Zappa Plays Zappa

Location Info

Map

The Pageant

6161 Delmar Blvd.
St Louis, MO 63130

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Delmar/ The Loop

Photos

12 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Details

$25.50. 314-726-6161.

Related Content

• Vaclav Havel's Four Biggest Musical Influences
  December 20, 2011
• Frances Bean Cobain And The Other Nine Hottest Offspring Of Musicians
  August 18, 2011
• Head Trip
  August 25, 2010
• Captain Beefheart in St. Louis -- With Styx?
  December 20, 2010
• St. Louis Native David Sanborn Returns With DMS
  August 4, 2011

More About

• Frank Zappa
• Ben Thomas
• Scheila Gonzalez
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• Classical Music

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

The late Frank Zappa wrote an impressive amount and variety of music in his truncated lifetime, including affectionately goofy parodies of '50s doo-wop; blues-drenched, modal guitar rave-ups; satiric pop songs and complex orchestral compositions in unusual time signatures. His son Dweezil formed Zappa Plays Zappa in 2006 to keep that vast catalog before the public, handpicking a group of (then) mostly unknown musicians and augmenting them with selected veterans of FZ's band as needed. On this tour the ZPZ core ensemble — including Dweezil on guitar, recent vocal addition Ben Thomas and multi-instrumentalist/singer/fan-favorite Scheila Gonzalez — are performing all of Apostrophe ('), the 1974 album that was one of Zappa's more commercially successful efforts.