Þæt wæs gôd hæker! - February 13th, 2007
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Berklee improves my life with Zappa music
So the Berklee College o' Music has regular cheap musical performances. Tonight, for a mere $5, I got to see a groovy jazz combo and a 10-piece Zappa cover band made of Berklee students.
Yes, I was there for the Zappa cover band. How could you tell? They were pretty darned tight, and the individual musicians were really good. The percussion guy played a mean set of vibes, and managed to play all the "Ruth Only" bits. The guitarist really had a feel for the material, and managed to make Zappa's solos his own. They even managed to find a woman with a great voice who could do the high, fast parts of "Montana," and belt out the rockin' parts of "Zomby Woof." (Goosebump material there.) I thought they got a little sloppy in some of the verses of "Cosmik Debris," but they really nailed the harder pieces like "The Black Page": I guess they probably practiced those more.
Man, I lack musical vocabulary.
I gotta go to more of these student shows.
[Edited to add: Ah, clever. I didn't mention the name of the band before, because I suspected that the website had gotten it wrong. Looking around a bit confirms that the band was called the Brain Police, not the "Brian Police."]
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