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Post-concert stuff:
After the band had left, Dweezil came back on-stage to say hi and shake hands with his fans. Since it actually wasn't that busy (surprisingly), I decided to go to the front of the stage and see if I could make contact with Dweezil. And sure enough, I did! I shook Dweezil's hand and shouted "AWESOME, MAN!" to him (not the most insightful comment, but I was too starstruck to come up with something better) and he smiled at me. Incredible moment! I went back to Loesje. A few minutes later we noticed that Dweezil was signing stuff. Loesje took the shirt she'd bought for me and went to the front of the stage, handed it to Dweezil and shouted something like "SIGN IT FOR COCO!" (Coco is actually my last name - Frank's kids aren't the only people with funny names >_> I'll spare you the backstory on why Loesje always calls me by my last name.) So Dweezil put "To Coco" on it and signed it. Amazing! Then the drummer came back on-stage and Loesje let him sign the shirt as well. Cool. (Literally nobody else was talking to him, BTW - he seemed pleasantly surprised that anyone would want HIS signature <_< Poor guy.) Then Scheila came back on-stage. Loesje asked her if she would sign the shirt as well, she replied that she didn't have a marker but she was going to get one backstage. She went back backstage, then entered the audience from the side of the stage and immediately got approached by several fans. She then sat on the steps to the stage for a few seconds, loudly proclaimed she "didn't want to deal with this" and ran off backstage again. Kind of weird and disappointing but oh well. I love Scheila, but she's not a living legend to me like Dweezil is. So yeah, needless to say, this was an amazing experience. Getting the opportunity to shake Dweezil's hand, get his signature + a personal message is more than I could have hoped for!

Overall thoughts on the concert/odds and ends:
- Easily the best Dweezil show I've seen, it had everything I would want from a Zappa coverband concert. Last time I was kind of missing a super lengthy "everyone gets a moment in the spotlight" song (though maybe that's unreasonable - Frank didn't always play those kinds of songs either, after all) but this time round we definitely got that with "King Kong." If I had to make one complaint, it would be that it took awhile before we got an awesome, epic Dweezil solo, but that's just a nitpick.
- Awesome drummer. He did a great job at "Black Page" and his support during all of the solos was consistently excellent. He's not as good as Vinnie but I'd definitely put him on par with Wackerman. Maybe even Bozzio.
- Awesome bassist. The fact that I noticed him at all is high praise, coming from me, because I generally don't give a flying fuck about bass players. He kind of reminded me of Scott Thunes, both in his playing style and in the way he flailed around on-stage.
- The back-up guitarist was awesome. He did vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion and flute! And he did a great job at all of those! He's at least as important to the band as Scheila, I'd say.
- Awesome female vocalist.
- Very wild crowd. They were cheering and applauding a lot and in the quiet moments between the songs they were shouting requests non-stop. Occasionally Dweezil responded to the requests ("Oh yeah, 'Oh No' is such a great song..."). At the start of the show (right after "Purple Lagoon") an old guy behind me shouted "'WHIPPING POST'!" I gave him a loud laugh and he said "man, I can't do it like the guy on the album." lawl
- WAY more young people and women at this show than the previous Dweezil shows I've seen. Loesje noticed this too (she also went to the last show with me). Of course the majority of the audience still consisted of beer-bellied old men but the crowd was relatively diverse.
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