A tribute to Frank Zappa, his music and his great live performances.
The first step is easy: Click
and now - select a tour (red 1 in the picture above )
The Show List (red 2) is filled with the gigs of the selected tour. The black painted gigs are a token from FZShows, the grey ones are from Giglist. For each venue of the selected tour a red guitar bubble appears upon the map (red 3).
go to the show
(select one from the Show List)
The selected show's venue is highlighted with FZ's head icon (red 4) & the map centres to the venue. You can also click a venue's symbol to choose the first gig within that tour at that venue.
and click FZ's head.
A window with the available information for the selected show&venue opens.
If you change the location or the show, the window closes. Checkmark 'keep show/venue info open' (red 5) to keep the window open during changes.
And now, folks, sit down and feel comfortable. The obvious word for tonight is:
Information
The Show Tab
Well, here we are. Tonight's set list
hope you enjoyed the show ...
(This little rating function is located at the bottom of the Show Tab. No mechanisms are integrated to avoid double voting.)
The RTC Tab
Tonight's Rocking' Teenage Combo
The Zappateers Tab
Audio and video gems - collected by the Zappateers.
The Venue Tab
A picture of the venue (if available) and a list of all shows FZ played here. Click the venue picture to maximize it.
This stuff is stupid
Data Mining
Tour/Gig information was arranged from FZ Shows 7.1 & Giglist, set list information from FZ Shows. Venues were extracted, duplicate venues eliminated, venue pictures downloaded & thumbnails generated, crew information gathered from IINK, links to Zappateers threads extracted semi-automatic. In addition: designing & programming a Google Maps interface.
More stupid things can be done
Hunt & fix bugs, check & improve information quality, integrate a song list, collect ideas for further improvements.
Thank you, thank you and thank you!
FZShow 7.1, Gig List (2009 08 16), IINK and many venue picture collectors for doing an overwhelming job in gathering so much information and to Unicrayon and TheEvilPrince for being patient and helpful!
Hope you enjoy!
Nadine & Tom