Mike Keneally
Born 20 December 1961 in New York.
Mike Keneally provided "stunt guitar", synthesizer, and vocal for Broadway The Hard Way, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Make A Jazz Noise Here, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6, Trance-Fusion and Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show. Mike provided "preliminary research" for Frank Zappa Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa.
On 23 May 1989, Keneally was one of several associates of Zappa who attended a panel discussion between Pierre Boulez and Frank Zappa at the UCLA, moderated by David Raksin (see An Evening With Pierre Boulez And Frank Zappa). [1] [2][3]
Keneally plays guitar and sings on Zappa's Universe (the CD) and Zappa's Universe (The Film).
Zappa about Mike Keneally
"One of the reasons why I like Keneally so much, is because he has this fabulous ability to memorize. I have a fabulous ability to memorize, too, not the same stuff that he does, or the same way that he does it." Frank Zappa - They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1, Den Simms, Eric Buxton, Rob Samler, Society Pages, April 1990.
Interviews
- Hats Off To Mike Keneally (1993)
- Mike Keneally is interviewed in Frank Zappa, Musician, February 1994
