

Insights on the genius of Frank Zappa you won’t find anywhere else.
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This is Jeff Cotton (“Antennae Jimmy Semens”) at our home on Maui (we’ve been here for over 17 years) on July 4, 2025. I am posting eight excerpts from Jeff’s “performance” that day – recorded by Dr. Carolyn Dean, my…
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Jeff Cotton – July 4, 2025 – 6/8
This is Jeff Cotton (“Antennae Jimmy Semens”) at our home on Maui (we’ve been here for over 17 years) on July 4, 2025. I am posting eight excerpts from Jeff’s “performance” that day – recorded by Dr. Carolyn Dean, my…
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Jeff Cotton – July 4, 2025 – 1/8
This is Jeff Cotton (“Antennae Jimmy Semens”) at our home on Maui (we’ve been here for over 17 years) on July 4, 2025. I am posting eight excerpts from Jeff’s “performance” that day – recorded by Dr. Carolyn Dean, my…
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Jeff Cotton – July 4, 2025 – 3/8
This is Jeff Cotton (“Antennae Jimmy Semens”) at our home on Maui (we’ve been here for over 17 years) on July 4, 2025. I am posting eight excerpts from Jeff’s “performance” that day – recorded by Dr. Carolyn Dean, my…
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Jeff Cotton – July 4, 2025 – 5/8
This is Jeff Cotton (“Antennae Jimmy Semens”) at our home on Maui (we’ve been here for over 17 years) on July 4, 2025. I am posting eight excerpts from Jeff’s “performance” that day – recorded by Dr. Carolyn Dean, my…
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Jeff Cotton – July 4, 2025 – 7/8
This is Jeff Cotton (“Antennae Jimmy Semens”) at our home on Maui (we’ve been here for over 17 years) on July 4, 2025. I am posting eight excerpts from Jeff’s “performance” that day – recorded by Dr. Carolyn Dean, my…
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Zappa on Jimi Hendrix
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Zappa’s early influences: R&B – Doo-wop Vol. 30
Frank Zappa often complained by the Eighties that he found it difficult to find musicians who were familiar with the Doo-Wop and R&B records of the Fifties. So his love of that music could not be featured in his later…
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Frank Zappa describes his book Them or Us in 1984 interview. #zappa
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Zappa Dada – Richard Linklater interviewing Eric Bogosian, Austin Chronicle, November. 1995