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2 days ago · [123] In 2016, Dweezil Zappa explained a distinctive element of his father's guitar improvisation technique was relying heavily on upstrokes much more than many other guitarists, who are more likely to use downstrokes with their picking. [3]
2 days ago · This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa, including all those credited to the Mothers of Invention. During his lifetime, Zappa released 62 albums. Since 1994, the Zappa Family Trust has released 67 posthumous albums as of June 2024, making a total of 129 albums/album sets.
2 days ago · Vai was a featured artist on the 1993 release Zappa's Universe, and in 2006, Vai appeared as a special guest on Dweezil Zappa's Zappa Plays Zappa tour; both projects won Vai a Grammy Award. [30] After moving on from Zappa's employ in 1983, Vai bought a house in Sylmar, Los Angeles, where he built his first professional studio. [31]
3 days ago · 6 October 2024. The Mike Keneally Report play On the Rocks, Helsinki, Finland. 8 October 2024. Beat (Belew-Vai-Levin-Carey) play Carpenter Theater in Dominion Energy Center, Richmond, VA, USA. 9 October 2024. Beat (Belew-Vai-Levin-Carey) play Count Basie Center, Red Bank, NJ, USA. 10 October 2024.
3 days ago · Dweezil Zappa has revealed he once got to record his friend and mentor Eddie Van Halen at the latter’s renowned 5150 Studios – describing the moment as a true ‘role reversal’ experience and noting he even had to remind the late great guitar icon how to play some of his parts.
3 days ago · Also of note this month is Day of Reckoning, a politically charged call to arms from Warren Haynes featuring plenty of the singeing Les Paul licks that’ve made him a legend, and Franz Ferdinand’s Audacious, a delectable bit of nervy, Television-indebted twin-guitar work that’ll have you remembering downloading The Strokes’ Is This It on Napster.
3 days ago · HUMZA Yousaf has been awarded for his role in public service at the Scottish Asian Awards. At a ceremony in Glasgow on Sunday night, Yousaf received the Bashir Maan CBE and Bashir Ahmed MSP Award for Public Service and urged the crowd: “Do not stop talking about Gaza and Lebanon.”.
