Latest about Frank Zappa
Steve Vai on Frank Zappa's prophetic words about his career
Vai had was a young, awestruck kid when he joined Zappa's band. Frank saw something else
How Jimi Hendrix helped the Alice Cooper Band score their first record deal
Jimi's assistance kept a friend out of jail and introduced Cooper to the man who would help his group find fame
Frank Zappa’s famous Baby Snakes SG is heading to auction. Here’s why it matters
The heavily modded SG copy was a mainstay in his arsenal and is expected to sell for half a million dollars
Steve Vai on the theft that got him Frank Zappa’s number — and the job that changed his life
Vai was just 16 and called Zappa repeatedly over the next year until he got through to him, putting his guitar career on the launch pad
John Lennon looked to Frank Zappa for career guidance. Zappa said the former Beatles guitarist got considerably more
Zappa accused Lennon of repackaging his song “King Kong” as if he and Yoko Ono had written it themselves
Eric Clapton on the one guitarist who blew him away onstage
The pair had become great friends, but when Slowhand stepped up for a guest spot, he got thrown for a loop
It's ugly and beat to hell, but Adrian Belew's Stratocaster is behind landmark albums
The guitarist told us the history of his Strat, which he bought off the wall after his previous axe disappeared
Dweezil Zappa on the time he taught Eddie Van Halen how to play one of his dad’s most difficult riffs
Dweezil had looked up to Eddie all his life, but the apprentice became the master one night in 2010
Dweezil Zappa reveals the ins and outs of Frank Zappa's futuristic setup
Though guitar gear, of course, has advanced in leaps and bounds since Frank Zappa's heyday, the elder Zappa enthusiastically pushed its technological limits
"I showed Eddie Van Halen some of what I had to learn in order to pull off Frank’s music... Eddie said, 'Who would've thought that you'd be giving me a guitar lesson!': How Dweezil Zappa took EVH inside his father's playing, and left him in awe
In this vintage GP interview, Dweezil also reflected on the idiosyncratic nature of his father's soloing, and how the elder Zappa worked around his technical limitations
