The Zappa Band 2022 TOUR – TICKETS – DATES

Full in Bloom ^ | May 10, 2022 | fullinbloom

[DoodleBob]

THE ZAPPA BAND LAUNCHES FIRST-EVER HEADLINING TOUR

One of the most ground-breaking, original, and fearless figures of popular music was undoubtedly the legendary Frank Zappa. And paying tribute to his late icon is The Zappa Band – a group largely comprised of former members of Frank’s bands. And for the first time ever, the group (who had previously opened a string of shows for prog greats King Crimson) will be headlining their own tour for much of June – beginning in New York on the 12th, and then wrapping up in New Hampshire on the 26th.

And thus far, the reviews of The Zappa Band have been outstanding, including praise from LA Weekly (“for those of us who didn’t have the opportunity to see Frank perform, this is the best we can get and it’s damn good”), Pop Culture Beast (“each song was played to near perfection”), and the Fire Note (“a crew of old guys who knew and loved this music and seemed to be having the time of their lives on stage playing it again”), among other outlets.

The Zappa Band’s lineup features Zappa alumni Ray White (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Keneally (guitar, keys, vocals), Scott Thunes (bassist) and Robert Martin (keyboards, sax, vocals), and ZPZ alums Jamie Kime (guitar) and ZAPPA archivist Joe “Vaultmeister” Travers (drums, vocals). Each musician played in the studio and on the road with Zappa during his career, while three of these alums played on ‘ZAPPA 88: The Last U.S. Show,’ one of the most recent offerings from Zappa Records & Universal Music. The Zappa alums are joined by Joe Travers and Jamie Kime, who are no strangers to FZ’s music, to round out the ensemble.

[DoodleBob]

This is the same band that accompanied the Zappa "hologram" in 2019. I saw them. It is an outstanding band. Keneally alone and his "I can play the keyboard and guitar in unison simultaneously" move is worth the price of admission.

No, it's not Dweezil, who is a masterful musician. Dweezil's band, Zappa Plays Zappa, is also spectacular.

More Zappa is better than less. Since Gail colossally mismanaged Frank's legacy, a generation of people don't know of Frank's power and creativity. Hopefully, these and other tribute bands like Project: Object (from Ike Willis) keep his legacy live so he doesn't die out like Elvis may in 20 years.

[Robert DeLong]

My first Zappa Experience (On Album)

[CTyank]

Saw Dweezil’s band. They were a collection of masterful musicians

As far as I’m concerned, he is the rightful heir to the kingdom.

That being said- the Zappa Band rocks.

[sauropod]

Saw Zappa on the Joe’s Garage tour.

It’s an experience I’ll never forget.

[mylife]

no ruth underwood? ansley dunbar?

[mylife]

Dohhoreen!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xhrmkrm5fg

[algore]

I had a neighbor who was infatuated with Frank Zappa.

I am not a fan but appreciate the creative names he gave his children.

His brother was strange too, but he did have a series of top 100 pop hits.

I only met him a few times cause he was attending Julliard, and only back rarely.

[11th_VA]

I’m old enough to remember Frank Zappa and Tipper Gore had a spat over ‘Rock Porn’ … Zappa said, ‘They’re just words’ … today he’d be banned

[Pez149]

Remember,

“Don’t Eat Yellow Snow”...

[jocon307]

Who is his brother?

[atomic_dog]

Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar.

[refermech]

Saw Zappa and the mothers of invention in the 70’s in Berkley I think. They had to stop the show because everyone was toking up. Show went on after frank asked everyone to stop. The Turtles were the set up band.

[LS]

Little Zappa story (I saw him circa 68-70): he would occasionally put the sheet music (yes, they used sheet music) on the musicians stands himself. But he would mixup the opening song among a half-dozen different songs. When everyone started to play, they played something different & Zappa thought that was hysterical.

[DoodleBob]

Frank refined and perfected that technique in the studio, and called it Xenochrony. It would have been a blast to see/hear it live. I saw Frank in 81, 84 and 88 and Dweezil countless times. With the exception of the 84 show, they were all great (the 81 show altered my life).