Dweezil Zappa returned to the Front Range last week to pay tribute to his father’s monumental legacy. The Arvada Center played host to the event and this was my first time attending a show at the beautiful venue. The crowd was fairly sparse, and with Dweezil performing Frank Zappa’s epic catalog the audience has certain expectations in the music, and meeting those requirements is paramount to delivering a satisfying show. While I salute his artistic attempts to make these songs his own to some degree, the Frank fan in me was not happy in the end. Nostalgia is a double edged sword, it can slay the enemy or cut you to death and not doing the songs in a way the audience can relate to is a dangerous thing.
As a side note, I found it ironic that, given all of Dweezil and the Zappa family’s battles over rights to their dad’s music, Dweezil forced all photographers who were covering the show to sign away all rights to any photos taken at the show and I found that simply unethical and particularly unpleasant given his longstanding family battle over a very similar issue.
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