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Dweezil pays hommage to his pop on this very good tribute album. Nice to see that Gail is being a good mom and not threatening Dweez with a lawsuit for 'covers that don't maintain the composer's original intent', like she does to everyone else...

Frank live at the Pier, NYC, NY, August 26th, 1984. This is 60' long.

While this is one of those basically awful "unauthorized biography" type things, for long time Zappa/Bizarre label fans, this provides a lot of interesting info.

"Desperate to remove himself from his original deal with Verve Records, in 1968...

One of the most sought after and wished for archival releases finally squeaks out into the world *only* 42 years after being shot.

The story apparently is that there were terrible sync issues AND speed fluctuations on the original film stock between the visual and the audio and it has taken until today's technology for them to be able to make this a quality product.

All of this is undoubtably true, but the good news is that you would never, ever know from watching this that there were...

This is especially noteworthy for the 12/1974 KCET broadcast, which featured the amazing, amazing animation of Bruce Bickford. You haven't ever seen anything like it. This was once available as a very hard to get VHS tape only via mail order.
"Instead of Zappa's yearly Halloween pilgrimage to New York in 1982, Zappa premiered this 90-minute documentary at New York's legendary Ritz Theater. The documentary features two concerts - Zappa's 1981 Halloween show at New York's Palladium and the other...

"Frank Zappa published a record of his most important influences on the inside cover of his debut album. This film explores the musical roots of Frank Zappa by putting The Freak Out List under the microscope and tracing the lineage from the most pivotal..

Why was I not surprised to see this placed prominently on the box: "This film is not authorized by the estate or family of Frank Zappa"? Anyway, as a huge fan of the Mothers of Invention this was interesting for me to see and you get lots of...

"This film by director Mark Kidel, one of the world's leading makers of music programs (note: he made the brilliant and so-far unreleased BBC show on Robert Wyatt, "Free Will and Testament") features an illuminating documentary profile on one of the...

Claudia Heuermann's film, A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky, gives us a rare peek into the working methods of one of the most notorious and reclusive composers on the scene today. Filmed over a ten year period, this documentary includes live footage of Mas...

"Composed 1976–8 and now studied by guitarists the world over, The Book of Heads is one of Zorn’s most popular and oft-performed compositions. Utilizing an hermetic language of meticulously notated sounds inspired by contemporary classical extended techniques, the idiosyncratic guitar languages of free improvisation, cartoons, film noir, world music, philosophy and more, they receive a virtuosic reading by James Moore, founding member of the Dither guitar quartet. This special edition contains both a CD...

"Written in 1981, John Zorn’s intensely personal film treatment receives imaginative and unique interpretations by four cutting edge independent US filmmakers, Henry Hills, Lewis Klahr, Joey Izzo and Gobolux. Zorn’s perplexing list of 254 images...

John Zorn: Solo Organ Improvisation
with
Barbara Hannigan: vocals

“Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels, this is one of Zorn’s most beautiful and personal solo performances—a dramatic musical reading of the epic Faust legend.
Featuring a guest appearance by the sensational vocalist Barbara Hannigan, who is improvising with Zorn for the very first time—this exciting concert is presented here in a special limited edition 2-disc set that includes bot

"Richard Foreman is one of the great geniuses of modern theatre, and his dynamic staging of John Zorn's opera Astronome was one of his greatest works. Premiering in February of 2009 at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in the East Village, it continued...