Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 05. September 1969 |
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Beschreibung | Dweezil Zappa (geboren am 5. September 1969 als Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa) ist ein amerikanischer Rockgitarrist und gelegentlicher Schauspieler. Er ist der Sohn des Musikkomponisten und -interpreten Frank Zappa. Dweezil kam schon früh mit der Musikindustrie in Berührung und entwickelte eine starke Affinität zum Gitarrenspiel und zur Musikproduktion. Dweezil konnte direkt von Gitarristen wie Steve Vai und Eddie Van Halen lernen und veröffentlichte seine erste Single (produziert von Eddie Van Halen) im Alter von 12 Jahren. |
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.
The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.
On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.
I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
