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Early Frank Zappa artwork on History Detectives

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Just flipping around last night and happened upon the PBS show, History Detectives. The upcoming segment was about a collage with an FZ signature and was items from a Drum Shop that Frank hung out at when he was a Drummer very early on.

After several peoples take as to what it was or if anyone including Frank's brother ever saw it...and they didn't, they end up with Frank's wife Gail at the Drum Shop to discuss.

Gail verified the signature and after looking at a photo of the at that time Drum Shop owner as well as a Boxing Ring Bell from the artwork, it was determined that this was indeed done by frank very early on when he was about 20 or maybe earlier.

Very cool story and artwork.

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That was neat, along with the earlier segment on Dylan's guitar. I was disappointed that they never resolved who actually owned the thing, given its rather high value.
 
I lucked out and caught the whole show from beginning to end. All of it interesting including the fake Beatles signatures (although the Cynthia Lennon sig was authentic).

I agree that the Frank Zappa art segment was very cool. Love how the old photo showed the owner of the Drum Shop in the same plaid jacket as the image above.
 
1koolcat said:
I lucked out and caught the whole show from beginning to end. All of it interesting including the fake Beatles signatures (although the Cynthia Lennon sig was authentic).

I agree that the Frank Zappa art segment was very cool. Love how the old photo showed the owner of the Drum Shop in the same plaid jacket as the image above.
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I did catch the very end of the Beatles segment and bummer that they had others sign the pics in their place but at that time, they never dreamed of what their signatures would be worth today.
 
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