well that was a blast man , just back from embra (edinburgh) and watching dweezil do a rather excellent set of Franks music , he run through the apostrophe album i was kinda hoping jack bruce would make an appearance for the song apostrophe ! , but no , but it still rocked other highlights were inca roads , muffin man ,and a do wop version of whats the ugliest part of your body , the rest of the set was on fire as well and at the end dweezil was signing some stuff so my daughter got 2 t shirts signed the tickets and asked him if he would sign my arm so she could tattoo it by the look on his face he aint been asked for this before , but he said it was cool and he would make it a good one , so tommorow it's off to her shop to get the sig made permanent , so all in all a fun night for me and another space filled in tomorow , cheers
Alan

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Glad that you had a good time Alan! I saw his Dad with the Mothers of Invention back in 68 and Frank was great. I like Dweezil's playing as well. A pic of the tat will be cool.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

thanks SBLS , i love the mothers , and i'm now very jealous , i would have loved to have seen them live , i saw frank on the broadway the hardway tour in 88 , it's still my number 1 gig of all time , what a show , almost 3 hours , it was something else (happy memories ) . i said to dweezil that i had seen frank and that he had done him and his music proud , it was an excellent gig cheers
Alan

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saw frank back in the 70's. at that point i didn't realize what a great player he was.

sounds like dweezil is doing the old man proud

I just thought "Alan talked with Dweezil Zappa!". Very cool Bro. cheers

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

I've seen Zappa plays Zappa twice, Dweezil is a great player, and they really do a great job on the material. Congrats, and we'll nee a picture when the tattoo is done!!

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

well the deed was indeed done this morning at about 11 am keen ain't i so anywaqy here's the pic , no background yet , i'm thinking orange like the you can't do that on stage cd's , i think it would look cool

cheers
Alan

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Sore, sore, sore! Looks good Alan. Is your daughter a tattoo artist? from what i gathered from your previous post it sounded like she was gonna be the one to do the work?

Concert sounded great. Did Dweez do "Watermelon In Easter Hay?" one of Frank's best of all time IMO.

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

hi gary , hows things mate ? yes my daughter Alana is a tattoo artist , she told dweezil it was my birthday soon and would he sign my arm , he looked a bit bewildered but said yeah that would be cool and said where will i sign , i said pic a space and he couldn't have done it any better top bloke and it's not really sore , it's a nice fleshy bit , i had a few hours work done on one of my legs the other week and most of that was on the shin and ankle bone , now that was bloody sore , but the most painfull tat i've had done was on the ribs , i have a gaisha done on my right side , and no mate he didn't do watermelon in easter hay , and he never did zoot allures , one of my faves but he did play a wide and varied selection from franks huge back catalogue and i would say to anyone not quite sure about zappa's work to go and see the zappa plays zappa show , it rocks and you won't be dissapointed one little bit cheers
Alan

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cool tattoo Alan, thanks for posting

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

OUCH! But very cool. Cant say I want one for myself but I appreciate the art and the look. I was checking out the old Zappa stuff on you Tube and ran across an old 1993 Interview with Frank. It brought back memories of his struggle with Prostate Cancer. I cant see any reason to post it. The memory is sad enough.
----Danny,

Zappa plays Zappa is truly great. Love what he and the whole band are doing.

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thanks guys , it's quite a unique tat , i've had a few people ask me what it is so far so it's working fine and while it might not be for everyone , i'm covered in tattoo's so another wee one won't make much difference , cheers
Alan

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