7 Post(s) Found For: Frank Zappa

  “It’s about us, me and Jerry Garcia and David Crosby, stealing a starship. Hijacking a spaceship. It’s my answer to the ecology problem. We’ll land wherever we want and then take off again. There’s millions of other whole planetary systems. What old Owsley could do is to make a machine that would go that […]

  IRWIN CHUSID (author, Songs In The Key Of Z): Outsider music is a slippery genre. It’s musicians who tend to be self-taught, untrained, working certainly way outside the channels of mainstream music. There are very important qualifications; they are sincere about it. They mean it. They’re not doing it to be funny. They’re not […]

  On the afternoon of March 9, 1969, three guitar-and-drum-beating sisters from tiny Fremont, New Hampshire entered an even tinier recording studio and emerged, just a few hours later, with a dozen original rock ‘n’ roll songs on some quarter-inch tape. These twelve songs were then pressed onto one thousand vinyl records, nine hundred copies […]

  The first Friday of most every month throughout 1967 and into ’68, I was formally excused from school so that my mother could take me all the way into Toronto for orthodontic appointments. As due reward afterwards, I would be treated to a tasty french-fry-and-chocolate-milk lunch in the sumptuous Eaton’s Department Store cafeteria, then […]

  Just on the off chance you’ve already made it through all 18 discs, 20 hours, and/or 379 tracks of Bob Dylan’s Cutting Edge Collector’s Edition, then may I suggest you now turn both ears immediately towards…   DRIFTING SAND Summer Splash (Piña Colada Records) To fill that sonic gap in a year which saw […]

CACTUS / FRANK ZAPPA / INCOGNITO / MUSE / IAN DURY / CLIFF RICHARD / JOHN LENNON / GEORGE HARRISON / ROLLING STONES / JANIS JOPLIN / VOLBEAT / THE KINKS / DE CLOSE GOLD / KEITH MOON / JEFF HEALEY

NAME: Mattias Ia Eklundh PLAYING (YEARS): Turned to hard core guitar playing around the mid 80s, before that I played the drums. STYLE: Home brewed, mostly insanely distorted, unorthodox Swedish bastard style (read: basically heavy guitar) GEAR: My signature Apple Horn model, manufactured by Caparison Guitars in Japan. Laney amps. Hose-clips/clamps, remote controls and an occassional Chinese dildo. ENDORSEMENTS: Caparison, Laney. Been using it […]