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 Frank Zappa: ''"Well, let me set you straight on a couple of things that I see slightly differently than you do, partly because I'm 50 years old and you're not – and I don't want to sound like grandpa. But to reinforce the negative side of the activities of the press: I lived as an entertainer through one era of rock 'n' roll where the rock press was absolutely the blowboy of the industry. In the '70s, when corporate rock really blossomed into this stinking apparition it became, companies were giving cocaine, girls, money, junkets and all this stuff to famous rock writers, just greasing them from one end to the other so they would write nonstop, wonderful glowing articles about groups that needed to be promoted. It was pure grease, okay? I detect from the way that this interview is going that you have a little bit more integrity – a lot more integrity – and more of an intellectual edge to what you're trying to do than the people I had to talk to in the world of rock in the last 25 years. I mean it as a compliment, I'm not trying to stroke you or any thing. I find it refreshing to talk to anybody connected with a music magazine – whether he's a little motherfuckin' kike or not [laughter] – who has an idea of the relationship between music, the industry and the realworld. Because most interviews you do, people are just talking about ... nothing. No-thing! I put up with that for too long. And it wasn't until 1985, when I went to Washington to testify in front of the Congress, that I started having the chance to talk to people in the press who were not from rock 'n' roll, just regular writers, who were intelligent, normal human beings. I started doing fewer rock interviews, and my attitude toward the press changed at the moment where I didn't have to do so many conversations with the people who determined whether or not you were hot. The world of hot – I don't give a fuck about the world of hot. And that's all they care about in that world, okay? So I wouldn't be too quick to defend the rock press because of its rather ... checkered past. And it may have evolved, and it may have matured, might have even been perfected by now, who knows? I don't read it any more. But if you're any example of what's out there in terms of rock interviewers, I'm gratified. Especially if you're going to get a call like that from Eddie Van Halen's manager, you must be doing something right."''
 - [[Poetic Justice]]
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 As radio deejay during [[KSJO, San Jose]] Frank Zappa played Van Halen's ''"Everybody Want Some"''.
-Eddie Van Halen was mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
+Eddie Van Halen was mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
 ==Quotes by Zappa about Van Halen==

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-'''Eddie Van Halen''' (January 26, 1955, Amsterdam, [[The Netherlands]]) is an Dutch-born, American rock singer and guitarist. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the band Van Halen.
+[[File:Eddie Van Halen.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Eddie Van Halen in Zappa's house, photographed during an early 1990s interview by Dweezil Zappa for an unidentified guitar magazine.]]
-He is a personal friend of [[Dweezil Zappa]]. Van Halen produced Dweezil's debut album too.
+'''Eddie Van Halen''' (Amsterdam, [[The Netherlands]], January 26, 1955 - Santa Monica, [[California]], 6 October 2020) was a Dutch-born, American rock singer and guitarist. He was best known as the lead guitarist of the band Van Halen. He also played the guitar solo on [[Michael Jackson]]'s song ''Beat It''.
-Originally Van Halen would have inducted Frank Zappa in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994, but he turned down the offer, because he doesn't do those kind of things. ([[Zappa Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame]]).
+==Eddie Van Halen and Frank Zappa==
-As radio deejay during [[KSJO, San Jose]] Frank Zappa played Van Halen's "Everybody Want Some".
+As a junior in Pasadena City, California, Van Halen followed scoring and arranging in a class by Dr. Fischer, whom Van Halen claimed had also been a teacher to Frank Zappa. <ref>http://www.vhnd.com/2011/08/06/eddie-van-halen-opens-up-in-his-first-guitar-world-interview-from-1981/</ref> Originally Van Halen wasn't a fan of Zappa. In a 1982 interview he claimed that Zappa's guitar playing ''"doesn't move me. It sounds typewriter-ish, though I don't want to knock the guy."'' <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5NEBfOoYN8</ref>
 Eddie Van Halen was mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
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 '''Do you play any of this [[Eddie Van Halen]] harmonic stuff on the other side of the nut?<br>
-''"Oh, I can. But everybody now is specializing in that. It's the new hip thing to do ... including my son Dweezil. He's very good at it. Steve Vai taught him a few of those tricks. It's a nice sound, but it sounds so much like a gimmick. It's so freeze-dried because it's such a customary modern-day fuzztone syndrome, which is not part of my musical language. It's something that I can appreciate if somebody else does it, but it's not me."'' - [[Frank Zappa: Guitar Player]]
+''"Oh, I can. But everybody now is specializing in that. It's the new hip thing to do ... including my son Dweezil. He's very good at it. [[Steve Vai]] taught him a few of those tricks. It's a nice sound, but it sounds so much like a gimmick. It's so freeze-dried because it's such a customary modern-day fuzztone syndrome, which is not part of my musical language. It's something that I can appreciate if somebody else does it, but it's not me."'' - [[Frank Zappa: Guitar Player]]
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