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Zappa fan page with articles, discography, and sound clips.
http://www.catalog.com/mrm/zappa.html

Unpublished photos from the Copenhagen concerts in the 70s.
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Frank Zappa Memorial Photo Pages, Copenhagen  Showing excellent photos from the performances in Copenhagen in the 70ties. You need a browser capable of showing Frames to fully enjoy. Get Netscape or Internet Explorer Meanwhile take a look at this page...
http://www.dk-web.com/zappa/index.html

A list of what the author and his collaborators assert are Frank Zappa references that have been made on this TV show.
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Zappa References on Mystery Science Theater 3000  Zappa references that have been made on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show. I've watched every episode closely, and listened repeatedly to every Zappa album (it's a way of life and should I happen to have missed anything, I've...
http://home.epix.net/~eichler/mst3k/fzmst3k.htm

This is a link to page 51 of the congressional hearings in which Frank Zappa and other musicians stood up for artistic freedom in the music industry.
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Page 51  That is part of their business and that is part of their job, and they know exactly what they are playing. So I would say that it is not going to be a help for the program directors and DJ's....
http://mars.superlink.net/~jdandrea/shrg99-529/p51.html

Frank Zappa links and merchandise.
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Frank Zappa Links Page with lots of ZAPPALINKS  Named this guy in the middle after Zappa. ZAPPALINKS Girl You Thought He Was A Man But He Was A Muffin Could This Have Been A Result Of Him Stuffin Hey What Are You Looking At ?Click on the toilet...
http://members.tripod.com/~GODGADGETS/zappa-2

The contents of this fan site include a biography, reviews of several of Zappa's records, links, pictures and a competition.
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The Frank Zappa Review Page  The Frank Zappa Review Page Frank Zappa Album Reviews Freak Out (1966) Absolutely Free (1967) Uncle Meat (1967) We're Only In It For The Money (1968) Cruising With Ruben And The Jets (1968) Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) Chunga's Revenge (1970)...
http://www.geocities.com/danrose22/

Record company pages on Zappa. Latest releases, catalog, news archive, quizzes, screen savers, and links.
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Frank Zappa on Rykodisc  ...
http://www.rykodisc.com/RykoInternal/Features/195/

Includes a photo gallery, discography, and magazine articles.
http://www.PlanetZappa.com/

Discography including information on differences between different vinyl pressings and CD releases, songlist with extensive notes, and chronology.
http://www.globalia.net/donlope/fz

Memorial page, biography, and a discography.
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Frank Zappa  Zappa became interested in music early in his life, joining a local band while attending college in California. In a few years, this band became the Mothers, and Zappa became its main songwriter. In 1966 the Mothers released their first...
http://www.hotshotdigital.com/We...AlwaysRemember.3/FrankZappa.html

Notes on the shooting of the photographs for the Chunga's Revenge album cover by the photographer. Includes additional photographs from the same session.
http://metalab.unc.edu/mal/MO/philm/zappa/

A Netherlands-based fanzine that features photos, links, news, a discography and a bulletin board.
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Black Page index  The paper version existed from October 1983 till April 2000. Now Black Page still exists on-line. Left of this text you see the contents of our magazine. We give you a explanation of the categories. Hot Barfs! is the news...
http://www.geocities.com/pdoelder.geo/indexe.html

Interviews with members of the Mothers of Invention. Includes biography, links, and news.
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Frank Zappa Tribute: Mothers of Invention  Zappa was posthumously inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Lou Reed One of the things I most regret is not knowing Frank better Reed admitted which no doubt caused some to wonder why Lou was on...
http://www.stevemoore.addr.com/zappa.html

Started as an eGroup, TheBigNote focusses on the life, times and ideas of Frank Zappa, the late great composer. Includes essays, graphical art, links and a music section.
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The Big Note Serving The Lumpy Gravy  This whole monstruousity was originally conveived February through March 2001 by the members of The Big Note a Frank Zappa YahooGroup. After an arduous gestation period, this site was birthed on April 11 2001. True to the essence of collaborative...
http://www.thebignote.com

Simple Zappa page, with a biography, discography, lyrics and pictures.
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Zappa Frank 4 U  Search: Lycos Tripod Dating Search Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites 171; Previous Top 100 Next 187; Zappa Frank Biography Discography Lyrics Pictures (4 gallery) Webmaster...
http://zappa4u.tripod.com

A profile on Frank Zappa and his love of coffee.
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Frank Zappa: Coffee Achiever (INeedCoffee.com)  Is it possible to say where you get your musical influences from? Frank Zappa Sometimes you get it from chicken. Sometimes from coffee. Any history buff can effortlessly rattle off a long list of figures who were, given the advantage...
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/00/05/zappa/

Zappa tunes in real audio. Includes cover material and links to other FZ and music resources as well as other streaming media sites.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/umrk

Gig list, touring band lineups, and information about tours of the early 1970s.
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The Planet Of My Dreams  There are a lot of websites devoted to Frank Zappa and his music. This one will focus on a few specific topics. Here's what I have in mind: General reference Frank Zappa Gig List: every known FZ concert Line-ups of...
http://members.shaw.ca/fz-pomd/

Includes a biography, photo gallery, discography, and an article from Down Beat Magazine.
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Down Beat Magazine  ...
http://www.downbeat.com/artists/...ow.asp?aid=204&aname=Frank+Zappa

Frank Zappa news, quotes, quizzes, image galleries, discography, and articles.
http://www.killuglyradio.com/

Album reviews, music news, audio downloads, biography, discography, links, and bulletin boards.
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VH1.com Frank Zappa Artist Main  Artist Main:Frank Zappa Biography Photo Galleries News Albums On VH1 Rock on TV Interviews Message Boards Radio VH1 Web Sites Free Artist Updates Related Artists img src sitewide/img/inhouse_ads/150x150_react.gif wid...
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/id_7836/artist.jhtml

Includes directory of musicians who recorded or performed with Zappa, discographies, e-zine "The Big Note Files," scheduled performances of Zappa material around the world, and extensive links.
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United Mutations  Ote at yucom dot be previous newsletters visitors since 2004/10/11 go to: captain beefheart and his magic band the magic family (playing van vliet's music) an alphabetical list on record alphabetical the residents various resifriends (playing the music of the...
http://www.united-mutations.com/

The stories of how Zappa came to have a planet, a fish, a jellyfish, and a bacterial gene named after him.
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Natural Phenomena Named After Frank Zappa  This series of articles describes a variety of Natural Phenomena marine, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial which have been named in honour of Frank Zappa, the smallest being a gene belonging to a bacterium, the largest being an entire planet. Many people...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/and...ces/MusicRes/ZapRes/natphen.html

Essay honoring one of his major influences and the effect that The Complete Works of Edgard Varese Volume I had on his musical development.
http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/zappa.html

Fan site with lyrics, a biography, discography, pictures, and a filmography.
http://www.geocities.com/zappaisking

Directory of sites arranged by category.
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Zappalinks.co.uk  The most up-to-date resource for frank zappa links on the internet....
http://zappalinks.co.uk

Web ring of sites about or dedicated to Frank.
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Conceptual Continuity The First Frank Zappa Webring  Webring specifically dedicated to Frank Zappa American Composer, Rock n Roll pioneer, political activist, father, 20th century satirist par excellence. Founded in 96 this ring still welcomes all submissions! Ring Information Ring Stats 183; Created 12/31/1996 183; 33 active site(s...
http://m.webring.com/hub?ring=zappa

Midi files of various pieces. Also contains Midi files of Peter Forbes compositions and versions of Bartok, Debussy and Satie.
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Zappa Mundi: zappa midi covers, hard bop jazz and some originals  A growing collection of jazz midis, including A Night in Tunisia, Airegin, Ecaroh, Naima, Nica's Dream, Night Streets, The End of a Love Affair NEW! Horace Silver's Pretty Eyes (posted 30/08/2002) Zappamundi Midi files of Zappa pieces, originals and versions...
http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.forbes2/

Given by him on Swedish and Danish radio.
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Zappa interviews  This page is devoted to all fans of Frank Zappa and future music investigators who hopefully will say to contemporary musiclisteners that there was a clever guy during 2000 century who actually could write music. Yes, Frank Zappa is probably...
http://home.swipnet.se/bengt-jonsson/zappaint.htm

Biography and timeline of his career.
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=218

FAQs, discography, interviews, edited threads from alt.fan.frank.zappa, and a daily zappa quote.
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St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage  New page for the latest additions. You can also run a keyword search on St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage. Discography A discography of Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention. Including the lyrics of over 500 songs. To find a song...
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/

Ten question tests on knowledge about the composer, the music and his bands.
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Thingpage ZappaTrivia  This web site is not full of Zappa wisdoms.It is just a simple Zappa Trivia site.It is the first web site I ever tried to make so I have left it here out of sentimental reasons.I hope you find it...
http://members.aol.com/Doodah999/dog.html

Transcript of the composer's appearance on the Doctor Demento show, discussions on the history of Lather, Apostrophe, and Metal Man.
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The Biffy Page  Welcome to the home page of Michael P. Dawson and Biffy the Elephant Shrew! Personal trivia. Collectors Corner Over the years, I have amassed a huge collection of rare records, specializing in progressive rock artists. The green bug will show...
http://members.aol.com/biffyshrew/biffy.html

Tribute page with links, reviews, lyrics and a chat room.
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Did you ever wake up in the morning with a Zomby Woof behind your eyes?  Did you ever wake up in the morning with a Zomby Woof behind your eyes? The Loathsome Frank Zappa Page Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself Frank Zappa People think Frank Zappa is weird...
http://members.tripod.com/~navanax/

Discography, some midi files and movie information.
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 I promise will be much more organized, and GOOD. It is currently under HEAVY construction, but will be up soon. The next few sentences are a description of the things that will be put up. For starters there will be...
http://members.tripod.com/~zappa_web2/home.html

Short commentary and album reviews.
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Adrian's Album Reviews Frank Zappa The Mothers Of Invention  Are these the three phases of Frank Zappa's Career? Freak Out, Absolutely Free, Lumpy Gravy, We're Only In It For The Money, Crusin With Ruben And The Jets, Uncle Meat, Ahead Of Their Time, Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels...
http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/mothers.html

Information about his guitars, equipment and musical language with some scores. Also covers the Spanish language musical saga "The Unmatched series."
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ArFZ: Frank Zappa A Zappa tribute Tributo a Zappa  Search: Lycos Angelfire G'Night G'Luck Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites 171; Previous Top 100 Next 187; FRANK ZAPPA...
http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/arfz/arfz.html

Fan page with musician timelime and biographies.
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 This is not designed to be the Ultimate Mega List of Every Known Zappa Website in the world For that, try Friendly Little Finger Links Rather this is meant to provide the highest content yield with the fewest possible links,...
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~neve/zappapage.html

Review of "Civilization, Phaze III" and a phone conversation with the musician.
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Zappa's Outermost Phaze By Stephen Homan  The posthumously released Civilization, Phaze III is perhaps his greatest work ever. Composed on his special musicians-in-a-box the Synclavier, a high tech, computer-driven synthesizer able to produce just about any sound, musically or otherwise, the music of Civilization, Phaze III...
http://chunga.apana.org.au/~heederik/fz/cp3/review-homan.html

Categorized links to Japanese and English language sites.
http://sound.jp/allanholdsworth/zappa/ZappaNavi.htm

Zappa page with news, reviews, and rumors.
http://www.idiotbastard.supanet.com/

Collection of portraits of the man by comic-book artists.
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frank zappa: utility muffin art kitchen  best viewed with IE at 1024x768 or higher about this website news art gallery biography updates links credits if you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or...
http://zappa.redsectorart.com/

Scans and info on Zappa vinyl releases and labels.
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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention  ZAPPA VINYL LABELS: STUFF UP THE CRACKS My Story Dutch version English version The Vinyl Question LP's and Labels Zappa sites Last update The Vinyl: Sep 19 2005 Check out my little Breda Beat Blues Band...
http://home.westbrabant.net/~hades/

Downloadable digital video clips, from various FZ TV appearances.
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The Mudshark Dance Lesson Video Archive  Digital video segments by the late great composer Frank Zappa. The Zappa Video Clips For Netscape and Explorer What you will need to view these clips Quicktime Zappa Sounds Some Zappa Pictures Zappa Links The MudShark Mythology Send all gripes,...
http://www.maniaman.com/mudshark.html

Filmography as composer, director, writer, actor, and producer.
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Frank Zappa  Of all the qualities that typified Frank Zappa, perhaps the most striking show more) IMDbPro Professional Details Filmography as:Composer, Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Editor, Himself, Archive Footage, Notable TV Guest Appearances Composer filmography (2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s) Frank Zappa:...
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0953261/

Weblog dedicated to Frank Zappa music, news, new releases and rumours.
http://www.killuglyradio.com/hotpoop/

Notes on the shooting of the photographs for the Chunga's Revenge album cover by the photographer. Includes additional photographs from the same session.
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Philm Freax: Frank Zappa  Authorized translations of this page in Italian and Spanish. Chunga's Revenge. What do a monastery in Sussex and Miss Pamela Des Barres have to do with this? Part One: The Press Reception. The night before the session I had been...
http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/zappa/