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'''Ray White''': "I'd never heard of Zappa in 1976, but one day a guy asked me over to his house in the San Francisco projects and listen to this record. He put on 'Montana' and I thought, the guy who wrote this has to be the craziest white boy on the face of the planet. A week later, purely by coincidence, I was invited to audition with Frank. I walked in wearing my clogs, white beach pants, dashiki, and an afro about the size of Manhattan. He thought I was a Black Panther. I think I got the gig because I didn't know who he was."
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'''Ray White''': "I'd never heard of Zappa in 1976, but one day a guy asked me over to his house in the San Francisco projects and listen to this record. He put on 'Montana' and I thought, the guy who wrote this has to be the craziest white boy on the face of the planet. A week later, purely by coincidence, I was invited to audition with Frank. I walked in wearing my clogs, white beach pants, dashiki, and an Afro about the size of Manhattan. He thought I was a Black Panther. I think I got the gig because I didn't know who he was."
  
 
Ray White provided guitar and/or vocals for:
 
Ray White provided guitar and/or vocals for:
 
*[[Zappa In New York]]
 
*[[Zappa In New York]]
 
*[[Tinseltown Rebellion]]
 
*[[Tinseltown Rebellion]]
*[[Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar]] set
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*[[Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar]] set
 
*[[You Are What You Is]]
 
*[[You Are What You Is]]
 
*[[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]
 
*[[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]
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*[[Does Humor Belong In Music?]]
 
*[[Does Humor Belong In Music?]]
 
*[[Jazz From Hell]]
 
*[[Jazz From Hell]]
*[[Guitar]]
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*[[Frank Zappa: Guitar]]
 
*[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1]]
 
*[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1]]
 
*[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3]]
 
*[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3]]
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*[[Buffalo]]
 
*[[Buffalo]]
 
*[[The Dub Room Special! (The Album)|The Dub Room Special]]
 
*[[The Dub Room Special! (The Album)|The Dub Room Special]]
*[[Beat The Boots]] series disks  
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*[[:Category:Beat The Boots|Beat The Boots]] series disks  
 
:*[[As An Am (BTB)|As An Am]]
 
:*[[As An Am (BTB)|As An Am]]
 
:*[[Conceptual Continuity (BTB)|Conceptual Continuity]]
 
:*[[Conceptual Continuity (BTB)|Conceptual Continuity]]
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<!-- {Any hard biographical data on Ray? Anyone?) -->
 
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In summer 2007 Ray White joined [[Dweezil Zappa]] as a special guest for the [[Zappa Plays Zappa]] Tour.
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In summer 2007 Ray White joined [[Dweezil Zappa]] as a special guest for the [[Zappa Plays Zappa]] Tour. He wrote the liner notes in the sleeve of the album ''[[Zappa In New York 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]]'' in 2018.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==

Latest revision as of 15:23, 30 November 2021

Ray White: "I'd never heard of Zappa in 1976, but one day a guy asked me over to his house in the San Francisco projects and listen to this record. He put on 'Montana' and I thought, the guy who wrote this has to be the craziest white boy on the face of the planet. A week later, purely by coincidence, I was invited to audition with Frank. I walked in wearing my clogs, white beach pants, dashiki, and an Afro about the size of Manhattan. He thought I was a Black Panther. I think I got the gig because I didn't know who he was."

Ray White provided guitar and/or vocals for:

Ray can be seen in the following Zappa Movies:


In summer 2007 Ray White joined Dweezil Zappa as a special guest for the Zappa Plays Zappa Tour. He wrote the liner notes in the sleeve of the album Zappa In New York 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition in 2018.

Links

  • [1] - information about Ray White
  • Ray White article in Wikipedia