I'm listening to "Balls" a mellow jazz R&B sounding CD by NMB. I saw the GrandMothers tonight. Fantastic! I was ashamed the place was empty. They were great and very generous with their time. 3 + hours of all FZ music. These cats are just as good as DZpZ are, but I wouldn't compare them as musicians. They're all great!. If you like a Zappa front man you can't beat NMB with Don Preston as a muse, it's all out Zappa fun! The sheeple sat where the seats were. I moved mine to front & center. It helped the show as several folks followed my lead. Great show! Nice musicians too!
5 outta 5 stars! No doubt!

I'm listening to "Balls" by NMB. It's good! I just saw him and Don Preston with the GrandMothers! Freakin' great show. DZpZ has nothing on these cats!!! IMHO.

I repeat myself I see. It was a great show though! :guitar::drums::guitar2::singer:

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Thanks Poly. See the bit about my knee in the story of our lock-out on page 137.

I hope both your bumps and bruises feel better soon. I'm constantly bumping and bruising myself too, so I know how that feels. Plus me backs been bad since 15 yrs. old. It's a bumpy, bruisey road to hoe out there.

Sorry about that Bonny, I remembered the lockout saga but I forgot about your knee. Something I'm curious about is what you meant by sun allergy.

Not sure when it started,when I was first getting some tan on my legs and they were covered in red spots in ten minutes (this is The Netherlands, not down under with high UV zones). In 2006 my sister dragged me to the Tour de France in Valkenburg, we spent hours in the sun waiting for Floyd Landis, when I came home my hands were covered in white bumps that would break open and theydid hurt. Every year, when the summer comes, I get white bumps on my hands.

I've not heard of that before. I remember a couple of times when I was a kid other members of my family getting these yellowish blister like things on their shoulders but that was over exposure to the sun and their skin had gone beyond just being sunburnt. A bunch of poms we were, who had no idea about the sun.

Pom, I don't know that phrase! To the Dinkum Aussie Dictionary!

Knee still hurts. Then again, I wasn't too careful testing out the velcro climbing wall at the Evoluon science exhibit.
Here I am doing the nail bed experiment. It should be more comfortable than the ball bed next to it did.
It didn't.

I know that nail beds are doable but I'm still not doing it.

Poms are what Aussies call the English. My family emigrated to Australia from England when I was five.

It's not that bad, but the bed onlyrises when you press both buttons, you have to make sure you lie down first and you have to stay lying there until the pins go away again.Getting up from or sitting down on it, that's when you place too much weight on a certain spot.
My problem was with the bit of the back on the other side of the chest.

It's been a bit hard on me lately, this life thing. Dad and I went to the Hague, with the intention of spending some time on the beach, but it was way too rainy. Came home all hungry, ate noodles which turned out not to be very good, logged in to read my mail and had the message they'll close it down shortly. Bugger: I've had my jelliclemail-address for over 13 years. Spent the better part of the day transferring mail and letting people know.

Also Eileen Brennan died and a mosquito bit me on the sole of my foot.

I guess you need a big hug. Hang in there Bonny. Maybe Roxy by Proxy will cheer you up although I'm personally not so sure about that.

Zappa in the Royal Albert Hall did. I'm listening to the recording I made yesterday. It starts off a little poorly, Greggery, with the narrator overdoing and Greggery missing a few cues, but becomes very colourful.

Roxy is here!

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yeah i think I'm going to pre-order that thing.:guitar:

Got in Bonny, glad to be aboard

I pre-ordered. Wonder if anyone knows of someone who purchased ROXY BY PROXY license and is now facing the ZFT in product sales. I knew that would be the result.

It does make make me wonder how that is going to work. Should I preorder now or wait until some indie offers it for sale. I wish I'd made a copy of that license now so I could check the rules of competition. It seems to me that because the licenses aren't available to existing businesses, any licensee has no machinery with which to compete with the ZFT. So the ZFT is effectively goading people into giving them $1000 as the cost of proving they should have shut their mouth with their comments about the uselessness of the ZFT.

How's that for cynical?

...and the ZFT has all those little tidbits of Franks that us ZappaFreaks love they can include in they're package. It's tough to be hawkin' Roxy by Proxy as an independent against them right now and into the future. You might as well hang it on a wall and fugettaboutit. Might be worth something to the grandkids.

How's that for cynical? :grin:

Look Kapt, you and the rest of the world know that license ain't worth squat. GZ wasn't into a Kickstarter campaign and she doesn't seem excited by subscriptions. Some of us would have helped out...but I pay bills so I don't have a grand laying around to prove how devoted I am.:verycool::verycool::verycool::swear: