Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappais an American rock guitarist and occasional actor. He is the son of musical composer and performer Frank Zappa. Exposed to the music industry from an early age, Dweezil developed a strong affinity for playing the guitar and producing music. Able to learn directly from world-class guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, Dweezil quickly developed into a musical star in his own right, releasing his first singleat the age of 12...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth5 September 1969
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
I'm not going to be doing any touring.
I'm working still a bit on Lisa Loeb's new record, and that's going to be a great record when it finally gets a chance to come out.
As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.
Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.