Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa on the Zappa Plays Zappa tour in Denmark, October 13, 2007

Dweezil Zappa (* 5. September 1969 in Los Angeles ) is an American rock - guitarist . He is a son of Frank Zappa .

His official name - after the first names of friends of his father - was initially Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa , as the nurse urged the parents to give the child a different name immediately after the birth. In the family, however, he was always called Dweezil. When he was five years old, he discovered on his birth certificate that his official name was not and asked his parents to change his name. His name was officially changed to Dweezil (English, pronounced like (d -) "weasel" ).

The album My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (1988) included the song of the same name by his father Frank Zappa from the album Weasels Ripped My Flesh , which Dweezil Zappa interpreted in the style of Van Halen . The music video shot for the song , which is stylistically based on the black and white image aesthetics of the film noir genre, was very successful on the music channel MTV .

Discography

• My Mother Is A Space Cadet (single) - 1982
• Havin 'A Bad Day - 1986
• My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - 1988
• Confessions - 1991 with Nuno Bettencourt
• Shampoo Horn - 1993
• Music For Pets - 1996
• Automatic - 2000
• Go With What You Know - 2006
• Zappa plays Zappa 3CD - 2008
• Return of the Son Of - 2010
• foh III - out of obscurity - 2012
• via zammata ' - 2015

Collaborations

• Porn graffiti - 1991 with Extreme

Other activities

Dweezil Zappa at Zappa plays Zappa on June 11, 2006

• Supporting roles in the films Pretty in Pink (1986) and Running Man (1987) with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Guitarist on the Don Johnson album Heartbeat (1986) .
• Dubbing actor for the character Ajax Duckman in the American animated series Duckman .
• 2004 together with Lisa Loeb the American TV show Dweezil & Lisa on the Food Network .
• Zappa plays Zappa on tour in 2006/07, playing pieces by his father. Steve Vai and Terry Bozzio also took part as guest musicians . Further tours with the same title followed in 2008 and 2009.

Private life

From 1998 to 2004 Zappa was in a relationship with the musician Lisa Loeb . Zappa and Loeb wrote music and gave concerts together. Zappa went on tour with Loeb's band.

On September 3, 2005, Zappa married the fashion designer Lauren Knudsen in Los Angeles. The couple had two daughters (* 2006 and 2008). In March 2010, Knudsen filed for divorce and applied for joint custody of the two daughters. Dweezil Zappa married Megan Marsicano in April 2012.

Web links

• Dweezil Zappa's website
• Dweezil Zappa in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Zappa with Peter Ochiogrosso: The Real Frank Zappa Book . New York 1989, pp. 245 .
2. ↑ Zappa, Dweezil. In: Colin Larkin (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Popular Music , Vol. 8, McMillan, London 1998, p. 5990
3. ↑ Concert report "Zappa plays Zappa" (status: 10/2006)
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Molly Snyder Edler: Dweezil and Frank reunite in "Zappa Plays Zappa" . June 17, 2007. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
6. ^ Dweezil Zappa: On the road again / Dyna Flangers . June 6, 2008. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 13, 2009. 
7. ↑ Lauren Knudsen Leaves Dweezil Zappa: Pictures . Retrieved April 11, 2013.
8. ↑ Dweezil Zappa Bio . Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 17, 2012.