ZAPPA SURF ALBUM * ZAPPA SURF ALBUM * ZAPPA SURF ALBUM * ZAPPA SURF ALBUM

The "Surf Instrumental cover versions of tunes by Frank Zappa" project

Alan Jenkins says: "Cordelia Records are currently inviting submissions for a various artists CD. If you would like to be on this album you have to record a tune written by Frank Zappa and it has to be a surf instrumental. Instrumental guitar music that isn't strictly surf music, such as the kind of thing The Ventures or The Shadows do, would also be perfectly acceptable. Other kinds of instrumentals might possibly be ok too, if in doubt drop us an email at cordelia@stayfree.co.uk. But surf instrumentals are best. If you play in an actual surf band and you record a Frank Zappa tune you're almost certainly welcome, at least at this early stage."

more info at: http://homepages.stayfree.co.uk/cordelia/Pages/Zappa%20Surf.htm

I know, I talked about this before, but now it looks like it is really taking place.

The following tracks will be / might be on the album:

• The Atomic Mosquitos - Let's make the water turn black

• The Bitch Boys - Memories of El Monte

• Breakfastime - Aybe Sea

• The Concaves - We Are Not Alone

• Corky Niedermayer - Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

• The Diamondheads - Any way the Wind Blows

• Estrume'n'tal - Letter from Jeepers

• Galactic Stretch & The Submersians - Trouble Every Day

• Michael Smith and his Flying Muskoxen - The Black Page #2

• Los Muertos Vivientes - Wowie Zowie

• Pavlov's Woody - Lumpy Gravy

• Pollo Del Mar - Peaches en Regalia

• Slacktone - Dirty Love

• The Spoilers - Theme from Lumpy Gravy

• Sr. Bikini - Jewish Princess

• Stadium Frank and the Motor Pokers - Orange County Lumber Truck

• The Test Tone Five - You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here

• The Thurston Lava Tube - Mr. Green Genes

• The Urban Surf Kings - I'm Not Satisfied

UNCLE MEAT * UNCLE MEAT * UNCLE MEAT * UNCLE MEAT * UNCLE MEAT * UNCLE MEAT

check out: www.unclemeat.com

• 'caroline hard-core ecstasy'
• 'tell me you love me'
• 'trouble every day'
• 'why does it hurt when I pee?'

A screaming guitar and heavy vocals. That's the way I like it.

THE FOOLZ * THE FOOLZ * THE FOOLZ * THE FOOLZ * THE FOOLZ * THE FOOLZ * THE FOOLZ

• the foolz: live in the cherrytree
      (2003, cd, nl, private release tfz0207)

The very fine first album by The Foolz.
Well, if you haven't decided yet if you're gonna buy their album, try their downloads for the taste of it. I have to be honest and tell you that I could only download four tracks, but these will convince you, because the album is even better.

check out: www.foolz.nl

• 'bamboozled by love'
• 'tell me you love me'
• 'zoot allures'
• 'alien orifice'

And then, after that, you can buy their album.

GUNNAR SPJUTH * GUNNAR SPJUTH * GUNNAR SPJUTH * GUNNAR SPJUTH * GUNNAR SPJUTH

• gunnar spjuth: the classical guitar reborn
      (1999, cd, sweden, db productions dbcd46)
  
  • For Biffy's sake, I won't tell you that this is something new. The album was published in 1999, so some might even call it old, but to me, it's new. I had never heard of it.
    Gunnar Spjuth plays the classical guitar. One of the tracks (the last one on the album) is Frank Zappa's 'Waltz for Guitar' from 1958 !!
    In the booklet, Gunnar Spjuth says: "Only eighteen years old, the well known American rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa wrote his little Waltz for Guitar. It's a short piece, written in twelve-tone, and later incorporated in the collage tune 'Brown Shoes Don't Make It' on the album "Absolutely Free" in 1967."

FRANK BLAKE * FRANK BLAKE * FRANK BLAKE * FRANK BLAKE * FRANK BLAKE

• various artists: shoeshine chartbusters
      (1997, cd, uk, shoeshine records shoecd001)
  
  • This album is a compilation. It presents the earliest singles that were issued on shoeshine records, plus some extras. One of these extras is Frank Blake performing 'Anyway The Wind Blows' (Frank Zappa).
    Frank Blake is duo: Norman Blake on vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards and percussion, plus Francis Macdonald on drums, vocals, keyboards, guitar and percussion.
    On recording 'Anyway The Wind Blows', Norman Blake says: "I hadn't heard any Frank Zappa and I was wondering what he sounded like. I thought his most musical thing would be his first thing so I got the first Mothers Of Invention LP. I started playing through it and 'Anyway The WInd Blows' was the really obvious pop song. I thought it was really good and would be fun to do. Again, it was all done pretty quickly and just sort of worked out on the spot because that's the way Frank Blake like to work."

ZAPPA'S DRUMMERS * ZAPPA'S DRUMMERS * ZAPPA'S DRUMMERS * ZAPPA'S DRUMMERS

• Issue 157 presented a special on Terry Bozzio
• Issue 158 presented a special on Chad Wackerman (and had a Bozzio track on the cd)
• Issue 159 presented a special on Vinnie Colaiuta and on Morgan Ågren.
• Issue 161 presented a special on Ralph Humphrey

I have only seen issues 158 and 161 and was impressed: a four-page article each (and fine interviews)

YARDBIRDS * YARDBIRDS * YARDBIRDS * YARDBIRDS * YARDBIRDS * YARDBIRDS

• yardbirds: birdland
      (2003, cd, usa, favored nations fn2280-2)
  

  • In 2003, original members Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty reformed the Yardbirds. They recorded an album on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label on which a bunch of guitar heroes contributed: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Slash, Brian May, former Yardbird Jeff Beck, ...
    The album presents some classic Yardbirds songs as well as new compositions. 

JOHN TRUBEE INTERVIEW - PART TWO * JOHN TRUBEE INTERVIEW - PART TWO

Here's part two:

At this stage of our email interview John decided he wanted to get the thing over with quickly
 (I wanna get stuff completed, vociferously obtain goals, and get on to other groovy stuff in life pleading for my attention--John Trubee)
...and then suggested 10 questions of his own that I should ask him about his life now and his present-day opinion on world events.
I reminded him that the original idea behind this feature was to explore the life of Trubee the adolescent misfit.  His response:

JOHN:  Rules, rules, rules.  Do you want to hear about an unexeptional childhood decades ago I can barely remember or do you want a fascinating and provocative read to present to SCRAM's readers?

BOB:  I always thought you were radically unusual back then, which in my mind is something exceptional (So what?--It never helped me get laid--JT).  I lived for those stuffed packages you'd regularly send me full of your cartoons and prank call cassettes and crap you'd pick off the street...although I could've done without the dried used condoms (THAT I PICKED UP OFF THE STREET!--JT) included in there.  What's so fascinating and provocative about how you are living now compared to 30 years ago?  I know you are freer, thanks to being long removed from the authoritarian thumb of your family situation.  But I know you've been living in an extremely cramped hovel for many years,
(I'm so very sorry that the real estate prices costs in Sonoma County are obscene; median house prices here are $445k--and when I am ever able to buy a house it must be on my own single income and without family help. ON PRINCIPLE I cannot allow myself to be like one of the myriad weaklings who surround me who cravenly depend on other people for the necessities of life. I MUST NEVER BE WEAK IN A WORLD WHICH FOREVER SEEKS TO KILL ME.--John Trubee)
 working shit jobs,
 (I greatly apologize that they didn't hire me for that CEO position at Enron and all those other spiffy, plush jobs people traditionally glom onto through padding their resumes and kissing the asses of influential friends of their parents and their college buddies in high places.
  I deeply apologize for not being a liar.
  I deeply apologize for not being a parasitic asskisser.
  I deeply apologize for blasting bloodily naked and alone
  through this world to carve out a modest piece for myself.
  Please forgive me, Bob.--JT)
and barely scraping up enough money to be able to get into a studio to create the music that's so important to you.

 (I apologize that the record labels refuse to sodomize me in exchange for recording budgets. I'm sorry I am too strong and proud to ever beg anyone for anything.--JT)

BOB:  Let's be a little conservative and say you have about 30 more years left to live, close to the same amount of time it's been since teenagedom. What will have to happen for you to be able to look back and say the life you lived was indeed exceptional?

JOHN: I don't look back; I don't bask, I don't gloat, I don't feel smug, I don't give a damn about things I've done in the past other than trying to garner royalties and license fees from my past works to help fund future projects. Please download my music and prank call albums at Emusic.com, dear readers!
Look at my past life and gloat in print over it? I'd sooner take a shit in public! So I'll gloat anyway:

I am very happy, though, I did get record contracts after lusting after them for years. Getting that deal for my first album was more significent than losing my virginity--and I thought about it more and worked harder on getting that record contract than I ever did to get laid.
EVERYONE EVENTUALLY gets laid but nobody ever made an album as obnoxious and fucked up as 'The Communists Are Coming To Kill Us!'
Not even idiot Kim Fowley has ever made such a fucked-up record!

I'm glad I put out my music my way without ever compromising with music biz cretins. I never had a manager or mentor or money people to whom I was answerable--so I never had to answer to anyone else's shit. To me that is success.

I live and have lived where I chose to live.

I am beholden to no one in onerous deals either in business or in my personal life. No one blackmails me, no one is clever enough to lure me into a shitty situation, and I am too aware and too Spartan and too ferocious in my temperament to be lured by the the empty toys and lucre and manipulative cutie pies who commonly con lesser men.

If you gave me a choice between a life devoid of music and a life devoid of sex I'd happily give up sex.
Music is the greatest high; women often disappoint me.

My dealings with women leave me so profoundly sad sometimes-- other times in grotesque internal agony when my emotions become unfortunately engaged to she whose indifference renders her unworthy of my meaningless suffering.

If you contrast all the shit and timewaste you crawl through to get laid (MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, IF SHE HAPPENS TO BE IN THE MOOD)---with the pure joy of making music on whatever level, without having to suffer the caprices of another human being to create the music---there is no comparison.

I'd happily become a monk for music any day.

Music is my only friend.

I'm trying to ween myself off of newspapers. I have required a daily print fix for years--even now when much of what I read concerns petty partisan political bickering, fanatics in the Middle East killing each other since I was a kid, polls exposing the depressing ignorance and stupidity of the American public, celebrity gossip detailing which famous mediocrity is comingling their genitals with another like mediocrity, meaningless data on where the market went today, pro athletes mouthing barely articulate inanities about how their stupid team is gonna do this season, and orgasmic reviews about new movies that make me cringe with disgust whenever I ever weaken enough to see one.

I often walk out of movies or shut off my VCR when I feel the movie is wasting time out of my life. I have big problems going into a video store to rent a video because I don't see the movies as something desirable. I see MOST movies as LIABILITIES. I look at all the videos on the shelves and think to myself "What here is worth wasting 2 hours out of my life for?" I hang onto to my 2 hours of life rather than the meaningless lifetime squandering on vapid "entertainment".

It's as if we are a culture of stunted babies needing to be entertained---pathetic, obese, retarded infants drooling before flashing screens of images which mean nothing. This is not how life ought to be lived. The timewaste of entertainment watching steals from us great potentialities we ought to develop within ourselves.

In a related vein I once told my niece Jillian that smart people read books and dumb people watch TV. My brother and his wife thereafter noticed that Jillian was constantly reading and eschewed TV watching. When they asked her why she said "Because of what Uncle Johnny said." Thank God I don't have children--I'm certain they'd be scarier than I am.

There is so much SHIT to to filter out in order to focus on my music.

It's bad enough the day job sucks so much time out of my life.

I must ALSO filter out the meaningless diversions normal guys crave--card games, socializing, TV, fixing the car, hanging out, movies, sports bullshit, family life, women--to have time to do the music projects which fascinate the hell out of me.

If I fuck around on guitar for an afternoon on my day off and FINALLY get a few melodic fragments and some rough harmonizations for a viable song that SOMEDAY MIGHT be recorded--then this is the price I'm glad to pay for that which I love.

This is why we pay songwriters, kids, and why the RIAA is going after those who do illegal Internet music downloads: because songwriters sacrifice TIME out of their lives in speculative, sacrificial days devoid of the comforts of normal life and pussy to create organized sounds which you might someday pay to hear if they can ever afford to get their works properly recorded and published. If they're lucky. Maybe.

If someone gets enjoyment out of the the music--damn right the songwriter wants to get paid for it! We gotta eat and pay rent, too, damnit!

It's difficult for normal people to understand this.

It's impossible to make them understand.

Either you're born with a passion for this madness or you aren't.

BOB:  I would ask that you leave us with a new Trubee poem-rant.

JOHN: Haven't I ranted enough?

Ok--here's a rough work in progress based on a dream I dreamt last year:

       In The Dreamscapes of My Slumber
       Copyright c 2003 John Trubee

       I be lost from this world
       You cannot torture me now
       I've descended into the realm of science fiction dreams

       Of incandescent skycraft swooshing overhead
       Over impoverished refugees frighteneded on the boats
       Escaping on the waters
       Escaping on the waters

        I have dreamt of teeny dancing creatures
        In tiny plastic bottles
        Shrieking for their freedom
        To a world that doesn't hear
        To a world that never hears

        I have dreamt of luscious naked women
        At country club orgies
        Who evaded me forever
        The most repulsive man
        In the entire universe

        And I have dreamt of cripples
        Severely wounded, crippled, retarded
        Only parts of human being propped up in wheelchairs
        Scarcely sustained in dark wards of hidden hospitals
        In the dreamscapes of my sleep...

ZAPPANALE * ZAPPANALE * ZAPPANALE * ZAPPANALE * ZAPPANALE * ZAPPANALE

Mick Zeuner says that the Zappanale cd is scheduled for november !!

It will be another 3cd set.

The Keneally tracks (highlight of the festival) look like this:

• Cowlogy 7:54
• 5 Legs 1:26
• Sleeping In A Jar/Time Is Money/Gas Station 6:15
• Yo Mama 10:42
  

Keep up the good work, Amaretto man !!

BOGUS POMP * BOGUS POMP * BOGUS POMP * BOGUS POMP * BOGUS POMP * BOGUS POMP

Bogus Pomp won two awards in The Weekly Planet's 2003 Best List. They were for:

• Best Local Band
• Best Concert (for their August 21 show as the Bogus Pomp Orchestra)

The following links will take you there.

http://www.weeklyplanet.com/current/best-people.html

http://www.weeklyplanet.com/current/pundit_music10.html

ZAPPAWEEN IX * ZAPPAWEEN IX * ZAPPAWEEN IX * ZAPPAWEEN IX * ZAPPAWEEN IX

-- more info real soon

MARK HARP * MARK HARP * MARK HARP * MARK HARP * MARK HARP * MARK HARP

Mark Harp resides in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He has been playing music since 1969 and has contributed to numerous LPs, EPs, singles and compilation tracsk.  He also recorded a couple of Frank Zappa compositions over the years. And also a Residents track.

• Recorded 'Magic Fingers' in 1979 on a cheap 2 track.
• Bought a home studio in 1988
• Recorded The Residents' 'Perfect Love' in 1989
• Recorded 'Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy' in 1995
• Recorded 'Peaches En Regalia' in 1997
• Recorded 'Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance' in 2003 as Corky Niedermayer with some help from The Diamondheads' drummer
• Recorded Any Way The Wind Blows in 2003 as a member of The Diamondheads.

Recordings of some of these tracks circulate. The latter two will be are appearing on the Zappa Surf compilation that I talked about earlier.

Mark Harp's personal file looks like this:

http://www.markharp.com

He currently plays bass for The Diamondheads http://www.thediamondheads.com
and 4 string guitar for the Motor Morons http://www.motormorons.com

OSSI DURI * OSSI DURI * OSSI DURI * OSSI DURI * OSSI DURI * OSSI DURI * OSSI DURI

"At the end of october, Ossi Duri (www.ossiduri.com) will release their new cd called "X", which stands for TEN; ten years ago (dec 4 1993) Frank has passed; ten years ago Ossi Duri started their live activity. This album features special guests Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Mike Keneally and other Italian famous rockstars like Elio and Rocco Tanica, and Claudio Bisio (a very popular actor)."

THE PRIME TIME SUBLIME COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA

www.primetimesublime.com

THE GRANDMOTHERS RE: INVENTED * THE GRANDMOTHERS RE: INVENTED

• 2003/10/05 The Grandmothers Re: Invented in concert at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Germany
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock
  • Roy Estrada
  • Bunk Gardner
  • Don Preston
  • Ken Rosser
  • Christopher Garcia
    with special guest:
  • Bobby Bradford on trumpet and cornet !!!!!

Last year, they called themselves the Grandmothers West. Earlier this year they performed and recorded an album as the Grandmothers, and now they're calling themselves: The Grandmothers Re: Invented

And Bobby Bradford as special guest. Playing Zappa. Wow.

The Grandmothers Re: Invented will also be touring europe next January. Check out http://thegrandmothers.com.

SHORT BITS * SHORT BITS * SHORT BITS * SHORT BITS * SHORT BITS * SHORT BITS

- Muffin Men / Ensemble 10:10 album scheduled for release (www.whenworldscollide.co.uk)
- Arthur Barrow is working on a new album, called "On Time"
- Patrick O'Hearn has a new album out: "Beautiful World"
- Mike Keneally featured as special guest at a Jethro Tull concert
-  a new Steve Vai guitar book (backing tracks played by Steve Vai)
- Jefferson Airplane reissued "Crown Of Creation", with 'Would You Like A Snack' (Zappa/Slick) as a bonus track;
- the latest Beefheart release is called "Dichotomy" and also includes Frank Zappa's 'I Was A Teenage Maltshop';
- and lots and lots more. Be sure to check it out: www.idiotbastard.supanet.com

And there's more:

- In 1999, Jamband Gov't Mule released Zappa's 'Pygmy Twylyte' on their "live...with a little help from our friends", a limited 4-cd box.
More recently, the band started (re)release (?) this box as seperate albums.  The Zappa track can also be found on "live...with a little help from our friends 2".

- Mark 'Rockette Morton' Boston's first solo album is called "Love Space".

- The Kills performed Captain Beefheart's 'Drop Out Boogie' at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium, 2003/08/29. Broadcast on belgian national radio, Studio Brussel.

The picture to the right is offered on the above website, to put on a t-shirt.

I don't know if it's a hoax, but I do think it's funny. Do should make a series out of it.

AFROSKULL * AFROSKULL * AFROSKULL * AFROSKULL * AFROSKULL * AFROSKULL

"JASON AND SETH IN DRUM MAGAZINE
Everyone knows Afroskull's drummers make a lot of noise, but now they're making noise among other drummers. Afroskull's drummer Jason Isaac and percussionist Seth Moutal and their four sentences of collected drum wisdom are featured in the latest issue of DRUM Magazine! It's DRUM's special jamband issue with profiles of about 90 different drummers, including Seth and Jason."

UPCOMING AFROSKULL GIGS
Thursday 10/9 - Parkside Lounge, New York City (opening for Clark Gayton)
Saturday 11/1 - The Electric Company, Utica NY

May the funk be with you!

*****************************
AFROSKULL
Monstrous Funk Music

www.afroskull.com

SUL DIVANO * SUL DIVANO * SUL DIVANO * SUL DIVANO * SUL DIVANO * SUL DIVANO

www.suldivano.com.ar

The band has one album out as well: "Sul Divano plays Frank Zappa".

info: Luc Reniers

the concert calendar * the concert calendar

• 2003/10/03 Whatchamacallit - concert 'gemeentelijke feestzaal', wetteren, belgium 
  
• 2003/10/05 The Grandmothers Re-Invented in concert at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Germany
  
• 2003/10/10 Project/Object concert ‘the conduit’, trenton, nj, usa  -  cancelled
  
• 2003/10/11 Project/Object concert ‘funk box’, baltimore, md, usa
  
• 2003/10/12 Project/Object concert ‘maxwells’, hoboken, nj, usa
  
• 2003/10/13, die Beistelltische - concert 'noergelbuff' in göttingen, germany
  
• 2003/10/14 Project/Object concert ‘iron horse’, northampton, ma, usa
  
• 2003/10/15 Project/Object concert ‘the met’, providence, ri, usa
  
• 2003/10/16 Doctor Dark &
                     Project/Object concert ‘higher ground’, winooski, vt, usa
  
• 2003/10/17 Project/Object concert ‘harper's ferry’, allston, ma, usa
  
• 2003/10/18 Project/Object concert ‘milestones’, rochester, ny, usa
• 2003/10/18 The Foolz - concert 'café de noot', hoogland, the netherlands
  
• 2003/10/20 Project/Object concert ‘club cafe’, pittsburg, pa, usa
  
• 2003/10/21 Project/Object concert ‘club cafe’, pittsburg, pa, usa
  
• 2003/10/22 Project/Object concert ‘beachland ballroom’, cleveland, oh, usa
  
• 2003/10/23 Project/Object concert ‘the patio nightclub’, indianapolis, in, usa
  
• 2003/10/24 Project/Object concert ‘martyrs’, chicago, il, usa
  
• 2003/10/25 Project/Object concert ‘martyrs’, chicago, il, usa
  
• 2003/10/27 Project/Object concert ‘quixote's’, denver, co, usa
  
• 2003/10/28 Project/Object concert ‘quixote's’, denver, co, usa
  
• 2003/10/31 Project/Object concert ‘the rainbow’, seattle, wa, usa
  
• 2003/11/01 Project/Object concert ‘the rainbow’, seattle, wa, usa
• 2003/11/01 The Voice Of Cheez - concert 'nietzsche's', buffalo, ny, usa
• 2003/11/01 "Zappaween IX" - festival, The State Theater, Florida
  
• 2003/11/02 Project/Object concert ‘w.o.w. hall’, eugene, or , usa
  
• 2003/11/03 Project/Object concert ‘crystal ballroom’ or lola's, portland, , usa
  
• 2003/11/05 Project/Object concert ‘slim's’, san francisco, ca, usa
• 2003/11/05 The Muffin Men & Ensemble 10:10 - concert 'the ocean', london, uk: "When Worlds Collide"
  
• 2003/11/06 Project/Object concert ‘the coach house’, san juan capistrano, ca, usa
• 2003/11/06 The Muffin Men & Ensemble 10:10 - concert 'guild hall', preston, uk: "When Worlds Collide"
  

• 2003/11/07 The Muffin Men - concert ‘spiders web‘, grimsby, uk

• 2003/11/07 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘circus crone’, münchen, germany
  
• 2003/11/08 Project/Object concert ‘moondoggie's’, las vegas, nv, usa
• 2003/11/08 The Muffin Men - concert ‘komedia‘, brighton, uk
• 2003/11/08 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘löwensaal’, nürnberg, germany  
  
• 2003/11/09 The Muffin Men - concert ‘south parade pier‘, southsea, uk
• 2003/11/09 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘steintorvariete’, halle, germany  
  
• 2003/11/10 Project/Object concert ‘linden's’, ft. collins, co, usa
• 2003/11/10 The Muffin Men - concert ‘bulls head‘, london, uk
• 2003/11/10 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/11 The Muffin Men - concert ‘thatched‘, stockport, uk
• 2003/11/11 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/12 Project/Object concert ‘cicero's’, university city, mo, usa
• 2003/11/12 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/13 Project/Object concert ‘the dame’, lexington, ky, usa
• 2003/11/13 The Muffin Men - concert ‘leopard‘, doncaster, uk
• 2003/11/13 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany
  
• 2003/11/14 Project/Object concert ‘visulite theatre’, charlotte, nc, usa
• 2003/11/14 The Muffin Men - concert ‘kite club‘, blackpool, uk
• 2003/11/14 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘alter schlachthof’, dresden, germany
  
• 2003/11/15 Project/Object concert ‘vinyl’, atlanta, ga, usa
• 2003/11/15 The Muffin Men - concert ‘la2‘, liverpool, uk
• 2003/11/15 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘millenium’, braunschweig, germany
  
• 2003/11/16 Project/Object concert ‘vinyl’, atlanta, ga, usa
• 2003/11/16 The Muffin Men - concert ‘zodiac‘, oxford, uk
• 2003/11/16 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘delphi’, hamburg, germany
  
• 2003/11/17 Project/Object concert ‘stella blue’, asheville, nc, usa
•  2003/11/17 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘delphi’, hamburg, germany
  
• 2003/11/18 Project/Object concert ‘alleycats’, richmond va, usa
• 2003/11/18 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘delphi’, hamburg, germany
  
• 2003/11/19 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘brückenforum’, bonn, germany
  
• 2003/11/20 Project/Object concert ‘blues club’, nyc b.b. king usa
• 2003/11/20 The Muffin Men - concert ‘speakers‘, delft, the netherlands
• 2003/11/20 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘stadthalle’, gersthofen, germany
  
• 2003/11/21 Project/Object concert ‘north star’, philadelphia, pa, usa
• 2003/11/21 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘congressforum’, frankenthal, germany
  
• 2003/11/22 Project/Object concert ‘north star’, philadelphia, pa usa
• 2003/11/22 The Muffin Men - concert ‘de tavenu‘, waalkwijk, the netherlands
• 2003/11/22 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘forum am schloßgarten’, ludwigsburg, germany
  
• 2003/11/23 Project/Object concert ‘stone pony’, asbury park, nj, usa
  
•  2003/11/24 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘hugenotten-halle’, neu-isenburg, germany
  
• 2003/11/25 The Muffin Men - concert ‘cobra‘, solingen, germany
  

• 2003/11/26 The Muffin Men - concert ‘spirit of 66‘, verviers, belgium
  

• 2003/11/27 The Muffin Men - concert ‘kantine‘, köln, germany
  

• 2003/11/28 The Muffin Men - concert ‘star club‘, mülheim, germany

• 2003/11/28 Psappha: "psappha plays zappa", Manchester, UK
  • "An evening of music by the world-renowned Frank Zappa performed by Psappha's 26-strong ensemble. The concert will include works from the Yellow Shark Album alongside arrangements new to the UK from the Frank Zappa estate."
    
• 2003/11/28 or 29 (have to check this) B'wana Dik and the Excentrifugal Forz!
  • at kaffee ''kraaij en balder ''; strijpse straat 79, eindhoven, the netherlands
    

• 2003/11/29 The Muffin Men - concert ‘kfz‘, marburg, germany
  

• 2003/11/30 The Muffin Men - concert ‘capitol‘, paderborn, germany
  

• 2003/12/01 The Muffin Men - concert ‘faust‘, hannover, germany
  

• 2003/12/02 The Muffin Men - concert ‘quasimodo‘, berlin, germany
  

• 2003/12/03 The Muffin Men - concert ‘object 5‘, halle, germany
  

• 2003/12/04 The Muffin Men - concert ‘bärenzwinger‘, dresden, germany

• 2003/12/04 Asko Ensemble "Proms in Paradiso", 'Paradiso', Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • incl. compositions by Corrie van Binsbergen and Frank Zappa
    

• 2003/12/05 The Muffin Men - concert ‘gewerkschaftshaus‘, erfurt, germany
  

• 2003/12/06 The Muffin Men - concert ‘??‘ obing, germany

• 2003/12/06 Asko Ensemble "Proms in Paradiso", 'Muziekcentrum', Enschede, The Netherlands
  • incl. compositions by Corrie van Binsbergen and Frank Zappa
    

• 2003/12/08 The Muffin Men - concert ‘collosaal‘, aschaffenburg, germany
  

• 2003/12/12 The Muffin Men - concert ‘??’, lorsch, germany
  

• 2003/12/13 The Muffin Men - concert ‘reithalle‘, offenburg, germany
  
• 2003/12/26 B'wana Dik and the Excentrifugal Forz!
  • at  'kaffee de groot', wilhelminaplein 6, eindhoven, the netherlands

the concert calendar * the concert calendar

• 2003/09/11 "Zappa Festival" in bordeaux, france
  • Les Polissons play Zappa (Bordeaux)
    La Campagnie des Musiques à Ouïr play Beefheart 
    Zappaventure (Eysines-Izon)  
    
• 2003/09/12 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘orpheum’, wien, austria  
  
• 2003/09/12 "Zappa Festival" in bordeaux, france
  • Children of Invention (Nice)
    Andy Emler (Paris) solo piano
    Nasal Retentive Orchestra (Poitiers) plays "Tales of Brave Flegmar", a theatrical piece based on Zappa’s oeuvre
    
• 2003/09/13 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘orpheum’, wien, austria
  
• 2003/09/13 "Zappa Festival" in bordeaux, france
  • Graphiose Band (Bordeaux)
    Gary Lucas (USA) plays Beefheart (co-production Musiques de Nuit Diffusion) solo guitar
    Zapping Buzzband (Suisse)
     
• 2003/09/19 The Residents – concert Gent, Belgium
  
• 2003/09/20 The Residents – concert Kulturefabrik, Krefeld, Germany
  
• 2003/09/21 The Residents – concert Tivoli, Utrecht, Netherlands
  
• 2003/09/23 The Residents – concert BAM Festival, Barcelona, Spain
  
• 2003/09/24 The Residents – concert BOA, Luzern, Switzerland
  
• 2003/09/25 The Residents – concert Szene, Viena, Austria
  
• 2003/09/26 The Residents – concert Akropolis, Prague, Czech Republic
  
• 2003/09/27 The Residents – concert Kolarac Theatre, Belgrad
  
• 2003/09/28 The Residents – concert Mylos, Thessaloniki, Greece
  
• 2003/09/28 Doctor Dark - concert at the 'bar', new haven, ct, usa, opening for the legendary John Sinclair.
  
• 2003/10/03 Whatchamacallit - concert 'gemeentelijke feestzaal', wetteren, belgium 
  
• 2003/10/05 The Grandmothers Re-Invented in concert at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Germany
  
• 2003/10/18 The Foolz - concert 'café de noot', hoogland, the netherlands
  
• 2003/11/01 The Voice Of Cheez - concert 'nietzsche's', buffalo, ny, usa
• 2003/11/01 "Zappaween IX" - festival, The State Theater, Florida
  
• 2003/11/05 The Muffin Men & Ensemble 10:10 - concert 'the ocean', london, uk: "When Worlds Collide"
  
• 2003/11/06 The Muffin Men & Ensemble 10:10 - concert 'guild hall', preston, uk: "When Worlds Collide"
  

• 2003/11/07 The Muffin Men - concert ‘spiders web‘, grimsby, uk
  

• 2003/11/07 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘circus crone’, münchen, germany
  
• 2003/11/08 The Muffin Men - concert ‘komedia‘, brighton, uk
• 2003/11/08 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘löwensaal’, nürnberg, germany  
  
• 2003/11/09 The Muffin Men - concert ‘south parade pier‘, southsea, uk
• 2003/11/09 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘steintorvariete’, halle, germany  
  
• 2003/11/10 The Muffin Men - concert ‘bulls head‘, london, uk
• 2003/11/10 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/11 The Muffin Men - concert ‘thatched‘, stockport, uk
• 2003/11/11 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/12 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/13 The Muffin Men - concert ‘leopard‘, doncaster, uk
• 2003/11/13 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘bka’, berlin, germany  
  
• 2003/11/14 The Muffin Men - concert ‘kite club‘, blackpool, uk
• 2003/11/14 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘alter schlachthof’, dresden, germany  
  
• 2003/11/15 The Muffin Men - concert ‘la2‘, liverpool, uk
• 2003/11/15 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘millenium’, braunschweig, germany  
  
• 2003/11/16 The Muffin Men - concert ‘zodiac‘, oxford, uk
• 2003/11/16 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘delphi’, hamburg, germany  
  
• 2003/11/17 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘delphi’, hamburg, germany  
  
• 2003/11/18 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘delphi’, hamburg, germany  
  
• 2003/11/19 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘brückenforum’, bonn, germany  
  
• 2003/11/20 The Muffin Men - concert ‘speakers‘, delft, the netherlands
• 2003/11/20 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘stadthalle’, gersthofen, germany  
  
• 2003/11/21 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘congressforum’, frankenthal, germany  
  
• 2003/11/22 The Muffin Men - concert ‘de tavenu‘, waalkwijk, the netherlands
• 2003/11/22 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘forum am schloßgarten’, ludwigsburg, germany  
  
• 2003/11/24 sex without nails: "joe's garage" performance ‘hugenotten-halle’, neu-isenburg, germany
  
• 2003/11/25 The Muffin Men - concert ‘cobra‘, solingen, germany
  

• 2003/11/26 The Muffin Men - concert ‘spirit of 66‘, verviers, belgium
  

• 2003/11/27 The Muffin Men - concert ‘kantine‘, köln, germany
  

• 2003/11/28 The Muffin Men - concert ‘star club‘, mülheim, germany

• 2003/11/28 psappha: "psappha plays zappa", Manchester, UK
  • "An evening of music by the world-renowned Frank Zappa performed by Psappha's 26-strong ensemble. The concert will include works from the Yellow Shark Album alongside arrangements new to the UK from the Frank Zappa estate."
    
• 2003/11/28 or 29 (have to check this) B'wana Dik and the Excentrifugal Forz!
  • at kaffee ''kraaij en balder ''; strijpse straat 79, eindhoven, the netherlands
    

• 2003/11/29 The Muffin Men - concert ‘kfz‘, marburg, germany
  

• 2003/11/30 The Muffin Men - concert ‘capitol‘, paderborn, germany
  

• 2003/12/01 The Muffin Men - concert ‘faust‘, hannover, germany
  

• 2003/12/02 The Muffin Men - concert ‘quasimodo‘, berlin, germany
  

• 2003/12/03 The Muffin Men - concert ‘object 5‘, halle, germany
  

• 2003/12/04 The Muffin Men - concert ‘bärenzwinger‘, dresden, germany

• 2003/12/04 Asko Ensemble "Proms in Paradiso", 'Paradiso', Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • incl. compositions by Corrie van Binsbergen and Frank Zappa
    

• 2003/12/05 The Muffin Men - concert ‘gewerkschaftshaus‘, erfurt, germany
  

• 2003/12/06 The Muffin Men - concert ‘??‘ obing, germany

• 2003/12/06 Asko Ensemble "Proms in Paradiso", 'Muziekcentrum', Enschede, The Netherlands
  • incl. compositions by Corrie van Binsbergen and Frank Zappa
    

• 2003/12/08 The Muffin Men - concert ‘collosaal‘, aschaffenburg, germany
  

• 2003/12/12 The Muffin Men - concert ‘??’, lorsch, germany
  

• 2003/12/13 The Muffin Men - concert ‘reithalle‘, offenburg, germany
  
• 2003/12/26 B'wana Dik and the Excentrifugal Forz!
  • at  'kaffee de groot', wilhelminaplein 6, eindhoven, the netherlands