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Title: Zappa Plays Zappa...
Post by: olieoliver on December 16, 2006, 09:50:07 PM
Don't know if anyones had a chance to see this show but I highly recommend it. It just got home from the Dallas (Nokia Theater) show and was very pleased.
Dweezil sure has got his dad's knack for finding good musicians.
Steve Vai and Terry Bozio where both very good but it was Dweezil's band that I was most impressed with.  
 
Very loud but also very good.
Bravo Dweezil, bravo!
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Post by: inthelows on December 16, 2006, 10:24:10 PM
Is there a site to catch dates for this?
Thanks
NLP
Title: Zappa Plays Zappa...
Post by: olieoliver on December 17, 2006, 05:57:43 AM
Here is the official site Zappa Plays Zappa (http://www.zappa.com/zpz/tourdates.html)
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Post by: davr35 on December 17, 2006, 08:07:13 AM
I'm going to the show tommorrow night in New Orleans will report back
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Post by: mikedm on December 17, 2006, 12:01:11 PM
Hey, Olie, I don't know about you, but it took the entire drive home for my head to clear.
 
Strickly speaking, the band was outrageous, extremely tight, lots of fun and not a wasted moment. Dweezil did his homework, too.  
 
Opened with Andy and never looked back.
 
Catch them if you can.
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Post by: David Houck on December 17, 2006, 05:55:58 PM
The guitar player in my band went to the Atlanta show.  He thought it was amazing.  He's a big Zappa fan.
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Post by: olieoliver on December 17, 2006, 07:04:59 PM
The show in Dallas was awesome. I'm not really a huge Zappa fan but I always appreciated the musicianship his music contained. Dweezil's show was no exception either.  
I was especially impressed with a Scheila Gonzalez, she played keys, sax and provided vocals, all 3 at the same times it seemed like too.
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Post by: to_81_0190 on December 17, 2006, 07:47:30 PM
This thread make Zappa fan who is living in Japan frustrate! It's Me! @;+?/*-!!!
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Post by: mikedm on December 18, 2006, 02:47:06 PM
Set list for the Dallas show lifted from another discussion board, not in order performed. Not being a Zappa-head I can't vouch for accuracy, I leave that to the more Zappa infected/affected/effected members. The Bozio era material was played back to back. Black Page was great.  
Andy (opener)  
Inca Roads  
Sofa #1 (closer)  
Florentine Pogen  
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (the whole epic, but without Nanook Rubs It)  
Black Page #1  
Black Page #2  
Cheepnis  
Pygmy Twylyte  
Tell Me You Love Me  
Call Any Vegetable (different arrangement)  
Zomby Woof  
I'm the Slime  
I'm So Cute  
Tryin' to Grow a Chin  
Punky's Whips  
Oh No / Orange County Lumber Truck / Harry, You're a Beast  
Trouble Every Day  
The Idiot Bastard Son  
Montana  
Peaches en Regalia  
Village of the Sun  
Black Napkins  
Echidna's Arf (Of You)
 
Not many dates left and scattered geographicaly. Dweezil mentioned more than once that he'd like to do this next year.
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Post by: olieoliver on December 18, 2006, 02:51:50 PM
Nice to see you're working hard to day Mike.
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Post by: mikedm on December 18, 2006, 05:10:31 PM
it's the least I can do, ; )
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Post by: zappahead on December 18, 2006, 07:55:06 PM
I caught the show when they came to DC to the Warner Theater. Its a really top notch show. Everyone involved is really just an excellent musician and the versions of all the songs were great. Steve Vai was in excellent form. He really blew the lid off the place a couple of times. I think he is at his best playing Zappa. Dweezil has really taken his playing to that next level. His solos and riffs were all great. That set list looks pretty close to what I saw except they tossed in Torture never stops when I caught them. This is a great show, definetly worth seeing.
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Post by: davr35 on December 18, 2006, 11:03:26 PM
Just got back from the New Orleans show. Three hours twenty minutes of pure bliss.
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Post by: davr35 on December 18, 2006, 11:21:45 PM
Oh I forgot they played Regyptian Strut
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Post by: to_81_0190 on December 19, 2006, 12:41:44 AM
Wow! Almost every song on the set list is my fovorites!
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Post by: paulman on December 19, 2006, 12:35:02 PM
I missed this in Chicago, had my child that weekend.    
 
My buddy gave it a rave review, and said they worked it so Frank himself got to play a solo during the show with the live band backing him up!  I would have killed for that.  
 
I still have the ticket, any takers? hahaha
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Post by: 57basstra on December 19, 2006, 12:49:49 PM
OK, yeah,uh huh, now I've got Zappa lyrics dancing in my head..
 
The poodle bites!
(come on, frenchie)
The poodle chews it!
(snap it!)
The poodle bites!
(come on, frenchie)
The poodle chews it!
(snap it!)
....Dirty Love
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Post by: paulman on December 19, 2006, 12:59:15 PM
Sounds like you've got a serious case of Moo-aah ;D