| FZ NASCAR mention & You Tube [message #291771] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 17:34 |
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At the NASCAR race in Sonoma, CA. yesterday. one of the announcers
commented that one of the drivers, Boris Said, "looked like Frank
Zappa". Boris does somewhat resemble FZ and used to even more before he
let his soul patch grow into a Van Dyke. I was sent a few links
to You Tube and others like it recently. I have found some new (to me)
Zappa videos including a very early MOI medley starting off with some
licks from the "Teddy Bear's Picnic". Is there a way to download these
videos? Thanks, Tom, Chicago So. Suburbs
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| Re: FZ NASCAR mention & You Tube [message #291784 ] |
Di, 27 Juni 2006 01:42 |
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Tom said the following:
> At the NASCAR race in Sonoma, CA. yesterday. one of the announcers
> commented that one of the drivers, Boris Said, "looked like Frank
> Zappa". Boris does somewhat resemble FZ and used to even more before he
> let his soul patch grow into a Van Dyke.
I posted the following here three years ago regarding Said:
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:32:54 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: race car driver Boris Said [who] "...resembles the late
Frank Zappa."
Road warrior takes Infineon pole
Right-turn specialists Said, Fellows fill in for Winston Cup
regulars and qualify 1st, 3rd for Sunday's race
June 21, 2003
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/motor/news/21nascar_c1.html
SONOMA -- Chalk one up for the Hired Guns.
Boris Said, who has raced just about every kind of car at
Infineon Raceway over the years, and admits his dream is to be a
full-time driver on the Winston Cup circuit, ran the fastest lap
ever at Infineon and qualified in the top spot for Sunday's
Dodge/Save Mart 350.
It usually isn't difficult picking Said out of a crowd. He's
tall, has very curly black hair and resembles the late Frank
Zappa. But after realizing Said was going to win the pole Friday
afternoon, Said's U.S. Army team all donned curly black wigs.
[snip]
- - -
Discovering the news article made me perform an image search via
Google. Make your own resemblance assessment via the shortened
alternate link:
http://tinyurl.com/ewwg
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| Re: FZ NASCAR mention & You Tube [message #291798 ] |
Di, 27 Juni 2006 20:53 |
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Tom wrote:
> At the NASCAR race in Sonoma, CA. yesterday. one of the announcers
> commented that one of the drivers, Boris Said, "looked like Frank
> Zappa". Boris does somewhat resemble FZ and used to even more before he
> let his soul patch grow into a Van Dyke. I was sent a few links
> to You Tube and others like it recently. I have found some new (to me)
> Zappa videos including a very early MOI medley starting off with some
> licks from the "Teddy Bear's Picnic". Is there a way to download these
> videos? Thanks, Tom, Chicago So. Suburbs
>
Hi Tom,
there is a way indeed.
1. Play the video on youtube. Let it finish first.
2. Select 'View page source' from your browser.
3. In the page source, find: player2.swf?video_id=
4. Copy the part behind the '='. That's the id of the video. For
example: WFAYz9WbELk&l=111&t=OEgsToPDskK4pj_Rw22e7R1cuwMTZwOW
5. Put the following link: http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=
concatenated with the id you found, in your web browser. In the
example this would be:
http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=WFAYz9WbELk&l= 111&t=OEgsToPDskK4pj_Rw22e7R1cuwMTZwOW
6. Hit <enter>
7. Choose "save it to disk", renaming the name 'get_video' to a proper
name, with extension .flv (like 'Bozzio.flv'). (flv is the extension
for flash video file...)
8. Now, you can play the file with a .flv player. You can get one here:
http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updat ed
9. Good luck....
AAAFNRAA!!
Greetings,
Corné
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