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Coming this summer to PBS, the quest to find out if a thrift store painting was the work of a young FZ.

http://mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2 ... =fullstory

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Elementary my dear Watson...

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I occassionally watch History Detectives and look foward to this episode, I remember when the FZ painting showed up on Antiques Roadshow, if I am not mistaken the value placed on it was $20,000...

Will say it again: there's some preeetty cool stuff on that page! I love the style of that collage!

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Wow !
Drum Shop and Horny are pretty similar in style.

Thanx pedro and BBP,it's worth quit a few more looks.Nice! Is that our brainpang?
I like the comic with one of the MOI standing on a vegatable crate that sez marijuana,mild taste! It's upside down....those crazy fun Czech'z!

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Set your DVR. Or don't.

July 17th

Episode 1 @ 9/8c — All Rock 'n Roll: Is this the Bob Dylan guitar that changed rock music forever? Autographs from the Beatles' Miami concert - are they real? And, did Frank Zappa create this collage?

Sneak peek:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetective ... 249955756/

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FD,is this what you mean by your signature? Good writing is clear writing.Because you can see right throught it?

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Good episode. Gail appeared and pretty solidly confirmed that the painting was indeed by FZ. Why wasn't this show promoted on the Zappa website? It was well done and presented FZ in a very flattering light.

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Yeah...my_name_is_fritz would have loved the section on the finding of Bob Dylan's first electric guitar.

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They promote new things about Zappa on that site?

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Here's the episode http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/2253615057/

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gail really hammered home the authenticity of the painting. I really liked the reference to the jacket in the painting with the owner wearing the same in the photo which was produced.

The Dylan g'tar was very interesting. I paid close attention to the responses from Bob Dylan camp. I reckon the only thing which confirms it as genuine Dylan is the wood pattern compares with the photographs; the rest of the stuff is not really conclusive


It looks to me that the g'tar was stolen by the pilot. This raises an interesting legal limbo.

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He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

They sure did their best to stretch it, didn't they?

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Gail looked healthier than I have seen her in ages so that was nice to see.
That they pretended not to know that FZ did the AbFree cover in its entirety is testament that teevee is for the rubes.

Agree on both counts!
I'm very impressed by both the collage and the find: every week I visit at least two thrift shops, but the only thing FZ I once came across, was a concert bootleg.

And here's the collage:

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I was pleasantly surprised to see Gail on there. Not sure why they wouldn't have promoted that over brother Bob but what the hell do I know...

I must say that was a damn fine piece of art. It's amazing that one guy was so talented in so many ways.

Many hopeless ignorants in this clip. In one scene they even put the AF record on and listen to Plastic People. Didn't they ever bother to look on the back cover?

Th.

Th.:
By now I think the not-mentioning of AF is an "artistic" decision rather than a stupid overlooking of the facts, if they can discover FZ made postcards they can discover he did AF. I guess that they wanted to make it look like FZ was not known as a visual artist at all, thus providing a more interesting outlook for the FZ-ignorant viewers.

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It irritated me, because it is no secret that FZ did the cover for AF. The liner notes clearly say so. And the back-cover illustration/collage is in the same style as this newly discovered drum shop work. They are guessing on something that was clear and obvious from the beginning - or am I wrong?

The drum shop work/collage/illustration may still be a fake, though. I think it is more of an illustration style/technique that is similar to commonly used styles in advertising and graphic-design of the 50s/60s. It is not unlikely that FZ learned this style when he was working in the greeting card company.

Th.