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TopicThe Frank Zappa Appreciation and Song of the Day Topic! Part 10.1
Mr Lasastryke
07/26/18 8:49:04 AM
#237:


"This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich" - Don't like this song much but it's super short so it didn't do much harm.
"Uncle Remus" - Another one of the highlights of the show for me. Apostrophe (') was one of my first Zappa albums and when I was a kid, this was my favorite song on the album. Played as on Apostrophe ('), with a short Dweezil solo in the middle.
"Peaches en Regalia" - Nothing to say about this one, solid performance. Always great to hear, of course.
"Son of Suzy Creamcheese" - Great to hear this one. Sidenote: Dweezil introduced this song as "a song featuring Suzy" and I went "what the hell, they're going to do 'Monster Magnet'?!" Kind of dumb I didn't realize he was talking about THIS song >_>
"Florentine Pogen" - The super fast-paced version, as Muffin pointed out. Not my favorite version either but it was cool.
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" - Another song where they played the hyperactive, fast-paced version (the version that's on One Shot Deal). Again, not my favorite version but it's not bad. I hoped we were getting the entire Yellow Snow Suite (earlier in the show, Dweezil did say "'Father O'Blivion' or 'Farther O'Blivion'? Both are great..." when people were shouting various requests) but alas.
"Keep It Greasey" - I agree with Muffin that this song isn't great, but Frank's guitar solo in the Joe's Garage version is my favorite guitar solo of all time (highly underrated IMO - people won't shut up about the "Willie the Pimp" solo and the "Yo Mama" solo, but where are the people talking about the "Keep It Greasey" solo?!). Dweezil's solo couldn't live up to THAT solo but it was good. As for the song itself, as far as I could tell they played it fine. Didn't notice them being out of sync.
"Cheepnis" - Nothing to add to what Muffin said about this one. Solid performance indeed.
"Oh No"/"Son of Orange County" - Well, actually it's just the end of "Oh No" (from "And in your dreams..." on), as on Roxy & Elsewhere. Great Dweezil solo in the "Oh No" part.
"More Trouble Every Day" - Great to hear but Dweezil's solo in this song just wasn't that good - kind of short and uninspired. Pretty disappointing, especially considering that Frank's solo in the Roxy & Elsewhere version is another one my all-time favorite Frank solos, and also considering that Dweezil played an awesome solo in this song last time I saw him. Then again, that entire show was dedicated to Roxy & Elswhere, so maybe Dweezil put in a bit more effort into his solo for that reason.

Encore:
"Montana" - This was a disappointment. I was super hyped when it started as "Montana" is another one of my favorite Zappa songs. It started out fine. When the solo section started Dweezil introduced guitarist Richard Hollenbeek (sp?) - he was also guesting at the last concert. In that show he played an awesome guitar duel with Dweezil in "Zomby Woof" (brought back memories of the Frank/Steve Vai guitar duel in "Stevie's Spanking" Muffin was talking about). But now Richard and Dweezil both just noodled aimlessly for a few minutes, Dweezil said the show was over, endtroduced the band again and ended the song and the show. They didn't even play the post-solo section of "Montana"! Quite disappointing as it had been only two and a half hours while Muffin got three hours. I hope Dweezil didn't end the show prematurely because he was pissed at the audience for some reason (his father frequently did this), but I doubt that's what happened. Seemed more like the concert had some stupid time limit they had to adhere to. Oh well.
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