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alleged FZ mention in Ozzy's new book 10 Feb 2010, 12:49 am
From - [link]
Book Report: Ozzy Osbourne - I Am Ozzy
The Prince of Darkness, in his own words!
by Johnny Firecloud
Feb 09, 2010
[Excerpt:]
Hilarious Rock tales abound, from tales of Bob Marley smoking the
biggest joint Osbourne’s ever seen before taking the stage on Top of the
Barry Feinstein 9 Feb 2010, 4:21 pm
The mention of the "You Are What You Eat" footage reminded me that I had the director (Barry Feinstein) associated in my mind with Absolutely Free.
Why is his name on the bottom of the photograph of the Mothers (with Frank
standing holding two pints of his shirt)? Is that Barry lying on the floor
CONRAD and The HURRICANES - Hurricane / Sweet Love 9 Feb 2010, 1:01 pm
Now for sale on eBay.com [link]
You can click on the media player to listen to the track.
The add says:
This is a Frank Zappa production, part of this also heard on Lumpy Gravy LP.
Is that so ?
VVV
eelco
record fair in USA 9 Feb 2010, 12:41 pm
Hi, Today I received in the mail a nice Mothermania LP (eBay purchase) from
the USA. Enclosed I found a paper with an add of a Record, DVD &
Collectors-Show on Sunday March 21 in the Merchants Square Mall in
Allentown, Pa. (Lehigh Valley Music Expo '10)
see:
[link]
OT: Saarbrücken 8 Feb 2010, 7:14 pm
[link] Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
February 2, 2010 by Lin Edwards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and
can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from
hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial
and again Japanese MOI singles on eBay 8 Feb 2010, 10:48 am
Within 24 hours the two Japanese singles of the Mothers of Invention are being sold on eBay.com:
Object-number: 330401192971
Object-number: 330401194363
Prices are resp. over 700 and 800 dollars.
Ouch....
VVV
eelco
e-mail 8 Feb 2010, 9:59 am
this e-mail sat in my box this morning: as well as "The Bunk Gardner Story" - if you are familiar with the
previous release "The Jimmy Carl Black Story" you know the concept.
early recordings and concerts, etc) that this is far too long to release
on CD. Consequently their stories will be put directly to
[youtube] Super-8 film of FZ/Petit Wazoo 12.9.72 Portland 7 Feb 2010, 11:16 am
Saw this link posted on Zappateers this morning. There's no sound on the video, but still. Did you ever think you'd see film footage of the Petit
Wazoo in action?
[link]
Vito Paulekas Interview 1966 6 Feb 2010, 1:15 pm
Freshly uploaded. Boobies!
- - -
From - [link]
Vito Paulekas Interview 1966
HauntedStudios
February 05, 2010
Vito told me how much he loved these "adult" film "interviews" he did. .
.In this one he is seen dancing and photographing a young "model" in his
studio at 303 North Laurel in West Hollywood. He never had any problem
now on Dutch radio6 5 Feb 2010, 4:41 pm
there is a Dutch Zappa cover band called Stinkfoot and they are now on Dutch radio 6:
[link]
click on "luister live"
(and then you have to do something with your mediaplayer......?)
VVV
eelco
That Song That Just Pops Into Yer Brain..... 5 Feb 2010, 7:44 am
You know....all of a sudden.....for NO reason....some song you haven't heard or thought about in years.....WHY??
This morning while getting ready for work (S, S & S) the Kinks' "Stop
Your Sobbin" started going thru my mind. I haven't heard that tune in
20 years! Why??
Last week it was "Southbound Jericho Parkway" by Roy Orbison!!!
Would you follow? 4 Feb 2010, 2:17 pm
I view Twittering with smug cynicism. I recognize the spectrum of its value from the Iranian street protests down to Ashton Kutcher's 30
millionth twit. I've even tried following one or two, for example,
Melissa Harris-Lacewell from Princeton, but found the bursts of short
messages unappealing.
I don't want to debate whether Frank would twitter (he wasn't shy
Where's Willie? 3 Feb 2010, 11:30 pm
Anyone know what we would have heard had WIllie the Pimp not suddenly ended at the conclusion of side one on FE?
Or...
What's missing between the end of side 1 and the beginning of side 2?
ZW
I Am In This Band... 3 Feb 2010, 11:26 pm
Anyone know the story behind this curious choice of words spoken by Mark Volman on FE?
ZW
Rocky & his friends ripped my flesh! 3 Feb 2010, 11:01 pm
The cover story of True Men (8/57) was Flying Rodents Ripped My Flesh! See
<[link].
html>.
I think Vampires Ripped My Flesh (Man's Life, 3/56) has already been
mentioned here.
--Charles
Turtles Ripped My Flesh??? 3 Feb 2010, 10:49 pm
Eight months after Weasels Ripped My Flesh, the title story of Man's Life was Chewed To Bits By Giant Turtles.
Read all about it--and download the whole story--at
<[link]
s.html>.
--Charles
What Are Your Top 5 Western Movies...???? 3 Feb 2010, 6:46 pm
1.) The Searchers - What more can be said about this movie? An ALL TIME American/John Ford Classic. the scene where John Wayne has to
rest his horse instead of going to rescue his brother's family & he
just looks off into the distance .....realizing he's been suckered by
the Indians & there's nothing he can do to save them is priceless. He
"Zappas in the sistem" 3 Feb 2010, 1:46 pm
This thing puzzles me for years now, I tried to find some answers elsewhere on the web with zero success.
You know the original cover for The Rolling Stones album Beggars
Banquet, the one with the photo of this dirty toilet wall with
scribblings all over it, that was rejected by their recording company
new HBO half-hour dramedy based on Pamela Des Barres' I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie 3 Feb 2010, 11:55 am
Zooey Deschanel Gets to Finally Be a Groupie on TV by Monika Bartyzel Feb 3rd 2010 // 9:03AM
[link]
On the heels of the disappointing news that (500) Days of Summer
couldn't get itself an Oscar nod, Deadline Hollywood reports that Zooey
Arthur Barrow overdubs 3 Feb 2010, 6:42 am
According to Wikipedia, Arthur Barrow overdubbed the basses on Ruben & We're Only In It in 1983...but Scott was the bass player in -82 and -84 bands, so
why not him?
And according to Arthur FZ asked him several times to re-join the band after
he left, why didn't he join (if was willing to do studio work, why not
'From the Stars & Stripes archives' 3 Feb 2010, 3:10 am
From - [link] Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
March 7, 2004
[link]
Frankfurt, Germany, December 5, 1970: Musician Frank Zappa relaxes
before the Mothers of Invention take the stage for what a Stripes
reporter called "2½ solid hours of total entertainment." Zappa had fired
What Do You Listen to The Most......??? 2 Feb 2010, 6:20 pm
...Besides FZ??? Mine:
Steve Roach
Jerry Garcia Band
Brian Wilson/Beach Boys
Steely Dan
Van Morrison
Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Jimmy Durante
The old geezer
NP: Marconi Union
ND: Drambuie
Your Favorite Zappa 'talking' Song? 2 Feb 2010, 2:14 pm
What's your favorite Zappa 'talking' song? I gotta say Uncle Meat "If we'd all be livin' in Ca." To this day my
friend & I still use the "I'll tell ya for sure" line.
My second would be from Lost Episodes "have a bun" line.
thanz,
Y.W.
Thailand EP's with Zappa... 2 Feb 2010, 9:42 am
Hi, Perhaps you know that in Thailand there was (is?) a strange habit of
issuing EP's (records) with totally different artists.
As I am also a Doors-singles-collector, I have several of these strange
specimen in my collection. Artists who have nothing in common share the
same disk, like the Doors with Bobby Sherman (?) and the Rascals.
"Bowling on Charen" 1 Feb 2010, 11:20 pm
I was checking out the "Trance/Fusion" album track listing, and saw a cut named "Bowling on Charen". I tried to figure out what that was,
and decided it must be a misspelling of "Charon", the moon of Pluto.
This album sounds great, judging from the samples! I really like
"Guitar", so this looks like a must get.
speaking of psychedelics: upcoming Psychedelic Science conference 1 Feb 2010, 12:18 am
[link] Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century
April 15-18, 2010 in the San Francisco Bay Area
An International Conference
Offering Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits.
Open to Physicians,
Other Therapeutic and Medical Professionals,
and the General Public
Psychedelic Science will bring together international experts to present
UNRELEASED ZAPPA RECORDINGS FROM THE 1960s ? 31 Jan 2010, 11:27 pm
What Frank Zappa recordings from the 1960s still remain unreleased on an official compact disc?
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TODD TAMANEND CLARK
Poet/Composer/Multi-Instrument alist/Cultural Historian
The Monongahela River, Turtle Island
[link]
First rock group to use an orchestra? 30 Jan 2010, 11:15 pm
Greetings all, I was listening to Fox Sports on the radio today, and they often use
60s pop music for bumper music.
They were using "Question" by the Moody Blues, and one sportscaster
mentioned that he was pretty sure that the Moody Blues were the first
rock group to use an orchestra in their music.
the real weasels ripped my flesh 30 Jan 2010, 12:58 pm
Hi, As I mentioned earlier: today I was on a second-hand record fair and I
bought (next to the Roxy from S-Africa) also a sealed German issue of 2
Originals of the Mothers of Invention. I knew that there were a Dutch
and a German version (I have them) but I never knew that there was a
second German pressing. As I wanted to know more about this double LP, I
A sign ?? 30 Jan 2010, 2:12 am
It is eight o'clock of a snowy Amsterdam morning. For thirty minutes I am awake and I have heard "Denis" by Blondie
already TWICE !!! on the radio.
What does that mean for the rest of the day ??
VVV
eelco
Wazoo 29 Jan 2010, 7:07 pm
Why did FZ have to die before the live Wazoo recordings were released? He didn't like the music or somethin'?
Bring on the Fudge...no wait, I meant YCDTOSA! 29 Jan 2010, 7:44 am
As much I love the recent releases by ZFT, I'd really like if they were to resurrect the YCDTOSA -series, with (officially) unreleased stuff across the
board - like all the missing stuff from '88, more stuff from 76-78 bands,
more Vinnie etc.
Now I know some hardcore folks feel that the only stuff worth releasing are
OT: And now for something different - Craig Ferguson 1/28/2010 Late Late Show beginning 29 Jan 2010, 3:46 am
Upon watching this when it aired in my time zone I was going to post a heads-up in the newsgroup for folks living west of the Central time
zone. Instead, I thought I'd wait until a video of it was posted online
so I wouldn't have to describe it. So, here it is.
Enjoy, if you're so inclined:
Craig Ferguson 1/28/10A Late Late Show beginning
I wonder why.... 29 Jan 2010, 3:22 am
..."Honey don't you want a man like me" on Phily'76 changes pitch just after "they did the bump together"?
J.D. Salinger 28 Jan 2010, 1:48 pm
This evening I heard the sad news that J.D. Salinger has died. One of my favorite American literary writers.
I have read everything by him I could find.
Even the 22 Complete Uncollected Short Stories (illegal press from March
1940).
And they again are available now on the internet:
[link]
Your Top 3 Guilty Pleasure Tunes............ 27 Jan 2010, 7:42 pm
O.K. ...you know what I'm talking about...the 3 top songs that you really dig...but you could never let your "cool" friends know that you
like them...
Here goes:
"Everything She Wants" - George Michael/Wham (the bass line cranks!)
'Funkytown" - Lipps, Inc. (The #1 perfect disco song ever....I always
And I still remember mama with her apron and her iPAD, feeding all the boys at Ed's cafe." 27 Jan 2010, 6:20 pm
No further comment. Marc
ALICE COOPER's audition for Frank Zappa 27 Jan 2010, 5:04 pm
Original ALICE COOPER Bassist Previews Two New Tracks On 'Long Live Rock' Radio Show
Jan. 26, 2010
[link]
Original ALICE COOPER bass player and founding member Dennis Dunaway was
the guest for a very special edition of "Long Live Rock" this past
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33” 26 Jan 2010, 10:52 am
[link] Nonfiction Reviews: 1/25/2010
Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33” Kyle Gann Yale Univ., $24
(272p) ISBN 978-0-300-13699-9
Gann, a composer, considers Cage’s 4’33”—a performance piece in which
the pianist never plays a note—from just about every possible angle,
male facial hair 26 Jan 2010, 10:02 am
FZ's among the list at: BRING BACK THE ‘STACHE. | MEN, MUSTACHES, MARVELS AND MISSTEPS
2010 January 12
<[link]>
Or - [link] [theselvedgeyard_wordpress_com ]
If Pernell Roberts and FZ Be Playin' the Theme to "Bonanza" Up In Hebbin'... 25 Jan 2010, 10:34 pm
[link]
worst! 25 Jan 2010, 7:17 pm
Hi, I found this on the web when I was making a new film about the worst lp covers in music( see [link] )
[link]
Bye, Zapguz
CN&E on Emusic, iTUnes, etc. 25 Jan 2010, 12:38 pm
Just noticed that the Album "Chunky, Novi and Ernie" is now available on your favorite pimply teenage download sites. Now you Zappa
completists (like me) can get "Rosalie" which has Zappa whispering an
intro.
Amazing how much Lauren Wood sounds like Kate Bush (who was still a
few years away from making an album herself) on this album. I wonder
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Cover Browser, database of covers of published popular media 23 Jan 2010, 7:03 pm
[link] Created in 2006, Cover Browser displays galleries of comic book (and
book, pulp, games, DVD or magazine) covers for comic book fans like
myself to explore & enjoy (there's also links to buy comics). At the
moment, there are 455,613 searchable covers from 2,923 different series
So How Come..... 23 Jan 2010, 6:01 pm
....they stopped putting "aahhhh-ooooooo-ggaahhh" horns in cars??? TOG
NP: Common One - Van Morrison
ND: Guiness
yelling "Free Bird", and before that, "Whipping Post", in concerts 23 Jan 2010, 2:06 am
Excerpt from - [link] Meme status
It has become a real life meme for the audience in many concerts to
shout "Free Bird" as a request to hear the song, regardless of the
performer or style of music.
This phenomenon began earlier in the 1970s with The Allman Brothers
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