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09-19-2010, 04:57 PM
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i just came back from the Statue dedication at Southeast Anchor Library here in baltimore, its about a 10min away from my row house. They named today (Sept 19th) Frank Zappa day and renamed a street Franks Zappa Way. The statue came from Lithuania, they have the original bust there. the whole zappa family was there and Dweezil did Zappa plays Zappa, awesome. My roommate won V.I.P. passes from a local radio station WRNR, we both answered the question right, what high school did he attend (trick question there were 3 of them) but he named my book we got the answer from and he won. it had a meet and greet and we got to be in front of the stage. it was an awesome awesome show. Pete Griffin played a nice sherwood green Lakland 44-60 or a joe osborn and he did a good job. i had never seen a zappa plays zappa show and im pretty glad i did.
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09-19-2010, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | Whats new in Baltimore? I've actually seen that statue in lithuania. Did they move it, or get an identical one made for baltimore? |
09-19-2010, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: maryland, baltimore | | | they made an identical one. the mayor of lithuania's capital was there and 3 guys who were involved with the original bust, they commissioned the second for his birth place.
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09-19-2010, 05:39 PM
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09-19-2010, 05:50 PM
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09-19-2010, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by colcifer Is driving Frank Zappa Way as fun as it sounds? | no and during regular days there will be a lot of junkies bummin for change, good thing the spanish community around can act like they dont speak english but my white ass cant go no habla inglés hehe.
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09-19-2010, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Marco A. Mayer Pretty cool! Now I'm gonna spin Hot Rats and Joe's Garage. | YESS!
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09-19-2010, 06:16 PM
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09-19-2010, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Super Dwarf no and during regular days there will be a lot of junkies bummin for change, good thing the spanish community around can act like they dont speak english but my white ass cant go no habla inglés hehe. | Bummer. Too bad he isn't here to write a song about it... |
09-19-2010, 06:26 PM
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09-19-2010, 07:35 PM
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09-19-2010, 07:44 PM
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09-19-2010, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 5StringBlues Way past due. | Amen to that.
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09-19-2010, 09:19 PM
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I'm actually listening to "Advance Romance" right now (Bongo Fury).
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09-19-2010, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by emblymouse And this from the city that brought you John Waters. | That's an impressive artistic two-fer!
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09-21-2010, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by GregC That's an impressive artistic two-fer! | And I believe that David Byrne was born in Arbutus. (suburb of baltimore and birth place of my wife)
I was there and had actually seen the statue in Vilnius when we were there 3 years ago. It is an exact duplicate and was donated by the Lithuanians.
I was there for 3 reasons, Zappa fan, Baltimorean and Lithuanian.
pics.. Statue in Vilnius, Lithuania on left and Baltimore, Md on right.  
This dedication was on the 25th anniversary of Zappa appearing before congress on 'rights of free speech'.
The reason for putting it at a library is that Frank's wife quoted him. "If you want to get laid go to college, if you want to learn go to the library". Not verbatim but you get the idea.
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09-21-2010, 10:16 AM
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09-21-2010, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by James Hart It was a TBer that played bagpipes at the unveiling... I'm gonna link him to the thread | Darn it James, you've forced me out of reclusiveness!     
Last picture was taken on the Gibson Tourbus by Diva Zappa, herself.
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Originally Posted by Gintaras The reason for putting it at a library is that Frank's wife quoted him. "If you want to get laid go to college, if you want to learn go to the library". Not verbatim but you get the idea. | I don't know if you saw the mayor's face when she said that, but I thought she was going to have a stroke.  It was a memory I'm never going to forget.
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09-21-2010, 02:57 PM
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09-21-2010, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by The 0x Darn it James, you've forced me out of reclusiveness! |  I'm proud of you... looks like it was an awesome day / experience. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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