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I attended this show, 4th row dead center. I wasn't totally sure where the seats were prior to being seated (I don't get out much anymore). Believe it or not, my first time seeing ZPZ. Outstanding! The band was tight and inspired. Scheila Gonzalez was a standout. The sound was clear and undistorted. All the vocals were heard perfectly.

I haven't really checked the set lists. I knew they were playing Roxy, but that was it. I was soooo happy when they launched into Debra Kadabra! Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Watermelon nearly brought a tear to my eye, because I once saw Frank open up with it.

I thought the best spoken parts of Roxy were when they ad-libbed their own dialogue as opposed to directly quoting the Roxy dialogue. Dweezil offered the audience the choice of Torture or Florentine Pogen. I was on the short end, but Torture was great nonetheless.
A class act, all the way. Thank you Dweezil!

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Corrected!



Since I know you were skeptical for years, I'm very glad you finally got to see ZPZ live, siaj! And I'm even more happy you enjoyed it!

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It's about time siaj. Glad you liked the DZpZ show. This band is one of the best I've seen so far too.

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March 5th
The Birchmere
Alexandria, Va.



WIEH
Penguin in Bondage
Pygmy Twylyte
Dummy Up
Village of the Sun
Echidna's Arf (Of You)
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
Cheepnis
Son of Orange County
More Trouble Every Day
Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
Florentine Pogen*
Debra Kadabra(segue)
Filthy Habits
Teenage Wind(segue)
Teenage Prostitute
Apostrophe
Uncle Remus*
The Black Page#1
The Black Page#2
The Torture Never Stops

Peaches En Regalia*
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Baby Snakes
Muffin Man

* FP, UR and PER were not on the bands setlist. They must have wanted to play longer

FWI, it's Peaches En Regalia and not Peaches & Regalia. I don't mean to nitpick, but we ZappaFreaks are touchy about that shit.

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Got it!
Thanks KK. And keep up the good work.

The keyboardist's uncle--who's in the Marine Corps Band--came up and played clarinet on "Peaches". It really added a lot. He learned it earlier that day, including all the little fiddly bits. Damned impressive.

I believe they played "Uncle Remus" because they had just played (a really awesome) "Apostrophe" at someone's request. The new drummer really brought the thunder all night, but "Apostrophe" was a highlight.

I noticed that at different times Ben and Scheila were making notes (not musical, but with pen and paper), during the song. Any speculation on what they were doing? I've never seen this before at a concert.

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Their take-out dinner order...

How great was that cute little girl that played flute during Be-Bop Tango? I thought she was fantastic! (I'm her dad so I'm bias.)

March 8th
Atlantic City, NJ
House Of Blues


Filthy Habits
Penguin in Bondage
Pygmy Twylyte
Dummy Up
Village of the Sun
Echidna's Arf (Of You)
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
Cheepnis
Son of Orange County
More Trouble Every Day
Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
The Evil Prince
Debra Kadabra
Teenage Wind
Teenage Prostitute
Ride My Face To Chicago
Black Page #1
Black Page #2
Florentine Pogen

Watermelon In Easter Hay
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
I'm So Cute
Baby Snakes
Muffin Man*

I hope there is youtube of the faster BP. I will search today.

How does TBP1 compare speed-wise to the ZINY/Läther version? Is it (nearly) twice as fast?

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Nice. Thanks for sharing this.

I sure hope the Canadian Zappa fans that had their show cancelled due to unfortunate circumstances, get a make up show, at some point.

"...If they have us back." - DZ



June 29th
Palace Theatre, Syracuse NY

Zomby Woof
Son Of Suzy Creamcheese
Call Any Vegetable
Tell Me You Love Me
Who Needs The Peace Corps?
Mother People
Eat That Question
Montana
Camarillo Brillo
Florentine Pogen
Lucky Jones (Pete)
City Of Tiny Lights
Apostrophe
Cosmik Debris

Dinah-Moe Humm
Muffin Man

Thx for posting Syracuse setlist. I was about to try and post it by memory. Great fucking show. My tenth, and it's definitely in the top 3.

Some random notes/thoughts:
Nice seated theater, first come first serve seats. Too bad the AC didn't work, it was a real ball-soaker in there. DZ took his shirt off after the first song. Some chick handed a 5 dollar bill up to him later in the set.
For merch, they had RBP, DRS CD, and RT2. Didn't see Joe's Camo. There was a nice lookin Beefheart - BCP shirt, but I didn't feel like payin $35 for it.
Sheila & Chris have switched sides. You can hardly see Ryan Brown drumming. DZ's gear blocks most of the kit, bass drum & toms not visible. Apostrophe rocked hard, way more inspired than when I saw it last in Rochester '12 for Joe's last tour.

Peace Corps & Mother People were my faves of the night. Eat That Question too, amazing Sheila solos
Two college age chicks with dreads and some dweeb(probably Phish fans) started hanging/dancing in the aisle towards front blocking a lot of peoples view. I yelled at them to sit the fuck down and they heard me. I was seriously ready to dump water on them.
Probably first show I've seen with no Roxy material. Sort of good that they put that to bed for now after last fall's tour, as much as I love that album.
Where the hell is Lucky Jones from? Z song? It was good, and it rocked. Pete's hilarious.
COTL solo is Santana style now.
When the opening notes of DMH hit, I was like whatever, but it was actually really good to see once.
Lastly, people are fucking idiots with their god-damn smartphones. Paying the ticket price doesn't mean you should be able to walk up front blocking people's view so you can have your little "document". I wish there would be full-on bans for smartphone filming at shows. Instant ejection.

Lucky Jones



Tracks: 1. Singer In The Woods 2. In My Mind 3. Did I Mention It Was Huge 4. Mommy 5. Dreaming 6. Rubberband 7. Mountains On The Moon 8. Lucky Jones 9. Jesus Clone 10. Loser 11. Kidz Cereal 12. Leviathan 13. Doomed To Be Together 14. My Beef Mailbox 15. Them 16. Shampoohorn

Some pics & video here:

https://www.facebook.com/palaceonjames

Thanks for sharing, Fred.
I just saw the actual setlist. Did they play 'I'm The Slime?'

No Slime. Where was that tacked on, for encore? They played just shy of 2 hrs. I saw the soundman after giving away written setlists, but I didn't get to him in time.

That looks like a really short setlist. Are you (or anyone else) sure it's complete?

Btw, thanks for the posting.



Really? Even though they only played 16 songs?

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Slime was listed as the first encore according to the setlist photo I viewed.

Setlist courtesy of Fruie from Buffalo.

How's "Call Any Vegetable" like? Is it just like the JABFLA-ish rendition they did in 2007 or do they actually use the studio version as a blueprint for current performances?

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