BANNED FROM UTOPIA -- MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA featuring 1970s-80s Zappa Alumni Ray White. Robert Martin & Scott Thunes
BANNED FROM UTOPIA -- MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA featuring 1970s-80s Zappa Alumni Ray White. Robert Martin & Scott Thunes
"WE LOVE ZAPPA" Tour Dates
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7/4 Lyndhurst, NJ - Town Hall Park Bandshell
7/5 Hudson Falls, NY - The Strand Theatre TICKETS
7/6 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom TICKETS
7/10 St. Louis, MO - City Winery St. Louis
7/11 Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall TICKETS
7/12 Chicago, IL – Martyrs’
7/13 Ft. Wayne, IN - Sweetwater HQ
7/14 Cincinnati, OH - Ludlow Garage TICKETS
7/16 Pittsburgh, PA - City Winery Pittsburgh TICKETS
7/17 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle TICKETS
7/19 Nashville, TN – City Winery Nashville TICKETS
7/20 Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre TICKETS
7/21 Atlanta, GA - City Winery Atlanta TICKETS
7/23 Lansing, WV - Burrito Bar at Breeze Hill
7/25 Rutherford, NJ - Williams Center for the Arts TICKETS
7/26 New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place TICKETS
7/27 Pawtucket, RI - The Met
7/28 Pawling, NY - Daryl’s House
7/30 Montgomery, NY - City Winery Hudson Valley
8/1 Westport, CT - The Westport Library
8/2 Boston, MA - City Winery Boston TICKETS
8/3 Brattleboro, VT - Stone Church TICKETS
8/4 Ardmore, PA - Ardmore Music Hall TICKETS
There will be a special Meet & Greet Package which includes attendance at Soundcheck, Q&A and hangout with the Alumni and bandmates, and pictures with the band - check links per each tour date. These events begin one hour before doors and usually run no later than doors time.
Booking Inquiries for Summer 2024 Only - email andre@guitartour.net
Official Frank Zappa: zappa.com
Ray White
Robert "Bobby" Martin - https://multimartinmusic.com/
Scott Thunes
Robert "Seahag" Mangano https://www.robbiemangano.com/
Jamie Kime https://jamiekime.com/
Joel Taylor
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"The modern day composer refuses to die!" - was a famous quote from Edgard Varese.
the iconic American composer , guitarist and firebrand Frank Zappa shared that quote many times over the years, and indeed LIVED it.
And here we are, thirty years after Zappa's physical death, and his music is more alive than ever -- it has never stopped in
"The modern day composer refuses to die!" - was a famous quote from Edgard Varese.
the iconic American composer , guitarist and firebrand Frank Zappa shared that quote many times over the years, and indeed LIVED it.
And here we are, thirty years after Zappa's physical death, and his music is more alive than ever -- it has never stopped in it's forward motion over these sixty years or so.
This group, made up of three of his iconic alumni, plus three world class musicians, has been performing Frank's music at and incredible level of energy & accuracy. This tour will see them for the first time in may new places. Performing music from across Zappa's vast catalog, and featuring some of his longest running members, between them, band members from 1976 thru Frank's final tours in 1988.
Ray White - Zappa '76-84 - voc, gtr
Robert Martin -Zappa '81-88 - voc, keys, brass
Scott Thunes -- Zappa '81-88, bass, voc
Robbie Mangano - guitar, vocals
Joel Taylor - Drums
Jamie Kime- -guitar
Joel has toured with Al Di Meola, Frank Gambale, Greg Howe, Mike Garson, Allan Holdsworth
Robbie has toured with GrandMothers of Invention, Ghos
Ray White - Zappa '76-84 - voc, gtr
Robert Martin -Zappa '81-88 - voc, keys, brass
Scott Thunes -- Zappa '81-88, bass, voc
Robbie Mangano - guitar, vocals
Joel Taylor - Drums
Jamie Kime- -guitar
Joel has toured with Al Di Meola, Frank Gambale, Greg Howe, Mike Garson, Allan Holdsworth
Robbie has toured with GrandMothers of Invention, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger/Sean Lennon, Project/Object
Jamie has toured with Zappa Plays Zappa
Founded in 1994 BANNED FROM UTOPIA -- ia an Alumni-Driven MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA. group of Frank Zappa's former touring and studio bands aligned for a set of shows. Almost 25 years of touring and blah blah balh
PAUL GREEN ROCK ACADEMY
The Paul Green Rock Academy (PGRA) is the latest, audition only, music school from School of Rock founder Paul Green. A school for serious young musicians, PGRA is dedicated to playing real shows in front of real audiences. We have spent the past three years serving as the backing band for Jon Anderson of Yes and Gi
PAUL GREEN ROCK ACADEMY
The Paul Green Rock Academy (PGRA) is the latest, audition only, music school from School of Rock founder Paul Green. A school for serious young musicians, PGRA is dedicated to playing real shows in front of real audiences. We have spent the past three years serving as the backing band for Jon Anderson of Yes and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, playing over 50 shows with each of those luminaries, including a 2023 European tour with Jon.
Paul's love of Frank Zappa's music goes back to his punk rock youth, and his appreciation of the Zappa catalogue as the ultimate teaching tool started in the early days of SOR. "It is really one stop shopping for everything I want to teach...modal theory, time signatures, all kinds of genres...it is all in there somewhere" says Paul.
Paul also discovered how great Zappa audiences are when SOR opened for Project/Object at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, way back in 2002. This inspired him to make Zappa a huge part of the curriculum, and over the years he has had his students play Zappanale Festival seven times (every year a headliner since the first) and tour with Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock, & Ed Mann.
PGRA is incredibly excited to add Ray White, Robert Martin, and Scott Thunes to that list.
Paul: "..our students will learn so much from them!"
In addition to the Zappa program, Paul's students have done tours backing up Brendon Small, John Wetton, Adrian Belew (who hired two of Paul's students for his band), and have played one off shows with Bill Bruford, Donald Fagen, Eddie Vedder, Ann Wilson, Steve Hackett, and Alice Cooper...just to name a few.
Paul's students have gone on to play in/for: Roger Daltrey/The Who, Adrian Belew, Doctor Dog, Phony Ppl, Olivia Rodrigo, and Arc Iris.
Reach Tour Manager Paul Green at info@paulgreenrock.com
Booking by GuitarTour Booking, Andre Cholmondeley andre@guitartour.net
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