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Frank Zappa’s Unreleased Lumpy Gravy Cover Shoot & Studio Session Photos – Part 2

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Here you can see some more detail of the Capitol Records studio (see mic) and another great t-shirt that Zappa is wearing.  Really ahead of his time in both music and fashion.  He pretty much puts any LA hipster to shame.

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Frank Zappa’s Unreleased Lumpy Gravy Cover Shoot & Studio Session Photos – Part 1

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Well, it’s about time I share these photos with everyone.  I luckily found these at a yard sale in San Diego a few years ago.  I bought about 10 different Frank Zappa photos, 8 of which were the original photographer’s proofs that still had red crayon circled approvals on several of the shots in the roll.  I scanned them in at 600dpi (if I remember correctly) so you could still get an amazing closeup of each frame.  Original cost was about 5 bucks and then bills needed to be paid and sold on eBay for $900… I think.

I believe these studio shots may be from around the time Lumpy Gravy was released.  If you look closely, you can see he’s wearing the Pipco shirt underneath his cardigan.  I’ll put put a new hi-res photo up every day for the next 8 days ending with the alternate versions of the Lumpy Gravy cover.  As far as I know, these have never been released.  Enjoy!

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Suicidal Tendencies Pizza Party in Cleveland

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So, it’s not like a regular pizza party, because I’d think there’d be a lot of hair in da pizza pie at this Suicidal Tendencies signing.  I’m not real sure how I got this, but I think it’s the only copy of it… ever.  It was somewhere serving my 10 year term at everyone’s favorite record store in Roseville (um, besides Record Time).
Anyway, I’ll be posting more weird videos soon.
The signing is from a Cleveland parking lot.  I especially love the guy at 4:15.