The European festival they mention is the Zappanale which takes place every year at Bad Doberan in Germany - this town has a bust of Zappa in one of its streets!
I saw ZPZ at the Albert Hall, and 4 years ago, I played the Zappanale festival with ATV - this was the year when Paul Green's School of Rock played.
Pretty much all the tribute bands were better than ZPZ - and The Muffin Men had the great Jimmy Carl Black with them - but there was talk then of Gail not being happy with the festival.
The top photo on this link is us with Jimmy in the whisky tent - ah, memories.....
l-r Jimmy Carl Black, Mark Perry, me, Steve Carter (bass), Dave Morgan (our drummer back then)
http://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/zappo/zapp14.htm
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