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ZAPPA Records Announces Digital Downloads, MOTHERMANIA Kicks Off
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MUSIC NEWS - Zappa Records has started selling official digital downloads directly from Zappa.com. They've kicked it off with the 41st anniversary release of 'MOTHERMANIA,' which also marks the 45th anniversary of Frank Zappa & The Mothers. The album is available in 256kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC format here (see track list below).Back on May 10, 1964, Frank Zappa named his band
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Composer Sues Brooklyn Philharmonic
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In Frank Zappa’s autobiography, The Real Frank Zappa Book, he dedicates an entire chapter to describe the daunting task of getting an orchestra to perform his original compositions. Attempting such a feat cost Zappa well over $250,000, but failed to...
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Zappa Family Loses Zappa Festival Court Battle, Sets About Suing Spanish Zapaterias Instead
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You know something? Before Frank Zappa died in 1993, he was a lot of things: a tireless tinkerer, a musical adventurer, a trail-blazing perfectionist, an outlandishly innovative band leader, and a caring and, shall we say, "highly original" husband and father. But you know what? There's one thing he wasn't: a good-looking man. Such trivial physicalities were clearly of no great importance to th...
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Guitar Playing Tip
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I've come to the conclusion that what makes Frank Zappa's guitar solos stand out from the pack is; instead of studying and playing musical patterns, he was studying and playing speech patterns. If you listen, his soloing flows along in phrases and nuances like people do when they are conversing. There are note clusters of [...]
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Apostrophe (')
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OK guys and girls, this a masterpiece of an album, one that really could exemplify the classic rock period of Zappa´s gigantic oeuvre. Between 1973 and 1975, Zappa released 4 amazing classic rock albums ( Over-nite Sensation, Apostrophe, Roxy & Elsewhere and my favorite of them all, One Size Fits All), Apostrophe was, for the very first time in his career, a commercial and critically acclaimed ..
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Catholic Girls
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Album:Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III (1979)
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Beavis and Butthead Join the Army?
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From Frank Zappa’s 1968 masterpiece We’re Only In It for the Money comes this inimitable ditty about a pair of morons who enjoy lighting farts, among other things, and somehow winding up finding their talents put to good use in the military.
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PATRIOTS over the Bills. LOCK for NFL Week 3.
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Track:Cosmik Debris, Dirty Love, Montana
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