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Pick Me, Im Clean Great song choice (though going into this after Any Downers? was kinda weird no Conehead?). Dweezil played a great solo, better than the solo Frank played in the Tinsel Town Rebellion version (probably not as good as the Buffalo solo, though).
Heavenly Bank Account Another lowpoint. I like the lyrics to this song bashing televangelists is nice but I don't care much for the music.
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus Great song choice. This was a very faithful version of this Grand Wazoo classic. Scheila played a tenor saxophone solo in the solo section.
Twinkle Tits This is an unreleased tune that Frank played in concert one time only in 70, though part of it was eventually released as Another Whole Melodic Section (on Joe's Domage). Also, at one point it quotes The Little House I Used to Live in. Id never actually heard "Twinkle Tits" before, but I was unimpressed by it. (I've read that the one live performance by Frank contained a number of solos, which probably redeems the composed parts, but this version had no solos.)
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy Awesome song choice; this is one of my favorite Bongo Fury songs. Dweezil played another great solo.
Duprees Paradise One of those lengthy jam/anything goes tunes in the Zappa repertoire, and unfortunately, as far as versions of such tunes Ive seen Dweezil play go, this was the worst of them. They started with the 73/74 arrangement and then went into the 88 arrangement. Scheila Gonzalez played an amazing tenor saxophone solo over the beautiful Duprees Paradise vamp, just as good as Walt Fowlers trumpet solo in the Make a Jazz Noise Here version. After this, they went into a lengthy routine in which the keyboardist/flautist/guitarist/percussionist pretended he was Johnny Guitar Watson. (I remember Muffin talking about them doing a similar kind of Watson routine in Flakes in the show he saw, though they didnt do that in the show I saw from the same tour.) He did some improvised dialogue with Dweezil about, among other things, pindakaas (Dutch word for peanut butter, Secret Word of the previous two Dweezil shows Ive seen I guess its more of a running gag than a Secret Word at this point). And he sang a song in Watson style (again, his impression was adequate but not great) about the Duprees Paradise club that this number was named after, the formation of The Mothers of Invention, Roy Estrada, and some other things I dont remember. (I went to this show with a friend of mine and she claimed that he was actually singing an existing, non-Zappa song with new lyrics over the Duprees vamp, but she couldnt remember the title. That could be the case, but I didnt recognize it [maybe it was an actual song by Watson?].) Anyway, I thought the whole bit was rather boring and unfunny. When it was finally over, Dweezil ended the tune and the show. Awesome tune choice but this was quite a disappointing version of this classic, honestly. The Johnny Guitar Watson stuff was just a waste of time, and I thought it was a shame that Dweezil didnt play a wrapping it up solo at the end. Scheilas solo was awesome, though.

Encores:
Muffin Man Special guest Richard Hallenbeek came out once again during this song, and he played an awesome guitar duel with Dweezil. Not as good as their duel in Zomby Woof in the Roxy & Elsewhere show, but it more than made up for their pointless noodling in Montana in the previous show I saw.
Im the Slime The arrangement of this version was the closest to the Zappa in New York arrangement. Awesome version. Dweezil played a great and quite lengthy solo. A better solo than any Im the Slime solo Frank ever played? Probably. Also, it was cool when the audience (including me) shouted IM THE SLIME OOZING OUT FROM YOUR TV SET in the appropriate spot.
Tears Began to Fall Great choice, I love this song. When the song was done, they kept vamping on the melody of the chorus and Dweezil did the outros. Thought it was kind of weird to end the concert on this one it didnt exactly make for an arena rock ending! But I guess this is the last song on Fillmore East June 1971, so maybe thats why Dweezil made this decision.

Awesome show, but Id probably rank it third out of the four Dweezil shows Ive seen now. There were just too many songs I dont like all that much (or lackluster versions of songs I do like) to go any higher than that. Also, I missed the chick who did such a great job on Fifty-Fifty during the previous tour apparently she couldn't make it to this concert. I appreciated how much love Dweezil gave to YAWYI, though. It might as well have been called the Hot Rats/YAWYI show. And a guy I talked to after the show told me it was better than the hologram show so uh... there's that.

Also, one final thing I will note is that this was way more like a Frank show (at least the Frank shows from the early seventies on) than the previous Dweezil shows I saw, because Dweezil ran a lot of the songs together in medleys. In other words, I'm a Beautiful Guy went immediately into Beauty Knows No Pain, which immediately went into Charlie's Enormous Mouth, etc. While in the previous shows, there was a cold stop after pretty much every song. So that aspect was cool.

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