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Did you attend the ZPZ show at Sentrum Scene in Oslo?

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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Hi

First I would like to thank you all for a great gig. One thing is for sure, and thats that your not messing around.

Dweezils guitar solo, I think it was in the first medley was an earopener! Pure genious. Hope the recording equipment I saw managed to capture all the notes, and that you get THAT guitarsolo out on a record, cause it must have been a record of some kind. I believe Frank himself would have been proud.

In addition I have a question. What is the name of the - hard, not hard to play kind of hard, but hard -love song? I think I recall the last words of the refrain..."she wont have no head at all". Hillarious.

Hope to see you again.

Best Regards from Leif

Great show...again!
This is the third time "zappa play zappa" played in Oslo, and I have been on them all. This is a great group. They play zappa the way it should be played.
Dweezil play almost as a God. (So do the rest of the band).
Maybe the second concert was better?(longer guitarsolos) But it left more space for the rest of the group. The new vocalguy was superduper;-) Nice voice!
So all in all, the greatest moment so far. Missed King Kong:-(
Hope U come back soon.

A new outstanding concert in Oslo and the Zappa music definitely lives on…. (Live On Stage)!

My best compliments to all the group members, and you are all fantastic musicians playing this wonderful music very well. The music sound and the presentation were very awesome indeed - and you almost hit "THE PERFECT TONE"…

These ZPZ happenings are absolutely unique for us fans - and many thanks to you Dweezil how you put these things together. It’s a pleasure to see how you choosing (for me) unknown artists and their performance on stage are great. I believe there is a growing enthusiasm among younger people in Norway about Frank’s music, and it is a shame that younger fans (under 18) was not allowed entrance at Sentrum Scene due to alcoholic service during the performance. Several was actually stopped at the entrance and sent home…!! Hope to see ZPZ band again soon in Oslo and thanks for the excellent show…What about Billy The Mountain next time??

Great show!
Set list:
-Montana
-Village of the sun
-Echidna's arf
-Don't you ever wash that thing?
-Magic fingers
-Inca Roads
-The Black page 1 & 2
-Bamboozled by love (LEIF: This is the song you asked about)
-Pound for a brown - band solos
-Lucille
-Outside now
-Lumpy Gravy
-Zomby woof
-Peaches
-Cosmic debris

Encore:
-Apostrophe
-Yellow Snow
-Willie the pimp
Extra:
I'm the slime.

As the applauses after Slime faded, a sweet thing happened:
The most beautiful girl got up on stage, and Pete,the bass player (it was him, right?), got down on his knees and proposed to her!!! The audience and the rest of the band was cheering the happy couple as they left the stage. Now, THAT'S an encore to remember :-)

Once again - great show, ZPZ! seems to me that the band had a bit more spark and fire this time around compared to the 2007 gig, especially in the magnificent opening suite

even though I'd love to hear Purple Lagoon and Mammy Anthem the other night, I think it's great that each tour mostly presents "new" songs from FZs catalogue - you just won't quite know what to expect from this rocking teenage combo


Open question: How do I get to download the recorded concert from nugs.net? I have registered myself as a member, but can't find any links to Zappa Plays Zappa or Dweezil Zappa or anything...

Hey ZFT – ZPZ gave a fine concert in Oslo, and they deserve only praise for that. However, I feel the urge to point out that the notion that they are something essentially different from other tribute bands is based on a line of thinking that can’t be sustained by reason. And to illustrate that point, I have to say that The Grande Mothers gave an even better show of Frank’s music here only a few weeks ago. IMO they were more authentic, more musically sensitive and all in all more rewarding than your lot. The great Roy Estrada is still a soul giant, while the ZPZ wants a musical soul that projects the individuality of the players more honestly. Don Preston remains the same musical idealist that comes through in the Uncle Meat film. And The Grande Mothers’ soloing made a lot more sense than the show-off ramblings of your admittedly technically adept crew. Ben Thomas is a good singer, but Napoleon Murphy Brock is something else (which Frank clearly saw). After all, Frank’s direction mostly just allowed people to be themselves in an unfamiliar setting. Anyone who has been directed by him has thus given a unique and personal contribution to the project/object. So the good old guys really don’t need any permission or excuse to play this music, because it’s theirs also. Why don’cha do them right?

Yes!
Great show!
Wish U all the best.

I also attended both the Grandmothers show and the ZPZ. Both shows were excellent and both did a great job in their own way of showcasing the music of FZ and making it two very enjoyable musically experiences.
At the same time I must say that I disagree with DarkClothes. Comparing the ZPZ to a tribute band is laughable. If Zappa himself were touring today I could easyli see him picking most of the bandmembers from the ZPZ... not so from the Grandmothers. As much as I enjoy the Grandmothers they would have a hard time playing the "post" Grandmothers Zappa tunes. Sure Don and Roy have their charm and musical personalities which us old-timers enjoy but come on .. the 2009 ZPZ is as far from a tribute band as you can come. They are the real deal !!! And Dweezil has turned himself into a seriously superb guitar player that faithfully recreates a lot of the Zappa guitar solos which has always been a huge part of any Frank Zappa concert. At the same time he does this in his own way ... I like how he never picks any lines from FZ solos .. he only takes the ambiance & sounds and from there creates his own solos using his own musical personality.
Witnessing the solo from Outside Now ... with that characteristic Joes Garage guitarsolo sound was pure heaven !!

At the same time I totally agree with the below statement ....
"So the good old guys really don’t need any permission or excuse to play this music, because it’s theirs also. Why don’cha do them right?"