Vibraciones
SpainPar excellence musical magazine of the seventies. Wonderful mag where gathering Murillo, Manrique, Juliá, Llopis & many more journalists related with underground. All articles were excellent & fabulous illustrated reports of concerts, and don't forget the special issues.
Later became into Rock Espezial and in the middle of eighties into Rock de Lux. (J.Marcote)
1975 October
Vol. 2 No. 13
Zappppa!
8 pp in total, including MOI family tree ( thanks to Urban Gwerder) and articles:
La heterodoxia como actitud
By Claudi Montañà, 2 pp
San Francisco Vicente Zappa: Bufn, Farsante, Genio y Martir
By Diego A. Manrique, 3 pp
Cuando las lavadoras comen Hot-Dogs..."
Discography by Oriol Llopis, 2 pp
(Full texts of all 3 articles at El 3er Poder)
Source: Javier Marcote
Inspired by the cover of Roger Daltrey's 1975 solo album Ride a Rock Horse, Kim presented his funny drawings of some artists and rockers as centaurs: Roger Daltrey, Dana Gillespie, Frank Zappa, Ike & Tina Turner, Gualberto, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones.
Source: Javier Marcote
On page 10 there is an ad-poster of the shows to be performed by FZ in 1976. Two shows on March 15th & 16th in Badalona ( Barcelona) and on 17th in Bilbao. Eventually these shows were cancelled due to the advice of Herb Cohen to FZ about their equipment related with the transportation strike happened and finished before to those dates in Spain.
On page 13 is an article "More Zappists than Zappa" by Ángel Casas, formerly editor of Vibraciones #1 remembering his concert in Badalona '74 and his expectations for these news shows considering all excellent musicians who had played with him, though missing Captain Beefheart in this tour.
Two posters were included with #18 and mentioned on the cover: Wakeman and Zappa W.C.
Source: Javier Marcote
1977 November
Vol. 4 No. 38
Vibs 38: Los Guitarras del Rock
By Diego A. Manrique, Jaime Gonzalo, Julio Murillo, 10 pp
Source: Javier Marcote
The article "The grandma tales" is about Barcelona show in March '79.
Source: Javier Marcote
1979 August
Vol. 6 No. 59
Los lloriqueos de la madre
By Julio Murillo, p 12
(Full text at El 3er Poder)
This article is about last European tour and difficulties Zappa had – like playing (first time) concerts in smaller cities.
Source: Javier Marcote
First part of the exclusive Zappa interview "My drug is sex" by Juan Carlos Rubio, correspondent in Los Angeles.)
Source: Javier Marcote
1980 May
Vol. 8 No. 68
Los experimentos del gobierno americano con el LSD en San Francisco
By Juan Carlos Rubio, 4 pp
2nd part of the exclusive Zappa interview "The American Goverment's experiments with LSD in San Francisco" by Juan Carlos Rubio, correspondent in Los Angeles.
Source: Javier Marcote