Dweezil Zappa (born Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa; September 5, 1969) is an American
rock
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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
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and
Eddie Van Halen, Dweezil released his first single (produced by Eddie Van Halen) at the age of 12.
In addition to writing and recording his own music, Dweezil has carried on the legacy of his father's music by touring with the group
Zappa Plays Zappa
Zappa Plays Zappa is an American tribute act led by Dweezil Zappa, the elder son of late American composer and musician Frank Zappa, devoted to performing the music of Frank Zappa.
History
The band debuted in 2006 with shows in Europe, Canada ...
. The band features renditions of Zappa's original material and the lineup has often included Zappa alumni such as
Napoleon Murphy Brock
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,
Steve Vai
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,
Terry Bozzio
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and others.
Early life
Dweezil Zappa was born on September 5, 1969, in
Los Angeles
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, California to
Frank Zappa and
Gail Zappa
Adelaide Gail Zappa ( Sloatman; January 1, 1945 – October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first ...
.
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He is the second of four siblings: his older sister,
Moon
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, younger sister
Diva
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and younger brother
Ahmet
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, and is the cousin of actress
Lala Sloatman. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek, Arab, and French descent, and his mother was of German and Portuguese ancestry.
Dweezil's registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The nurse at the
hospital at which he was born refused to register him under the name Dweezil, to the point of arguing with Gail in the delivery room about it. Rattled at this turn of events, Frank rapidly listed the names of several musician friends, and the nurse added all of them to the birth certificate. "Dweezil" was a nickname coined by Frank for an oddly curled pinky toe of Gail's. At the age of five years, Dweezil learned that his legal name was different, and he insisted on having his nickname become his legal name. Gail and Frank hired an attorney and soon the name Dweezil was official.
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Career
In the 1980s, Zappa worked as an MTV VJ and was promptly fired after badmouthing MTV on ''The Howard Stern Show
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'' (also, he had his father Frank Zappa co-hosting, who said that it would be okay for young Republicans to kill themselves after a Suicide PSA). He also recorded some solo albums, as well as playing for other artists. Zappa can be heard playing lead guitar on the Fat Boys
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' "Wipe Out" (1987) and can be seen in the music video for Don Johnson
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's top 40 song, "Heartbeat". He also played co-lead guitar (along with Reb Beach) on Winger's cover of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze". He also had a part in the futuristic
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Arnold Schwarzenegger film '' The Running Man'' as Stevie ("Don't touch that dial!"), and gave his most famous cameo role in John Hughes's Brat Pack
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film, ''Pretty in Pink
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'' (starring Molly Ringwald
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), as Andie's friend, Simon.
Since the 1990s, Zappa has been working on a piece of music named "What the Hell Was I Thinking?", a 75-minute piece featuring guitar solos by dozens of famous guitar players. The project has suffered from numerous difficulties and has been reworked several times since the '90s. Dweezil said in September 2004: "I started recording it on analog tape almost 13 years ago... There are probably about 35 guest guitar players on it, everybody from Brian May
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to Eddie Van Halen, Eric Johnson Eric Johnson may refer to:
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, Angus
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and Malcolm Young—it's quite a crazy project. I'm still waiting and hoping to record Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page as some of my final guests on there."[
For his 1991 album ''Confessions'', Zappa recorded a cover of ]the Bee Gees
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' "Stayin' Alive
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" which featured vocals by Ozzy Osbourne
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. However, due to Osbourne's label refusing to allow the feature, the vocals were re-recorded by Donny Osmond, who was signed to the same label as Zappa. The version with Osbourne's vocals later appeared on Osbourne's box set '' Prince of Darkness''.
In the mid-1990s, Zappa voiced the character Ajax Duckman on the animated series ''Duckman
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''. He also briefly appeared in the television sitcom ''Normal Life
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'' with sister Moon Unit Zappa
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Early life
Moon Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail (née Sloatman) and musician Frank Zap ...
and former '' Laverne & Shirley'' star Cindy Williams
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Williams was bo ...
. He composed and performed the theme music for ''The Ben Stiller Show
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'' (the solo from Spinal Tap's "Break Like the Wind"). In 1998, Zappa played music agent John Kaplan in the Warner Bros.
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family comedy ''Jack Frost
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''. In 1999, Dweezil, alongside his brother, Ahmet Zappa
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Early life
Ahmet Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to musician Frank Zappa and ...
, starred in a show featuring celebrities, bands and dance troupe called '' Happy Hour'' which debuted April 3, 1999 on the USA Network
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. The show lasted for one season despite its success due to a copyright
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dispute over the title of the show. To promote the show, him and Ahmet appeared briefly on the World Wrestling Federation
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's Rage Party, held the night prior to WrestleMania XV
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.
In "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2003 eleventh studio album ''Poodle Hat
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'', Zappa performs the opening guitar solo and sings on the track, "Genius in France
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". In 2006, Zappa organized the "Zappa Plays Zappa
Zappa Plays Zappa is an American tribute act led by Dweezil Zappa, the elder son of late American composer and musician Frank Zappa, devoted to performing the music of Frank Zappa.
History
The band debuted in 2006 with shows in Europe, Canada ...
" tour. He assembled a band of young musicians with a view to bring the music of Frank Zappa to a younger audience. The tour also featured guest appearances by Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist f ...
, Napoleon Murphy Brock
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and Terry Bozzio
Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Perso ...
. The tour began in Europe in May with dates in the U.S. from June. After a break it continued in the U.S. on October 18, 2006. The 2007 version of the tour ran from July, finishing in Australia in early December, and featured Ray White
Ray White (full name Ray Shirley White Sr) is an American soul vocalist and rock and blues guitarist, best known as a member of Frank Zappa's touring ensembles. He was drafted into Zappa's band in late 1976, being featured on rhythm gu ...
as special guest. The shows ended with the promise: "There are so many songs we want to learn to play ... see y'all next year...", and further tours have followed each year since 2007. In 2009, Ray White left Zappa Plays Zappa for an undisclosed reason.
Zappa lent his voice to one of the characters in one episode of ''Metalocalypse
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'' on Adult Swim
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.
In 2016, Zappa went on tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Frank Zappa's album ''Freak Out!
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''. The tour was titled "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the F@%k He Wants – The Cease and Desist Tour". The tour title was inspired by Zappa's feud with his brother Ahmet over the use of the "Zappa Plays Zappa" moniker, which resulted in Ahmet sending Zappa a cease-and-desist letter through the family trust.
Personal life
From 1998 to 2004, Zappa dated musician Lisa Loeb
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. Zappa and Loeb wrote and performed music together, and Zappa toured with Loeb's band. The couple co-hosted the cooking show '' Dweezil & Lisa'' on Food Network
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in 2004.
Zappa married fashion stylist Lauren Knudsen on September 3, 2005 in Los Angeles
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. They have two daughters: Zola Frank Zappa (born 2006) and Ceylon Indira Zappa (born 2008). In March 2010 Knudsen filed for divorce in L.A. County Superior Court. According to the documents, she applied to share legal custody of their two daughters. In March 2012, with the divorce case still unresolved, Zappa's former lawyer made a public issue of his unpaid legal bills.
Following the death of Zappa's mother, Gail, in October 2015, it was revealed that his siblings Ahmet and Diva were given control of the Zappa Family Trust with shares of 30% each, while Dweezil and his sister Moon were given smaller shares of 20% each. As beneficiaries only, Moon and Dweezil will not receive any distributions from the trust until it is profitable—in 2016, it was "millions of dollars in debt"—and must seek permission from Ahmet, the trustee
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, to make money off of their father's music or merchandise bearing his name. Dweezil received a cease-and-desist letter from the trust after he announced that he was being forced to perform his upcoming tour as "Dweezil Zappa Plays Frank Zappa" instead of using "Zappa Plays Zappa". In response to the trust's action, he renamed his performance series "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the F@%k He Wants—the Cease and Desist Tour".
In May 2018, the four siblings announced that they had reconciled.
Musical equipment
Guitars
*Gibson SG
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– made of walnut, the main guitar on the ''F. O. H.'' album of Zappa Plays Zappa
* Gibson Les Paul – 1958 reissue, wired like Jimmy Page's
* Gibson Roxy SG – a replica of a guitar played by Frank Zappa on tour and in the studio during the '60s and '70s, the original Roxy SG can be seen depicted on the '' Roxy and Elsewhere'' album cover. Gibson produced a limited run of 400 Roxy SGs, featuring custom electronics and Maestro vibrola tail piece. Dweezil has used his own Roxy during Zappa Plays Zappa tours.
*Fender Stratocaster
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Amplifiers
* Fractal Audio Axe-FX 2
* Fractal Audio Axe-FX III
Discography
Solo
*1982 – "My Mother Is a Space Cadet
"My Mother Is a Space Cadet" is the first single by Dweezil Zappa, released in 1982. The song was co-written by sister Moon Zappa and Steve Vai. Dweezil was 12 years old at the time of the recording, sister Moon Zappa was 14. The back of the si ...
"/"Crunchy Water", 12" single
*1986 – ''Havin' a Bad Day
''Havin' a Bad Day'' is the first album by Dweezil Zappa
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''
*1988 – ''My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
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''
*1991 – '' Confessions''
*2000 – '' Automatic''
*2006 – '' Go with What You Know''
*2015 – '' Via Zammata'''
With Ahmet Zappa
*1994 – ''Shampoohorn
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The European version of the album was released months before the American version. Between the release of the two versions, Dweezil Zappa fired ...
''
*1996 – ''Music for Pets
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The creation of the album was a troubled one, with multiple recording sessions interrupted by the death of Frank Zappa, the creation and recording ...
''
With Zappa Plays Zappa
*2008 – ''Zappa Plays Zappa
Zappa Plays Zappa is an American tribute act led by Dweezil Zappa, the elder son of late American composer and musician Frank Zappa, devoted to performing the music of Frank Zappa.
History
The band debuted in 2006 with shows in Europe, Canada ...
''
*2010 – '' Return of the Son of...''
*2011 – ''In the Moment''
*2012 – '' F.O.H.''
*2012 – '' F.O.H. III: Out of Obscurity''
*2017 – ''Live In The Moment II''
Guest appearances
*1984 – Guitar solos "Sharleena" and "Stevie's Spanking" on Frank Zappa's ''Them or Us
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Album content
Its opening and closing songs were not written by Zappa: "The Closer You Are", was written by Earl Lewis and Morgan ...
''
*1984 – Guitar on Frank Zappa's ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3'' is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa, spanning from December 10, 1971, to December 23, 1984. It was released in 1989 (see 1989 in music).
"Sharleena" had been previously issued as a flexi dis ...
'' (album) on " Sharleena"
*1985 – Vocals on Frank Zappa's ''Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
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The album's title is a reference to the lobby group, the PMRC, who were c ...
''
*1986 – Guitar solo on Don Johnson's song "The Last Sound Love Makes" and appearance in the video for "Heartbeat"
*1986 – Guitar solo on "Whipping Post" on Frank Zappa's '' Does Humor Belong in Music?''
*1988 – '' Winger'' on "Seventeen
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* ''Seventeen'' (Japanese m ...
" and " Purple Haze"
*1989 – With sister Moon Unit
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Early life
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, contributed the track "(In Love) With You Gumby" to the novelty album ''Gumby
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''
*1990 – Opening and outro solos on Extreme's ''Pornograffitti
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'' on the song "He-Man Woman Hater"
*1992 – Lead guitar on "Diva Fever" on Spinal Tap's ''Break Like the Wind
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''
*1993 – Lead guitar on "Dirty Love" and "Chunga's Revenge" on '' Zappa's Universe'' tribute
*1994 – Barks on the track "Waffenspiel" on Frank Zappa's ''Civilization Phaze III
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''
*1994 – Co-lead guitar on "Chewing on Crayons"" on Blues Saraceno
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's Hairpick
*1997 – Guitar solo on Pat Boone
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's cover of "Smoke on the Water
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In a 2004 publication by ''Rolling Stone'' magaz ...
" (the '' No More Mr. Nice Guy'' album)
*1997 – Guitar on the song "Quando M'en Vo" from Giacomo Puccini
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, in the musical project "Angelica"
*2000 – Guitar on Dixie Dregs
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's ''California Screamin'' CD performing "Peaches en Regalia
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"
*2001 – Guitar on Kip Winger
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's solo album ''Songs from the Ocean Floor
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Track li ...
''
*2001 – '' 9.11'', on "Top of the World"
*2003 – "Weird Al" Yankovic's ''Poodle Hat
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'' album, on "Genius in France
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"
*2004 – Lead guitar on "Time Heals" on Todd Rundgren
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's "Hello, It's Me And My Friends"
*2005 – Guitar on "Surf Punks" on the soundtrack to the game " Conker: Live & Reloaded"
*2006 – Lead guitar on "Chunga's Revenge" and "Bavarian Sunset" on Frank Zappa's ''Trance-Fusion
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''
*2011 – Solo guitar on "Release the Memes" from ''Centrifugal Satz Clock: Morning'', by Steve Kusaba
*2011 – Electric guitar on "Gypsy Flee" from "A Kiss Before You Go" album By Norwegian band Katzenjammer
*2013 – Solo guitar on "Mind Your Step" from '' Freak Guitar: The Smorgasbord'', by Mattias IA Eklundh
References
External links
Dweezil Zappa's website
*
December 2010 interview
with Tom Waring
March 2016 interview
with Marc Maron
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zappa, Dweezil
1969 births
Living people
20th-century American guitarists
21st-century American guitarists
American heavy metal guitarists
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American people of Italian descent
American people of Arab descent
American people of Portuguese descent
American people of Greek descent
Lead guitarists
American people of Danish descent
American people of French descent
Lisa Loeb
Chrysalis Records artists
Grammy Award winners
American male guitarists
Zappa Plays Zappa members
Favored Nations artists
Zappa family