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Did you attend this show at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix?

Dweezil and the band would love to read your reviews.

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

Mikey
Zappa.com Webmeister

Saw the show in Phoenix last year and was so impressed decided to buy tickets for Tucson, Phoenix and Las Vegas this year. Tucson was excellent! It was great to go to the sound check. Thank you Dweezil for being so generous, staying to meet all of your and your father's fans.

The whole band was awesome both nights. Looking forward to the show in Vegas.

So glad to have Frank's music alive again. Dweezil, you're dad would be so proud!

Look forward to many years of memories with you and your family.

Really enjoyed Uncle Remus, the cactus and the horse

I can't believe that horse pussy really worked! nice job Ray! The addition of the word play this year has been fun and is a nice little secret word refference, thanks for playing with us.

I know someone will post the set list so all i will say is that it was sufficiently different from Tucson the night before. I can't wait till you have 300 songs in your bag! haha Thank you for the 2 AZ shows!

OK, ZPZ is an amazing band! It is hard to single everyone one out, it would take way to long to tell you all how much you rock, caress, love and cradle Frank's music. It is great to watch the band work and add individual touches to make it your own. I mean, Aaron on the mouth vacum back there, slurrpin and gurggling! It's the little things.

Happy to hear you talk about next year. thank you so very much for keeping Frank's music alive and taking it to the next level.

Great Show

It was so nice to hear some of the 60s material. Sound in the theater was excellent, the band was tight.

Can't wait to do this again!!!!!

The videos of Frank were an added bonus.

Awesome Show
I would like to thank Dweezil and the band for an awesome show last night in Phx. The lil Mrs and I weren't lucky enough to see Frank in the flesh but we are still in awe of seeing Dweezil perform. You shred that SG dude. Also thanks for the autograph and the mention of our name in a few of your songs...it was a BLAST
See ya next time thru

Although I could barely take my eyes off Dwezil, the entire band really is amazing! It wasn't just a show, it was a great experience! We had some really cool people sitting around us which made it even more fun. Judging by the crowd, I"m positive that you could see this show in ANY town or city, and have a great time!

I still don't know where the "horse pussy" came from, ...maybe my man has turrets either way, they made it look easy to put such words into a song!

Thanks for keeping the spirit alive! We'll go again! (with a new word)

Great show with a real punch-you-in-the-face encore.

G-Spot Tornado was inspired. Dumb All Over (Dubya's Theme) is perhaps more poignant today than when it was written.

Horse Pussy...Ray, you killed me.


Can't wait to see you next year.

Forgot the setlist:

Son of Suzy Creamcheese
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
America Drinks & Goes Home
(Intro Ray White)
City of Tiny Lights
Advance Romance
Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy
Dumb All Over (w/FZ video)
What's New In Baltimore?
Pygmy Twylyte
Dupree's Paradise--Horse Pussy/Livin’ the Dream/Erie, PA version
Uncle Remus
Willie the Pimp
Joe's Garage
Wind Up Workin' At A Gas Station
San Bernadino
Illinois Enema Bandit
Wild Love
Yo Mama


Encore:
Cosmik Debris (w/FZ video)
G-Spot Tornado
Muffin Man (w/FZ video)

This was the second year I got to see the show and they are amazing. Dweezil has put together such an incredible group of musicians, his dad would be proud. Last year the video with Frank wasn't working so seeing it this year was an added bonus to an already amazing show. Everyone in the band is so talented and put on such an energetic show and man can Dweezil shred!

Precision,Humor,Musicianship Extraordinaire all around..And Mostly Love of the music were amongst the things that stood out for me....That and the Keyboardist..what is he 12 years old,HAHA
Seriously, Dweezil it is s obvious you love what you are doing to honor your great father....You are just as Great in my book

And you were very generous in the length of the show, wow the band has got to be exhausted

Any chance we can see Ahmet on future tours?

Paix

Brad Zerkel
Tempe

I never got the chance to see Frank live since im far to young and ive only been really listening to FZ for a good 2 years. But i have collected quite a few cds, but thats beyond the point. Since i never got to see FZ live this is the closet chance i think i will ever get, and Dweezil i just want to personally thank you so fucking much because this tour and you playing Franks music means so much to me. I cant even descrive the emotions being at ZPZ gives me. Dweezil i love you, the band, and what your doing for us Zappa fans.



For all you Christians out there, the 2nd coming has happened and his name is no longer Jesus it is Dweezil.

Killer Concert....easily top 5 material. Saw pappa zappa 4 times and am now sorry that I was to young to realize I should have been sober when I saw him. Dweezil was superb and the clips with Frank were excellent. Thanks for making it all alive again. May his memory live and Dweezil, keep on rocking!

Thanks for the setlist, another secret word during Dupree's was "sporting a woody (in Erie)" supplied by Joe Travers mid-way through his drum "solo" during the Drowning Witch vamp in Dupree's. Dupree's also included Heavy Duty Judy.

(Hey! It's Mr Green Genes!)

Thanks to ALL of you for a superb performance last night. If the title to this post is a little cryptic. Read on:

Well now... it's just so hard to believe anyone could pull off a performance like the one I saw at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix AZ last night. As a reasonably skilled, semi-pro jazz-is-not-dead-it-just-smells-funny type musician myself, I found this performance simultaneously exhilarating, inspiring, and somewhat depressing (I'll never be able to even approach the skill level I witnessed at this show). But enough of THAT eh?

I saw Frank in March 1974 in Colorado Springs, which the informed reader will recognize as the evangelism Mecca of the USA and home to Dr James Dobson's Focus on the Family. Of course, that was the one and only Roxy and Elsewhere ensemble and it was a great , memorable show ("you'd think this town had never seen a rock concert" Frank Zappa). In some ways, last night's Zappa Plays Zappa show was actually better than that show in 1974 GASP! Dweezil's band is actually much tighter and plays with more "dynamic presence", but then again, it didn't seem to have the same degree of spontaneity as the Roxy band apart from Dupree's Paradise.

The musicians were so very generous, thrilling us all and soaring through their set with incredible skill for over 2.5 hours! They ran the gambit, playing music from 1966 - 1986. I was absolutely stunned when they pulled off Brown Shoes Don't Make It. Lucky us! I see that this was not performed in Tucson the previous evening. It was performed to PERFECTION folks. I'm not making this up! I felt I received at least 5 times my money's worth!

As far as stage presence goes, Dweezil is aces. He's so sincere and appreciative of the fans of Frank's music. He actually made me feel like I was watching a friend's band. I can honestly say I've never been to a concert and made to feel like that. It was really pretty cool.

I had only one complaint and it had nothing to do with the venue or the amazing performance I witnessed. My friends and I had the best seats in the house for sound, row 23, center stage. Sound-wise, it just doesn't get any better. Alas, for the first 1/3 of the show or so there were two young women, obviously dragged along to the show by their boyfriends. They had no interest in what was going on and instead of being courteous and letting those around them enjoy the show, they were cutting up (loudly) and drinking ungodly quantities of beer. What was it Frank used to say about beer? Those sitting around these two kept glaring at them. Finally, I leaned forward and, with the most menacing face I could manage (behind my very intimidating designer spectacles and wearing my black Miles Davis T-Shirt), said "Why don't you two shut the fuck up and let the rest of us enjoy the show?" Surprisingly, that did the trick and others smiled with gratitude. Horse pussies indeed...

I dragged my good friend and musical partner Jeff (we founded a fusion band called Cannibal Kitchen) along to the show. I actually begged him to attend. Jeff wasn't very familiar with Frank's music apart from riding around in my car one 115 degree afternoon to go and pick up a saxophone microphone for an upcoming gig. I think I was playing "The Grand Wazoo" Jeff sent me an email a little while ago raving about what he'd seen last night. Jeff is a convert.

Anyway, I'm very grateful that Dweezil and the others worked so hard to put this band together. The work load must have been/be staggering to learn the material and to play it so incredibly well. After 1993, I thought I was never going to get to hear Frank's music played live again. Bravo! Bravo! Well done you guys!

I hope you come back on the next outing and play "Peaches" (I kept waiting for it, 'sniff) and perhaps even include a spiffy teenage dance contest!

Mark
Queen Creek Arizona

As far as stage presence goes, Dweezil is aces. He's so sincere and appreciative of the fans of Frank's music. He actually came of as though you were watching a friend's band.

Peaches was on last years ZPZ tour, and they played it at Dodge Theatre.