Trance Fusion Confirmed

Posted on Monday, 09/18/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

An intrepid KUR reader (aren’t you all!) was browsing through a .pdf of Ryko Distribution’s upcoming releases and found this page at the end. So I guess that makes it official: Trance-Fusion, to be released 24 October 2006. (Thanks Thomas!)

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Air Guitar Vai

Posted on Friday, 09/15/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

(Via another Barry — thanks, Another Barry!)

Update: video still up over here. Thank god we didn’t end up violating vai.com copyright with regard to this seminal performance as caught on tape.

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Blufr

Posted on Friday, 09/15/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Bruising your ego one bluf at a time.

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Drammen ’82

Posted on Friday, 09/15/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Three cheers for Gilles as he presents another 2-week Friday Boot: Drammen, Norway May 8 ’82.

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Trance-Fusion

Posted on Thursday, 09/14/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

What’s in a name :)

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Trans Fusion

Posted on Thursday, 09/14/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

… appears to be available for pre-order over at cd universe — “Scheduled to release Tuesday, October 24, 2006″… (Thanks Rob!)

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Rubber Slices

Posted on Thursday, 09/14/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A Zappa bootleg up for grabs, courtesy of Hipi De Tripi:

Directo de Zappa en el Knebworth Festival, Inglaterra, el 9 de septiembre de 1978 con la banda que grabó el majestuoso Sheik Yerbouti.

(Alas with rapidshare.de annoyances.)

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Where’s Zappa On iTunes?

Posted on Wednesday, 09/13/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Ian Stonehouse just alerted me to the fact that all of Frank Zappa’s back catalogue seems to have mysteriously vanished from the iTunes music store. I checked, and sure enough: nothing there — at least for now. Could it have anything to do with the freshly released version 7?

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One Person One SUV

Posted on Tuesday, 09/12/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Speak Up has a great post about wartime propaganda posters — both real and parody.

SU war

Much of the conservation messages during the World Wars was brought about by actual need. Those wars devastated trade between western nations, and the need to conserve and to be as self-sufficient as possible was real. Times have changed, and it would take a truly global war to put the pinch on North America’s supply chains in a similar way. However, the parallels with the supply of fuel are obvious, and the lack of a major government-funded conservation movement, curious. Surely it is the most “patriotic” thing to do?

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More ZappaTubeâ„¢

Posted on Monday, 09/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Some Zappa videoclips to soften your Monday-blues:

(Thanks Abe!)

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Steve Mann

Posted on Monday, 09/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Steve Mann is one of the “people who contributed materially” as listed on the ”Freak Out” album (he played some with the early Mothers just after Henry Vestine). He has a new CD called “Alive and Pickin” and you can read about it and Steve’s current life on his site.
Via Rick Wood via email.

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El Hijo Del Señor Green Genes

Posted on Monday, 09/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This Mexican vinyl version of Hot Rats lists all the songtitles in Spanish. I had no idea these records were “localized” that way — perhaps only in Spanish speaking countries?

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Nothing But The Best For My Dog

Posted on Monday, 09/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This entry was “co-blogged” with Hanan Levin of the incredible Grow A Brain.

Bobby_brown Zappa beers – Get Your Freak Out Ale from Lagunitas Brewing. The lyrics. Also, Joe’s Garage 12-pack

Plastic Ono Mothers (John & Yoko+ Mothers) perform “Scumbag” – The lyrics consist of only two words.

From “Drunk Men work here”, A Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch and the origin of the doodle in a Lucky Strike $25 contest

Absolut Zappa and many other fake ads

Zappa Zippo

Antelope Valley High School ’57/’58 yearbooks

A wholesome snack of milk and cookies

The poodles chews it (Little curly tail!) Poodle Fitness with Mariko Takahashi. Frank would be proud. What is is with Zappa and Poodles? More from The International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology – Phenomenology of One Size Fits All: Zappa and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Interviewer: “So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?”
FZ: “You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
And many other True Zen Sayings

Zappa VS. The PMRC Original letters. Also, Yellow Shark press conference pictures, 1992

Sign the “We Want Roxy!” petition

Peaches En Regalia, live on SNL December 11, 1976. (Nice pants)

1988 Phone interviews (MP3) by Bill Camarata of Box of Sound

The only known public statue of Frank Zappa, in Vilnius, Kalinausko 1, Lithuania. Created by sculptor Konstantinas Bogdanas, well known for his massive sculptures of Communist figures

Zappa with Jean-Luc Ponty, live at festival de Valbonne, France (07/25/70)

Cal Schenkel’s July Specials. (Cal was Zappa’s resident album art artist, responsible for such gems as “We’re Only In It For The Money”, “Lumpy Gravy”, “Ruben & The Jets” and “One Size Fits All” and more)

2006 Zappa Plays Zappa European tour reviewed by readers of “Kill Ugly Radio”

Zappa covers arranged by Ensemble Ambrosius

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Nappy Whips It Out

Posted on Sunday, 09/10/06 by Dr Sharleena

We should have posted this ages ago, but hey: it is never too late! Napoleon Murphy Brock interviewed by Pisspot the rabbit, from gAD TV dot com team.

(thanks ben)

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Hannover ’79 (2)

Posted on Friday, 09/08/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Hannover, West Germany, 26 March 1979: get it while it’s hot.

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