Comments on: FZ:OZ

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:16:47 +0000

This is a great album. Because the band is so small and there are many solo’s, they try (and succeed) to vary the soloing approach as much as possible.
When there are more players, they all get one change to do something BIG and EFFECTIVE, usually something with a lot of notes. Here Andre, Nap and Frank really take their time to develop something distinctive per song.
It leads to a new listening experience every time.

By: alfa

alfa — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:52:04 +0000

The quality of the sound aren’t the best. But it’s my favorite live album.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:33:47 +0000

At first listen I thought this sounded a little thin, it being a small band and all. I had never heard this band before. But the guitar player in me has grown to love this. Frank’s playing on here is totally jaw dropping. I brought this over to another guitar playing friends house and we kept backing up the solo on “Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy” because we had never heard anything like it. The man is truly inspiring.

By: Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:25:40 +0000

When I first heard about this CD was led to believe it was from an earlier tour,but having read this I was at the Hordern Pavillion to see FZ on this tour, he was fantastic, there were bootlegs for this concert available here in Sydney the week after the concert, I did not get one, but I will be getting this to add to my memory of that night,but it will cost $100 aus,which is a bit steep.

By: kzdarwin

kzdarwin — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:51:29 +0000

Correction to the above review: It was October 1975, not 76, when this particular group of Mothers came through town. (The mid 1970s are sort of a purple haze blur these days, one year flows into another and the sequence of events often gets jumbled. Guess I’m getting “old timers’” disease.)

By: kzdarwin

kzdarwin — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 19:31:22 +0000

I saw this band perform in Fayetteville, Arkansas,in October 1976, in the old Barnhill Fieldhouse basketball arena on the University of Arkansas campus. They were having problems with the moniters and the sound system and acoustics were less than satisfying, but the band cooked anyway, in spit of an unruley crowd; so I was looking forward to a complete show by this particular band. I wasn’t disappointed by the content of the shows. The band rocks and the rearrangements of the old Mothers material was good. FZ’s guitar solos were unbelievable, inspired improvisations, not the gawdawful riffing that most 1970’s “guitar gods” perpetrated upon their audiences. My only complaint is the packaging. For 32 dollars American, plus shipping, I think the cheap cardboard sleeve is a rip-off. I guess it is suppose to replicate the old vinyl album sleeves, but at this high price, I think that delux packaging that at least protects the discs better would be appropiate.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:09:20 +0000

This album kicks ass! The ‘76 band rocks. Andre Lewis- whatever happened to you. Funkiest Chunga’s Revenge ever!