Year: 1996

1996-10-15 Toronto, ON, Canada

Bob Dobbs conducts Part Three of a three-part interview with Frank Zappa posthumously through The Evergreens chanelled by Michael Blake Read, later published in Flipside Magazine #110 -Jan/Feb ’98

1996-8-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob in discussion at the Fialka’s and then on the street, then at a bookstore, then Bob gives a tour of the exterior of Frank Zappa’s House on Belleview

1996-8-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob in discussion at a restaurant, then also at the Fialka residence reading David Kahn’s “The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet”

1996-8-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob in discussion with Ned, Phil, Gerry and others at “The Bench,” followed by talk on John Cage and some morning couch dancing at the Fialka residence

1996-8-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob in discussion with musician Tommy Mars about Frank Zappa in the garden at the Fialka residence Video (MP4): Bob and Tommy Mars

1996-8-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob has his third phone conversation with Calvin Schenkel, and a phone conversation with someone about Captain Beefheart, then he reads an article about Frank Zappa, also Gerry interviews Tom Brennan without Bob

1996-7-27 Santa Monica. CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob on panel discussing Harold Boihem’s “The Ad and The Ego,” hosted by Gerry Fialka, from which the Essay “Phatic Communion with Satellite Machines” was largely based

1996-7-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: Bob in discussion with filmmaker Craig Baldwin in the garden at the Fialka residence Video (MP4): Bob and Craig Baldwin

1996-7-1-1 Venice, CA, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka Video: In prelude to discussions on “The Bench,” Gerry gives a tour of his garden, then interviews someone in an art gallery, and shoots a man’s rant on the street

1996-6-14 New York, NY, U.S.A.

Gerry Fialka calls Bob, discuss Christine Hart, Flipside; then Bob calls Michael Thomas (financial journalist with the New York Observer) Detail