Italy
Italy is a country in southern Europe. Frank Zappa's father, Francis Zappa, was born in Sicily.
Contents
- 1 Frank Zappa concerts in Italy
- 2 References to Italy in Frank Zappa's work
- 3 Zappa associates from Italy
- 4 Classical composers, conductors and musicians
- 5 Rock and pop artists
- 6 Italian Zappa cover bands
- 7 Writers, journalists, magazines, books
- 8 Visual artists
- 9 Scientists
- 10 Other
- 11 Frank Zappa about Italy
- 12 External links
Frank Zappa concerts in Italy
- 71/11/17 Italy
- 71/12/03 Milan Italy
- 73/08/29 Milan Italy
- 73/08/30 Bologna Italy Stadio Communale
- 73/08/31 Rome Italy Palasport
- 73/09/01 Verona Italy
- 74/09/06 Rome Italy
- 74/09/07 Udine Italy Palazzo della Sport
- 74/09/08 Bologna Italy Stadio Comunale
- 74/09/09 Milan Italy Velodromo Vigorelli
- 74/09/10 Palermo SICILY Italy
- 80/07/ SICILY Italy
- 82/07/02 Turin Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/03 Bolzano Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/04 Bologna Italy Quartiere Fieristico
- 82/07/05 Genoa Italy Stadio Ferraris
- 82/07/07 Milan Italy Parco Redecesio (Parco Redecesio)
- 82/07/08 Pistoia Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/08 Pistoia Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/09 Rome Italy Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio
- 82/07/12 Naples Italy Stadio San Paolo
- 82/07/14 Palermo Italy Stadio Comunale La Favorita (subject of the documentary Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily)
- 84/10/08 Milan Italy Palazzo Dello Sport, San Siro
- 84/10/09 Genoa Italy Palasport
- 84/10/10 Bologna Italy Teatro Tenda Parco Nord
- 84/10/11 Venice Italy
- 84/10/12 Viareggio Italy Bussola Domani
- 84/10/13 Padua Italy Palazzo dello Sport, San Lazzaro
- 84/10/14-16 Rome Italy Teatro Tenda Pianeta
- 88/05/30 Udine Italy Palasport Primo Carnera
- 88/06/01 Padua Italy Palasport
- 88/06/02 Milan Italy Palatrussardi
- 88/06/03 Turin Italy Palasport
- 88/06/05 Modena Italy Palasport
- 88/06/06 Florence Italy Palasport
- 88/06/07 Rome Italy PalaEur
- 88/06/09 Genoa Italy Palasport
References to Italy in Frank Zappa's work
- In Frank Zappa's list with influences, printed in the sleeve of Freak Out!, composer Luigi Nono is mentioned.
- On the cover of We're Only In It For The Money, Pope Paul III and Ginevra de Benci can be seen.
- Roy Estrada played the Pope on the album Ahead Of Their Time.
- Billy The Mountain: "He's just a crazy Italian who drove a red car (...) or if he has a son named Pinocchio, or what?".
- The Legend Of Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus & the Grand Wazoo: The liner notes state that Uncle Meat has "a life-size, minutely detailed, historically inacurrate, somewhat perverted illusionary replica of Ancient Rome, or something". Cleetus is also an emperor who puts his prisoners on display in an arena. A side character is named Ben-Hur Barret, after the novel and film Ben-Hur, which is also sent in ancient Roman times.
- The line "Dominus vobiscum et cum spiritu tuo" in Father O'Blivion and The Mammy Nuns is Latin.
- Alpha Romeo is one of the constellations on the back cover of One Size Fits All.
- Florentine Pogen: "She was the daughter of a Florentine pogen".
- Dancin' Fool and Stick It Out: "Wait a minute, I've got it! You're Italian!"
- Pope John Paul II can be seen on the back cover of The Man From Utopia, which also depicts the group's concert in Palermo, Sicily.
- Pinocchio's Furniture
- Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (The Track)
- The Pope, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benito Mussolini and Galileo are characters in Dio Fa (which also mentions Torino).
- Questi Cazzi Di Piccioni
- This Ain't CNN: One of the languages spoken is Italian.
- People from Italian Extraction are conceptual continuity in Zappa's work.
Zappa associates from Italy
- Massimo Bassoli
- Giuseppe Franco (born in Calabria, later moved to the US)
- Tanino Liberatore
- Fabio Treves
- Francis Zappa (born in Partinicio, Sicily)
Classical composers, conductors and musicians
Rock and pop artists
Italian Zappa cover bands
Writers, journalists, magazines, books
Visual artists
- Leonardo Da Vinci (his Ginevra de Benci can be seen on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money)
- Tanino Liberatore
Scientists
Other
- An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa
- Banco Ambrosiano
- Count Catanti
- Salvo Cuccia
- Fellini Satyricon
- Benito Mussolini
- My Brother Is an Italian Mother
- Pinocchio
- Pope
- Pope Paul III
- Pope Paul VI
- Torino
- Rudolph Valentino (born in Italy, later moved to the USA)
Frank Zappa about Italy
"I had been looking forward to playing in Sicily because my father was born there. And that afternoon I had taken a drive over to his hometown, this horrible little village called Bartenicco. So I checked that out, you know, getting into the Sicilian vibe of it all. There's this Italian schmaltz connected with Sicily for all people of Italian extraction." - Frank Zappa, Orchestral Maneuvers, Interview by Bill Milkowski, Modern Recording & Music, August 1984.
