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Dweezil Zappa dedicated the song " Willie the Pimp " to Beefheart at the " Zappa Plays Zappa " show at the Beacon Theater in New York City on the day of his death, while Jeff Bridges exclaimed " Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!
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Dweezil and Zappa
* Restoration of Jimi Hendrix-Frank Zappa Stratocaster With images, video and first-hand account of the experience, by Dweezil Zappa.
In an interview with Glide Magazines May 2010 issue Dweezil Zappa commented that Eddie had played him " new stuff from his record ".
At the 51st Grammy Awards ( 2009 ), the tribute act Zappa Plays Zappa ( led by Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa ) earned an award for their performance of Frank's instrumental song " Peaches en Regalia ".
Dweezil and song
Many dates on the nearly year-long tour included Dweezil Zappa's Zappa Plays Zappa band as an opening act with Corea occasionally appearing in Zappa's band guesting on keyboards for a song or two.
Dweezil and Plays
In February 2012, Thunes performed in California with Dweezil Zappa and the " Zappa Plays Zappa " band.
In 1997, Dweezil Zappa assembled another compilation of Zappa's guitar-based songs and solos, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute.
In 2006, " The Black Page " was featured on Zappa Plays Zappa-Tour de Frank, an ambitious effort by Dweezil Zappa to bring Zappa music to the stage again, played by himself and a new band.
Dweezil and show
The music for the show was provided by a diverse set of musicians, including Mark Mothersbaugh, The Residents, Todd Rundgren, Danny Elfman ( who provided the score for both of the Pee-wee movies ), Mitchell Froom, Van Dyke Parks, George Clinton and Dweezil Zappa with Scott Thunes ( spelled ' Tunis ' in the credits ).
Loeb has appeared in two television series, Dweezil & Lisa, a weekly culinary adventure for the Food Network and Number 1 Single, a reality show on the E!
On January 16, 2004, Loeb's reality show Dweezil & Lisa first aired on Food Network, in which she shared title billing with then-boyfriend, Dweezil Zappa.
Barbara Hooks of The Age commented that the show " draws a long bow, cutting awkwardly from Dweezil playing charity golf in Chicago to Lisa on a confectionary crawl of the windy city.
Dweezil and on
In 2000, Loeb participated in the Ozzy Osbourne tribute album Bat Head Soup performing " Goodbye to Romance " with Dweezil Zappa on guitar.
The video was a hit on MTV, as it featured cameos of Rodney Dangerfield, as well as many well-known rock musicians, including Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Ratt, Slash and Steven Adler of Guns N ' Roses, Billy Idol, Steve Vai, Dweezil Zappa, Richie Sambora, Jon Bon Jovi and Tommy Lee, and a raunchy " roll on the mat " dance with Jessica Hahn.
* " Lizards " by J. Holland ( story ) and Ron Wilber ( art )— This series depicted the day-to-day life of Dweezil, a teenage anthropomorphic lizard, his family and friends, set on an alternate ( future?
Rock suggested his friend, LA session bassist Christopher Maloney, who previously worked with Dweezil Zappa, to handle the bass duties on II.
He sang backing vocals on both Dweezil Zappa's album Confessions and the Danger Danger album, Screw It !, along with his Extreme bandmates Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt.
Dweezil and death
According to the liner notes, Frank's son Dweezil talked with his father shortly before Frank's death about the songs Frank had written that he would consider to be his " signature " tunes.
Dweezil and Bridges
Many of the plots revolved around silly action genre clichés and movie parodies, with many of the feature roles played by actors and celebrities such as Mark Hamill, Alan Thicke, Erik Estrada, Gary Coleman, John Salley, Joey Buttafuoco, Patty Hearst, Adam Carolla, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, George Takei, Gilbert Gottfried, Walter Koenig, Pat Morita, Anson Williams, Christopher Darden, Maureen McCormick, Lee Majors, David Arquette, Musetta Vander, Angelica Bridges, Ian Ziering, RuPaul, and Dweezil Zappa.
Zappa and dedicated
Zappa was first employed by the Sicilian Count Catani, to whom he dedicated his first work, 6 Trio sonatas.
Zappa and song
Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".
Deep Purple's famous song " Smoke on the Water " tells of the events of 1971, when a Frank Zappa fan with a flare gun set the Montreux Casino on fire.
Particularly notable is their song " Muffin Man ", included on the Zappa / Beefheart Bongo Fury album, as well as Zappa's compilation album Strictly Commercial ( 1995 ).
The song tells a true story of an adolescent acquaintance of composer Frank Zappa who habitually saved his own extracted mucus on the pane of his bedroom window.
The film's producers had initially approached Frank Zappa to ask him if they could make a film based on his song.
* " Village of the Sun " ( 1974 ): A song by Frank Zappa about " rasing turkeys " as Zappa said during the song's introduction.
Frank Zappa famously, and perhaps deliberately, mispronounced the city's name in the song Camarillo Brillo, also about a stay in the institution, but in this case to get clean.
In December 1976, on one SNL episode, Pardo participated in a musical performance by Frank Zappa, reciting a verse of the song " I'm the Slime ".
Pardo subsequently reprised this role on the live-recorded version of the song for the Zappa in New York album ( it was not featured on the first release in 1978, but it appears on the 1993 CD re-release ).
He also provided narration for the songs " The Illinois Enema Bandit " and " Punky's Whips " ( a business dispute between Zappa and his then record company led to " Punky's Whips " being removed from the 1978 album, but the song was reinstated on the 1993 CD ).
They recorded one album, New Hat, which included a cover of the Oingo Boingo song " Try to Believe ", original songs, and covers of songs by Frank Zappa and other artists.
Frank Zappa referenced the group in the lyrics of the song " Status Back Baby " on his second album, Absolutely Free.
Belew toured with the Zappa band and appeared on Zappa's 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti-most notably performing a Bob Dylan impersonation on the song " Flakes ".
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