Dr. Milo T. Pinkerton III's Journal

Killer show last night
Well, sorry as I am at having missed the last tour Dweezil Zappa made through New Orleans, I'm very happy to have seen last night's show at the House of Blues. Jeannine and I joined Loki and his wife for a great set by a virtuoso band. While neither Steve Vai nor Terry Bozzio were in the band this time out, Ray White was on vocals (and occasionally guitar) to represent Dweezil's father's legendary band. And represent he did! Ray carried the lead vocals all night and sounded amazing.

Here's the setlist:
Rock You Like a Hurricane intro - Purple Lagoon
Imaginary Diseases
City of Tiny Lights
I'm a Beautiful Guy
Beauty Knows No Pain
Flakes
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Bamboozled By Love
King Kong
Yellow Snow
St. Alphonzo's
Father O'Blivion
Magic Fingers
Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy
Lucille Messed My Mind Up
Joe's Garage
Wet T-Shirt Nite
Outside Now
He Used to Cut the Grass
Packard Goose
Cosmik Debris
G Spot Tornado
Willie the Pimp

Every member of the band was a total virtuoso, playing at least two instruments really proficiently and taking at least occasional vocals, except Dweezil, who stuck to the flat out effortless shredding that he does so well. With 8 people in the band, the stage was littered with equipment to the point that you couldn't even see the B3 player (Aaron Arntz) who was hidden behind Dweezil's equipment racks. Despite playing through a mountain of rack gear, Dweezil's tone was great (amplified by Fuchs amps.) I also must give extra props to their mallet/percussion player Billy Hulting, and sax/keyboard player Scheila Gonzalez. Amazing!!!!!

A big shout out to my friends who were at the show too; I'm sure there were more but I bumped into Brandon, Paul, and Mike, and got to meet Andre from Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, who stood with his jaw agape the whole time...

Today was spent working, mostly, but I did have a little time to finally post a clip of C.O.G. performing 'Lab Coat' in March on the morning news. Sorry it took so long to get this up, but I had to fix the mix, which was VERY poor when this was originally broadcast. Enjoy...

Current Music: Frank Zappa - Hungry Freaks Daddy

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