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• Mark Pinske
  ...innesota, November 1949 - 30 September 2020) was an American recording and live sound engineer. ...kylab Studios (Gainesville, Florida.) and recorded numerous albums. He was live sound engineer for acts such as [[wikipedia:David Lee Roth|David Lee Roth]]
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• Saturday Night Live
  ...Saturday Night Live.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa on ''Saturday Night Live'' with Laraine Newman and Dan Aykroyd.]] '''Saturday Night Live''' is an American TV comedy and variety show based in [[wikipedia:New York
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• "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here"
  ..., as you know, we are doing voter registration here—have been doing it for the entire tour—and we are going to take yet another intermission for those o ...re gonna do here tonight is they're gonna actually register Greg—a genuine Long Island kind of a guy—we're gonna register him to vote just to show you ho
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• Spencer Chrislu Interview
  '''Engineer Of The Right Formulas in the Baby Milk Factory'''<br> ...one of the things that came to him in a dream. That's how he came up with the Hoop – it came to him while he was asleep."
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• The Last Days of Frank Zappa
  ...ns" that I have prepared 20 I would like him to answer. He tells me to get the tape recorder running and fire away.<br> ...ting? Is it a matter of giving them instructions, or just the challenge of the musical environment they're given?<br>
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• Gail Zappa Speaks With Howard Stern
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #36, February 1994 First Public Words since the death of her husband, [[Biography|Frank]], on Saturday, 4/12/93.
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• Night School
  * Frank Zappa on the Synclavier DMS *[[Ensemble Ambrosius]]: [[The Zappa Album]]
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• The Rolling Stones
  [[File:The Rolling Stones.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Back row, L-R: Brian Jones, Bill Wyman ...hy For The Devil" (1968), "Gimme Shelter" (1969)'' and ''"Angie" (1973)''. The group started out as a blues rock band and throughout their career they've
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• Zappa: Now And Then...
  ...om L.A.]] album. Intricately composed and performed melodies combined with the epitome of humorous cynicism – this is what I'd been searching for. ...s never a dull moment, or a disappointment, with the possible exception of the song [[We're Turning Again]]. But then again, who else would dare blaspheme
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• The Fugs
  ...nam War and the American government. Despite being an underground act even the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] started to spy on them. ...d and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_
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• The Incredible History Of The Mothers
  ...sic to the public. The group that was to become the Mothers was working in the Broadside, a little bar in Pomona, California. ...eded a guitar player, so they called me up. I started working with them at the Broadside, I thought they sounded pretty good. I said, "Okay, you guys, I'v
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• Zappa & Son
  Onstage Together For The First Time<br> ...d at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on December 23,1984, it was the very first time that [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] and [[Dweezil Zappa]] teamed
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• Frank Zappa and the Mothers at the Riverside – 4/23/74
  ...idol, carrying a miniature violin case, obviously also taking advantage of the evening's festivities. ..."Is that a real poncho you're wearing or a [[Sears Poncho]]?" Most likely the question most asked by our teenage idol was "[[Flo & Eddie]] played in here
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• Billy's Private Parts
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #31, June 1993<br> ...which went well beyond the realms of this mag. However, here are chunks of the FZ relevant sections.
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• What Ever Happened To The Mothers Of Invention?
  ...er artist to record a whole album's worth of Zappa's writing, exclusive of The Mothers of Invention interpretations.<br> ...group, a reformation might take place. The following is a brief summary of The Mothers' first five years of musical experimentation & development.<br>
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• Urban Leader
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #18-19, April-May 1991<br> ...: thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. [[The Fowler Brothers|The Fowlers]] and [[Chad Wackerman]] were expected on this tour. Could you tell
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• Mother’s Day Has Finally Come
  ...concentrate on other projects long in progress. A talk with Zappa revealed the break was more complete than that. ...Montreal. The last 'otherwise' performance was a television show in Ottawa the following night - August 18th and 19th.
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• Frankfurt Press Conference 21.7.92
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #26, September 1992<br> ...to absence of vid player here at T'Mershi Acres. Transcribed and edited by the Freditor.
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• Texan Grandmother In Interview Shock Horror
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #29, February 1993<br> ...nk last time, but as it was a face to face effort, it extrapolates itself. The interview was conducted by fellow Grandmother Roland St. Germain. Roll 'em
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• In Case You've Never Heard Of Our Group...
  ...ER'S SON ... (with all the rock and roll groups you got, we can understand the sort of lonely confusion a busy executive must experience while attempting Our group has been together since late 1964. During the past 7 years we have released 10 albums, [[Biography|F.Z.]] has released 2,
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• Interview: Frank Zappa
  ...few, and his work as a composer and musician is described by his peers in the profession as brilliant. ...d place to be. He has a very clear picture of what the sixties were really all about, and as far as his own image is concerned, he is pretty unimpressed b
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• The Beefheart Zappa Talk-in
  ...Zappa's sharp and accurate wit, the amiable enigma that is Beefheart, and the full might of CBS's top brass, [[Melody Maker]]'s Richard Williams spoke to ...he date when Frank Zappa, the Incredible All-American Composer, takes over the Albert Hall.
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• Frank Zappa, 84/11
  ...analyzed in universities. As befits his genius, he is a man constantly on the move, an outspoken musical dynamo forever dashing between projects, composi ...to get up to do this. It's just that I worked until about seven o'clock in the morning.
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• The Lost Episodes: about the album
  ...is tucked away among towering conifers and shrubs that could date back to the Pleistocene. Lewis Carroll would have been comfortable here.</p> ...dairy factory" that was actually manufacturing bio-chemical weapons during the Gulf War).</p>
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• Zappa On Air
  ...n American radio programme in which Francis Vincent Zappa discourses about the CIA, youth, drugs and his idea of a woman... ...that one of the Mothers of freak-rock. Join me for an Innerview of one of the most creative mothers of rock n roll, Frank Zappa.
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• Hats Off To Mike Keneally
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #32, August 1993<br> ...ged to corner Mike Keneally with a tape-recorder for a while, and here are the results.
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• Verve Records
  ...]], the various Universal-owned jazz labels were put under the umbrella of The Verve Group. ==The official Verve story==
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• Fearless Frank tells what he'll lay on you at the Oval concert
  ...g Larry The Dwarf with his guests Suzy Creamcheese, Ruben Sano, and Willie The Pimp.''' ...t Zappa, although his music is probably the most complex music accepted by the pop market, there's always that element of perverted humour and frivolous a
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• Dweezil Goes Out To Lunch.
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #29, February 1993<br> ...ted by [[Ben Watson]] (what's happened to the book?) and Danny Houston for The Wire. I haven't yet seen if they used any of it. Dweez was joined by [[Ahme
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• Todd Yvega (Keyboard article)
  ...ething that somebody else did," he states. "That's what's so tedious about the stuff I normally get hired to do. You know, 'This song was a hit, so we wan ...g databases for all of the audio and video archives, remaining fluent with all software, music and non-music, trimming samples, and actually writing softw
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• Zappa Digs Sabs Shock!
  ...IS P-ORRIDGE]] as 'the other hero', SANDY ROBERTSON as 'the rock fan', and THE BODYGUARD as himself. Stills by Harry Murlowski.</blockquote> ...rstly about one of my own obsessions, Kim Fowley, (Oh No! – Ed) Who was on the '[[Freak Out!]]' album, on hypophone. How did you meet him?<br>
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• The Return Of The Son-Of-Zappa Rap
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #28, November 1992<br> ...And then it was edited, rather heavily. The full transcript can be seen in the DZ Fan Club newsletters. Address elsewhere.)
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• An Evening With Wild Man Fischer
  Related = See also:<br>The Bizarre Percussion Ensemble<br>[[GTO's]] | *The Bizarre Percussion Ensemble (collective group percussion)
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• Samplin' Fool
  ''In the safety of his own home, Frank Zappa concocts [[Jazz From Hell]] on the [[Synclavier]].<br> ...o engineer and instrument specialists), it's surprising he has any time at all.
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• Zappa's Inferno
  ...eople today don't appreciate guitar solos, and that burns Frank Zappa up. "All they want is fast playing that goes wee wee wee wee wee."</blockquote> ...ilable in the L.A. area, and the stuff can be serviced here." The fact is, all Frank really wants to do is work.
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• Zapparap: For Real!
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #20, July 1991<br> ...ut what was he doing listening to it?), and for Jez South for sending over the full sixty minute tape. Take it away, Bob! Date for this first one is July
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• A Talk With Frank Zappa
  ...ll. There is also a nationwide voter registration campaign going on at all the concerts, which prompted Ohio Secretary of State Sherrod Brown to name Zapp '''The tour?<br>
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• Carnegie Hall
  Previous album = [[Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison|Previous]] | Related = See also:<br>[[71/10/11 New York NY US Carnegie Hall|The concert (2 shows)]]
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• The Frank Zappa Column?
  ...expected to write. But, it happened a certain way and we have to print it the way it happened.'' ...cking, bear hug on this reporter. Perhaps it'd not be such a bad day after all.
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• Frank's Wild Years, 87-3
  '''From "Louie The Turkey" To The London Symphony'''<br> ...ill more for legendary performances ([[wikipedia:Greatful Dead|the Dead]], the Bossy. And then there's [[Biography|Frank]].
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• Does This Mother Know Best?
  Frank Zappa, leader of The Mothers of Invention rock group, doubles as a business consultant – 1968 ...one," he said, as we entered the plant. His words were momentarily lost in the echoing spaces. "... over nine hundred million dollars ... these automatic
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• Zappa's Latest Box Of Tricks
  ...at British pop pundit [[Tony Palmer]], who worked on the film, thinks it's the worst pop film he's seen, and he'll say: "That's quite a distinction. But t ...king at it for months and months in various stages of development but when the final colour print first came back, I went to a screening, sat there, and I
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• The David Ocker Interview
  ...e is also a cool and interesting person and he answered some questions for the Arf-dossier. His answers are gems of wisdom for me, read and enjoy: ...f paper over the plate, press down, and your "engraving" is transferred to the paper.
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• A Mars A Day
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #20-21, July-September 1991<br> ...s allowed to do so at eight and promptly hated it. I couldn't take it from the teacher. I wanted to play piano but I hated taking lessons.
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• Edgard Varèse: The Idol of My Youth
  ...èse]]. I am in no way qualified to. I can't even pronounce his name right. The only reason I have agreed to is because I love his music very much, and if ...e [[Complete Works Of Edgard Varèse, Volume 1]]").'' The article described the record as a weird jumble of drums and other unpleasant sounds.
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• Zappa Busy As Ever While Coming Out of Joe's Garage
  ...rd a single. When he came out again, he had a 3-record set under his belt, the by-now-infamous [[Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III|Joe's Garage]]. ...ations. Frank responded that the song was primarily descriptive and defied the ADL to prove its inaccuracy, something they declined to do.
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• Stern Words In Knightsbridge
  ...ncle Frank knocks punk, record companies, and U.S. presidents, and reveals the CIA plot to spike San Francisco ...'''<br> ...we won't hear any new recordings from Francis Vincent Zappa until at least the turn of this decade.
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• Zappa, Hot Wacks 20/21
  ...d say, 'this is this, that's that and here you are and respond to it'. And the response to it was, '''I'm hip but, of course, I'm offended".''</blockquote ...butors. Chris John, who went down to London to see Frank's "[[Baby Snakes (The Film)|Baby Snakes]]" film and talk to him, gave him tea and sympathy.
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• Gold From California: Alice Stuart Is Back
  ...ssing from them, Alice Stuart and Ellen McIllwaine. Ladies who really sing the blues. Yes indeed. ...r licks winging off the ornate walls of the theatre. Then Van Morrison and the Caledonia Soul Orchestra finished me off. Morrison part Sinatra, alot of Ra
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• Zappa Keeps Eye Now On Bottom Line
  '''Entrepreneurship: From his hilltop home in [[Laurel Canyon]], the musician and his wife run several businesses.''' ...ipped My Flesh]]" and "[[Sheik Yerbouti]]." But the former leader of the [[The Mothers|Mothers of Invention]] is also a shrewd businessman. "I don't have
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• Frank Zappa, 83/1
  "I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I'm doing the job I love – I've got machinery to do my work – and I like to spend a l ...recently recorded a satirical single which sold 250,000 copies and became the 'Val' anthem.
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• Father Of Invention
  ...and of music. Now he takes a break to discuss exactly what he's been up to all these years. ...Only In It For The Money]], and led eventually to dozens of albums bearing the mark of Frank Zappa.
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• Frank Zappa Interview By Barry Miles
  ...records, as a composer it gives me a chance to exert even more control on the musical material from start to finish. ...ll that 'editing technique' sounds like somebody sat there and cut out all the mistakes.
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• Frank Zappa: Outrage And Invention
  ...t Coast musician who emerged in the 1960s without giving free promotion to the California Tourist Board. ...untry Joe McDonald|Country Joe]] & The Fish) or both, like the [[Wikipedia:The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]].
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• Garni Du Jour, Lizard King Poetry And Slime
  ...between various musical genres have all but dissolved. And somewhere along the line, people began realizing that serious music doesn't have to be dealt wi ...ny number of styles. And the question of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the sources doesn't seem to apply in Zappa's case. Everything fits into his uni
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• Zappa Plays On
  ...l working. With his new release, [[The Yellow Shark]], he dons the mask of The Serious composer. ...els Ripped My Flesh]], [[Sheik Yerbouti]] and [[You Are What You Is]], and the less well known, more inaccessible compositions that have attracted disting
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• Phi Zappa Crappa Interview:
  '''Peeking Into The Bizarre Mind Of Rock & Roll's Original Madman.'''<br> ...New Wave Playwright / Rock Columnist Dave Street, whose new play, Alive At The Factory, opens this December in New York City.
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• Thing-Fish Rap.
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #54, October 1996<br> ...n March 24, 1996, interspersed cunningly with one from April 18 1996. Spot the joins ...
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• You Call That Music? (The Article)
  The story so far: ...(UMRK). And to ensure the highest-quality live recordings, Zappa purchased the Beach Boys' remote truck.
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• Frank Zappa and His Digital Orchestra
  ''The present-day composer refuses to die … and his life support system is a Sy ...get to be on there? A cocaine dealer. That's all that show's about" – and the "pastel policeman."
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• Zappa On 200 Motels
  Interview continued in an empty dressing room, backstage at the Fillmore East, same date.<br> [discussing the film of [[200 Motels]], a two-hour musical which United Artists agreed to b
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• Zappa and the Mothers: Ugly Can Be Beautiful
  from "The Age of Rock", Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, ISBN 9780394705354, edited by Jonathan Eisen< ..., his flute poised, and Ian straightens his back and places his fingers on the harpsicord keys. Poised like musicians at a nineteenth-century musicale, th
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• The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.2
  ...Zappa Interview Picture Disk]]". According to closest estimation based on the interview's context, it must have been conducted sometime in early to mid 1 '''The Bio says that you've got a book as well ... "[[Them Or Us]]" – I haven't
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• Interview with Larry King
  ==The Interview== ...axes poetic on many things in a wide range of subjects. What do we mean by the title? is there a fake Frank Zappa?'''
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• Star Special
  ...ia:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]], a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), featuring guest musicians who would <center>'''"And now on Radio One - the best radio show you've ever heard, in your life!"'''</center>
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• One Size Fits All Interview
  One Size Fits All Interview<br> ...and leader of [[The Mothers|The Mothers Of Invention]] – is at 36 probably the elder statesman of progressive rock and roll. Though most people first cred
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• Frank Zappa, Unholy Mother
  ...therhood and provides more clues to [[Conceptual Continuity]]. This'' is ''the Central Scrutinizer!''<br> ..., was premiered last year as part of the Frankfurt Music Fair. It features the [[Ensemble Modern]] playing Zappa's music, some of it already familiar to u
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• Dynamo Frank
  ...is death. In a special 10th anniversary tribute, ''Guitar World'' presents the one and only Grand Wazoo in his own words. ...taneously savoring the increasingly rare sound of a public figure speaking the truth.
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• The Perspective of Frank Zappa
  ...atic man and talented musician. With all my fallacious thinking discarded, the "interview" proceeded harmoniously with Frank in complete control. ...he practical side of music with all its perils and knows how to survive in the real world of music.
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• The Be-Bop Bass Notes.
  [[The Fowler Brothers|Tom Fowler]] Interview<br> [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #64, March 2000<br>
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• Maverick
  ...rs of Invention]]. But he's also an astute businessman who refuses to walk the party line. ...of those titles are available on compact disc from ''[[Rykodisc|Ryko]]'', the Salem, Mass.-based audiophile label.
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• Mars Needs Evil Princes.
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #61, October 1997<br> Another one of those Evil Prince interviews, this time a chat with the exuberant Mr. Thomas Mars, recorded at his place on April 20, 1996. Should
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• Frank Zappa, 82/06
  ...ent situation in the music industry as well as touching on highlights of a long and changing career.'' '''RECORD REVIEW: How long have you had a studio at your house?'''<br>
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• Trout Mask Replica
  *The Mascara Snake [Victor Hayden] - (bass clarinet, vocal) *[[Biography|FZ]] (comments on [[The Blimp]])
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• The Rolling Stone Interviews Vol. 1
  ...ting a vast complex of musical style and technique (based on everyone from the Penguins to [[Edgard Varèse|Edgar Varèse]]), Zappa has a firm idea about ...part of a week, between the group's out-of-town gigs and over the sound of the rehearsing Laurel Canyon Ballet Company, a band of uninhibited dancers Zapp
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• BBC Television Tribute
  ...ate Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[B The program was repeated on July 23, 1993 and on Friday, December 17, 1993 as a
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• George H.W. Bush
  ...Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 until 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President. George Bush is referenced (as Vice President) in ''[[The Untouchables]]''.
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• Zappa!
  ...oing business with the Soviets, social change, running for president I and the vastness of human stupidity. ...over in Eastern Europe? We have a picture of you lighting a cigarette for the President of Czechoslovakia on our refrigerator.<br>
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• Poetic Justice
  ...with recognizable titles, and a few unrecognizable. In a small chair past all this, in a dim receiving area, Zappa sips tea to nurse an uncharacteristica ...strategic sympathy with the needs of his brisk little family business. In the weeks prior to organizing and releasing 14 hours and 53 minutes of newly un
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• Zappa, 82/4
  ...Allman Brothers]], because Zappa and his virtuoso seven-piece band played the Southern boogie anthem straightfaced, sincere, even inspired. ...terviewer, was that Frank did only a few selected interviews as opposed to the five-a-day schedule he once kept.
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• Interview From Hell
  ...rank Zappa]] considers the relationships between business, technology, and the evil forces of repression. Bill Formann interrogates. Exhibit "A" photos by ...fantasies" that have accompanied articles on him in the past, he's offered the opportunity, at this interview's end, to describe, in his own words, his en
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• What Can You Do That's Fantastic?
  ...ed to throw into the mix. Here, musicians who worked with him look back at the Zappa legacy. ...dio), and more never-before-heard Zappa collections should be available in the near future.
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• Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean
  ...included some of the finest musicians of the time and continually offered the most creative approach to rock instrumentation. ...Orchestra)|London Symphony Orchestra]], Zappa and his charter group, the [[The Mothers|Mothers of Invention]], released [[Freak Out!]], a much more challe
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• Sample This!
  ...the resources of his new instrument, the lost art of live performance, and the album sticker controversy.</blockquote> ...e, he's finally got what he wants: an instrument on which he can nail down the complex sound blends, polyrhythms, and lines that could formerly come toget
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• Frank Zappa: The SongTalk Interview
  ...Hi-Fi shop," where records were played on the new equipment to demonstrate the magic of Hi-Fi. ...e one. So I asked the guy how much it was and he told me and I didn't have the money, so I negotiated with him. And he was so happy that anybody would buy
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• Robert Martin Sez Hello
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #52-53, July-August 1996 ...ted in North Hollywood on April 17. It appears to start with talking about the 1988 show in Finland, but this is missing, so we start right in with ...
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• Dialogue: Frank Zappa
  ...it again. Two or three new albums are in the can, several new films are in the offing, and Zappa's latest band is on tour. ...he's not in it "only for the money " or for the music and the fame or even the "cheesy sex." Like his fans, Zappa says he's "curious."
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• Flo and Eddie and Marc, Frank and More
  ...a 51 track anthology and on, though one frowns at the unsuitability of it all, to lobster dinners. ...them play a major part in a catalog of songs that is just as impressive as the Turtles' own sequence of nuggets.
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• He's Only 38 and He Knows How to Nasty
  ...than you can say, "[[Suzy Creamcheese]]." Zappa holds journalists in about the same regard as most people do washroom attendants. ...ression. But his latest album, [[Sheik Yerbouti]] ([[Zappa Records]]), and the single, "[[Dancin' Fool]]," are extremely popular, and he has another album
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• Frank Zappa: Outraged Consumer
  '''"I Was the Villain Because I Dared to Say Flower Power Sucked."'''<br> ...Zappa]], the editors of ''Mad Magazine'' would have invented him – to rape the minds of teenagers. Most people assumed Francis Vincent came from New York
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• Frank Zappa, 82/03
  The interview by John Swenson<br> ...riation on one of the instrumentals from the [[Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (The Series)|Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar]] mail-order set.
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• Pulse Interview
  ...spired independence movements in Eastern Europe and lampooned stupidity in the west. Now he faces his most serious challenge. ...or the worst. With wailing harmonica and turmoiled bass in the background, the lyrics ominously and prophetically tumble out,
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• David Walley's Exclusive Interview
  The Controversial Author [[David Walley]]'s Exclusive Interview About [[Biograp ''The interviewer is Paul Remington, David Walley wrote a controversial book abou
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• Frank's Wild Years, '93
  ...reflects with Joe Jackson on an eventful career which has rarely embraced the mainstream. ...ruth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best.'
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• The Trombone's Connected To The Lip Bone.
  [[The Fowler Brothers|Bruce Fowler]] Interview<br> [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #55-57, Nov. 1996 – March 1997<br>
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• Zappa, City paper, 94-1
  ...iod. Young Frank had asthma, and as he writes in his 1989 autobiography, [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]], "I was sick so often in Maryland, Mom and Dad want ...re as a teen, to attend the Peabody Conservatory, but instead he stayed in the desert and taught himself how to be a composer.
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• Frank Zappa – Funny Mother
  ...seat in the small change room, heaved one leg across the other and took a long drag on his cigarette. His hair was tied back behind his head, highlighting the fatigue in his face. He looked exhausted.
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• Porn Wars Deluxe
  ...airing the issue itself, for ventilating the issue, for bringing it out in the public domain. Senator Hollings. ...is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
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• Modern Music Is a Sick Puppy
  ...Zappa talks about how a creative personality approaches the studio. Along the way, he reveals how he makes use of his digital equipment – his extended ...a musical instrument," he declares. "And all these other things sitting on the wall here are tools that you use to make musical sounds."
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• Little Band We Used To Play In
  ...cal music, gaining himself a substantial following and a lot of respect in the process. ...and his current [1980] position as lead instrumentalist and composer with the popular rock trio U.K.
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• Shut Up And Play Your Guitar
  ...ew [[Sheik Yerbouti]] album (reviewed in this issue), and next month, with the second part of this interview, we will feature his solo [[Rat Tomago]]. ...players was holding a chord over for half a beat too long, or that one of the synthesizer oscillators was out of tune – which it was, slightly.
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• Zappa, 79/8
  ...istener into our camp." While other groups were advocating peace and love, the Mothers would insult their audiences onstage. And they were anything but be ...conceived of Zappa sustaining one of the longest, most prolific careers in the field of rock.
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• I'm Different or Not Exactly Duane Allman
  ...orming in London in 1971, he was pushed from a stage by an irate member of the audience, and suffered a compound leg fracture and many bruises.<br> ...[[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]), However, airplay for the overwhelming majority of his hundreds of songs has been sporadic at best.<b
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• 1968 WFMT Radio Chicago with Studs Terkel
  Transcription of the MP3 residing at [http://tasutpen.net/zappaterkel868.mp3 Tasutpen.net]<br> ...Freak Out!]], ah, some of the lines come to mind, ah, the instrumentation, the strange kind comes to mind … your thoughts … as we hear it now.<br>
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• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!
  The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother! ...his band like a dictator, an outspoken counter to the counter-culture, in the years 1966—1970 [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] was promiscuous, controversial,
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• A Real Mother
  ...arde a good name, turned dabbling into an art form and herded cattle for [[The Monkees]]. Andy Gill celebrates an extraordinary life. ...wever, lay in the equal weight he gave to the two types of music. This was the assumption upon which he based his entire career - that there just might be
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• All Bass Players Are Failed Ukulele Players
  The [[Arthur Barrow]] Interview<br> [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #27-28, October-November 1992<br>
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• KPFM-FM Radio Interview, 84/5
  ...his digital re-mastering of his album "Lumpy Gravy" and other early works. The musical selections played during this program are not included in this reco This audio is part of the collection: [http://www.archive.org/details/other_minds Other Minds Archive
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• Just When you thought it was Safe
  ...with a brand new album, "[[The Yellow Shark]]", to turn music upside down all over again. Phil Wilding is granted a rare audience with music's original M ...e [[Ensemble Intercontemporain]]. The latter also commissioning Zappa's "[[The Perfect Stranger]]".<br>
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• What's A Mother To Do?
  ...Right sign: 'Anybody who can get a Frank Zappa L.P. even to the bottom of the top ten is o.k. in my booklet –F.Z.']] Zappa's Decade In The Doghouse Is Over,<br>
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• Mother People, 91-5
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #22, October 1991<br> ...ducted by Axel Wünsch and Aad Hoogesteger at the Moers Jazz Festival after the first night of Don and Jimmy playing with [[Eugene Chadbourne]]'s latest co
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• Winter In Amerika
  ...nd apparently incensed musician held forth as the most reasonable voice of the afternoon. ...s with kids in school and time on their hands, the committee was examining the possibility of a causal link between rock music and drug abuse, teenage pre
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• Don Paulsen interviews FZ
  ''This is the transcription of a recorded interview with [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] conduc ...ywhere this any kinda how the whole group as a whole got together. How did all that come about?
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• Frank Kofsky interviews FZ
  from "The Age of Rock", Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, edited by Jonathan Eisen<br> ...pera|Threepenny Opera]]" – like half of it one time – couldn't sit through the rest.
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• An Interview With Frank Zappa
  ...from Frank's idol, [[Edgard Varèse]]. If Zappa himself is any indication, the present-day composer also refuses to take a vacation. ...ideo, [[Dub Room Special|The Dub Room Special]], and is currently remixing all of his early catalog items – most of which are out of print – for reiss
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• Mudsharks, Motels and Mothers
  ...Watts reports from the States after a week on the road with [[The Mothers|the Mothers of Invention]] – including a preview of [[200 Motels]]. ...his head. He's dead, it seamed. Like the Moody Blues said it might f..k up the world's balance. Black Queen Midnight – that's me. Please help." 326-6604
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• The Zappa Legacy
  <blockquote>Veterans of his keyboard chair recall the life & work of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]</blockquote><br> ...e cancer. Or, as the Zappa family put it in an official statement released the following day, "Frank Zappa [has] left for his final tour."
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• Biography
  [[image:FrankZappa70s.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Frank Zappa in the early 1970s]] ...his interest in multiple other topics it can be a challenge to document it all.
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• Frank Zappa. Interview in Playboy
  ...ic about world affairs, jewish princesses, fighting cancer and life beyond the fringe. ...pa]]. "Who else?" wondered Groening. "I listened to the music, I dissected the lyrics and it transformed me."
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• Frank Zappa On... The '80s Guitar Clone
  ...composition, and has been one of the country's most outspoken opponents to the PMRC's drive to give ratings to rock lyrics. ...flects on what he wrote before, with comments about the state of guitar in the '80s. Also in this issue, an added bonus: a Soundpage recording of Frank's
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• Pop Chronicles interview
  ...ry, but Zappa spoke freely so parts were not and could not be broadcast on the radio. ...ns/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 John Gilliland Collection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas].
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• The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1)
  '''The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1)<br> ...of that ''Zappa!'' issue was this wide-ranging, in-depth conversation with The Man himself. – Editor<br>
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• The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)
  '''The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)<br> ...cartoonist [[Matt Groening]] ''([[wikipedia:Life in Hell|Life in Hell]], [[The Simpsons]])'' joined in.<br>
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• Ode To Gravity - Frank Zappa: World Affairs Commentator
  ...lero]]", performed by the 12-piece 1988 Zappa Band and found on the CD, '[[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life]]'".</blockquote> ...ing Pumpkin]] called "[[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life|Zappa – The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life]]".<br>
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• They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 3
  [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], September 1990<br> [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1|Part 1]],
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• The Complete History Of The Few Last Weeks Of The Mothers Of Invention
  '''The Complete History of Last Week's Mothers of Invention/Hot Rats/Grand Wazoo'' [This article was found under the above alternative title in the Internet vicinity of [[Charles Ulrich]] and Bill Lantz.]
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• Interview by Bob Marshall
  ...rshall in conducting the interview. We thank Loren Gagnon for transcribing the original audio tapes. ...nowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, ... etc.", at the end you say "Music is THE BEST". What is Music?<br>
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• WRIF Radio Interview
  ...ding pending legislation that would require the printing of song lyrics on the covers of record albums. ...t covers under the counters, and rating live concerts and then reassessing the record contracts of those artists ... <br>
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• They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1
  [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], April 1990<br> [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2|Part 2]],
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• Relix Magazine's April/May '06 special on Frank Zappa
  *'''The Many Minds of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]'''<br> ...r, prankster, musical genius and more – we celebrate the life and times of the one and only Frank Zappa.<br>
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• The Oracle Has It All Psyched Out
  Similar to article [[The New Rock]]<br> ...for [[The Mothers|the Mothers of Invention]] and an oracle-philosopher of the rock scene. An iconoclast and a satirist, Zappa specializes in deliberately
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• They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2
  [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], June 1990<br> [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1|Part 1]],
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• Mutationsblues
  Translation into English after the German text (feel free to improve it)<br> ==The German translation==
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