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the big nOte files - march 2007 |
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the big nOte files - march 2007 |
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updated March 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 25 &
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 * * * * * * 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 * * * * * * The Wrong Object will be releasing a live album on Voiceprint
very soon: "Platform One"; scheduled release = April 2007
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Pojama
People will be performing as the quiller kortet once again
and.....also.....but..... see
vintage footage on the big screen! April
20-22 and April 27-29 latenight presented
by as
always, spread the word!
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from the Klimperei newsletter: Lola
is a lucky baby girl : her dad, Christophe Petchanatz, composed these last
months a new album for her firstborn. Galipoche & Chipiron is the
perfect soundtrack to this fresh, starting life, drawing brand new
territories. This record is Klimperei's most illuminating ever!The only
way to get it is to become a member of the Jardin au Fou association for
the year 2007.Just send your contribution (16 € via Paypal) and you'll
receive Galipoche & Chipiron and a few more surprises, just write to
jardinaufou@homme-moderne.org ! --
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Here's the Corrie van Binsbergen concert calendar for the following months:
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Marco adds: the article is from December, Ahmet writes the script for a new Fraggles movie. http://www.muppetce
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2006/03/01, The Bridge performed Frank Zappa's 'I'm The Slime' in concert. concerts
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April 20 & 21, The Vlaams Radio Orkest will perform:
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The Holland Festival will feature three concerts with and around composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. For teh first, Boulez appears as conductor of Janácek's opera "From The House Of The Dead". In June, The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with Boulez conducting, performs works by Stravinsky, Bartók and Schönberg in the 'Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ'. The series in concluded with Boulez' seminal work 'Pli Selon Pli' performed by the Asko Ensemble and the Schönberg Ensemble with soprano Barbara Hannigan under Reinbert de Leeuw.
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I've been browsing the UM files through the internet lately. In search of
broken links and/or invisible pictures.
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Ahmet Zappa's book got released in Germany as a 4CD audio book:
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Hi
Ralph Friend: The latest Residents Obscure Instrumentals release, Best Left Unspoken Vol. 3 is now available for presale. We expect to be shipping by 1st week in April. This one features the extremely rare For Elsie, plus a few other unreleased pieces (track list on the site.) If
you haven't picked up the other 2 volumes you can pick them all up together
for one low price ($45 for all 3 volumes). Plus,
we just found some posters that we had fogotten about - you can get the
Commercial Album screening party poster or the Demons Dance Alone NYC poster
(both screenprinted and printed on high quality poster stock.) We look forward to seeing you over at the RalphStore! The
Ralph Gang
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The picture on the right shows Thomas Jung in action with Sheik
Yerbouti.
-- 2007/03/02 concert ‘Malzhaus’, Plauen, Germany -- Did he get a phone call from Gail as well? Is this Phase One of becoming an illegal band?
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DOOT!
invades Brass City Records Hididdleeho
Dootarinos! Thanks
to Walt Q, patron saint of the weirdest of the weird, DOOT! makes it's
now-annual stop at Brass City Records in Waterbury on March 31 at 7pm,
with extra-special guests Greylyng. Coming
off of their tribute to the music of Frank Zappa at 2006's Zappanale17 in
Bad Doberan Germany, DOOT! is currently sleazing their way through more of
a "space trio" format, representing
sounds evocative of trip hop, acid jazz, freebop, and electronica.
Don't worry, we still make a heck of a racket and our inadvertent tributes
to Last Exit have not gone the way of the DoDo.
As always, special
guests are a distinct possibility. !?whuddya
know?! We put together a new
compilation CD with some snippets from the past few months of seclusion,
some clips from last September's DOOT! quartet show at the Space in
Hamden, CT, and a few clips from the DOOT!trio making like a rock band at
Zappanale 17. Expect the
usual level of professional packaging and holographic security artwork...
meaning: none to be found. You
will be lucky if we get beyond Sharpie art and tyvek sleeves by the 31st. Joining
DOOT! will be ambient jazz trio Greylyng, straight outta New Haven,
featuring guitarist Jeff Cedrone, guitar; John C. Miller, synths; and
Steve Zieminski, drums,percussion. Greylyng
also has a new CD and we are sure that they will have some available.
Jeff and Steve are regulars with the New Haven Improvisors
Collective and they have other projects like this one. Come
on out, maybe BYOB, paw through Walt's extraterrestrial music and video
selection, help us wish March a farewell, and prepare for April Fools Day
in style. Venue: Date:
March 31, 2007 DOOT! website and e-presskit: http://chollyhoss.com/doot/ DOOT! MySpace: http://myspace.com/dootesgoot Greylyng website: http://www.greylyng.com/ Greylyng MySpace: http://myspace.com/greylyng/
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At least one issue of Dancin' Fool, a German Zappa fanzine, got published.
This one is from 1983 and I know nothing about it.
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THE
KENEALLIST: March 17 2007 Good
day to you. Erin go bragh! Way
more than a lot going on. I'll tell you about it! PLAYGROUND
SLAP (WITH MK GUESTING) March,
18 2007 at Casbah This
will be the first Playground Slap gig in something like 18 years. The Slap
were always my favorite local band in the 80's. Incredible creativity and
innovation and funk and atmosphere. Their prime dog Marcelo Radulovich
collab'd with me on "Wooden Smoke" and still strikes me as one
of the most uncanny and creative musicians I've ever encountered. I joined
them at their rehearsal yesterday and there will be steaming action at
this gig -- the band is hot. Come on over. Find
out more about the legendary Slap and their upcoming album (featuring Yorz
Trooley) at http://www.myspace.com/playgroundslap. INDEED,
MORE "UNIVERSE WILL PROVIDE" DRAWINGS ON eBAY Wow,
are you kidding? Another four
Universe Will Provide drawings up for auction on eBay?
Flippin' cool. Tell
all your relatives to buy them for you! PAUL
GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK in SAN DIEGO -- OPEN HOUSE As
you'll recall, I was named the National Music Director of the Paul Green
School of Rock in December, and am music director of the soon to be opened
San Diego chapter of the School of Rock. If you or your kid are between
the ages of 7 and 18, you're welcome to come and play for me next week and
let me assess how we can place you in the program. Since
we're still securing our school location (ENDLESS process. Can't believe
I'd ever be spending so much time dealing with real estate) we're happy to
be holding our open house at Signature Sound Studios, location of many
past Keneally recording sessions. This
event is by appointment only. Details, details!: on
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 and FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Meetings will be roughly 15 minutes each. If your child has an instrument, they should bring it, but we will have instruments on hand as well. Please
e-mail Lesley Cooper, the branch manager, at hazard76@gmail.com, and
include your phone number, you or your child's name and their instrument.
She'll call you back to confirm the time and date of your appointment. THE
TOMORROW SHOW on MARCH 31 I
did this before, and I'm doing it again -- my bud Brendon Small (of
"Home Movies" and "Metalocalypse" fame) has asked me
to appear at this midnight-mad cult comedy/music extravaganza. It's a mere
five bucks; that's one thin five-dollar bill. The
Tomorrow Show The
Steve Allen Theater SADHAPPY
ARTICLE IN GUITAR PLAYER Here's
a link to a nice piece about the Outerspaces CD which Evan Schiller,
Michael Manring and I made last year: http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?storycode=17088 OTHER
UPCOMING GIGS There's
a slew of upcoming shows in the offing, but none of them are quite fully
announceable at this point. There's going to be another Baked Potato gig
happening soon, hopefully a very cool gig in San Diego in late June, maybe
some additional West Coast stuff in early July (no promises yet), and one
thing which I know is happening on the east coast in June -- the first
Paul Green School of Rock Festival, which will be happening on June 23 and
24. I don't have the details of the location or ticket prices yet, but I
know that I'll be playing in a trio with Bryan Beller and Eric Slick, and
that we're on a bill with Adrian Belew, the Benevento/Russo Duo and Ween,
baby. You know you need to be there. More details at you when I get them. MARCO
MINNEMANN PROJECTS The
always amazing drummer Marco Minnemann has got a new DVD called "The
Marco Show," which features myself and Bryan Beller joining Marco on
several of his absurdly complex compositions. You can order it from
Marco's website at http://www.marcominnemann.com/shop_dvds.html. Also,
Marco has given me a copy of a 51-minute drum solo he recorded called
"Normalizer 2" and given me the assignment of writing and
recording music to go with it. He's also asked Alex Machacek, John
Czajkowsi from Hectic Watermelon, sound designer Mario Brinkman and
himself to write their own music to the same drum solo and will release
them all, possibly in a box set. An amazingly creative and fun project.
Obviously it's going to take a while to get it finished. I'm also taking
part in the new album by guitarist Phi Yaan-Zek, which features Marco
Minnemann and Bryan Beller -- they recorded the basic tracks this week at
Doubletime Studio with Jeff Forrest engineering. Small world! Learn more
about Phi and his music at http://www.myspace.com/phiyaanzek, and check
out his blog about hanging out with me and watching the Boil That Dust
Speck DVD and listening to the B-52s in my car. VAI
PIANO REDUCTIONS VOL.2 Finally
underway. We've settled on a list of songs for me to tackle and I've
started work on arranging "Love Secrets" for solo piano. Wicked. hat.
AND BOIL THAT DUST SPECK REISSUES/DVDs You'd
think that reissuing albums that were originally recorded over a decade
ago would be pretty easy, wouldn't you? Next time you've got a week to
spare engage me in discussion on that topic. But all the pieces are most
assuredly falling into place. And the project took an unexpected turn
which was really a delight for me: on the hat. DVD there's a function on
the main menu called "hat salad," which scrambles the elements
of the disc in a different order when it's engaged. We wanted to have some
kind of graphic element to accompany this function so I did 15 sequential
drawings depicting a bunch of stuff coming out of my hat, Scott Chatfield
loaded them into Final Cut Pro and tweaked and dissolved, and voila! My
first cartoon! I'm a pretty major animation buff so this was weirdly
exciting for me. It's only four seconds long but I love it. Brian
Brodeur, who's worked on our past DVDs and has also done superb work with
the Zappa family on their past and future DVD projects, has all our
elements for both disc programs and both DVD projects are in the final
phase prior to manufacturing. We've said it before and I'm saying it one
more time -- you have our gratitude for your patience during the long
process of getting these releases ready, especially those of you kind
enough to preorder. Those of you who've held off on pre-ordering until the
projects were closer to completion, they're now so close you can taste
them. See the handy, huge banner link below and ride it to nirvana. Is
that all? See
you soon-- MK
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Magazine style publication with various bound elements and inserts. Include archive material, personal facts and trivia, photo, visual notes, memorabilia, facsimile, etc. Issue One: Edition limited to 500 signed numbered copies. Pictures and description taken from the AuktionHaus Neustadt sale.
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Color-Xerox Graphic, signed by CAL SCHENKEL and dated (1981). Each piece
is unique, incorporating old and new artwork.
Size: 16 x 20 inches (40,5 x 51 cm) Picture and description taken from the AuktionHaus Neustadt sale.
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I added a bit of info to the Great Googly Moogly entry.
Furthermore, the band will do another concert in May, and will be at Zappanale !!
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-- thanks to you know who for the picture |
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The Palinckx concert on 2007/03/14 at the 'Muziekgebouw aan het IJ' in Amsterdam, NL, got broadcast on the Dutch Concertzender radio channel.
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The March 2007 issue of Mojo has a bonus CD compiled by Iggy Pop. It includes The Mothers Of Invention with 'Help, I'm A Rock'. -- info: Ive Hapers |
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The latest Sul Divano newsletter is a letter of protest where the band wants to react against the fact that there is no place left for non-commercial projects like Sul Divano in Argentina. The band says that the venues that accepted bands like Sul Divano are slowly disappearing. The musicians hope that not all of the clubs chose for the money, but that there will be some room left for the "art" as well.
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PROTESTA ARTISTICA vol.1 Somos
Sul DIVANO, un ensamble que desde hace mas de diez años se dedica al arte
en la Argentina. Debido a la crisis que vivimos quienes llevamos adelante iniciativas artísticas independientes, hoy nos encontramos sin posibilidades de tocar públicamente, ya que fueron desapareciendo los espacios que acogían a bandas que como la nuestra, requieren de un escenario para nueve músicos y una calidad mínima pero indispensable de acústica, sonido y seguridad. Por
el contrario, los bares, boliches y teatros que quedan y se ajustan a
estos requerimientos piden a cambio derechos de sala prohibitivos y
usureros o lo que es peor, exigen un precio por entrada alejado de la
realidad social y cultural actual. En nuestro caso, somos profesionales y algunos docentes, y si bien entendemos que todo es dinero para muchos, también pedimos que entiendan nuestras razones: NECESITAMOS,
QUEREMOS, PEDIMOS Y EXIGIMOS ESPACIOS PARA QUE BANDAS COMO SUL DIVANO NO
MUERAN A MANOS DE UNA SOCIEDAD QUE CADA VEZ DISTINGUE MENOS ENTRE EL DESEO
DE HACER ARTE Y LA AMBICION DE HACER PLATA. MUCHAS
GRACIAS...! SUL
DIVANO
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The following is the schedule for the Dalifest concert and is a deal at $7 per person. Bogus Pomp headlines and comes on at 6:30. DALÍFEST 25th ANNIVERSARY 2007 Salvador Dalí
Museum Saturday March 24 Performer Schedule (11:00 am - 8:00 pm) India meets Spain in this world fusion of Indian & Flamenco music led by Nandkishor Muley, the remarkable Grammy-award winning Maestro of the Santur (South Asian hammered dulcimer). Traveling from Germany for this event, Muley begins the performance accompanied by WMNF´s Eluv on tambura. It continues with a performance by the fiery Sarasota Flamenco trio Fuego Flamenco (Tahja, Juan de la Sierra and Jeff Lloyd), concluding with an Indo Flamenco fusion involving all participants. A magical event not to be missed! (75 minutes) Both whacked and sublime, a stew of world music, pop songs, and jazz fusion, all with a hint of insanity, from the mind of WMNF´s Rayzilla. Performers include Jim Beckwith, Alfredo Rivero, Matt Cowley and Jeremy Powell. Rayzilla´s set will feature his notorious Dalí homage, "I am Not Mad," and the eventual mega hit, "Bomb." (60 min) The Dalí Museum celebrates this special reunion of SHIM, the jazz freebop band that "brought mystery (and Mr. Ra) to Tampa Bay." Specialists in the avant groove, they pay homage to such diverse composers as Fela Kuti, Sun Ra and beyond. Come and hear why the Weekly Planet awarded Shim a "Best of the Bay" award three years in a row! (45 min) Legendary Grammy-nominated jazz musician, Rivers has been a part of the history of jazz, working with musicians from Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, to avant-garde figures like Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton. He has since gone on to forge a personal vocabulary and leads one of the outstanding jazz trios in the world. This will be the righteous event of the season. The Sam Rivers Trio performance is co-sponsored by the Emit Series of Experimental Music. (60 min) Intense powerhouse funk horn band featuring one of the hardest grooves found anywhere in the Tampa Bay area, brought to you by local impresario Ronnie Dee. (60 min.: 1:30 -
3:00) World-renowned Frank Zappa repertoire band formed in 1994 by Jerry Outlaw, Alex Pasut and Rick Olson. Musicians include an unlikely combination of educators, symphony players, jazzers, and rockers, all with a common interest in Zappa's music. After 12 years, they are the tightest band around, and they blew people´s minds at the 2006 Zappanale Festival in Germany. Come and have your mind blown as well! (90 min.)
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The next G3 tour will feature Joe Satriani, John Petrucci and Paul Gilbert !! That's right, no Steve Vai...
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At this very moment, the Zappanale band-list looks like this
Special
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Will there be a concert of the Central Scrutinizer Band, the first of
April??
Read the message below... It looks like Gail Zappa has told the band that they can't peform Frank Zappa's music anymore !! Or is this an April Fools joke? My portugese isn't good enough for these sort of things...
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2007 03 13 Ola, caros amigos da scrutinizer, Neste domingo não iremos tocar, excepcionalmente, pois a sra. Gail Zappa oficializou um documento que impede a Central Scrutinizer de tocar as musicas do tio Frank. Se ousarmos desobedecer esse mandado toda a banda podera ser processada... Depois de longas negociaçoes com ela mesma chegou-se(?) à conclusao
que a vida é assim mesmo. Entao, o nosso muito obrigado pela sua atençao neste momento. Futuros informes serao feitos. Atenciosamente Central Scrutinizer Band
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I have just put together a 3-CD compilation of the Dec 06 shows with
Ike Willis and am offering it for trade. It has at least one complete
version of every song performed and many improvs, guitar solos and
nuttiness. If interested, drop a line to gleonard9@earthlink.net
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We have another 'last minute' show this week... Thursday, 3/15, 9pm The Rusty Nail 35703 Groesbeck Clinton Twp, MI 48035 586-790-4311
John is playing at a Benefit in Ann Arbor that night so it will be Layla and Scott... FZ 2 pc... is that legal?!?!? I predict an interesting evening... more soon!!!! |
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Avaialble now: Speriot - Livingroom orbits [WM058] |
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from http://www.uglyradiorebellion.com/ : Ugly
Radio Rebellion was originally formed in July 2002, as a Detroit band
known as Uncle Meat. Guitarist Scott Schroen felt inspired
to start a project consisting of everyone and anyone capable of playing
the music of Frank Zappa, a definite challenge. An ad was placed in
the local paper simply stating, "musicians wanted to perform the
music of Frank Zappa", and so ensued a few weekends of what was later
dubbed, "Zappa Survivor". Groups of musicians would essentially
drill selected pieces during rehearsal, and later everyone would vote on
who they think should stay for the next round. After a few no-shows, a few
driven to quit by musical intimidation and a collection of other
circumstances, the few that were left from the 'survivor' sessions
ultimately became the lineup for Uncle Meat. The project performed FZ
around the greater Detroit area until the last show on Frank's birthday,
December of 2003. After a few personnel adjustments, Uncle Meat was
disbanded and Scott Schroen and Bassist Preston Parish
reformed the project as... Ugly Radio Rebellion. Currently
the band consists of Scott Schroen on guitar and vocals, a Berklee
College of Music alumni, Uncle Meat veteran, Detroit session artist and
instructor. John Garland on bass, keys and vocals, currently
enrolled in the WSU jazz studies program, local session artist and
instructor. Layla Hall on drums, vocals, bells and percussion,
extensive scholastic band experience, EMU alumni and Detroit Music Award
nominee for Outstanding Acoustic Instrumentalist... The Ugly Radio Rebellion website has 5 tracks from their recent 2007/03/01 gig at the Bullfrog Bar and Grill available for download. Check it out.
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UGLY RADIO REBELLION Scott
Schroen: guitar and vocals
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| Here's another magazine that has uncle Frank on the cover: Record Review, the June 1978 issue. |
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Here's the Ray Collins interview from the Splat's original website: (thank you, Charles, for having me searching for this. it's a great interview)
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2007 03 11 THIS!
is a message from the invisible trolls of the ceiling Interview
petchanatz / klimperei (in French) : The
Klimperei / Don Simón y Telefunken / H de Casa collaboration is finished.
I must admit it is a really great opus... We just (!!!) have to make
mastering, cover design & informations... and find label(s)... anyway,
the work is really, really beautiful... Just wait for more informations
later... Quelques
images (pictures) non publiées pour le soutien à Placid (cf. http://touscochons.blogspot.com/) Le
CD Klimperei / Palo Alto Avec le soutien moral et cordial de S. Morlighem et de l'Homme-Moderne, un autre concert, avec une configutaion sensiblement différente, pourrait avoir lieu en mai à Lyon, on en reparlera... On
vous rappelle (lyonnais et proximaux) la signature des Alfreds de C.
Petchanatz
(http://www.zazieweb.fr/site/reagir.php?num=82299&readonly=true) à la
librairie des Nouveautés, place Bellecour, mercredi 14 vers 18 heures...
(vin blanc à volonté) Un truc à ouïr ici : http://horacio.oliveira.free.fr/podcastpierremenard160207.mp3 Ça aussi : http://nomad.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/03/06/playlist-du-5-mars-2007.html Heu...
je crois que c'est that's all folks... http://klimperei.blogspot.com/
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Bogus Pomp news Remember,
our dedicated lovers of Frank's music will perform at 6:30 at the Dali
Museum in St. Petersburg on March 24. The music is free and for $7 you can
get into the museum which deserves all of our support. And
on Sunday April 29 Bogus Pomp will be at Skippers in Tampa with an early
show time of 6:00 or so. I will send confirming details later. The
BIG news is a show scheduled for August that
will be a small, invitation only, concert. And, yes, as a recipient of
this e-mail, you will be invited! As soon as the details are confirmed I
will let you know. There will be room for 175 people and we will offer
seats on a reservation basis. -- Fred
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CUNEIFORM
RECORDS NEWS FLASH: EVENTS
IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE FEATURING ITS ARTISTS... IN
EUROPE: The
RIO (Rock in Opposition) FESTIVAL, in LE GARRIC, FRANCE (April 13-15,
2007) & IN
NORTH AMERICA: & WORLDWIDE:
CONCERTS BY WE
ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING MOMENTOUS FESTIVAL! ROCK
IN OPPOSITION - FRANCE - 2007 www.rocktime.org/rio "ROCK
HAS TO BE INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE, SHOCKING AND IN OPPOSITION..." WHAT
IS ROCK IN OPPOSITION? (from Wikipedia) | |
