Here is a 86 minute multi-cam edit synced to the same audio recording of the show. Thank you to the following for the footage: / trfcpepe / figjamuk / citylionrecords / mrashlee14 / lizweedus
Awesome. Really excellent. Just saw them live - some musicians same some different - Frank would be proud. Frank created the genre and his son Dweezil is carrying the tradition with great respect. It's an awesome responsibility he has taken on and I think he has achieved what no one else could, not just great fidelity to Frank's compositions, but also daring explorations, fresh material composed with the same innovative approach to music as his father. Bravo.
fracking cool man. The biggest show that was ever on when i lived in New Brighton was Billy Butler in a panto. If i had still been living there that was one gig i would have killed to get a ticket.
Just found this awesome footage.I have seen them from 2009 onwards.sometimes twice a tour, Great to speak to the guys after a show...Bring on the next UK tour..
thanks for this man only managed to get about half of gig on film myself but did get to meet dweezil after gig! hope you managed to get his autograph as well!
I saw Dweezil on Oct 16 at the Keswick in Philly. Yes, the fidelity of this group to the original sound is impeccable. I disagree that it is only an exact copy, that isn't true at all. Zweezil played extended guitar solos - there must have been at least 10 throughout the 3 hr. program - nearly all of them featured Dweezil's own compositions and arrangements. They all had his unique touch. Excellent program, Frank would be proud.
the funny thing is that its Dweezil himself and his audience (I do not think that its very big, unfortunately) is 'stuck in the past': they no not care about MUSIC, but about re-living an earlier experiment: a memory. This is mere nostalgia. The notes might be exact and perfect, but the feeling of NOSTALGIA kills the experiment to me. The good thing is that there are tons of live recordings and cool OTHER cover bands.
Let's thank Frank and Dweezil for this setlist: Teenage Prostitute; Penguin in Bondage; Pygmy Twylyte; Baby Snakes; Harder Than Your Husband; Wind Up Workin in A Gas Station; Ride My Face to Chicago; Outside Now; Debra Kadabra; Who Are the Brain Police? (Great, great, fucking great - Zappa was eons ahead in 1965!); Sofa #2; Packard Goose; Peaches in Regalia (#...) Zomby Woof Strictly Genteel LATER THAT NIGHT!
Well, it's no need to fear of "no Zappa": there are several EXCELLENT bands and orchestras playing FZ - the problem is that some of them are banned by the family, (NONE of them are supported), because "Dweezil is the only one" (see: "accept no substitutes"). On this side it's also sad to see this copying business here: the thing that FZ NEVER did is playing an album again live. He played it ALWAYS diferently, always spontaneous, always LIVE. With Dweezil we get an exact copy, but nothing more -
Hi - thanks for answering. Well, I’m ONLY a music lover, and being himself, being spontaneus is a rela value of a musician. Reproducing something the way it recorded (from a live, and spontaneus event!!!) is just crazy, just so unneccessary. If you read my comments above, you’ll see that I’ve seen DZ 3 times already, have his CDs, but for now I just get tired of him when I KNOW exactly what he will say or do. Just boring - and so very much against LIVE music - and FZ.
Frank was a composer who was always tweaking things. Dweezil is not. I loved Frank's concerts. Frank is dead. Even if it is nostalgia, so what? I go to see Beethoven live. Nobody thinks I'm stuck in the past. I go to see stravinsky live. Nobody thinks I am stuck in the past. Lighten up. Concerts don't suck because Ludwig and Igor aren't there. Same with Zappa. Claiming people who listen don't care about music is just snobbism.
Well, you must be one of those die hard Frank Zappa fans. I love his music and his mind set but I love music, not the man who makes it, and Dweezil with his band makes great music. Sorry you aren't able to enjoy it. Are you stuck in the past?
"I disagree that it is only an exact copy, that isn't true at all." - Yes it is: you wrote the same thikg: the only difference are the solos (since those are improvisations). But the whole idea of this tour is COPYing: playing the Roxy album as it is on the record. This is something FZ himself NEVER did (and neither of the "normal" cover-bands: the good ones are full of spontaneity, creativity. But not Dweezil - tha's a pity.
+SuperBlueboy61 yes, most concerts are not free. people have to pay to get in. did this not meet your expectations for zappa plays zappa? what were you hoping for?
I've seen them live 3 times, I have most of their CDs and the DVD, and all I find after some years that I've totally lost my interest in this band. ALWAYS miming the album-versions, always wanting to be "just the same", without REAL humor, without REAL spontaneity: just what Frank Zappa was NOT. So: I started to listen to this, it's fair playing, but the whole thing is... just dull, not-fresh, makes me sleepy. And does NOT really makes me remember FZ.
