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the big nOte files - january 2007 |
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the big nOte files - january 2007 |
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updated January 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 16 & 28, 2007
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 out and available in the shops !! * * * * * * Daniele Sepe recorded Zappa's 'Peaches' on his "Suonarne 1 Per Educarne 100" album * * * *
* * Sneaky Pete Kleinow died in January 2007. * * * |
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The latest Cuneiform releases:
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Chad Wackerman is touring with Allan Holdsworth. Check out the dates:
allan holdsworth trio featuring jimmy johnson and chad wackerman
allan holdsworth / alan pasqua band with jimmy haslip and chad wackerman
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Henrietta Bannister adds: I should be grateful if you could mention on your site that for anyone attending the Zappateers festival in February we will give a 10% discount on our Bath and Knebworth commemorative sets which can be viewed on www.rockmusicmemorabilia.com.
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February 2007, a number of new pieces by contemporary composer Frank Nuyts will be performed in Belgium: "Low-key music" 2007/02/27 concert "Week van de Hedendaagse Muziek", Gent, Belgium The "The X-Songs" - performed by Het Vlaams Radio Koor (the Flemish Radio Choir) (olv Johan Duyck)
more info at: www.hardscore.be
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I added data for the "Indiscreet Picture Show" vinyl bootleg. from "On Tour With The Evil Prince": 1974/12/-- the kcet-tv studio, los angeles, ca, usa
f.zappa, t.fowler, c.thompson,
r.underwood, n.m.brock, g.duke side one
side two
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Fred says:
Despite what you may read in certian publications, the correct date of the concert is February 17!
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In tribute to Michael Brecker, a lot of people have been sharing their concert recordings of Michael Brecker and of the Brecker Brothers on DimeADozen. Here's a couple of them: Michael Brecker Band
Michael Brecker Band
Michael Brecker Quartet
Brecker Brothers with the Metropole Orchestra
Brecker Brothers Acoustic Band
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Swedish punk band Ebba Grön performed Frank Zappa's 'Jelly Roll Gum Drop' in concert on 1978/12/08 at the 'Kulturhuset / Joar Blå' in Enköping, Sweden. An audience recording of this concert circulates.
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Time
My band played in clubs that today do not exist.
I used to tie myself into agonized knots over girls
Pam smoked herself to death
Evidently they failed to move soon enough.
I cherish the beautiful young
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Here's another book for your Captain Beefheart library. Kristine McKenna
did a bunch of interviews with various intersting people and collected
them in this book. There's David Lynch, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Neil Young
and lots of others. And the reason that the book gets a mention here, is
that she did one with Don Van Vliet as well. It's in the book, about ten
pages, including the nice drawing of Van Vliet by comic book artist Jim
Woodring.
book of changes interviews by kristine mckenna
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America
Obese, infantile babyheads
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Iraq
Many people suffer and die
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THE KENEALLIST: January 15, 2007 Hi friends -- here's a big colorful reminder about the
School of Rock All-Stars show in San Diego this weekend: These amazing musicians, all between the ages of 13 and
19, will blow your minds with their ferocious rock power, and I'll do my
best to keep up when I sit in with them. This show is the official introduction of the School of
Rock program to San Diego -- if you know, live with or are a human being
between the ages of 7 and 18 who would like to learn to rock like the
wind, be at this show! THE SECOND BATCH OF UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE ARTWORK We've just put another round of original Keneally
drawings, done in 2003 on actual pages from the Universe Will Provide
orchestral score, up on eBay.
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The
Bogus Pomp Low Budget Semi-Acoustic Orchestra will perform on Saturday,
February 17th at the Garage in downtown St.Petersburg.
Doors open at 8pm and the show starts around 9:30pm.
Tickets are $10 at the door only, no advance tickets.
We will do two sets of instrumental, semi-acoustic music. Each set will be an hour or a little longer.
This performance will feature Dan Campbell on violin and Tom Kersey
on cello. Also this
will be Jason Caren's debut on drums with the band.
We are very happy to have him aboard!!
The lineup will consist of......
This is a unique lineup and I think it will sound excellent in this format. As always, video and audio recording is welcomed and encouraged. This show will not be a late one or a loud one so, bring someone you wouldn't usually bring.
Also, will also be playing Dalifest at The Dali Museum on Saturday, March 24. More detail will follow. Did
anybody get a video of Zappaween 11. If you did please let me know as
Jerry and the band would love to get a copy. Thanks!
Fred
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Here's another magazine picture: October 1968, the Dutch Hitweek magazine
had Frank Zappa on the cover.
The second picture on the front page shows Wild Man Fischer. It's the same picture that appears on the back cover of his "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer" album. thanks to slime.oofytv.set |
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Online
now: 'Play 2' is the second in a series of releases by Lee Rosevere that focus on experimental, ambient and imaginary soundtrack works. Some of these recordings have been played on internet radio in the past, but many of these recordings are being released for the first time, some recorded over 15 years ago. Free
download from: http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm056.htm best
wishes, Marco
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check out the "NEWS" section on http://pikantik.blog.onet.pl PiKANTiK has a new
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from Almanzart, at the Zappateers site: If you're living in or near Mexico City or if you can do a trip there, you'll have the opportunity to see Harmonia in concert on March 25th at Teatro de la Ciudad, Mexico city 2007/03/27 Harmonia - concert 'Teatro de la Ciudad', Mexico City, Mexico |
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Chris Quinlan has a brand-new and fabulous looking website at http://www.chrisquinlanmusic.com/ Check it out.
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Good
afternoon! Happy new year! This is Mike Keneally, aiming a variety of
words at you! A
few things for you now, regarding NAMM show appearance, me sitting in with
the Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars in San Diego on Jan. 21, and the
opportunity for you to obtain drawings I have done on actual pages from
the score of my orchestral piece The Universe Will Provide. Read on, won't
you, please? NAMM
SHOW APPEARANCES If'n
you have the credentials to get into the NAMM Convention next week in
Anaheim, I'll be doing some appearances therein...
And
then: NAMM
SHOW BOOTH APPEARANCES!
And
then...right after NAMM... Mike
Keneally sitting in with THE PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS
This
is a FREE SHOW, and if you're in or around San Diego you MUST attend. This
is the official coming-out party for the School of Rock program in San
Diego - as you probably know, I've just been named the National Music
Director for the school, and I'll be the music director for the upcoming
central San Diego branch (location to be disclosed shortly). If you or
your kid is interested in this program this show is a great opportunity to
find out more, and to hear some fantastic music. Paul Green will be
presenting the All-Stars onstage and I'll sit in on some tunes. I'll
remind you of these gigs again next week, along with some updated info on
the hat. and Boil That Dust Speck special edition DVDs. THE
UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE SCORE PAGE DRAWINGS ON eBAY I
also wanted you to know that we just put up four of my original drawings,
done on actual score pages from the original The Universe Will Provide
orchestral score, on eBay. I did 44 of these drawings during the
rehearsals in 2003 for the premiere of TUWP, and these are the first four
we've put up for auction. More
details can be found on each individual listing. These make superb
post-Christmas gifts for the drawings-on-score-pages lover in your life.
Auction ends Sunday. Also,
at http://www.keneally.com, there's a photo of me wearing a very old hat
which you might like to see. Thanks
everyone! Your
confidante, Mike
K.
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Fireworks director Brian Coughlin informed me that 28 musicians will be added to the Fireworks octet. The band has been working on this project for almost two years and is really looking forward to it.
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The picture on the right shows a Japanese promotional Frank Zappa music box. The little machine actually plays the Zappa tune 'Peaches En Regalia'.
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from alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini Missing
Persons finds new life It took a 52-foot fall from a window in Los Angeles to seal Dale Bozzio's fate as lead singer of the '80s new wave rock band Missing Persons. That and a series of bizarre encounters with Hugh Hefner and Frank Zappa. "It's a miracle I lived through it. I landed on pavement," the Somerville native said of her accident, speaking from the New Hampshire farmhouse she inherited. Bozzio, now 51 and a mother of two, brings the current Missing Persons lineup to the Middle East in Cambridge tomorrow. "I was blind for an entire year afterwards," Bozzio said. "When my sight returned I had to relearn how to walk." Locked in the confines of her mind and heavily medicated, she toyed with poetry. Some of it would become lyrics for Missing Persons' Frank Zappa-funded 1982 debut, "Spring Session M." Bozzio's eye-popping outfits of transparent, multicolored plastic and her teased fluorescent hair put the videos for "Words," "Destination Unknown" and "Mental Hopscotch" in heavy rotation on MTV. But the story really began a decade earlier in 1971, when Bozzio had better luck crawling through a window at the old Boston Music Hall to get backstage during Zappa's sold-out "200 Motels" show. "I'd hoped a friend working at the Music Hall could get us in," she recalled, "but we arrived late and had to sneak up the fire escape and into a window to get backstage. I was only 16. It was quite a sight, me in glittered high heels climbing the wrought-iron stairs." Zappa appreciated the girls' determination. He asked them out to eat and later invited them to his hotel room. Bozzio passed on the hotel visit, but the impression she made on the Mothers of Invention mastermind would pay off down the road. Meanwhile, she pursued modeling.
"I worked at Boston's Playboy Club and was named Bunny of the
Year in 1975 under the name Toni Consalvi," Bozzio said. "I was
invited out to the Hefner mansion. This was a tremendous opportunity. If
Hugh liked me enough I might've gotten to live there, which is what I was
banking on when I made the trip in '76." But she hadn't planned on an intimate audition. "Hefner stood at the top of the stairs in his bathrobe and asked me to come up, but I didn't think that was wise," Bozzio said. "So I asked him to please come down and talk to me. When he wouldn't budge, I turned and walked out the door." With no dough and no mansion address, Bozzio was up the creek sans paddle, but running into Zappa again proved serendipitous. A phone call to her only L.A. friend, a musician, landed her at a recording studio where Zappa happened to be working. Barging in on him a second time resulted in a mentoring relationship that lasted a decade. It's also how she met her future husband and Missing Persons band mate, Terry Bozzio, then drumming in Zappa's band. So began the romance that sparked Missing Persons' pop success in the early '80s - a success that came only after Bozzio's recovery from her 52-foot plunge. But the band's reign was woefully short-lived. When the Bozzios' marriage dissolved in 1986, so did Missing Persons. Now Terry tours with the Zappa on Zappa tribute show, while Dale periodically revamps Missing Persons with a shifting lineup of longtime friends. Does she miss the fleeting fame she enjoyed more than 20 years ago? Or hope to recapture it? "I firmly believe that if you dwell on yesterday and tomorrow, you can't live in today," Bozzio said. "You need to find strength to handle life as it happens. I've learned not to expect anything, and that way I'm never disappointed."
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CBS/AP)
NEW YORK Michael Brecker -- a
versatile and much-studied jazz saxophonist who won eleven Grammys over a
career that spanned more than three decades -- has died. He was 57 years old. His longtime friend and agent says Brecker died today of leukemia in New York. Becker was born in 1949 in Philadelphia and had won the Grammys for his work as a tenor saxophonist. He was inspired to study the tenor saxophone by the work of jazz legend John Coltrane. He and his brothers led a successful jazz-rock fusion group called the Brecker Brothers. Throughout his career, he recorded and performed with numerous jazz and pop music leaders, including Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell. His technique on the saxophone was widely emulated and taught. Jazziz magazine once called him "inarguably the most influential tenor stylist of the last 25 years."
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POJAMA PEOPLE |
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2007 01 15 Thanks
Major to the very enthusiastic crowd at the Coffe House Cafe in Salem. We
should be a regular attraction there starting in mid-March. We hope to be
there on a monthly basis. What you witnessed was about half of our
repertoire....we promise a completely different show next time. In the
future, we will constantly update our catalogue and try to showcase to
y'all first. Sound like a good deal? Be our Zappa Guinea Pigs? Cool! Here are a couple of OR shows with IKE WILLIS! Feb
15 Thur 9pm 21+ Feb
17 Sat
10pm 21+ Feb
18 What's that? You'd like us to play ~your~ special event? Drop us a line, then. Visit
our site for more info, pics, links & all that.
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THE MUFFIN MEN |
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The picture on the right is from the 2003/07/25 "Zappanale#14"
concert in Bad Doberan, Germany: Carlo Bowry
on
lead guitar.
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The picture on the right is from the 2003/10/07 tv documentary:
Bunk Gardner on tenor saxophone.
Picture is a captured frame from an RR video recording. The special was shown on German tv two days after the Grande Mothers gig at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival.
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The picture on the right is from the 2005/05/28 open air concert of the NDR Big Band in Hannover, Germany: Lucas Lindholm on bass and Stephan Diez on guitar. Picture is a captured frame from an RR video recording.
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clear vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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clear vinyl, folded b/w elvis cover, monaural recording elvis on one side, zappa on the other side zappa is only mentioned on the label, not on the
picture sleeve 6" flexi from russia |
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green vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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red vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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blue vinyl, folded b/w cover, one-side monaural
recording
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info from "The Mudshark Anthology" by R.C. the complete list of the Mud Shark Label releases
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Here are the covers of the different Mudshark albums. The exception
being the picture of the "20 Years Of Frank Zappa" box. The
picture is from the 1984 reprint, not on the Mudshark label.
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| captain beefheart & the magic band
- hungry and weird
assembled by jeff watts
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Here's the message that should have pasted next to the FZFC Calendar
message below:
Hi Zappfan, let me introduce new club calendar for this year. 12 full color pages + 2 pages in b/w in format A3 (30x42cm). Write now and quickly. Limited edition!!! 30€+5€ post. F.Z.F.C. (fanclubzappa.brno@post.cz)
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a message from RalphAmerica FREAK
SHOW Mute
has done it again. Another beautiful hardbound book release from The
Residents' vast back catalog. This is the Freak Show release, as you've
heard it before, plus a lovely new full color hard bound book with
wonderful graphics from the Dark Horse graphic novel and a bonus DVD with
footage (never before seen) from the Freak Show DVD (which was never
completed due to the unfortunate passing of Jim Ludkte, the animator for
the project.) The DVD also contains some footage for Freak Show Live in
Prague and the Jelly Jack video. So it's a lovely little piece of work,
sure to shine in your collection. This will ship from here by the release
date of Jan 23rd.
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FRANK
ZAPPA COMPOSER PORTRAIT "Fireworks is performing a portrait concert of Frank Zappa at the Miller Theater on February 2, 2007. Fireworks will join forces with some of their favorite musician friends to present a huge range of pieces from Zappa's output, including the very difficult and rarely-heard wind quintets and string quintets, a collection of chamber orchestra pieces, and of course, a set of Zappa's instrumental rock, just for Fireworks.
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2007 02 02 PROGRAM:
TIME:
8:00 PM LOCATION:
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illustration by Lou Beach |
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a message from Ugly Radio Rebellion We hope everyone had successful holidays!!! 2006 has been our best year yet and we plan to make 2007 even better!!! Upcoming
shows;
All
Reety All Righty
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PiKANTiK is working on new songs, but is also preparing a big concert of Zappa music in Cracow, featuring very special guests... More info soon.
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From alt.fan.frank-zappa / Hoodini Drummer
TERRY BOZZIO To Play On New KORN Album? - Jan. 7, 2007 http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsit... According to Korn.Simpol.Net, Terry Bozzio will fill in for KORN drummer David Silveria during his temporary hiatus from the band, Martini Republic reports. Bozzio,
56, who is long considered one of the greatest drummers in rock history,
will replace David Silveria for at least one studio album and tour. According
to Martini Republic, Silveria is taking time out from the band to maintain
his restaurants - Tuna Town and Silvera's Steakhouse & Lounge - plus
spend quality time with his family. Bozzio has recorded with numerous
musicians on hundreds of albums across the musical spectrum, including
DURAN DURAN, STEVE VAI, PAUL HYDE, HERBIE HANCOCK, DWEEZIL ZAPPA, BILLY
SHEEHAN, RICHARD MARX, MATSUMOTO HIDETO, and more. KORN is currently writing and recording material for its eighth studio album. An MTV "Unplugged" performance taped last month will be broadcast and released on CD in February.
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ZAPPA IN 1974 (1 of 3) |
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Below you will find some pictures of Vito
Paulekas and of Carl Franzoni.
These guys were the heart of the L.A. freak scene.
Thanks to Leslie Michel for the beautiful pictures. |
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Vito
Paulekas, Leslie J Michel and Carl Franzoni |
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Vito
Paulekas dancing at an L.A. festival. |
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Vito
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Leslie adds: Here
is a link to a poem I wrote when Vito was dying... http://torchstar.diaryland.com/final.html Leslie Michel: "I
made these Flash animations last year by morphing (in Photoshop) the photo
I took of a wooden fish carving Vito made for me." http://homepage.mac.com/eilsel/_posted/woodenfish/woodenfish.html http://homepage.mac.com/eilsel/_posted/panning-fish/panning-fish.html
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THE MUFFIN MEN |
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Muffin Men HQ are proud to announce the Neo-Retro
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