Zappa Plays Zappa (Brilliant Box)
Razor & Tie - Razor & Tie
Release date: 2008-04-29
DVD
Director:pierrre & francois lamoureux
Actors: Dweezil Zappa
Color, Concert Footage & Music Videos, Concerts, English, Guitar Virtuoso, Hard Rock, Music, Music Video - Concerts, Performance, Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop, USA
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Zappa Plays Zappa (Brilliant Box)
Date undefinedI was not familiar with the music of Frank Zappa.
A friend suggested I should try this DVD Concert.
It's the best $20 you can possibly spend.
The filming and especially the surround sound quality is unbelievable. If you have a good quality sound system you will not be disappointed. So many say they are recorded in 5.1 or DTS but they not much better than 2 channel.
The quitar solo by Dweezil on Inca Roads me cry, but then I suffer from depression. This track on it's own is worth the price of admission.
There are an incredible number of songs on the 2 DVD's.
This is a superior concert in all regards and the 10 musicians and singers are as good as it gets.
This really is a MUST have concert.
MIke
Zappa Plays Zappa (Brilliant Box)
Date undefinedGreat music from one of the most brilliant composers of the second half of last century. Everybody's performance was incredibly precise, enjoyable, and so relaxed, while playing some of the most complicated tunes I can think of. I just missed Keep it greasey, but I guess that it's impossible to please everybody, with so many albums to choose from.
Thanks Dweezil, for bringing back your father for a couple of hours. This dvd will stay in my player for some time.
Zappa Plays Zappa (Brilliant Box)
Date undefinedI was always of two minds about Frank Zappa. I thought his music was brilliant, but I found his humor juvenile in the extreme and his stage persona really irritating and geeky. This DVD captures both aspects of his work, but fortunately, the brilliance of the music comes through much more than the junior-high-boys-bathroom sensibilities. The band here is beyond impressive. They navigate the incredible complexities of this stuff as though they were playing Louie Louie. Everybody is outstanding. Even though Dweezil's stage demeanor is very low key (he looks vaguely bored most of the time), his playing is actually fairly expressive--more so than his dad's was. The sound is terrific, and above all, Dweezil's editing is fantastic. So many music DVDs seem to be edited by people who never heard the music before, with odd cuts that bear no relation to what's being played, soloists off camera, and video tricks for their own sake. None of that here. There is creativity in the editing, but always in service to the music. And in many places the editing actually enhances the music, highlighting some little accent that would otherwise have gone unnoticed or intensifying a solo. With most music videos I watch a few songs, then get bored and turn it off to come back some other time. This one kept me riveted from beginning to end. If you have even a passing curiosity about Zappa's music, this would be a great place to start. And if you're a fan, I can't imagine a better present than this.
