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I have read the story in The Real Frank Zappa Book, about how Colaiuta (and Jeff Berlin) went behind Zappa's back sometime during 1980, trying to raise their pay for a short European tour (being set up to finance a concert in Amsterdam, Holland, of some of Zappa's orchestral works). When Zappa found out about this, he cancelled the tour (and later on, the whole project was cancelled, but that's another story...) <br>So, did Colaiuta get fired for this, or did he just quit?
<br><br><br>The project was shit-canned....<br><br><br>No project = no band.<br><br><br><br>
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While the orchestral manuevers of Spring 1980 were cancelled, I'm pretty sure FZ did a short European tour with David Logeman on drums. I have a bootleg of a King Biscuit Flower Hour radio program purportedly from Munich in the Spring of 1980 (Arthur really rips it up on Greasy on it). I saw an FZ show in April of 1980 in Kansas City with Logeman on drums. In October of 1980, FZ came to Tulsa, OK, but with Vinnie on drums. It looks like it was a fired and rehired thing.
<br><br><br><br>Logeman played in the band from March to July 1980 due to some sort of conflict with Vinnie (seems like I remember something about Vinnie not wanting to tour Europe, but that could be erroneous)..... Vinnie was hired back on for the short October through December 1980 tour...<br><br><br>But that's all a different time frame than the incident with Vinnie and Jeff Berlin trying to weasel more money for the European "orchestral support" tour.<br><br>The correct time frame for that would be spring of '81.<br><br>By the time Frank put another touring band together (fall of '81) Chad Wackerman was hired to fill the drum spot, and Scott Thunes was hired to fill the Bass spot.<br><br><br>So.... between cancelling the European orchestral project and hiring a different drummer for the next touring band.... Vinnie no longer worked for Frank.<br>