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Their playing on my birthday at the Warfield!...Bow chicka wow wow...

Looks like Flo & Eddie are pretty booked up with their own tour. I doubt it they will be on many, if any, of the ZPZ dates. Looking forward to the show in Detroit regardless.

There's a Chicago RTF/ZPZ date on Aug. 20 at the Congress Theater, but the venue's calendar has Queensryche playing that night. What the...... ?

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Hmmmm. Could be some interesting Ives inspired music going on that night.

RTF4 and ZPZ are playing the Chicago Theater, not the Congress.

I'm just really hoping the Denver venue is wrong. I'd love to see this show at Red Rocks. But I'm afraid this pairing isn't big enough for a 9500 seat venue.

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No wonder! Ooops.

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Zappa Plays Zappa will be in Québec city august 5th

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The dates were listed, now it's been deleted. I don't think the ticket companies/promoters like it when bands list their dates before they're officially announced. Anyway Buffalo had an 8/8 date listed on the above link for UB Center For The Arts, likely opening for RTF. Nothing on ticketmaster yet, except Turning Stone in Verona, and I'm not driving that far and paying top dollar to see ZPZ at a freaking casino. If they play UB w/ RTF, I'll probably go and bitch about the price. The RTF rehearsal vid looks good though. I'd prefer if they play new music, and not rehash old material. Gambale's a great guitarist. Have seen him a few times years ago w/ Vital Information.

I posted earlier how it's a mistake to play with RTF. IMO they're not gaining new fans with them, but playing for the over 40 fusion crowd. I'd personally love to see ZPZ tour with a current group like for example Man Man where their younger fans who might not be that familiar w/ FZ music would be turned on. That's always been DZ's goal, hasn't it?
As far as Buffalo, I don't think ZPZ could headline UB CFA on their own now, like they did in '06 w/ Vai & Bozzio on board. I'd be just as happy if they just did some off nights of the RTF tour on their own and played Niagara Falls' Rapids Theater, or Buffalo's Town Ballroom again on their own.

For those of you that missed it before Dweezil took down the list:

Aug 10- Sept 24 are all Return to Forever Dates, with the exception of the Telluride Blues Fest

Monday, July 30, 2001 Albany, NY The Egg-1
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Woodstock, NY Bearsville Theater-1
Friday, July 29, 2011 Bridgeport, CT Kline Memorial-1
Sunday, July 31, 2011 Easton, PA State Theater-1
Tuesday, August 02, 2011 Verona, NY Turning Stone-1
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 Burlington, VT Higher Ground-1
Thursday, August 04, 2011 Portland, ME State Theater-1
Friday, August 05, 2011 Quebec City, QC Inter Nation Art-1
Saturday, August 06, 2011 Northampton, MA Calvin Theater-1
Sunday, August 07, 2011 Pittsburg, PA Stage AE
Monday, August 08, 2011 Buffalo, NY UAB Center For The Arts
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
Thursday, August 11, 2011 Boston, MA The Pavilion
Friday, August 12, 2011 New York City, NY Beacon Theatre
Saturday, August 13, 2011 New York City, NY Beacon Theatre
Sunday, August 14, 2011 Balltimore, MD Merriweather Post
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Columbus, OH Lifestyles Pavilion
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Cleveland, OH Nautica Pavilion
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Cincinnatti, OH PNC Pavilion
Friday, August 19, 2011 Detroit, MI Meadowbrook
Saturday, August 20, 2011 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
Sunday, August 21, 2011 Indianapolis, IN The Murat
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Milwaukee, WI
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum
Thursday, August 25, 2011 St. Louis, MO
Friday, August 26, 2011 Kansas City, MO Midland Theater
Saturday, August 27, 2011 Denver, CO Paramount Theater
Sunday, August 28, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Red Butte Gardens
Thursday, September 08, 2011 Atlanta, GA Fox Theater
Friday, September 09, 2011 Orlando, FL House Of Blues
Saturday, September 10, 2011 Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park Amph
Sunday, September 11, 2011 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckard Hall
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Austin, TX ACL Live @ Moody
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Dallas, TX Verizon Theatre
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
Friday, September 16, 2011 Telluride, CO Blues & Brews Fest
Saturday, September 17, 2011 Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center
Monday, September 19, 2011 San Diego, CA Humphrey's
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Davis, CA Mondavi Center
Thursday, September 22, 2011 San Francisco, CA Warfield
Friday, September 23, 2011 Portland, OR Newmark
Saturday, September 24, 2011 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater

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I noticed there is a band playing at the Telluride Blues Festival with ZPZ called Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band. Wonder if the name is Zappa inspired at all. I was looking at their photo gallery on their website where somebody was playing the bongos and the caption was "Bongo Fury!"

bootyband.com

tellurideblues.com

these dates have a lot of wrong info on them. That's why they were taken down. For example, there is no Albany play. Easton is on the Saturday and we are doing State College, PA on Sunday.

Please dont use this as a guide.

What the what!...are ya playing on my birthday???

As long as you're still playing Denver on a Saturday, its all good. I've got travel plans to make.

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lol no Montréal maybe they are too anoying

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july 28th is with flo and eddie, correct? i can't wait till those tickets go on sale

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

Guess What?? Wait no longer. Now on sale. Just secured mine.

http://www.bearsvilletheater.com/events-calendar

yes!!! thank you for the link, just got mine!! i'm coming up from atlanta, ga

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

July 28 in Woodstock is the only Northeast show with Flo and Eddie - got my ticket this morning! Can't freakin wait!!!!! I saw ZPZ there last year and have seen a bunch of shows at the venue - it is one of the best venues out there.

No official dates up yet for Seattle...grr...

Dweezil has been hinting about shows with Flo & Eddie in 2011 since last Fall. Now we learn there is ONE east coast show. Does anybody besides me feel a little bit misled.

yeah, and if you look at flo and eddie's tour dates, it's hard to find time where they'll even play together again this year. but you never know

that's why i'm going, bc i don't know if it'll happen again

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

Sometimes in negotiations things are going well and you are close to a deal, out of shear excitement people start letting things slip out before the deal is done, then the deal falls throw...this stuff happens all the time.

WHAT...NO TORONTO?

Those French get everything!

because Québec is nice city

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Hi,

I personally do not think that this is a good mix.

RTF is favored by many folks that are jazz fashion-istas and in my book, while there are many pieces in RTF that I can enjoy, I personally find the music too "mental" in my book to be able to enjoy it. I don't think they are capable of "letting go" and improvise without having to think about music or some element in music ... like this ... we will improvise on EMaj69 and return on FMin32 ... and some other bizarre stuff.

Somewhere along the way, you have to let go the lessons and the lecture and the music and just fly away ... and I have not felt that RTF was that good a "flyer" for me. I mean, you can put on Mystery Roach and I'm gone ... that's how fast I can fly away on a lot of Frank's stuff ... and I have found that RTF is simply ... too much cologne, hair mousse, perfume, some high heels, some fancy car ... I'm fine with my VW bus and my girl! Can't live a hippie forever, but I can enjoy the beauty ... and the stars ... and some love!

Sorry ... RTF is not for me and if they matched up I wouldn't go. I would rather see a small podunk band try hard to help them, than some famous one have an audience with split attentions and be turned off because of the language or whatever else. Besides, RTF, for me is just the type of group that Frank probably loved to trash more than anything else ... because he could do it better!