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the big nOte files - november 2007 |
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* * * Octafish has a new album ready: "Party Alarm" * * * |
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12 03 With an actual newsflash: tomorrow on dutch radio 6, a Frank Zappa special !! Co de Kloet does it again... and there's a picture of a new book on Zappa. Well, not really a new book as it's a translation of a book from 2004, but still, it's new... |
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frank zappa
by barry miles - Barry Miles' book from 2004, entitled "Frank Zappa" has been published in Italy.
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December 4, 2007, on Dutch Radio 6, Co de Kloet and Wim Brands will take a closer look at some of Zappa's stories: The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny (based on Kafka's "The Penal Colonly) Billy The Mountain The Adventures of Greggery Peccary A special version of Zappa’s “broadway-musical” THING-FISH. Co de Kloet will be talking to some of the musicians that participated to these projects: George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Howard Kaylan. Tuesday, december 4, 22.00 - 24.00 h on dutch radio 6 -- infol Gerard Wissink |
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12 02 quite a busy weekend over here at the UM headquarters. i bought a new pc table, which means that i had to get the old desk out, puzzle the new one into one piece, and move the whole lot. anyway, i did treat myself to a new screen as well, so things are looking rather new and flashy... in the meantime, it looks like the show that ZpZ played in Antwerp a couple of months ago is finally up on Dime. Grab it, but make sure that you buy their DVD first :-) (support the artists) |
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26 for starters, here's a couple of nice pictures for your optical enjoyment... |
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Zappa wrote the music for a Cousteau documentary entitled "Alaska
- Outrage At Valdez".
-- info & pictures: Hans-Peter Schmidt |
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| the vhs-video cover | the laserdisc cover |
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zappa participated in an episode of the "faerie tale theatre"
series entitled "the boy who left home to find out about the
shivers".
the episode got first aired on tv in 1984; -- info & pictures: Hans-Peter Schmidt |
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| the vhs video cover | the DVD cover |
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| info from Hans-Peter Schmidt:
German radio wdr2 asked their listeners for the best 200
longplayalbums of all time.
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| I created an entry for Eric Slick, so if you have any info that I can add, let me know. | |
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Napoleon Murphy Brock and Eric Slick at the Zappanale festival |
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The Soul Cryptographers is a funk band, featuring
The band has performed a fine version of Frank Zappa's 'Son Of Mr.Green Genes' on a couple of occasions. Examples can be found & listened to over at: http://dootcast.blogspot.com/ Pete Brunelli adds:
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-- info & picture: Nikolai Zaharov |
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More news: 2007/03/16, Les Polissons did a concert with Ike Willis at the Festival Cordes Sensibles in St Médard-en-Jalles, France. Video fragments of this concerts can be seen at the bands4 MySpace: www.myspace.com/lespolissonsjouentzappa And Les Polissons are looking for concerts. So if you know a club or venue that might book a band from France to play some Zappa, give them a call. |
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| Hans-Peter Schmidt continues his
"Zoot Allures" story:
The German cassette release on Discreet: 7 tracks listed, 9 tracks on the tape. |
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| Darn, I'm a day too late with
this. Hope you didn't miss it...
2007 11 19 [Chris
Opperman] Birthday Bash Tomorrow Night @ Room 5! It's
tomorrow night! All the
cool kids are going to be there...and don't you want to be a cool kid? Chris
Opperman Birthday Bash
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The Residents @ Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts! Coming next month! If you are in California, be sure to make it to San Francisco for the Dec. 6, 7 and 8 screenings of the Residents video retrospective. Each night is different, click on the banner to get more info. Ralph will be there selling various goodies each night, so stop by and say hi! Go
here for all the details: http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=4542 Sincerely, The
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Frogg
Café says: Hey
there! Hope
everyone's well! If any of
you Beltway proggers are in town, come check us out.
Orion is always a hazy crazy time. Happy
Turkey Day! Peace, Froggers FROGG
CAFE LIVE Saturday,
December 1
Info
from Mike Potter, the Baltimore Prog Pimp: DIRECTONS |
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| Fattore
Zeta, the jazz tribute to frank zappa band from Italy is still
alive and kicking. I added data for their discography & concerts.
Their next concert is at:
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New on WM Recordings: RioJafari & the Delicious Allstars Weird, funky hiphop from Germany, now available from
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In 1994, American underground
artist, musician and home taper, Russ Stedman compiled "Where's
My Waitress", a Frank Zappa tribute.
Russ informed me that the recordings have been remasterd and will be out on CD. With extra tracks !! More info soon. - |
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Think Of One is selected to give a showcase at Eurosonic 2008 in Groningen, The Netherlands. The band will be presenting their new album Camping Shaâbi which will be released in February 2008 by Crammed Discs (Belgian release: 29 oct 2007). The European showcase festival Eurosonic is part of the Noorderslag Weekend in Groningen. As 'Europe's Prime New Talent Event', Eurosonic takes place in more than 25 venues spread over the city centre of Groningen. The festival is supported by the European Broadcasting Union, a network of 26 European radio stations and a lot of European agents, record companies, booking offices, etc. Come check out Think Of One and their Moroccan guest musicians @ Eurosonic 2008 place
Plaza Danza
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2007 11 21 November Update The show on December 6 at Tonys Sports Bar in Sandy Springs, GA has been cancelled and waiting on a date to reschedule... We would like to welcome our newest team-mate; Layla Hall... 11/24/07 = 2 years with URR... FZ Birthday Tour with Ike Willis
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! www.uglyradiorebellion.com
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highlights from the Zappanale newsletter: Zappanale
#19 The date for Zappanale 19 has been set. Confirmed artists:
As usual, the event will kick off with a special event on 2008/08/14
in downtown Bad Doberan, AND, Tickets are 84 euro for the three-day festival. |
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Big
Electric Chat In
this edition:
2008
ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO U.S. TOUR Adrian
Belew, Julie Slick, & Eric Slick will be hitting the road once again
in early 2008.
For
links to venues, please visit www.adrianbelew.net and click on the
NewsBelew link. ADRIAN
BELEW POWER TRIO - SIDE FOUR LIVE - NOW AVAILABLE You
can now order your copy of the long awaited SIDE FOUR LIVE.
Side Four Live consists of live performances by Adrian, Julie,
and Eric from 2007's amazing performances by the Power Trio and is
Adrian's 1st LIVE solo release EVER.
Side Four Live is the perfect gift for that special Belew fan on
your gift list. Available
SIGNED by Adrian, Julie, and Eric for $22.00 or UNSIGNED for
$18.00. ADRIAN'S
ALWAYS POPULAR ELEPHANT BLOG Get
the latest happenings from StudioBelew at Adrian's blog.
News, anecdotes, and other interesting bits of information
straight from Adrian.
(http://elephant-blog.blogspot.com/) DUST
PARTICLES STILL ACCUMULATING AT STOREBELEW Every
week since February 2007, a new Dust particle has been released into the
air at StoreBelew.
If you missed the 2 Bowie particles, (Pretty Pink Rose, and
Gunman), you owe it to yourself to get caught up and have a listen. vol/no.
track
For
more on Adrian's Dust particles including links to blog entries,
StoreBelew, and sample clips for each particle, please visit the
NewsBelew link at www.adrianbelew.net.
Each Dust particle is $1.49, payable through Paypal. ADRIAN
TO RECORD WITH TRENT REZNOR AGAIN In
a recent blog from Adrian, he announced he will soon be recording with
Trent Reznor again.
They're scheduled to record the first week of December and if
previous collaborations are any indication, we're in for another great
record from Trent and Adrian.
(See Downward Spiral and The Fragile for past recordings) That's
it for now, folks.
As always, please visit www.adrianbelew.net for the newest news
and latest from Adrian's blog.
(http://elephant-blog.blogspot.com) Rob
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November 17, Markus Stauss' Trank Zappa Grappa In Varese? took the stage in Baarle Nassau.
Going to the
'Plusetage' in Baarle Nassau always is nice experience. It's a small
venue, though never crowded, and the atmosphere is great. Nothing but
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Trank Zappa Grappa in Varese? |
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The Zappa Plays Zappa show in Austin got filmed for a possible future DVD release !!
And rumour has it that several shows were recorded with an audio release in mind as wel. |
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-- info & picture: Nikolai Zaharov |
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| Thanks to Danny Mathys, the Sun Ra discography has been adjusted & completed. | |
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Check out Bazbo's picture diaries of the Dutch & Belgian ZpZ shows, and of the 2007/10/19 Foolz concert. Bazbo? The guy with the Rubber Chicken? The Rubber Chicken that played a synthesizer solo during the ZpZ Antwerp gig? YES !! so check it out: ZpZ: http://www.bazbo.net/wp/?cat=27 FoolZ: http://www.bazbo.net/wp/?cat=29 -
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2007 11 16 Fred Hemmer says: New Bogus Pomp show announced OK gang, time for a road trip! This ain't no redneck bar. This venue is a nice mini-theater that only seats about 300. New and classy! Muffin Man Productions Presents: "Bogus Pomp in concert" Saturday
December 15th 2007 Doors
open 8:00 PM $20
per person Marion Theatre Box Office (352) 622-1247 Ticket sale and info starting Monday 11/19/2007
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Two of the finest discoveries that I've made
the last year, were Rainer Tankred Pappon's solo albums. Not easy to get
hold of, but very worth your while. (try the Central Scrutinizer Band
website !)
Anyway, the Rainer Tankred Pappon band will be doing a concert next week, so if you happen to be in the area, check them out!
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In its latest newsletter, The Zappa Family
Trusts says that the Zappa Plays Zappa DVD is now available both on tour
and through Barko-Swill.
The Australia dates:
The big news, however, is that the Zappa Plays Zappa tour is going to Japan!!
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http://www.zappa.com/zpz/tourdates.html#japan2008
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2007 11 17 Sgt.
Leonard's Loopy Arts Dub Band Hello,
Glenn Leonard here. Recently I've been leading the Zappa repertoire band
Pojama People up and down the west coast. I am also performing as a solo
act under the name "Sgt. Leonard's Loopy Arts Dub Band." The
presentation features digital loops being set up before your very eyes
'n' ears on various hand drums, percussion and marimbas. It serves
equally well as ambience to any enviorment or a concert situation,
depending on how any given audience member may chose to perceive it. A demo can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k58rkCYXoY SLLADB
is a one-man multi-dimensional musical presentation which transcends
boundaries. Percussion loops are set up before your very eyeears to form
a virtual drum circle. Melodic lines are set up as well on
marimbas....and the journey begins. Seatbelts are optional but not
provided. Sgt.
Leonard's Loopy Arts Dub Band
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The Keneallist 2007 11 14 - part one A
message from Mike: Europe
recap, Dëthkløk tour, Tar Tapes downloads, discounts and more! I'm
leading with this: puhleeze don't see Bee Movie. By which I mean, you
have to f***ing promise me right now that you won't see it. I'm giving
you four seconds to say it out loud. Brendon
and I saw Bee Movie tonight based on a tragic and soon to be betrayed
feeling that Jerry Seinfeld's involvement was likely to ensure some sort
of reasonably quality entertainment offering. We were the only two
people in the theater, which allowed us the blessed freedom to comment
out loud to one another (the phrase "piece of sh*t" was used a
lot) as the mounting, brain-melting absurdity of the film's pacing,
plotting and characterizations turned into an unending, insulting,
surreally poor and awful and...oh, you know what, I shouldn't dwell on
this, it's not good for any of us. Please simply believe me when I say
that this movie doesn't love you, doesn't care about you, doesn't
deserve your patronage and precious money and just, please, my God,
don't see it. Apart from all that though, "it's a rollicking good
time at the theater!! Buzz, don't walk, to this movie right now -- bee
there or bee square!" -- Mike Keneally This
is me, typing on Beller's laptop, on tour with Dethklok on a day off in
Kansas City; we don't have a gig here, we're just stopped here on the
way to Carbondale, Illinois. Sitting in the back lounge of the bus a
little after 3:00 in the morning of Nov. 13, an hour before the bus
leaves for Carbondale. I thought I was going to go to sleep when I got
to the bus at 1:45 but I ended up watching rock videos on TV with the
rest of the band -- just saw an amazing version of "Eighteen"
where Alice Cooper can't remember the words, drinking from a nearly
empty bottle of whiskey. (Although just now I watched 30 seconds of a
Lita Ford video and I could feel my soul being sucked out of my ears.)
I've been on the road forever, was home one day in the last month, and
the city was on fire that day so, weird day, and I'm feeling a bit
homesick and road-tired, but having an amazingly great time on the road
with Dethklok (we played our best show of the tour last night in
Boulder, Colorado) and I'm feeling grateful for how well the projects
which have kept me away from home all this time have gone and are
continuing to go, and here's what I mean, man... It
all started with the Zappa music project in Budapest, which I guess was
a month ago but feels like a year and a half to me right now (tonight I
was trying to remember what the hotel I stayed at in Budapest looked
like, and I can't remember at all, and I was in that room for a week),
and which was a righteous blast for fifteen different reasons. Reason
one being the opportunity to once again make music with Ed Mann, after
19 years of not having done so. We used themes from "Revised
Music," "Marqueson's Chicken," "We Are Not
Alone," "What's New In Baltimore" and "Moggio"
and constructed an hour-long free-form duet fantasia around them, which
was exhilarating as hell. Ed hasn't done all that much live playing
lately and this set certainly whetted our appetite for doing more things
together. Later in the day we collaborated with the 25-piece Hungarian
ensemble the Modern Art Orchestra -- FANTASTIC group -- on some new
arrangements of Frank tunes which were constructed and conducted by the
shockingly capable (and quick!) Tom Trapp. I guess I was sort of
possessed by something at this gig because my pal and European booking
agent Pieter van Hoogdalem said he was almost frightened (in a good way
I think) by me during the performance. I was definitely having a good
time. Anyway, big friggin' thumbs up to everyone who made the Budapest
thing possible, including Janina Szomolányi, Kornel Fekete-Kovacs,
Scott Chatfield, Pieter van Hoogdalem, Tom Trapp, Ed Mann and Gail
Zappa. (And speaking of Tom, many thanks to him for transcribing and scoring my string quartet piece Gita Minor, of which I've just today heard a rough mix of a beautiful performance, soon to be released by the Zapp String Quartet from Holland. Absolutely wonderful recording and I'm thrilled that the first recording of my first string quartet makes me s | |
