If you want to understand Zappa the composer, satirist, and bandleader, One Size Fits All (1975) is where all three shake hands. The humour is the smoke, the band’s precision is the fire. An album that winks at you and challenges you in the same breath. Zappa fans know: Respect the sofa! #Zappa
HI @noiseresearch.bsky.social - ZAPPA
+ STINK FOOT
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It should be easy to see..the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe(')
4th MAR 1982 - FRED ZEPPELIN
with Dweezil ZAPPA & Moon Unit ZAPPA
Their 1st single was + My Mother is a Space Cadet
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Central Scrutinizer here with a starter pack for Frank Zappa Music Month - February 2026.
Thanks to all that dropped by & enjoyed the weird, wild & wonderful music of Mr. Frank Zappa. Magical memories of baby snakes, Joe, Sears' ponchos, slime, penguins, peaches, muffins & pancakes.
Enjoy! 😁
At the moment Maizie is way too tired and cozy, curled up in her favourite evening spot behind the chair in the bay window to say thank you herself but asked me to say a very big thank you on her behalf
Our crazy, funny, smart and beautiful girl is 10 years old today.
RIP Bud Cort
and thank you
Harold and Maude helped shape me as a young and impressionable teenager in the 70s
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FRANK ZAPPA
BEAT INSTRUMENTAL JUNE 1978
+ HONEY, DON'T YOU WANT A MAN LIKE ME ?
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Fine music played by fine musicians. Forever happily associated with my pal Vince, running down a busy Saturday afternoon street in Reading yelling to me "I've got it!....I've got it! ..... I've only got the F***ing b*****d Zappa!!!!!". Turned a few heads 😂
One of my favourite Zappa tunes beautifully interpreted. This is very clever stuff!
Burnt Weeny Sandwich, the seventh album by The Mothers of Invention was released #OTD 1970. #Zappa
Very sad news
Fred Smith, bassist of the rock band Television, passed away yesterday at the age of 77.
Photo: Lynn Goldsmith
#RIPFredSmith
Released on this day in 1975 (UK): How Does It Feel #Slade
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Seam Crooked Sam
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Don Van Vliet
Aka Captain Beefheart
Sad news about Fred Smith. The music of Television, along with Wire, was something new bold and exciting in 1977.
#RIP
FRANK ZAPPA
MM FEB 1969
+ DESERI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAG6...
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Happy B'Day Feb 5 to Vinnie Colaiuta drum maestro w/ Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa & Sting (1956)!
Joe’s Garage youtube.com/watch?v=KINj...
Live at Ronnie Scott’s youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Ten Summoner's Tales youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#drums #drummer #sting #jeffbeck #frankzappa
The Magic Band in a more sophisticated pose than on its predecessor.
Lick My Decals Off, Baby is the less cheerful but fascinating sequel to Trout Mask Replica. I usually forget I have this, so it's always a nice surprise when I remember.
MOTHERS OF INVENTION
DISC SEPT 1970
+ MY GUITAR WANTS TO KILL YOUR MAMA
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FRANK ZAPPA
NME JAN 1979
+ FZ MANCHESTER 79
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I think Zappa described this as the best night of that '79 tour, missed Manchester but was down in London a few days later. There's a wonderful AM broadcast recording of the Manchester date released a few years ago
Like you I'm polite to a fault..... pre-ordered within seconds of the email from @burningshed.com 🥳
Happy birthday to George Duke, born on this day in 1946!
The San Rafael-raised jazz fusion keyboard wizard who worked with Zappa, Adderley & Clarke, pioneering synth grooves and crossing every genre boundary with effortless cool.
Just watched my beautiful wife, 68 years young, doing the washing up, whistling her lungs out and dancing like an idiot to Zappa's Gumbo Variations and it made me so......HAPPY!
Growing Older Thought for the Day…
Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.
