Short bits:

* * * 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 * * *

* * * The Wrong Object will be releasing a live album on Voiceprint very soon: "Platform One"; scheduled release = April 2007  * * *
(info from Danny Mathys)

* * * new album by Corrie van Binsbergen: Het Wisselend Toonquintet: Dierenverhalen * * *

* * * Pierrejean Gaucher's excellent "Zappe Zappa" album is back in the stores * * *

* * *  New Jean-Luc Ponty album is due out. It's called "The Acatama Experience" and will be out on Koch records.

THE WRONG OBJECT - SETLIST

• 2006/10/27 The Wrong Object - concert 'L'An Vert', Liège, Belgium

  • line-up

    • Michel Delville: guitar, synth, voice, Damien Polard: bass, Laurent Delchambre: drums, percussions, Fred Delplancq: tenor sax, soprano sax, Jean-Paul Estiévenart: trumpet

    • special guests: Yves Dellicour: bass clarinet, soprano sax, Annie Whitehead: trombone, Harry Becket: flugelhorn, 

  • setlist

    • Sonic Riot at the Holy Palate, The Unbelievable Truth, Eat That Question / Honeypump at the Workplace, This Affects That, Tinseltown, Big Swifty, Filthy Habits, Scarlet Mine, Platform 1, Other People, Seven for Lee

-- info: Danny Mathys

FZ - THE CLASSIC INTERVIEWS

• frank zappa: the classic interviews
      (2004, cd, uk, chrome dreams cis2007)
  
  • includes interviews that Frank Zappa gave to Guitar Magazine journalist Stephen Rosen between 1978 and 1982

Charles Ulrich adds some extra info:

Track 1 (9:36) and Track 2 (9:17) are both from the interview that appeared in Guitar Player (1/77) 
http://home.online.no/~corneliu/gp77interview.htm.
This interview was reprinted in Best Of Guitar Player: A Definitive Tribute To Frank Zappa (1994).

Track 3 (25:20) and Track 4 (18:44) are both from an interview conducted in 1979. Joe's Garage had been recorded but not released, and FZ was planning to have his home studio constructed. I haven't been able to determine where (if anywhere) this interview was published.

Rosen's early 1980s interview (mentioned in the booklet but not heard on the disc) was published in Record Review (6/82). A German translation was published in Fachblatt Music Magazin (6/82)
http://www.afka.net/Articles/1982-06_FMM.htm.

STEVE VAI

tour dates below

WM RECORDINGS

New release available on WM Recordings now:

It's about irony and affliction and convenient miracles leading to a happy ending. Mainly a saxophone concert, it is based on classical traditions and experiments with jazz and less popular music.

Hanns Ahring/Jean Quist/Maren Schram - Die Fenster des Detlev Sierks [WM061]

www.wmrecordings.com

THE ONE O'CLOCK LAB BAND

Early 2007, Dawayne Bailey wrote:

I don't know if any collectors would be interested in this vinyl LP I have but it was released in 1968 - it's called LAB '68 and features the North Texas State University Lab Band (One O'Clock Lab Band) from Denton, TX.
There are some Zappa alumni on this album. The vinyl and cover are very clean and hardly played...if at all. On Century Records.

It's interesting to note that when Lou, Bruce, Sal and Tom were in this college band, The Mothers were recording and performing all those classics that they would play later with FZ.

• the one o'clock lab band: lab '68
      (1968, lp, usa, century records) - feat.sal marquez, tom malone, bruce fowler, lou marini

THE FRANK ZAPPA STRASSE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 2007 04 23

Berlin to Name Street for Frank Zappa  

Berlin, Germany - April 23, 2007 The city of Berlin will bestow a unique honor on a unique figure in modern music on July 28th when a street is renamed in memory of American rock and roll legend Frank Zappa. I n the Marzahn district of what was East Berlin, "Street Number 13" will be formally dedicated as "Frank-Zappa-strasse". The ceremony will take place at the ORWOhaus, a former photographic film plant on the street that is now home to a musicians' collective. It will be the first street in Germany named for a rock musician, and the first street in a world capital named for Frank Zappa.

The members of ORWOhaus themselves proposed the street naming. What motivated a group of young German musicians to honor an American musical icon? Andreas Otto, spokesperson for ORWOhaus, explains, "Frank Zappa was one of the best all-around musicians in the world, as a guitarist, composer, and band-leader. He was celebrated for his uncompromising pursuit of musical exploration and excellence, and also for his courage using his music and lyrics to make society see its faults and hypocrisies. He didn't do it just for media attention, it was part of his highly creative and unbending character. He stood up to his own government against politically-motivated censorship - he testified with great intelligence in the US Congress, and he refused to hold back his own outrageous sense of humor. We of ORWOhaus had our own battles trying to save an unused building and turn it into an active music center, and we decided that Zappa was a great example of how a musician can have an influence so far beyond the notes on a page. We hope Frank would be proud to have his name as an address for so many musicians."

Zappa's work had notable sociopolitical influence in Berlin, a city that had a physical wall between the philosophies of capitalist democracy and communist one-party government. US tour operator Scott Tepper is running a trip this summer that features the Berlin street naming and the 18th annual Zappanale, a festival in Bad Doberan, Germany, celebrating Zappa's music and life. He points out, "Frank Zappa was incredibly popular in the Soviet bloc, even though his recordings had to be smuggled in, and anyone caught listening to them risked punishment. Zappa represented absolute freedom of thought and expression, since he often satirized his own society and government. He inspired people all over Eastern Europe to keep hoping for their own free societies." Tepper adds that while some might credit Ronald Reagan with winning the Cold War, there are two statues honoring Frank Zappa in the former Soviet bloc: one in Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania, and one in Bad Doberan. Ther are currently no statues honoring Reagan. According to Tepper, the street naming in Berlin reinforces Zappa's status as a champion of real American freedom."  

The street dedication July 28th will be followed by free live music outside the ORWOhaus, and by an indoor reception later that evening. For scheduling and ticket information, contact ORWOhaus.

Scott A. Tepper
Tour Operator
Vacation Vibrations

THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER BAND

• 2007/05/03 The Central Scrutinizer - concert 'Café Piu-Piu', São Paulo, Brazil

ZAPPA IN THE PICTURE

Here's such a picture. The month was september 1984.

Thanks to slime.oofytv.set .

JEAN-MARC VAN TOL

Dutch comic book artist Jean-Marc van Tol drew a comic called "Yellow Snow". It has the lyrics of Zappa's "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" as the story-line.

The three-page comic initially got published in a magazine called Animo in June 2006. It can also be found in the "Nieuwe informatie over de dood van President Oswaldo (1977) en andere verhalen" collection.

The picture on the right is the cover of the "Nieuwe informatie..." book. Published by Catullus in 2007.

ZAPPOSTROPHE

The rest of Zappostrophe 105 is filled with the Society Pages Photo Special (= issue number 12 of SP), and a couple of articles on the Frank Zappa Quartet.

www.zappa.cz

ZAPPA AND ME

The project is called "Zappa And Me", and they're inviting everyone to make their own CD-package.

The invitation says:

...buy a CD cover and paint it on both sides as you want - painting, graphic art, collage, plasticine, clay - and whatever you want. Do not forget that your creation will be hung on the board and it should not be bigger then the CD box. 

send your creations before the end of May to the following address:

Bohumil Juza
Provaznikova 64
61300 Brno
Czech Republic

Below you can find some examples of what they received so far.

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY

• great googly moogly: the best demo you never heard in your life
      (2006, cdr-promo, sweden, private release)
  
  • Here's the first demo by Great Googly Moogly, a Swedish band that plays the music of Frank Zappa.
    • zomby woof
    • oh no
    • echidna's arf
    • florentine pogen
    • any kind of pain
  • I sure hope we will hear more from them.
    Very nice.
    
  • www.geatgooglymoogly.tk

THE ACCADEMIA AMIATA ENSEMBLE

• accademia amiata ensemble: strictly off limits
      (2006, cd, italy, forrest hill fhag 01)
  

  • The Accademia Amiata Ensemble was founded in the nineties in Tuscany, Italy. They have performed pieces by Messiaen, Bartok, Piazolla, and various others.
    Last year, the Accademia Amiata Ensemble released an album called "Strictly Off Limits" on which they performed works of Frank Zappa and Tommy Fortmann (Alexis Korner, Love Generation, Udo Lindenberg).
    
    Beautiful.

     

ODIN

• odin: swf session 1973
      (2007, cd, ger, long hair lhc56)
  
  • This SWF session by Odin got recorded in 1973. The band recorded a 10-minute version of Zappa's 'King Kong', as well as a very nice 'Oh No' (that lasts almost 7 minutes).
    It's incredible just how much Odin sounds like the Mothers of the late sixties, early seventies, the only difference being that Odin is a quartet.
    Great organ (Jeff Beer) and guitar (Rob Terstall).

ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA ON TOUR

• 2007/07/18 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Centennial Concert Hall’, Winnipeg, MB, usa

• 2007/07/19 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert "10,000 Lakes Fest", Detroit Lake, MN, usa

• 2007/07/20 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Civic Opera House’, Chicago, IL, usa

• 2007/07/21 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘The Rave’, Milwaukee, WI, usa

• 2007/07/22 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Egyptian Room’, Indianapolis, IN, usa

• 2007/07/24 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Moonlite Gardens’, Cincinnati, OH, usa

• 2007/07/25 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Warner Theatre’, Erie, PA, usa

• 2007/07/26 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘LC Pavilion’,  Columbus, OH, usa

• 2007/07/27 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Meadow Brook Festival’,  Detroit, MI, usa

• 2007/07/28 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Cain Park’, Cleveland, OH, usa

• 2007/07/30 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Hummingbird’,  Toronto, ON, canada

• 2007/07/31 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Metropolis’, Montreal, QC, canada

• 2007/08/01 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Albert Rousseau Hall’, Quebec City, QC, canada

• 2007/08/02 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Hampton Beach Casino’, Hampton Beach, NH, usa

• 2007/08/04 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Fleet Boston Pavilion’, Boston, MA, usa

• 2007/08/05 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Count Basie Theatre’, Red Bank, NJ, usa

• 2007/08/06 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Northfork Theater' @ "Westbury Music Fair", Westbury, NY, usa

• 2007/08/08 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Electric Factory’, Philadelphia, PA, usa

• 2007/08/09 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Rams Head’, Baltimore, MD, usa

• 2007/08/10 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Norva’, Norfolk, VA, usa

• 2007/08/11 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Thomas Wolfe Auditorium’, Asheville, NC, usa

• 2007/08/13 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Cains Ballroom’, Tulsa, OK, usa

• 2007/08/15 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Kiva Auditorium’, Albuquerque, NM, usa

• 2007/08/16 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Fox Theatre’, Tucson, AZ, usa

• 2007/08/17 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Dodge Theatre’, Tucson, AZ, usa

• 2007/08/18 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘House Of Blues’, Las Vegas, NV, usa

• 2007/08/20 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Berkeley Community Theatre’,  San Francisco, CA, usa

• 2007/08/21 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘House Of Blues’, San Diego, CA, usa

• 2007/08/22 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘House Of Blues’, Anaheim, CA, usa

• 2007/08/23 Zappa Plays Zappa – concert ‘Wiltern’, Los Angeles, CA, usa

ZAPPA IN THE MAGS

slime.oofytv.set did it again. He sent in a bunch of beautiful magazine covers with a short description. They have all been added to the Zappa / magazines entry.

Here they are:

• dimension
      (1972/04, magazine, mexico)
  

  • The april 1972 issue of Dimension included a one page article: "Frank Zappa y John Lennon viven juntos", plus a two page interview which is the spanish translation of the u.k. cream magazine from jan '72 [frank fappa: portrait of the artist as a businessman/ fz: el negotiante y 200 moteles], includes identicle photos & drawing as in cream.

• batteur
      (1994/02, magazine, france)
  

  • The february issue of Batteur included a 10 page article on Zappa & on all his drummers plus 8 pages of drum transcriptions, 1 song excerpt each: Tripp, Guerin, Dunbar, Humphrey, Thompson, Bozzio, Logeman and Wackerman.

• acustica
      (1982/07, magazine, mexico)
  
  • The july 1982 issue of Acustica included a one page article plus a one page interview.

• This oversized issue of Dimension, januari 1972, included a one page article "el degenerado del rock" on Zappa.

• el labertino
      (1997/01, magazin, mexico)
  

• The januari 1997 issue of El Labertino included a two page article: "Frank Zappa - Idolo de Matt Groening", plus small article on Steve Vai.

• dimension
      (1973/03, magazine, mexico)
  

  • The march 1973 issue of Dimension included a one page mini-biography & discography, plus a 1/2-page article: "Frank Zappa en un marathon violinistico on the 'stravinsky marathon'".

• australian guitar
      (2003/10, magazine, australia)
  
  • The october 2003 issue of the Australian Guitar mag included a 3 page article on Zappa.

• la mosca
      (2004, magazine, mexico)
  

  • Including a 5 page tribute: "Frank Zappa - Un Quijote Ausente (1940-1993)"

• mangiare musica
      (1994/06, magazine, ??)
  
  • The june 1994 issue of Mangiare Musica included 28 pages on zappa including interviews, commentary, discography etc.

• connecte
      (1982/06, magazine, mexico)
  
  • The june 1982 issue of Connecte included a four page article / interview with Frank Zappa.

BOGUS POMP 2007 04 27

2007 04 27

A Bogus Pomp message from Jerry

Sunday from 6pm until 9pm, the Bogus Pomp Low Budget Orchestra will perform at Skipper's in Tampa.  Tickets are $15, doors at 5pm.  You can come out and hear two sets of Zappa, have some great food and be home before 10pm.   This will be the full 11 piece BP Low Budget Orchestra.  If you come out,... I promise to beat the crap out of my guitar just for you!!!!!!    Come on,.... we won't keep you out late.  ;)

JerryO & BP

CHRIS OPPERMAN

[Chris Opperman Mailing List - 2007 04 26: live at the baked potato]  

Good morning, everyone!

Just writing to let you know that I will be performing Sunday night solo and with my band Special Opps!  The band's been working overtime to make sure everything is super-tight and a great and hilarious time will be had by all.  Hope to see you there!

An Evening with Chris Opperman and Special Opps
THE BAKED POTATO
THIS Sunday, April 29th - Starting at 9pm
3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Studio City, CA 91604
$10 cover

• Chris Opperman (keyboards/vocals)

• Alma Carlson (woodwinds/vocals)

• Chris Spilsbury (electric guitar)

• Daren Burns (electric bass)

• Craig Bunch (drums)

The solo set will consist of pieces from 2001's "Klavierstucke" album as well as one of the new works I composed for "The Trojan Women" performances in NYC earlier this month.

The full band set will consist of pieces from all of my albums, including "The Lionheart," which we are currently mixing.

Did I mention that it's going to ROCK?  ^_^

In music we trust,

Chris Opperman

BUFFALO ARRIVED

I'm listening to it right now. This is an essential Zappa disc in your collection.

• frank zappa: buffalo  (80)
      (2007, 2cd, usa, vaulternative records)

WARREN CUCCURULLO

• warren cuccurullo: the blue (4)
      (2001, cd, usa, a private parts recording)
  
  • I noticed that I had no info on Warren Cuccurullo's "The Blue" album, a project that he did with L.Shankar.
    This is not his latest album. I think that latest one is called "Trance-Formed" or somehting like that.
    Anyway, this is some sort of ambient album: sound-scapes, atmosphere, you get the picture.
    The nice thing about this disc, is that it has Shankar on vocals and on violin. Especially the violin makes it sound a bit more on the edge.
    For my taste, this is a bit too soft. I would have preferred a more experimental approach.

BITS & PIECES

Here they are: Cuccurullo, Corrie van Binsbergen, Arno, Chadbourne and more...

• warren cuccurullo: thanks to frank
      (1999, cd5”-pro, us, imago recording company ima-dj-23002) - zappa pictured on back-cover  

• corrie en de grote brokken: kado uit de hel (7)
      (2001, 2cd, nl, challenge records buzz zz 76019)

• warren cuccurullo: thanks to frank (3)
     (1999, cd, us, imago recording company 72787-23002-2)

• charles et les lulus: charles et les lulus
      (1991, cd, ger, virgin 261.722) - incl.'gimme that harp boy' (van vliet)

• various artists: guitar techniques, may 1999
      (1999, mag + cd, uk, future publishing)
      - incl.adrian clark: 'frank zappa soloing study' (a.clark); guthrie govan: peaches en regalia' (frank zappa)

• eugene chadbourne & camper van beethoven: camper van chadbourne - used record pile
      (2000, cd, usa, knitting factory) – incl. ‘zappa medley’ (fz)

• jean chaine: sunk in the sun
      (1995, cd, ger, atonal records acd 3020) - incl. 'ashtray heart' (van vliet)

• dino dimuro: train going nowhere
      (2000, cdr, usa, private release)

• dino dimuro: the simple chance of life
      (1995, cd, usa, dimurotapes dmt 520 - private release)

• added data for the Kerrie Biddell album "Only The Beginning", on which she covered Zappa's 'Peaches En Regalia';
• & the Václav Cesák page should be OK...

THE FRANK ZAPPA QUARTET

• frank zappa quartet: f.z.q. - live 2005
      (2006, cdr, cz, private release)
  
  • A little while ago, I received this demo by the Frank Zappa Quartet from a Czech friend. It captures the FZQ in concert in 2005.
    
    This is really good. The instrumental pieces and instrumental parts are very impressive, especially when you consider the fact that this is just a quartet!!
    In my humble opinion, the vocals are their weakest component. Not that it's out of tune, it's just obvious that english isn't their native tongue.
    I would have loved to hear them perform a couple of Zappa tunes in the Czech language !!

VOICE OF CHEEZ

2007 04 24

Frank Zappa Alert

 The fine folks at Voice of Cheez are at it again.... transparently transmitting, transmuting, transforming, translating, transposing and transmogrifying (oh, what a lovely word!!!)....the transonic music of Frank Zappa. It shall be transpiring, Friday, May 18, 2007. We hope you will transport yourself (and many friends) to a little ole bar we like to call Knee-cheez...248 Allen Street, Buffalo. 10 pm (our regrets to early birds).

See the lovely poster attached (a Dave Meinzer original!). Please spread the word(s).

• 2007/0518 the Voice Of Cheez - concert 'Nietsche's", Buffalo, NY, usa

THE GRAND WAZOO

Italian band, The Grand Wazoo, has a new website. It's over at myspace at:

http://www.myspace.com/legrandoiseau

THE BERNARD STRUBER JAZZTETT

• bernard struber jazztett: struber z'tett plays zappa - les noces de dada
      (2007, cd, fr, harmonia mundi / famfatal records)
  

  • In 2005 and 2006, the United Instruments of Lucillin ensemble and the Bernard Strüber Jazztett from Strasbourg performed a couple of all-Zappa concerts in Luxembourg. These concerts were called "Les Noces De Dada".
    Earlier this month, Harmonia Mundi / Le Chant Du Monde released a recordings of these concerts.
    "Struber Z'tett Plays Zappa", subtitled "Les Noces De Dada" is Bernard Struber's  Jazztett's sixth release.
    
    Struber has made a very fine selection of songs for this project: 'pound for a brown', 'little house i used to live in', 'g-spot tornado', 'the black page', 'dupree's paradise', 'waka jawaka', 'son of orange county' and 'zomby woof'.
    The arrangements sound very fresh, even playful, and give a lot of space to the participating musicians, resulting in a lot of interesting improvisions.
    

  • This is the third impressive disc coming out of France in about two months: Gaucher/Godin, Nasal Retentive Orchestra, and now there's the Struber Z'tett...

PIKANTIK

• pikantik: the moofka
      (2007, cdr-promo, poland, private release)
  
  • Pikantik has a new album out. It's called "The Moofka" and it features their new drummer Grzegorz Schneider. On their two previous albums, Pikantik performed the music of Frank Zappa. For the biggest part, "The Moofka" includes original compositions. There's Zappa's 'If Only She Woulda' (recorded at Zappanale), and there's a ripping version of the Allmann brothers' 'Whipping' Post', but all the other compositions are written by Michał Worgacz or by Michał Worgacz and Krzysztof Wojciechowski.
    
    "The Moofka" is a very guitar oriented album. This comes as no surprise, as Michał Worgacz is the writer (or the co-writer) of most of the tracks.
    Progressive rock, including a couple of very fine guitar solos (excellent solos, and a great guitar-tone as well).
    The first five tracks of this promotional album are in Polish, but the first two have been translated into English and make up tracks five and six. Nice touch.
    
  • I love it.
    http://pikantik.blog.onet.pl/

JAN HOET

Among many other things, Jan Hoet is the founder of the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Modern Art Museum SMAK) in Gent, Belgium.

Jan Hoet was the curator of Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, in 1992.

Jan wanted to bring Frank Zappa to Documenta and visited Zappa a couple times. Zappa's contribution to Documenta didn't happen because of Zappa's illness. Initially, Zappa wanted to participate with a piece performed by the Ensemble Modern.

"Lux XL", a belgian television show, had Jan Hoet as a guest on its 2007/03/30 show. Jan talked about his meeting with Zappa and even showed the present that he had received from FZ.

During a radio-interview to promote the "Lux XL" tv-show, Jan Hoet had already elaborated a bit on the project he wanted to do with Frank Zappa. This radio interview got broadcast on belgian radio one on 2007/03/16.

jan hoet

frank zappa's present for jan hoet

LOST IN THE GROOVES

Final Frank Words
(What Ever Happened To The Mothers Of Invention? by Frank Zappa (Hit Parader no. 48, April 1970, pages 23-24))

http://www.lostinthegrooves.com/gary48

THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER BAND

The Central Scrutinizer Band will be performing in the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo in a couple of weeks.

If you're in the neighbourhood, be sure to check it out !!

• 2007/05/06 The Central Scrutinizer Band - concert 'Theatro Municipal', São Paulo, Brazil

THE KENEALLIST 2007 04 20

THE KENEALLIST: April 20 2007: NEW GIG & REISSUES SHIP SOON!

MORE MADNESS WITH PLAYGROUND SLAP THIS SATURDAY!

Playground Slap featuring Mike Keneally
Saturday, April 21
10:00 PM
The Triple Crown Pub
3221 Adams Ave
San Diego CA 92116

• 2007/04/21 Playground Slap - concert 'The Triple Crown Pub', San Diego, Ca, usa  (feat.Mike Keneally)

Mike Keneally Band
(Mike Keneally, Rick Musallam, Bryan Beller & Joe Travers)
Friday, April 27, 2007
The Baked Potato
3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West
Studio City, CA 91604
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Shows: 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
Tickets $20
Info: 818-980-1615

• 2007/04/27 Mike Keneally Band - concert 'The Baked Potato', Studio City, Ca, usa

Mike Keneally Band
(Mike Keneally, Rick Musallam, Bryan Beller & Marco Minnemann)
With the Allan Holdsworth Band
(featuring Jimmy Johnson on bass and Chad Wackerman on drums)
Friday, June 29, 2007
Birch North Park Theatre
2891 University Avenue
San Diego, CA 92104-2929
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Showtime: 8:00 p.m.
Advance tickets: $20 & $25
Day-of-show tickets: $23 and $28
Info: 619-239-8836

• 2007/06/29 Mike Keneally Band - concert 'Birch North Park Theatre', San Diego, Ca, usa

Mike Keneally Band
(Mike Keneally, Rick Musallam, Bryan Beller & Joe Travers)
Friday, July 6, 2007
The Baked Potato
3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West
Studio City, CA 91604
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Shows: 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
Tickets $20
Info: 818-980-1615

• 2007/07/06 Mike Keneally Band - concert 'The Baked Potato', Studio City, Ca, usa

VPRO ZAPPA BLOG

VPRO is blogging about Zappa.

http://zappa.radio6.nl/

It's in Dutch, but there's lots of extra stuff (like paulb's picture-books), so check it out.

KISS MY VOLCANO

Now, the page is starting to look like it should : frank zappa: kiss my volcano  

thanks, Thomas.

MORE HUSKIES

the "where the huskies go" e-mail address that i mentioned was wrong. it has been corrected.
it is : michaelpl4@yahoo.de

WHERE THE HUSKIES GO

• frank zappa: where the huskies go
      (2007, cd, ??, twisted husky records)
  
  • I mentioned this album a little while ago, but as I have had to pleasure to listen to it, I'm able to give you some extra info:

  1984/11/08 concert 'spectacle a', quebec, canada
  f.zappa, r.white, i.willis, s.thunes, c.wackerman, r.martin, a.zavod

  1. black napkins
  2. bamboozled by love
  3. drowning witch
  4. ride my face to chicago
  5. goblin girl
  6. black page #2
  7. lucille has messed my mind up
  8. in france
  9. alien orifice
  10. the evil prince
  11. joe's garage
  12. why does it hurt when i pee?
  13. sharleena
  14. whipping post  

  This is an excellent show. You get 66 minutes of a band that's in fine shape, playing very tight, and with FZ playing some mean guitar.
  
  This is a factory pressed bootleg album, and it's a limited edition. If you're interested in obtaining a copy, you might want to contact michaelpl4@yahoo.de  .
  Stuff for collectors.

VPRO GIDS

• vpro gids 16
      (2007/04, mag, nl)
  
  • Issue number 16 of the dutch VPRO gids (radio & tv guide) has Frank Zappa on the cover. This, because of the "Zappa Week" on dutch VPRO television: VPRO will be broadcasting a number of specials on Frank Zappa.
    (see the below item)

ZAPPA WEEK ON HOLLANDDOC

ok, ok, the Scheffer documentaries will not be shown, as Gail didn't give her permission... but still, a great week for Zappa fans.

Saturday April 21 till Saturday April 28 2007

From Saturday April 21 until Saturday April 28 Holland Doc shines the spotlight on musical genius Frank Zappa. Besides unique film material Holland Doc will also broadcast radio documentaries on the composer and rock-artist Zappa on its website: www.hollandoc.nl/zappa.

The reason behind this tribute is the documentary Frank Zappa - A pioneer of the future of music part I & II, recently made by Dutch documentary filmmaker Frank Scheffer.

Along with part I of A pioneer of the future of music, Holland Doc will show the two famous documentaries Roelof Kiers made in 1971: Zappa and Frank Zappa films 200 Motels, and the documentary The Present-day Composer refuses to die, made by Frank Scheffer in 2000. For the real hardcore fans of Frank Zappa, Holland Doc will also present an episode of the pop program Wonderland, that hasn't been broadcasted since 1976. In this episode director Charles Leeuwenkamp follows two illustrious ex-band members of Zappa's "Mothers of Invention", Mark Volman en Howard Kaylan, alias Flo & Eddie during a sightseeing tour in Hollywood.

On the site www.hollanddoc.nl/zappa, Holland Doc will broadcast a Zappa concert that took place during the summer of 1970 which was aired in the classic VPRO show Piknik. On the website we also present the Supplement Tape, made by Co de Kloet in 1990 as a tribute to Zappa's fiftieth birthday and his four hour 'Freakoutshow', in which he interviews rock journalists and musicians who worked with Zappa.

Check out the promo on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozgUg1zeW4A

Visit for further information and an exact timetable our website: www.hollanddoc.nl/zappa. 

TODD GRUBBS & DON PRESTON

Former Zappa Keyboard Legend To Appear On Florida Guitar Slinger's New CD

2007/04/18 - Brandon, Florida - Virtuosic Florida guitarist Todd Grubbs, who has been prominently featured in national and international publications such as Guitar World, Guitar FPM and Guitar (Japan), is currently in the recording studio working on his fourth solo album titled Time, Space and the Electric. For these sessions, Grubbs has enlisted the aid of legendary Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention keyboardist Don Preston to lend a hand. Preston, who is best known for his work with Zappa, Carla Bley, The Residents, Grande Mothers, and John Carter, as well as a his own solo work, will be recording his signature keyboards on a track or two.

"I am a huge Don Preston fan," says Grubbs, "he was an important part of Zappa's band during the period I like the most. He brought a great jazz-fusion sound to the band. Don is a great soloist, of course, but also a very well rounded musician - I have a lot of respect for his talent."

Other musicians that appear on Grubb's new CD are Jeff Henry (Drums), Alan Tatum (Bass), Mark Prator, who has performed with Iced Earth and Sebastian Bach (Drums), Sean Malone from Cynic and Gordian Knot (Bass) and Patrick Bettison from Acoustic Alchemy (Bass). It is rumored that along with Don Preston, another music legend will grace the recordings of Todd Grubb's new CD. At this point that information is highly guarded but will be disclosed at a future date.

Todd Grubbs studied at Berklee College of Music and has been voted 'Most Outstanding Guitarist' at the Tampa Bay Music Awards, as well as winning the 'Most Outstanding Video' two consecutive years in a row. Along with Frank Zappa, Grubbs influences, which can be heard throughout Time, Space and the Electric, range from Steve Vai, John Coltrane, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Jeff Beck, Michael Schenker, Ulli Jon Roth and Adrian Belew. "The songs are going to be very thematic," Todd describes his new work, "with equal emphasis on composition and chops, stylistically ranging from heavy to ethereal."

The release date for Time, Space and the Electric is tentatively scheduled for January 1, 2008 - a date we can all look forward to! "I would like to thank everyone who has supported me in the past. My desire has always been to write and perform music and I am very blessed to be able to continue doing this."

For more information: 

www.toddgrubbs.com

www.myspace.com/toddgrubbs

CROSSFIRE PUBLICATIONS

Here's a bit of extra info on some of the scheduled Crossfire releases:

• Don Preston's "Vile Foamy Ectoplasm" will get a reissue. It will be quite different from the original album...

• The tracks that were on Don Preston's original "Vile Foamy Ectoplasm", but that will not be found on the reissue, will be released on a Grandmothers compilation album...

• Bunk Gardner will be releasing his first solo album..., and there will be at least another one.

• Jimmy Carl Black and Don Preston will a few more releases...

• Bob Harris' "The Great Nostalgia" will be out within the next few months...

• Candy Zappa and Nolan Porter will have their own CDs, and Nolan's first album (with the guys that became Little Feat) will get a CD reissue as well.

• And the biggest releases will be from Paul Buff's tapes...

For more information on all Crossfire books and CDs visit:
www.crossfirepublications.com

NECESSITY IS...

• "Necessity is... The Early Years Of Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention" the essential book that Billy James wrote on the Mothers, will be released in German later this year.
  
  The book got published in English in 2000, by SAF publishing in the UK, and if I'm not mistaken, an Italian translation has already seen the light of day as well...
  
  

MATS & MORGAN

2007 04

Gigs coming up!? ?

• "Rock In Opposition" festival in France, April 15 ca 16:30 h.
  More info here: http://www.rocktime.org/rio
  Lineup: Mats & Morgan,  with Gustaf Hielm on the Bass
  

• Jazzclub Fasching Stockholm April 27 ca. 20:00 h
  More info http://www.fasching.se
  Lineup: Mats & Morgan + possible guests.
  

• Maizet Jazz Festival Maizet (14) September 8
  Festival Tambours de fête Charleville Mézières (08) September 22

NEWS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC

no... don't have a clue...
i sure hope that someone can read this...

KLIMPEREI

2007 04

Hello, sorry if you got this message several times, I had lots of problems with my email software...

Two new Klimperei' Cds on Jardin au fou :
- Galipoche et Chipiron
- Love you

see  : http://www.jardinaufou.com/

Pour les parisiens :
Deux concerts gratuits à la librairie En Marge ( info ici : http://klimperei.free.fr/concert/index.html ) les 28 et 29 avril.

Pour les lyonnais : 
Concert à la librairie Grand-Guignol le 17 mai à 20 :30 (http://www.librairie-grandguignol.net ).

Pour les francophones :
Le livre Les Alfreds de Christophe Petchanatz 
(http://www.editionhuguet.com/livres/pagelivres/S3alfreds.html ) dont on dit ceci :

On n'entre pas chez Christophe Petchanatz comme dans un moulin : il faut franchir des portes, se frayer un chemin parmi des objets, des personnages presque fantomatiques, déchiffrer des apparences énigmatiques. Mais une fois qu'on y est, on risque fort d'y rester plus longtemps qu'on ne l'avait imaginé, et, peut-être, d'en sortir transformé. L'univers de cet auteur est à la fois terriblement quotidien, banal, spatialement dénoté, - c'est le nôtre, que nous reconnaissons à de menus détails familiers - et totalement onirique, - c'est un autre, un monde incertain, flou, où l'existence peine à s'affirmer, entre doute et oscillations. Les quarante récits courts présentés dans Les Alfreds ont en commun cette poésie du déplacement, qui ressasse, sur tous les registres de l'humour, du plus noir et grinçant au plus souriant, entre pesanteur et apesanteur, le vide des apparences. L'écriture, concise, rapide, têtue, entrecoupée de parenthèses, de tirets, de digressions qui bloquent l'élan de notre crédulité, fouille les profondeurs inexploitées de l'instant, excave, entre les couches résistantes de la réalité, trace des itinéraires labyrinthiques, décrypte, tout à coup, des bribes d'une autre distribution du réel, suggère la merveille qui aurait pu être, ressuscite les regards curieux de l'enfance. Ces textes faussement détachés, à l'ironie nerveuse, traquent les interstices par lesquels il devient possible de questionner la condition humaine, si gratuite, si absurde, si amusante aussi. On songe, en vrac, à Ponge, à Kafka, à Michaux. On continue à avancer, dans des paysages très vagues meublés d'objets très précis, au milieu d'animaux ou d'humains, de vivants ou de morts, de silences et de bruits : on est séduit.

Michèle Narvaez

Merci.