From Iggy Pop’s concert rider:
You know what would be really nice? If you could make this room look less like a typical rock & roll dressing room and more sort of… Interesting? Are you with me? Just let someone loose with a little bit of artistic flair… Er, do you know any homosexuals? And am I allowed to say that? Probably not.
While we’re on the topic of Phlorescent Leeches: Mark Volman has recently launched a new website called Ask Professor Flo that is “proving to be a valuable tool for struggling and misguided musicians everywhere”.
“For every successful story, there are many more reflecting the outcomes of battered lives left to fade away in the wake of misguided musical choices and decisions… Many, I should say most artists, have no idea of a long-range plan for survival, and the idea of having a plan for a career is so far away from their reality that most will find themselves signing one bad deal after another…over and over again. It is my goal to teach musicians and entrepreneurs how not to be abused by the sharks in the industry,” says Volman.
The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie are back, at least for this week’s Friday Boot: Dusseldorf, Germany, 23/11/1971. Call Any Vegetable!
This might be a re-post, but any video where Frank talks is worth watching more than once! (Part two continues here).
The main idea of the theory is that music is a super-stimulus for the perception of musicality, where “musicality” is actually a perceived property of speech. “Musicality” refers to the property of music that determines how “good” it is, how strong an emotional effect it has, and how much we enjoy listening to it.
The book is available as a free download. (via)
… about the radio-silence around here in the last couple of days: I’ve sort of had my hands full with this:
More here and here. Any Tom Waits fans in the house, I wonder?
… they are quite likely to end up on YouTube…
I was lighting designer on the 2003 performance of Thing Fish – An Authorized Adaptation in London. From that production I am currently selling a unique piece of props, a glowing cross from the scene The Meek Shall Inherit … If you could post that on your site (or make it public) I would be very glad.
Well who could turn down such a politely worded request… here be the eBay link.
Via SOFA: here’s a merry little singalong ditty which as he puts it, “pretty accurately represents how many americans feel right now”…
Texas dad wants Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s novel whose plot deals with book banning, to be banned — during Banned Books Week. What’s the temperature at which rational thinking experiences a meltdown?
Since I first mentioned his site, hipidetripi has continued posting Zappa bootlegs like there’s no tomorrow. Definitely keep an eye on his recent postings…
This week’s Friday Boot: Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention live at the Warrensville Heights Music Festival, OH, 10 August 1969 — with a couple of extra’s extras thrown in.
Experts to unmask spooky goings-on:
ECCENTRIC rock legend Frank Zappa, zombies and the spookiest day of the year will be explored at an international conference. Among the topics to be discussed will be the Halloween Zappa concerts, which took place in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. They attained iconic status thanks to the costumes on and off stage.
Way cool! Ed Seeman’s “Zappa Recording At The Apostolic”:
This 6minute exerpt is a small portion of the 14 hours I shot with FRANK ZAPPA & the Original Mothers of Invention over a two year period from 1967 to1968 for a film titled “UNCLE MEAT” in 1967.
For more, have a look at Ed’s YouTube profile or visit his homepage. (Thanks MySpace Greg!)
“Brad Miller even spent your tax dollars to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia.†How’s that for a congressional campaign ad? Oh, and let’s not forget the Mariachi’s. Way to go, Vern!
