THE BAND FROM UTOPIA AT THE BAKED POTATO, AUGUST 13 & 14

 

THE BANNED FROM UTOPIA AT THE BAKED POTATO

Warming up for their Zappanale gig, the Banned From Utopia will do 4 concerts at The Baked Potato !

THE DANNY CAREY (UN)TRIO

The Danny Carey (Un)Trio.

That's drummer Danny Carey (from Tool),
Jamie Kime, Ben Thomas and Pete Griffin (from Zappa Plays Zappa),
Plus Joe (?) on keyboards and Matt (?) on sax.

-- link: Harald Häring

THE ZAPPA BAND 2021 08 23 SARATOGA NY

Starting the weekend with a video recording of The Zappa Band, opening for King Crimson.
2021 08 23 Saratoga NY
Pretty awesome.

SPAC in Saratoga Springs posts / streams / uploads their concerts to YouTube and usually the artists pull them within hours of being posted, as was the case with this show. This show was online for about 8 hours and someone managed to capture and author it in HD 1080p with commercials edited out.

screenshot :

ZAPPA BAND HALLOWEEN CONCERTS ANNOUNCED

Four nights;
Eight shows;

https://www.thebakedpotato.com/events-calendar/

Friday Night, October 28, 2022 @ 8pm & 10pm PST.

Saturday Night, October 29, 2022 @ 8pm & 10pm PST.
Sunday Night, October 30, 2022 @ 8pm & 10pm PST.
Halloween Monday Night, October 31, 2022 @ 8pm & 10pm PST.

THE ZAPPA BAND

RAY WHITE …VOCALS/GUITAR
ROBERT MARTIN …VOCALS/KEYS/SAX
MIKE KENEALLY …GUITAR/KEYS/VOCALS
SCOTT THUNES …BASS/VOCALS
JAMIE KIME …GUITAR
JOE TRAVERS …DRUMS/VOCALS
Plus Special Guests…

 

THE ZAPPA BAND

Article on Jambands.com

https://jambands.com/news/2022/06/04/the-zappa-band-preps-northeast-tour-with-whisky-warm-up/? 

Chaotic Riffs www.chaoticriffs.com interview with Mike Keneally.

ZAPPA BAND TOURDATES

The Zappa Band hits the road in June!

 
Featuring: Mike Keneally, Ray White, Scott Thunes,  Robert Martin, Joe Travers & Jamie Kime !

June 03 - Whisky a Go Go - Los Angeles, CA
June 05 - The Ritz Theater - Escondido, CA
June 12 - Center for the Arts - Homer, NY
June 14 - Race Street Live - Holyoake, MA
June 16 - Sony Hall - New York, NY
June 17 - Tarrytown Music Hall - Tarrytown, NY
June 18 - The Newtown Theatre - Newtown, NJ
June 19 - The Birchmere - Alexander, VA
June 21 - Ramshead Onstage - Annapolis, MD
June 22 - Ardmore Music Hall - Ardmore, PA
June 24 - Narrows Center for the Arts - Fall River, MA
June 25 - The Cabot Theatre - Beverly, MA
June 26 - The Flying Monkey - Plymouth, NH

FOUR MORE ZAPPA BAND SHOWS AT QOBUZ

 Four more Zappa Band shows have been added to the Qobuz website:

• Sept 05 - New Haven
• Sept 07 - Philadelphia
• Sept 10 - Boston
• Sept 11 - Washington

Resulting in 12 shows that have been made available !

https://www.qobuz.com/

ANOTHER AUDIENCE RECORDING OF THE ZAPPA BAND SURFACED

From DimeADozen

The Zappa Band

2021/09/10 - Leader Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA

Opening for King Crimson

Mike Keneally - guitar, keyboards
Scott Thunes - bass
Joe Travers - drums
Ray White - vocals, guitar
Jamie Kime - guitar
Robert Martin - vocals, keyboards, sax

guest: KC drummer Jeremy Stacey on 'Village Of The Sun'

Zomby Woof * Peaches En Regalia * I Ain't Got No Heart * What's New in Baltimore? * Village Of The Sun * Echidna's Arf (Of You) * City Of Tiny Lites * Alien Orifice * Florentine Pogen * Andy

ZAPPA BAND AUDIENCE RECORDING

Another audience recording of the Zappa Band turned up.

On Dime A Dozen :

2021-08-24, Symphony Music Hall, Springfield, MA

Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Joe Travers, Ray White, Jamie Kime, Robert Martin

Zomby Woof * Peaches en Regalia * Ain't Got No Heart * Marqueson's Chicken * Village of the Sun * Echidna's Arf (Of You) * City of Tiny Lites * Alien Orifice * Florentine Pogen * Andy

THE ZAPPA BAND AT THE GREEK THEATER - - - AUGUST 6 2021

Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Joe Travers, Ray White, Jamie Kime, Robert Martin

FRANK ZAPPA - ORCHESTRA EN REGALIA

From a little while ago :

https://www.netconcert.cz/koncert/musics-by-frank-zappa-orchestra-en-regalia?fbclid=IwAR0uHAV_PtpjXb11SdgVsZQSctToGWxP45mPL88Ilnp8170N6WJQQD9TFvA#play

-- info: BOHOUŠ

BRYAN BELLER - SCENES FROM THE FLOOD

• bryan beller: scenes from the flood
      (2019, 2cd, usa, onion boy records)

I received this brand-new 2 CD set yesterday.
Bryan Beller's "Scenes From The Flood".

Just listened to it for the first time (while adding data to the United Mutations Archives) and I can already tell you that this album will be in and around my CD player all week.
Wow.
Beautiful compositions, great colours and instrumentation plus an impressive set of guests.

Check it out !

BRYAN BELLER'S NEW ALBUM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

BRYAN BELLER’S NEW SOLO WORK,
‘SCENES FROM THE FLOOD’,
AN EPIC-SCALE MODERN PROGRESSIVE DOUBLE CONCEPT ALBUM,
TO BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

PRE-ORDERS START TODAY,
***ANIMATED VIDEO FOR “THE STORM” DROPS TODAY***

As a bassist and composer, Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani, Dethklok, Steve Vai) has never been accused of being insufficiently driven. But nothing he's done before can truly prepare audiences for his newest release, the massively ambitious and unapologetically progressive double concept album Scenes From The Flood, scheduled for worldwide release on September 13, and available for pre-order starting today at bryanbeller.com.

A work so sweeping in scale that it took Beller nearly a decade to conceive, compose, and now fully realize, the album grapples with an existential question: When the storm comes for us, the big one after which things will not be the same, who are we and what do we become in those defining moments? What do we keep, and what do we let go? Scenes From The Flood explores themes of ambition and loss, intentionality and reality, hope and disillusionment, and uses every second of its 18-song, 88-minute running order to tell an emotionally consuming and unforgettable musical story.

Realizing Beller’s vision meant enlisting 26 musicians spread across four continents to bring Scenes From The Flood to life. Special guests on guitar include legends Joe Satriani (on the optimistic, “road trip” vibed opening track “Volunteer State”), John Petrucci (who lays down a screaming lead on the 9-minute story-climactic progressive epic “World Class”), Guthrie Govan (taking the lead on the album’s closing ballad “Sweet Water”), and Mike Keneally (going from layered acoustics on one track to furious metal riffing on another), just four of fourteen total guitarists who appear on the album. Drummers include veterans Gene Hoglan (Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad, Death), Joe Travers (Zappa Plays Zappa, Joe Satriani), Ray Hearne (Haken), and Nate Morton (Cher, The Voice)

Today marks the debut of the animated video for one of the album’s signature tunes, “The Storm”, a dark and heavy odyssey that serves as one of the signature compositions of Beller’s new opus. The 7-minute piece features the aforementioned metal legend Gene Hoglan on drums and an army of four guitarists to deliver the song’s urgent, powerful message. See it here:

“Not exactly light fare, is it?” chuckles Beller, who just turned 48. “But all of my truly favorite albums take me to deep, sometimes challenging places, even upon repeated listening. Especially the double albums. Somewhere inside me, in the eleven years since my last solo album, I’d absorbed and processed a series of life experiences that, I thought, could possibly inform an extended work like this. I felt like I had something big and complex to say. And then I just dove into it.”

Presented in the classic format of four vinyl sides (or four "parts" on two CD's), Scenes From The Flood was inspired by hallowed progressive double-albums like Pink Floyd's The Walland Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans, as well as more modern expanded works, such as Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile. The deluxe packaging (2CD 8-panel digipak + two 20-page double-CD booklets; 2LP gatefold + 24-page full-size booklet) reveals not just album artwork, but unique cover-style artwork for each of the eighteen songs, or "scenes". The resulting sense of story urgency and dramatic narrative presents like a soundtrack to a movie suspense thriller as much as it does a double album. A limited run of 200 colored (purple) vinyl will also be produced.

Scenes From The Flood is performed by: Christopher Allis, Bryan Beller, Nili Brosh, Paul Cartwright, Darran Charles, Julian Coryell, Mike Dawes, Janet Feder, Guthrie Govan, Ray Hearne, Gene Hoglan, Mike Keneally, Jamie Kime, Fred Kron, Teddy Kumpel, Jake Howsam Lowe, Evan Mazunik, Nate Morton, Rick Musallam, Mike Olekshy, Griff Peters, John Petrucci, Matt Rohde, Joe Satriani, Rishabh Seen, Joe Travers, Leah Zeger

Visit http://bryanbeller.com/