Photo-Loaded ZPZ Review 26/9

This ticket was bought by me, the day before the concert, at 013. I waited so long ecause I wasn't sure whether my sister was coming or not. I missed out on Amsterdam tickets...

Anyways, just before I went out to get the ticket, I sent a mail to my sister that I went to buy just my entry card, because I still didn't know whether or not she was coming. She phoned my father that she was willing to go, and then my father phoned 013 to tell them to tell me to buy an extra ticket.

Slightly embarrassing, but it worked. Though there was a little problem when the lady behind the till got confused. My father said over the phone that she had to look out for somebody with dark blonde hair. My hair is brown to most people.

See for yourself.

"But why is she coming all this way?"the till lady asked my father. You can buy tickets at every major post office." D'oh!

Long story short (cue: Too late!): my sister and I met yesterday at 013, we met the guy who drove me to Brussels last year, we saw many people with FZ moustaches, we went in (I had my bag searched, embarrassing) and then out again in order to get something to eat. We went back and found ourselves in front, to the racks, but far too the right, near the speakers.

I shot this pic of the old-age-male oriented audience:


And my view on the stage:

A close up of the ZPZ-cymbal, which actually produced a decent sound:


Here I met a fellow student of mine, we had a nice chat. After a wait, at 8:20 PM, the band came on-stage!

The band came with a spontaneous classical composition, something they tried during rehearsal that was funny, with cute piano and flute sounds, and Ray White singing numbers (numero uno!) in an operatic manner.

And then the concert really took off, with Dumb All Over, and Frank on vocals.
After this came What's New In Baltimore?, with some fine guitar playing. During the Hey! What's New in Baltimore? chorus, Dweezil attempted to reply to this in a similar manner to what Frank did on the Does Humour Belong In Music CD, but not as funny. On the first time he replied Ï don't know", the second "What's new in Tilburg", the third Ï don't know", and the fourth "They just had a little Frank Zappa in Baltimore." It was a beautiful rendition nonetheless.

After welcoming us to the concert and hearing many requests, Dweezil replied: "All good songs!"After this somebody requested My Mom Is A Space Cadet.
"We're playing Frank Zappa's music tonight, if you read that on the poster. But that song was actually produced by a fellow Dutchman, I was 12 and had been playing for 9 months, and it was produced by Edward Van Halen."


Then came Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy, as sung by the World Famous Ray White. This was followed by City Of Tiny Lights. During this song I noticed Dweezil was singing occasionally, which I enjoyed very much. Great guitar playing on this tune, too.


Ray White got to shine again, on Advance Romance. "Perhaps you can feel a little bit of Ray's pain," Dweezil said, after explaining it was about a miserable love.

The next tune was for the long time fans: Suzy Creamcheese! A bit of an odd pick, perhaps, but still funny. This was followed by a very strong statement: BROWN SHOES DON'T MAKE IT! A fantastic rendition, with some of the vocals by Dweezil. He does sound a little higher than his father, but their voices are alike nonetheless, which works great on this early song. It was a shame that Pete Griffin, who was an absolute star on the bass tonight, had to fuck up the "What would you do, Daddy?". It's maybe one of the finest vocal performances on a Zappa-album. It sounds so painful when you hear it. Pete was overdoing it a little.

This was followed by America Drinks And Goes Home, sung by Dweezil. Nice singing too, the end dialog remained pretty much intact.
During the song, Scheila Gonzales wore a waitress outfit and brought champagne glasses to the band members, and did some of the singing towards the end. She sounded great, but she did have trouble with the cigarette in her mouth. Cute.

The next song was a mix of two favourites: if you put them together, you get DOG MEAT! A neat, Yellow Sharky rendition of the two tunes, tightly merged.

It went less earnest from here, with STINKFOOT with FZ on vocals and guitar. There was something special about this song. I'm not sure what. But FZ sure had a strange sound effect on his voice.
Then came a too slow rendition of Pigmy Twilite. Shame it wasn't sped up a little.
After this an instrumental which I failed to name, sorry.

And then came Dupree's Paradise, in which every band member had its chance to shine. One member of the audience was picked to say a non-FZ phrase. He failed. Just before DZ was to suggest something, an audience member shouted "FUCK THE SWEDES" (or sweets, we may never know), with which Ray was supposed to improvise later. And he had to use DZ's phrase: "I love a pomposs". He made the audience sing FUCK THE SWEDES in unison several times, which rocked!

Jamie Kime gave a terrific solo! Unfortunately slightly too loud for me, because I was standing near him, but I did get a nice pic!
Pete Griffin gave a rocking solo on his bass, which was awesome. Billy Hulting on percussion was asked to use everything he had there. Which he was planning to do, anyway.
And all thumbs up this evening goes to Scheila Gonzales. Dweezil made her play a horn and a saxophone (or 2 horns perhaps, couldn't see) at the same time. Wow! I made a picture I think, but I couldn't find it.

All this was followed by Uncle Remus. And then came Willie The Pimp. During Willie, Ray noticed me, he started looking at me, pointing, and making gestures. I don't know what he meant, but I loved it!
Then came Joe's Garage! We were all invited to sing along! During the police scene (of which DZ did the vocals and incorporated the Swedes and the pomposs) the lights were pointing at the audience, changing from red to blue and back all the time. Very funny, must've been cool if you were at the back.
This was followed by Wind Up Working In A Gas Station. So many people held their thumbs up!
Afterwards came San B'Dino.
And then, Zoot Allures. So beautiful.

On came another instrumental which I failed to name, followed by ending song Illinois Enema Bandit, with Billy Hulting as announcer.

Then came the encore, Cosmik Debris with FZ on vocs and guitar. I love that song.

And then Dweezil started playing the incredible tough looking G-Spot Tornado intro on guitar. Amazing.
For the final, absolutely final track, Muffin Man was chosen. Ray did the vocs I think. I'll check out the videos I made.


The equipment...


Error message on the big screen. Who said Macs didn't jam?


Right with stamp of 013 so I could get back in


Left hand with playlist.

A hat!

who made the cymbal
or made the symbol?

tell us a story!

I'm sad I didn't get to go to Antwerpen too,

unfortunately no, too much money needed for different things kept me from seeing that show. I need a job, desperately.

[Edited on 9-10-2007 by aquagoat]

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Originally posted by BBP Error message on the big screen. Who said Macs didn't jam?

Yeah, Vista has that too. It shuts down programmes before you start them.

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP Quote: Originally posted by polydigm To be fair, this is not a picture of a Mac jamming, this is actually showing one of their good points. Applications always have bugs to some degree and one of the advantages of Mac OS X is that it has a high level of protection built in so that when an application plays up it can easily be ejected without having to restart. Yeah, Vista has that too. It shuts down programmes before you start them.

Have you ever considered a career in comedy?

You're very sweet... and I've even let my comic talent shine once. Which was fun, but not something I like to do again. The audience was good, and was clapping at a lot of my jokes, and every time they clapped I lost where I was. I didn't win, but had lots of fun! And I still have one momentum from the occasion: my father suggested to copy a New Year's Dive and fill a large cement bucket with paper snippets. Which I did. But I did have to cut them first... took hours. Somehow I never could throw them away.

The World Famous Egg White!

What's that about, Punky? Can you explain what you just typed?

I didn't know who it was
until I found it in the zforum where you said it's Ray White and then I felt dumb, aha!