VARIOUS ARTISTS - UPTIGHT TONIGHT

• various artists: uptight tonight: the ultimate 60's garage collection
  (2005, cd, ??, big beat)

This compilation album includes Teddy & His Patches with "Suzy Creamcheese".

In 1967 Conway and Jerry Ralston wrote a song called Suzy Creamcheese based on the opening dialogue from The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet which Ralston "borrowed". Conway later explained: "We had no clue who Frank Zappa was at that time."

-- info & picture: Nikolai Zaharov

MOONJUNE UPDATE

two new releases on the Moonjune label:

• SLIVOVITZ - HUBRIS
  http://www.moonjune.com/MJR026.htm
• GEOFF LEIGH & YUMI HARA - Upstream
  http://www.moonjune.com/MJR027.htm

THUMPER

I've heard rumous about Thumper on various occasions. The band should have recorded or performed a Zappa tune... ?!?

A couple of days ago, I received some info by Hans-Peter Schmidt, and I was able to add the following to the U.M. archive files:

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Thumper was a punk band based in Nürnberg, Germany, from 1985 until 1987. They recorded and released Frank Zappa's 'What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body', on their first 7".

• thumper: stop stop stop!
  (1986, 7", ger, mt-012)

About the "Stop Stop Stop!" single, Thumper added on their website:
"After having practiced for a few hours, we had a half dozen or so "songs" recorded on a cheap boom-box, and presto!, our first single was born. It was quickly announced in Mykel Board's MRR colmn as one of his all time favorite records. He even added that the sound qualitzy would move any sound engineer to jump out of a 6 storey window! Featuring a cover of Frank Zappa's 'What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?'."
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-- info: Hans-Peter Schmidt

ALICE COOPER - EASY ACTION

Rhino is reissuing the Alice Cooper "Easy Action" LP. On vinyl.

Originally released in 1970 on Zappa's Straight label.

TWO NEW ZAPPA BOOTLEGS ANNOUNCED

on the "guitar master" label:

frank zappa: swiss cheese and debutante daisy
(2009, 3-cd-bootleg, guitar maste)

= 1974/10/01 early and late concert basel, switzerland

disc 1:
- early show -

1. tush, tush, tush
2. stinkfoot
3. inca roads
4. cosmic debris
5. approximate
6. florentine pogen
7. penguin in bondage
8. t'mershi duween

disc 2:
- early show -

1. dog breath variations
2. uncle meat
3. building a girl
4. camarillo brillo
5. oh no
6. son of orange county
7. more trouble every day

- late show -

1. tush, tush, tush
2. stinkfoot
3. rdnzl
4. village of the sun
5. echidna's arf
6. don't you ever wash that thing?
7. montana

disc 3:
- late show -

1. dupree's paradise
2. tush, tush, tush
3. pygmy twylyte
4. room service
5. tush, tush, tush

on the hoffman records label:

frank zappa: further modifications
(2009, lp-bootleg)

= 1973/05/09 concert passaic, nj, usa

a limited run of total 200 copies in various colours

ANDRES MASTRANGELO - + D LO MISMO

• andrés mastrangelo: + d lo mismo
  (2008, cd, spain, hall of fame records hof-037-cd)

"+ D Lo Mismo" is Andrés Mastrangelo's second release.
Again, the album presents a nice mixture of styles. Musicwise, it's a very impressive album. The weakest point is the lack of (a) powerful vocalist(s).
Worth mentioning: there's a track called 'Cervesa I Mamelles' (Beer & Titties).
And there's also a little 30-seconds version of 'He's So Gay' at the end of the disc. (= hidden track)

All in all, "+ D Lo Mismo" is a nice listening experience. Zappa-esque, funny, and some great suprises.

A great album !

ANDRES MASTRANGELO - DIS IS DA CANDOMBE

• andrés mastrangelo: dis is da candombe
  (2005, cd, urugay, sondor)

Andrés Mastrangelo lives in Urugay.
He contributed to various albums in the Hall Of Fame "Unmatched" series. The Spanish Zappa Tribute Discs.

In 2005, Andrés Mastrangelo released his first solo album.
A couple of years ago, I came across a promotional CDR of this album. More recently, I got hold of a factory pressed copy through Hall Of Fame Records.

The music on this album is quite good. It's a pity that my spanish isn't good enough to enjoy the lyrics as well.

Track number six is Andrés versions of Zappa's 'He's So Gay'.

I like it.

BRAINVILLE

Brainville is a little town in France.
It's also a Sun Ra composition.

And more recently, I learned that it wass also the name of the project of Hugh Hopper and Daevid Allen.
In and out of the Brainville project: Pip Pyle, Kramer, and Chris Cutler.

Brainville has a couple of CDs out. You can get a little taste over at YouTube for some video fragments, or over at DimeADozen for an audio audience recording of one of their 2008 concerts.

THE 2009 SHEIK YERBOUTI CONCERT IN HAMBURG

Tuesday, August 11, 2009, Sheik Yerbouti feat. Napoleon Murphy Brock will be performing the music of Frank Zappa at the St. Katharinen Kirche in Hamburg, Germany.

This will be the opening concert for the Zappanale festival, which is held in Bad Doberan, Germany.

THE 2008 BOGUS POMP CONCERT IN HAMBURG

The "Stiftung Johann Sebastian" (who, together with the Arf Society, organised last years Bogus Pomp / Napoleon Murphy Brock concert in Hamburg) says:

Schon im vergangenen Jahr spielte mit großem Erfolg die US-amerikanische Zappa-Band „Bogus Pomp“ mit Napoleon in der Hamburger Hauptkirche St. Katharinen. Eine neue CD des Konzerts 2008 wird als SJS-Stiftungs-Edition erscheinen.

Of which one might translate the last sentence as: A (new) album of this 2008 concert will be released as a SJS-organisation edition.