To add another link: Maureen Russell interviewed Joe about the Zappa
Archive for her column in Music Reference Services Quarterly in 2013:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2013.784695

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- Aaron

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Aaron M. Bittel
Archivist-Librarian/Digital Projects
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 14:29 +0000, Nathan wrote:
> Yes, they declined to give ARSC permission to disseminate the audio.
> I remember they seemed to enjoy the ARSC audience.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > 
> > On Apr 29, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Barton, Matthew <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, he did, with Gail Zappa. It was in 2011 when ARSC was in
> > Los Angeles.
> > 
> > I checked the conference recordings page for 2011, but it hasn't
> > been posted. The non-Zappa portion of the panel has been posted, so
> > maybe they did not wish for any vault material to be available
> > online. Does anyone know if that's the case?
> > 
> > 
> > Matthew Barton
> > Library of Congress
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ARSC Library and Archives Discussion List [mailto:ARSCLIB@LIS
> > TSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Peoples, Curtis
> > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 9:25 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Zappa Archive
> > 
> > I would really like to see Joe present at ARSC on the Zappa Vault
> > material. 
> > 
> > 
> > Curtis L. Peoples, Ph.D.
> > Archivist, Crossroads Music Archive
> > Unit Head, Crossroads Recording Studio
> > 
> > Contact Info:
> > Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University P. O. Box 41041
> > Lubbock, Texas 79409-1041
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > TEL: 1+806-834-5777
> > FAX: 1+806-742-0496
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ARSC Library and Archives Discussion List [mailto:ARSCLIB@LIS
> > TSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Karl E. Fitzke
> > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 7:25 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Zappa Archive
> > 
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJsevNg0WGc
> > 
> > Joe Travers, are you on this list?   Let me tell you how much I've
> > enjoyed watching you drum for Mike Keneally too.
> > 
> > -Karl
> > ________________________________________
> > From: ARSC Library and Archives Discussion List <[log in to unmask]
> > OC.GOV> on behalf of Rachel Wilson-Clark <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 7:19:01 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIB] Zappa Archive
> > 
> > Cool email.
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:03 PM, David Lee < sueanddavelee@ntlworld
> > .com [[log in to unmask]] > wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > As the subject of Frank Zappa has come up, I thought I might use
> > this opportunity to ask list subscribers what happened to his huge
> > archive of audio and video recordings, most of them unrealised
> > projects? I know that his son has been arranging for the
> > digitisation of some of it, but this would be a massive
> > undertaking. If the archive is still in his house, then all the
> > obvious risks associated with that are worrying, to say the least.
> > Does anyone know if the recordings are in safer, archival hands,
> > with a suitable budget to get it preserved?
> > 
> > My interest stems not just from a fan's perspective, but also from
> > an email I received some years ago from someone actively involved
> > in bootlegging Zappa's material (apparently he is the most
> > bootlegged artist in recent times), who wondered what was being
> > done to safeguard the archive, which was then in family hands.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > David Lee
> > (Formerly Manager, Wessex Film & Sound Archive, UK)