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Got to see Zappa Plays Zappa again on Friday. A different beast, really, without the amazing projecto-Frank and/or a member of the old guard like Ray White to be the insanely charismatic focus of the show and give them an expanded repertoire, which ultimately meant a lot more instrumentals and masturbatory solos, which were really amazing and fun and groovy at the time, but ultimately forgettable; so the whole concert is a lot more of the moment than one for the ages, which is of course fine and valid in itself. They played a lot from Roxy and from Apostrophe'; the highlight of the night was a completely kickass Pygmy Twylyte.

Dweezil is looking more and more like David Krumholtz and is a sublimely cool being. The bass player loved the wide-leg rock plant and the second guitarist was very unassuming but Dweezil just stood there in the spotlight with a smile, slightly inclined over his guitar like he was playing Space Oddity at an uncle's 50th. The joke beforehand with ecce_homosexual was that the cavernous van outside the stage door was reserved for Dweezil's ego but really, it was there to house his awesome. Like last time he stayed back to sign shit until everyone was gone: Ben scored a setlist that said underneath the encore like a kick in the face "Cosmik if needed;" as Ben said, Cosmik is always needed, but I suppose they did play for over two hours so I can't complain too much. Special mention to Scheila Gonzalez who fucking rocked it.

A link via vensre: apparently Dreamwidth is giving invite codes to those with validated OpenID addresses.

Going to to Barossa for a few days to get drunk, don't have any fun without me.