Cologne

Cologne is a city in Germany. It is well-known for the perfume Eau de Cologne, often shorted to Cologne.

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa and his band performed in Cologne a few times, namely in the Musikhalle and Sporthalle.

Zappa concerts held in Cologne

• 73/09/06 Cologne Germany Musikhalle
• 76/02/17 Cologne Germany Sporthalle
• 77/02/06 Cologne Germany Sporthalle
• 78/02/14 Cologne Germany Sporthalle
• 79/03/29 Cologne Germany Sporthalle
• 80/06/07 Cologne Germany Sporthalle
• 82/05/21 Cologne Germany Sporthalle
• 82/06/04 Cologne Germany
• 88/04/14 Cologne Germany Sporthalle

People born in Cologne

• Nico

Frank Zappa about the city Cologne

"But this year's budget for the Frankfurt Festival, which is the overall umbrella in which this event is occurring, I think is $6.7 million for the month. And for that amount they have to mount all these concerts for Cage, Stockhausen, my stuff, and I think Knaifel. It's a week for each composer, and it coincides with what would have been Cage's 80th birthday. (...) Yeah, and you also have to realize that during this same period of time many other German cities have their own fucking festival going on with equal budgets. Cologne's probably got something just as big and just as elaborate. Berlin has something simultaneously. In fact, one of the orchestras in Berlin is playing my music at the same time. Also during that week in Frankfurt, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is playing "Bogus Pomp" after the Ensemble dates." - Frank Zappa in The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1), 1992.

References to eau de Cologne in Zappa's work

Zappa referenced eau de Cologne a few times in his lyrics, often with an exaggerated pronunciation of the word:

• The Complete History Of The Few Last Weeks Of The Mothers Of Invention, Zappa informs the audience that Greggery Peccary puts some cologne on his neck before he drives off to his work
• In Debra Kadabra as "Avon Cologna".
• In Them Or Us (The Book) it is referred to as "Avon Co-log-nuh".
• In The Blue Light as "Brut Cologne".
• In the plot of Thing-Fish: "The prince invents this disease and puts it in the water supply. He also puts it in bottles of cologne called Galoot Cologne – pronounced ko-log-nuh [sic]." The word spelled "Co-log-nuh" was used in the songs Prologue, Galoot Up-Date, The 'Torchum' Never Stops, Wistful Wit A Fist-Full and Won Ton On.

Zappa about Eau de Cologne

"Don's mother, who sold Avon products door to door had all this stuff from Avon stashed at the house, which everybody used. Y'know, it was free beauty adis. Don, being neurotic, and a bit of a narcissist, was quite prone to dumping any kind of beauty aid that he could find onto his body. He made the unfortunate mistake of taking some Avon Cologne and putting it in his hair, one day, which made it start falling out. He also put some sort of Avon cream on his face which made him break hout in this giant rash. His face looked like an alligator. He was losing a great deal of status at the high school, and he moved out of our little desert community, Lancaster, where we went to school, and moved down to east L.A. to live with his aunt for a while (till) he got his chops back together." (Frank Zappa in "Society Pages" No. 7, September 1991, quoted on page 221 of Mike Barnes, "Captain Beefheart", Quartet Books, Ltd., 2000)