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Did you attend the ZPZ show at the Palais in Melbourne?

Dweezil and the band love reading your reviews.

Please do not post in this thread if you did not attend the show.

Mikey
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SETLIST (From Pete's Stage Setlist)

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.



BRILLIANT SHOW. The band were really into it and appeared to enjoy every moment. Pretty much every song I was hoping for was played. Village>Echidna's>Don't You..., Nanook Suite, Peaches, Pygmy and ESPECIALLY Bamboozled by Love. Diesel, as a special guest, performed FANTASTIC vocals and guitar on it. Jack Jones, a longtime friend of the Zappa family also had a great guest spot with a fantastic duel with Dweez. The crowd responded great to the songs played.

THANKYOU to Pete for giving me his setlist at the end (while I yelled and reached over the people in front of me.)
THANKYOU to Billy who, outside the back entrance where the band left for the van, made sure everyone came out to the street to talk to, sign for and take photos with the fans outside. Everyone signed the setlist so I'm so very appreciative. (thanks for the great photo too.)
THANKYOU to Scheila for the killer photo :D

AND A HUGE THANKS TO DWEEZIL. Keep bring it back to Australia. We love it and we need it.
Callum.

I detected a very slight sense of nervousness in the air at the start of the show. Whether it was from the band or the crowd - or both - I'm not sure. Perhaps it was the absence of Aaron and Ray that had people thinking 'how is this going to go?'

'Treacherous Cretins' seemed an odd choice for an opener, with the slow, plodding reggae feel. However, it seemed to be a calm little way of saying 'everything's fine!' and the band and crowd relaxed. With less keyboards in the mix, Dweezil and Jamie cranked it up and turned the band into a rawkus guitar heavy beast that had all the attitude it needed.

Scheila stole the show again - her musical skills know no bounds! She really bought her A-game vocally on 'Dirty Love' especially, and she shone through the entire show. Of course, being absolutely drop dead gorgeous adds to the enjoyment of watching her do her thing. If your'e reading this Scheila, Australia loves you! (especialy me!)

Despite no Aaron and Ray, the band still made it an amazing evening for everyone. As usual, Frank would be proud.

For starters, the Palais isn't a patch on Hamer Hall. The queues for T-shirts/DVDs were too long, Jack Jones could have soloed less and doo-wopped more (this was, after all, fascinating subject matter!), and the band didn't play Inca Roads, or Montana, or Torture, or Watermelon, or (insert your favourite missing song here from the catalogue of thousands they could not possibly have been expected to play in the mere two-and-a-half hours they were on stage . . .)

BUT!

The band cooked, especially in the second half (a heavy-duty Mammy Anthem the perfect taste for what was to come). I have new respect for Mark Lizotte. And I got to meet Dweezil (unlike last time).

The solos were stunning (really liked the use of a squeaky kookaburra toy on the bass guitar pick-ups!), and the encores were sublime.

And they played Yellow Snow!

Guys, you could play in a phone box and you'd still sound amazing. Run Home Slow, come back fast, and I'll see you then (of course!)

BTW, are you really going to re-name Peaches En Regalia "The Grammy Anthem"?

absolutely amazing!!!
god, where to start?
so happy with the setlist, honestly nothing got missed (at least nothing that i was actually expecting to play)
fucking apostrophe went off! so did peaches
it was so funny in the interval when people were trying to guess who'd come on, will it be napoleon? ray? terry? steve? no...DIESEL?!?!?! diesel was absolutely amazing, i never knew he was so awesome at singing and guitaring, the first lick he did was so cool
absence of members made no difference, night was great!
loved how dweezil hung back and we had photos, although some fans were a bit weird (some guy was insisting that his bass changed every time he listened to pete griffin and dweezil had no idea what the fuck he was on about). i took a photo of dweez with my best mate for his birthday which was great
also so glad they ended with slime and willie, before they went into slime and he asked whether we wanted that or trouble every day i yelled "willie the pimp" right before they played slime and then segued straight into willie and i nearly cried!

In about August or September of 2007 I was a shattered man. I realised that I would not be able to see ZPZ play at Hamer Hall in Melbourne. I was to be 2 days into an overseas holiday, all booked and payed for. I guess you can't have everything. The bill posters around town, advertising the event, haunted me for months. I felt sure this was a one world tour event, plus the fact that it is such a big commitment for bands to traverse to Australia. I couldn't even bring myself to watch the DVD.

I guess good things come to those who wait. I watched the Zappa blogs and websites continuously, once I found out a 2009 world tour was on its way & back to Australia. I don't know if it was dumb luck or a stroke of genius, but I decided not to use the internet to purchase tickets for this soon to be wonderful occasion. I went to a booking office & at 9am, the lovely lady assisting me with this transaction said, would you like front row, center? Eeeerrrr... Yes!

So for the next couple of months, the bill posters didn't haunt me, they filled me with excitement and anticipation. I started reading all the blogs and reviews of the wonderful event at Hamer Hall and the rest of Oz. I watched all the clips and media I could find.

The big night came and we rocketed down to St.Kilda to take up our front row seats. I was nervous, being so close, I was thinking about all the songs I wanted to hear, but as soon as the band started playing, I realised, it did not matter, they could have played anything. The beautiful sound filled the grand old theatre and it was totally sublime. I'm not sure if my 14 year old son (who is pretty handy on the guitar), sitting beside me, was scared half to death, or on cloud nine, by what he was witnessing. I suspect a combination of both. I was completely blown away by every aspect of the performance. I guess it was disappointing that Ray White could not be with us, but the band did an amazing job, picking up the vocal duties. Again it did not matter, the band as they were on this night, could do no wrong. Two sets and an encore later, I felt relieved and euphoric, but still wanting more. The band gave more, they took a bow then signed autographs and spoke to fans. I pushed my son up to say thank you and shake Dweezils hand. Dweezil beat him to it. My son still hasn't washed his hands.

You could tell leaving the theatre, the smiles on all the faces, we had witnessed something special. The legacy of Franks work is in wonderful hands. He must be very proud.

Thank you to Dweezil & the band, come back to Oz soon...

Congratulations to Dweezil et al for putting on a great show, esp. after loosing some key personnel recently - still an excellent concert, as was the last one at Hamer Hall. Brings back great memories of the only Frank concert I ever got to (Brighton, UK in 1988).
I hope the band & guests didn't hear the Numb Nut up the back who booed and bad mouthed Diesel's entertaining performance with the ZPZ band. He was a disgrace. I enjoyed both guest appearances and will be looking into those artists some more as a consequence. I hope Dweezil continues to bring in interesting guest performers on the tours - kinda nice when they are locals. Hey Dweezil, you could even be your own guest performer and play one of your own pieces!
The band is doing an excellent job, displaying 1st class tight performances, remaining faithful to Frank's music but interpreting it in their own style.

To paraphrase one of Frank's more humorous songs, may ...

.... the pleasure never stop!

i actually think its way better if they do the guest appearances like that, just getting famous locals or really unexpected people up on stage and changing it every time
i mean sure, it would be amazing to see napoleon or ray onstage (napoleon especially), but i was stunned and amazed to see diesel and jack jones onstage and play so amazingly.
i think it also shows such a great positive message towards frank's music, as you can see how many amazing musicians are influenced by his music and it just adds to the sentiment that dweezil is presenting

DIESEL AND DWEEZIL!!

"mood was dim the band was tight" great to hear all the music, BUT, i think they could have done more of the music that FRANK composed that had lyrical content. Dont hate me for this Dweezil,but, i felt you were a little over indulgent. The acoustics at that hall arent all that great but that is not your fault. The band was great you cant fault them.You realy need a vocalist, Ray was terrific on the last tour maybe you should consider Napoleon Murphy Brock on the next tour or someone that can carry vocals. Thanks to all the band for signing my FRANK ZAPPA FOR PRESIDENT T SHIRT, will always attend every Zappa Plays Zappa show regardless. Would have been great to see a screen on stage with FRANK as you did on the previous tour. Congratulations on the GRAMMY. ........................VIVA FRANK ZAPPA/////////////////////////////////////

Great to see Zappa plays Zappa in Melbourne again. It seemed like ages since we last saw you play in 07. The concert was absoloutly fantastic, it was a great set. There is just so much brilliant zappa music. It was good to see all the band members really flaunting their individual talents and skills, two sax's at once, ripping bass solo's, jaime's beautiful guitar work, Joe's awesome drumming, Billy making that magical sound and of course Dweezils brilliant playing of that yummo SG. We really enjoyed your special guests, man they're good. Thanks again for making the night an extra, extra special one, to meet all you guys and for you all taking the time to sign my daughters bass guitar and the photos we got with you all, it really does give my daughters encouragement and drive to continue even stronger with there own musical pursuits. After the 07 concert it was my birthday and they called me over to there music shak and suprised me by learning to play joes garage together as a present for me! You guys are right, music really is the best.
Once again brilliant concert and we cant wait till the next one!

p.s hope you liked your DZAPPA momento

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