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GWS
PostPosted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:14 pm 
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I've always heard of Frank's enormous record collection. Has anyone documented any of it or are there any photos of the collection? I can't seem to find any really good info on it. I'm just imagining another vault full of nothing but 45's...
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GWS wrote:
I'm just imagining another vault full of nothing but 45's...

I guess it's got a dimension of shoe boxes full of 45's, rather than archives,
can't remember where I read or heard about it, though --
Could it be that the 1992/93 BBC Late Show special shed some light on that issue,
or the 'unreleased' 1991 interview that surfaced on youtube a few years ago,
in 5 parts ??

That said, it's most likely 500 shoeboxes full of 7''s, and I'm totally wrong on this
account, either....
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:00 am 
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Imagine all the crazy Indian and Arab classical and traditional music LPs Frank must have gathered throughout his live.

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Mr_Green_Genes wrote:
Imagine all the crazy Indian and Arab classical and traditional music LPs

A detailed listing of those would indeed make a phantastic section at
zappa.com -- and a no-less-than-revelatory one, that's for sure --

Just imagine all these little covers 'n matrix numbers 'n stuff... 8)

Though it wouldn't turn out and look anything like this, I believe:

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Here's a picture of my CDs :
http://maroual.blogspot.com/

Then by clicking on an album you get more info.

It is just a subset and I did not have time to do it with my vinyl records.
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Maroual wrote:
Here's a picture of my CDs :
http://maroual.blogspot.com/

Then by clicking on an album you get more info.

It is just a subset and I did not have time to do it with my vinyl records.


Jolie travail! Nice work!

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GWS
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Buffalo Voice, I was thinking the same thing. On top of being an all around interesting list of records to check out, I bet it would shed some new light on CC clues.
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I would guess he had quite an extensive collection of classical music.

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Lumpy Gravy wrote:
I would guess he had quite an extensive collection of classical music.
I was thinking the same as his first LP Record purchase was a Classical Box Set.

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cleon wrote:
I was thinking the same as his first LP Record purchase was a Classical Box Set.

Box set? You're once again spilling nonsense all over this place, cleon, he hadn't even enough
money to buy EMS 401 alone, at that time (the shop-owner practically chucked it out for what I think was
$1.98, because he thought the thing totally unsaleable...)
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buffalo_voice wrote:
cleon wrote:
I was thinking the same as his first LP Record purchase was a Classical Box Set.

Box set? You're once again spilling nonsense all over this place, cleon, he hadn't even enough
money to buy EMS 401 alone, at that time (the shop-owner practically chucked it out for what I think was
$1.98, because he thought the thing totally unsaleable...)
Your wrong you Dumb Asshole the guy wanted $5.95 and FZ had $3.75 8)

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cleon wrote:
Your wrong you Dumb Asshole the guy wanted $5.95 and FZ had $3.75 8)

Very essential.

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for what I think was $1.98
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fz, 1970 wrote:
... Numerically my record collection consists of about a thousand singles from the fifties era, which I’ve been collecting since I was in High School, and then maybe two hundred albums of contemporary and classical music ...



fz, 1968 wrote:
... It's sizeable. It's all over there in the closet. Wanna see it? Some of the earlier stuff goes back to the late '40s. There are a lot of collections that are larger. My collection is all the records that I liked. My collection is songs that make me feel nostalgic about high school ...


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1968 nov 11 ksan
a01 agency man - moi
a02 teenage grease
a03 handsome cabin boy - a lloyd + e maccoll
a04 the fuzz tone
a05 grunion run - persuaders
a06 taco balls around the windshield
a07 le marteau sans maitre - boulez
a08 america now
a09 the moi gig - berkeley
a10 when we get married - dream lovers
a11 memories of el monte - penguins
a12 memories of memories of el monte - penguins
b01 goodbye porkpie hat - mingus
b02 lucy mae blues - frankie lee simms
b03 flange phasing
b04 the letter - vernon green+medallions
b05 the richard berry story i
b06 daddy daddy - richard berry+dreamers
b07 the richard berry story ii
b08 twilight - paragons
b09 nova express
b10 florence dont leave me - paragons
b11 later that night - mothers of invention

1968 nov 27 kkpc
a01 byrds record on columbia
a02 didja get all those words
a03 do it in the road - beatles
a04 ramblin woman - big moose
a05 no no cherry - turbans
a06 guitar player - johnny guitar watson
a07 georgie gibbs - laurie sisters
a08 dragonfly
a09 tick tock a woo - the turbans
a10 doo wah - the spaniels
a11 secret ceremony
a12 mama talk to your daughter - jb lenoir
a13 eisenhower blues - jb lenoir
a14 mama your daughter is gonna miss me - jb lenoir
a15 im in korea - jb lenoir
a16 attention hippies
a17 1959 volvo - vernon green+medallions
a18 that is really folk music
a19 dont shoot me baby - vernon green+medallions
a20 edna - vernon green+medallions
a21 i thought that was in compton
a22 speedin - vernon green+medallions
a23 icebox white '39 chevy with primer spot
a24 rock around the clock - bill haley+comets
a25 yeah - manuel trades
a26 rubber biscuit - the chips
a27 music city - wallachs
a28 playtapes

1968 nov 27 kkpc
b03 i - the velvets
b04 louie louie - richard berry+pharaohs
b05 memories of el monte - penguins
b06 mgm accounting
b07 three hours past midnight - johnny guitar watson
b08 crashing the party - the feathers
b09 music revolution
b10 live tag 2 to follow up tape 2
b11 cold buns at a rock concert
b12 miss sue - don and dewey
b13 little love - don and dewey
b14 soul motion - don and dewey
b15 the don and dewey story
b16 hum de hum - jesse belvin+gassers
b17 guided missile - the cufflinks
b18 secret greasing
b19 forever my darling - johnny ace
b20 johnny ace story+origin of wilbur whitfield
b21 pb baby - wilbur whitfield
b22 a real smooth woodpecker nose
b23 work with me annie - hank ballard+midniters
b24 annie had a baby - hank ballard+midniters
b25 stingy little finger
b26 sexy ways - hank ballard+midniters
b27 stingy little thing - hank ballard+midniters
b28 the hank ballard story
b29 dragonfly again

1968 nov 27 kkpc
c01 keep following the searchlight
c02 i am a japanese sandman - the cellos
c03 ego trip
c04 home on alcatraz - the rolling crew
c05 hows it hangin
c06 i put a spell on you - screamin jay hawkins
c07 $2.86
c08 swing low sweet chariot - paul robeson
c09 nixon to scratch crabs
c10 valarie jackie + starlites
c11 lets hear it for tony mamarella
c12 do a boogie woogie in the middle of the road
c13 something to think about
c14 okie dokie stomp - clarence gatemouth brown
c15 ray officially leaves the mothers
c16 a casual look the six teens
c17 the five dollar scratch lp
c18 the day that the whole town cried
c19 your basic scratches
c20 goodbye for a while
c21 dixie danny - laurie sisters
c22 the laurie sisters
c23 it can happen here

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GWS
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Thanks, slime! I knew he had mentioned it in passing in one or two interviews.
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Flea
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i have like 18-20 albums... i would love to find lumpy/woiftm and (')/overnite (on ebay) beside that i will get my hands on joes garage, ycdtosa vol 3, imaginary d. and philly... thats all for now...

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Diva has today posted a photo ( on Twitter?) showing 11 boxes of LP's which I estimate to be about 600 albums. I assume that this a fraction of his collection. I saw it on Zappateers facebook page.

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