Zappa Plays Zappa (DVD)
First copies were sold at ZPZ’s Paris concert, 5 October 2007
ZPZ Core Players
- Dweezil Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
- Joe Travers (drums, vocals)
- Pete Griffin (bass, vocals)
- Jamie W. Kime (guitar, vocals)
- Aaron Arntz (keyboards, trumpet, vocals)
- Scheila Gonzalez (saxophone, flute, keyboards, vocals)
- Billy Hulting (mallets, percussion & manic ranting)
Special Guests (2006 Tour)
- Steve Vai (guitar)
- Terry Bozzio (drums, vocals)
- Napoleon Murphy Brock (vocals, sax, flute)
Disc One
- Andy
- Call Any Vegetable
- Tell Me You Love Me
- Florentine Pogen
- Cosmik Debris
- I’m The Slime
- Pound For A Brown
- Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
- St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast
- Father O’Blivion
- Inca Roads
- Eat That Question
- I’m So Cute
- Tryin’ To Grow A Chin
- Punky’s Whips
Disc Two
- Black Page #1
- Black Page #2
- Regyptian Strut
- Peaches En Regalia
- Montana
- Village Of The Sun
- Echidna’s Arf (Of You)
- Zomby Woof
- Black Napkins
- The Torture Never Stops
- Oh No
- Son Of Orange County
- Trouble Every Day
- Sofa
Bonus Material
- Cheepnis
- Interview with DZ
Rate This Album
(21 votes, average: 5.76 out of 10) 
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November 26th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I am very much interested in purchasing the long-awaited ZPZ DVD. Where can I find this elusive DVD. I have searched everwhere.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
Mark G.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
My Barfko-Swill “Wish List” basket still says the following:
“Due to circumstances beyond our control we sincerely regret to inform you we are temporarily OUT OF STOCK. If you want to be notified as soon as it’s back in stock, email us here: zpzdvd@zappa.com. xxx, the barfies
$35.00
CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE”
I think it was shipping with two Disc 2’s or some such thing.
(Either that or it both discs were all bird sounds, Disc 2 was loose, Disc 2 was so tight it broke when trying to remove it, Disc 2 had a glitch at 12:04 and a drop-out at 12:21, or the audience sounds were removed after every song. Yeah, something like that.)
Direct to BF: http://barfkoswill.shop.musictoday.com/
March 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Great DVD. Solid show with good sound and great camera work (zooming in on the music: fingers, hands, not on the musicians making weird faces - although there is no escapin Stave Vai). Torture is actually scary.
My only objection is Dweezil’s tears. Were they sincere? Then he would have edited them out. But it’s about music ladies and gentlemen! Arrangements, improv’s and the likes. Celebrating the music of your favorite composer with a lot of very good musicians.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Why is this even here in the discography section? It’s not a zappa recording. It’s a cover band playing his music.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:56 am
An earlier comment on this pages asks if Dweezil’s tears were sincere. I was in the audience. Yes. There he was on stage, displaying how much he missed his father. Forget that his father is Frank Zappa. He was missing his father that night of his birthday and grateful that he could share his love with so many other people who cared, most of whom were men, all of them somebody’s son. It was impossible to not be moved by his vulnerability and sincerity.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
OK, you can hate the FZT all you want (and God knows I do more often than not), but this is as good a FZ tribute band as anyone is going to find, rehearse and put together out there. The fact that they specifically chose to focus on Frank’s thornier pieces as opposed to jamming through “Dancin’ Fool” and “Wet T-Shirt Nite” for 20 minutes each is really a touchingly impressive tribute to Frank’s own demanding works.
The special guests are great, but watching Bozzio strain vocally for some of the higher notes on “Punky’s…” is kind of funny after all these years.
the sound mix on this DVD is so amazing, I was awestruck. The quality on Travers’ drums alone is worth the price of the release. The sax solo orgasm in “Eat That Question” is beyond words. This is a worthy group of musicians, I agree with those who believe Dweezil sheds real tears for his dad, and the music does posess the passion for Frank’s life works.
And they are all musicians.
October 14th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Just got this DVD. Only seen some of it so far, but what I have seen is EXCELLENT! It’s even got ‘Cheepnis’ on the bonus selection!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Bought the 2 DVD, 3 CD special box. The Pound for a Brown solo section is off the chain. Killer mix of a tight band. PS, I saw these guys in concert last fall and they blew my girlfriend and I away. We were just as emotional as Dweezil or anyone else in the crowd, only being 25 and never having the chance to see Mr. Zappa in concert in person.