Classic Rock

 UK

 
Classic Rock is dedicated to radio format of classic rock ... focusing on key bands from the 1960s through early 1990s. One of the UK's best selling music magazines. (wikipedia)

2009 September

No. 136

 

The Impossible Made Possible
Frank Zappa

By Dweezil Zappa, p 83


Special collector's issue "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" chosen by the 100 greatest living guitarists. Issue had 4 collectible covers: Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards and Frank Zappa.

One page on Frank Zappa with commentary by Dweezil Zappa. No Zappa content on the CD.

Russian edition of "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time".

 

Source: slime.oofytv.set

 

2010 July

No. 146

 


The issue included free poster mag The 50 Albums That Built Prog Rock. Freak Out is listed as first entry.


Excerpt from interview with W.A.S.P frontman Blackie Lawless, page 40:

FRANK ZAPPA

When the PMRC stuff was going on he really ran point on that whole thing for everybody. He had been through censorship stuff in the 60s and he had seen this monster rear its ugly head before. He knew it was about guys seeking a higher office, it wasn’t about censorship. We didn’t, we were kids, we were new. The thing I got off of him a few years later was I realised that he was running point for us. Specifically he was catching all the hell, he was paving that path for us to do the music we were doing without really giving it a lot of thought. Without thinking about pressure or being molested, so to speak.

I ran into him about a year before he died. I sat down and told him: "I want to thank you for what you did. I understand now why you did what you did." He was very humble about it; he just shrugged his shoulders and was like, "Hey, I was just doing my job."