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the big nOte files - november 2006 |
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the big nOte files - november 2006 |
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updated December 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 09, 11, 14, 15, 17,
18, 21, 28 & 29, 2006
please send additions & corrections to bignOte@yucom.be
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Short bits: * * * The Accademia Amieta Ensemble performs Zappa on their "Strictly Off Limits" album. * * * The University of Calgary Wind Ensemble recorded Zappa's 'Dog Breath Variationse on their "Gardens of Dreams" CD * * * * * * The Nasal Retentive Orchestra has a new album scheduled for release (latest info says February) * * * * * * MOFO 2 is
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A message from Kilissa In the course of some research for a project at my school, I came across the text of Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize lecture... in 1964. He was so eloquent as he addressed the issues of racial injustice, poverty, and war! Forty years later... still a lot of work to do! If you have time to read the whole thing... it's amazing! Inspiring as we start a new year! At Xmas when we say "Peace on Earth, Good Will To Men"...let's keep MLK's words in our minds and hearts! http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html Peace!!!
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THE
HOLIDAY KENEALLIST Happy
holidays everyone! This is Mike, wishing you a joyful holiday season and
an amazing 2007. SCHOOL
OF ROCK The
major news for the moment and for the foreseeable future is that I've been
named the National Music Director for the Paul Green School of Rock. I've
known Paul since 2003, feel deeply what he feels and have witnessed
firsthand the benefits which the kids in his program have been receiving -
in fact some of the most exciting musical moments I experienced this year
were at School of Rock All-Stars shows. The whole School of Rock scene is
totally infectious, and the opportunity to have an impact on the musical
development of young people across the country is something I take most
seriously. I'm very grateful for this opportunity and will make the most
of it. In
addition to my duties as National Music Director, I'll also be running a
San Diego branch of the School of Rock. We're still in the preliminary
stages of locating a suitable venue for the school but will be open for
business early in 2007. Do you want your kids, 8 through 18 years of age,
to be trained by me to rock like a massive unfair behemoth? Of course you
do. For enrollment information you should write to me at
keneally@schoolofrock.com. One
of my first official duties, though, will be leading a group of All-Stars
on the road, starting the day after Christmas, on their East Coast tour.
These are not Keneally performances - I'll be presenting the group and
perhaps I can be coerced into picking up a guitar on an encore or
something, but these shows are firmly about the kids rocking like maniacs.
You owe it to yourself to check this out. The
dates: PAUL
GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS (presented by MIKE KENEALLY) TOUR
Please
check with the venues for showtimes and come have a good time with us. Why
not? RADIO
NEWS Jon
Kanis has compiled a six-hour radio special about yours truly, with music
and much interview material, for his STATE CONTROLLED RADIO program. Jon
promises that this program is a major bonanza for Keneally fans and swears
that the six-hour length is fully justified. The first two-hour
installment already aired once, but it repeats this Christmas Eve on
http://www.bzoo.org: "The
Immense Superiority of Michael Joseph Keneally - Part One" December
24th, 10:00-12:00 PM (PST) (the
show title is Jon's!) Part
Two airs Dec. 26, with repeat on Dec. 31. Part
Three airs Jan. 2, with repeat on Jan. 7. Please
visit http://www.jonkanis.com for more information about State Controlled
Radio and these programs in particular (and also for information about
Jon's album "Cabalistic Dispatch" which I co-produced and played
all over). ALSO!
Dutch radio listeners and anyone with a computer should know about the
following on Co De Kloet's Studio 6 radio show at
http://www.nps.nl/studio6 (the following information is from Co's MySpace
page): "HAVE
YOU HAD YOUR KENEALLY TODAY??????? AS
YOU MAY KNOW, ONE OF THE ITEMS IN STUDIO 6 THE
DAILY 5-HOUR MUSIC SHOW HOSTED BY VINCENT VAN ENGELEN & CO DE KLOET,
IS "FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK"! WE
START THE NEW YEAR WITH THE AMAZING MIKE KENEALLY EVERY
DAY from January 1st till January 5th YOU
WILL HEAR KENEALLY'S MUSIC SEVERAL TIMES. actually,
as far as Co's shows are concerned, very little changes... ;-) Listen
to Studio 6 online, Monday thru Friday, 1400-1900 Dutch Time www.nps.nl/studio6" Thank
you Jon and Co for playing me on the radio - and of course there's always
http://www.radiokeneally.com for non-stop Keneally action to brighten your
holidays. THOSE
REISSUES Thanks
again to those of you who pre-ordered the special editions of
"hat." and "Boil That Dust Speck." Work continues on
the DVDs, taking longer than we anticipated but so does everything. These
items will still be in your hands early next year and we are continuously
and graspingly grateful to you for helping to fund this ambitious reissue
project. Again to refresh: the albums sound better than they ever have,
"hat." has extra music restored which had to be excised due to
time constraints the first time around, and both DVDs are packed with
vitally important video and audio material which will make you swoon. Get
thee to http://www.keneally.com and feel the power therein. Thank
you everyone! We love you! Have a great holiday season!
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Residents
friend... As
you may or may not know from previous posts, there is currently a contest
happening, and the DEADLINE IS DEC. 31st! So get cracking. We've only
had a few entries so far, (needless to say you are all busy with the holidays
etc), but now IT IS TIME TO ACT! So send us something! See details
below. AND NOTE: we are adding a special prize to the winners. The winners
will also receive a special limited black vinyl copy of Roadworms plus
a very old and numbered Savage Pencil Santa Dog poster (tis the season).
So DON'T MISS OUT! Also, Best Left Unspoken Vol. 2 should be shipping by the end of this week, or early next week barring a tragic UPS accident. And keep an EYE here for news regarding preorders on Freak Show from Mute and a potentially drastically reduced price on Kettles of Fish. Tweedles Contest begins! - OKAY, for all of you who ordered the TWEEDLES PACKAGE DEAL, you remember that it came with a red foam nose (just like Mr. Tweedles has). Now is yer opportunity to show us what you can do with yer red foam nose...uh, yeah...anyhow, we'll have two categories: 1) Still photo and 2) video. The guidelines are simple and open ended. Use the red foam nose...and represent Tweedles in a very creative manner. You could put the foam nose on your own nose, and add some makeup, and take a quick photo, for instance. I have a feeling we'll see a lot of those. Or make a little video starring you as Tweedles. Or maybe your dog as Tweedles. Will he keep the foam nose on his face? Who knows...comedy ensues. It's up to you. And you have until Dec. 31st to get your entries in. We'll have a winner for each category (still photo and video). For photos, send them to contest at ralphamerica dot com, only spell that like an email address. For videos, we opened a YouTube channel (tweedlescontest), so go to http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tweedlescontest to suggest your video to us, once you've uploaded your video to your own channel (please don't ask for tech support, we won't be much help. In fact, if you have advice for us on the technical side, fire away.) PRIZES? We will add to this list, to be sure, but right now the winning photo and video will be featured on residents.com as an ad for Tweedles. But you can be sure that some sort of rare item will show up as extra incentive for your hard work. (Plus the stuff we mentioned above.) We
will be updating http://www.ralphamerica.com with details on the contest,
and the YouTube channel will always be available to see entries once
they are approved. AND STAY TUNED, as we will soon be announcing the presale
for the next volume of Best Left Unspoken!
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20061228 What a week... I had to install iTunes, the big MOFO arrived, and even something people call Christmas jumped out of a box... |
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Secret U.S. Government Plan To Destroy Satan Since
Satan is responsible for all the bad things in the world-- Since
Satan lives in Hell and Hell is underground, can't we just find Do
you know where Satan is so we can destroy him for world peace? What
do you think? How can we find Satan to kill him? John
Trubee
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THE FRANK ZAPPA AAAFNRAA BIRTHDAY BUNDLE |
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* Dweezil keeps mentioning in various interviews that the Zappa Plays Zappa tour will continue. He mentioned 100 concerts in 2007 in the Seattle Times. * The Portland Oregon show has been recorded for future DVD release.
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I'm not sure that I mentioned this before... Still about two weeks to go... Zappa exhibit at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery From Kawabunga To Zappa Featuring
surfing, skateboard & vintage record album artwork and a display on AV
resident & musician, Frank Zappa November
18, 2006 - January 7, 2007
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Hoodini at the affz-newsgroup From - http://www.cielodrive.com/family/beausoleil/1.jpg The first of five children (2 sisters & 2 brothers), Bobby
Beausoleil was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1947. Bobby displayed
an interest in music at a very young age, and eventually taught himself
how to play the guitar. When Beausoleil was 16, he had an affair with a
cousin's wife; angered by the affair, his cousin left. Young Bobby was
forced to play the role of husband, working for a trailer company to
support his cousin's wife and child. After the death of a grandmother
Bobby moved to Los Angeles. There, he briefly played in a band with Arthur
Lee, called Grass Roots. Grass Roots would later achieve fame under the
name Love. Lee apparently named the group Love as a reference to
Beausoleil's nickname "Cupid". Bobby also became friends with
Frank Zappa, and can be heard as a backup singer on Zappa's first record,
Freak Out. However, the city of Angels proved to be too superficial
for Bobby, so he traveled north and fell in love In San Francisco, Beausoleil began playing with a band called The
Outfit, but eventually dropped out and started his own band called
Orkustra. The group played gigs in the Bay area from 1966 to '67, and as
the group was in the process of breaking up, Bobby met filmmaker Kenneth
Anger. Anger and Beausoleil worked together on the film Lucifer Rising, in
which, Bobby played the part of Lucifer, and helped compose the score. At
that time Beausoleil was playing in a band In Los Angeles, Beausoleil once again found acting work and was featured in soft porn titled Ramrodder. The movie was filmed near Spahn's Movie Ranch and also starred family member Catherine Share. Bobby was living in the basement of Gary Hinman's Topanga Canyon home when he first ran into Manson and the Family at a house called the "Spiral Staircase". Bobby's musical talent impressed Charlie and the girls, and Bobby started hanging around with them. In the summer of 1969, Beausoleil sold $1000 worth of LSD to a group of bikers that were hanging around Spahn's Ranch. Gary Hinman had made the LSD, but according to the bikers it wasn't good and they wanted their money back. So Beausoleil, with Family members Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins, went to Hinman to get a refund. Hinman on the other hand felt that the LSD was good and refused to give up any money. After a phone call to Spahn's Ranch, Charles Manson and Bruce Davis came to the house. Immediately after entering, Manson sliced off Hinman's left ear with a sword. Charlie and Bruce left immediately. After two more days, Hinman was still refusing to give Beausoleil any money. Bobby stabbed Gary twice in the chest as Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner smothered Hinman's face with a pillow. Beausoleil was arrested for the murder of Gary Hinman on Thursday, August 7, 1969. He had two trials, and was eventually convicted and sentenced to death. His death sentence was commuted to Life when California briefly outlawed the death penalty in 1972. In 1982, he married his current wife Barbara. Today he is serving his sentence in Oregon State Penitentiary and still continues to make music. BOBBY'S WEBSITE: ok, i have a couple of questions for you. Is it true you knew frank zappa? And if you did, did you also know Steve Vai, the best guitarist in my opinion, in the world and ever. The reason I ask is I know frank taught Steve the basics, but I know Joe Satriani taught Steve the rest of his knowledge, but I was wondering if frank zappa also taught you, it says you found a guitar in the attic of your house and taught yourself is that true? And when you get out of prison, what will be the first fun thing you do besides family and friends, disneyland or superbowll,lol? Tom
I knew Frank on a casual basis. When I was 16-17 I used to follow him
around, haunting his early recording sessions with the Mothers and, when
he would let me, hanging out at his apartment listening to the wild-ass
tapes he made. I was in awe of his musical talent, ability to lead unruly
musicians, and his musical vision as a composer. He also made me laugh a
lot. As you note, I found a guitar and taught myself to play. When I first
knew Frank, he was just beginning to pick up the After family, friends, and Disneyland, one of the first things I'm
going to do is get a dog and take a nice long walk. Then maybe I'll start
a new band.
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20061221 Sixty-six... |
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Just
incase you didn't know FZLE are playing concerts thursday, december 22. 2006 at "Pumpehuset", Copenhagen, DK
and saturday, january 27. 2007 at "Harders", Svendborg, DK
Please
check up on our FZ-christmas greeting cards on our website www.fzle.dk Have
fun and good music-experiences Yours
Lars Studs
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UGLY RADIO REBELLION |
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Here
Fido, Ugly
Radio Rebellion performs the music of Frank Zappa... FZ
Birthday FREAKOUT FZ
Birthday Bash There
are going to be feature stories about us in the next issues of The
Observer/Eccentric newspaper and The Toledo Blade!!! FREE
SOUP FOR DETROIT SOUP KITCHEN... GO LIONS!!! http://chunky.com/clickforcans.aspx Have
a safe and Happy Holidays!!! Arf Scott/John/Layla www.myspace.com/uglyradiorebellion
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Kimono Draggin' might be playing the Zappanale this year!! How's that for a newsflash...
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I tried to update / clean / lay-out some of the below files... If you don't like the list, you can also try the "line-up table". "the mothers of invention" (1964 / 1966) "the mothers of invention" (1966) "the mothers of invention" (early 1967) "the mothers of invention" (1967/09 ->
1968) "the mothers of invention" (1968/01 ->
1968/10) "the mothers of invention" (1968/11 ->
1969/05) "the mothers of invention" (1969/06 ->
1970) "hot
rats" (1970/02 -> 1970/03) "the mothers of invention" - the spring 1970
band (1970/05) "the
mothers of invention" - the fall 1970 band (1970/06 -> 1970/12) "the mothers of invention" - the summer 1971
band (1971/05 -> 1971/08) "the mothers of invention" - the fall 1971
band (1971/10 > 1971/12) "the
grand wazoo orchestra" (1972/09) "the petit wazoo orchstra" (1972/10 ->
1972/12) "the
mothers of invention" - the spring / summer 1973 band (1) (1973/02
-> 1973/07) "the
mothers of invention" - the spring / summer 1973 band (2) (1973/08
-> 1973/09) "the mothers of invention" - the fall 1973
band (1973/10 -> 1973/12) "the mothers of invention" - the winter 1974
band (1974/02
-> 1974/03) "the mothers of invention" - the spring 1974
band (1974/04
-> 1974/05) "the mothers of invention" - the summer/fall
1974 band (1) (1974/07 -> 1974/11) "the mothers of invention" - the summer/fall
1974 band (2) (1974/11) "the mothers of invention" - the summer/fall
1974 band (3) (1974/11 -> 1974/12) "the mothers of invention" - the spring 1975
band
(1975/04 -> 1975/05) "the mothers of invention" - the fall 1975 /
winter 1976 band (1) (1975/09 -> 1975/11) "the mothers of invention" - the fall 1975 /
winter 1976 band (2) (1975/11 -> 1976/03 "zappa"
- the winter 1976 band (1) (1976/10 -> 1976/11) "zappa"
- the winter 1976 band (2) (1976/11) | |
