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Third time around in Denmark. Last time in Aarhus, we only got a little over an hour, because the band had to catch a ferry to Norway. So I hoped for something special this time.
At 20:15 the band enters the stage. Kind of miss the old FZ style of opening with an all black stage, the band starting, Zappa entering the stage, a soaring guitar solo.. - always gave me the goose bumps! But that was then - this is now - and rather surprisingly, they opened with The Purple Lagoon. What a hard-core opening! I wanted goose bumps - I got goose bumps :-)
I didn't write down the entire set list, so this is just a few highlights. Like the powerful Magic Fingers, and the wonderful Village of The Sun, Echidna, Don't You Ever Wash trio with a lot of fine solo work - and I'm not even going to note, that Joe dropped a drum stick during his part ;-) Didn't matter - it was still great :-)
The sound was great as usual - everything crystal clear!
Some technical problems with Billy's instruments distracted me a lot - and the band too, unfortunately! DZ had to twist the set list to avoid songs, that Billy plays a lot on. So we got a tight Dirty Love. And some lucky guy in the audience won a nice golden guitar - and he got to play a bit with the band, while the problems were fixed. A "strat", was it!? I'm not a guitar player - lucky I didn't win ;-)
When the problems were finally fixed after 20 minutes or so, Inca Roads put the band (and the audience) right back on track! What a beautiful, tight performance! With truly beautiful and excellent solos by DZ and Scheila (on sax). From then on, everything was just perfect! G-Spot Tornado cracks me up every time :-) How on earth can they play it!!?? Funny robot-dancing by Ben :-) The band didn't notice - they were far to busy playing their instruments in this impossible-to-play tune :-)
I've always considered Outside Now to be an extremely beautiful tune (lyrics aside)! And this performance was exactly that! Clearly another highlight!
More Trouble Every Day was the vehicle for the extended soloing this evening. Amazing performances by everyone! And Ben jumped off stage and really got the audience going. Scheila would probably consider herself abused :-) Sax-solo, keyboard-solo, flute-solo, another sax, TWO saxes (interesting sound by the way) - after which DZ handed her his guitar!! :-) After which Joe handed her the drum sticks!! You can't do that on stage anymore :-)
Extremely powerful Bamboozled - with soloing over "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" - like the 1984 tour, remember :-) I loved it!
Yellow Snow, Zomby Woof, Willie The Pimp for the encores - and the band and the audience were exhausted after a great night, where Ben showed so may times, that he really CAN sing! And Jamie showed that he also can play bad-ass guitar solos - at least three very fine solos from him during the concert.
Each and every band member is a true star - and I can't wait for you guys to come back! Thank you!
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