INTERVIEW: DWEEZIL ZAPPA – January 2018

INTERVIEW: DWEEZIL ZAPPA – January 2018
By Shane Pinnegar

Dweezil Zappa has spent the last decade keeping his famous father Frank’s musical legacy alive with his Zappa Plays Zappa band.

He’s bringing the show – now rechristened Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever The F%@k He Wants – to Australia next month for a tour which will undoubtedly astound and bamboozle onlookers due to the technical intricacies of the compositions, and possibly offend some with Frank’s risqué lyrical wit.

The tour celebrates 50 (and a bit) years since Frank Zappa released his debut album (as The Mothers Of Invention), Freak Out, in June, 1966. Another 61 albums followed before his 1993 death, and there have been another 40 since – which poses the $64,000 question: What makes Frank’s music so enduring?

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