Frank Zappa: The Roxy shows might see the li ..
Mention The Roxy shows in Hollywood, CA, and all Zappa fans will go ape. When Frank Zappa performed there (December 8–10, 1973), a camera crew was on hand to film it, but the footage failed to surface, with the trailer on the 2003 DVD release of Baby Snakes as the sole exception. But things are stirring up at FZ HQ. His widow Gail Zappa sent out an email about the endless hassle preserving the tapes: Hello Boys & Girls, About 10 Years Ago, shortly after Al Gore invented the internet, we here at UMRK, where we feel it is our duty … decided to announce plans for the Roxy Performances to be unleashed at last on a wholly suspecting public and others besides. What We Knew Then compared to What We Know Now about what is possible is something completely different. I could romanticize and say that over here at the Other Side of the Miracle of Time & Space there is nothing stopping us but the Movie Monster. Every Monster Movie has at least one. Our Movie Monster is THE BUDGET. Because of the condition the condition was in – no synch, no idea what was what, no idea of the actual coverage, no idea of the quality; all the et ceterae that caused FZ to abandon the project completely – it took all this time (if you include all the ...
Here comes the flood
13 May 2012