As the title says.
I heard an ad on the radio for Dweezil Zappa in concert playing Frank Zappa's music.
I will try for tickets to the show nearby this summer.
Go to:
http://www.zappa.com/cheezoid/ (http://www.zappa.com/cheezoid/)
and hit the WN in the lower left to get the page leading to the tour schedule.
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Update... I scored a pair in the front section. Woot! for on-line ordering.
My first Zappa experience!
Doh. He seems to have a fear of the middle of the continent. -TM
I ddn't know squat really about Frank Zappa other than he had a loyal fan base and an enormous body of work and a discipline dwork ethic.
I was pleased I went and got a sampling of the output of this genious and virtuoso.
No sappy tributes or reflective moments, just a good jamming time.
Steve Vai and Terry Bozzio, who joined for the 2nd set, were spectacular.
Napoleon Murphy Brock handled most of the vocal.
I can't provide but maybe 3 songs' titles:
The Black Page
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Peaches En Regalia
Otherwise, titles were a mystery to me.
But I enjoyed, albeit maybe less so than the fervent audience members recpaturing days past. But hey, why pass up the chance?
Dweezil signed autographs to Frank Zappa albums, t-shirts, and hats afterwards - that was a little surprising to see.
And some 10-year old kid named Eric, who was at his first concern, got to go on stage to close the show with Dweezil - that had to be a kick for him.
My friend GW just came back from the Zappa plays Zappa show at the Warfield. He's a zappa fan and was ecstatic. He said in the middle of the show they brought down a vid screen and the band jammed with a clip of Zappa SR. playing a 10 minute guitar solo!! he said it was technicaly seemless, just like he was there.