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December / Dezembro [21]
1940 - Francis
Vincent Zappa was born in Baltimore, Md., US. 1969
- LP Hot Rats
makes US #173. This album featuring guest appearances by Captain
Beefheart and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. [3]
1971 - The Mothers of Invention performing at Montreux Casino, Switzerland,
when the venue burns to the ground. Nobody is hurt, but The Mothers
lose $ 50,000 of equipment. The incident is reputely started by a hippie
listening to the music of the casino roof. The group Deep Purple recounted
this in the music "Smoke On the Water".
[10] 1971 - At a concert by
The Mothers of Invention at London's Rainbow Theatre, Zappa is pushed
off stage into the orchestra pit by the jealous boyfriend of an female
Zappa fan. He breaks a leg and ankle in the several places and suffers
a fractured skull. Recuperation will involve 9 months in a wheelchair
and 3 more in a surgical brace. 1973 - LP Over-Nite Sensation
makes US #32 and is his first gold disk for a half million sales. 1976 - LP Zoot Allures
makes US #61. [6] 1976 - Frank Zappa introduced
Black Sabbath to their NY audiences but did not play with them. [11] 1976 - The FZ band played
on the Saturday Night Live show in New York. John Belushi played
the Be-Bop Samurai warrior during "The Purple Lagoon". [2] 1978 - Zappa reads the
"Talking Asshole" section from William Burrough's Naked
Lunch at The Nova Convention, Entermedia Theater, NYC. [4] 1993 - Frank Zappa died
in his Laurel Canyon home, after a hard battle with prostate cancer. [21/22] 1997 - Ike Willis,
guitarist and vocalist who played with Frank Zappa in albuns such a
Thing-Fish and Does Humor Belong In Music? played in Brazil
with the brazilian group The Central Scrutinizer Band in the 1st Central
Scrutinizer Day. The show happened at the Bourbon Street, in São
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