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Did you attend the ZPZ show at the War Memorial opera House in San Francisco, CA?

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

Mikey
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Thanks to all of the band members and the ZPZ crew for making it a great night. I don't know what the opening act was about but it sounded very poor. And then as if a spell had been cast, the PA sounded great during the set up music and right on through when the band took the stage. Joe was on fire, it was great to be able to see him from the balcony as he was kind of hidden behind all of the amps at the Roxy. Highlights? Flakes (the Cartman thing is a hoot, thanks Scheila), Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy, Joe's vocal and playing on Cosmic Debris and what a sweet solo from Ray. Up in the bleachers we could really hear the effects on Dweezil's rig and you really played beautifully Mr. Z. Jamie, don't hurt that Strat! Aw, it had it coming anyway, nice slide work too. Aaron was visible as well and cooking, the hyper-vocal on Flakes really cracked me up. How does Billy remember all of those words in Billy The Mountain? Pete had the right volume to drive stuff without making that damn place buzz and vibrate, nice. And Ray was solid, as always a joy to hear him sing. Keep working on the gong Scheila, but don't quit playing that sax like you do. And the sound crew and whoever is running the house mix, you are good. It was the right level at the Roxy and it was perfect at the Opera house too. Thanks, hope to see you all soon. (And thanks for taking the time to do it right on the mp3's, lawsuit? WTF?)

This was my first live experience with ZPZ, I'm a huge fan of Frank and love every song he ever wrote. Had know clue what was really going to go down that night. I'm a huge fan of Les Claypool and been nearly every NYE show he has put on. Out of every NYE show I've every seen, this one was truly the greatest. Musically ZPZ smoked Claypool, all I could say was "how in the world is Les going to come out and match that." Well, he didn't come close musically, but with tricks up his sleeve, he blew my mind with the 3D madness. It was almost to much for the brain to handle. My head nearly exploded when Billy the Mountain started. Pure madness, I never in a million years thought that that song would be played...Thank you Dweezil and ZPZ for the greatest night ever...See you in February and March...

We need a 5 night run at the Fillmore in San Francisco...

This show was awsome.I thought the venue was a little to big though(there were empty seats all over the place).I was on the balcony on the right side and had the whole section by myself and a friend.It was cool to see Les jam with you but i really wanted to see Mirv play with you .Next time you play in S.F. have Mirv jam with you.

please share!

This show ripped! My eyes watered a little when ZpZ opened with Inca Roads. This is one of my very favorite Frank Zappa songs and ZpZ just tore it up. In fact the first 4 songs rocked hard (Inca, Cosmic Debris, Magic Fingers and Caroline Hardcore Ecstasy). I don't really "get" Billy The Mountain, but some fans loved it. I had an interesting conversation with some people in the smoking section and they either loved that song or hated it. I also really enjoyed the song Les joined the band on. Below is the set list as I remember it, but I had a couple of beers and was hanging out in the smoking section. My only complaint is the fact that Les headlined and some Les fans were a distraction since they did not recognize the talent that is ZpZ (but the song with Les made up for it).

I just got tickets to the Ventura show!

Inca Roads

Cosmic Debris

Magic Fingers

Caroline Hard Core Ecstasy

Billy The Mountain - (I don’t get it)

Flakes

Broken Hearts are for Assholes

Bamboozled By Love

Pound for a Brown

Song with Les?

Muffin Man

Willie the Pimp

The ZPZ portion of the show was indeed awesome. The only detraction being the constant distraction of many LC fans constantly coming and going from their seats, getting ever more blasted and distracting those of us trying to enjoy a fabulous ZPZ show. This is the first show I have heard Dweezil's new guitar rig and it sounds incredible, and his playing has evolved in leaps and bounds to match since I first saw this band at the Warfield in 2006. Unfortunately this was a compressed time-line show with another band to get on stage, and a very long (but very welcome and wonderful!) Billy The Mountain. I would have gladly traded having Les come on stage in King Kong for Black Napkins which was on the set list in the encore, but dropped from the show no doubt due to time constraints. That would have sounded amazing on that new rig in that place. After Inca (which featured both an amazing Dweez solo along with a smokin' Aaron Arntz keyboard solo as well) the Dweezil solos were amazing, but fewer and shorter than the past three ZPZ shows I have attended. The band was incredible and just keep getting better and better. Jaime Kime's King Kong solo complete with some Hendrixesque guitar abuse along with slide playing on Bamboozled was outstanding. Despite it being a Claypool night, Pete Griffin was the best bass player in the house to my ears that night. Ray took a solo on Dweezil's SG in Cosmic Debris with the Dweez workin' the pedal that was an amazing collaboration. Joe and Billy were tireless and spot on--fabulous playing! Schiela, wow, you never cease to amaze me. Vocals, keyboards, virtuoso woodwinds playing, and a couple of good crushing Muffin Man gong crashes when Billy shared his fun. Thank you all for a NYE I will cherish forever! The band was hightailing it outathere so no meet-n-greets as they often do, but my wife did manage to get one of the super-busy road crew (thank you!!!!) to give her Dweezil's set list which reads as follows:

1. Inca Roads
2. Cosmic Debris
3. Magic Fingers
4. Carolina
5. Billy The Mountain
6. Flakes
7. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
8. Bamboozled By Love
9. King Kong - maybe Les Claypool Joins In (he did as mentioned above)
10. Willie The Pimp - End Of Show

Encore:
May open up for suggestions from audience (did not happen--time constraints I imagine)

11. Black Napkins (did not happen--I wish it did!)
12. Muffin Man (searing hot Dweezil solo, the band was just getting warmed up, and then it was sadly cut short)

The day was one of "upgrades" and surprises for my wife and I. We arrived at the hotel mid-afternoon, about a block and a half from the opera house, and were "upgraded" to a jacuzzi room. The next great surprise was finding bottles of "Cruisin' with Ruben and the Jets" beer from Lagunitas (which I still can not find in Santa Cruz) at a little Hayes Valley grocery store. We arrived pretty early to the Opera House, what an amazing venue!!!! We found our seats, only to find the view of the stage almost totally blocked by the sound and lights boards. We sat down and no sooner than I was asking my wife if we could swap seats part way through the show to share the misery (one seat was much worse than the other) an usher comes along saying "follow me" and proceeds to walk us down to an excellent pair of 5th row center aisle seats and swaps our tickets out! We were blown away with that upgrade!!!! Thank you SF War Memorial Opera House!!!!!

ZPZ was certainly the high point of the evening for us. The only thing that sucked worse than Claypool that night (and yes, he sucked) was Tim Fite. I really tried to be open minded and I seldom walk out on any musical shows, but we were clock watching and by the time the balloons dropped we both could not wait to leave. So around 12:05 or so, we did just that, much to the shock and chagrin of the previously distracting and detracting LC fans surrounding us. I was hoping for some amazing music with all the hype from some Zappa board fans and really had no idea what to expect since I had never payed much attention to Primus or their gendra of music. Yes, he has amazing chops, and yes, he is innovative. But that monotonous primal beat with "music" that was all a blur of ultra-loud sameness, combined with ultra-blasted twenty-somethings twisting and frugging had me thinking I was experiencing a Tinseltown Rebellion moment...in fact I was. Really boring, really bad. Amazing chops, yeah, but as someone who has seen Stanley on numerous occasions since he was 18 years old playing with RTF, sorry, not even in the same league. In fact there are countless bass players I have enjoyed over the years I would rather see in a band than this guy. Like I said before, the best bass player in the house that night, to my ears, was Pete Griffin. The set began with "fans" chanting "Primus Sucks" and Primus was anything like what I heard night before last, well they were right!

msvphoto: Yes Les was borning (except for on King Kong), but Primus was a great band and not nearly as boring as Les's band. You have to admit that the Jimi solo Mirv opened with was ripping. Also, "Primus sucks" is an old inside joke. I assume it is because Primus had an album called "Suck on This" and people started yelling this at their concerts...

Thanks for posting the set list. It looks like I had all of the songs except I forgot it was King Kong Les played on and I had the last two songs out of order. I wonder how close you sat to me and my gal, we were in row 5 as well...

DZ, thanks so much for bringing Frank's music to life. I just started listening to Frank right before I saw you at the Warfield and now I'm hooked! Looking forward to the Ventura show!

Last thing I'll say: Dang it, I wish I could have attended one of the Roxy shows. I just went over to Nugs.net and listened to Bamboozled by Love and it sounds great! Both the NYE and the Ventura shows aren't part of the YCFOSA deal (free downloads)!? What is up with that? Are there plans to release these shows at some point? Can I beg for a free download since I have tickets to two shows?

Oh, and now I'm going to the Sacramento show. 3 shows, no downloads! That is okay since you are going to release some more albums!

what BongoBob said... only in my case it will most likely just be two shows (SF and Santa Cruz).

I bought the tickets,hotel, etc. as soon as the NYE date was announced. It was the only show in the area, so I went for it. Too bad it was on NYE with Les Claypool. The idiotic LC fans acted like ZPZ was some amateur warmup band while we true Zappaphiles were trying to see and hear the only good band there that night. I don't get it! For over 100 bucks a ticket, I wanted more ZPZ! I really did enjoy what I did see and hear, Except Billy The Mountain, which took way too much of the limited time that night. I think it could have been much more fulfilling by leaving out Billy The Mountain, Flakes, and Broken Hearts, as well as the Claypool collaberation. I was waiting for Black Napkins, Yo Mama, Peaches En Regalia, I could go on and on. The couple we were with left after ZPZ, and we were left there wearing those funny 3D glasses, wondering what just happened. I really hope Dweezil steers the band back towards the Bay Area or Sacramento for a real ZPZ show. I'll be the first in line again, as I have been for 40 years. I wanna get that download! Bring the serious stuff and leave Billy at home with Ethel.

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