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Dweezil Zappa Biography

Dweezil Zappa (born Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa, September 5, 1969) is 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 guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, Dweezil released his first single (produced by Eddie Van Halen) at the age of 12.

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Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

Business, Frustrating, Fun, Mean, Side

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

Difference, Differences, Good, Mind, Minds, People

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.

Circuit, Mean, Sound, Sounds, Tubes, Wells

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

Creativity, Give, People, Play, Playing, Recipe

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.

Father, Filtered, Like, Music, People, Work

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.

Generations, Love, Multiple, Plastered, Tasks

I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.

Change, Illegally, Internet, Names, Strange, Time

Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

Accomplishment, Dad, Frank, Names, Understood, Zappa

If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

Comedic, Confused, Girl, Impression, Song, Valley

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Fantastic, Handful, Humor, Memories, Patience, Sense

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.

Definitions, Different, Elements, Goldtop, Subtlety

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.

Couple, Dad, Everything, Fundamentals, Time, Work

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

Song, Guitar, Were Not Meant To Be, Thing, Learning

If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

Done, Fun, Seems, Work

I'm game for anything fun.

Fun, Game, Games

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.

Gears, Identical, Modern, Sound, Tails, Virtually

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

Average, Car, Course, Golf, Time

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.

Dinner, Hate, Home, Jobs, Playing

I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.

Back, Dad, Given, Guitar, Guitars, Mother

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Father, Found, Music, Playing, Voice

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