Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Doc doesn't quite capture the spirit of the brilliant iconoclast

"...Trying to communicate the essence of musician Frank Zappa and his body of work in words is..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Banned Leader: The Contradiction of Frank Zappa in Zappa

Alex Winter sees the combative side of a cultural maverick

"...You never forget your first Frank Zappa album. Unless you’re Alex Winter, and then he..."

Jan. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Banned Leader: The Contradiction of Frank Zappa in Zappa

Alex Winter sees the combative side of a cultural maverick

Jan. 8, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Absolutely Frank

Ryko Reissues Zappa

"...a number of others were more deeply affected by Frank Zappa's death in 1993 than I was. It's not..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

10 Minutes with Dweezil Zappa

Guitar scion frees fans and musicians alike from their boxes

"...Zappa Plays Zappa hits Emo’s tonight with eldest son Dweezil..."

May 1, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Sound Unseen Review: Zappa

or "The Impossibility of a Primer About an Obtuse Genius"

"...Frank Zappa hates this film...."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

Zappa

Two hours with the original Mother of Invention isn't enough

"...Frank Zappa hates this film...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Zappa Still Lives

"...all, now I read where Louis Black is a Zappa fan, if not a true Zappa aficionado ["Page Two,"..."

Feb. 8, 2007 Postmarks

Good Night Austin, Texas, Wherever You Are

Dweezil Zappa returns some ‘Bongo Fury’ to Austin, this time at Stubb's.

"...First a little personal history to put Thursday night’s Zappa Plays Zappa performance at Stubb’s into perspective. The first..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Howard Kaylan: Coming Out of His Shell

Two Turtles scurry back to Austin

"...My Life with The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc., reads as a rarity amongst rock autobiographies:..."

June 6, 2013 Music Post by Scott Schinder

Sound Unseen Fest Comes to Texas

Hybrid music/movie fest brings Zappa, Stardust, more

"...the new Sound Unseen Film/Music Festival has announced that Zappa, the documentary about the king of freak out tunes,..."

Oct. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Destination Unknown

"...a cascade of familiar words -- names such as Frank Zappa, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, and Stevie Ray Vaughan...."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Page Two: The Stravinsky Theory

The healing power of prescience, set on "repeat"

"...– "Trouble Every Day," Frank Zappa..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Reissues

"...of El Monte" were a response to such fragmentation. Frank Zappa co-wrote the latter and struck a genuine combination..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...direction. The fest had already announced Alex Winter's eagerly-awaited Frank Zappa bio, titled simply Zappa, as closing night film,..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rock, They Wrote

Writing From Both Sides of the Musical Fence

"...the grooves of records by Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, and Little Richard. Seven..."

June 21, 1996 Books Feature

Top Tracks for Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival

Band histories and soaring romances at the streaming fest

"...in this new film from Steven Spielberg's longtime producer, Frank Marshall. This history of one of the industry's most..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Screens Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Off the Record

Reviewing the three-ring circus of Fun Fun Fun Fest and flashing back to the Armadillo World Headquarters with Dweezil Zappa

"...In May 1975, Frank Zappa recorded a two-night stand at Austin's Armadillo World..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Frank Zappa

DVDnds

"...Frank ZappaDoes Humor Belong in Music? (Virgin/EMI) There's little doubt..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

Freak Out!: My Life With Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa's secretary made excellent use of her notepad

"...Freak Out!: My Life With Frank Zappaby Pauline Butcher Plexus, 320 pp., $19.95 (paper)..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Rock & Roll Books

Picks & Sleepers

"...Zappa: A Biographyby Barry Miles..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Dancing About Architecture

Fastball: The Band That Saved Hollywood?

"..."It's not official official," contends Watermelon Records' Eric Zappa, but he doesn't deny the signing of the Damnations..."

May 1, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Page Two: "Trouble Comin' Every Day"

And too many couldn't be happier about it

"...– "Trouble Comin' Every Day," Frank Zappa..."

May 5, 2017 Column by Louis Black

When the Clock Strikes 12

Bill Haley died for rock & roll – in Harlingen

"...of teens bored with their parents' Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra records...."

May 16, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.

Howard Kaylan comes out of his shell

"...My Life With the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.by Howard Kaylan with Jeff Tamarkin Backbeat Books,..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...Fischer. Fischer's brief moment of cult fame came when Frank Zappa heard him singing on the street for change..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"..."Lo and behold, there was none other than Mr. Frank Zappa himself looking down from the stage, intoning a..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Say Anything

Eric Bogosian Comes Clean

"...Blood on the Canvas. How was it working with Frank Zappa?..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Wise, Babe Howard, Dora Madison, Ivory Aquino, James McDaniel, Frank Wood, Arliss Howard, Pooya Mohseni, Portia (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Frank Zappa appeared on The Monkees in the episode "The..."

March 6, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

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