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    Posted: May 16 2006 at 15:37

I went to the first show last night, in the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam. It was GREAT! If you are able to, make sure you get a ticket. Don't miss it! Big smile

First they showed us some rare, long-awaited video material of a certain Frank Zappa live show for about 40 minutes - I won't reveal it but I think the diehard fans will know what I'm talking about. After that the band played for about 2 hours and 40 minutes (!). Here's the setlist:
 
Help I'm A Rock
Hungry Freaks Daddy
Let's Make The Water Turn black
Florentine Pogen
Pygmy Twilight
Idiot B as t a r d Son
Cheepnis
King Kong
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast 
Father O'Blivion
Inca Roads
I'm So Cute
Trying To Grow A Chin
City Of Tiny Lights
Punky's Whips
Black Page # 1 and # 2
Peaches En Regalia
Montana
Village Of The Sun
Edchina's Arf (Of You)
Zomby Woof
Sofa # 2
Encore:
Camarillo Brillo
Son Of Orange County
More Trouble Every Day
Token Of My Extreme (instrumental)
 
As you can see, all classics. I was very pleasantly surprised that they opened with Help I'm A Rock, one of my favourites of the first period! Big smile
 
Some pics of the show, found on the Zappa.com forum:
 
the band
 
Steve Vai
 
Dweezil Zappa
 
Napoleon Murphy Brock
 
the band
 
the band
 
the band
 
Bozzio on the right
 
the band
 
Terry Bozzio during the rehearsals
 
Dweezil Zappa during the rehearsals


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How was Steve? Unfortunately they don't perform near my place ... I can only hope that they're recording it!
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Points: 1864 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:11
I'll be seeing this show next month! Thumbs Up
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Lucky for you people!!!! It's too bad that in South America that show doesn't perform Cry
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Points: 6667 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2006 at 11:21
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

How was Steve? Unfortunately they don't perform near my place ... I can only hope that they're recording it!
 
Vai was great! He only performed on a couple of songs though. He had two solo's, of which especially the first was great! He also played two "solo's" with Dweezil. Two great guitarists "duelling" like that was fantastic to see/hear. Big smile
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For the curious: I just edited my first post; it includes the setlist now. Thumbs Up
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Points: 6667 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2006 at 17:58
I added some FZOTOS ("the Z is silent" - zappa.com) as well .
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It war t3h c00lies
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For the curious (if there are any LOL), here's a video of the solo Steve Vai played on Zomby Woof:

http://www.euronet.nl/~jwb/vai.mov


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I think I might see them when they come to San Francisco in a couple of weeks.
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Got my tickets for the House of Blues in Anaheim.  The Night after this is The Carl Palmer Band!Smile
 
 


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That would be a first -- a live recording of anything Zappa Wink
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