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Music / Musik » alt.fan.frank-zappa » ZPZ Review Chicago
| ZPZ Review Chicago [message #283421] |
Mo, 19 Juni 2006 03:44 |
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Dweezil Zappa brings papa's music to life
By Bob Gendron
Special to the Tribune
Published June 18, 2006
Taking a rare pause between songs Saturday night at the Auditorium
Theatre, Dweezil Zappa began talking about a friend whose favorite Frank
Zappa piece featured the words "guacamole queen." Dweezil then invited this
acquaintance - an adolescent whose adult-size Zappa T-shirt engulfed his
small frame - onstage to help perform "Inca Roads." Bent on exposing younger
generations to his father's legacy, Dweezil wasn't stopping at anything.
Nor should he have, given the adoring receptions the guitarist's Zappa
Plays Zappa concept drew from the packed house. Emerging after a showing of
some archival Frank Zappa concert footage, Dweezil commanded a standing
ovation before even picking a note. It was that type of do-no-wrong evening
for the prolific composer's son, who is touring his dad's music for the
first time in an official capacity since the elder died from prostate cancer
in 1993.
Backed by a sextet and accompanied by former Zappa cohort Napoleon
Murphy Brock, Dweezil and several guests left no style unturned. Touching
upon nearly every Zappa era, the collective celebrated the theater of the
absurd, attacking convention-flouting compositions with reverent scholarship
and technical wizardry. Relaxed and sincere, Dweezil lacked mobility and
looseness but recurrently nailed the hairpin curves, abrupt timing shifts
and precision-based intricacies demanded by the complex material.
With the water-tight band melding various influences and inflections
into jazz-rock tunes designed to surprise, Brock delivered the lyrical
satire and madcap wit. Handling a majority of the singing duties, he vocally
and physically embodied the music's bizarre personas, crooning over a kazoo
during "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," flapping his arms and making animal noises
for "Florentine Pogen" and waddling around like a bundled-up Eskimo on
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow."
Smiling and dancing, Brock relished Zappa's humor, the punch lines
underscored by cartoon-themed accents and intricate tempos. The
saxophonist's arched doo-wopping and quasi-operatic highs also provided
focal points when zigzagging melodies threw listeners for loops. Because of
their over-the-top grandiosity, several works remained impenetrably dense
and sophomoric.
Drummer Terry Bozzio's appearance midway through the 3-hour set
inspired his mates to crank up the energy and volume. Bozzio, who played
with Zappa in the '70s, sonically evoked a temper tantrum during "I'm So
Cute" and bashed at hanging cymbals during "Punky's Whips," the hard-edged
arrangement climaxing in caterwauling fashion. Bozzio's most impressive run
occurred on the percussion-centered "The Black Page," his solo re-creating a
manual typewriter's sound, the mechanism's clickety-clack and
metal-strikes-paper sound reproduced using drumsticks, hands and feet.
Unfortunately, Steve Vai, the other special guest and Zappa alum,
didn't share the same discipline. Shortly after the guitarist entered, the
event slipped out of Dweezil's control. Vai is a virtuoso, but his flashy
arpeggios, over-the-top vibrato bar bends and teeth-on-string antics reeked
of glamor-boy indulgence, these excesses serving to obscure the songs,
before the collective managed to regroup for the closing, triumphant
instrumental "Sofa No. 2."
Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
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| Re: ZPZ Review Chicago [message #283456 ] |
Mo, 19 Juni 2006 17:22 |
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I know I'm just repeating what others have said, but this show was
amazing. This is a band not to be missed. There were many spectacular
moments, but Bozzio was the highlight for me. I just find that guy's
playing incredible.
On another note, while I was sitting there listening to this show and
thinking about all the tributes I've seen (ZPZ, Grandmothers,
Project/Object, Ed Palermo Big Band, Muffin Men...) I realized that a
huge chunk of music was not represented. I can't recall ever hearing
much from the Flo and Eddie era performed by any of these bands.
Is that right? Have any of the tribute bands ever played much of that
stuff? Material from 200 Motels, Chungas, JABFLA and Filmore?
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| Re: ZPZ Review Chicago [message #283462 ] |
Mo, 19 Juni 2006 19:12 |
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In article <1150730540.827067.286000 [at] r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Dickle" <southerdickle [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> On another note, while I was sitting there listening to this show and
> thinking about all the tributes I've seen (ZPZ, Grandmothers,
> Project/Object, Ed Palermo Big Band, Muffin Men...) I realized that a
> huge chunk of music was not represented. I can't recall ever hearing
> much from the Flo and Eddie era performed by any of these bands.
>
> Is that right? Have any of the tribute bands ever played much of that
> stuff? Material from 200 Motels, Chungas, JABFLA and Filmore?
I'm not counting instrumental covers. IIRC, all of these are vocal:
Dental Hygiene Dilemma, Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?:
Ensemble Modern
Strictly Genteel, 200 Motels Finale: voice oF cheeZ
Daddy Daddy Daddy: voice oF cheeZ
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?: voice oF cheeZ
Magic Fingers: Paul Green School Of Rock, Zappa Corner Band
Road Ladies: Rubbers Of Prevention
Wonderful Wino: Ed Palermo Big Band
Mudshark, Latex Solar Beef: Project/Object
Tears Began To Fall: Persuasions
Magdalena: Ed Palermo Big Band
--Charles
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| Re: ZPZ Review Chicago [message #283528 ] |
Mi, 21 Juni 2006 23:52 |
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Charles Ulrich wrote:
> In article <1150730540.827067.286000 [at] r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "Dickle" <southerdickle [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On another note, while I was sitting there listening to this show and
>>thinking about all the tributes I've seen (ZPZ, Grandmothers,
>>Project/Object, Ed Palermo Big Band, Muffin Men...) I realized that a
>>huge chunk of music was not represented. I can't recall ever hearing
>>much from the Flo and Eddie era performed by any of these bands.
>>
>>Is that right? Have any of the tribute bands ever played much of that
>>stuff? Material from 200 Motels, Chungas, JABFLA and Filmore?
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>
> I'm not counting instrumental covers. IIRC, all of these are vocal:
>
> Dental Hygiene Dilemma, Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?:
> Ensemble Modern
>
> Strictly Genteel, 200 Motels Finale: voice oF cheeZ
>
> Daddy Daddy Daddy: voice oF cheeZ
>
> What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?: voice oF cheeZ
>
> Magic Fingers: Paul Green School Of Rock, Zappa Corner Band
>
> Road Ladies: Rubbers Of Prevention
>
> Wonderful Wino: Ed Palermo Big Band
>
> Mudshark, Latex Solar Beef: Project/Object
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> Tears Began To Fall: Persuasions
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> Magdalena: Ed Palermo Big Band
>
> --Charles
Project/Object has performed "Magic Fingers", as well, if it's worth
anything.
--
Milhouse Guidry of the mWo
"If it takes you more than two, *MAYBE* three posts
to say what you think needs to be said,
you don't know what you're talking about and should shut up."
--The Bede
mWo. It's not just the coolest, it's fa lyfe, so survey says
whether you like it or don't like it, never E-e-e-ver tell
me he did *not* just SMELL what mWo 3:16 reeks of.
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| Re: ZPZ Review Chicago [message #283544 ] |
Do, 22 Juni 2006 17:28 |
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I'd like to see Mark and Howie come out and perform some of it
themselves.
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| Re: ZPZ Review Chicago [message #283559 ] |
Fr, 23 Juni 2006 03:37 |
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Milhouse Authentico wrote:
> Project/Object has performed "Magic Fingers", as well, if it's worth
> anything.
The *real* Milhouse Authentico, or that Gillmer Z. Cmelak guy
masquerading as him?
R
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