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Did you attend this show at Melkweg in Amsterdam?

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
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Hi folks
this was after 3 shows in the US my 1st ZPZ show of the tour 2007 in Europe and it was awesome.
Amsterdam - were it all started last year, the very 1st show I attended.
Thx Dweeze to make all this happen.

Setlist of tonight:

Stinkfoot (w/DRS video trailer 74)
City of Tiny Lights (Ray White joins band onstage)
Florentine Pogen
Advance Romance
Doreen (1st time played live by ZPZ)
Son of Suzy Creamcheese
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
America Drinks and Goes Home
Dog Meat
Dumb All Over (w/DRS video trailer 81, vocals & guitar solo tracks by FZ)
What's New in Baltimore?
Pygmy Twylight
Dupree's Paradise (incl. themes of Packard Goose [bass solo], Heavy Duty [key solo] and of course a RW special)
Uncle Remus
Willie the Pimp
Joe's Garage
Wind up Workin' in a Gas Station
San Ber'dino
Zoot Allures
Ship Ahoy
The Illinois Enema Bandit (incl. preamble by Billy)

ENCORE
Cosmik Debris (w/DRS video trailer 74, vocals & 1st guitar solo by FZ)
G-Spot Tornado
Muffin Man (w/BS video trailer 77, vocals & 1st guitar solo by FZ)


CU guys saturday in Switzerland

P.S. some pubescent assholes were throwing beer coaster on the stage before the show started, maybe they had been to the wrong event?
tip: idiots, listen to YCDTOSA5 last track

Great show, but very overcrowded......

Thought it could not be better than yesterdays show..
I was wrong
Again the sweeds got fucked....

Fantastic show!!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Please do come again next year!

Wow

That's kind of like how I've felt after every show I've attended by this band so far. This "wow" thing usually lasts a few days and I draw a lot of inspiration from it. There's something special about a show which both made you want to pick up my guitar and practice my ass off when I got home AND watch Different Strokes at the same time (I was fortunate enough to catch one of Dweezil's guitar-picks, which for some obscure reason had Gary Coleman's name on it). Just once during the show did I think "aw, too bad they won't play (...RDNZL or something)" and "it sure is good to see Ray perform live. Why didn't he sing (...Why Does It Hurt When I Pee)?". That was during the encore break, which only lasted for half a minute or so, but overall I was thrilled.

A sense of excitement always hits me whenever I dig into Frank's music for a few hours, almost by default, but experiencing the same thing live makes it extra special for many reasons: of course there's the usual "Yay, I shook eveybody's hand" thing and the satisfactory feeling of realizing that there's more people like me on this planet (I even saw quite a few fellow youngsters, some without their parents!).

But this music is just so damn special that it's bound to leave an impact on your life once you've been exposed to it. I mean, everyone owns a few records that require a few listens to get into. And when you finally do, magic happens, the same goes for Frank's music: I remember listening to YCDTOSA vol.2 (my first FZ album) a few times and thinking "I kinda like the guitar solo's, but what's up with the marimba's and all these 15 minute songs?". And then after a couple of tries (and for some reason while playing a Legend of Zelda game) Inca Roads started playing and suddenly it all made sense. I started to like Civilization, Phaze III after locking myself out of my own house on a freezing day with only the first disc of that album in my CD player (then, after an amazing hour I remembered having the keys to the front door with me).

Watching ZPZ perform both last year and now made me experience this feeling like a dozen times in just one evening, even with the classics like Muffin Man (and even multiple times during the same song, like with The Illinois Enema Bandit last night).

Thank you guys, I'll never forget this

Once again, a very good show with a lot of presence and joy on stage.
The band plays really tight, and is ready to play some extreme well shows on the remaining dates.
I was also at the O13 in Tilburg, a better venue (acoustics and vue).
The Melkweg, I don't like this place, (saw Blues Traveller a few years ago)
, it's to crowded, stage is to small.
For me, 2 shows left, Dweezeldorf and Antwerpen.
Now I'm tired (Tilburg 230km and A'dam 440km by car)but happy.
Now I'm listening to the Buffalo, Dub room and XMasage cd's got them by mail today!

I can be wrong but do they play fragments of Ship Ahoy?

Our friends from the Netherlands have spoken!
Zappa simply refuses to die!!

Thank you very much again. Me and my wife enjoyed the show very much. super!!
..see you next week in Antwerpen

This show again (went to see ZPZ last year too) was great. It was so musical, so much fun, so perfect but at the same time so loose.
I noticed a big difference with last year. Yesterday i saw a band, I mean not Dweezil and friends, but a band: very tight, very much eye-contact. And Dweezil himself was in control. He played for the first time, to quote Frank, 'with the eyebrows on', I mean, i saw and heard not only Frank's music, but Dweezil's (and ZPZ-band ofcourse) idea of it. There were new arrangements, there were real well build-up long solo's. There were some 'free moments' that allowed him to do something else. A change was visible, a new phase, a step forward. However I couldn't let go the idea that the band plays in fact Frank's repertoire like a jukebox, like no other of course, and Dweezil doing things that Frank would do. I had mixed feelings, to be honest. But the music was so powerfull that I, like the rest of the Milkyway, put up my thumb during 'wind up working in a gasstation', and felt real happy.

Dweezil said "see you next year", well count me in. and can't wait to hear " what the hell was I thinking?"

Travelled over from Ireland for the gig, great stuff, venue was very hot and overcrowded though. Would like to see Zappa Play Zappa every week. thanks for a great gig

The guitarplayingskills of Dweezil have reached the level of his father: I was thrilled by Dweezils performance of Zoot Allures!
All thogether: outstanding concert with great musicians. Thank you very much.

Great show in the Melkweg, the band was sublime, Dweezil is improving to ceilin' with guitar.

Just hope next year they come to Spain!!

AMSTERDAM 09-27 2007

Well what can I say about this. The concert was fantastic, Dweezil is awesome, Ray White is out of this world like he just came in from the 1982 concerts with FZ. The band is unbelievable good!

The setlist was surpsingly cool!

After the concert we were invited by Joe to come to his dressing room where we met up with Jamie, Pete, Sheila and Ray


I guess it is not allowed to post pictures or links up here. For pictures go to the Zappa forum concert euro tour

I just got catched two planes to go to The Neterlands from Spain to watch this show.

It was just fantastic. The concert was peferct, the audicence quite good. The highlights in my opnion: Pygmy Twylite and Illinois Enema Bandit.

White was tramandous, DZ Sheila and Co. fabalous.

I have only good words but only a dissapointig: please don't make me take two planes next year come to the wine land of Spain!!