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   Derek Kerton (profile), Jan 28th, 2009 @ 2:50pm

   
   

   She Needs To Persue The Aggressively...

   ...because the Zappa was all about supporting "the man".
   
   signed,
   The Central Scrutinizer.

    

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   GeneralEmergency (profile), Jan 28th, 2009 @ 3:16pm

   
   

   Obligitory, for Madam Zappa...

   Yes, Gail, you've really earned this:
   
   "Whereupon I proceeded to
   take that mitten full
   Of the deadly Yellow Snow Crystals
   And rub it all into (her)
   beady little eyes
   With a vigorous circular motion
   Hitherto unknown to the
   people in this area,
   But destined to take the
   place of THE MUD SHARK
   In your mythology
   Here it goes now . . .
   THE CIRCULAR MOTION . ."

    

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   vito, Jan 28th, 2009 @ 3:29pm

   
   

   Re: Obligitory, for Madam Zappa...

   Rub it.

    

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   Kevin, Jan 28th, 2009 @ 3:37pm

   
   

   And then, in a fit of anger I
   I pounced
   And I pounced again

    

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   mike42 (profile), Jan 28th, 2009 @ 6:00pm

   
   

   Hmmm

   I seem to recall
   A song about a certain ball...
   
   Gail must have gotten the idea while attending the ball with the other Republicans.

    

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   Bobby Brown, Jan 28th, 2009 @ 6:09pm

   
   

   Watch out where the huskies go

   I'm not sure Frank would approve of his wife's actions.

    

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   TechNoFear (profile), Jan 28th, 2009 @ 7:06pm

   
   

   Spend a few hours on the tower of power...

   You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
   - Frank Zappa

    

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   ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Jan 28th, 2009 @ 7:21pm

   
   

   Gods forbid

   This is outrageous. You CANNOT celebrate someone without the permission/financial compensation of their heirs. That's the WHOLE POINT of copyright.

    

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   Stephen Chillemi, Jan 28th, 2009 @ 8:09pm

   
   

   Gail Zappa

   Gail, get a job.
   
   Love
   Steve (-

    

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    Dave, Jan 28th, 2009 @ 8:49pm

    
    

    she's full of it

    You know, I love Zappa's music. And he was a very funny, intelligent, and thought-provoking guy as well as an excellent composer.
    
    But that lawsuit is pure BS. So let me get this straight. If anybody has a Zappa festival anywhere, they have to pay her some money. Jesus H. Christ. She's just trying to keep the gravy train going, like Yoko Ono. He made millions, and unless he spent it all, she should have been set for life, barring sheer stupidity.
    
    And as Techdirt points out, a Zappa festival anywhere will tend to make her money, not take it away. Unless she gets so much bad publicity for being a jerk that people decide not to buy stuff.

     

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    ToySouljah, Jan 29th, 2009 @ 12:30am

    
    

    What a way to remember her husband

    I would think she would be honored to have people organize a whole festival dedicated to her husband's music. I'm pretty sure they would have loved to have her there to participate or at least make a small speech in his memory and to thank them for keeping his spirit and music alive. Oh well, I guess it is up to her to destroy what her husband worked for his whole life just so she could try and make a quick buck...a shame really.

     

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    Ima Fish, Jan 29th, 2009 @ 6:12am

    
    

    Gail Zappa should take a page out of the Monty Python business model book and make Frank's music more available. That way new people will be exposed and become fans.
    
    Frank's music is sort of like Monty Python's material because it's perfectly executed, timely, and utterly absurd at the same time. And like Monty Python, it's something that each generation of college kids should be exposed to.
    
    As I've said a million times here, obscurity is any artist's biggest obstacle. I'm sure that Gail thinks that doesn't apply to Frank's music because he is famous. But she's wrong. Frank is only famous to those who know his music. The vast majority of people today are utterly unfamiliar with his music.

     

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    Ima Fish, Jan 29th, 2009 @ 8:39am

    
    

    Re: What a way to remember her husband

    "I guess it is up to her to destroy what her husband worked for his whole life just so she could try and make a quick buck"
    
    You have to wonder how he ever married the bitch.

     

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    KC, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 7:42pm

    
    

    Re: Hmmm

    Uh, you're kidding right? The whole Zappa clan has been infected with Liberalitis, as most of those who live in the So. Cal area & do not have to work for a living tend to do. Seriously, go peel back the curtains & look deeper to see what I mean. There's plenty of proof for the finding. I especially cringed when I saw that she wrote stuff that wound up in the Huffington Post. Gail leans so far left, her eye drifts!

     

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    KC, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 8:06pm

    
    

    Reply to Ima Fish

    Gail has gotten so damned sue happy & goes after absolutely anyone & everyone who plays his music or even wants to do something to celebrate the man. She even shot down the city of Berlin wanting to name a street in his honor because she didn't like the fan club that had helped to get support to do so. I get very mad at her because she is among the rest of the idiotic "Hollywood Elite" that Frank utterly despised & treats the former band members like crap & will sue them too if they DARE play the music that is in any way connected to Frank. She & the kids are entitled to capitalize on his music, but refuses to help support the musicians who helped make those fantastic songs. When she set out to punish ALL fans for the actions of a few bootleggers by releasing the "Beat the Boots" series instead of continuing the "You Can't Do That..." series, I grew very disenchanted with the whole Zappa clan. It's sad that I may never be able to replace my lost, stolen, or badly damaged CDs bought way back in the 1980s when the technology was new all because she wants to punish the fans & while Dweezil is a great guitarist in his own rights, he's not Frank & I don't want to buy his albums as a sort of placebo to make up for wanting to hear such albums as "Them or Us." Gail bitches about people making money & abusing the copyrights, blah blah blah, but as I know her only interest in not allowing ANYONE to perform Frank's music or do something nice such as having this festival is because she feels she's not going to get ALL of the money made. Frank is probably spinning in his grave as the family has not taken advantage of the internet & helping to keep his music available to all, as "Ima" points out what the surviving members of Monty Python had done. If she hates large corporations like iTunes which would give the Zappa Family Trust pennies to the dollar of what they get in making the music digitally available & wants to capitalize on it, they could easily set up a page on the Zappa site which sells the music in MP3 form or make it free to those of us who loved Frank's or those who want to hear it for the 1st time, yet she's "only in it for the money!"

     

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    Ross Rebagliati, Mar 26th, 2011 @ 6:08pm

    
    

    Frank festival

    Frank Zappa has been an inspiration to myself and millions around the world for decades. It has been a dream of mine to attend the Frank festival in Germany. I have 'Frank in stone' masoned into the interior of my house. I listen to Frank everyday. When I die I want to be reincarnated into the notes from Franks guitar. Smoke that!
    
    Ross Rebagliati
    
    Olympic gold medalist

     

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