Zappa plays Zappa - the tour
Matti Salminen
"In addition to all the audio restoration he's been doing, Dweezil has been
recording a new solo album titled, Go With What You Know, which is coming
out in May 2005.
"I haven't really decided what direction to take this new solo record that'
I'm working on," he says. "I have some stuff that's a little more old-school
and some stuff that's more modern-sounding. It will include my version of
'Peaches' [Frank Zappa's song 'Peaches en Regalia]. It's going to be a weird
combination of things. I went from someone who had zero computer knowledge
whatsoever to working on computers eighteen hours a day."
Immediately after the release of his solo album, Dweezil will go into
rehearsals with his brother Ahmet and a handpicked band. The brothers Zappa
will be touring the world with a project called "Zappa Plays Zappa."
"We have a really big plan for this year, something that we've never done
before." Dweezil says. "We're going to put a band together and play only
Frank's music. We're going to start in Europe then come back to the states
and then go to Japan. We're going to start in October, so we're going to
rehearse the band for three months in order to learn close to fifty songs,
including a lot of the very difficult instrumentals. I'm learning a lot of
stuff on guitar that was never meant to be played on guitar. For me, it will
be like training for the Guitar Olympics. We are going to create a core band
of people that haven't played with Frank, and then we will have some special
guests and Ahmet is going to sing. We want to have our own thing that we do
that is free from interpretations of other people's expectations.
"We are going to change the instrumental arrangements. The melodies will be
seen and heard in a different way," he continues. "The melodies may be more
powerful because they are being played on a louder, more distorted
instrument-- guitar instead of keyboard or a marimba. I think [because] my
brother and I are related, we have an innate sense of what Frank was going
for humor-wise. Those are some of the elements that we'll be able to bring a
new and fun interpretation of. The show itself is going to have video
footage, and a documentary about Frank will be shown before the show.
---Matti
Fabulutz
-Kevbo
Dave R knows who
"Matti Salminen" <matti.s...@kymp.net> wrote in message
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> This From Universal Audio webzine May 2005:
> Immediately after the release of his solo album, Dweezil will go into
> rehearsals with his brother Ahmet and a handpicked band. The brothers
> Zappa will be touring the world with a project called "Zappa Plays Zappa."
>
eff yes!
Poot Rootbeer
> "We have a really big plan for this year, something that we've
> never done before." Dweezil says. "We're going to put a band
> together and play only Frank's music. We're going to start in
> Europe then come back to the states and then go to Japan.
Sounds exciting! Here's hoping the tour makes it to my city before Gail
shuts them down for "making a living off Frank's music."
-Poot
joe
<matti.s...@kymp.net> wrote:
>Immediately after the release of his solo album, Dweezil will go into
>rehearsals with his brother Ahmet and a handpicked band. The brothers Zappa
>will be touring the world with a project called "Zappa Plays Zappa."
>
SWEEET!
Lerch
Lerch
Dan Buxbaum
>
> "The melodies may be more powerful because they are being played on a louder, more distorted
> instrument-- guitar instead of keyboard or a marimba.
Boy, does that sound like it's going to suck! Sounds about as "musically
worthwhile" as that recent Gene Simmons retarded metallic ditty 'based'
on that unreleased "Zappa riff". (Luckily that vanished without a trace,
not tarnishing Zappa's musical legacy-- any further hopefully.)
> I think [because] my
> brother and I are related, we have an innate sense of what Frank was going
> for humor-wise. Those are some of the elements that we'll be able to bring a
> new and fun interpretation of.
A convenient excuse for altered/simplified arrangements?
> The show itself is going to have video
> footage, and a documentary about Frank will be shown before the show.
That's nice!
--
Since I'm ripping on the Zappa boys here, I'll continue with:
I finally got a chance to hear 'FZ:OZ' and for all the talk about
Dweeze's archiving and mastering of the vault tapes, you know what, that
live cd sounds pretty shitty. There's this unnatural & distracting
reverb added--especially noticeable on Estrada's bass--which sounds like
it was added to 'pump up' the original dry/flat sounding tapes. Not very
subtly applied--resulting in quite artificial sound.
--
n.p.: Pierre Moerlen's Gong- Time Is The Key
(check this out if you want to hear an excellent sounding cd that is an
accurate representation of the original cleanly recorded analog source)
David Z
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> > "The melodies may be more powerful because they are
> > being played on a louder, more distorted
> > instrument-- guitar instead of keyboard or a marimba.
>
> Boy, does that sound like it's going to suck!
I think I'll wait and give it a listen first.
Then I'll say "it sucks." <G>
Strictly Commercial
> seen and heard in a different way," he continues. "The melodies may be more
> powerful because they are being played on a louder, more distorted
> instrument-- guitar instead of keyboard or a marimba. I think [because] my
> brother and I are related, we have an innate sense of what Frank was going
> for humor-wise.
My bro and I are also related, but that hasn't given either of _us_ any
innate sense of what Frank was going for humor-wise.
Rolf