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DontTreadOnMe

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35. I loved Zappa live.

Reply to 90-percent (Original post)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 07:07 PM

Jul 2013

I attended many Zappa shows in the 70-80s. My favorites were his Halloween runs in NYC at the Palladium.
One year (everyone wore costumes for Halloween), someone brought in about 100 Nixon masks, and passed them out to the entire first three rows. When Frank came out for the first song, everyone put on the masks -- Frank was laughing so hard he had to stop the song. There is a bootleg video of this event... is shows the audience dancing with the Nixon masks on... very funny.

Tell Gail to release more shows.

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