BBP - 25-7-2007 at 09:52
having problems getting to the Zappa.com forum?
punknaynowned - 25-7-2007 at 16:13
yep, 'operation timed out when attempting to contact zappa.com'
how are you all?
BBP - 26-7-2007 at 15:11
I'm OK! How are you?
aquagoat - 26-7-2007 at 19:01
yes, I had trouble getting there yesterday.
I'm ok too and hope everyone else is too.
Calvin - 26-7-2007 at 23:49
Me too! I actually figured out later that I accidentally clicked my chickswhoeatspaghettifetish link.
BBP - 1-8-2007 at 11:41
It's off-duty once more... been trying to log in all day, finally managed to do so, and right after sending a post it's out of the air again. 
DED - 10-8-2007 at 08:26
If zappa goes down there is still a good alternative
BBP - 21-12-2007 at 11:58
And today they're down once more... I could issue a newsletter...
punknaynowned - 22-12-2007 at 03:09
a newsletter?
this time the message is different
'the board is unavailable, try again later'
last night I spent a lot of time on there and they had removed a bunch of posts from Andre C (the leader of project/object), and even parts of posts
by others that referred to him or that conversation about the shutting down of KUR.
and today's fz's birthday. ya know I haven't been to the site, just checked on the forum,
mutronboy - 22-12-2007 at 04:40
yaa I thought I'd been banned for having a whinge about Gail on that thread
I didn't mention P/O..but was talking about cover band policy
I suppose the posting of the documents was a bit much for Gail
Can't blame her for pulling them really
punknaynowned - 22-12-2007 at 05:20
oh, whatever, maybe all of it means there are changes afoot. I checked too and the only zappa you can't email right now, is gail. you pass your
mouse over it and it says 'soon'. and there is a new page up for that as well.
. . .
I'm listening to zappa radio anyway and they've added a few things today.
-- there is a new intro every time you play the stream
-- there are a bunch of new songs, from what I can tell
-- several new 'station ID' snippets of Mathilde, Moon, Zola, Dweezil
y'know Bonny, I wouldn't worry about what you're doing here at packard goose. Not that ya were anyway
[Edited on 22-12-2007 by punknaynowned]
BBP - 22-12-2007 at 13:32
It's gail@zappa.com. Mailed her twice, never had a response. I wonder what is going on inside her brain. Life is getting pretty tough for the
Zapheads, seems like it.
I've read the post by Andre_C. I did it was uncalled for, he was unnecessarily rude. But hey, it's the Internet. I've been getting a lot of shit over
me since I first came to it. No reason to be too upset about it. It's a place where anonimity rules.
Speaking of which, I'm a 36-year-old guy from England. I just use a pic from a porn magazine as avatar.
Spacebrother - 22-12-2007 at 18:14
I agree that Andre was a little over the top and was afraid that the whole forum was about to suffer because of an outspoken few. I like Andre and his
band but think he let his emotions get the better side of him.
Oh yeah, I'm actually the Pope. 
BBP - 22-12-2007 at 19:19
Ssh! Someone like me who disapproves of religious institutes may decide to send you a virus if that becomes well-konwn! 
Spacebrother - 22-12-2007 at 20:47
*cough cough sniffle* I'm suddenly feeling a little woozy 
DED - 25-12-2007 at 11:27
It is not Gail who made ZPZ a succes.
That were all the fans together.
Her son is making money but only thanks to them, empty concert rooms wil not bring in any recette
That fans are still interested is by their exchanging of music and stories.
punknaynowned - 29-12-2007 at 11:16
yeah, you'd think that were so. But Gail asserts that it is the music, not anything else at all that brings them in and keeps them interested.
DED - 29-12-2007 at 11:42
Problem is that she can think what she likes if the trust owns the rights, in cord they always be succesful. For us, the only thing remaining is
hoping for a new Zappa era as she `chooses` for the eternal life.
BBP - 29-12-2007 at 20:25
Uhhh... doubt that... there's Dweezil who'll take over by then... and he doesn't seem to be any more lenient.
DED - 6-1-2008 at 10:47
I doubt that.
Dweezil can play zappa music and being a zappa too.
Gail has only memories
But is is off topic to speak about Zappa in the chit chat
[Edited on 6-1-2008 by DED]
BBP - 6-1-2008 at 12:48
Ehhmm... I was a Dweezil fan once, but through reading plenty of Dweezil interviews, I'm not anymore. He has this "idea" that he is the only one who
can play Zappa music properly because he has the genes.
(This remark could earn this site the boot, but I'm willing to risk that.)
scallopino - 7-1-2008 at 01:20
Really? I think Terry Bozzio said a short while ago that Dweezil had to work very very hard on his playing in order to do the ZPZ thing. There's a
video of him saying that on youtube. That's not genetic. It's practise. I always thought he was a very cool and humble bloke. Could you post a link or
two to the interviews you've read Bonny?
BBP - 8-1-2008 at 16:49
Actually I have them in magazines... And yeah, I knew he had to work hard on his playing. But he has put his genes in as argument, saying that he's
the only one who can play Zappa properly because of DNA. Then again, it could be a journalist getting a spiffy quote, tweeking words a little.
One thing I appreciated about Dweezil is it taught me that being a famous kid (like, say, Kelly Osbourne. Even I can sing better than Kelly Osbourne)
may get you an album in the style of My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (which carries a song called "The Coolest Guy In The World", in which DZ
describes how tough it is to be cool), a bit of practice gets you Confessions, and a lot of practice gets you Go With What You Know (which is a pretty
good album).
scallopino - 10-1-2008 at 04:14
It's weird in another way because that kind of statement was exactly the kind of thing that Frank loved to ridicule mercilessly his whole life,
especially since he was self taught in everything he did and had to work very hard himself.
BBP - 10-1-2008 at 12:10
Yup... and judging from Dweezil's earlier albums, he wasn't born with it either. I'll look for it today...
punknaynowned - 10-1-2008 at 19:24
I could be totally wrong, but I always thought Dweez's pose as such a cool guy was also ironic, a posture that is as funny as it might be true to
some:
that he knows it's all a sham and that 'coolness' is something somebody else puts on us and not something we can project without expecting a fair
share of ridicule . . .
scallopino - 12-1-2008 at 06:53
Yeah, that was my impression of him as well.