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Did you attend this ZPZ show at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE?

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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My first ZPZ show and it was amazing. I don't like to throw that word around. Amazing is a word I use for something that I have never experienced before and may never again. Like thwarting a bank robbery or sky-diving into a volcano. Dweezil and Jamie were mind boggling on guitar. Frank has to be smiling. I will go see that show whenever I get the chance. If you like guitar, go see this show. The solos were sick. If you like Frank's solo following Fembot in a Wet T-shirt contest, Dweezil's will not dissapoint.

Amazing Show. Great venue. Set list anyone?
Aside from the cacopony eminating from the 50 something follicly challenged chuckle heads in the second row balcony, the show was fantastic.

i saw Frank 6 or 8 times (not 7) about 30 years ago, but this was my first time seeing Dweezil and the band. the show was awesome! i used this show as a warmup for the Atlantic City show i would attend the next night by snatching a single ticket in the 6th row right in front of Scheila. hmmm... not too shabby!

what is most cool is that you can actually see how much the band enjoys what they're doing. and that enthusiasm is contagious.

thanks, Dweezil, for signing my Tour De Frank t-shirt and for the guitar pick. my son will love it. with leather. and thank you for finishing with Muffin Man. i hoped you would play it and, when it was your final encore, it took me back to the Winter Tour 1978 at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh when Frank finished with Dinah-Moe Humm, Camarillo Brillo and Muffin Man.

sorry this got so long. i just got home from the Atlantic City show and am about to post in that thread. i'll keep that one short, though.

Purple Lagoon
G-Spot
Tiny Lights
Sharleena
Uncle Remus
Pygmy
Idiot Bastard
Cheepnis
I'm a beautiful guy
Beauty knows no pain
Flakes
BROKEN HEARTS
BAMBOOZLED
KING KONG
JOE'S GARAGE
WET T-SHIRT
OUTSIDE NOW
CUT THE GRASS
GAS STATION
SAN BERDINO
INCA ROADS
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PACKARD GOOSE
WILLIE (*)
This was right off the set list that my daughter got.
ENCORE:
I'M THE SLIME
MUFFIN MAN

Dweezil, et al.:
It's taken me four days of reflecting and ruminating to come to grips with what I witnessed Wednesday night in Wilmington. I had the chance to see Frank live several times in high school (1987-88 vintage) but sadly was never able to make a show. For years I've kicked myself for missing out (who knew FZ's touring was coming to an end???)

Now as a HUGE FZ fan, I DO already own the ZPZ DVD/CD set and am constantly amazed with the performances, song selection, etc., but I figured there was NO WAY you'd be able to outdo what was 1- and 0'ed onto the DVD media. Boy, was I wrong.

The setlist was refreshing; only a minuscule amount of 'retreads' from the DVD set (horrible way to put it, I know), the performances were inspired, the execution nearly flawless (I thought Ray was clamming up Willie The Pimp with the vocal phrasing, but when he did it all the way through the song, I finally caught on to the different arrangement -- I'm a little s...l...o..w...)

Very rarely, at magical moments of live music performances do I get to experience a state of true bliss -- chills, a ear-to-ear grin, utter joy at what I'm witnessing. I might get 2-3 fleeting moments like that at a show of one of my favorite artists, but Wednesday night, I think I was there for about 2.5 hours.

THANK YOU Dweezil, for endeavoring to keep Frank's musical legacy alive and kicking, and for exposing it to several new generations of potential rabid FZ fans. What you've done to metamorphisize yourself as a musician, a band leader, and as a guitarist is nothing short of amazing. The DZ of 'Confessions' is not the guy I saw Wednesday (and I LOVE 'Confessions' and your playing on it, truth be told!)

THANK YOU to the entire band (and of course, the phenomenal Ray White) for a performance that was inspired, inspiring, emotional, joyous, and mind-blowing on all levels. I've been a 'musician' for 20+ years (a certain someone and his 'Flex-ible' album bit me with the guitar bug) and I could never aspire to the level of musical genius you've all brought to interpreting Frank's work. You were a delight to witness, and from the sheer enjoyment evident on all of your faces throughout the show, to master such pieces must be what you as performers aspire to.

Now, Pete, if you're reading this, we need to talk about the gig with Hanson... (I hope they paid well, at least!)




With any luck I can juggle a little of our family vacation in Long Island and make it down to the Westbury show on the 8th! I can always fish later on - ZPZ only comes around every so often!

-M

I saw the show on 7/30 in Wilmington and was stunned . I saw Frank around ten or twelve times starting in 1976. Dweezil and the band made me very happy ,and I'm pretty sure a lot of other long time FZ fans as wel