Zappa plays Zappa
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Topic: Zappa plays Zappa
Posted By: Joren
Subject: Zappa plays Zappa
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 15:37
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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! 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!
 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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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:02
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How was Steve? Unfortunately they don't perform near my place ... I can only hope that they're recording it! ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: May 16 2006 at 16:11
I'll be seeing this show next month! 
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Posted By: alioshak
Date Posted: May 17 2006 at 01:14
Lucky for you people!!!! It's too bad that in South America that show doesn't perform 
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 17 2006 at 11:21
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.
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MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 17 2006 at 17:35
For the curious: I just edited my first post; it includes the setlist now. 
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 17 2006 at 17:58
| I added some FZOTOS ("the Z is silent" - zappa.com) as well . |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: May 18 2006 at 13:16
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It war t3h c00lies
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 10:15
For the curious (if there are any  ), here's a video of the solo Steve Vai played on Zomby Woof:http://www.euronet.nl/%7Ejwb/vai.mov - http://www.euronet.nl/~jwb/vai.mov |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 16:07
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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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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: June 14 2006 at 13:20
Got my tickets for the House of Blues in Anaheim. The Night after this is The Carl Palmer Band!
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: cscrutinizer
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 18:47
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That would be a first -- a live recording of anything Zappa |
