Dweezil Zappa - Revision history

Duncan at 11:08, 11 December 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 21:55, 9 December 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 17:23, 24 September 2021

2021-09-24T17:23:40Z

Duncan: Added quote - yet another piss poor article to be reworked.

2021-09-04T10:20:59Z

Added quote - yet another piss poor article to be reworked.

Jason.Kreitzer at 15:01, 3 August 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 15:29, 18 July 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 23:27, 17 July 2021

2021-07-17T23:27:31Z

Spider of Destiny: /* Documentary appearances */

2020-11-16T12:19:12Z

Documentary appearances

Spider of Destiny at 20:51, 15 November 2020

2020-11-15T20:51:14Z

Spider of Destiny: /* Other appearances */

2020-10-29T23:09:29Z

Other appearances

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 He, Ahmet and Gail performed backing vocals on ''[[Black Tongue]]'' on [[Gene Simmons]]' album '''Asshole'' (2004).
-Dweezil wrote one track on ''bbg elements'' (2002) by X-Ray Dog. He wrote the foreword to [[Co de Kloet]]'s book ''[[Frank & Co]]''.
+Dweezil wrote one track on ''bbg elements'' (2002) by X-Ray Dog. He wrote the foreword to the book [[Co de Kloet|Frank & Co]].
 ==Zappa about Dweezil==

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	[[File:Frank Zappa and Dweezil.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Frank Zappa and Dweezil, 1980.]]		[[File:Frank Zappa and Dweezil.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Frank Zappa and Dweezil, 1980.]]

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 * ''[[Confessions]]'' (1991)
 * ''Automatic (2000)
-* ''[[Go with What You Know]]'' (2006)
+* ''[https://www.discogs.com/Dweezil-Zappa-Go-With-What-You-Know/release/1777321 Go with What You Know]'' (2006)
 * ''[[Via Zammata']]'' (2015)

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 ''"When Dweezil was born, Gail decided to have 'natural childbirth.' At that time, the only hospital in Los Angeles that would allow this process to occur with a Dad in the delivery room was Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. When it was time for the Big Delivery, we experienced a slight delay -- we had to fill out a mass of papers before they'd let us in, riddled with irrelevant questions like: "What religion are you?" Gail looked at me and said, "What do we put?" I said, "Musician." That was the first thing that upset the admitting nurse. The second thing to spoil her afternoon was when she asked: "What are you going to name the child?" Gail said, "Dweezil." Gail's got a funny-looking little toe which had been the source of family amusement so often that it had acquired a 'technical name': it wasn't really a toe -- it was a "Dweezil." I thought then, and continue to think today, that Dweezil is a nice name. Fuck the nurse if she didn't like it. The nurse pleaded and pleaded with us not to name the child Dweezil. Labor pains and all, she was going to make Gail stand there unless we gave her another name to put on the form. I couldn't see letting Gail suffer just to argue the point, so I rattled off an assortment of first names of guys we knew: IAN (Underwood) DONALD (Van Vliet) CALVIN (Schenkel) EUCLID (James "Motorhead" Sherwood). As a result, Dweezil's original birth certificate name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The nurse thought that was okay. In spite of this harrowing experience, we always called him Dweezil. He was five years old when he discovered the real names on his birth certificate. (I was in my mid-twenties when I found out! Up until the time I had to get a passport for the first European tour, I thought my name was Francis -- a name I had always hated. In order to get the passport, I had to present my birth certificate -- a mysterious document I had never seen before. My mother mailed it to me from California, and on it, much to my delight, was a name OTHER THAN FRANCIS -- well, it wasn't that good -- "Frank" isn't much of a bargain -- but I had thought for years, even printing it on album covers, that I was Francis Vincent Zappa Junior. How could I be such a fool?) Dweezil was very upset, and demanded that steps be taken to rectify this tragedy. We hired an attorney and had his name legally changed to Dweezil."'' - ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]''.
 ==See also==
 * [[Dweezil Goes Out To Lunch.]]

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 He played on ''Heart Like A Gun'' (1989) by Fiona, ''Your LLast Orison'' (1992) by End Amen, ''Crazy Enough To Sing To You'' (1996) by Warren Demartini, ''Angelica'' (1997) by Angelica, ''In A Metal Mood - No More Mr. Nice Guy'' (1997) by [[Pat Boone]], ''Bumblefoot: 9.11'' (2001), ''Cake and Pie'' (2002) and ''Hello Lisa'' (2002) by Lisa Loeb, ''Todd Rundgren & His Friends'' (2002) by Todd Rundgren, ''Prince of Darkness'' (2005) by [[Ozzy Osbourne]], ''Guitar Zeus: Conquering Heroes'' (2009) by Carmen Appice, ''Stardust'' (2010) by Thierry Deruelle, ''A Kiss Before You Go'' (2011) by Katzenjammer, ''Freak Guitar - the Smorgasbord'' (2013) by [[Mattias Eklundh]], [[Morgan Ågren]]'s ''Conundrum'' (2013), ''Who Gives a Funk'' (2016) by Oz Noy, ''Grand Architects Of The Universe'' (2017) by Carl King and Derek Smalls' ''Smalls Change'' (2018). He and Moon played on ''Fear Of A Punk Planet'' (1991)
-He, Ahmet and Gail performed backing vocals on ''[[Black Tongue]]'' on [[Gene Simmons]]' album ''[[Asshole]]'' (2004).
+He, Ahmet and Gail performed backing vocals on ''[[Black Tongue]]'' on [[Gene Simmons]]' album '''Asshole'' (2004).
 Dweezil wrote one track on ''bbg elements'' (2002) by X-Ray Dog. He wrote the foreword to [[Co de Kloet]]'s book ''[[Frank & Co]]''.

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 * ''[[Havin' A Bad Day]]'' (1986)
 * ''[[My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (The Album)|My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama]]'' (1988)
-* ''Confessions (1991)
+* ''[[Confessions]]'' (1991)
 * ''Automatic (2000)
 * ''[[Go with What You Know]]'' (2006)

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 [[File:Frank Zappa and Dweezil.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa and Dweezil, 1980.]]
-'''Dweezil Zappa''' (September 5, 1969) is  Frank and [[Gail Zappa]]'s second child and oldest son. He is the brother of [[Moon Zappa]], [[Ahmet Zappa]] and [[Diva Zappa]]. Dweezil was named after one of Gail's toes. He was originally named '''IAN''' (after [[Ian Underwood]]) '''DONALD''' (after [[Don Van Vliet]]) '''CALVIN''' (after [[Cal Schenkel]]) '''EUCLID''' (after  [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood|Euclid James Sherwood]]).
+'''Dweezil Zappa''' (September 5, 1969) is  Frank and [[Gail Zappa]]'s second child and oldest son. He is the brother of [[Moon Zappa]], [[Ahmet Zappa]] and [[Diva Zappa]]. Dweezil was named after one of Gail's toes. He was originally named '''IAN''' (after [[Ian Underwood]]) '''DONALD''' (after [[Captain Beefheart|Don Van Vliet]]) '''CALVIN''' (after [[Cal Schenkel]]) '''EUCLID''' (after  [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood|Euclid James Sherwood]]).
 He is a musician having played guitar from an early age. [[Eddie Van Halen]] was a personal friend since the 1980s. In 2005 Dweezil married Lauren Knudsen.

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 ==Documentary appearances==
-[[File:Dweezil Zappa - Zappa Plays Zappa advert.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa and Dweezil, 1980.]]
+[[File:Dweezil Zappa - Zappa Plays Zappa advert.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa and Dweezil, 2008.]]
 Dweezil was interviewed in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'' (1993), ''[[Ein Leben Als Extravaganza - Das Genie Frank Zappa]]'' (1994) and [[Frank Scheffer]]'s documentaries ''[[Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die]]'' (2000), ''[[Frank Zappa Phase II: The Big Note]]'' (2002) and ''[[Frank Zappa: Pioneer Of Future Music, parts 1 & 2]]'' (2007), as well ''[[Cry Baby:The Pedal that Rocks the World]]''.
 ==Own recordings==

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	Dweezil was interviewed in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'' (1993), ''[[Ein Leben Als Extravaganza - Das Genie Frank Zappa]]'' (1994) and [[Frank Scheffer]]'s documentaries ''[[Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die]]'' (2000), ''[[Frank Zappa Phase II: The Big Note]]'' (2002) and ''[[Frank Zappa: Pioneer Of Future Music, parts 1 & 2]]'' (2007), as well ''[[Cry Baby:The Pedal that Rocks the World]]''.		Dweezil was interviewed in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'' (1993), ''[[Ein Leben Als Extravaganza - Das Genie Frank Zappa]]'' (1994) and [[Frank Scheffer]]'s documentaries ''[[Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die]]'' (2000), ''[[Frank Zappa Phase II: The Big Note]]'' (2002) and ''[[Frank Zappa: Pioneer Of Future Music, parts 1 & 2]]'' (2007), as well ''[[Cry Baby:The Pedal that Rocks the World]]''.