Baby Snakes On The Big Screen

Zappa fans living in or around Santa Monica are in luck: the local Aero Theatre is screening 1979’s “Baby Snakes” next Thursday — with Gail Zappa on hand to discuss the movie. Other classic rock documentaries planned for showing are “Don’t Look Back”, “Gimme Shelter” and “Woodstock”.

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The Vinyl Museum

jesus is a soul man

No, this is not a photo from the set of Deliverance, it’s part of the cover art for an album entitled Jesus Is A Soul Man. Many more weird records including soundbites at Frank’s Vinyl Museum. (Via Used Wigs)

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Straight Outta Lynwood

It’s “We Are The World” all over again: Weird Al sings Don’t Download This Song.

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Tehran Dog Breath Variations

“It’s a good life when you are trying to get things started that are impossible,” he said. “Such as the Tehran Symphony Orchestra playing Frank Zappa.”

Nader Mashayekhi, the orchestra’s new leader, takes it all in stride. In fact, he took the job leading the 80-member ensemble in the Iranian capital “because it’s impossible”.

(via David Ocker via email)

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We’ll Always Have Paris

paris hilton trout mask replica

Flabbergasted I am. Via The Idiot Bastard.

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Two-Handed Tapping – Bob Zabek

I think that the stuff I do is original because it happened naturally, so I think that is good.

I agree. He’s Bob Zabek. See his homepage for more videos – and here’s an interview with him.

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Poodle Fitness

That’s right folks, don’t touch that dial…

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All Music Videos on YouTube?

“What we really want to do is in six to 12 months, maybe 18 months, to have every music video ever created up on YouTube,” co-founder Steve Chen told Reuters. “We’re trying to bring in as much of this content as we can on to the site.”

No more banned uploads? But besides some mo’ music there’s still the possibility of some private usage.

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Vancouver ’75

For the next 2 Fridays, Gilles has prepared the following show for you: Vancouver Canada, 1 Oct. 1975. In other news: don’t you find it terribly annoying when the postman rings your doorbell carrying a Very Important Package while you’re in the bathroom, and by the time you get to the door, you find this letter saying you’ll have to present yourself at the post office? Next Tuesday? Yeah, me too.

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More On The Freak Out! Anniversary Release

This just in via Marco over at the Dutch Zappa-list. I haven’t been able to track down the following Gail Zappa quote on the zappa.com site which if you ask me suffers from a severe case of mystery meat navigation, but anyway here goes:

Yes, there is a certain manifestation of Freak Out! but there are 3 other discs – approximately 3 hours of alternate tracks from the sessions for the most part, some crazy surprises, and a little bit of FZ talking about. There are a few FZ edits here and there. You will enjoy the disc/overy I am sure, almost as much as we did. And then there is the packaging which we are also very excited about. This is truly one for the fervent and devout…it is good to know that some of what I say makes sense to some of the people who read it. So just so you heard it from me, there is nothing on the discs, 3 of which are about an hour of mostly (MOSTLY!) UNRELEASED materials, that is me talking for 30 minutes – why would I do such a thing to you or to FZ!!!! But we do have him in his own words too. And yes, it is all about Freak Out! What more do I really have to say.

Update: Andrew aka The Idiot Bastard says: “This is actually two quotes taken from the Zappa Forum that I edited together (and spell-checked!) for my website.”

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Time And Those Waves

Nigey Lennon remembers David Walley.

Anyone who knew David, or read his work, or picked his brain for editorial suggestions, or made even the most casual contact with him, generally found that they’d been changed, transformed by the contact. It was his peculiar gift, to question and, by questioning, to help people find answers.

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Freak Out Ale

From Lagunitas Brewing comes a new beer called Freak Out Ale, celebrating 40 years of Freak Out!with Gail Zappa’s permission, no less. Here’s the label:

freak out ale

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Zappa On The TNT Show

Duncan writes in with a little conundrum: spot FZ in this trailer for “The TNT Show”. He’s looped the relevant bit here for convenience.

Questions:

  1. Why was he there?
  2. Is the guy on his left talking to him? If so who is he?
  3. Is the (completely obscured) girl on his right with him?
    If so who is she?
  4. Is there more FZ in the actual film or is that it?

The “Big TNT Show” wiki page is awaiting your answers…

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When Woody Met Billy

Woody Allen interviews Rev. Billy Graham, ca. ’69:

(…and here’s part two)

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The Ceasefire Petition

Have you signed it? I have.

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