updated January 4, 5, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23 & 26, 2005
| January 26, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee goes at it again |
| ZZZZZ | Chris Opperman 2005/01/25 |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Joe Travers |
| ZZZZZ | Christophe Delbrouck |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | The new Captain Beefheart album |
| ZZZZZ | The Hentchmen recorded Zappa |
| ZZZZZ | The Stealing Orchestra |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Steve Vai tourdates |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Frank Nuyts & Hardscore |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | More archives stuff |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Jeff Hollie |
| ZZZZZ | Dominique Jeunot |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Marqueson Coy |
| ZZZZZ | WM Recordings |
| ZZZZZ | Annéllsson, Mats & Morgan |
| ZZZZZ | HSK Arnhem played Zappa |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Great Googly Moogly played Zappa |
| ZZZZZ | Saxofourte, extra data |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee |
| January 23, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | The voice oF cheeZ |
| ZZZZZ | The Troupe |
| ZZZZZ | Necessity is... |
| ZZZZZ | Trubee's visit to the Art Museum |
| ZZZZZ | The Foolz |
| ZZZZZ | Eyeball news |
| ZZZZZ | from the KUR Forum - a request |
| ZZZZZ | The Central Scrutinizer Band |
| ZZZZZ | John Trubee's weird dream |
| ZZZZZ | Muffin Men Update |
| January 19, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | Tony Ortega |
| ZZZZZ | Metropolis Orchestra featured on Italian Radio |
| ZZZZZ | The Keneallist - January 18, 2005 |
| January 16, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | Bozzio radio broadcasts |
| ZZZZZ | another Zappa book by Miles |
| January 15, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | Lots of new data, mostly setlists |
| ZZZZZ | Eddie Layton |
| ZZZZZ | WM Recordings |
| ZZZZZ | Newsflash from Paul Green (and his School Of Rock) |
| ZZZZZ | The Schoofs-Duchateau Trio |
| ZZZZZ | Corrie van Binsbergen |
| January 12, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | Info on the Japanese Frank Zappa bootlegs |
| ZZZZZ | More Trubee, again |
| ZZZZZ | from the archives |
| ZZZZZ | More Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Klimperei news |
| ZZZZZ | Zappa in German mag |
| ZZZZZ | Terry Bozzio in Tilburg, NL |
| ZZZZZ | John Trubee |
| January 5, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | Steve Vai's Piano Reductions |
| ZZZZZ | Eugene Chadbourne & Doctor Dark |
| ZZZZZ | Chad Wackerman |
| January 4, 2005 | |
| ZZZZZ | The new Zappa Patio link |
| ZZZZZ | Petulant Frenzy |
| ZZZZZ | David Greenberger |
| ZZZZZ | Extract |
| ZZZZZ | Fast 'n Bulbous |
| ZZZZZ | John Trubee |
| ZZZZZ | Chris Opperman, the December 20 newsletter |
| ZZZZZ | The Central Scrutinizer Band |
| ZZZZZ | Steve Vai on tour |
| ZZZZZ | LeBocal in concert |
| ZZZZZ | The Invisible Guys |
| ZZZZZ | The Voice oF CheeZ |
| ZZZZZ | Norma Jean Bell |
| ZZZZZ | Japanese Zappa bootleg |
| ZZZZZ | Muffin Men News |
| ZZZZZ | corrections & additions |
| ZZZZZ | ...out of the archives, additions to UM |
| and be sure to check out the October newsletter at thebignotefiles - 2004/12 | |
| ZZZZZ | the concert calendar |
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short bits - more info soon
- Jazzmosis recorded Frank Zappa's 'Blessed Relief' on their selftitled
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January 26, 2005 Lots of little items, spiced up a bit with some uncensored Trubee. |
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I remember when I was a kid having teachers who spent most of their time scolding us--especially when the scolding was unwarranted and obnoxiously overbearing. I remember 2 bitches in particular--Mrs. Jones, my 4th grade teacher at Johnson Park School, and my 5th grade teacher Miss Mathers at John Witherspoon School in Princeton, New Jersey. They'd stand at the head of the class throughout the school year hectoring us and telling us what little brats we were. A couple of girls might be whispering at the back of the classroom, Miss Mathers would see them, and in turn spend the next half hour hectoring the shit out of the whole classroom. One time our gym teacher, Mr. Plummer, had to receive medical attention and take some time off work for a back problem. Asshole Millie Mathers told us that it was our fault, that we were so demanding and ungrateful that we broke Mr. Plummer's back. As kids we had to just sit and listen to this shit, uncomprehending and innocent of what she was bitching about. As a child I remember being hectored by adults that I felt I was repeatedly mauled by tigers and was powerless to stop it. Many people who become teachers have no business having children under their charge. This tenor of adults, in the public school classrooms and elsewhere, hectoring and screaming at and scolding children, led me to loathe the adult world and vow to never become one if them, not unlike the alienated protagonist of Gunther Grass' 'The Tin Drum'. The echoes of hectoring scolds still fill my ears today, and I still perceive human relations as one of dominance and control, not unlike how adults treat children. My solution to this tiresome, exhausting, timewasting, obstructionist, enervating dominance by other people is to stay the hell away from them as much as possible. I thought that as time progressed--as people became
more intelligent and experienced and enlightened and tolerant--that the
obnoxious, scolding bitches would be weeded out and eliminated from
humanity as their overt assholism is recognized, exposed, and expunged
from the human dungheap. I have sadly discovered that this is not the
case. Which brings me to Dr. Laura. Those tiresome, hectoring bitches still thrive today because so many people just LOVE to bully others with their damnedable rules. To them, Dr. Laura is their patron saint. I love when stupid people, mostly women, unfortunately, call up Dr. Laura proudly stating "I am my kid's mom", explain their family problem or situation, then have Dr. Laura rip them a new asshole telling them how greedy, selfish, evil, or stupid they are for not submitting to her dictates and ethics. If someone stupidly wanders into the tiger cage, then they rightfully deserve to be mauled by the tiger. I enjoy listening to Dr. Laura with the same delighted sense of relief as one who has been repeatedly mauled by tigers delights in using a stick to taunt the tiger locked behind bars. Dr. Laura is on the radio, I hear her voice as vibrations from the cones of my stereo loudspeakers moving as the result of distant radio waves. The bitch can't hurt me, she can't dominate me, she can't control my life, her blathering rules are just so many impotent gaseous emissions. Now do you understand why we must destroy the obnoxious, bitchy rulemongers? Now do you understand why we must escape to sunny, summer countryside hilltops and let the hectoring rulemongers shit on their stupid adult victims in the torture chambers down below? NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND? NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
-- John
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[Chris Opperman Mailing List - Tuesday, January 25th, 2004] Episode #30: Real Illusions Brought to you by www.oppymusic.com.
* Chris Opperman Presents @ Level One - Feb. 1st & 15th SPECIAL OPPS will be performing on Tuesday, February 1st in our first full band show in months! I've been working the new line-up (Andre LaFosse (guitar)/Jen Kuhn (electric cello)/Daren Burns (electric bass)/David Gaziel (drums) and myself) extra hard for this show and it's going to be great! SPECIAL OPPS goes on at 8:30, followed by the Andre Comeau Band (from the original "Real World"), and a solo performance by Andre LaFosse at 10:30. There will also be drink specials! $5/21+. Level One is located at 6311 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. Feb. 15th's line-up is Jen Kuhn's ensemble Triple Helix, opera-expatriate-turned-singer/songwriter Arden Kaywin (who played my wife in "A Very Space Opera"), and everyone's favorite country-rock ensemble Jettson.
* New Videos Now On-line!
Two new videos from my 26th birthday party at Room 5 last Novemeber compiled by myself and Johnny D featuring Clark Freeman on drums, Jen Kuhn on the electric cello and Talia Mays on vocals! Enjoy! Music is the best. -- Chris Opperman |
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"Behind love's hypocritical mask schemes a monster whose vocation is barfing new life into the world. For what purpose? There is no purpose."
-- John
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JOE TRAVERS AND THE VAULT |
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From the december 2004 issue of grammy.com, nothing new, maybe, but nice to read: Unlocking Zappa Treasures GRAMMY.com Frank Zappa Under Frank Zappa's family house in Los Angeles, the "Vault" is jam-packed from floor to ceiling with every possible recordable audio, video and film media. Within its concrete walls, the temperature-controlled Vault contains literally thousands of tapes, all neatly organized and labeled. "The Vault is infamous among Zappa fans as a treasure trove of material," says Joe Travers, official "Vaultmeister." Bit by bit, the gems are emerging. These jewels represent the late Zappa's prolific
output, spanning 30-plus years and musical genres from doo-wop to
classical. Decades before the global economy, Zappa was selling out
international venues that other popular musicians of the time never even
dreamed of playing. From his early days around Los Angeles in the 1960s
with the original Mothers Of Invention, to world tours, experiments on the
Synclavier, and his orchestral works, Zappa relentlessly recorded his
musical The limitations of existing technology made it generally prohibitive for most artists to do so, but Zappa used mobile recording gear to capture his lengthy concerts. Travers learned how to "bake" the resulting tapes, heat-treating them in a convection oven at 130 degrees for four to eight hours. "Baking the tapes secures the oxide to the tape's backing so it won't shed when it's being played back," Travers explains. "If it sheds and turns into gummy residue, it's gone forever." So far, Travers has baked about 100 tapes. When he started as Vaultmeister in the mid-'90s, Travers' job was to identify and catalog the material. He created a database, designating Zappa's ever-changing band personnel and determining song titles and which material had already been released. Travers pored over documents, publications and Web sites, and talked with the musicians involved. Inside the Vault, Travers also found "a helluva lot
of film and video, from 8 mm all the way up to one- and two-inch masters."
Travers says there is early-'60s footage of Zappa's original Studio Z and
from later years at the family house. There are outtakes from Zappa films
Uncle Meat and Baby Snakes, and Zappa concerts on Halloween 1977 and live
at The Vault also houses rehearsal tapes, Zappa interviews, trim reels and other remnants. "After Frank got a mix using razor-blade edits, this was the stuff that didn't make it onto the record," Travers says. "There are a lot of rough mixes and versions of albums before Frank ripped them apart. I get to hear the missing pieces of the large puzzle." Prior to becoming Vaultmeister, Travers already held some of the pieces. A drummer who played with Zappa sons Dweezil and Ahmet in their band Z during the mid-'90s, Travers was a serious Frank Zappa fan from an early age. "I had a massive collection," he says. "I read every book and had every Zappa record, dozens of bootlegs. And this was before eBay!" One day in 1995, Joe requested a tour of the
legendary Vault. "Just by looking at the names on the boxes," Travers
remembers, "I knew more about the contents of the Vault than anyone
working there at the time," including various audio experts. "The staff
went back and told [Frank's widow] Gail that I knew more about what's in
the Vault than anybody Before 2003, Travers focused on refining his digital editing skills while cataloging and baking the tapes. Then the Zappas refurbished the recording studio adjacent to the Vault, allowing Travers to "dive into other tape formats with the best possible technology," he says. In EQ-ing and mastering Zappa's music, Travers is salvaging arcane nuggets to appeal to hardcore Zappa fanatics, "material that otherwise wouldn't find a home on a major Zappa release." These obscurities are becoming the "Joe's" album series, starting with the current Joe's Corsage , whose title is a play on Zappa's 1979 Joe's Garage albums. Joe's Corsage includes Zappa demos from 1965, '60s interview snippets, and perhaps the rarest of all Zappa rarities, a love song: "I'm So Happy I Could Cry." In typical Zappa fashion, it later mutated into the irreverent "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" from the classic Zappa album We're Only In It For The Money. Starting in 2002, Vault packages are being released on the Vaulternative label, created by Gail Zappa. Among its live concert recordings, a possible documentary and other as-yet-unreleased projects, "we're working on four different albums right now," Travers says. "I submit material to Gail and Dweezil for them to decide upon, or they come to me and say, 'We need material from this-or-that era.'" While Dweezil Zappa concentrates on remixing his father's recordings into surround sound for future Vaulternative albums, Gail Zappa is instituting a subscription service for purchasing Vault releases. "There are most likely 40 albums that can come out of the Vault, not including the series I'm doing," says Travers. "There's so much I don't even know about yet. The more I dive into the Vault, especially in the formats I wasn't able to document or play before now, the more possibilities keep coming up." (Laurel Fishman is a writer and editor specializing in entertainment media. She reports regularly for GRAMMY.com, writes the EducationWatch column, and is an advocate for the benefits of music-making, music-listening, music education, music therapy and music-and-the-brain research.) -- info: Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek |
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Talking about books. Scheduled for release in France, later this year:
both by Christophe Delbrouck. Also scheduled in France for 2005 is the re-edition of French version of The Real Frank Zappa Book... The picture on the right shows the cover of the latest album by the Nasal Retentive Orchestra. One of my favourite albums from 2004. Also from France:
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"God and Satan are hallucinations within the skulls of those who project them out into the world with which to grapple and shift blame as a strategy to evade personal responsibility. True believers resemble psychotic beasts." -- John
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Are you in for something new? Try the Stealing Orchestra: website http://www.stealingorchestra.com Netlabel - You Are Not Stealing Records http://www.stealingorchestra.com/mainrecords.htm |
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-- John Trubee
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Steve Vai - concert update Check out http://www.vai.com/News/tourdates.html for more info.
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"To refuse to acknowledge the dark side and to always hide pain and loss and disease and death is to lie about life." -- John
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FRANK NUYTS * HARDSCORE |
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Those of you who want to catch some contemporary music, might want to check out the following Frank Nuyts or Hardscore linked concerts.
more info
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http://www.hardscore.be |
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"Overconfidence and unreflective optimism are borne of inexperience, incuriosity, and a dearth of knowledge. Beware of the strutting men of action."
-- John
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from the archives * from the archives "the complete guide to the music of frank zappa" by ben
watson |
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from the archives * from the archives Sal Marquez' solo album, a tribute to Miles Davis:
from the archives * from the archives |
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"We are essentially naked against eternity, and time eventually blows us and everything we own to the winds not unlike a passing, indifferent foot crushing an ant colony. Your tortured and incessant clawing after money is laughably meaningless in the face of eternity."
-- John
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Shame on me. Last week or so, I added a couple of Robert Williams albums, and forgot to link them to Jeff Hollie. Charles Ulrich was kind enough to remind me that Jeff also had an entry at UM. (Jeff played saxophone on Zappa's "Joe's Garage" album, and also on Ike Willis' first album. A fine opportunity to add data for the following two albums as well: |
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Dominique Jeunot, co-founder of Les Fils de l'Invention, has passed away. He co-wrote the book "Zappa de Z à A" with Guy Darol (picture on the right). He participated to the International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology. My sympathy goes out to those that he left behind. |
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"The reward for working hard and playing by the rules: they give you permission to exist for another day so that they can continue to steal more time from your life."
-- John
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from: Bob Wyman January 2005 I knew Marqueson when we were 15 years old and he went by Greg. He took me to see Hendrix in '69 (last show with EXP). I never thought Greg would amount to much let alone working for Frank! I should have stayed in touch! Marque was a crazy kid and his folks saw fit to separate the two of us long ago. When I bought the CD "Them or Us" I wondered who Marqueson was, little did I know it was Greg Coy, my partner in crime, at one time.... --------------------- Bob Wyman is a songwriter and
has a fabulous looking website
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New release on WM Recordings: First contact - Happy Elf [WM009] http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm009.htm Happy Elf is multi
instrumentalist Jeroen Elfferich's solo project. As always this release is freely available in mp3 format. Upcoming projects: D'r Sjaak (Dutch lo-fi pop), Uncle Neptune (children's music for grown ups) and much, much more! -- Marco Kalnenek / WM Recordings |
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May 1994, the ""en akustisk afton med musik av frank zappa" took place, with Hans Annéllson, Mats & Morgan and others:
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There is a recording circulating of the students from the Highschool of Music of Arnhem (Holland), interpreting Zappa's music. Performed somewhere in 1996-1997.
-- info: Charles Pater |
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"Nobody likes whiners and complainers; thus I have taught myself to automatically parrot 'Great! Great! That's great!' in insincere social blandishments in order to avoid being murdered before my time."
-- John
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Great Google Moogly performed the music of Frank Zappa in concert in Gothenburg in 2003.
Gustav
Svedung: vocals
-- info: Charles Pater |
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German saxophone quartet Saxofourte played a Zappa set called "FZ Fantasies" at the 2003 Jazz Festival Frankfurt in Germany. Line-up:
The show got broadcast on the radio:
-- info: Charles Pater |
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"The difference between normal people and me is I possess the ability to remove my blinders to face grim, despairing reality with utter joy and unperturbed confidence. Normal people kill themselves when circumstances and new information force them to countenance reality devoid of socially-induced delusions."
-- John
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January 23, 2005 Concert dates, a book, Rezzie news, Trubee's visit to the Art Museum, and a request... |
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THE VOICE OF CHEESE: SHOW UPDATE |
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**** SHOW UPDATE **** The upcoming Voice of Cheez show has been changed to Saturday, March 12 Hope you can make it! Voice of Cheez Saturday, March 12 8 - Midnite - Nietzsche's - 248 Allen Street - Buffalo, NY, usa |
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The Troupe premiered Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" in concert at the Juttersfestival in the Netherlands in 2003. Extra performances were given in 2004, and a couple of new ones have been scheduled for early 2005:
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JOHN TRUBEE'S TRIP TO THE ART MUSEUM |
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A Trip To The Art Museum A while back I visited the
San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art with a friend to check out some art. Many of Ruscha's works incorporate text directly onto
the artwork; many of his paintings are solely comprised of a word or words
painted onto a flat surface. I then realized that the painting could just as surely be a depiction of twilight as it could be of a dawn, and the connection to which part of the day it depicted in relation to its title further revealed its significance. In this country we like to appear optimistic, we nurture the notion that better days populate our future, we maintain some archaic 19th century notion of "progress" taking us up on higher to better things. To live without this quaint hope, however delusional, would make life unbearable to most people. Politicians like to say "America's best days are ahead of us". To publicly declaim otherwise would be career death for a politician. We like to call ourselves a nation of optimists. This mindset is probably why I automatically assumed Ruscha's glowing horizon depicted the dawn. But what if the painting 'America's Future' depicts the final glowing of a glorious day descending into a darkness reigned over by hideous demons? What if all the best years of this country are behind us as we degenerate into evening shadows of corruption, decadence, hypocrisy, loss of treasure and wealth, loss of vaunted myths with no new ones to supercede them, loss of youth, loss of spirit, loss of will, loss of hope, loss of life? In light of the recent contentious national election, the controversy over the bloody debacle in Iraq, the numerous publicized corporate scandals mocking the virtues of capitalism and the work ethic as taught to us by our elders and right-thinking people everywhere; in light of the of the sorry absence of civility and intelligence in public debate; in light of the humongous national debt and obscene trade deficit and grotesquely widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots; in light of public education's failure to graduate crops of thoughtful citizens capable of making intelligent contributions to their culture and world and civic life; in light of the commodification of everything into a business transaction in which we are merely passive, sheeplike consumers of what we've been told and sold and nothing more--and its resultant effect visually evident in the obesity epidemic; in light of the depressing lack of sense of humor and the worship of rules which everyone so desperately lusts to cram down everybody else's throat; in light of sex as once something joyful and desirable now transmogrified into something that Michael Jackson does to little boys--or is a threat to the workplace and consequently YOUR JOB and livelihood--or which will kill us with an incurable contagion--or is the source of Dr. Laura's shrill, odious dictates; in light of the mindless worship of celebrities and the constant need for insipid diversions and entertainments while profound issues continually elude serious and intelligent public discussion; in light of the politicized fearmongering of the Homeland Security apparatus condescending to us as if we are all weak and helpless infants vulnerable to dark forces and submissive to the will of an inept and mendacious government; in light of the universal vulgarity and stupidity and lack of civility enveloping us everywhere in daily life... --I could safely state that Ruscha's painting 'America's Future' could just as clearly be depicting its twilight as well as its dawn. I have not decided for myself and I am still contemplating it and it's doubtful I'll ever arrive at a definitive answer. My lifetime and perceptions are necessarily stunted and limited in observing the lifeline and overarching history of the republic. This is why I love art. The artist creates an object,
an image, a song, a work, a collection of words strung together in a poem
or a novel and posits it before the world. What we get out of it is a
reflection of what we bring into it. The idiosyncratic matrix of our
experiences and memories and temperament and world view color what meaning
or significance we discover in an art object. I remember my mother once took me on a trip to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when I was a child. She realized my
interest in art even then. Art is the religion of the future. -- John
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February 4, 2005, The Foolz will be playing a concert in Zoetermeer, NL. Mark your calendar ! More info at: http://www.boerderij.org/index.cfm/4,507,eve10000446,html
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The Big Eyed Ones have done it again: collectors' stuff: two albums have been reissued on heavy vinyl:
Both on black and on (very) limited colored vinyl. And "Not Available" has been reissued (again) on CD (Euroralph) as well. And I haven't even told you about the beautiful buttons... |
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SOFA (from www.thebignote.com) typed out the following message at the kill ugly radio forum at www.killuglyradio.com. Greetings Forum Denizens! As I was convinced that I had this show, I told SOFA that I would help
him out. Damned. To make it even worse, the trader who sent me the disc, thought his recording was the 1973/11/23-L show, so he can't help me out. If YOU can lend a hand to SOFA, let me know (bignOte@yucom.be) and I'll forward your message to him. I know that some of you can, I just don't know if you will, so show me wrong... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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The Central Scrutinizer Band's newsletter says: FRANZIE 2005 !!! A The Central Scrutinizer Band vai tocar dia 27 de janeiro, quinta feira...de volta ao CaféPiupiu ! A gente adora tocar no Piupiu...ops...pegou mal.... Primeiro show do ano !!! Venha se divertir novamente conosco nesse tributo ao mestre Frank Zappa... Dia 27 de Janeiro - quinta feira - às 22 horas Café Piupiu - R. Treze de Maio 134 no Bixiga - 3258 8066 - www.cafepiupiu.com.br Which probable translates into something as
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Trubee says: "About a week ago I dreamt a weird dream that I still vividly remember. I dreamt that I had killed someone and had hidden the body, but the existential dread and guilt of my deed haunted me. (Simply the awareness of being human imbues us all with Cain's guilt). I felt a heightened awareness and paranoia of one who feels guilty and I was packing my belongings to move elsewhere. I was in a room which resembled my father's study in a house in which my family resided years ago. I have not lived in that house since 1980. I fled to some other place and found myself in a
motel room with my belongings, trying to organize them, packing and
unpacking them and rearranging them. Several older, overweight, tall, completely bald men
were staying in the motel room next door to mine. Before I could turn down the volume one of my friends jumped on the back of the baldie confronting me. A melee in my motel room ensued in which my friends were jumping on and beating the old bald guys who were falling to the floor. The whole scene was creepy and queer and I wanted to
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Roddie says:
go to www.muffinmen.co.uk
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January 19, 2005 Short bits... |
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Thanks to Charles Ulrich, I added a bit of info for Tony Ortega.
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2005/01/20 at 11:30 h, the Metropolis Orchestra will be featured / interviewed on Italian Radio Lombardia. INTERVISTA ALLA METROPOLIS ORCHESTRA Giovedì 20 gennaio alle ore 11,30 in diretta su Radiolombardia. Seguiteci: la diretta su www.radiolombardia.it Fm: 100.2 – 100.3 – 100.4 |
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Hi and Happy New Year everyone! Here's a special message for you music industry types --- and to those of you lucky enough NOT to be in the music industry, we will have other exciting news for you soon about touring and things like that. But for now -- Hear ye, all you NAMM revelers --- if you're going to be attending this week's NAMM convention in Anaheim, CA, here's my performance schedule for Taylor Guitars:
Also I'll be helping Taylor unveil a new instrument onstage, each morning of NAMM at 10:30. On Saturday night I'll be jamming at the Guitar Player Magazine party in one of the hotels, don't know which one (I'm guessing either the Marriot or the Hilton) but you can find out at their booth or via the white hot buzz of partymonger word of mouth. To all of my friends reading this who will be at the convention, I hope we can find time to hang, in the midst of it all. My current music fixations – Pavement and Glenn Gould. Never say I'm not a man of extremes. Website to check out – http://www.bradblog.com. Quick update: All last week I played on sessions for the debut album by a tremendous songwriter, Brian Judah. Also playing were Matt Chamberlain, Viktor Krauss, Tommy Simms and Dan Phelps – an assemblage built to glitter. The tracks are severely powerful and this will be an album to hear. The day I got home I went right into the studio with Jon Kanis, a San Diego songwriter whose album I've been producing and collaborating on for a good long time now. We had a very creative and satisfying day in the studio and Jon's album, ‘Cult Of One,' will be something else you'll want to check out. Both these albums should be released this year. I'm also continuing work on the new sadhappy album featuring Evan Schiller and Michael Manring, and writing and demoing for the next solo releases. It's taking, as usual, a while to firm up touring plans but when everything aligns it'll be a good thing, worth the wait. I was hanging laundry so I'd best get back to it. More power to you. Steathily, |
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January 16, 2005 A bit of Bozzio and a picture of the Zappa book by Miles. |
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Two of the concert that Terry Bozzio did in Tilburg last week, will be
broadcast on Dutch radio:
And while we're
at it, the 2005/01/07 concert was opened by
Jenny Spanoghe (violin),
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Since it has been Terry Bozzio week over here at UM, I pasted in
the data for his "Drawing the Circle" album as well.
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"Zappa - A Biography" by Barry Miles. This new book on Zappa has been
out a little while, and if I'm not mistaken I did a copy / paste job on a
review that I had received. I haven't seen or read the book myself (yet), but it is widely available. |
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January 15, 2005 Here's another update, with a lot of setlists. |
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CONCERT DATES & SETLISTS, ANYONE ? |
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Thanx to Dennis, I'm able to add quite a number of concert data & setlists. after crying recorded a frank zappa tribute the band from utopia & the seattle symphony orchestra
conservatory students of arnhem
element performed 'Joe's Garage'
ensemble intercontemporain - pierre boulez
eraserheads recorded ‘punk zappa three’ fast 'n bulbous, the captain beefheart project
freddie wadling performed don van vliet's ‘ella guru’ great googly moogly
hermann schindler
nf & i virtuosi dal pianeta talento
joseph benzola
mia kempf and bohuslan big band: ‘find her finer’ paul green school of rock music
perfect blue recorded ‘dancing fool’ (manga video clip) remco 'petjep' serban (aka zappacheers)
stockholm's trio: igor's boogie the daughters of invention
the fos brothers: the torture never stops the grand wazoo
the grandmothers
the other people
the prophets of old: ‘go cry on somebody else's shoulder’ the voice of cheez
underkarl intro * stolen moments * max 505 * dancing queen * caravan + eat that question wagga jawaka
warsaw: 'warsaw zappa meets c pixie’ wickerl adam & hallucination company
yamagata ‘cosmik debris’ zappanoia
zapp stee toot
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from: alt.fan.frank-zappa Beloved organist at Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden, who left us 12/26/2004. Eddie was known to break out "Peaches en Regalia" at Rangers games. -- David Golden
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Marco Kalnenek says: Only a few days after our very succesful release by Roy "Chicky" Arad we have something new to offer: Driving me backwards - Phil Reavis [WM007] A selection from tapes Phil made outside of the many bands he played
in. best wishes, |
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THE PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK |
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Paul Green here from the eponymous | |