Dweezil Zappa
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Footage of Dweezil Zappa and Jack Black’s cover of Crazy Train, featuring Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Rasta’ guitar, was never released – but now it's been unearthed
By Phil Weller published
Filmed on the set of On The Spot, it brings together two pieces of gear with interesting stories to tell

Dweezil Zappa showcases the Kramer Eddie Van Halen gifted him when he was 12 years old
By Jackson Maxwell published
Zappa was set to perform Runnin’ With the Devil at his middle school talent show, and was struggling with his guitar. Then, somehow, Eddie Van Halen showed up at his band's soundcheck...

Dweezil Zappa shares the surprising beginner guitar lessons he learned from Eddie Van Halen
By Matt Owen published
Zappa first met Van Halen when he was just 12 years old, and it wasn’t long before he was receiving lessons from the guitar god – on his legendary Frankenstein

Dweezil Zappa says he recorded Eddie Van Halen playing a “greatest hits guitar solo” at 5150 – and had to give EVH pointers
By Matt Parker published
The session was the result of an unreleased ‘audio movie’ concept of Zappa’s in which he envisioned solo contributions from Brian May and Angus Young

Dweezil Zappa on the first time he met Eddie Van Halen – after the guitar great unexpectedly called him
By Phil Weller published
A Van Halen-obsessed 12-year-old Dweezil Zappa was minding his own business on a regular school night, when he received a call from the guitar legend himself...

Dweezil Zappa reveals the one Frank Zappa song that stumped Eddie Van Halen
By Janelle Borg published
Eddie Van Halen's decades-long friendship with the younger Zappa included gifting the 12-year-old Dweezil a 1982 Kramer guitar

Dweezil Zappa's newest signature guitar is here – and it’s as wacky as you’d expect
By Phil Weller published
A faithful recreation of the guitarist’s heavily modded Lynx model, it comes packed with the kind of quirks you’d expect from Zappa Jr.

Dweezil Zappa issues update on his What the Hell Was I Thinking? mega-track
By Phil Weller published
The track features solos from “at least 40” superstar guitarists, and its mastermind says finishing the 35-years-in-the-making mammoth is now a big focus
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