ccxxi. ZAPPA, Dweezil: Thunder Pimp

ccxxi. ZAPPA, Dweezil (1969-       )

Thunder Pimp (2006)
DZ, guitar
(3:39)

from: Go With What You Know.

It took the Dweez a long time to realize that his father was the genius that he was. At first, all DZ wanted to do was to play like Eddie Van Halen (not that there's anything wrong with that!)

Of course, his famous dad could make things happen -- like introducing his son to Eddie and Steve Vai.

And learn to play the guitar he did.

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His birth certificate says Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The nurse refused to put down "Dweezil" on the form, and he later went to the appropriate bureaucrat and had it legally changed back to Dweezil.

• In the 1980's, he was working as a VJ on MTV, but got fired for bad-mouthing the music channel on The Howard Stern Show.
• It was the same year he made this album that he began Zappa Plays Zappa.
• He dated Lisa Loeb, married and divorced Lauren Knudson, and has two kids from that marriage (Zola Frank and Ceylon Indira).
• When Gail died in 2015, Frank's four kids were put in a terrible position, due to her leaving 30% of the estate to two kids (Ahmet and Diva), and 20% to the other two (Moon Unit and Dweezil).
• Ahmet actually sent his brother a cease-and-desist order when Dweezil was going on tour with "Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa." In response, DZ renamed the tour "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the Fuck He Wants -- The Cease and Desist Tour."
• In May 2018, the four kids said they had all made up.
• Moon:
• "Gail managed to make 20 million dollars disappear with the team she had in place, the team the ZFT (Zappa Family Trust) has lovingly kept in place. Does NO-ONE think this is INSANE? Why keep the same team that sank the ship, especially if a secret deal was struck a year earlier with no financial improvements ... OR is there secret cash in offshort accounts or secret LLC's in all their names? I was never paid for Valley Girl ... I think that might have brought in a little green ..."
• The house I visited in June 1989 on Woodrow Wilson Boulevard was sold to Lady Gaga, who has since re-sold it ... Moon again:
• "I wanted to turn our childhood home into a bed and breakfast/museum/retreat cnter where fans could pilgrimage and artists could record on sacred soil. I wanted to cook meals for you in the real Dangerous Kitchen and teach you yoga in my childhood living room. I wanted Dweezil to give you a master class on music in the home studio playing the guitars he inherited. I wanted Ahmet to give you a tour of his old bedroom and let you slide down the firepole and I hoped you'd watch Bruce Willis movies with Diva in her old bedroom with the glitter floors while she kept steady hands diligently continuing to knit her mile long scarf. I'm sorry the fans will only have 'Zappa approved' dry goods and experiences from two of us instead of four. I wanted to write and direct a bio pic and do a 3-D doc on my dad and record an album of songs of my dad's I curated that girls and prudes like me might like with Pharrell Williams producing. I wanted to write and assemble the first four person family memoir about our awesome dad. Just some of my stillborn ideas ... Oh well.