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The sun took a toll on me too that day.....I was kinda worried it would be me passed out.

Where are you located? I've got an extra ticket but no partner in crime. I'm probably driving unless I can find someone in KW to tag along with.

An awesome show with awesome friends!

No plans yet for camping/motel. Might just go up Friday morning and find something...

Rosehart and I are making the trip (thinking of it as a bachelor party). Where is everyone staying?

Anyone else headed to Friday's show?

From facebook This is the facebook entry: As many of you know, the show on June 3rd in Clarkston, Michigan is on Cactus's birthday, the first show to fall on that date since the 80's. It is our duty as fans to wish everyone's favorite funkmaster happy birthday. I will be handing out flyers at the show, and will also upload the template here for anyone else who wishes to help. The plan is to sing it before the first set when the band walks out on stage. I hope to sneak in an airhorn to signal when, but if that gets confiscated, the singing should begin after the initial round of cheering when the band walks out, but before they start to play. This should set a great tone for the rest of the show. Invite anyone who is going to be in attendance!

We should go up there with a whole bunch of "New Drugs".

If they do animals I'm calling Peta.

Awesome news guys! Congratulations.

Is waffles mostly albums? The new Ben Folds/Nick Hornby album "Lonely Avenue" is really good. Also the 3 disc Pizza tapes is out. Do you need an invite to join waffles?

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/zappa_plays_zappa_mighty_boosh_double_bill/ Article below: I once saw an interview with The Mighty Boosh, where Noel Fielding described their comedy as being for people who grew up listening to Frank Zappa. Falling as squarely into that quite particular demographic as I do, maybe this is probably why I resonate so much with their work. Certainly, for me, the inventively choreographed musical production numbers on their three TV series—think bohemian Busby Berkeley—were the highlights of each show. Kinda like The Monkees, in that way. The best Boosh episodes always have great musical payoffs. When I caught the live Boosh experience at the Roxy last year, a primarily musical event, I must say, in true Paul Crik-parlance, they fucking killed it. This weekend in London, Fielding and his comedic/musical partner in crime, Julian Barratt, will be co-headlining what looks to be an incredible musical event, celebrating the life and music of Frank Zappa, along with the Dweezil Zappa-led Zappa Plays Zappa band at a festival at the Roundhouse: The three-day series of events begins tomorrow with a discussion between Frank’s wife Gail Zappa, his musical assistant Ali N Askin (who worked with him on his classical piece ‘The Yellow Shark’), computer synclavier programming expert Todd Yvega, and recording engineer Frank Fillipetti, the first engineer to work with The Zappa Family Trust on reissuing unreleased Zappa material. This precedes a performance of ‘The Yellow Shark’ by the London Contemporary Orchestra – the last album to be released before Zappa’s death in 1993, it features some typically Zappa-esque song titles; ‘G-Spot Tornado’, ‘Dog Breath Variations’, ‘Get Whitey’ and ‘Be-Bop Tango’. This will be followed by ‘Wild Imaginings – The Music That Influenced Zappa’ also performed by the LCO, giving an insight into Frank’s influences that ranged from Stravinsky to 1950s doo-wop, grungy rock ’n’ roll and jazz icon Eric Dolphy. 

 Yet it will be the Zappa Plays Zappa band that should provide the highlight of the celebrations on a double bill with cult British comedy duo The Mighty Boosh on Saturday. The ZPZ band have performed in the UK before but this should be particularly special as the band will feature original Zappa sidemen including Mothers of Invention singer / guitarist Jeff Simmons, anarchic bassist Scott Thunes and woodwind / keyboards player Ian Underwood. They’ll play Frank’s best selling album Apostrophe in its entirety as well as other selections from FZ’s vast repertoire. With The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt providing their own take on Zappa’s music and a comedy sketch recreating actual dialogue from Zappa’s infamous Old Bailey obscenity trial, plus Frank himself making an appearance to ‘play’ live with son Dweezil, this will be an epic and aptly surreal tribute to this truly unique musical visionary. Frank Zappa: 70th Birthday Celebration, Roundhouse, London NW1, November 5 to 7, 2010 Posted by Richard Metzger

Yeah I know. But it's a good excuse to go to Buffalo and get messy.

Good luck and bad ass vibes!

Anybody else checking this out?

Fuckin' awesome!

Awesome! Should be funny.

And the Weir army grows again.... Congrats!

200 Motels. :bonghit: Hilarious. "Zappa and the Mothers in the 60s" is fairly new but pretty good.

I'm watching a DVD of the show from the 26th. I had no idea Joey Belladona was back with Anthrax. Several versions of this are up on demonoid.

Happy birthday lil' fella.

Probably the whole "Thriller" album. I've been calling it for 16 months.

Happy belated old-timer!

P.S. Welcome to your dirty thirties.

Hope yer havin' a good one!