bertrand Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 When did they say the D.C. gig is? I don't see it on the tour list yet. I was in Paris when they played and knew nothing about it. I was at a Jam Session that night Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DatDere Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Official dates are up now: Oct 18 Denver, Colorado Paramount Theatre To Be Announced Oct 19 Kansas City, Missouri Ameristar Casino To Be Announced Oct 20 Minneapolis, Minnesota Orpheum Theatre To Be Announced Oct 22 Cleveland, Ohio Canton Palace Theatre To Be Announced Oct 23 Buffalo, New York University of Buffalo To Be Announced Oct 24 Montreal, Quebec Metropolis To Be Announced Oct 28 Atlantic City, New Jersey Borgata To Be Announced Oct 29 Wallingford, Connecticut Chevrolet Theatre To Be Announced Oct 30 Washington, DC Warner Theatre To Be Announced Oct 31 New York, New York Theater at Madison Square Garden On Sale 6/14 @ 9am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 (edited) Oct 19 Kansas City, Missouri Ameristar Casino To Be Announced Fuck, I hate it when bands play at the Casinos in this town. Thankfully most of them don't (or at least very few of the bands I'm interested in). The ticket prices are always higher for casino dates, and the performance space is generic as all getout. I saw Joe Henderson (trio) like 10 years ago at a Casino here in KC (on a triple bill with Charlie Haden's Quartet West, and Robert Altman's "Kansas City" big band group. Did I mention, I really hate going to shows at Casinos -- cuz I do. Casino shows suck (well, not the show itself - but everything but the show itself does). I'm not saying the Casinos don't deserve the right to exist - but I'd rather not get any closer to them than I really have to. Why couldn't the Zappa show play the Uptown, or maybe the Madrid (though the Madrid might be a bit small). If their aim is get younger people out to hear some Zappa - playing a casino is definitely NOT the way to do it. Edited June 15, 2006 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 If their aim is get younger people out to hear some Zappa - playing a casino is definitely NOT the way to do it. Not to mention charging $90 a pop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregK Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Damn- I meant to go to this show. I checked the schedule tonight and they are playing Detroit tonight! Too late! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 (edited) If their aim is get younger people out to hear some Zappa - playing a casino is definitely NOT the way to do it. Not to mention charging $90 a pop. Shit, is THAT what they're charging for tickets for this tour??? -- for domestic dates (meaning here in the U.S.)??? $90!!! Damn, I might be inclined to pay that -- but that's an awful fuckin' steep ticket price to be chargin' for a "ghost band"-type tour. I would have expected MUCH more like $40. Hell, Project/Object with Brock and Willis (both!!) was only like $15 or $20 tops, if I remember right. And come to think of it -- depending on Any Way The Wind Blows... $90 might very well price me out of the market. $50 would be a little pricy, but I'd go in a heartbeat at $50. $60, well, that's pricier still, but sure - I'd go. I never would have guessed $90. There better be a shit-load of real Zappa alum in the band at that price. If I'm reading right, they ain't all that much better than Project/Object (with their real Zappa alums too -- and real good ones at that). And with the Ticket Bastard charges, your really talkin' about $100 tickets almost. Yeah, I'll probably go anyway when push comes to shove - but $90 is a lot. Edited June 16, 2006 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 (edited) I heard P/O at a New Brunswick, NJ bar for $10 about 10 years ago. With Ike Willis even. Edited June 16, 2006 by 7/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Tickets for this Saturday's Chicago gig at the Auditorium Theatre are $90. Bozzio, Vai, Brock, and other special guests are advertised on the bill. A little too steep for me. Not sure if this is the standard going price for the tour or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 By DAVID ZIMBALIST. NY Sun June 14, 2006 "This is a surreal experience!" That's no understatement, coming from a man named Dweezil. Frank Zappa's 36-year-old son was clearly touched as he surveyed his extended New York family at the Beacon Theatre on Monday night. It was a reunion more than 10 years in the making, and well deserving of the standing ovation. The journey for artists who wish to follow in their fathers' footsteps can be harrowing. Despite his death from prostate cancer in 1993 at 52, Frank Zappa produced a catalog of more than 60 albums, with styles ranging from 1950s doo-wop and rock 'n' roll to big-band jazz and contemporary classical music. Dweezil Zappa had to refine his guitar playing for years in order to do this tour, trading in his Eddie Van Halen licks and re-connecting with his father's far-reaching and sometimes overburdening legacy. Backed by an enthusiastic eightpiece ensemble fronted by the saxophonist and vocalist Napoleon Murphy Brocke - a member of Zappa's band from 1973 to 1976 - Dweezil tore through some classics from his father's seminal 1960s albums, "Freak Out!" and "We're Only in It for the Money." Zappa archivist and drummer Joe Travers was the engine behind an extremely tight and well-rehearsed ensemble, having just come off the European leg of the tour. The lyrics to "Hungry Freaks," "Daddy," and "Trouble Every Day" never sounded more contemporary, and Brocke's mugging and dancing were the perfect accompaniment. Dweezil then moved on to some of his father's more challenging material from the 1970s. The band reproduced nearly the entire "Roxy and Elsewhere" album from 1974 with noteperfect execution. The complex, Stravinsky-like meter changes and odd note groupings of "Echidnas Arf (Of You)" flowed almost as effortlessly as in the original version. But it was during Dweezil's guitar solos, particularly in "Inca Roads," that the son most successfully infused his own voice into that of his father's, making it an evening of interpretation and exploration rather than mere reproduction. The audience, comprised of teenage fans and veteran Zappa admirers alike, came prepared for anything. Young and old belted out the lyrics with abandon. And people literally jumped at the chance to participate in a reggae version of the instrumental "King Kong": Dweezil con ducted both the audience and the band in much the same way his father did, using hand signals and gestures as cues. The highlight of the evening came when guest drummer Terry Bozzio and guitarist Steve Vai, both Zappa alumni, took the stage to help perform "The Black Page," parts I and II. Originally written as a drum solo much in the style of Zappa's favorite composer, Edgard Varese (specifically the piece "Ionization"), "The Black Page" Part I is a virtuosic study for percussionist and audience alike. The fact that Zappa set this incredibly complex piece to a disco beat and wrote a melody for it in Part II highlights the two questions he wrestled with throughout much of his career: Should art be entertaining, and, more important, can entertainment be art? In Zappa's universe, the answer to both is a resounding "yes." Songs like "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" or "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" might appeal more to serious music fans were their titles more conservative. But they wouldn't be half as fun. Dweezil will continue to follow in his father's footsteps when he resurrects the ultimate Zappa tradition: a Halloween concert at the theater in Madison Square Garden. In the words of Suzy Creamcheese, Frank's ubergroupie: "Wowie Zowie!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Zappa plays Zappa Düsseldorf Philipshalle 21 May 2006 Set list: Disc 1 (74:18) set 1 01 - Intro 02 - Help I'm a rock 03 - Hungry freaks daddy 04 - Let's make the water turn black 05 - Florentine Pogen 06 - The Pygmy twylyte 07 - The idiot bastard son 08 - Cheepnis 09 - Dweezil talking 10 - King Kong 11 - Don’t You Eat that Yellow Snow 12 - St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast 13 - Father Oblivion 14 - Dweezil talking 15 - Inca roads 16 - Imaginary diseases Disc 2 (64:39) set 2 01 - Bozzio intro 02 - I'm so cute 03 - Tryin’ To Grow A Chin 04 - City of Tiny Lites 05 - Punky’s Whips 06 - Black Page story 07 - The Black Page drumsolo 08 - The Black Page #2 09 - Peaches en regalia 10 - Montana 11 - Village of the Sun 12 - Echidna’s Arf 13 - Zomby Woof Disc 3 (44:01) 01 - Dweezil talking 02 - Sofa #2 03 - Applause 04 - Camarillo Brillo 05 - The Orange County Lumber Truck 06 - More Trouble Every Day 07 - A Token of His Extreme 08 - Applause 09 - Stayin' alive 10 - Cosmic Debris Line-up: Dweezil Zappa - Stereo Gibson Napoleon Murphy Brock - flute, alto saxophone and vocal Pete Griffin - bass Jamie Kime - guitar Joe Travers - drums Aaron Arntz - keyboards Sheila Gonzales - keyboards, sax and vocal Billy Hulting - percussion and marimba special guests: Napoleon Murphy Brock Steve Vai Terry Bozzio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J Posted June 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Dweezil then moved on to some of his father's more challenging material from the 1970s. The band reproduced nearly the entire "Roxy and Elsewhere" album from 1974 with noteperfect execution. The complex, Stravinsky-like meter changes and odd note groupings of "Echidnas Arf (Of You)" flowed almost as effortlessly as in the original version. But it was during Dweezil's guitar solos, particularly in "Inca Roads," that the son most successfully infused his own voice into that of his father's, making it an evening of interpretation and exploration rather than mere reproduction. Wow, that's sounds like a good list of tunes! David, where did you get that set/recording list? The concert is tonight here in Toronto. It is $70 dollars, so we got a little lucky, sort of . That is still greater than my threshhold for this kind of concert. At lunch, I will see if I can get lucky with same-day tickets at a ticket kiosk. Otherwise I''ll comfort myself with the reviews and the bootlegs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Wow, that's sounds like a good list of tunes! David, where did you get that set/recording list? Boot from the net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Gonna be $60 here in KC. I'm tempted, but I still think that's pretty pricy. But when push comes to shove, an extra $10 or $15 more than I think it's really worth ain't gonna stop me. Anybody else from KC wanna go?? Joe?? Paul?? PERFORMANCE INFO Thu, Oct 19 Doors at 7:00 PM Shows starts at 8:00 PM Ameristar Casino Kansas City, MO Ages 21+ Only $60.00 per person Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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