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There are more intimate names than Zappa. He is automatically associated with the American rock composer and musician Frank Zappa, who gained a reputation as a bourgeois and lateral thinker between the first album (1965) and death by cancer (1993). As if his four children were not biased enough, Zappa gave them bulky names
Ahmet had been teased, because his first name, very unusual for California at the time, rhymed with "vomit" . Moon Unit girl wrote a novel years ago, in which a young woman breaks at the call of his genius father. And Diva, the youngest in the league, has never spoken to her family.
Only the eldest loves his unmistakable name, as Dweezil Zappa said on the occasion of his participation in the Montreux Jazz Festival last year: "I could not imagine have an exchangeable name. My father taught us very early that we are all unique. "
And you do not have to sit face to face with the 48 year olds today to realize that his father 's success has not gone to his head. The sonny boy may have inherited the love of music, but in his almost submissive modesty he is a counterpart to his creator.
Zappa plays Zappa
The guitar had taken him completely into his hands from the age of twelve, says Dweezil Zappa, he also missed the typical phases of adolescence: "I have not smoked a single cigarette in my life and I n & # 39; I have never been drunk. "For that, he listened for years only to his father's music and later developed it for the 80s –
Hardrock, practiced ten hours a day.
Dweezil has long surpassed his father in terms of virtuosity on the sidelines.His melodic and rhythmic approach to improvisation is still far away, Dweezil said: "For this genre of aerial sculptures, as Frank called his solos, my brain did not have the computing power. "
Nevertheless, he was twelve years old the ambitious Zappa project plays Zappa – in order to keep alive the music of his father and make it accessible to younger generations. "On the radio, there is only room for the same five endless songs, so you can only reach new listeners at concerts," shows Dweezil confident in the conversation. Although he knows no patent recipes, how to get such a public into a show?
But whoever visits a concert Zappa Zappa Plays gets exactly what the band's name promises: closer to the original can live since Frank Zappas finish The 1988 turn does not come
Family crash back
Dweezil is a competent hereditary administrator and a pleasantly discreet peddler. Of course, his statements are a little missionary when he says that he wants the world to hear this music. But you can believe that he does not care to fill his own pockets with the work of his father more than 100 albums – on the contrary.
On the one hand, it is an expensive affair, with a large group of seven to travel musicians across the country; not to mention the months of rehearsals where studio albums are meticulously analyzed. On the other hand, with royalties from song rights and sales of goods, much of the income goes to the Zappa Family Trust, where Dweezil has less than a quarter of the total
Despite all the sound fidelity and sound, a concert of Dweezil differs. After lengthy debates with their siblings, they can no longer call themselves "Zappa Plays Zappa" – at a crucial moment in Frank Zappa's concerts: while the senior was not alike, the arrangements and setlists took almost daily their form Apart from guitar solos always innovative, everything is strictly predetermined at Dweezil.
This servile detail, however, is in front of two and a half hours of concerts full of breathtaking compositions such as "Ship arriving too late to save a drowned witch", "Rollo" or "The Black Page" a verifiable criticism Dweezil Zappa lives at the height of his promising family name, certainly in Lörrach
Dweezil Zappa, Saturday, July 28, 8 pm Voice Festival, Marktplatz Lörrach www.stimmen.com
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