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updated February 02, 04, 05,11, 12, 13, 23, 25, 26 & 27, 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 Variations 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. * * * * * * Jimmy
Carl Black has couple of new CDs out * * * * * * Gregg Russo will be publishing Jimmy Carl Black's book (that Jimmy Carl wrote together with Roddie) * * * * * * Gregg Russo will also be re-releasing a couple of (three?) Jimmy Carl Black albums: When Do We Get Paid, Where the %£ Beer, ... * * * * * * Imaginary Diseases is out as a vinyl bootleg 2LP set * * * * * * The Wrong Object will be releasing a live album on Voiceprint
very soon: "Platform One"; scheduled release = April 2007
* * * * * * The Voltaire Brothers recorded Zappa's
'Trouble Every Day' on their "I Sing The Booty Electric" album *
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The second part of the Palinckx trilogy got broadcast on 2007/02/19 on Dutch radio Concertzender. Here's what they aired:
You can find a more detailed tracklisting below. And in case that you're wondering why they're doing a Palinckx special, there's a couple of interesting concert scheduled together with the Asko Ensemble. "BREIN" Together with the ASKO Ensemble, Mayke Nas, Yannis Kiriakides and Hans Dagelet
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| December 2006, Zjakki Willems invited Jimmy Carl Black, Steven de Bruyn and Jos Steen into the Marconi Studio of Radio One in Brussels. The recordings of this Black Brown Stone trio were broadcast every monday of february during Zjakki's "Cucamonga" radio show. | |
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from: PJP Thanks to all who supported our latest run from
Eugene to Seattle. Hang in there, Cali --- we'll be down there sooner than
you can greatgooglymoogly.
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Fábio Massari has written a book on Zappa called "Zappa: Detritos Cósmicos", and it's out on Conrad publishing in Brazil. - - - Fábio Massari lança no próximo dia 26 obra sobre Frank Zappa: "Zappa: Detritos Cósmicos" (ed. Conrad). O livro-tributo traz as duas entrevistas concedidas pelo músico à imprensa brasileira, além de textos de fãs de Zappa (como Rogério Skylab, Fernando Bonassi e Wander Wildner, entre outros) e desenhos de gente como Caco Galhardo e Allan Sieber. -- info: Zjakki Willems
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NYC based jazz/fusion band Schleigho has performed various Frank Zappa compositions in concert.
Halloween 2003, the band performed a concert where they played a bunch of Zappa tunes. The band allows taping of their concerts, so recordings of these shows are circulating.
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Taped by Capaldi & seeded on the Zappateers tracker a little while ago: a fabulous concert by Fattore Zeta.
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"February UpDOOT!" Happy New year from the good folks at DOOT! May it suck less than last year! In
No Particular Order: -----Beefheart
Freaks Unite!----- Doctor
Dark, and Friends, Stephen
Chillemi will be back on drums and percussion for this show. ------Dyslexics
Untie!!------ DOOT! has been busy updating the website, and we have included some choice and rare audio, photography, and links. Stop by and admire it while it is still under construction. --------Zappanale
18--------- It
looks like Zappanale 18 will be one for the AGES: Terry
Bozzio as headliner and
an interesting note: Some
of the DOOT!'s will be there as well, so keep an eye open for us.
Andre will be there with P/O and with Don Preston.
Stephen Chillemi should be there as part of a vacation excursion,
and Pete Brunelli is planning the "hit and run" version of the
Zappanale Experience. For
more Zappanale info: --------------------------- Thanks
for your patience. DOOT
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Hi
- having a good week so far? MORE
THE UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE SCORE DRAWINGS ON eBAY We´ve
just put up another four "Universe Will Provide" drawings on
eBay - please give them a look when you get a chance:
GUNGI And another TUWP drawing, along with an autographed "Universe Will Provide"/"Parallel Universe" CD set, has been put up for auction at the "Friends of Gungi" website, http://www.friendsofgungi.com. A word of explanation about Gungi, from the website: "Gordon "Gungi" Paterson is a legendary figure in the music industry, having been a highly respected engineer, tour and production manager. From his early days in the UK with acts such as Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, he was a mainstay of the 80's touring scene with bands like Megadeth, and continued through the 2000's with bands such as Live, System Of A Down, Tears For Fears and most recently Fiona Apple. Gungi's easily recognizable physical stature is only overshadowed by his immense heart, personality and positive attitude. Last summer, Gungi was diagnosed with cancer - A large lump was discovered in and around the lymph nodes in his neck." I
did a number of tours with Gungi when he was doing sound for Steve Vai. He´s
a truly lovely man and he could use your help with his medical expenses -
please check the auction and bid if you can. Otherwise:
here´s a link to a YouTube video from this year´s NAMM convention, of me
sitting in with the genius guitarist Greg Koch and his band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVf---9i8Ug SCHOOL
OF ROCK Things
are progressing rapidly with my San Diego chapter of the Paul Green School
of Rock, and we´ve begun pre-enrolling students. As always, if you have
questions or demands of me which relate to the School, you can write to me
at keneally@schoolofrock.com. I
just finished writing a 12-minute string quartet for Dutch group the Zapp
String Quartet. It was a bear to compose and I´m fully happy with it.
Little bits of melody from it haunt my head at unexpected moments of the
day, hopefully it will do the same for you if you manage to hear it. I
boldly predict that work on the "hat." and "Boil That Dust
Speck" DVDs will be completed this week. Thanks
everybody! Tell Sting and/or William Shatner I said hi, if you see them! Mike
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Klimperei has two new albums out: « Galipoche & Chipiron » (un disque hors-commerce) and « Love You ». 2007/04/28 Klimperei - concert 'libririe en marges', paris, france 2007/04/29 Klimperei - concert (looking for a location)
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2007 02 13 Fred says: Just reminding everybody the "Low Budget Acoustic Orchestra"
version of Bogus Pomp performs this Saturday night at The Garage Bar, 662
Central Avenue, St. Petersburg at 9:00. Admission is a bargain at $10! Also, BP bass guitarist Alex Pasut is now a member of the USF Student Symphony Orchestra and will be performing at the Palladium in St. Pete on Thursday, Feb 15th at 7:30. The program includes works by Schoenberg, Chausson and two American Composers , Rorem and Helps
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| Two new issues of the Czech Frank Zappa Fan Club have been
published:
zappostrophe no.102 - 2006 incl.
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Last December, Zjakki Willems invited Jimmy Carl Black, Steven de Bruyn and Jos Steen into the Marconi Studio of Radio One in Brussels. The recordings of this Black Brown Stone trio are broadcast every monday of february during Zjakki's "Cucamonga" radio show. The first two broadcasts sounded great. Can't wait for the rest of it.
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here's the Albert Marcoeur setlist for his 2004/10/14 concert in Paris:
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from the AFFZ newsgroup
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1169804280140120.xml&coll=2 Zappa died of prostate cancer in 1993, at age 52. Two years later, he was inducted into the Rock Hall. The local festivities in his honor culminate Friday, Feb. 16, and
Saturday, Feb. 17, with a pair of "The Importance of Being
Zappa" concerts by Red at the Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Ave.,
Cleveland.
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from the AFFZ newsgroup
Frank Zappa honoured by Rock Hall Several musicians including guitarist Adrian Belew and longtime Zappa sideman Ike Willis will help celebrate his legacy, which includes 60 albums-worth of material. Zappa's compositions spanned several genres including rock, jazz, classical and avante-garde, and he has been called the most prolific musician of his generation. The events kick off on February 13 with an evening featuring musicians and authors who worked with Zappa including Paul Zollo and Tomas Ulrich. On February 15, Grammy-nominated guitarist Belew, who has worked with Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, and Talking Heads in addition to Zappa, will pay tribute to the artist. Concluding the week's events, the Red orchestra will present a concert entitled 'The Importance of Being Zappa'. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Cleveland, Ohio. Many events are free and open to the public, but space must be reserved. For further information and to make reservations, visit Rockhall.com
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from the AFFZ newsgroup
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/arts/music/05zapp.html?ref=arts Frank Zappa was a kind of Rev. Howard Finster of music: an outsider artist eventually discovered and embraced by the establishment without ever losing his outsider cachet. A brilliant self-taught musician, Zappa needed to justify what he did as serious music at a time when rock was not seen as serious, and he produced a string of "classical" pieces that were taken up by European luminaries like Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Modern. The pieces are fiendishly difficult to execute, with lots of surface complexity to dazzle the ear, as was demonstrated at the composer portrait devoted to Zappa at the Miller Theater on Friday night, two weeks after another concert devoted to one of his idols, Edgard Varèse. The program had three parts. First came music for smaller chamber
ensembles, played by Zephyros Winds and a string quintet, including music
originally written for the Aspen Wind Quintet ("Times Beach II"
and "Times Beach III") and the Kronos Quartet ("None of the
Above"). Despite the program-note allegations that these pieces were equally just plain music, the sense that rock had to assume some kind of classical mantle to gain respect still lingered around the first two parts of the program, which felt like a dinner jacket pulled out of mothballs for a formal occasion, not least because the players seemed on their best, slightly subdued behavior. And while the music was filled with striking gestures - breathtakingly fast unison passages, moments when the supporting instruments held a note while a flute scampered off on a rapid phrase, plenty of adroit quotations echoing other composers - its complexities didn't weave together to make a coherent statement. Epitomizing this tendency was "The Perfect Stranger," Zappa's longest work for chamber ensemble, an illustrative piece about a door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman (opening with the doorbell's ring) that disintegrated into a pile of isolated individual moments. Like an ornate frieze adorning a simple one-room house, the decoration was more sophisticated than the architecture. But with the change of nomenclature and mood in the rock part of the show, a whole new feeling came into the auditorium, as if, formalities now concluded, everyone could kick off shoes and dance till dawn. Brian Coughlin, Fireworks' director and bass player, produced some hell-for-leather arrangements that the players, now relaxed and grooving, played the heck out of, down to show-stopping solos in "The Purple Lagoon/Approximate." Finally labels did indeed cease to matter: this was just music, and it sounded like music to keep.
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[Published on 2/7/2007] - from AFFZ
TIM BUCKLEY: MY FLEETING HOUSE The DVD has eleven full-length songs, and three partial performances. This DVD also features insightful interviews with Larry Beckett (co-writer of many songs with Buckley), Lee Underwood (Buckley's guitarist) and David Browne (author of "Dream Brother: The Lives of Jeff and Tim Buckley"). The footage spans his entire career, from 1967 to 1974, and includes unreleased video of interaction with Buckley on The Steve Allen Show (1969) and on WITF's The Show (1970). The footage is taken from various television programs from 1967 to 1974 right up to the time of his death in 1975. All but two of the musical clips are unreleased. As an additional oddity, the clip of Buckley being interviewed on The Steve Allen Show includes Jayne Meadows complimenting Buckley on his hair. Despite having produced nine studio albums, three live albums, and many "best of" compilations – My Fleeting House is the first-ever authorized collection of Buckley's visual performances. Several segments on this new collection have not been seen for over thirty years. MVD Visual has secured the best possible, first-generation video sources for the compilation, including footage from American, British, and Dutch television, and also a forgotten feature film. This DVD has the full approval of the Estate of Tim Buckley. Buckley was an experimental vocalist and performer who incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, and avant-garde rock in a short career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s. He often regarded his voice as an instrument, a talent most exploited on his albums Goodbye and Hello, Lorca, and Starsailor. He was the father of musician and singer Jeff Buckley, also known for his three-and-a-half octave voice, who died in 1997. Buckley released his debut album Tim Buckley on Elektra in 1966. A folk-rock album, it contained psychedelic melodies written with input from Beckett. He went on to release Goodbye and Hello (1967), Happy Sad (1969), Blue Afternoon (1969), Lorca (1970), Starsailor (1970), Greetings from L.A. (1972), Sefronia (1973), and Look at the Fool (1974). Born in Washington DC, Tim Buckley lived for 10 years in New York
before moving to southern California. During his childhood, he was a fan
of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, although
country music was his foremost passion. He left school at 18 with twenty
songs written with Larry Beckett under his belt — many of which later
featured on his debut album. Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black
introduced Buckley to Herb Cohen, and he quickly got him signed to Elektra
record company. He also met guitarist Lee Underwood around this time, who
became a big part of nearly all of On June 28, 1975 after returning from the last show of a tour in
Dallas, Buckley snorted heroin at a friend's house. Having diligently
controlled his habit while on the road, his tolerance was lowered, and the
combination of a small amount of drugs mixed with the amount of alcohol
he'd been consuming all day to celebrate the tour's end was too much. His
friend took him home thinking he was merely drunk. He was put to bed by
his friends, who told his wife that he'd also used Arranged in chronological order, My Fleeting House traces the evolution of Buckley's music, voice, songwriting, and backup bands. DVD extras include a 12-page booklet of unreleased Buckley photos, an
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originally posted in the Speakers Corner section of Zappateers and on the AFFZ newsgroup: Hey all, Soon you will be seeing (on eBay maybe, not sure how I'll do this) an
ad for a new FZ book called "Hungry Freaks, Daddy: The Recordings of
FRANK ZAPPA Vol. 1 1959-1969". This is a book I've recently finished
on FZ's recordings beginning with the earliest circulating stuff (Ronnie
Sings? etc) and ending with the 1969 Amougies tapes. The book is in two
parts: a full (though not overly obsessive) discography of the period
(think IINK and the Zappa Patio meets the Zappalog in a dark room
somewhere) followed by an analysis of the non-commercial (i.e. bootleg)
circulating recordings from the period. It's does Right now I'm just finalizing printing for the book (I'm publishing it myself). I hope you all will enjoy it--it's basically for collectors but I know if I saw it I would like it, sooo.... I am preparing a website for the book, but meanwhile you can see a few scans of the book in the Speakers Corner at Zappateers or by emailing me at moi1969@snet.net. Soon I will be compiling a list of people who are interested in
obtaining a copy of the book, as at the moment the only way of obtaining
it will be directly through me (as the publishers I've talked to wanted me
to make huge compromises to the book which would result in something other
than what I am intending). I will post here to update you all when the
book is ready (or nearly so) but if you have any questions or wish to be
informed directly about availability please email me at moi1969@snet.net.
Thanks guys!!
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Frank Zappa in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Tuesday, February 13, 7 p.m., Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - An evening with Paul Zollo and Tomas Ulrich., Zollo, an author and musician known for conducting an celebrated interview with the elusive Zappa, and Ulrich, a composer and cellist deeply influenced by Zappa, will discuss Zappa's life and interest in orchestral composition. Zollo is currently the Senior Editor of American Songwriter magazine, in addition to being the author of several books, including Songwriters On Songwriting, Expanded Edition, and Conversations with Tom Petty. Ulrich has written music for theater, film, and instrumental performance and has played concerts in Europe, Japan, South America, Canada, and throughout the United States. He can be heard on more than sixty CDs in a wide variety of musical styles and settings. This event is free with a reservation. Please email edu@rockhall.org to RSVP. If you do not have access to email, please call 216.515.8426.
Wednesday, February 14, 7 p.m., Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - An evening with Ike Willis and Project/Object . PROJECT/OBJECT formed in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the annual Frank Zappa birthday celebration that took place in guitarist Andre Cholmondeley's basement in New Jersey. As the event grew in size and popularity, PROJECT/OBJECT decided to take their show on the road, performing Zappa's music in more cities and in larger venues, with a growing set list from every era of Zappa's 30-year recording career. The band strives to stay true to Zappa's vision of constantly challenging musicians and their audiences. This event is free with a reservation. Please email edu@rockhall.org to RSVP. If you do not have access to email, please call 216.515.8426. Thursday, February 15, 7 p.m., Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - An evening with Adrian Belew. Highly regarded for his work with artists and bands including Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Nine Inch Nails and Paul Simon, Belew is considered the guitar player's guitarist. He is a five-time winner of Guitar Player's best guitar player award, has been inducted into the Guitar Player's Hall of Fame, has been honored by ASCAP and was nominated for a Grammy award. This event is free with a reservation. Please email edu@rockhall.org to RSVP. If you do not have access to email, please call 216.515.8426.
Friday, February 16, 8 p.m. and Saturday, February 17, 8 p.m. - Red {an orchestra} presents The Importance of Being Zappa at the Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Avenue. Red {an orchestra}'s mission is to develop diverse musical audiences through innovative programs, which connect music with other artistic disciplines to produce engaging and entertaining performances. Join Red in celebrating the classical side Frank Zappa. Ticket prices are $15, $35 and $65. To reserve your seat, visit www.redanorchestra.org or call 216.361.1733.
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the correct date for the Dresden Philharmonie concert is 24.3 (and not 27.3 as i stated earlier) !! (thanx ulli !!) |
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20070211 it's been a while, but i've been having trouble with the pc and with my up-and download limits. I should be over... see you tomorrow... |
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Carlos Zerpa is running this fabulous Zappa related blog. It's in Spanish, but even if you don't speak the language, you'll be able to enjoy it. Check it out at http://planetazappa.blogspot.com/ Just take a look at all the subjects that have been up over at the blog: Este BLOG agrupa a manera de ANTICATALOGO, fotografías, curiosidades, imágenes, gifs, pinturas, dibujos, collages, discos, textos, vivencias, reflexiones y comentarios sobre Zappa, que me han enviado como colaboración los hermanos Zappianos del mundo o que he conseguido en la red así como también escritos realizados por mi acerca del maestro. Los invito a que viajen con nosotros a este fascinante planeta del
maestro FRANK ZAPPA.
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Sul Divano
te invita a:
Ver el video del TV show,
con temas nuestros y de Frank Zappa.
Si todavía no los viste podes ingresar a:
SUL DIVANO sección
VIDEO
y disfrutar de ellos.
Y si ya los viste, y te gustó,
estaría bueno que difundas este mail
para que otras personas
también nos conozcan,
agradecemos tu cooperación.
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a message from Pojama People: __ |
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Broken Hearts are for Assholes 2nd Annual FZ Valentines Event Friday, Feb 16, 8pm King Brewing Co 895 Cesar E Chavez Ave Pontiac, MI 48340
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To celebrate the upcoming concert of Palinckx and / with the Asko Ensemble later this year, the dutch Concertzender radio station is doing a Palinckx special: 3 times 4 hours of Palinckx: live and out of print material of the Tilburg band. The first batch got broadcast on 2007/01/15:
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In 1995, Michael Hedges was a guest at the "Echoes From The Living Room" radio show. He performed some music and talked about his new album. The first piece that he performed was Zappa's 'Sofa no.1'. A great version. The broadcast can be downloaded from DimeADozen:
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December 19, 1994, The Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by David Robertson, performed a number of interesting pieces in concert. The concert got broadcast on French Radio a couple of months later. A recording of this FM broadcast got seeded on Dime (by Dabozo) a little while ago:
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The Central Srutinizer is a band from São Paulo, Brasil. The band plays the music of Frank Zappa. They have been around for quite a while, and were about to release a live album of a concert that they did with Ike Willis in 1997 !! Unforunately, that album has not seen the light of day (yet). But the good news is that the band is still performing, and that a fabulous audience recording of one of their recent concerts showed up on Dime. The Central Scrutinizer Band:
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In 2006, The Amsterdam Percussion Group, featuring Terry Bozzio, performed a number of concerts in The Netherlands (the one in Belgium got canceled). Bozzio performed Frank Zappa's 'The Black Page' during these concerts. I was able to catch the Tilburg concert, and it was incredible.
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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." Here's more details from DimeADozen, where you can download an audience recording (by punkjazz) of the show. I created an entry for the Zephyros Winds Ensemble as well.
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Zephyros Winds Ensemble
String Quintet
Chamber Orchestra
Fireworks Ensemble
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It looks like some of the magzine covers weren't visible. Here's another
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A couple of days ago, on 2007 01 31, the Fast 'n Bulbous concert from 2006/11/17 got broadcast on dutch radio Concertzender.
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from: John Trubee - 2007 02 03 Pompous Quotes For The Day By Pretentious Blowhards HellPope Huey
The funny thing about all these
Utopian systems of government is that they're always promising to make man
free --
"There comes a time
when silence is betrayal."
"Technology is a cocked
gun aimed backwards at its smugly ignorant, clownish bearers."
"Love is a word
universally misused to conceal less than noble motivations."
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Newton, Mass -- February 1, 2007 His soothing baritone is the voice of rock 'n roll Everyman "Joe" in Frank Zappa's 3-act opus, "Joe's Garage", and he's "Thing-Fish" incarnate. Ike Willis was Frank Zappa's lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for nearly 15 years. Today, he is arguably Zappa's spiritual successor, founding and coaching Zappa tribute/experience bands all over the world to fulfill Zappa's wish, "Play my music." Willis will appear with Zappa tribute band Project/Object at the 18th annual Zappanale (a Zappa festival) this summer in Germany. Thousands will see him on stage, but participants on Vacation Vibrations' "Farther Oblivion Tour 2007" will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an exclusive get-together with the man who continues to live and spread the Zappa gospel. "Ike was as close to Frank as one could be without being a blood relative," says tour operator Scott Tepper, "and we are thrilled that he has graciously offered to spend time with our group." Willis will share memories of times with Zappa and the band in the studio, on the road, and just one-on-one, and answer questions. The exact timing of the get-together will be announced closer to the tour date. Tour operator Tepper adds, "This is a phenomenal new addition to our trip -- the chance to meet a man who absorbed so much of Zappa's thinking and musicianship. When shake hands with Ike, you're shaking hands with the Maestro himself." "Farther Oblivion Tour 2007" is a 10-night vacation package to Berlin
(including the historic dedication of Frank-Zappa-strasse), Prague (where
Zappa is practically a patron saint), and the Zappanale festival.The tour is offered by Vacation Vibrations,
a division of American International Tour Groups, a group tour
operator with 15 years of experience specializing in customized group
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THE KENEALLIST: January 30 2007 Hey there -- I
hope you're not sick with varying cold symptoms, because I am, and I would like
it better if you were healthier than I am. It would just, I don't know,
make me feel better somehow. MORE THE UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE SCORE DRAWINGS ON eBAY Guess what,
lover? We just put another bunch of Universe Will Provide score
drawings on eBay. This batch is nifty. As the series progressed I
started drawing more mystical type stuff. One of the drawings (number 33)
is the original drawing of the guy who you can currently see lingering on the
left side of my profile page here on MySpace. This dude has a
significantly calming influence and makes lives better; now he can be in your
life, yo! (I used to say "yo" in fifth grade all the time and
never knew why. Now, Chris Opperman says "yo" all the time, and
this provides symmetry in my life.) GUITAR
ONE MAGAZINE featuring ME WESFEST 2 Bryan Beller When: Where: SCHOOL
OF ROCK UPDATE
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Check out Manuel de la Fuente Soler's blog for more info: http://mfuente.blogspot.com Or buy it at Hall Of Fame records: |
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Another "thanx" goes out to slime.oofytv.set for sending in three more magazine covers. The fz magazine section is starting to look like something. Just don't forget, if you have a mag that isn't pictured, send me a scan ! |
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Frank Zappa’s notorious home in Laurel Canyon goes up for sale after 30
years. Alice Cooper, Eric Burdon, John Mayall, Pamela Des Barres, and
members of the Mothers of Invention remember the days.
The Rock and Roll Treehouse by Jack Boulware It’s 1968, at the Laurel Canyon Country Store in the Hollywood hills. Drummer Ansley Dunbar meets a 15-year-old hippie chick named Pattie and asks if she wants to go to a party at Frank Zappa's house. They pull into a driveway of an old log cabin. People are wandering in and out of an enormous 70-foot living room. In the basement, musicians take turns bowling on a Day-Glo painted bowling alley. The adjoining guest house sports a duck pond and two trees growing out of the living room. Couples are huddled in artificial caves built into the hillside. Someone tells her the cabin was once the house of movie cowboy Tom Mix, and that Harry Houdini used to live across the street. Pattie looks around at the outrageously dressed girls, taking care of a baby named Moon Unit, and the cute young guys playing guitars, and realizes she’s inside the epicenter of the Laurel Canyon music scene. “Mick Jagger was there,” she now recalls. “A couple guys from the Animals. Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere and the Raiders. Alice Cooper. Janis Joplin. Roger McGuinn and Mike Clarke from the Byrds. Brian McLain and Arthur Lee, who were in Love. Another band in L.A. called the Seeds. Andy Summers. Sam Andrew was there, from Big Brother. John Mayall. Mick Taylor—he was the only one my age.” Pattie O’Neal pauses to think back. “The Cowsills, the prototype wholesome family? One or two of the older Cowsill guys were there,” she says. “They were really stoned, they looked terrible!” In the late 60s, this house was the premier stop of Los Angeles rock and roll. After 35 years, the log cabin is long gone, but amazingly, the treehouse is newly renovated and on the real estate market. For a cool $2.4 million someone can own a slightly fuzzy slice of history. As a caretaker gives me a tour, pointing out such erroneous information as the spot where gunfighter Wyatt Earp supposedly died, I am reminded of the Hollywood dance between fact and rumor. It isn't unusual for an address to have a rich lineage. Every third house seems to be once owned by somebody with screen credits, even if it was only the second unit director on “Land of the Pharoahs.” The Canyon is singular in this regard. Since the 1920s, the nouveau riche have scurried up into the hills to hide, from Bugsy Siegel to W.C. Fields, Robert Mitchum, Robert Heinlein, Harry Houdini, and current celebrities like Julian Lennon and Julianne Moore. It’s quiet, woodsy, and less than a mile from Sunset Boulevard. But 2401 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in particular has retained an unusual fondness. According to Tom Mix historian Boyd Magers, the log cabin was constructed back in 1915, as a masculine retreat for wealthy men to escape their women and smoke and drink in peace. Its highlight was an 80-foot living room, with floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace. Tom Mix lived here briefly, a fun-loving movie cowboy who for a time cashed Hollywood’s biggest checks. After Mix moved to Beverly Hills, the cabin was rented for several decades. As the 1960s washed over Los Angeles, the ripple of fuck-you new money began seeping into the canyon, young people with record contracts and reefer smirks. When architect Robert Byrd needed a place to live between marriages, his son Gary helped him build a small house just behind the Tom Mix log cabin, then vacant. Gary Byrd recalls when clearing the property, the father and son discovered “one of the Barrymore kids” living inside a shack. The following year, a communal family of weirdos moved into the cabin and treehouse, centered around two underground hipsters named Vito Paluekas and Carl Franzoni, organizers of freeform dance troupes at clubs along Sunset Strip. The dancers wore freaky clothing, and flopped and pogoed alongside bands like the Byrds and the Mothers of Invention. One night a young Pamela Des Barres followed the so-called “Zappa dancers” to a party at the Log Cabin. In those days, Franzoni was known as Captain Fuck. “He wanted to fuck everybody,” remembers Des Barres, now the elder spokeswoman of rock groupies. “He had this long tongue, and wore a cape with a big “F” on the back. He was standing in the doorway, with big pink curlers clamped in his pubic hair.” “We had dances there,” says Carl Franzoni, still chasing young girls in northern California. “We had lots of rehearsals.” He adds slyly, “It was a fuck scene, too.” In 1967 the Zappa dancers split their rent with staff from the hippie publication The Oracle. Retired journalist John Bilby recalls at least 36 people living and partying at the Log Cabin and treehouse, including the band Fraternity of Man. “Tim Leary was definitely there, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were there,” Bilby says. “The psychedelics that were being taken. They were fucking right out there on the grounds, a thousand miles from civilization.” In the spring of 1968, The Oracle moved out, and Frank Zappa moved in, fresh from an extended gig in New York. His bizarre, satirical synthesis of Spike Jones and Edgar Varese, combined with a guitar virtuosity and serious business acumen, attracted a parade of curious visitors like Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix. Among Zappa's many projects was producing the GTOs, a band made up of groupies hanging around the cabin. “We were sitting in the living room,” remembers Des Barres. “I remember Frank telling us ‘You should be a band. How would you girls like to be in a band?’ He sat us down in the basement. We made lists of the rock stars we wanted to meet, and wrote the album down there.” One house guest was John Mayall, who had just broken up the Bluesbreakers and was taking in the Los Angeles scene. The strange-looking GTO girls made a lasting impression. “Obviously flamboyant comes to mind,” Mayall chuckles. “Quite a shock to see for a person visiting from England.” Mayall recovered sufficiently to record songs both about Zappa’s cabin and the rigors of venereal disease. Between guests, Zappa held auditions for his Bizarre and Straight record labels. One band from Phoenix, Alice Cooper, had been turned down by every record company and was going nowhere in a hurry. Fortunately, Cooper was dating Zappa’s babysitter, and so Zappa agreed to hear Cooper’s band at the cabin at 7 o'clock. “We were so excited we got there at seven in the morning,” says Cooper. “We set up in the living room and started playing our set. Frank came down the stairs with a cup of coffee, and he goes, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ You said seven. ‘Seven at NIGHT.’ So he listened to about four songs and he’s, ‘Okay okay, you’re signed, I’ll sign you.’” A young guitarist named Bill Harkleroad, aka Zoot Horn Rollo, showed up to audition for Captain Beefheart, and saw members of the Stones, the Who, the Mothers, studio musicians and about 25 others all wandering about. “Within a few minutes I'm in a jam session with Frank, Don Vliet, Mick Jagger, Art Tripp,” says Harkleroad. “Frank and Don were my rock world heroes.” He was so nervous he could only play a few notes. Alice Cooper recalls another Jagger visit, when the Stone showed up inebriated with girlfriend Marianne Faithfull, and the straight-edge Zappa kicked them both out of the house. “I was sitting there, just a kid hanging out to record,” says Cooper. “And I went, ‘Frank Zappa just threw Mick Jagger out of his house—because he’s drunk.’ To me, thats so far in another universe that I couldnt even believe it.” One of Zappa’s canyon neighbors was Eric Burdon, whose first memory of the house concerns borrowing a motorcycle from Jimmy Carl Black of the Mothers of Invention. Black threw in a bonus: a few lines of speed. Burdon says, “I was so stoned that I was heading north on Pacific Coast Highway before I remembered you have to put gas in the machine, and I ran out of gas and was stranded. I spent the night on the beach, freezing cold. I got back and saw Jimmy and he said, “Good stuff?” The word was out: Laurel Canyon was where it was at. Groovy scenes blossomed at the homes of Joni Mitchell, the Byrds, the Monkees, Mama Cass. Passers-by gawked at the Log Cabin out of car windows. “It was omnipresent,” says former Mothers drummer Denny Bruce. “If you lived in the valley and came into Hollywood, you’re coming over Laurel Canyon, so every jerk from the valley—‘Heyyy mannn, there’s Frank Zappa’s pad.’” Tired of the attention, the Zappas moved out after just six months. Log Cabin parties continued with new tenants. But the canyon was experiencing a seismic shift in music and drugs du jour. Along with ‘70s blue-jean millionaires like Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles came an underbelly of junkies and squatters. The Cabin and treehouse scene grew creepy. “They were kind of rave parties,” recalls DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. “Weird black lights, stuff like that. People were stoned and out of it.” The darkness coalesced on Halloween morning 1981, when the Log Cabin mysteriously caught fire. Some said it started from a banjo player’s cigarette, other claimed it was a drug lab explosion. As helicopters hovered over the blaze, police roped off the property and a crowd watched it burn to the ground. Only the treehouse was saved. Some, like Pamela Des Barres, poked through the rubble. Others simply drove past, like Alice Cooper, not wanting to think about it. When music producer Bob Crosby rented the property in 1984, he discovered drums and drumsticks stuffed into the cabin’s still standing fireplace chimney. “Down in the basement, one of the walls had signatures from the Stones, Eric Burdon and the Animals, John Sebastian and the Loving Spoonful,” he says. Hundreds of people still dropped by each Halloween, expecting a raging party. Crosby said no parties, and raised his family. But he did rent out the grounds for video shoots by Rickie Lee Jones and Stone Temple Pilots. In 1999 the property was purchased by Mike Slarve, owner of a fleet of rock tour buses, and manager of Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward. Slarve has spent the past three years renovating the treehouse and grounds, and has seen dozens of characters wandering over to tell their stories. Between Captain Fuck, Harry Houdini, and the Manson Family, Slarve has heard just about everything. “You don’t know if they're completely insane or they’re telling the truth,” he says. “It kind of lights up everybody’s imagination.” Pattie O’Neal now lives a block from the treehouse, and drives by each day on her way home. “It’s so bizarre,” she says. “I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t turn there and think about it. It was the house that changed me from the cheerleader to the hippie.” (First published in Mojo magazine)
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Aki Takase & Alex Von Schlippenbach performed Frank Zappa's 'You Are What You Is' in Berlin, Germany, March 13, 1993. The piece was performed in a church on two full-size bechstein grand pianos. The concert was part of the "Jazz Gegen Rechts" festival and got broadcast on the radio. Part of the concert, including the Zappa composition, were released on album in 1995: "aki takase & alex von schlippenbach: piano duets - live in berlin 93/94" The radio broadcast got seeded on Dime recently: Farbe Bekennen: Jazz gegen Rechts (Jazz against Fascism)
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from DimeADozen: Frank Zappa Memorial Barbeque was a Frank Zappa tribute band put together by Mats & Morgan, the two guys that played on stage with Frank in Stockholm 1988 and also took part in Zappa's Universe in 1991. The group existed for a few shows between 1994 - 1996. Mats Öberg - Keyboards & Vocals 1994/07/08, the band performed at the " Skeppsholmen Jazz & Blues Festival". They played a shorter set than what they used to play in clubs at the time. Parts of this show was broadcasted on swedish radio but and audience recording of this concert exists as well and got seeded on DAD.
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A message from Kilissa: Wow... it's that time of year again!!! Saturday, February 3, 9 p.m. Bob Marley´s Birthday Celebration! Seventh annual, featuring local legends The Dreadbeats plus Neville Francis & the Riddim Posse Nietzsche´s 248 Allen Street, Buffalo 886-8539 ******************* www.kilissa.com ******************* www.voiceofcheez.com **************************
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Here's a bunch of new magazine covers. Thanks to slime.oofytv.set If you have any magazines that aren't pictured in the fz magazine section, send me a scan and a bit of info !!
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public news no.146 (1984/12/12, newspaper, houston, texas, usa)
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the dig (1995/08, magazine, japan)
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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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Fred says:
Despite what you may read in certian publications, the correct date of the concert is February 17!
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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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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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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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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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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:
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Muffin Men HQ are proud to announce the Neo-Retro
line-up for Spring 2007. 4 original core members of the band have reunited for a two week UK tour scheduled for the last two weeks of April 2007. Roddie will be joined by Rhino, Jumpy and Waco, joining them will be the newest, youngest Muffin of them all Mikey Smith, along with very special guest Jimmy Carl Black.
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How about
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FZ
Europe vacation tour and music festival July 27 - August 6! Each
summer for the past 18 years, Zappaphiles from all over have migrated to
the northern German town of Bad Doberan for the Zappanale, a festival
devoted to the music and conceptual continuity of FZ. Now your summer
vacation can be an absolutely Zappa experience. Our
good friends at Arf Society, the German non-profit group that organizes
the Zappanale, passed this along to us, and we thought we would share it. Vacation
Vibrations, a Boston-based tour operator, is pleased to announce Farther
Oblivion Tour 2007 a
tour package that will bring FZ fans to that great worldwide annual
gathering in Germany of Appliantologists and Dental Floss Tycoons. The
tour begins in Berlin on July 27, 2007. The group will tour the city, and
attend an extraordinary event, when "Street Number 13" will be
formally dedicated as "Frank-Zappa-Strasse", the first street in
the world named for FZ. The dedication will be followed by music for the
rest of the day, and a late "chill-party" that is sure to
exemplify Berlin's legendary nightlife. From
Berlin the tour will proceed to Prague. Prague is not only one of the most
beautiful cities in Europe, but FZ holds a special place in Czech history.
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel called Zappa "one of the gods of
the Czech underground" for his uncompromising belief in freedom of
thought and expression, and that spirit lives on. After
enjoying Prague, the tour will head to the northern German town of Bad
Doberan for the 18th annual Zappanale, a three-day festival of Zappa
tribute bands, former Zappa band members, and other musicians and
performance artists with kindred styles and interests from all over the
world. The Zappanale is designed as a complete Zappa experience, with the
atmosphere on the festival grounds every bit as important as what happens
on stage. The whole town gets into the fun, from the café waitstaff in
the town square to the mayor himself. Headlining
Zappanale 18 will be the Terry Bozzio Out Trio. (Terry Bozzio - need we
say more?) Other US groups will be the prodigies from Philadelphia's Paul
Green School Of Rock, the renowned Project/Object, and the Don Preston
Akashic Ensemble (Don Preston - one of the Mothers of all Mothers!) So
far, the line-up will also include French big band Le Bocal, Italy's
Orchestra Spaziale, Team Zappa from Norway, Zappatronix from Switzerland,
and three Danish bands- Octafish, Space Debris, and Trigon. The
tour group will be deposited back at the Berlin airport on August 6th,
totally plooked out of their brains from music, "cities and
beer", and lots of fun. Did you say you want some more-a? Tour
participants who want to continue their vacation after the Zappanale can
book an optional tour extension to Amsterdam, another awesome city with
legendary nightlife that is also devoted to independent thinking and
freedom of expression. Vacation
Vibrations is a division of American International Tour Groups, a group
tour operator with 15 years of experience specializing in customized group
trips. Whether you are an experienced traveler, or this will be your first
international trip, they'll make sure you have an absolutely amazing time.
For
more information, you can visit their web site:
www.freewebs.com/fartheroblivion . If you have any questions, you can
contact them at VacationVibrations@Gmail.com , or call 617-721-7996.
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** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** The Dresdner Philharmonie, conductor Roland Kluttig, will be performing orchestra pieces by Frank Zappa and Edgar Varèse on 2007/03/24 at the 'Alter Schlachthof' in Dresden, Germany. http://www.dresdnerphilharmonie.de/ * * newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash ** newsflash **
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24. 03. 2007 20:00 Uhr Alter
Schlachthof Dresdner
Philharmoniker anders - 3. Abend Zappa! Orchesterkompositionen
von Frank Zappa und Edgar Varèse Edgar
Varèse (1883-1965):
Frank
Zappa (1940-1993)
Dresdner
Philharmonie Er
ist das enfant terrible des Avantgarde-Rock: Frank Zappa. Weniger bekannt
ist: Er hat auch für Orchester komponiert. Sein großes Vorbild war Edgar
Varèse. Zappa war 15 Jahre jung, als er sich von seinen Eltern Geld zum
Geburtstag schenken ließ, damit er Varèse in New York anrufen konnte.
Varèse war erstaunt, dass ein Junge aus dem Mittleren Westen sich für
seine Musik interessierte, und Zappa wunderte es, dass sein großes
Vorbild ein Stück mit dem Titel "Desert" komponierte - eine Wüste,
in der er seinerzeit lebte. Der in Dresden ausgebildete Roland Kluttig hat sich in den letzten Jahren vor allem als Operndirigent und als Dirigent außergewöhnlicher Konzertprogramme mit verschiedenen deutschen Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchestern einen Namen gemacht. An der Stuttgarter Staatsoper war er bis 2004 als musikalischer Assistent von Lothar Zagrosek engagiert und leitete u. a. Schönbergs "Moses und Aron" sowie Morton Feldmans "Neither", die für ihn zum Triumph wurden. Beim Aldeburgh Festival 2005 dirigierte er die Uraufführung von Richard Ayres Oper "The cricket recovers". Seit 2004 ist er Principal Conductor beim Crested Butte Music Festival in den USA, wo er insbesondere mit moderierten Sinfoniekonzerten begeisterte. Immer wieder erkundet er mit speziellen Projekten die Werke von Komponisten wie Berlioz, Satie, Eisler oder Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
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UK
Zappa Festival Announced! The Zappateers are pleased to announce their 1st UK Zappa Festival to be held in Bradford-on-Avon on the weekend of 16th - 18th February 2007. The Festival is to be held at ‘The George’ Public House – a major local venue for live music. The weekend festival will feature at least 6 bands – already confirmed are the young and excitable ‘Monty and The Butchers’, Dutch coverband ‘The Foolz’, and Liverpudlian Zappa stalwarts ‘The Muffin Men’. Supplementing this line up will be a number of local bands. Festival Organiser Paul Barnard said “We have an excellent venue booked, with a committed Landlord, and have negotiated very attractive accommodation rates with local hostelries. We hope to announce weekend ticket prices very soon to include the option of hotels as part of the overall price. We hope that by including bed and breakfast as a part of the package we will attract Zappateers from all over the world, and encourage them all to experience some excellent music combined with some real West Country hospitality”. Co-organiser Benjamin Darling added “The Festival will be supporting the Marie Curie Cancer Charity, which is a regular beneficiary of The George Pub. As Zappa died prematurely of prostate cancer, we hope to be able to have a great festival and contribute to this worthy cause”. The Zappateers will be announcing ticket prices and booking details on their website early in December 2006. But fans need to be quick – with a venue limit of 75 the Zappateers expect the event to be a sell out. 2007/02/16 -18 concert "UK Zappa Festival", Bradford-on-Avon, UK
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