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Believe it or not it has been almost twenty years since Frank Zappa lost his battle with prostate cancer (the 18th anniversary of his passing being December 4, 1993), that’s almost two whole decades without any new material from one of the most singular talents to ever work in modern music, Fortunately for fans of FZ’s highly structured music his son Dweezil Zappa, after many years writing, recording and releasing his own - well worth investigating - albums, has taken up the baton and set about ensuring a whole new generation of music fans are introduced to the delights of ‘Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow’, ‘Inca Roads’ ‘King Kong’, ‘Camarillo Brillo’ and much, much more. Having recently released a live album (more here), and toured a complete live run through of Apostrophe (‘) we thought it was high time we caught up with the man for an e-chat about his dad's music...
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Jazz Is Not Dead
Not news as such but a debate raged here at TM-Towers over the Christmas period about who we would vote the finest guitarist of all time. Needless to say we arrived at no concrete results (comparing Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and Robert Fripp is a bit like comparing eggs, wind and a hairstyle), however what everyone did agree on was how incredibly underrated Allan Holdsworth was and how we should do our bit to combat that lack of profile, so we have and you can find Al' right now in our bright and shiny video section
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Grindermixed
Grinderman have announced the release of Grinderman 2 RMX a collection of remixes, reinter- pretations and collaborations based on the songs from the band’s 2010 Grinderman 2 album. Out on Mute on 26 March the album will be available in a deluxe double vinyl edition with CD insert, as well as on both CD and digital formats and includes the tremendous 'Super Heathen Child' collaboration with Robert Fripp and an equally cracking remix of 'Bellringer Blues' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ guitarist Nick Zinner which you can see right here, right now…
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Gerald Bostock?
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Jethro Tull’s ‘Thick As A Brick’, Ian Anderson and band will be playing the album in its entirety all over the shop (see UK dates here). A, whisper it, ‘concept album’ which was based, legend had it, on a poem written by a 10 year old boy called Gerald Bostock (you can apparently even catch up with Gerald via his Facebook page) and made up of one seamless 45 minute long track, although split to accommodate the album on vinyl and cassette, and for those of you that need a gentle reminder of just how good it sounded...
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