Frank Zappa Statue Finally Finds A Home
Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:39PM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
After a year’s worth of discussion, Baltimore city officials have finally decided on a location to put a rather special bust of the eccentric and talented Frank Zappa. And the lucky locale that just upped its ‘cool’ level is: the Southeast Anchor Library in Highlandtown.
The 15-foot statue, a gift from a Zappa fan club in Lithuania, will be set up on the corner of Eastern Avenue and South Conkling Street sometime next year, said Anne Perkins, chair of the Public Art Commission. Check out a photo of the Zappa statue below.
Gail Zappa, widow of legend Frank Zappa, mother of Dweezil, Ahmet, Moon Unit, and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen, has lost her case against the organizers of the Zappanale, a yearly Frank Zappa festival that takes place in Bad Doberan (whose bad-ass coat of arms illustrates this post), Germany. Gail had demanded that the festival remove the statue of Frank Zappa that stands in the city and that they stop calling the festival the Zappanale. The court found that the festival has been using the name since 1990 and that both Gail and Frank Zappa knew about the festival from that date and that Gail did nothing until recently.
