ACCORDING to the "Big Bang'' theory of the origin of the universe, everything started about 10 billion years ago when a volume of material about the size of a softball exploded and the thing has been expanding ever since.

Frank Zappa holds the "Big Note'' theory, where everything – light rays, soundwaves, atoms – may be vibrations of the same "Fundamental Cosmic Tone." Zappa is interested in all sorts of tones, mostly amplified, but he has interests in other areas of show business, too. (read more)

Source: Javier Marcote

Frank Zappa has always been the most madly inventive of rock musicians, and his concert at the Lyric Sunday night proved that he has become even more so since he disbanded the Mothers of Invention a couple of years ago. (read more)

Source: Javier Marcote

[1] I was a junior at Pomona then, and was spending a good deal of my time practicing the piano. A few days before the concert, Franks people passed the word to the chairman of the college social events committee that Frank wanted a little classical music to warm up his show, preferably some Stravinsky. The committee asked if I was interested in providing it. (read more)

[2] Francis Xavier Zappa, 26, works at the Giant Food store on Loch Raven boulevard. He will be moving to Seattle at the end of the month to enroll in scuba diving school. He's one of many Zappa relatives living in the musician's hometown of Baltimore. (read more)

IT WAS THE POSTER OF FRANK SITTING ON A TOILET BENEATH THE LEGEND “Phi Zappa Krappa” that did it.

The year was 1968, summertime, and I was a 10-year-old fifth-grader on vacation with my family in Ocean City. With long-haired, freaky hippies and psychedelic music grooving everywhere, it was hard to act hip wearing Bermuda shorts and a peach-fuzz wiffle haircut.

But the image of this strange, nearly nude man hanging from a Boardwalk souvenir shop provided yet another opportunity to jab the rock ’n’ roll needle into my parents’ sensibilities.

The poster — and the brush fire of scatological rumors about Zappa that grew fat and far beyond such indiscretions as being photographed on the john — went a long way in turning my head. (read more)

Source: slime.oofytv.set

At the corner of Conkling Street and Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown, a head looks over the neighborhood like a bodiless sentinel. The olive-toned, mustachioed bust takes in a colorful panorama: a pizzeria to the north and a pawnbroker to the west. Starting this weekend, when you hock that gold watch or grab a quick slice of pizza, Frank Zappa will be watching. (read more)

Source: slime.oofytv.set