2 new zappa books
Vladimir Sovetov
Just got press release from CALIFORNIA CLASSICS BOOKS this morning. And thought you
all would want to know too.
Here is it.
NEW BOOK BY FRANK ZAPPA'S SISTER FEATURES RARE FAMILY PHOTOS AND FASCINATING
INSIGHTS INTO ROCKER'S ROOTS; BOOK IS BEING RELEASED IN TANDEM WITH A NEW
EDITION OF NIGEY LENNON?S ?BEING FRANK.
MY BROTHER WAS A MOTHER: A ZAPPA FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM is aptly titled --
reading this new book by Patrice "Candy" Zappa, Frank Zappa's baby
sister, is a lot like stumbling across a Zappa family photo album
forgotten and stashed away in an attic. Not only are there more than
sixty previously unpublished family photos, but they are illuminated by
Candy Zappa's insights into what it was like to grow up with the
iconoclastic guitarist, composer, and social critic.
As Candy Zappa remarks in her introduction to the book, "You couldn't
get any closer to knowing what it was like to grow up in the Zappa
household unless you had been there right beside me."
Fans of the late musician may not have even been aware that he had a
nuclear family. During his lifetime Zappa (who died of prostate cancer
in 1993) preferred to turn the spotlight away from them. As a result,
more people were familiar with Zappa's children than they may have been
with his parents, Francis and RoseMarie Zappa, and his three siblings,
Bobby, Carl, and Candy.
After reading MY BROTHER WAS A MOTHER, however, no one will ever be
likely to forget this fascinating family and their heartwarming story,
told with humor and honesty by Candy. She recounts the childhood of her
immigrant father Francis Zappa, who spent his early days in Baltimore
working in his father's barber shop; tells the hilarious tale of her mother
RoseMarie Zappa, who broke off a going-nowhere relationship with a boorish
hockey player, then met Francis and consequently changed the course of
musical history; and, of course, describes what it was like growing up with
an older brother who "loved to blow things up" and who became obsessed with
music at an early age.
MY BROTHER WAS A MOTHER isn't only for Frank Zappa fans; it's a
must-read account of an archetypical Italian-American family struggling
to come to terms with their genius son in the turbulent '50s and '60s.
And Candy Zappa has the pictures to prove it!
PATRICE "CANDY" ZAPPA has performed with numerous bands on both the
East and West Coasts and Europe. (She is featured prominently on Nigey
Lennon's CD, REINVENTING THE WHEEL, which also features Mike Keneally on
guitar.)
She lives in Valley Village, California. She will be promoting MY BROTHER
WAS A MOTHER jointly with California Classics author Nigey Lennon, whose
book BEING FRANK: MY TIME WITH FRANK ZAPPA is being reissued in June.
BEING FRANK: My Time With Frank Zappa was released in 1995. Musician/author
Lennon maintained a personal and professional relationship with Zappa during
the period which is general agreed to have been the composer?s most creative
and she invests her recollections with considerable musical and emotional
insight. The new edition has been updated and includes articles by David
Walley (author of the first Frank Zappa biography, NO COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL),
Greg Russo (author of the exhaustive Frank Zappa reference work, COSMIK
DEBRIS), and Candy Zappa.
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Vladimir Sovetov | -Arf she said
computeruser
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I received the third edition of Greg Russo's stellar and as Vlad says
exhaustive work Cosmik Debris, today.
Many regulars of affz contributed to this new addition.
computeruser