Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa
Born	September 5, 1969 (1969-09-05) (age 37) Los Angeles, California, United States
Alias(es)	Ian Don Calvin Euclid Zappa
Genre(s)	Rock Heavy metal Hard rock Pop
Affiliation(s)	Z
Years active	1986 - present
Official site	Official website

Dweezil Zappa (born September 5, 1969, in Los Angeles, California) is a rock guitarist. He is the son of Gail and Frank Zappa and the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon Unit, and his two younger siblings Ahmet and Diva. He is the cousin of actress Lala Sloatman.

Dweezil's registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa, although this occurred only because the hospital at which he was born refused to register him under the name Dweezil. The name was a nickname coined by Frank for an oddly-curled pinky-toe of Gail's. He was always called "Dweezil" by his family and was unaware that this was not the name on his birth certificate. Upon this discovery at the age of seven, he insisted on having his nickname become his legal name. Gail and Frank hired an attorney and soon the name Dweezil was official.

In the 1980s, Dweezil worked as a MTV VJ. He also recorded some solo rock albums, as well as playing guitar for other artists. Dweezil can be seen in the music video for Don Johnson's top 40 song, "Heartbeat." He also played co-lead guitar (along with Reb Beach) on Winger's cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Dweezil has said that Eddie Van Halen was his favorite guitar player, and he began copying Van Halen's distinctive guitar style. He also had a part in the futuristic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man as Stevie ("Don't touch that dial!"), and gave his most famous cameo role in Molly Ringwald's brat-pack movie Pretty in Pink as Andi's friend, Simon.

Since the early 1990s, Dweezil is working on a piece of music named 'What The Hell Was I Thinking?'. A 75 minutes piece of music featuring guitar soli by dozens of famous guitar players. The project has suffered from technical difficulties and is has been reworked several times since the '90s. Dweezil said the following in a September 2004 interview with Sound On Sound: "I started recording it on analogue tape almost 13 years ago ... There are probably about 35 guest guitar players on it, everybody from Brian May to Edward van Halen, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young — it's quite a crazy project. I'm still waiting and hoping to record Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page as some of my final guests on there."

In the mid 1990s, he voiced the character Ajax Duckman on the animated series Duckman. He also briefly appeared in the television sitcom "Normal Life" with sister Moon Unit Zappa and former Laverne and Shirley star Cindy Williams. He composed and performed the theme music for The Ben Stiller Show. He also had a small role in the Michael Keaton movie Jack Frost in 1998, along with Moon Unit and musician Henry Rollins.

Dweezil's first serious relationship of note was with Katie Wagner, daughter of actor Robert Wagner, star of the Hart to Hart tv show. Dweezil later went on to have a brief relationship with actress Sharon Stone. For six years, Dweezil dated musician Lisa Loeb. Dweezil and Lisa wrote and performed music together, and even went on tour with Loeb's band. The couple co-hosted the cooking show Dweezil & Lisa on Food Network in 2004. However, the couple broke up in the summer of 2004. Dweezil married fashion stylist Lauren Knudsen on September 3, 2005 in Los Angeles.

In 2006, Dweezil organized the "Zappa Plays Zappa" tour. He assembled a band of young musicians with a view to bring the music of Frank Zappa to a younger audience. The tour also features guest appearances by Steve Vai, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Terry Bozzio. The tour began in Europe in May with dates in the U.S. from June. After a break it continued in the U.S. on October 18, 2006. The 2007 version of the tour is planned to run between July 18 and October 14.

Discography

• Havin' a Bad Day - 1986
• My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama - 1988
• Confessions - 1991
• Shampoohorn - 1994
• Music For Pets - 1996
• Pet Box
• Automatic - 2000
• Go with What You Know - 2006

Notes

1. ^ Dweezil Zappa at NNDB.
2. ^ These were the names of Frank Zappa's musicians and associates Ian Underwood, Donald van Vliet, Calvin Schenkel and Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood; see .

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