Frank Zappa; The Beatles; Led Zeppelin; Tori Amos; Steve Vai; Jaco Pastorius; Coldplay; Jeff Beck; U2; Manic Street Preachers; Oasis; Razorlight; The Police; Deep Purple; Placebo; Creedence Clearwater Revival; The Magic Numbers; Free; The Mars Volta; Yes; Fleet Foxes; The Goombay Dance Band...er.
Movies
Pulp Fiction; the Marx Bros; Dog Day Afternoon; Jaws; Woody Allen; Monty Python and The Holy Grail; Help!; Almost Famous.
Television
Coronation Street; The Simpsons; Ren and Stimpy.
Books
Kurt Vonnegut; Joseph Heller; Marx Bros biographies: Raymond Chandler; Spike Milligan; Damon Runyon; Stephen King.
About me: Big nose, innocuous, warm heart, indifferent, cocktail sausage. I also run a website, The Idiot Bastard, dedicated to the late, great Frank Zappa.
UK Purple Haze Celebration 25th October 2009 All are welcome All are welcome. Time and Place. The UK Celebration will take place at The White Rose Centre in Rhyl, North Wales. Celebrations will strat at 2.00pm with a rehearsal of Purple Haze at 3.00pm and playing Purple Haze Live with our Brothers and Sisters in America at 5.00pm UK time.Look forward to seeing you all there!!BIG THANK YOU to Richard Henderson. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160035367320&ref=mf
Hey Andrew, Have a very groovy weekend and if you get time check the new Live-trax loaded from our current Strictly Frankly Musical Revue tour... By all means feel free to comment ! We wont hold it against you ....we promise
Programación de los Cursos de Verano de la Universidad de Cantabria "ZAPPA EVENING" PROJECT/OBJECT con IKE WILLIS y DON PRESTON: IKE WILLIS, guitarra y voz (giras y álbumes de Zappa entre 1978 y 1988), DON PRESTON, sintetizador, teclados y voz (Mothers Of Invention, y tours y álbumes de Zappa entre 1966-1974), ANDRE CHOLMONDELEY, guitarra y voz; ROBBIE MANGANO, bajo y voz; ERIC SLICK, batería, voz y electrónica; ERIC SVALGARD, teclados y voz FILTHY HABITS ENSEMBLE: EL PRICTO, saxo alto, clarinete, dirección y arreglos; DIRECTOR LÓPEZ-WILKINS, guitarra eléctrica y archivo; GUILLERMO CALLIERO, trompeta; LIBA VILLAVECCHIA, saxos tenor y soprano; DON MALFON, saxos barítono, alto y soprano; SEBI SUÁREZ, bajo eléctrico VASCO TRILLA, batería; JO MIRAMONTES, teclados y sintetizador CABALLERO REYNALDO AND THE GRAN KAZOO: LUIS G., guitarra acústica y voz; MANOEL MACÍA, guitarra acústica; oZcar McCuenca, trombón, mandolina y coros; VASCO TRILLA, batería
I will miss Wed and Thurs night at Zappanale, as I will see and perform with Project Object in Berlin on August 13 (I will drive to Bad Doberan after the show). So I will see you Friday mate
David Pastorius and Local 518 availabe NOW from Leaping Cat Records and can be ordered at most good record shops. This is a superb album, David Pastorius is a fantastic Musician and a world class bassist with fresh style of his own. This album is a must for any music lover, the level of musicianship is second to none. The music is new, exciting and unique.
Check it out at our website or on our myspace player, for the real experience buy the CD and play it on your stereo.
The album has a sense of dynamics that make it stand out on it's own.
have a great week!
hope we see you somewhere along the way on our UK Tour !
(March 18-LONDON,19-EXETER,20-HOLYWELL,21-MANCHESTER,22-NOTTINGHAM )
peace and passion
ZAPPATiKA
Compiled by Leaping Cat Records for Inkanish Records to benefit Jimmy Carl Black
Jon Larsen & JCB - Don Preston & Bunk Gardner - Ed Mann - Jerry Ford & Derek Dean - The Wrong Object - Captain Sensible - RagacatZZ - Southern Comfort - Corky's Cats - The Moving Tones - Zappatika - Tony Roberts
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