Black Cat Bone

How did I not know until just now that this even happened? And that I could have been there?

I saw Dweezil a few nights back. Fantastic show as usual

Also a fantastic show at the Royal Festival Hall. Norwegian Wind Ensemble joined him on stage.

...umm, do tell! Any guests from Frank's band? What tunes did they play? Anything along the lines of Peaches En Regalia, The Black Page, Zoot Allures, that sort of stuff. I saw FZ in 1984 during a six-night stand at The Palace in Hollywood. Tickets were $20, first time someone finally broke that glass ceiling. I knew someone who went all six nights. I thought that was insane, but not anymore. They played for over two hours and never stopped once. And he was playing a lot of guitar by then, stuff like Stucco Homes and Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression. But that was with Vinnie, and it was Chad by this time, so more like the stuff on the second Guitar set. For the encore, he brought out 14-yeat-old Dweezil for a duet on Sharleena.

Glasgow set list

Set One
Latex Solar Beef
It Can't Happen Here
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
Bow Tie Daddy
Harry, You're a Beast
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Motherly Love
Any Way the Wind Blows
Mom and Dad
Tell Me You Love Me
Cruising For Burgers
James Bond Theme
Studebaker Hoch
Rollo
I'm the Slime
(Frank Zappa
Advance Romance

Set Two
Willie the Pimp
Would You Go All the Way?
Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station
Dirty Love
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
Bwana Dik
Lumpy Gravy
Village Of The Sun
Echidna's Arf (Of You)
Let's Move to Cleveland
Inca Roads
Zomby Woof

Encore:
Duke of Prunes
Doreen
Dinah-Moe Humm
I Am the Walrus

not listed in the setlist were quick bits of Back in Black and Sussidio.

Great list. Almost nothing post-1970s. I love when he throws in those quotes from other songs - on the Barcelona 1988 video, they do the "My Sharona" riff once during Ravel's Bolero, and the horns in Bamboozled By Love play the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" riff during the guitar solo. Then there was that "We're gonna go Hawaiian" jingle from the Hawaiian Punch ads with Donny and Marie Osmond that fixated him for a couple years, he got plenty of use out of that one.

That’s swell!

Yeah!

Happy birthday FZ!

zoomboogity wrote:Happy birthday FZ!

Indeed!






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No one's going to mention this? All of the performances used to make the Roxy album. Seven discs.

Superb!

"Happy Halloween, everybody!"

zoomboogity wrote:"Happy Halloween, everybody!"

Zappa's favourite holiday.

RIP Frank and thanks for the music







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NOW we're talkin'!

My friend Ted just returned from a visit to the Bay Area. He and his friends went to a place called The Saloon, the oldest bar in San Francisco ("It's over a hundred years old," he says, "and smells like it"). There was an old r&b singer named Clay Lawson performing there, and though he only had a pick-up band, Ted says they were really great.

The bass player was Roy Estrada.

So I guess he's out of prison.

If that's true, then so much for "25 years without parole." That's really disturbing.