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Additionally on page 19 is a short review on Frank Zappa by Barry Miles.

"Where better to hear an authentic tribute to Frank Zappa than at a Zappa Plays Zappa concert, with his son carrying the torch? Dweezil Zappa discusses the pros and cons of a famous surname and other matters with Alan Clayson."

"Dweezil Zappa first leaked info about Gibson's rather delectable new Frank Zappa ® 'Roxy' SG a while back and it certainly drew the crowds when it was displayed at NAMM in January. Now Gibson has finally unleashed it on the world. This heavily modified animal is a reproduction of the early '60s SG Special Zappa played during his legendary shows at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood right down to the finer details. The guitar features a pair of uncovered and enhanced '57 Classic humbuckers with two added mini toggle switches that either split the coils or put them out of phase to access Zappa's signature tones. The SG also boasts a chunky Maestro-style vibrola with Lyre tailpiece for those wig-out moments. A tasteful natural neck with white headstock and faded nitrocellulose Cherry finish give it a truly unique look, too."

Source: Vitaly Zaremba

A stalwart of the British blues-rock scene with years of gigging under his belt and 11 fine albums to his name reveals the vinyl that changed his world.

Frank Zappa Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
This is the album (along with Joe’s Garage 1, 2 & 3) that really got me thinking about what could be done with music and started me playing outside of the pentatonic boxes, so to speak. Although the playing is at times bordering on chaotic, there’s something profoundly musical and melodic about Frank’s solos.

The frontman of Welsh progressive heavy rock trio Godsticks selects the records that shaped his style.

Frank Zappa Broadway The Hard Way
“Full of incredible vocals and an amazing horn section, the ’88 Zappa band was my favourite FZ line-up, and perhaps one of the greatest ever live bands; Rhymin’ Man is a virtuosic band masterclass. Even though FZ is a huge infl uence as a composer, as a guitarist he doesn’t really do it for me, but his clean solo in Any Kind Of Pain is one of my favourites.”

Frank Zappa You Are What You Is
“To the uninitiated, this album was insane – the lyrics were hilarious and the compositions were equally bizarre/intriguing. Discovering Zappa was musically lifechanging, and this album made me realise there are no musical rules that can’t be broken. The borderline-ridiculous Ike Willis vocal break in Beauty Knows No Pain will live with me forever!”

Source: Vitaly Zaremba

It would be incredibly centering to learn flamenco guitar; my fingers sometimes go out of control when I’m improvising. If my fingers were flamenco-trained, I think I’d execute that stuff in the moment with more clarity. A few months after the 1988 Zappa band broke up, Frank surprised me one night by asking, ‘you think you could learn to play flamenco guitar?’ He was interested in forming a kind of world music band. The band never happened, but this question has got me thinking about it.

Source: Vitaly Zaremba

The cockney folk hero talks us through the albums that make him smile…

Frank Zappa Apostrophe
“Zappa simply had everything: great skill as a player, fantastic imagination as a lyricist and an ear for melody that could be reminiscent at one moment of Gershwin, and Cole Porter the next. Controlled eccentricity is the dominant impression I get from what is an album forever in my top 10 of all time.”

The Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo bassist tells G&B about his prog-heavy record collection.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention One Size Fits All
“This period of the Mothers remains my favourite. The stellar line-up saw Zappa pushing the envelope even further, with dense percussive performances by Ruth Underwood and Chester Thompson. Augmenting the studio recordings with live archive material impels the album seamlessly through many dynamism changes. Stand out tracks are Inca Roads and Po-Jama People.”

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FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS Son Of Orange County
Released in 1974, Roxy & Elsewhere comprises music from a series of concerts in Hollywood, Chicago and Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Although the guitar solo on this double ‘live’ LP is actually edited together from more than one show, it features Zappa’s heavily modified SG
Special in full idiosyncratic flow. The ‘Roxy’ SG was recreated by Gibson for a 2013 signature model, complete with uncovered humbuckers, coil split and phase switching.