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"Roxy & Elsewhere" by Frank Zappa / The Mothers released this day in 1974.
#FrankZappa #RoxyAndElsewhere #TheMothers #VintageVinyl -
"Roxy & Elsewhere" by Frank Zappa / The Mothers released this day in 1974.
#FrankZappa #RoxyAndElsewhere #TheMothers #VintageVinyl -
"Roxy & Elsewhere" by Frank Zappa / The Mothers released this day in 1974.
#FrankZappa #RoxyAndElsewhere #TheMothers #VintageVinyl -
"Roxy & Elsewhere" by Frank Zappa / The Mothers released this day in 1974.
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The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrankZappa #Music
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
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🐈⬛ BLACK CATS 🐈⬛
Celebrities with Black Cats for Friday the 13th
#blackcats #fridaythe13th #blackcat #cats #fridaythethirteenth #celebritieswithcats #cat #chatnoir #lechatnoir #katzen #schwarzeKatze #gatonegro #chats #gatos #frankzappa #iggypop #mickjagger #johnlennon
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Saraf's dark, curly hair and Van Dycke style beard reminds me a bit of old black & white photos of Frank Zappa. Anyone else? No? Historical pulls unwelcome? 😬 🎸 🏀 ⚫️⚪️ #NBA #BrooklynNets #NetsWorld #BenSaraf #NBASeasonOpeners #FrankZappa
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more from/about the 1978 nova convention
https://youtu.be/ThRFmwUsJc0?si=offGLQtiHh9N43Y2
William S. Burroughs delivering his keynote address on December 1st, the first night at New York City’s Entermedia Theatre, during the sold-out, three-day Nova Convention, held on November 30, December 1, and 2, 1978.
Excerpt from NOVA ’78 Directed by Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias.
Produced by Pinball London and Bando a Parte.Premiere Locarno 78 – August 2025 –
Archive Copyright Pinball London Ltd. All rights reserved.
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https://youtu.be/Ed9dj4BC-Dc?si=HQq_5rbvo3L6_jUG
In this the legendary 1978 Nova Convention, we hear interviews with organizer/poet John Giorno, followed by the uncut Nova Convention panel discussion unheard for decades. Moderator Les Levine masterfully guides panelists William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary and Brion Gysin. Listen to them re-imagining science fiction and foreseeing a culture yet to come.
The Nova Convention was a three-day event, taking place in New York City on November 30, December 1 and December 2, 1978. Intended as a homage to William S. Burroughs, the “convention” included seminars, music performances, readings and more. Attending were an odd mixture of academics, publishers, writers, artists, punk rockers and counterculture disciples. The event had a small hitch. The organizers had announced Keith Richards’ attendance, which made the event a sellout. Richards’ last minute cancellation, however, gave the event an antagonistic oscillation between performer and audience.
The series was originally produced by Giorno Poetry Systems for WBAI radio. The 2013 restoration comes from John Giorno’s private tapes. The effort is to restore, as completely as possible, the entire three-day event for for broadcast by the Clocktower Gallery radio station: https://clocktower.org/show/nova-convention-1978-the-third-mind
#1978 #AaronBrookner #AaronBruckner #AllenGinsberg #BandoàParte #BrionGysin #cinema #Cineuropa #doc #documentary #EntermediaTheatre #film #FrankZappa #JamesGrauerholz #JimJarmusch #JohnCage #JohnGiorno #LaurieAnderson #Locarno #MarkoStojiljković #NakedLunch #NewYork #Nova78 #OutOfCompetition #PattiSmith #PauloFurtado #performer #PhilipGlass #PinballLondon #PinballLondonLtd #poet #RodrigoAreias #SylvèreLotringer #TheLegendaryTigerman #TheNovaConvention #TimothyLeary #TomDiCillo #TomásBaltazar #UncleHoward #WilliamBurroughs
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“nova ’78”, a documentary on william burroughs, at the locarno film festival
https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/482127
Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias take us back in time to a convention where leading intellectuals and artists gathered to celebrate William S Burroughs
#1978 #AaronBrookner #AaronBruckner #AllenGinsberg #BandoàParte #BrionGysin #cinema #Cineuropa #doc #documentary #film #FrankZappa #JamesGrauerholz #JimJarmusch #JohnCage #JohnGiorno #LaurieAnderson #Locarno #MarkoStojiljković #NakedLunch #NewYork #Nova78 #OutOfCompetition #PattiSmith #PauloFurtado #performer #PhilipGlass #PinballLondon #poet #RodrigoAreias #SylvèreLotringer #TheLegendaryTigerman #TheNovaConvention #TimothyLeary #TomDiCillo #TomásBaltazar #UncleHoward #WilliamBurroughs
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“nova ’78”, a documentary on william burroughs, at the locarno film festival
https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/482127
Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias take us back in time to a convention where leading intellectuals and artists gathered to celebrate William S Burroughs
#1978 #AaronBrookner #AaronBruckner #AllenGinsberg #BandoàParte #BrionGysin #cinema #Cineuropa #doc #documentary #film #FrankZappa #JamesGrauerholz #JimJarmusch #JohnCage #JohnGiorno #LaurieAnderson #Locarno #MarkoStojiljković #NakedLunch #NewYork #Nova78 #OutOfCompetition #PattiSmith #PauloFurtado #performer #PhilipGlass #PinballLondon #poet #RodrigoAreias #SylvèreLotringer #TheLegendaryTigerman #TheNovaConvention #TimothyLeary #TomDiCillo #TomásBaltazar #UncleHoward #WilliamBurroughs
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#OTD Frank Zappa performed his last show in 1992 with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Germany
**The Yellow Shark**
32 years since.
Zappa passed away in December 1993.FZ was composing and performing music on his synclavier which he thought was not possible to be played by human musicians but Ensemble Modern convinced him they could do this.
Which was true.
"The Yellow Shark" was performed live in Berlin, Vienna and Frankfurt.
Unlikely we will ever be able to hear a similarly touching piece of art. -
Ich bin in #FrankfurtAmMain aufgewachsen, in den 20 Jahren, in denen der legendäre #HilmarHoffmann dort #Kulturdezernent war.
In dieser Zeit, seit Mitte der #1980er Jahre, organisierten #DieterRexroth & Team die #FrankfurtFeste in & um die #AlteOper.
Dank dieses #Musikfestival|s konnten wir in #Frankfurt Opern wie #AmandasTraum von #HaraldWeiß, die #Vexations von #ErikSatie, aber auch #YellowShark von #FrankZappa hören.
#Rexroth starb heute morgen. 😢
🔗 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zum-tod-von-dieter-rexroth-dlf-kultur-ed4daae6-100.html
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🏷️ #RIP
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DEEP PURPLE's ROGER GLOVER Says Decision To Enlist DWEEZIL ZAPPA To Remix 'Machine Head' Was 'Probably A Marketing' Idea#RogerGlover #DweezilZappa #DeepPurple #MachineHead #SuperDeluxeEdition #Remix #MontreuxJazzFestival #FrankZappa #QuadraphonicMix #DolbyAtmos
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Il #4dicembre 1993 ci lasciava #FrankZappa uno dei maggiori geni musicali del XX secolo.
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- Praga 1991 una delle sue ultime esibizioni.
https://youtu.be/UFtHqDrJ-fA?t=320
