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Longtime Zappa vocalist Ike Willis died on Saturday night. He was 70 years old. With that in mind and as a tribute to his legacy, here's one of my favorite versions of one of the songs from Joe's Garage, the first Zappa album Ike was on, called Outside Now. This version was performed and recorded a few months after Frank Zappa's death at the Jazz Open Festival in Stuttgart, Germany.
https://youtu.be/Ts1XqI5dfGE

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The Band from Utopia - Frank Zappa's Outside Now (Stuttgart Jazz Open, July 94)

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acffh morst 3d ago

#RestInPower #IkeWillis #JoesGarage #Thingfish #ZappaBand

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Project Object Live at Miramar Theatre on 2011-10-21 (VIDEO) : Project/Object : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Fred May 11

🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
📅 Date: 1979
🌍 Country: UK
🏷 Label: Zappa Records – ZAPPA 20
🎛 reissue 1990
Features: 3 x vinyl Box Set

Here’s a box set that doesn’t need introductions!

Joe’s Garage Act I and the double album Joe’s Garage Acts II & III first came out in 1979 as separate releases; later, the three acts were combined into this fantastic box set edition.

A concept album telling the story of Joe’s frustrations as a guitar player. Amazing storytelling throughout, filled with unforgettable characters and strange humour, all packed together with easy-going tracks, satire, and lots of laughs in between.

Musically, this is one of Zappa’s most polished and ambitious productions, blending rock, jazz fusion, spoken word, and some incredible guitar work. The box set itself really highlights how massive the whole project was intended to feel, almost like a surreal rock opera.

All the tracks are great, but I give particular note to: “Watermelon in Easter Hay”, one of the most emotional guitar solos Zappa ever recorded, and a surprisingly serious piece near the end of the story.

#zappa #frankzappa #joesgarage #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcollectors #music #boxset #vinylcommunity #musiccommunity #fediverse #mastodon #zappafan #myvinylcollection #zappanale #zappaproject

PossumDark Aug 24, 2025

Zappa's Joe's Garage is a wild, three-act rock opera that skewers censorship, the music industry, and government control. It follows Joe, a suburban teen, through a satirical dystopian odyssey where playing music is a crime. A must-listen for anyone who loves concept albums and Zappa's unique brand of social commentary. 🎸 #FrankZappa #JoesGarage #RockOpera #MusicHistory

Joe´s Garage *A´dam*Aug 1, 2025

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Todon Events May 16, 2025

Joe's Garage 20th Anniversary

Joe's Garage, Saturday, May 31 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

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Today Joe's Garage celebrates its 20th Anniversary!!!

Come and enjoy a full day of music and festivities on the Steve Bikoplein and in Joe's Garage.

We start at 14.00 clock outside on the square.
There will be games, food and drinks, freeshop, live music and DJ's, and much much more!

https://events.todon.eu/event/joes-garage-20th-anniversary

Joe's Garage

Todon Events Apr 9, 2025

. -- \ from housing insecurity to collective power / -- .

Joe's Garage, Sunday, April 13 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Attention Precarious tenants:

This coming Sunday BPW and Radical Sunday School will host the Living Struggle workshop: From housing insecurity to collective power. We explore how to stand your ground, build counter-power together, get moving and keep going - without exhausting yourself.

This workshop is for anyone who is facing a precarious living situation, willing to support those who do or seeking solidarity. Prior experience in housing activism is not needed. Together, we’ll build a more accessible and powerful movement.

See you this Sunday, 5.30pm in Joe's Garage

https://events.todon.eu/event/-from-housing-insecurity-to-collective-power-

. -- \ from housing insecurity to collective power / -- .

Attention Precarious tenants: This coming Sunday BPW and Radical Sunday School will host the Living Struggle workshop: From housing insecurity to collective power. We explore how to stand your ground, build counter-power together, get moving and keep going - without exhausting yourself. This workshop is for anyone who is facing a precarious living situation, willing to support those who do or seeking solidarity. Prior experience in housing activism is not needed. Together, we’ll build a more accessible and powerful movement. See you this Sunday, 5.30pm in Joe's Garage

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Libby Jan 6, 2025

Just got some bad news, Siouxie, who was born upstairs from the social center at the very moment the original @joesgarage_Adam was squatted, has died. She would have been 20 in May, so she got quite old. Still makes me sad though.
#cat #blackcat #CatsOfMastodon #catsoffediverse #Joesgarage #PS28

RockerNRoller Nov 20, 2024

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳! Frank Zappa - 'Joe's Garage: Act I, II & III'. 🎸💿 (19 November 1979) ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ #frankzappa #zappa #joesgarage #watermelonineasterhay #album #record #LP #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinylcommunity #vinyligclub #vinylcollector #discogs #instavinyl #vinyloftheday #33rpm #progrock #jazzfusion #avantgarde #satirerock #comedyrock #rockopera #rocknroll #classicrock #fluanceRT85N #music #review

Robin Bannks Nov 19, 2024

Joe’s Garage

Zappa releases the final two acts to his three-part rock opera on November 19, 1979. (Act 1 was released earlier in September.) Zappa takes on a little bit of everything with his tongue firmly planted in cheek -- religion, government censorship, human sexuality and more. He took some hits from the tight-asses ... it WAS 1979 ... but now Joe's Garage is considered some of his finest work. #frankzappa #joesgarage #progressiverock #progrock #rockopera…

https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/joes-garage/

Joe’s Garage

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