Comments on: ZPZ DVD Previews

By: Jamez

Jamez — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:38:51 +0000

YES!!YES!!YES!! The new ZPZ DVD has ‘Oh No’ and ‘Florentine Pogen’ on it, aswell as ‘Andy’ ‘Punky’s Whips’ and others. These are some of my favourite Zappa songs!
Can’t wait to see it!

P.S. Scheila is a babe!

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:39:24 +0000

A bit late (I only have time to hear this stuff in the weekends):

Vegetable was weird: to have all the improvised vocal buffoonary memorised just sounds wrong. The rest was a solid rendition.
Zomby Woof rocked. I believe this was the first Vai solo that actually felt to me like a progression, not just the boring “play all notes all the time, you figure out what the right one at that moment was” that is his trade mark.

By: urbangraffito

urbangraffito — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:39:11 +0000

Xorg says “why bother” about buying the ZPZ DVD. Also being an old fart of the first order (okay, second order), the answer is simple: if you want quality releases from the ZFT you are going to have to pay for it and support the only game in town. Why do you think ZPZ is touring? For the sheer fun of it? It’s the same way that Frank paid the bills, and it’s the same way that Dweezil has learned to pay them. If we are ever going to get that Roxy DVD in the future, we’ll have to support Dweezil and the ZFT now and into the future by buying their stuff and going to their show. Sure, it’s not FZ, but ZPZ is the rightful heir to FZ even with their shortcomings. And hey, if this old fart can come around to liking ZPZ, anyone can.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:03:07 +0000

“Scheila is a goddess.”

I have always thought so.

By: danny

danny — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:53:44 +0000

Scheila is a goddess. Look, it’s not Frank- it’s his music. And it’s well performed by young and hungry musicians who have come to love his music. I think ZFT were pretty generous giving us that much to sample. Dweez’ solos have his own stamp on them, and i enjoy hearing what happens during them, almost as much as I enjoy hearing Frank’s. Almost! But always worth hearing. Maybe Call Any Vegetable would have been even better had Flo & Eddie sang it!

By: scott

scott — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:45:16 +0000

I thought Call Any Vegetable was SPOT ON!
I’ll be seeing ZPZ in a few weeks and I am REALLY looking forward
to it. I am also sure to buy the DVD.

Watching ZPZ at the Madison Square Garden, and seeing Scheila Gonzales play a sax/keyboard solo was a real treat.
ALSO, reading posts from people who don’t like Zappa music
is a treat, too.

By: Michael Pabst

Michael Pabst — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:23:56 +0000

I’ve warned you about my craziness. I will buy it for sure! ;-)

By: Balint

Balint — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:19:06 +0000

Robert: thanks for the info!!!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:16:13 +0000

I happen to be an old fart myself (not sure about the first order part though) but i’m quite interested in the ZPZ DVD and will grab one when i’m attending the ZPZ show in Stuttgart on October 3rd :-)

By: xorg

xorg — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:57:23 +0000

Being an old fart of the first order, I am not the slightest bit interested in the ZPZ DVD. Why bother?

By: Michael Pabst

Michael Pabst — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:52:14 +0000

Maybe I’m crazy. Again this sounds nothing but wrong to me. No freedom, no garlic, no DIRT, no energy. The band is playing in safety mode. Painting by numbers. Steve Vai: superfluous noodling. Napoleon and Sheila in this combination doesn’t sound good.

However, I didn’t have this negative impression at the show I attended last year. Though I was disturbed by the lack of dynamics. Everything was equally loud.

I hope for the better this year, but don’t have the best expectations for the DVD after hearing and seeing those previews and the trailer.

Sorry,
M.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:11:17 +0000

Some reverse engineering of what the ZPZ page does wrongly (and playing around with different spellings of ZPZ or zpz or whatever in the URLs that they use) finally reveals this direct link to the Zomby Woof quicktime movie:

http://zappa.com/zpz/videos/ZPZ_zombywoof.mov

Plays just fine for me!

By: Balint

Balint — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:03:45 +0000

interesting: while all the older videos (spots, whatever) work well on the ZPZ page, I can’t see (only hear [!]) Call Any Vegetables, and Zomby Woof doesn’t work at all. As well as all the other videos on zappa.com, like the one from Roxy. What can the problem be?

By: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Barry's Imaginary Publisher — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:31:01 +0000

A quote from Barry’s Imaginary Publisher:

Were are you guys located?

Luc: Parterre C, Row 1 :)

By: Michael Pabst

Michael Pabst — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:57:07 +0000

Let’s use an expression by Vince Colaiuta to describe a good performance (when he was talking about FZ in an interview in the 80s): it has to have some GARLIC in it.

At least this recording of ZpZ is lacking some garlic (and other spices too).

By: urbangraffito

urbangraffito — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:28:50 +0000

Have to agree with Michael Pabst. Call Any Vegetable is not up to FZs standards. While I found the cover passable — it really took a nose dive at the beginning of what passed for a guitar solo (I really expected more from Dweezil here). Perhaps it was just the way this preview was edited (at least I hope so), because that solo was such an essential part of the original IMO. I hope this is true when I pay for the complete DVD.

By: Another Barry

Another Barry — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:55:08 +0000

I couldn’t get Zomby Woof to play, but I really enjoyed Call Any Vegetable! I’m looking forward to see what this DVD has to offer.

By: luc Hallaert / Belgium

luc Hallaert / Belgium — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:32:59 +0000

Yup KMDA enveloppe (the song?) also
Were are you guys located?
My seats are; Corbeille F Row 1 seats 34/36/38
And for the Tilburg concert its a “any seat you can take” place. Gotta be early over there.

By: Michael Pabst

Michael Pabst — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:39:09 +0000

I’m sorry, I can‘t stand Sheila Gonzales’ vocals on Call Any Vegetable and other occasions that have been captured on video so far. This is not up to FZs standards. The rest sounds rather harmless, too.

I enjoyed last years show I attended anyway and will surely go this year.
Hey, it’s the 21st century, what else can you do?

By: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Barry's Imaginary Publisher — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:19:56 +0000

Heh, I had the same reaction: “Look Sharl, our tickets have arrived from the Zoo!” (cue ZPZoo punchline)