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http://www.zappafrenzy.com

"I refuse to become what you call normal"
Lemmy Caution

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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ALL THE FUN IN THE WORLD?

For long years i was shure, it was this one:

But then suddenly this one appeared and i realized, that there were a lot of competitors all the time:

for example:



what i don't like too much, is the portraitshot of you are what you is. the cover of tinseltown rebellion is also fine, but can't compete with the other works of Cal Schenkel (imho).

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god, what a cheap bubble machine!!!

oh my god, forgot these:

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god, what a cheap bubble machine!!!

you like the sleep dirt album cover??!!! its not Zappa approved!

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

Yes, but he also used all of these covers by Gary Panter then for the CD-releases (which means for the remaining time of the rest of the universe), so i think, he felt OK with them

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god, what a cheap bubble machine!!!

I loved the Grand Wazoo cover so much I recreated it as a 3ft x 3ft painting and have it framed in my living room. (Don't worry, there's over 30+ differences from the original and I'm not selling it profiting from it in any way. Cal's the man.)

Burnt Weeny Sandwich.

Closely followed by Fillmore East.
Chortle chortle.

I like the Cal ones, and the DRW 'dog' pics.
The FZ portrait ones always seem a bit lazy in comparison. The Yellow Shark cover depresses me, though I love the package in general.

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Guy Cool

i heard a rumor that the cover for TYS was actually a photo of Zappa on his death bed.

honestly, i doubt its true. this is only what i've HEARD, and actually i've only heard it from one person years ago.

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Do you think that I creep in the night
And sleep in a phone booth?

there's so many cool covers

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my flickr

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BANNED and FAT

...or in whatever shape it may come...

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BANNED and FAT

Never heard this rumor, but seems the same kind of nonsense, like the FZ-shit-on-stage-rumor. The photo already was used as poster for the YS-concerts. Its done by Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004), one of the most famous 20th century photographers (who also photographed FZ in the 70s and already photographed everybody: Chaplin, Monroe, Stravinsky,...). I think, it's a masterwork, for example the blur of the hair against the sharpness of the face. In my opinion it shows FZ with his whole self-confidence as artist as well as personality and defies dead in this short moment. So i am just not depressed by this cover (far from it performances of his music after his death depress me and i don't have much interest for them). I think, it is that kind of portrait, that serves the person for eternity, like paintings or statues did that job in earlier times (for example in the era of Francesco Z).

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god, what a cheap bubble machine!!!

thought this might have got the odd vote.

And this one too.

most of the ones i love have already been posted.

have to go with We're Only In It For The Money, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Uncle Meat, One Size, ahhhh so many...

Sleep Dirt, Studio Tan (yeah i know..but i like it), Waka/Jawaka, Grand Wazoo, Man From Utopia, Them or Us, Ship Arriving, so many that i like!

but as far as new releases go, i absolutely love this one:

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Do you think that I creep in the night
And sleep in a phone booth?

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

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Sometimes it seems like there isn't enough time in the day to not do all the things that need not doing

i love that chunga pic!

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

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"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -
it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least you need a BEER." - FZ