From Vai.com
The Aching Hunger - Repeat Broadcasts! Back by popular demand! Don't miss your chance to hear a special repeat broadcast of The Aching Hunger - the stunning performances Steve did earlier this year with the Metropole Orchestra. 4FM will present two bonus shows: the first this Wednesday, December 15, and the second on December 22. Included are mixes from legendary performances in Amsterdam that were NOT included in the September shows (like another explosive version of “Kill The Guy With The Ball,” “The Attitude Song,” Amsterdam version of “Lotus Feet” and others) PLUS the top songs requested by you - the fans! The shows will air on 4FM from 11pm-Midnight Dutch Time (5pm US East Coast, 2pm US West Coast, 9am AEST) and on 4FM Webradio. We'll also be having a special listening party in the Vai.com Chatroom on our Message Boards - so don't forget to stop by!
November 4, 2004
New Vai cd on 4FM on Sunday November 7, 2004
October 31, 2004
Vai info.
October 8, 2004
NPS OUTPUT
September 18, 2004
Info from Zappa.com
Joe's Domage - Frank Zappa
CD. Now a series!!! Makes its own sauce . . .
Directly from the Vault via Joe Travers.
Zettamania!
Put the hurts on your teenage stereo.
Beam yourself up. Now!!!
You can order here Zappa.com
September 11, 2004
NPS RADIO
4FM
WEBRADIO WEBRADIO
http://portal.omroep.nl/radio/mplayer4
september 15, 2004.
ATTENTION:
PART THREE OF THE STEVE VAI SERIES WILL START EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED!!!!
Due to the amount of music Steve Vai has written for
The Aching Hunger
we have decided to start part three of the series based on Vai's orchestral extravaganza
EARLIER THAN ANNOUNCED PREVIOUSLY:
THE SHOW STARTS AT 22.45 Dutch Time!!!....
it will be exclusively built around the Paradiso Amsterdam recordings.
Also:
at
4fm@nps.nl
you can send in REQUESTS FOR A REPEAT OF A PIECE WITH THE METROPOLE for our bonus show in December: exact date t.b.a.
THIS BONUS SHOW WILL ALSO INCLUDE MIXES THAT WERE NOT PRESENTED IN PART 1,2 OR 3.
CHECK OUT WWW.VAI.COM AND WWW.4FM.NL
August 23, 2004
"We now have a release date for QuAUDIOPHILIAc, the next DVD-A
release from the ZFT. "It is scheduled for a street date of 14th
September on the DTS label. It is surround sound and is made up of
tracks originally mixed/recorded by FZ during the 70s. It is
essentially an audio documentary of ideas by FZ about quad and 4
channel mixes and multichannel recordings. Dweezil tweezed these
items into a full on programme. Obviously, it will not translate on
ordinary radio." So quipped Gail. You can order it now from CD
Universe, or direct from DTS."
July 30, 2004
Steve Vai's new cd is pushed back to Februari 2005. He expects to release a new cd for the boxset at the end of this year.
Read more information overhere
July 17, 2004
From the Nederzappa news group
Get ready for the Zappa of the Month Club.
The family of the late Frank Zappa is putting together plans to release music from the composer-musician's vast vaults via a subscription service. They hope it will expand the Zappa legacy among his fans and establish a unique business model suited to such a unique artist.
The details are still being worked out, but Gail Zappa, Frank's widow, says that the concept is pretty simple. Fans will pay an annual fee (probably around $100) and receive a set number of new releases each year (probably five), some of which will not be available elsewhere. Subscribers will have some level of choice as to what titles they receive from an ever-expanding catalog, and will also likely get bonus material and other special merchandise.
"We get people who say they only want to buy Frank's music directly from us," Zappa says, sitting in the family's Laurel Canyon house with their son Dweezil.
Beneath the house is the vault, a climate-controlled basement room stacked with shelf after shelf of audiotapes and films made by Zappa (who obsessively recorded nearly every concert he gave) in addition to studio recordings of his many band projects and classical compositions.
In the years since Frank Zappa's 1993 death from prostate cancer, the vaults have been largely closed, in part due to tension between the family and Rykodisc, the record label that owned the rights to the Zappa catalog. That deal expires in October, though, and the family is ready to open the door.
"I've always said that my day job is to protect the integrity of the work," Gail says.
That, adds Dweezil, is why the plans were devised to retain as much control as possible over the archives.
"Our dilemma is we have a core audience that's very enthusiastic," he says. "But music appreciation is nonexistent these days."
Under a new label named Vaulternative, marketed through the www.zappa.com website, two concert recordings were released in recent years. But the new program is really being launched with the brand-new Joe's Corsage, which despite a title playing off the 1979 Joe's Garage albums actually consists of demos recorded by Zappa with his first Mothers of Invention band in 1964.
Archivist Joe Travers has been combing through the tapes for material that could be released, and Dweezil is marshaling a remix program to put both previously released and new discoveries in state-of-the-art surround sound for a parallel release program.
The latter will be introduced with Quadropheliac, essentially an audio documentary being made from unreleased tapes on which the elder Zappa experimented with surround-type recording in the mid-'70s. At this point the material will be released only as hard-copy CDs, not as digital downloads - the Zappas believe the technology is too limited to do the music justice.
While others have had success with extensive archival projects, such as the Grateful Dead with its ongoing "Dick's Picks" concert series, it's the subscription angle that makes the Zappa plans stand out. Pete Howard, editor of the collector-oriented music publication ICE, thinks it's an overdue idea.
"As a business model it makes great sense for a label or people doing it," Howard says. "It keeps the ability to do product flow at a predictable level. And for the consumer and fan it has got to be win-win, because there will be all kinds of things coming out of the vaults that wouldn't otherwise. It ensures a steady flow of goodies. There needs to be a little blind faith that there will be quality, but that shouldn't be a problem with the Zappa material. I wish other artists would follow suit."
July 15, 2004
On July 20 Steve Vai's live cd will be released. It's the same songs as on the Live in London DVD. For more info click on the sleeve.
July 4, 2004
On vai.com you can listen to a preview of Steve Vai's upcomming album.
July 3, 2004
Article in Billboard
July 3, 2004
Recently we received this picture
made by John Livzey
June 24, 2004
Steve Vai at the Arrow Rock festival june 13 2004.
pictures Jarno Maaskant
June 22, 2004
June 22, 2004
From the Zappa family
KRIEEEEeeeeeek.
Do you hear that sound?
That is the Vault door opening on a whole bunch more exciting new opportunities to experience The Magic. We know you think you have heard that noise before, but what is different about today is that the eons have closed in some irresolute domains thereby unleashing other highly ambient ones. What this means to you is that until we have the answer to the ultimate question which is:
WHEN ROXY?
we are going to distract you with a whole lot of other stuff that true dreams are also made out of.
Coming right up in June (not to be interfered or confused with our schedulement of a petite Wazoo outbreak in July) to your very doorstep is the First in a bold, new, Series created at UMRK by your friendly neighborhood Vaultmeister.
This is Clue #1.
And this can be in your mailbox soon. It will be completely surrounded by music.
June 21, 2004
From the Zappa family
Oh, and for those of you engaged by posterity and/or engorged by dexterity, we have the sufficiently lovely Album-Size Puzzle of the Joe's Garage Box Set Cover, in full frontal color mounted on delightfully sporty cardboard.
More Good News: We are pleased to announce that Joe's Corsage is the first in a new series we are launching on Vaulternative Records. This stunningly Special, Snack-Size CD, represents a larger profile of all those exceptional moments that Joe, our very own Vaultmeister, has had to endure (in his lonely little room - well, now he has some extra chairs and sometimes certain people visit) in his endless search for truth, justice and one American's Music.
June 12, 2004
Bryan Beller, Mike Keneally's bassplayer, has his own cd. Click on the above cover to go to Bryan's site.
June 8, 2004
Today we received the first review of Joe's Garage:
The material on the disc is The Mothers in their infancy. It contains relatively primitive demos for the Freak Out album, performances from the Broadside, and a few unexpected surprises. There are three early interview segments, (1967) at the beginning, middle and end, and it's the most entertaining and interesting artifact to come out from the vault yet. It's in a simple jewel-case, has a decent booklet, and we are finally being charged a reasonable price. Everything is exactly the opposite of all the previous transactions. Now...where the fuck is the Petit Wazoo, Dance Me This, The Varase album, Trancefusion?
June 4, 2004
Tracklist Joe's Corsage
Motherly Love - Plastic People - Anyway The Wind Blows - I Ain´t Got No Heart - "the phone call" - My Babe - Wedding Dress Song/Handsome Cabin Boy - Hitch Hike - I´m so Happy I could Cry - Go Cry On Somebody? - How Could I be such a fool?
May 31, 2004
A picture we got recently
May 31, 2004
Joe's Corsage - Frank Zappa
Compilation Produced by Joe Travers.
Directly from the Vault to you!
Celebrating 4ty years on with Frank Zappa
and his rockin' teenage combo,
the Mothers of Invention.
Prehensile & pre1966.
March 16 2004
For people who like posters visit our posterpage
February 23 2004
Record Collector reports that the ZFT plan to issue several FZ archive audio and video recordings later this year, including Frank Scheffer's 'classical music' documentary, Dance Me This, Trance-Fusion, two films (The Rage And The Fury and The Roxy Performances) and their soundtracks.
Januari 30 2004
LOS ANGELES - Rose Marie Zappa, the mother of the late musician Frank Zappa, died Thursday. She was 91.
Zappa died at a Burbank convalescent hospital, said daughter Patrice Zappa, who added her mother had been in declining health.
"We were with her today, talking to her and letting her know we loved her," Patrice Zappa said.
Zappa was born in the United States, the daughter of Italian immigrants. She and her husband married in Baltimore in 1939 and moved to San Diego 15 years later.
In addition to her daughter, she is survived by sons Robert and Carl and eight grandchildren.
Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer in 1993 at age 52.
Januari 4 2004
The Januari issue of Mojo magazine features a 12 page article about FZ.
The Januari issue of Downbeat features a 6 page article about FZ.
We can expect a Live in Tokyo, Japan 1983 DVD of George Duke soon.
