Zappa Gear

BREAKING: Boris Johnson's spokesperson says he is very upset people won't stop talking about his super-injunction for #CarrieGate so please keep this a secret, okay? x

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@ErikVoermans It was 'a stock Fender Telecaster with chubby strings' - FZ. See 'The Rainbow Telecaster', Zappa 's Gear pp. 18-19

@ZappaGear Hi Mick, can you help me out? I was listening to the Rainbow concert (Mothers 1971). Zappa's guitar sound struck me as different. Fenderish. Could have been a rented instrument after the Montreux disaster. Do you know what guitar he used in Londen, 12-10-71?

Nice to discover a genuine unsolicited review from a fan - Thanks Mr Heaney :-) youtube.com/watch?v=p5cPCr…

“Leave the statues of slavers up don’t let a garden tell the grim story of nuclear contamination of indigenous lands” Utterly unsurprising but appalling nonetheless.

Zappa’s Big Muff Reborn! premierguitar.com/gear/reviews/s…

In the news this week: @IkeIsThingFish Ronnie Williams @ZappaMusicMan @ZappaMovie Sergio Albonico & more idiotbastard.com/news.htm

Frank Zappa's Guild Aragon F-30 at the UMRK in 2012. More on this guitar in the Zappa Gear book. #ZappaGear photo by Mick Ekers all rights reserved

Only just found this video - very happy to see how Jeff Star appreciates what I tried to do with the book. only just discovered this video! youtube.com/watch?v=uA7RmQ…

... and personally I loved the movie on so many levels!

Awed at the sheer amount of work that clearly went into the @ZappaMovie. Scenes of the vault highlight the scale of the initial digitisation project. 'Zappa' is an essential watch for C20th cultural historians, its archival legacy is priceless. A major achievement Alex @winter

An extensive piece on the new @ZappaMovie in Record Collector by Harvey Kubernik recordcollectornews.com/2020/11/a-new-… @winter #Zappa

Another priceless historical artifact reproduced in the #zappamovie backers book is this note from Vaclev Havel to Frank #Zappa. Good to hear the Czechoslovakia episode features in the movie, still thinking of writing a Zappa in Prague play covering the whole story.

The @Zappa Gear book has a section on Frank's @Orange 200 amplifiers. Delighted to see this invoice in the @zappamovie backers book showing he purchased one in London in 1970.

Zappa - Black Page Performance Clip by Ruth Underwood from @ZappaMovie youtu.be/hdrDtcjBfx0 via @YouTube

Reading through the backer names in the Zappa book for Kickstarter supporters in the style of Mrs Doyle guessing the priest's name in Father Ted

@runsipstrum Hi Michael, would like to use your photo of Hagström Patch 2000 guitar in my Zappa's Gear book that I found here, as Frank experimented with one briefly myrareguitars.com/synthesizers-f…, can you get in touch please as I don't have an email for you?

This sounds simply wonderful! Happy Record Store Day people! @AhmetZappa

.@jeremycorbyn: "My political hero..." The @UKLabour leader chooses the writer Mary Wollstonecraft as his political hero. Watch the full film from #bbcdp here: bbc.in/2GmbiZY

Terrorist must take full responsibility for attack. J Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn says terrorist not to blame for attack. T May. Spot the liar.