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Steve Vai and Frank Zappa
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"

By Guitarist editors Published

The virtuoso details his 'stunt guitar' days spent playing, transcribing and recording the most difficult compositions in Frank Zappa's oeuvre

Guitarists
Frank Zappa and Mike Keneally
Mike Keneally on working with Frank Zappa: “My mind was being blown on a daily basis”

By Guitarist editors Published

The guitarist details how his stint with Frank Zappa's band in the late '80s was his “first professional music experience of any kind”

Guitarists
Frank Zappa
Alex Winter takes us behind the scenes of his extensive Frank Zappa documentary, Zappa

By Guitarist editors Published

Wading through Zappa's exhaustive audio/video archive, Winter puts together a portrait of a visionary guitarist and artist at work

Artists
Australian Guitar #143
Weezer fan the flames of rock 'n' roll in Australian Guitar #143, out today

By Australian Guitar Published

Now this is one fiery new issue!

Magazines
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Frank Zappa's last ever US show set for release as a live album

By Sam Roche Published

Listen to I Ain't Got No Heart, from Zappa's performance at New York's Nassau Coliseum in 1988

Music Releases
[L-R] Steve Vai and Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa once told Steve Vai his guitar tone sounded “like an electric ham sandwich”

By Sam Roche Published

“I said, ‘Why? I've got the Strat, I've got the Marshall...” Vai recalls

Guitarists
Frank Zappa performs on stage at Ahoy on 15th May 1982 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The life and times of Frank Zappa – composer, satirist and towering giant of the electric guitar

By Alan di Perna Published

Looking back at the career of the one-of-a-kind musician and guitar visionary

Electric Guitars
There's a new Frank Zappa documentary
Watch the official trailer for Zappa, the first all-access documentary on Frank Zappa’s life and career

By Richard Bienstock Published

The new film was directed by Bill & Ted star Alex Winter, and features Steve Vai and Mike Keneally

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Inside Dweezil Zappa's mission impossible: performing his father's Hot Rats album live

By Henry Yates Published

A half-century after the album’s original release, Zappa embarked on the ultimate labour of love when his Zappa Plays Zappa project planned to tour Hot Rats

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Get a comprehensive look at Frank Zappa's guitars, amps, effects and more in a new book, Zappa Gear

By Richard Bienstock Published

Zappa's diverse, often heavily modified collection is chronicled in more than 180 studio photos

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