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On a brighter note: ZPZ IS PLAYING MY HOME TOWN!! I'm so excited!
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That's awesome. Is it part of the You Can't Fit shows? The Australian shows aren't unfortunately. But maybe this is a good thing, because if they only
played one gig in Melbourne at a small venue tickets would sell so fast I wouln't have got any.
In other news, we've all probably heard that ZPZ won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental, beating out Metallica, Rush and Nine Inch Nails. Dweezil
described it as a "perverse twist of fate" but was pretty proud. I think ZPZ has really achieved a lot over the past few years.
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Oh yeah! Well... for a cover band anyway... I presume it's not part of the Can't Fit shows. Shame because I could use a guitar.
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A long video of Dweezil inside the UMRK explaining his latest guitar rig and his various guitars, including the Hagstrom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXnPcIK1V8
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I'd seen that yeah... Great watch! Made my head blow.
Bought my ticket for Eindhoven ZPZ today!!!
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The old and new Effenaar in Eindhoven (ZPZ)
[Edited on 18-2-2009 by DED]
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That's quite a large Cafe. Is it a cafe proper or is that more of a name?
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It's a place where you can eat and drink. Good, because the concert starts early, 18:30. I've eaten at the Effenaar restaurant but that was before
they rebuilt it.
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In fact it was an old linnenfactory. In the factory there was a machine to smoothen (effenen) the linnen.
The machine was called the Smoothener (effenaar). After the factory was closed the plans were to demolish the building but a lot of young people
without a meeting place squat the building stating it was an example for the way they build factories in the beginning of the last century. Finally
the major accepted that and the building was officially an Open youth center named after the machine Effenaar.
A view years a go the building was no longer big enough and instead of building a new center on a different place, they forgot everything about their
roots and they demolished the building (except the outer wall). The inner space is now a pont and a new building is positioned in the formely outer
space and a street.
The ZPZ concerts has famous predecessors, for instance our own Poet Saskia Ploeg (ZAZ on the goose).
She presented her lovely and sometime strange poems on a ggggirl power evening a few years ago (in the old building).
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Oh yes! That Girl Power evening!
I must've told you about that. A friend of my sister said to Sas, slightly aggravated: "You didn't tell me you were performing at De Effenaar!" My
sister went: 
Anyway De Effenaar had announced her performance on the poster, but forgot to ask her. Eventually my sister did perform, for five minutes or so. It
was only two days before the evening that she heard about it.
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Thanks for that very interesting history Ded.
As for Sas, had she performed her poetry before in public? At least with a poetry reading you don't need to get a band together and rehearse them at
the last minute!
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Oh yeah. There used to be this local poetry contest that she participated in every year of its short existence (three years only). The first time we
weren't there, but the second time was enjoyable (our school did something with a lot of water, causing a lot of wetness) and the third time, my
sister won the prize for best poem.
That prize also let her perform in a cafe on a poetry evening. That was rather shady.
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ZPZ tomorrow! Woohoo! I'm very excited! 
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Tell us all about it!
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Well, i saw them last night at the Palais Theatre and i was waiting for somebody to post the setlist at zappa.com so i could steal it and use it
here...Thankfully Callum O'Blivion did!
| Quote: | 1. Treacherous cretins
2. Dirty Love
3. Penguin in Bondage
4. Village of the Sun
5. Echidna's Arf
6. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing
7. Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
8. Magic Fingers
9. Tell Me You Love Me
10. Mammy Anthem
INTERMISSION
11. Peaches En Regalia - Segue
12. Apostrophe
13. Bamboozled By Love W/Mark (a.k.a. Johnny Diesel)
14. Pound For A Brown - Band Solos - Jack Jones (Jack played with Ahemt and Dweezil in Z, and is a good family friend. He performed an improv song on
guitar and vocals about having a wallaby in his bedroom and wanting to make "wallababies")
15. Pygmy Twylyte
16. Yellow Snow
17. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
18. Father O'Blivion
19. Cosmik Debris - End Of Show
ENCORE
20. I'm The Slime
21. Willie The Pimp. |
It was a dynamite show. Whoever the person was that said they started out nervous-like...they were right. But the same thing happened last time, and i
think this is just because Dweez, being the leader, doesn't have a whole heap of natural showmanship or pizazz. It's just him. He lets the music talk.
The audience definitely feels this and maybe gets nervous despite what's about to happen.
The "hard" songs (the Roxy-suite, St Alphonzo's/Rollo, Father O'Blivion) were unbelievably tight and also performed with a lot of passion. Rollo was
incredible.
I fell in love with Sheila all over again. She is superwoman. Saxes, flute, even more keyboard work (including playing tenor sax and keyboards AT THE
SAME TIME), AND lead vocals! She sang very excellently. Her solo during Cosmic Debris was my sister's highlight of the night...she really smoked it,
and it came pretty late in the night.
Joe also sang lead, and sang the two Flo and Eddie songs (Tell Me and Magic Fingers) along with Sheila. When they sing together, their voices work so
nicely together that they sound uncannily like Flo and Eddie! Very cool!
Diesel put his heart and soul into Bamboozled by Love. I think quite a few of the crowd were surprised and even a little disappointed when he was
announced but they soon warmed to him!
Jack Jones...what a fucking monster of a guitarist that guy is. I didn't really know who he was at the time. But god. He floored me. As somebody said
on the Z forum, he probably didn't play up the wallababies improv enough lyrically, as is necessary for a Zappa show, but his playing was just
amazing. I wanted him to stay the whole time! I would have loved if he came out during Willie the Pimp!
Dweezil played great (duh) even if his sunburst Strat kept saying, in his words, "Hey, i don't think i wanna stay in tune for very long". A few times
when he was really soaring i saw a few people in front of me just sort of grin and look at each other. I'm sure people used to do that a lot when
Frank played.
After reading on the ZPZ blog what happend during the other Australian shows, Melbourne seems rather uneventful! There was some very rowdy young men
behind me and my sis but they got quieter and quieter! It was funny! One of them was clapping through all of Cosmic Debris, by himself, including
clapping fills! But the playing really was top notch.
The highlights for me were all the solos, Echidna's, Rollo, Yellow Snow, the Mammy Anthem (which absolutely rocked), Cosmic Debris and Willie The Pimp
and, of course, Peaches, which they didn't play last time.
And I particularly enjoyed Jamie Kime's dandy-ish dancing and posturing while Joe and Dweezil were going at it during Willie!
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fantastic, sounds like you had a good time!
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 I sure did! There was really nothing to worry about!
(Did you get my u2u the other day Punkymonkey?)
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Oh wow! Sounds like an amazing evening!
Who's Johnny Diesel? Why would people be disappointed to see him onstage?
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yes scallopino I did and didn't get up in time today to get it to the post office on time.
It'll go out on Monday...
no cover, no artwork, just setlists and generation transmission...
All but one song fits on two cd's, so the third disc is mostly pieces of 5/9/70 and 5/15/70, the unique arrangements and all
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| Quote: | Originally posted by punknaynowned
yes scallopino I did and didn't get up in time today to get it to the post office on time.
It'll go out on Monday...
no cover, no artwork, just setlists and generation transmission...
All but one song fits on two cd's, so the third disc is mostly pieces of 5/9/70 and 5/15/70, the unique arrangements and all |
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