mil wrote:
Seraph wrote:
He has been unable to sustain a career on his own merits and instead has to leech off FZ's legacy
I'm not trying to diss DZ or ZpZ here, but how is this any different to what DZ is doing? After all, he is lead guitarist in a band covering his father's music, intending to make this an annual event (presumably to the detriment of his own career - it's a big job, after all). I'm not trying to size up the relative merits of ZpZ and P/O or taking any sides here - I just don't see the essential difference between DZ playing FZ's music and AC playing FZ's music (apart from the family connection, which I personally don't think is hugely relevant). So if the above quote applies to AC, I feel it must apply to DZ as well. Better still, it could apply to neither. That's what I'm going for.
This whole episode makes for sorry reading, but like feetlightup has said, I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Edit: just to clarify that I've not heard P/O at all, and perhaps an hour of ZpZ via an audience recording, so I'm not thinking about musical merit or otherwise at all here. To me, they're both cover bands, trying to do the same thing - play FZ music. That intention is independent of whether the ZFT thinks P/O has the right to play FZ music and also whether P/O think they have the right to play FZ music.
The fact that you don't think the family connection has relevance means nothing.
It's clear that like a stalker, Andre seems intent on insisting himself into the Zappa realm, even when he's been given clear notice that his presence is undesirable.
He has spent years and way too much effort (certainly bordering on unhealthy obsession) dissing FZ's family, goading them at every turn, and basically daring them to take legal action against him. He's finally reaping the rewards of this passive aggressive behavior, and then has the audacity to be outraged by it. What's even more unsavory, is that he then seizes the opportunity to turn his expulsion from the side of the stage (in the monitor area where REAL professionals are at work, and where he has absolutely no reason to be, no less) and blow it all out of proportion saying he was assaulted, roughed up, berated, spat on, at the behest of Dweezil. None of these things happened.
The fact that Andre even mentioned legal action is laughable, and his decision not to proceed by portraying himself as the bigger, more mature person is farcical. He's not pursuing legal action because none of his allegations are true. A blind jury would be able to instantly spot the bullshit Andre is trying to pass off as truth.
You have to ask yourself, what sort of an unbalanced person goes out of his way to hover around, and attempt to interact with people he so desperately dislikes?
It's called stalking. Look at some case studies and draw your own parallels.
It's unbalanced, and it's disturbing.
I would hope that right about now, Adrian Belew is seriously troubled by the sudden realization that he has an unbalanced nut-job tuning his guitars... and that someone who is supposed to be representing him and his band on the road deliberately sought out conflict with another band at a festival - not once, but on two different nights. A band that his band was supposed to be "opening for."
Let's remember - it was he who put in effort to seek out members of the ZPZ band and crew to interact with, not the other way around.
- Seraph
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Dweezil had every right to request him not to be backstage, beside the stage or anywhere near him. If he was in the front row of the crowd, then there's nothing he could do about that.
That's probably the nicer of the things he's said. Fuck him, he should have got his ass kicked. He made his bed, now lay in it. Adrian would be smart to find a new guy next tour.
