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is there any chance that Ike could play with Zappa Plays Zappa? 
I have been seeing Ike for 15 years in NYC with Project Object at the Lion's Den and other places. 
I love Ike's singing and guitar playing...what an amazing talent! 
I also love Andre as well.
Sounds like there is a feud between Andre' & Ike vs. Dweezil........
I don't know if this is rumor or truth but it would be so nice if everyone was able to get along. 
Dweezil could use Ike's singing and playing abilities right now. 
Has Dweezil been a jerk to you guys? 
I hope not! 
Hope Ike comes back to Seattle, where I live now.
Thanks,
Eric

Well Eric, if you want to see Ike with ZPZ, you (as the fan'z) are the only way to make it happen.
We love Andre' as well.
Rumor, truth or what? The world moves on!
Do keep checking back as Ike will be back in Seattle before ya know it! 

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lo to you ...... i was wondering ...............a while ago i bought your cds dp should.............
     i was looking for the lyrics to read ..........my be a good website addition could not find them on the web anywhere.............
                                                  i wish you would post a nice performance of the foreigner of boston on youtube.........
i been a long time fan i love your music and fz music how ever it was duke, nap, ray and you which influenced my singing the most even not singing these days anymore ...................
i would  be thrilled if could see you singing your own music more often maybe see you at the zapanale if i make it there...................
you think dead really exists.............a token of my extreme.................i can hear zappa talk to me .............

Good idea, posting the lyrics. It may take a while, but it will be done!
Thanks for the other comments also!

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Hi,
My name is Marcelo and i was in the Ike Willis & Central Scrutinizer Band show in Aldeia Turiassu last saturday.
He gave me his pick.
I just want to thank him cause i couldn't help being as excited as i can be watching him playing.
and I want to know if there's more videos recorded of Ike playing with frank zappa...
I already have "does humor belong in music" and "zappa in barcelona", and want to know if there's any other...

Well, Thank you for the best time...

Hope this message get to Ike.

Love
Marcelo

Marcelo, you can find lot'z of video of Ike playing with Frank on YouTube, along with Ike playing with bands like Project Object, and more! 

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I was blessed to see/hear you twice with Frank and once after his untimely passing with a great band of your own in a small club in New Paltz, NY. 
You actually took the time to chat with me during intermission at Frank's show and after yours.
Thank you for all that! Anyway, Ike, when can I expect to experience you again, hopefully at a venue near me in or around the NYC area?
I  see you are still active musically and touring here and there.
Please never stop!
And please let know if I'll get a chance to see you again.
Peace.
Sal Capaci

Just keep checking back as Ike announces where he will be next!  

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Hey Ike, (Joe or whoever you may be to avoid the CS getting you),

Is there any chance at all you may tour with the Zappa-Plays-Zappa gigs, especially at Bristol in the UK;
you'd make that such a special gig and it would mean more to us than seeing Dweezil or Ahmed play their dads'

oh so special music.

Thanks man

TDyl 

It would be special, wouldn't it. But you will need to ask the ZFT if it will happen!

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Hey Ike, How are ya? Jesse (the BUTCHER) Burks here, long time no see, I did the drum tech for Toss Panos
at the 1988 Portland Oregon Masonic temple shows (shoulda gone before i left) Bill (Fish) Fisher.
any way my son Elton,L-Tonez @ my space has a very unique and cool sound, I thought you
might want to hear and possibly produce a cd. this kid will be noticed soon!!! we are doing a benefit
concert for low income families here in the Boise, Idaho area. It is a new sound THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR.
He does have some air time, on a local new rock station. I'm currently playing drums for him, only until we can get Toss, lol.
So I'll need a address to send a cd.
Thank you very much and ROCK ON!!!
Jesse (the butcher) Burks 

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hey Ike,
whats up buddy?  this is Scott G, from the Sherman Oaks Apartments next to Ralphs! 
i just wanted to say that i enjoyed your website...it is definately unique.
i hope you are still bangin' some big fat hits....we had a blast that day i ran into you at mcdonalds. 
i ended up getting evicted from that joint...and finally 1 year later things are getting back on track.
tell D i said hello if you see him!  i have managed to still bang some phat hits (on the street) and at hotels, but its nothing like it was back then.
be good player
Scott 

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Hello Brother Ike, So, a long time ago, more years than I want to remember (or probably can),
I was hangin' out with a bunch of Greeks making a really bad movie that was originally called "Zeus",
and is now called "Crime Killer" and listed as one of the worst movies of all time.  I was married to a long, tall and utterly
gorgeous Mulatto lady and had a small son named Sean Paul,
and here we are doing this bad flick in the hot desert sun, eating equally bad Greek food prepared
by the sister of one George Pan Andreas (aka Zeus), and along comes this cat named Ike Willis
who for some reason got roped, black-mailed, or way too stoned and agreed to work on this movie. 
Now me, being a blonde haired, blue eyed white boy from Kansas, and a writer, immediately bonded with
this cat and we wrote a little parody of "Shaft", using the name "Zeus" instead, and adding in a
little KY jelly and some other obviously tasteful lyrics that you played for Frank over the phone one night. 
You were living in a small apartment with your guitar and family, and I was just dealing with the reality of
working on a movie called "Zeus", and entertaining myself by hanging out with you
and getting probably way too stoned...are you beginning to remember? 
Last I heard you were playing with a band called, I believe, "Ike Willis's Rhetoric". I'm now living on the
East Coast in Connecticut, right by the sea, and writing my ass off, and keep looking to see if you're
ever going to appear out here...I'd really like to see you again, and introduce you to my best friend and the
lady who allows me to hang out with her, and just hang out with you again.  I'll attach a picture of me on here,
as well as one of her, and see if you remember me at all...it's been a lot of years, Ike, but I've thought of you
over time and wondered how you were doing.  You made that movie so much easier to work on, especially considering
that I took June away from George, and had to deal with the talk about him fathering my son, though that would
have meant that June carried Sean Paul for about two years before giving birth...
close to immaculate conception, but not quite. I hope all is great for you, and that you
just keep playing that wonderful music that you do.
Take care, Donn 

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Hey Ike,   I am a rabid Zappa fan from the Freak Out days.
I followed the band through all the incantations etc.
The point being, I saw the Band from Utopia at the Key Club in Hollywood and at some club down by the beach south of L.A. back in the day.
You bummed a Marlboro off of me. I am now beset by our economic meltdown.
Can I have my cigarette back?  
Mr. G

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Dear Ike, just a quick thank you for coming to Kalamazoo. 
I did not get a chance to say hello personally but just wanted you to know how much it meant to hear some of my all time favorite music from the master. 
I especially enjoyed the impromptu Dong Work for Uda.   While I love all of Frank’s albums, Joe’s Garage has always
been one of my very favorite pieces of music in the world.  All the best to you, and I will see you on tour soon!
Paul Toth
 

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Ike Willis how did the gigs go with Ed Mann ?
I was curious if you guys record those shows ?

I am way down soweth..
my name is Ronald and I just wanna
play my guitar and go nee nu nee nu nee nu neenunee.

I am in Texas so not much chance of catchum
yez no time soon roun herum.
knewayz had some questions about
franks rack and gear..
specifically the dynaflangers and the aphex expresser.

I as well have some questions about
well the music..

I found a dynaflanger and the aphex is here
I am trying to recreate a FRANK RIG.
looking for the watermelon tones...
He used to cut the grass tones.

I know he used two dynaflangers and the aphex and
systech harmonic energizer.

I saw a video about this and spied what frank be usin.
den..

trying to figure how the signal path must have gone.
not that i deserve it but can you help me
with getting my frank tones dowen ?

I am in a small town and bored as fuck
here the only thing keeping me fresh is
zappa right now and I am woodshedding
and trying to really learn the parts.

when i saw the article about the gear
and then the video I started snatchin
gear up..

anyway in about a week ill have the dynaflanger.
I will score only one but im looking for two.
chasing frank.

I am Tone whore I seek the tones then
try to do my best to whom ever it is thats touched me
so deep I wake up singing it.

I fucking cry when i hear watermelon in easter hay
and sofa ..

I dont admit that too many but I know you were a part of those
recordings and that touches me forever as well my son
who hears it every day.

I too have a promise Ike to never let anyone keep me from playing
nee nu nee nu neenu ne nu neee...

either..

Id really like to convey how much I love that music you were a part of
and I want you to know my son hums it everyday because its in his blood now too.

I saw Frank and you at the last armadillo world headquarters show,
I have a ticket stub id like to send ya...

I dug it out of the trash after they ripped it and tossed it.
The following year you all came to frank erwin center.
no stubs for that show but i got armadillo.

I wont ever forget that I wish you all would come play texas.
project object..

what are ya playing nowdayz ?
I build guitars when I am inspired
currently trying to make a guitar rig
that can pull off frank live.

Id like to play zoot allures live here
many other tunes sofa..
watermelon in easter hay
bamboozled by love.
love that tune....
he used to cut the grass
all the singing on that man...

I hope you singing and playing your ass off
you inspire man.

YOU INSPIRE IKE WILLIS

I laugh till I cry playing to this music.
Im a grown man and sofa brings me to fucking tears.
so does watermelon solo.
buckles me man.

Just wanted you to know how much your touch
makes my soul laugh and be free.

we gotta be free we gotta be free
we gotta
gotta
gotta be free
gotta be free
gottsta.
gottsta

I builded guitarz forum while
till they plooked the fuck outa me
so i am private now or in otherwords
im unemployed.

you know how to tell if a luthier is at the door ike ?
if he has a dominos pizza hat on...

sad fugginfact there.

live music is sad down here
so I am racking the gear frank used
not unlike someone else we know
and I am going to learn the songs and
play them live here.

Id like to go as far as hiring local horn players
to come try just to keep it going here.

This town really needs to laugh.
so I am learning some tunes and getting my ike voice on.

yea a white boy trying to sound like Ike and learn frank tones.

no one said I was original but I know where to go
to laugh and learn,

These days I work on those crazy sowendz.

I fowend this email so thought id rite ya.

Id like you to know how much I miss hearing and seeing you play,

I Am spoiled I got to see you in two different bands.
Ed mann and Bobby martin were in the second one.
damn I guess Vai was there too.

been too lowen...

Ike id like to talk gear with ya
and how to learn the tunes
correctly and not just the guitar parts.

how does an amateur go about
learning the tunes correctly
since it seems someone has or is trying
to make things ILLEGAL.

Ron Frey
Frey Guitars
Texas

if you read this far
IKE WILLIS YOU INSPIRE
DEDICATED TO YOU AND FRANK
I DONT NEED PERMISSION EITHER

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Good Day Sir..
I would just like to say your the finest guitarist I have ever heard dead or alive!
Such nimbleness and acuity with a bouchee fortitude and just a bit of rockabilly.. "WOW" !  I just can't get enough !
The fact that you hung out with Mr. Zapper just makes me just squeal...!
Could you please send me an autographed candy wrapper or a dirty napkin perhaps..?

Wishing you and your family always the best..!
Uncle John...

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Dear Ike…
For the more than thousand times, I am listening to Joe’s Garage…
I have enjoyed FZ for decades, even before seeing the Mothers in ‘71/72 in Gorham Maine…and not enough concerts after that and through most of FZ’s cds.
I want to thank you for so much joy, so much pleasure, so many laughs, and your contributions to some of the best music ever performed.
I missed your Project Object visit to Portland ME a year or two ago…if you ever come back, and I can be there…I look forward.
Thank you so much!
Fred Michel

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Hi Ike.
I have some ridiculous questions, but I won't bother you with them...So, when and with whom are you touring?  How about coming to Albuquerque, hm?
I'm certain you don't remember me, and I am not so vain to believe that you should, but I always have a kickin' time at your shows.
Be well, happy new year!
Melissa

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To Ike My name is Ron Frey I live or rather survive in denison tx < poofters froth texas >
I just ran across your page and had to write.
I want to say how much I enjoy your music and singing.
Mostly I am familiar with Franks music and of late I am really
working at trying to learn it on guitar and even step in the same room
to try and sing too.
It is real fucking boring here so music saves me everyday and
I have my guitar and cheesy amps to howl on.
anyway I was glad to find your page and really wish I could
see you play again and especially sing.
I was able to see Frank at the last armadillo world headquarters show
and as well frank erwin center show which was with the cherry burst paul.
shut up n play era I think.
I know chances of you playing in Texas might be SLIM but if you ever
get this way id love to come see and hear you.
My son is now 17 he knows your music by heart and he laughs outloud
at you snapping fingers with the alien hands on.
crax us up harud.
I play guitar and try to learn the impossible parts
i really love bamboozled by love but i fall apart trying to sing
it and play it at the same time.
one or the other right now but I try,
I have several dvds and your on most of them
some with ray some with mike kenally
I watch those everyday and try to dial in my frank tone.
got me a colorsound wah and Its very frank.
70s version.
need help on the watermelon tone.
I think i might be dreaming on due to the price of those chorus units he used.
super chorus or something like that.
plus no one is frank but I can dream a lil
and learn alot.
I try to figure the parts on keyboard out too.
we have logic 7 and a full size keyboard.
The fast parts are way beyond my skill but
I did learn part of peaches en regalia the other day.
I spent the day and loved it.
anyway wanted to say how much I miss watching you play and sing
and I wish you could come to Texas.
Not sure why you would want to come especially here but
Dallas perhaps.
Id like to hear and see what your doing now..
any cds or dvds ?
steer me to the right place.
Ike willis you are great dont ever ever quit playing and singing
you make us all happy and get real..
I hope your doing great
and I really hope to see you play again sometime.
Ron and Christian Frey
zappa forever

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After looking over your website all I could think was how much "Lucille messed your mind up"!
Is asking that you might be brought in to sing for ZPZ a touchy question ? If not, are you ?
Peace Ike, Shawn Maloy

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