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No matter what Dweezil did he will always be in his fathers Shadow. Frank Zappa was a great man. But actually I remember when I was at school some 20 years ago having some discussion with a few metal heads, they were far more aware of Dweezil than Frank.
Dweezil certainly started off in his own direction.
I think he made the right choice to dedicate himself to his fathers music in recent years and if he spends the rest of his life doing so I think that would be a worthwhile career.
He's put so much work into ZPZ, just from his playing point alone. I think you fuckers should respect him, I'm sure he'd love to be his own man but instead he's putting his energy into his fathers art. I say Dweezil is a top man and Frank would be well proud.

Glynn Woods is the FOH engineer on Dweezils 'In The Moment' release and I had some pics of him I posted on DZW,just to push Gary Titones brown nose post back to where no one is subject to it. I believe you,KU2,took one of them pixs at the Tahoe show,thanks.
I wouldn't mind going up to Tahoe/CC and doing what we were gonna do (besides see DZpZ) this Thanksgiving.How 'bout you?
I thought you were trying to imitate that picture on your old avatar on DZW! The one where your wearing the FZ Apostrophe shirt in a bathroom mirror.

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I actually mentioned this about the value of sounding exactly like Frank, and where your own person then is on the DZ site. Trendy immediately called Dweezil, who actually came up with a response. I can't remember it exactly but he said that he felt he could express his own ideas while still respecting Frank. I know this is a teaser (perhaps), but it is hell to search on the DZ site; I'll try and find it to be fair to DZ though.

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wrong. Dweezil had a music career of his own for many years that was drastically different than what he has morphed himself into at this point. And what he has morphed himself into is fucking great. He has dedicated his life and completely changed his playing style by studying the the music of his father.

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KU2 just made me visit DZW again.

(Teehee... that's cute.)

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I'm kinda curious to hear the drum/bass interplay on this release to see how it compares to Artie/Vinnie and Scott/Chad (or even how it compares to Joe's work with Bryan Beller for both Z and Mike Keneally). It's hard to hear the bass very well on the snippets, but that could just be my less-than-stellar computer speakers.

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That is because he has that modern style meaningless bass sound that is carved out in the midrange. I couldn't hear what he was playing at any of the ZPZ shows or on their recordings. Not my cup of tea. A good opportunity for comparison occurred during the streaming of the Roundhouse shows last year. When Scott Thunes came on, suddenly the bass was happening.

Unfortunately they decided to go for the same approach with the bass on Hammersmith Odeon, where O'Hearn is buried in oblivion. Listen to what Frank did with the bass on his mixes. He thought the bass part was important and made us hear it.

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I think we will all give this a spin...

WTF kinda equipment are you listening with? no bass on Hammersmith? gimme a fucking break.

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Lots of bass frequencies but no bass guitar.

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+ 1 I'm afraid.

But I like Dweezil's dedication, and would buy a ZPZ record whith focus on complex rock band compositions with strong guitar parts, like Sinister Footwear, Mo's Vacation and so on. I think there is a Zen of imitation which can make craftsmen like Dweezil into true artists when they stick to the path.

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Yes, and Frank's guitar isn't particularly prominent either. It's probably the only ZFT release where I said "what's up with this mix?". You'll notice in the liners that it was mixed in October and released in November, so I imagine that they were in a rush. I think they could have done better, but it is what it is.

Might as well chime in on this...

Tons of jazz soloists have made careers on stylistically following others, whether they are horn players who follow Armstrong or any of the multitudes who have followed Parker or Miles. This has been largely considered acceptable for solo improvisations as opposed to simply solos because the nature of improvisation indicates that the performer is putting his own spin on it.
In order to be in the style of someone like Parker there is a learning curve, and so with the case of FZ. DZ has put alot of time into learning how FZ did what he did. Unfortunately, I don't hear the evidence that he brought the learning back to his own style to mix the FZ tunes and techniques into his own. Any cover band can learn what has already been done, but improvisation requires that the results express one's self rather than simply one's influences. Maybe this new recording will prove me wrong.

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i dunno at least its not unbearably loud like buffalo

Drastically different? Not exactly like raising turkeys IMO. Unless one can do that with a guitar.

Whatever, even though I am not into DZPZ like a few others, I also think we should try to use respectful ways to express opinions towards the Zappa family here.
They kindly provided us with this space of free speech, and they occasionnally come here to exchange with us.
Do not get me wrong, this has nothing to do with censorship, it is just about minimum correctness between guests and hosts.

Cheers

yes drastically. DZs guitar style started out as and continued to be for a long time the shredder, play fast type. Now he has transformed all that into what he's presently doing in ZPZ to be able to mimic FZ.

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This point about Dweezil playing his Dad's music and having no career of his own is getting a bit tired. Whatever FZ fans and even FZ himself may have thought about the "classical" world, there is some brilliant music in that domain and plenty of stunning examples that are next to impossible to play that only the cream of concert musicians can not just manage but also put the "eyebrows on". FZ himself was always complaining about getting his music not just accurately performed but with the eyebrows.

The point is, there are concert musicians and conductors out there, whose playing ability and conducting ability enables stunning performances of some great compositions that wouldn't be possible otherwise. These people are rare and special and have important and outstanding careers.

Dweezil is doing this for FZ's music. Bringing performances of his music live to a high level of accuracy and vibrancy. And not only that he's injecting the "in the moment guitar solo thing" similar in principle to his father but not totally imitative like some are saying - he's not just transcribing solos. He has a totally valid career going and kudos to him.

I'm not particularly interested in the recordings, I have the original 2 disc DVD which is pretty cool and I may or may not buy more, but I'm very much looking forward to the next tour to OZ. Dweezil keeping it live is the big deal for me. I've seen two of these concerts and my only problem was that they were too loud and that's easily fixed.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

I'm not anti-Dweezil or anti-ZPZ (I've seen them a bunch) and like I said earlier I may end up getting this. I'm just questioning in my own mind what the value of this would be to me. One thing I really like about Dweezil and his mission with his Dad's music is that I think it helps in the continued study of the music and for guitar hobbyists (and all guitarists, I suppose) it's a nice window into some of the techniques, etc. He talked about doing some instructional dvd's which I think have the potential to be quite good. Some of my critiques about Dweezil may come off as being a little harsh but it's not my intent to demean. Is this necessary? No, but it's an option.

What you guys are saying about exercising and rehearsing makes a lot of sense in the context of FZ's music.
And I am pretty sure that nobody questionned these necessary requirements.

Although I agree that playing such music requires a lot of talent, music is not limited to execution.
Otherwise I would just play midi files on my computer.
There are other important aspects I would have appreciated to see developped in the two ZPZ shows I attended, such as bidirectional fun, empathy, audience participation, weirdness, improvised acts, risk, shocking stuff, crazy arrangements, unexpected contemporary and/or pop music quotes, mixed arts, sound painting, etc.


With time my ears became more sensitive, so I always make sure to have earlplugs when attending a concert as I bet you do.

Maroual that's a very bad sign. You may suffer a type of noise-induced hearing loss. Consider checking your doctor.

It's wonderful to see FZ bring out the best in Dweezil. And it's painful to hear that translated into "Hel-lo... beau-ti-ful..."
(runs from her sister who vowed to kill BBP if she ever dared sing that again) I'll wait for the reviews on this one.

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i like this post.

i appreciate what DZ has done with FZ's music, and i don't think he is attempting to be his father which some people seem to be the case. i think he's just trying to expose some great music and music ideas that not everyone has had the chance to hear or experience.

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Those are the first words to Dweezil's song Love Ride, album opener to Go With What You Know. Intro is OK but the rest is fairly lethal.
My sister was, like me, caught at his very good concert in Amsterdam in 2010, and she wanted to hear more so I put GWWYK on her MP3. She can't edit the playlist on her computer. When she came back to visit us she begged me to pull that song off and spent over an hour nagging at me how bad she thought it was.

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