[Slump Tester]

...Also in Zappa news, today marks the release of a previously unheard concert from Philadelphia in 1976 on two CDs.

Zappa aficionados (with winrar) will find THIS of interest!

[Slump Tester]

Ping!

[jessduntno]

“Last week the city’s public art commission also announced that a bronze statue of Zappa would be erected outside of a public library sometime next year...”

Zappa would have been VERY happy to know about this monumental erection...

[DBrow]

He should be sitting on a divan, holding peaches.

[Army Air Corps]

Shall we breed dwarves in celebration?

[mylife]

Roxy and Elsewhere~ Son Of Orange County

[Nachum]

I shall now crank up my copies of “I’m the Slime”, “Peaches in Regalia”, and “Joe’s Garage” in salute”.

[Eddie01]

Hey, what’s new in Baltimore?

[dynachrome]

I had the privilege of hearing Zappa live only once in the early 70s. He stepped out and showed what it meant to play guitar. “shut up and play your guitar”

[Vaquero]

Now believe me when I tell you that my song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It’s about some little people from a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors didn’t know
Early in the morning Daddy Dinky went to work
Selling lamps & chairs to San Ber’dino squares
And I still remember Mama with her apron & her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed’s Cafe!

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day . . .
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY’S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room
(A marvel to be seen: dysentery green)
While Kenny & his buddies had a game out in the back:
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK

We see them after school in a world of their own
(To some it might seem creepy what they do . . . )
The neighbors on the right sat & watched them every night
(I bet you’d do the same if they was you)

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day . . .
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY’S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie’s in the Army now & Kenny’s taking pills
Oh! How they yearn to see a bomber burn!
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machine!
(Wait till the fire turns green . . . wait till the fire turns green)
WAIT TILL THE FIRE TURNS GREEN!

[mylife]

Roxy And Elswhere~More Trouble Everyday

[wideminded]

I was recently reading the autobiography of a character named Nicholas Slonimsky. He had a varied career in classical music including being chief assistant to the conductor Koussevitsky and being a conductor himself where he commissioned works by various avant garde composers including Edgard Varèse (who had also attracted the attention of Frank Zappa). Slonimsky also published a very widely read book on music theory that influenced many jazz musicians. Slonimsky was very positive about Zappa and apparently they were friends.

[caver]

Moving to Montana soon......

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks Slump Tester....

Remember Zappa's quote about being remembered?

[Nick Danger]

Help, I’m a rock.

[Lancey Howard]

Suzy Creamcheese, what’s got into you?

[SkiKnee]

Saw Zappa at the Chicago Auditorium Theatre way back in ‘88. Guest appearance by a guy named “Mr. Sting”, they did a rendition of “Murder by Numbers” which later turned up on “Broadway the Hard Way.”

Finest musicianship I’d witnessed since Buddy Rich.

[the invisib1e hand]

I was searching iTunes for versions of “America the Beautiful” once and came upon a Zappa rendition, which he was closing some show with. Pretty cool, I thought.

[WOBBLY BOB]

“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”- Frank Zappa.

[TigersEye]

Calling all vegetables.