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Frank Zappa: ”I think my playing is probably more derived from folk music – Middle Eastern music, Indian music, stuff like that”
The guitarist, composer and trailblazer opens up on first guitars, primary influences and the search for better gear
Steve Vai reflects on working with Frank Zappa: "If you didn’t have the goods, you didn’t last. Frank expected everybody to rise to the occasion"
The virtuoso details his 'stunt guitar' days spent playing, transcribing and recording the most difficult compositions in Frank Zappa's oeuvre
Mike Keneally on working with Frank Zappa: “My mind was being blown on a daily basis”
The guitarist details how his stint with Frank Zappa's band in the late '80s was his “first professional music experience of any kind”
Alex Winter takes us behind the scenes of his extensive Frank Zappa documentary, Zappa
Wading through Zappa's exhaustive audio/video archive, Winter puts together a portrait of a visionary guitarist and artist at work
Weezer fan the flames of rock 'n' roll in Australian Guitar #143, out today
Now this is one fiery new issue!
Frank Zappa's last ever US show set for release as a live album
Listen to I Ain't Got No Heart, from Zappa's performance at New York's Nassau Coliseum in 1988
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Frank Zappa once told Steve Vai his guitar tone sounded “like an electric ham sandwich”
“I said, ‘Why? I've got the Strat, I've got the Marshall...” Vai recalls
