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ZAPPA LIVES IN SONG
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Singer-guitarist Ike Willis was a member of Frank Zappa's bands
longer than any other musician - for 17 years, 10 of those on the
road. In fact, the two played together right up until Zappa's death
in 1993. And Willis is still playing Zappa's music. He will do so
tomorrow night at Lilli's, joining the New Jersey-based sextet
Project/Object, which is led by singer-guitarist Andre Cholmondeley.
"It feels pretty good because we're playing the music faithfully,"
says Willis, 45, "and that'...
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PROJECT/OBJECT CARRIES ON ZAPPA'S LEGACY.(CITY LIFE)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; Tribute bands exist all over the country, but rarely do the bands have the opportunity to perform with the people who they are emulating. Project/Object, a Frank Zappa tribute band from the New York-New Jersey area, is one band that had that chance. The band will come to Winston-Salem Wednesday and
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Project Object plays in the key of Frank Zappa
Charleston Gazette
; If you go Project Object, featuring Ike Willis, performs after 9:30 p.m. today at the Empty Glass, 410 Elizabeth St. Tickets, $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Visit www.emptyglass.com or call 345-9893. For the Gazette "I never thought of using Frank as a steppingstone," says Ike Willis. Why is that
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INNOVATOR, VISIONARY, MISFIT NEW BIOGRAPHY OF ZAPPA REVEALS A DISCORDANT SOUL
The Boston Globe
; Frank Zappa's short life was a Horatio Alger tale set in a gaudy, wobbly, mirror-lined fun house: teen-aged misfit enjoys doo-wop music, Edgard Varese, develops skills as a composer, learns to play guitar. Forms rock bands, including the Mothers of Invention, and records some of the genre's most
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Zappa's career may leave lasting impression on American classical music. (Originated from Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Frank Zappa's musical hero was the composer Edgard Varese, but his soul was closer to Erik Satie. The avant-gardist Varese was a bold experimenter. But Zappa was a satirist, like Satie, a tweaker of sensibilities and a composer whose ironic song titles scandalized. Both were irritants to a
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Appreciation; The Maverick Muse of Frank Zappa; He Rocked Middle America With Music and Caustic Wit
The Washington Post
; Frank Zappa was the father of invention, the most caustic iconoclast of the rock-and-roll era. "My job," he once said, "is extrapolating everything to its most absurd extreme." And Zappa, who died of prostate cancer Saturday at age 52, clearly loved his job. Blessed with an agile mind that embraced
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