You couldve had my copy of that BB...I havent heard anything of Dweezils stuff that Ive really liked yet....

Yeah, I'm still on the fence whether I should get that new Dweezil album or not. I'm not a big shred guitar fan in general...

What I heard of Automatic seemed ok, but not enough to make me purchase it. I got Confessions and Shampoo Horn through Music For Nations, when my old band were on the label too. They let us raid their Cd cupboards, so naturally I picked up Dweezil stuff ( and several copies of CPIII, as they didnt have any other FZ titles left after losing the UK distribution rights to Ryko ).....I was totally dissapointed. Shampoo Horn is utterly abysmal.

I got Shampoo Horn from the local library once, years ago. Suffice to say I never bothered to buy it.

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Originally posted by Puptent I got Shampoo Horn from the local library once, years ago. Suffice to say I never bothered to buy it.

Yep. Thats about the size of it mate.....

Well... I got 4 DZs now, vinyl Havin' A Bad Day, vinyl My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, for which I had to travel 8 hours in order to get it, Automatic and Confessions.
Bad Day is kinda cute but not very interesting, Guitar is horrible, Automatic is better but has covers from Bizet that simply sound awful. Confessions after hearing it twice I think is funny and has some very nice bits. But musically, well, he's not his dad. His compositions have the tendency to get boring.

Confessions are only funny pop songs, that's all, no great artistic pretensions. I don't think we should expect to hear dweezil try to continue his father's work. I wouldn't try if I was in his place.

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He's done that with ZPZ I think... and pretty well too! Hope to see him doing that again.

He "only" played his father's work, did not compose anything like that, and I don't think he should.

Depends on whether or not you approach his soloing as "air sculptures". And I was sceptical about ZPZ myself, but the show sparkled in Amsterdam even without a good frontman.

Unfortunately I didn't see the Paris show but a friend of mine told me it was awesome, but I don't think he's got the necessary talent to compose the kind of music his father made, and I think he shouldn't try, cause I don't even see the interest, I think he should do something totally different, find his own way. And once in a while pay a tribute to his dad and spread the Zappa gospel with ZPZ.

You've got to admire how he pulled off the ZPZ tour thing, it was way better than anyone could have suspected. I wouldn't have paid attention to any new Dweezil Zappa album if it weren't for his great playing on the tour.

Guess time will tell whether his own music is worthwhile. I'm waiting for a couple more reviews of his new solo album before I might buy it.

Like I said, usually these 'guitar hero' albums bore me quickly. Apparently one of his new tracks has him playing Van Halen's "Eruption" backwards. Now, that might be a nice technical exercise, but why bother to release that on on an album?




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Didn't get Noiture either. But the rest from what I've heard sounds good! If that Inca Roads solo sounds half as good as the one he did in Brussels, it should be great!

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What's that ? Never heard of that ?

Dunno... had never heard of them either...
http://www.dogfashiondisco.com

That seems to be cool funny songs they make. They must adore Mike Patton.

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Ha! It's indeed very Mr Bungle! A bit rougher music perhaps. But funny!

Yeah, I think maybe I'll buy that when I've got money, the tracks on my space where nice.