This One Goes To Eleven

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Yes, the entire internet may have beaten me to it, but what the hey.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Exclusive FZ-Audio at Rolling Stone Dot Com

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Balint

An exclusive Audio feature from the Rolling Stone:

…his estate is releasing a three CD concert set taped at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1978. The shows were the source of some tracks on 1979s Sheik Yerbouti, but the complete unedited show hasn’t been available until now. Click here to hear an exclusive version of “City of Tiny Lites” from the new collection.

Not exactly: the song is different from the one on Hammersmith Odeon, so it’s probably from the new Birthday Bundle, recording date: 26. january 1978 (one month before HO). Sounds better to me than Odeon (Thinman? What do you say?), with more organic sound and more cimbals – and a much better solo. (Source: Zappa in France)

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Jean-Luc Ponty at Zappanale, 2010

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Balint

You might want to listen to the original King Kong (’69) album – collected temporarily here.

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Cover Freak’s Zappa Tribute

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Eleven Zappa covers from a variety of bands, a year in the making + free download equals coolness! Mucho kudos to Cover Freak, a blog well worth following I should add.

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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #7

Posted on December 26, 2010 by urbangraffito

I had a completely different artist in mind for this week’s listening session before the sad, untimely passing of poet, painter, musician and all round iconoclast, Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart).
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Too Big to Fail – new album from FiDOplaysZAPPA

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Balint

The new Fido Plays Zappa album called Too Big to Fail is coming soon – itt will be acoustic!

FiDOplaysZAPPA – Black Napkins by mistergreen

Check out their homepage for more! (found at United Mutations)

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Unreleased Lumpy Gravy Cover Photos – Part 6

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Balint

The final (6th) part of these unreleasesd photo series (see our earlier post). From the Commodore Crush blog, with no Zommify Widget this time, but watermarks – read the accompanying text there also, hehe.

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The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

By now you may have read about this elsewhere: the ZFT yesterday released another Birthday Bundle. It’s a digital-download compilation album featuring various artists including Macy Gray, Holland Greco and of course FZ himself. Full tracklist here, a bit more info over at the wiki and zappa.com.

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Beautiful & Heartbreaking – Vliet Recites Poetry, 1993

Posted on December 22, 2010 by urbangraffito

Both beautiful and heartbreaking, Don Van Vliet recites his offbeat poetic lyrics:
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Strictly Genteel (All Versions Mix)

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Balint

This is a mix of four different arrangements / recordings of “Strictly Genteel,” synchronized measure for measure and then re-synchronized to the video.

It’s worth watching it in it’s original Youtube page, reading the detailed description of the amazing mix. Great, great work!

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