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Did you attend the FIRST ZPZ show at the Roxy in West Hollywood, CA?

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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Fantastic show last night, the band was incredible! I only got tickets to the one show, but now plan on seeing his shows early next year also.
Ray White was great. Scheila was beautiful and just amazing. Dweezil, Aaron, Pete, Billy, Jamie and Joe all played fantastic. Dweezil did a amazing job of conducting, and the band stayed right with him ("foil" in "Billy The Mountain" was great). What a sensory overload, still processing what I saw.
I think Red won the guitar and looked like a natural. Guitar lessons from Dweezil Zappa at the Roxy, how cool.
I have seen Frank many times over the years, this show was as great as any, maybe better.
ZPZ - go see it!
Bruce

Dweezil and gang were once again incredible, and what can be said about Ray White. 2 1/2 hours of non-stop fun. Billy the Mountain was righteous. The rest of the setlist was excellent as well.

A guy next to us yelled out that the band brings a tear to his eye. I know that is exactly how I felt each time I have seen the band. I saw FZ in the early eighties many times in NYC at the Palladium. You can close your eyes, and relive whatever FZ moment you may have had. Absolutely Awesome!

While I wish I had tickets for all of the shows (they were kind of expensive), I do have tickets to the last show as well.

I looked at my wife during Billy the Mountain and she was so into it it cracked me up. Seeing it live was amazing. That truly was a great song.
I enjoyed them all, as did my wife, but Billy (doing Billy the Mountain) was great!
Bruce

What a great set. Great arrangements and improvisations added to the familiar.
To hear of Billy being done live is one thing but witnessing it was thoroughleeeee enjoyable. Mikey was the perfect narrator.

Thanks for the show.

Great set! I'm unable to attend the rest of the shows and am extremely bummed to miss out on the fun. I had the same experience as b_pappy... the wife was heavily engaged with "Billy". For me, "Pound for a Brown" with all of the solo hijinks was transcending and brought tears of joy.

Looking forward to NYE.

last night was amazing...35 years to the day ....Sherman set the controls on the way-back-machine...to december 10 1973,location sunset strip... thats what it felt like...the band was tight...the place felt like home...the sound was perfect ,minus the iphones and the problems billy was having.. dweezel asked if he need to fix stuff and he replyed, i'll work it out later...LATER dweezel said, every thing worked great at sound check then the "GREMLINS" messed with it... billy said he would fix it during the "GUITAR SOLO"... AND i SAID YA !! GUITAR SOLO.. then dweezel said lets begin and busted out the opening of inca roads WOW!!!! ...I'AM STILL ENJOYING THE SHOW IN MY HEAD... thanks to the band and all the people there, it was a night i'll never forget... good show,could have thrown in san clemente magnetic deviation and big swifty plus a chunga's revenge ..thenagain that would have been to perfect and i would have dropped dead ...what a way to go !!!! i walked out of the club and jumped in my car and drove ten hours straight home through the most thick fog in the history of the world doing 40 miles an hour at times " i thought to myself maybe i died and saint peters is waiting up ahead... the fog starting in bakersfield all the way up I-5 to sac and beyond i pulled up to my house and jumped in bed...sleep,sleep, sleep, WHO NEEDS DREAMS, I LIVE MY DREAMS... THANKS TO ALL BAND MEMBERS...AWESOME !!!! i woke up and had to write something hope you can understand it, i still out of it.... p.s "BILLY WAS A MOUNTAIN" ................. DONT FUCK AROUND..............DONT FUCK WITH BILLY AND DONT FUCK WITH ETHEL.... P.S.S. PLEASE RELEASE THE ORIGINAL ROXY MOVIE WITH FRANK I NEED IT AND IT MAKES IT OWN SAUCE

This is the coolest thing that the dweez could have ever done.
What a show !!! What a band, not just another band from LA, but the
best band I've ever heard in my life. We were sitting with jim from redding,and we were all really enjoying the show in the intimate venue.
Dweezle's guitar work was great. I have a new favorite drummer, his name is Joe Travers, wow he was on fire. Shiela,Shiela,Shiela.....Wowie Zowie baby you're so neat,"I don't even care if your dads the heat" !!!
Ray White is truly one of the greatest singers of all time. 100% on.
I saw Ray with Frank 3 times. He was always a favorite vocal treat,as well as a soulful guitar player. I would have liked to have heard more guitar from him as well as his vocal on Outside Now. "These executives have plooked the fuck out of me". Dweezle I hope you get the Grammy you deserve it. Thanks for the great show and I look forward to seeing yall in san diego in march. "Music is the Best"

Inca Roads*
Dog Breath
Pygmy Twylyte (Roxy Version of course)
Idiot Bastard Son
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama*
Cosmik Debris*
Billy The Mountain (foil improv)
Pound For a Brown - Band solos
Guitar Giveaway - Ryan wins it and rocks out
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
Village of The Sun*
Echidna's Arf Of You
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? (first performance!)
Cheepnis
Oh No
Son Of Orange County
More Trouble (with new section from Vienna 1988 FZ performance)

Encore:
Peaches en Regalia* (Grammy Nominated)
Zomby Woof

i'am reliving the show over and over in my head...my family and friends ask about the show and every time i look back theres something more i remember...selective memory........my shout out is to PETE....i left out about his sound it was up there,shades of patrich o'hara swirled though out the roxy.... was he wearing a rubber shirt or what? the whole zappa plays zappa band get a shout out from me.. every one of them...those "MOTHERS" WHIPPED IT OUT... thanks again see ya next time... id love to see the roxy as a annual thing...wish i was there all four shows i'am up right now hoping to hear about thursdays show and songs that were played... p.s. jonny from san diego shout out to you and your wife i left you a personal message, if you missed it check now other wise i'll see ya at a show next time, thanks for the shout out in your review...

thanks for the setlist cookie duster

Need a couple more posts to allow photos... apologies for the wasted bandwith

BTW kudos to the Roxy staff. Unlike humorless security nazis at some venues (cough *warfield* cough) the crew at the Roxy are great!

Dwezil,
The show was great..My brother and I flew 3000 miles for the show... I gave you my shirt to sign and you acted like you signed it, but you didn't..What the F? Your Dad wouldnt of blown off a fan like that...Thanks again....TABBOOMA

the staff at the roxy was fantastic...i go to a lot of little clubs and useally they are all up in your face at the wrong times... like when your steping back to over look the whole venue and check the crowd out as a whole experiance and they jump out of somewhere giving you the third degree... SHOUT OUT TO THE ROXY STAFF AND THE 7 DOLLAR PARKING, THATS JUST ACROSS THE STREET... what a great little club... like i said earlier ..i hope to see the ROXY as a Annual thing.... look forward to going next year.... arf