Saw Zappa Plays Zappa Saturday night at the Warfield in San Francisco with Chucko, Nick and a bunch of others.  (No photo, sorry.)  Absolutely wonderful show.  This is Dweezil Zappa performing Frank's music with a band that inludes some folks from FZ's bands as well as some new musicians.

There are a few very good descriptions of the show, including setlist, in the Zappa Plays Zappa Reviews section of the Kill Ugly Radio web page (which itself is pretty cool).

It was a very touching show; you could feel the love of FZ and the appreciation for his accomplisments throughout.  This was the last show of the tour, Dweezil mentioned that the tour was very successful and that they were planning another one in the fall.

Napolean Murphy Brock was great.  And I was completely blown away by the new alto sax player Sheila Gonzalez.  And of course Dweezil.

Also, Dweezil talks about Frank's SG guitar and playing some of the impossible parts in a bunch of video clips at GuitarPlayerTV.com.  And there's a good interview with Dweezil on the Gibson guitar site.

Yeah, yeah; a long time between postings.  It'll get better...

I don't know of many really good music industry news web sites.  And that's surely a bad indicator for the industry.  But here are the ones I frequent:

The Fretboard Journal Blog A blog associated with the very new local magazine The Fretboard Journal.

Guitarz Blog Guitar news, interesting reading.

Harmony Central Probably the oldest and least useful, their headline news has become mostly press releases about software and samples.  Sigh.

Matrixsynth Blog Interesting analog synthesizer material, though a little obsessed with Flickr photos.

Modern Guitars Magazine News, features, articles.  And a beautiful presentation.

Music Thing A bunch of fun postings.  The guy used to be a little obsessed with eBay, and now he seems obsesseed with YouTube.

Anybody else got any favorites?