Product Details

• Actors: Frank Zappa
• Directors: No Director Available
• Format: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• DVD Release Date: September 1, 2008
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00104AZ5U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,357 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible!, July 28, 2008

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Jersey Joker "Gary" (Laurel, MD) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Zappa In Barcelona: European Tour May 1988 (DVD)

I saw clips for this on YouTube, and then discovered this DVD, and bought it based on the clips I saw. A great performance ... but what a disappointment!!

This is clearly a 2nd or 3rd generation dub from some videotape, so already, it's NOT the best video. Given that, I could deal with it, and occasional additional distortion to the picture, but what's incredibly frustrating are the drop-outs in the sound! At least every 5 or 10 mins, there's NOT just a click, but an actual drop-out! At least 20-25 drop-outs are scattered throughout the whole thing, and occasionally, other minor distortions in the sound, which I could ALSO deal with, but NOT DROP-OUTS! It's basically unlistenable, and it's unlikely that I will watch this again, despite the fact that the performance is cool -- it's just an excercise in frustration.

I was warned by some of the guys on the Zappa.com forum, and they were right. I wouldn't pay 3 dollars for this thing.

Maybe 2.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a copy from a VHS, but its great if you're not paying 30 dollars for it, August 5, 2008

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A Musician (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zappa In Barcelona: European Tour May 1988 (DVD)

It's not an official legal Zappa release. You can get it for free on torrent sites, possibly a better copy. It's a good quality video taken from a TV special. It's great, but you shouldnt pay 30 dollars for it. For an unrelated reason, maybe, visit Zappateers.com. It's an awesome 1988 concert with Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Ike Willis, Ed Mann, Bobby Martin, Scott Tunes, Chad Wakerman, Mike Kenelly, and I forget the other horn players. Some of the songs are The Black Page, Big Swifty, Black Napkins, Sofa, a cover of I Am The Walrus, Strictly Genteel and many more great songs. By the way, that IS Strictly Genteel at the end and not a Sofa variation as another reviewer said, Sofa is played in the middle of the show. I'm a musician, I know and play both pieces quite well, I am very familiar with the different arrangments of both over the years, and I can tell you without a doubt that the concert ends with a great performance of Strictly Genteel.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay, I know it is a copy., October 15, 2009

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K. L. Woomer (San Antonio Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zappa In Barcelona: European Tour May 1988 (DVD)

Yes, this is a copy. And as far as I know, this is not authorized from the ZFT... but, it is good music. Hell, this is great music. And if you are like me, and I think you are if you are reading this, you have everything that FZ and the ZFT has put out in the market already, so this is a four star based on this information...

We would, I speak for a lot of FZ fans, love to have the ZFT put this out proper. The music deserves it, the fans deserve it, and obviously FZ wanted to do it or he would not have filmed it. So, do us all a favor DZ, GZ and put this out so I can toss this bad copy of very good music into the bin.

Mondo