[CanYoAssDigIt] Zappa Plays Zappa Tour

This tour could be very cool.

Dweezil's comments about computers are interesting. Could he have
inherited his father's (apparently - I'm no doctor)
obsessive-compusive personality?
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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:36:24 -0000
From: "feickerr" <feickerr@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Zappa Plays Zappa tour

--- In DweezilZappa@yahoogroups.com, Antal Adriaanse
<spiegelbeeld@y...> wrote:
> from alt.fan.frank-zappa:
> This From Universal Audio webzine May 2005:
>
> "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.
>
>
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Awesome!

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