Zappa Books

New Entries.

• 2 September. Italy's first progressive music magazine was Muzak (!). November 1973 issue contains article on Frank Zappa and Edgard Varèse.
• 1 September. Best was an Italian monthly in the 70s. The July 1977 issue had an overview article and some translations.
• 29 August. Frank Zappa / One Size Fits All. Cosmogonie du sofa is a small book by Guy Darol, written about one of the most popular Zappa albums.
• 28 August. 3rd and last volume of Christophe Delbrouck's trilogy added - Frank Zappa & l'Amérique parfaite. Take a look at all 3 books, if you read French they are probably one of the best books on Zappa for you.
• 27 August. RAM (Rock Australia Magazine), April 1980, containing long interview "The Sanest Man In The World Today?"
• 26 August. Zappa calendars are published in Germany since 1992. We posted all of them to Zappa Calendars Scrapbook page.
• 25 August. Los Angeles Free Press included 4-page paid advertisement by Zappa in September 1966. Very fine item! No we got additional information that it was September 9 issue, which included some interesting ads more.
• 24 August. "Frank Zappa's Got Brand New Shoes" was an interview in Hustler issue no. 2, August 1974.
• 23 August. First magazine from Belgium in our list - Juke Box. The November 1967 issue had a nice photo of Mothers of Invention and a short article.
• 22 August. Guerin Sportivo from Italy is the world oldest sport magazine. The December 1981 issue had an article on Riccardo Bertoncelli's Zappa book.
• 21 August. Italian Popster, September 1978 with giant Zappa poster by Massimo Bassoli.
• 20 August. Academic journal Popular Music and Society had back in 1975 article "Frank Zappa and the Enterprise of Serious Contemporary Music". Serious reading on serious composer.
• 19 August. Spanish Disco Expres #296 with articles on 1974/10/04 Badalona show.
• 18 August. Guitar For The Practicing Musician published in May 1986 article "Zappa: Now And Then" including two interviews, and "Peaches En Regalia" transcription by Andy Aledort.
• 17 August. Rolling Stone, December 1970 has a not so happy review on Chunga's Revenge by Lester Bangs.
• 16 August. Rosy Rosy is a book by Rosemarie Heinikel (kind of a German Pamela des Barres). Published in 1971 and includes a Munich concert backstage and bed scenes.
• 16 August. Music & Sound Output, March 1987. Page updated, scans added. Added article: "Frank Zappa: Samplin' Fool".
• 14 August. Expanded 2nd edition of Czech book Šuplík plný Zappy a Hratký s Beefheartem by Petr Dorůžka. 1993.
• 13 August. Billboard, December 18 1993. "Zappa: A Man Who Knew No Boundaries".
• 12 August. The Holland Festival program was a free weekly supplement to the third-biggest Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant, May-June 2000.
• 5 August. Dutch underground magazine Psy-In. Issue #83 (actually #1) from 1967 containing September 24 concert review.
• 29 July. New Musical Express, June 1973. Nice front page and short note on Zappa's coming tour.
• 25 July. Italian comic magazine Lupo Alberto. The 1988 October issue "Tutto il Rock" included 6-page comic strip on Zappa by Massimo Cavezzali.
• 20 July. ICE newsletters from September & October 1990 - "Frank Zappa Discusses Upcoming CD Projects."
• 19 July. Mojo, December 1998 - On Thursday November 27, 1968, two days before Thanksgiving weekend, Frank dropped by to talk about his forthcoming Ruben and The Jets album, play some old records, send up the station's ads and generally have a ball with DJ Les Carter, host of KPPC's 5-8 pm slot.
• 18 July. Added are scans of the following Melody Maker issues, containing articles, interviews, reviews, ads:
  - 1969 June 7
  - 1969 November 8
  - 1970 March 21
  - 1971 February 6
  - 1971 October 23
  - 1972 August 25
  - 1972 September 16
• 16 July. Two Melody Maker issues more:
  - 1975 April: "Court in the act"
  - 1976 March : "Zappa: 'I am a human being'"
• 15 July. Three Melody Maker issues from 1974:
  - January : "Mother In Lore"
  - July : "Grand Mother"
  - October : "Monsieur Zappa's Rock Circus"
• 14 July. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1989, containing article "Zappa Sells Zappa".
  "The problem with people who are collectors and purists and stuff like that is, their regard is not for the music, it is for some imaginary intrinsic value of vinyl and cardboard."
• 13 July. Dutch Musicmaker. August 2005 issue containing 4-page interview with Gail, Dweezil and Ahmet regarding the ZPZ tour..
• 12 July. Los Angeles Free Press, August 1969. Interview by Paul Eberle, which we already had from LA Star. Anyway, good reading and nice photos.
• 8 July. Article on Pierre Boulez conducting Frank Zappa's works and exclusive interviews with both, Zappa and Boulez. Libération, January 1984.
• 7 July. Canadian Conjonctures from 1999 with voluminous (25 pages) essay "Frank Zappa: un intellectuel 'spécifique'".
• 6 July. Dutch comic weekly Pep, September 1971. Nice drawing.
• 6 July. Italian hi-fi magazine Suono (sound) containing 4-page article "The man from utopia". June 2004.
• 2 July. Part 3 of the 4-part interview published in Discoscene, July 1968. "Readers Scene" is especially good in this issue. You have to read it!
• 1 July. One more new American magazine in our list - Rock Scene. The July 1978 issue has some photos and short note on Punky's Whips.
• 30 June. ICE magazine, October 2004, with article on QuAUDIOPHILIAc.
• 29 June. Interview by Elliot Cahn, leader of Sha Na Na, who met Zappa in November 1970. Los Angeles Free Press, November 29, 1974.
• 28 June. British contemporary music magazine Avant. Two issues:
  - Winter 1997 with article on Zappa's anthropology,
  - Autumn 2000 containing Zappening 2000 festival review.
• 27 June. Spanish Sal Común, February 1980, with Zappa interview by John Swenson.
• 27 June. Classic Rock July 2010 has free poster mag The 50 Albums That Built Prog Rock, including Freak Out.
• 26 June. The oldest jazz magazine in the world, French Jazz Hot (January 1969 issue), with short article about the Mothers' show in Paris.
• 25 June. Good Amougies festival overview article in Rock & Folk, December 1969.
• 22 June. The Rondo Hatton Report, vol.3 is out.
• 22 June. Short-living free magazine Music Pulse, July 1980, containing interview "Madman Or Genius".
• 21 June. American 50s and 60s music magazine Sh-Boom with Frank Zappa and Ray Collins interviews. March 1990.
• 20 June. Canadian Music Express had 2-page article "Make A Zappa Noise Here" in January 1992.
• 19 June. Guitar For The Practicing Musician, February 1994, with article on Zappa's guitarists and "Dirty Love" transcription.
• 18 June. Music & HiFi magazine Vox from Austria. March 1982 issue has 4-page article on Zappa.
• 18 June. Guitar Synth and MIDI was a special collectors' edition by Guitar Player. In 1987 they (re)printed special report "Guitar Synthesizer Artists Speak", including interviews with Allan Holdsworth, Steve Morse, Robert Fripp, Andy Summers, Al Di Meola, Lee Ritenour, Dan Mockensturm, John McLaughlin and Frank Zappa.
• 17 June. German Musik Express, July 1982, with 4-page original interview "Alles Scheisse" (in German, with Google translation).
• 15 June. Musician - two new issues
  - October 1991
  - October 1995
  plus all the missing scans to other issues added.
• 14 June. Two articles by Ben Watson, both from The Wire:
  - "Hail And Farewell" (02/1994)
  - "The Final Conflict" (02/1996)
  Very good reading!
  Andreas Mölich-Zebhauser: " For the postmodernists it was more harmony than melody [which] was the point of going back to history. How to invent melodies? For me, in the classical world there were maybe only two real big melody creators, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. Many other composers worked with combining rhythm and harmony with melodies, but being a real melody inventor must be very difficult! But Frank, at least from time to time, was one."
• 10 June. Another Czech magazine - Rock & Pop, 1991, April 21.
• 10 June. Czech oldest daily newspaper Lidové Noviny from November 29, 2008 with article on Frank Zappa, his Czech fans and his view on the Czech Republic.
• 9 June. Record Review from June 1982 with interview by Steven Rosen. All other Record Review's updated with scans.
• 8 June. August 1988 and Life. Article with funny pictures on Zappa and his family - "The Zappa Zoo".
• 7 June. German youth magazine by trade unions – ran, June 1979.
• 6 June. Some New Musical Express issues added:
  - March 1970 "Zappa Leads Way From 60's To 70's" by Allan McDougall
  - September 1972 "Zapped at the Oval" by Nick Kent
  - December 1976 "Any Resemblance is Purely Conceptual" by Miles
• 3 June.  People, May 1979. A 2-page article "Frank Zappa Mothers One Invention Too Many, And Furious Jewish Princesses Bite Back". Hm.
• 2 June. Japanese Music Life, August 1969, with some good photos.
• 1 June. American Creem, September 1976 – Zappa's been workin' on de railroad. De Grand Funk Railroad, dat is!
• 31 May. After some research it turns out that recently added Over-Nite Sensation Press Kit was actually a bundle of two press kits and the second one was Bongo Fury Press Kit!
• 29 May. Rare Greek book Frank Zappa (Φράνκ Ζάππα) by Pete Konstanteas.
• 28 May. Men's magazine Oui from April 1979 with long (11 pages) and good interview.
  "Besides, you don’t wanna talk about my music. It’s trapped in the Sixties. It’s a little time capsule that’s not supposed to be opened for another couple hundred years."
• 26 May. Two new issues of British Record Collector:
  - June 1989
  - May 1993
  The rest of RC page updated, about 60 scans added.
• 25 May. A newsletter Absolutely Free by Norbert Obermanns, author of Zappalog, published in 1981-1985.
• 24 May. High Times, November 1981, with "Say Cheese" by Frank Zappa. The same article was reprinted in the liner notes of You Are What You Is.
  Page scans added to all other High Times issues.
• 23 May. British record collecting magazine Music Collector from December 1990 with 4-page overview article on FZ.
• 22 May. Greek Moysiki, March 1980, with 4-page article on Joe's Garage.
• 20 May. University of Arizona program, October 10, 1980, 2 shows.
• 16 May. "The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul" - article in LA Weekly, December 12, 2008.
• 14 May. Rare French fanzine L'œil de Zappa (The Eye of Zappa) was published 1980-1982 by Francis Vincent. In total there should be 6 issues. We found 5 of them.
• 13 May. Paesaggi Immaginari (Imaginary landscapes) is Italian book by Riccardo Bertoncelli. Zappa is featured on the cover and and is frequently mentioned.
• 12 May. Current, May 2010 issue of Uncut, has a cover story "The 50 Greatest Lost Albums". Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart both are listed.
• 11 May. German edition of Rolling Stone. A 16-page special supplement to December 2003 issue.
• 11 May. Rolling Stone, November 1986, 1-page interview "Frank Talk".
• 10 May. Over-Nite Sensation Press Kit from April 1973.
• 9 May. Norwegian Society Pages added to Fanzines.
• 8 May. Guitar World, March 2010, with short Dad To The Bone by Dweezil as new issue added. All other Guitar World issues updated, about 100 scanned pages added!
• 8 May. The Rondo Hatton Report, vol. 2, March 21, 2010. Free & downloadable as pdf.
• 7 May. Ugly magazine huH from July 1995 including two articles on Zappa. But one of them is extra good reading: From Hungary With Love, by Gabor Csupo from The Simpsons team.
• 6 May. Blessed Relief, volume 3 in the series The Recordings Of Frank Zappa. This is in total 4th book by Scott Parker.
  
  
  
• 5 May. Second edition of Strictly Genteel by Scott Parker.
• 4 May. Interview with Frank and Moon Unit Zappa, Playboy, November 1982.
• 3 May. Did you know that Ben Watson's The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play is even translated? Back in 2001 it was translated into Russian by Pavel Cachanoff.
• 2 May. Guida alla musica pop - Italian edition of Das Buch der neuen Pop-Musik by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser.
• 1 May. Current issue of Mojo has a 2-page article How to buy Frank Zappa (10 best albums) and reviews on Philly '76 CD and The Freak Out List DVD.
• 1 May. Three issues of Relix bimonthly:
  - December 1981
  - August 1982
  - October 1995
• 30 April. The Tennessean Showcase had in December 1975 a rare article about Zappa in Yugoslavia. Good reading!
• 29 April. British free magazine Speakout from 1986 with 2-page interview.
• 19 April. Very high quality Scottish zine Slow Dazzle from August 1984 featuring article on Frank Zappa.
  
  
• 18 April. Three new issues of the wonderful Dutch newspaper Hitweek:
  - October 1966
  - May 1968
  - October 1968
• 17 April. Aum (formerly TeenSet) magazine from April 1969 with GTO's cover and 4-page photo session!
• 16 April. Freak Out! The Official News Of The Mothers. A paid advertisement as a 4-page newsletter in Los Angeles Free Press. September 1966. Very fine item!
  
  
  
• 15 April. Revised and updated Relix page, take a look.
• 14 April. Pavel Cachanoff translated into Russian 31 Frank Zappa interviews and published them as Collected Frank Zappa interviews for the young fanatics.
  
• 11 April. Spanish Mundo Joven (Young World), 17 May 1969, with article on underground.
• 11 April. French Rock & Folk - page revised, all the scans now added.
• 10 April. A lot of scans added - all of the Guitar Player family:
  - Guitar Player itself
  - Guitar Player Presents - Zappa! (1992)
  - Best of Guitar Player - A Definitive Tribute To FZ (1994)
• 7 April. Revised, missing scans added - Best of Guitar Player (USA), Hitweek (The Netherlands), Los Angeles Free Press (USA), Option (USA).
• 4 April. Two fine issues of Life, 1968 and 1971, all the scans are now available. Also added to Scrapbook the corresponding Bizarre Records reprint The New Rock.
• 3 April. Again - scans added and pages revised - Bugle American (USA), City Paper (USA), Veronica (Netherlands)
• 3 April. Frank Zappa: Il Don Chisciotte elettrico - Italian edition of the Electric Don Quixote by Neil Slaven.
• 3 April. International Musician, March 1977, containing 4-page interview.
• 2 April. Take a look at revised pages: BAM (USA), Beetle (Canada), Best (France), Changes (USA), Guitar Techniques (UK), Trouser Press (USA).
• 1 April. Captain Beefheart: The Man & His Music by Colin David Webb (1987).