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- From: dactyl@netcom.com (David Carter)
- Subject: Re: Concert Tales
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.045040.20819@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:50:40 GMT
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- Caught Zappa 3 times in Dallas...
- Was in 2nd row center for Winter '81 show with Vai, et al.
- Vai had light blue hair and bare feet. During a frenetically
- rendered double-time performance of 'Doreen' some moron lobbed
- an empty Jack Daniels bottle high and it came down directly in
- front of Stevie, shattering all over. Frank issued a non-verbal
- command which brought the music to an abrupt halt. He then calmly
- asked that the house lights be turned on. Reunion Arena promptly
- was lit. Poor Steve was standing perfectly still, what with his
- bare feet you see, while roadies worked to delicately remove the
- offending fragments. Meanwhile Frank calmly spake into the P.A.
- "Will the asshole who threw that please raise your hand?"
- No response.
- "Will the person BEHIND the asshole who threw that please raise
- YOUR hand?"
- Still nothing.
- When the roadies were finished (it took quite a while) they kicked
- back into Doreen at the exact point where they left off, in the middle
- of a sentence!
- A disgusting display, but the bad-vibe didn't last too long.
- Zappa skipped Dallas the following 2 years though.
- In fact the only show in Dallas since that incident was '83.
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