Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] Zappa Plays Zappa Tour

As another non-doctor, I agree with the diagnosis. Given the difficulty
of Frank's music, not to mention new arrangements thereof, and that the
band will be non-Zappa veterans, three months does not sound like long
enough to me. If I were Dweezil, I'd pay Ahmet to stay out of the project.
sugarzareh

Matt Love wrote:

>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
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>--- In DweezilZappa@yahoogroups.com, Antal Adriaanse
><spiegelbeeld@y...> wrote:
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>>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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