Denny Walley is an American guitarist who was born in Pennsylvania 4 February 1943. He is known for working with

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in the 1970s and '80s.

Career

Denny Walley spent much of his childhood in

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before his family moved to Lancaster, California, in 1955 where he met

. Denny Walley has played with many bands over the years and is best known for his work with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and

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He also played briefly with

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in 1972. Captain Beefheart gave him the nickname Feelers Rebo. Since 2003 he has been touring regularly with the reformed

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Recording history

Frank Zappa

Walley played guitar, slide guitar and also provided vocals for the following Frank Zappa albums:http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Denny_Walley
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* Joe's Garage Act I * Joe's Garage Acts II & III *

Tinseltown Rebellion ''Tinsel Town Rebellion'' is a double live album released by Frank Zappa in May 1981. The album was conceived by Zappa after he scrapped the planned albums ''Warts and All'' and ''Crush All Boxes'', and contains tracks that were intended for tho ...

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You Are What You Is ''You Are What You Is'' is a 1981 double album by American musician Frank Zappa. His 34th album, it consists of three musical suites which encompass pop, doo-wop, jazz, hard rock, reggae, soul, blues, new wave and country. The album's lyrics sat ...

Thing-Fish ''Thing-Fish'' is an album by Frank Zappa, originally released as a triple album box set on Barking Pumpkin Records in 1984. It was billed as a cast recording for a proposed musical of the same name, which was ultimately not produced by Zappa, but ...

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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1'' is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1988 (see 1988 in music) under the label Rykodisc. It was the beginning of a six-volume, 12-CD set Zappa assembled of live performances ...

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4'' is a two-CD set of live recordings by Frank Zappa, recorded between 1969 and 1988, and released in 1991. Track listing All tracks written by Frank Zappa, except where noted. Personnel Musici ...

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6'' is the last of six double-compact disc, disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on Disc one has a sexual theme. Zappa used the ...

* Anyway the Wind Blows * At The Circus *

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Captain Beefheart

On the original ''

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'' album (recorded in 1976, but released only in 2012 due to legal ownership problems) he played

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on the track "Harry Irene", as well as guitar and slide guitar on all the tracks.

The Magic Band

* Back To The Front * 21st Century Mirror Men * Performing The Music Of Captain Beefheart - 1: Oxford, U.K. June 6, 2005 * The Magic Band Plays The Music Of Captain Beefheart - Live In London 2013

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walley, Denny Living people American male guitarists Year of birth missing (living people)