posted in Frank Zappa, Politics | 25 Comments

Virtual Guitar

Posted on Friday, 06/29/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Chordstudio is a fun guitar-chord generator that enables you to create and play your own tunes, without ever touching a string. Of course, nothing beats the real thing! :)

Posted in Music | 3 Comments

Osaka ’76

Posted on Friday, 06/29/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Well that was fun: we appear to have been off the airwaves for hours last night! Just be glad it didn’t happen today, as here’s this week’s Friday boot: Osaka, Japan, 3 February 1976 — aka The Eyes Of Osaka:

It is from this legendary concert that the (abridged) Zoot Allures version of “Black Napkins” is lifted, just like “Ship Ahoy” on Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar (and parts of “Duck Duck Goose” on Läther); the first and last parts of the drum solo appear on Stage #3, as “Hands with a Hammer”, duly credited to Bozzio – and the 1976 part of “Zoot Allures” on that album is also from Osaka.

Enjoy!

Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots | 12 Comments

Play Any Vegetable

Posted on Thursday, 06/28/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Heh. Via Roger Bourland.

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ZPZ II

Posted on Thursday, 06/28/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

The second edition of Zappa Plays Zappa kicks off next July 18, so the Dweez is starting to do interviews again:

It’s been really hard learning a lot of the new stuff. We have a lot more vocal responsibilities this year. We’re taking a lot of material from other eras. (…) Everybody had a good time last year, but it was funny, because we were on stage for over three hours every night, and it was total concentration to make sure that we got through everything as well as we could. So we have elements of that, but this year there’s maybe a touch more breathing room for the band to have a little bit more fun.

Which reminds me: I’ve yet to receive my tickets, purchased over a month ago. Let’s hope the postal services didn’t mess this one up…

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Plays Zappa | 4 Comments

G-Shot Tornado

Posted on Wednesday, 06/27/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Did FZ see it coming all those years ago? The G-Shot:

By 4 p.m. she sat inside Dr. Justin Salerno’s office, readying to become the surgeon’s first patient to receive an injection called a G-Shot, also known as G-spot Amplification. With a 3 1/2-inch needle, Salerno pumped a small dose of collagen into his patient’s Grafenberg Spot and made it swell to the size of a quarter.

Posted in Bizarre, Science, Sex | 2 Comments

Namer’s Remorse

Posted on Wednesday, 06/27/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

… something Zappa obviously never suffered from.
The Baby-Name Business:

Karen Markovics spent months reading baby books and scouring Web sites before settling on Nicole Josephine. But now, four years later, Mrs. Markovics says she wishes she’d chosen something less trendy — and has even considered legally changing her daughter’s name to Josephine Marie. “I’m having namer’s remorse,” she says.

… and no: we haven’t subscribed to the Pregger’s Daily newsletter — yet.

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The Voice Of Cheese: Inflatable Henry

Posted on Tuesday, 06/26/07 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Well now: having contacted two VOC-contributors who ended up failing to deliver in time, I guess you’re going to have to put up with one of my ditties.

The track in question is entitled “Counterfeit Antibodies” and dates back to my Inflatable Henry days. I started out by recording bits ‘n pieces of audio from some rather pedestrian sci-fi TV-show, threw them in a loop, and proceeded to go wild on the cheapo synthesizer effects. Added some electric guitar bits for extra measure. Have a listen:

[audio:022_Counterfeit_Antibodies_Inflatable_Henry.mp3]

Like it? Download it!

Posted in Music, The Voice Of Cheese | 15 Comments