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Dweezil Zappa
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Artist: |
Dweezil Zappa |
| Titel: |
"Automatic" |
| Format: |
Album-CD |
| Release Date: |
20.11.2000 |
| Best-No.: |
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| Vertriebe: |
Favored Nation/Zomba |
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Dwee-zil ëZapp- a (n) ...guitar player, roots and influences: Eddie
Van Halen, Steve Vai, Frank Zappa - accomplished musician,
actor...facility for hard rock, compositions often complex, provocative,
witty, acerbic, and ironic.
Au'to-mat'ic (adj.) ...done unthinkingly, as from habit or by reflex.
The new Dweezil Zappa album, is aptly defined and titled AUTOMATIC.
Dweezil's first release under his own name in nearly a decade adds
another chapter to the Zappa family legacy, which has given the world
over thirty years of groundbreaking music, occasional intellectual
enlightenment, and unbridled laughter. And though Dweezil, by his own
admission, may have brought some bridled laughter to many people,
occasionally he has brought laughter to the masses neither bridled nor
unbridled.
All that aside, AUTOMATIC is a great guitar album in the tradition of
all great guitar albums. Not an easy task when you consider that public
perception of Dweezil might be drawn from his stints on television:
('Happy Hour,' 'MTV Live,' 'The Weird Al Show,' 'Second Noah,' 'Mother
Goose Rock ën' Rhyme,' 'Politically Incorrect,' and 'Normal Life,') or
his work in film (the voice of 'Ajax' in 'Duckman,' ' Pretty In Pink,'
'The Running Man' 'Anarchy TV,' 'Happy Hour,' and 'Jack Frost.')
In addition to Dweezil's theatrical endeavors and solo albums, the
thirty-one year old musician is in the midst of a distinguished career
as a sideman, producer, and more recently, an engineer. An informative
discography has been included in this package to emphasize the scope of
his work. Dweezil, in the past few years, has collaborated with his
brother Ahmet in the band Z, which also features the contributions of
drummer Terry Bozzio and bassist Scott Thunes. Ahmet, Scott, and Terry
appear on AUTOMATIC along with Mike Keneally, Blues Saraceno, Joe
Travers, Mark Meadows, Jason Freese, Chris Maloney, 'Dick Cinnamon,'
Bryan Beller, Morgan Agren, and Lisa Loeb.
'The music on AUTOMATIC was recorded very quickly, and has some new
things along with pieces that were recorded as far back as ten years
ago. The record demonstrates how the guitar is an expressive instrument.
You can do things on it that you can't do on other instruments. What I
love most about the guitar is that you can hear certain players and know
within two notes that it's them because their personality is all over
it.
Automatic selected song notes from Dweezil:
-
You're A Mean One Mister Grinch:
"I've always joked about doing a Zappa Family Christmas album, and if it ever happens,
this would definitely be on it. It's a good, dark Christmas song. It
stays
faithful to the original, but also
gets a chance to rock."
Fwakstension:
"The title comes
from the song "Fwak" from my Confessions album. It's an extension
of the intro from that song, hence
the name. It's a very weird song to play. It's all two-handed
tapping with chords in an open-E
tuning. I have no idea how to play it anymore."
Dick Cinnamon's Office:
"This is
an interesting song. It really captures the feeling of being on
terminal hold. It was an excuse
for me to write insipid hold music. It's a crowd pleaser."
Purple Guitar:
"A song we've been
playing in our live show. This version is a live performance with
one or two harmony overdubs. There
are some errors in this version, but it's way too complicated to
fix them."
Secret Hedges:
"This song is
homage to one of my guitar heroes, Michael Hedges, who passed away
a few years ago. I tuned a guitar
to an unknown tuning and just started playing. I was trying to
capture the spirit and
inventiveness of Michael's playing. Later I overdubbed a few electric
guitars
on top."
Hawaii Five-O:
"This has to be the
greatest TV theme ever. Having just finished "The Grinch," I
thought, why don't I learn it all
on guitar and record it? Et voila!"
Shnook:
"This is a completely
improvised song. During the Shampoohorn sessions, we would
improvise the last remaining
minutes on the reel. This song is reminiscent of my father's guitar
style
and it's got a few RF
interruptions in it. The voice you hear is radio interference coming
through my
amp. Also you hear the tape run
out at the end."
DWEEZIL ZAPPA - DISCOGRAPHY
Solo Albums:
Havin' a Bad Day
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
Confessions
Appears on:
- Frank Zappa! Them or Us (1984) Guitar!
- Frank Zappa Does Humor Belong in Music! (1986) Guitar!
- Don Johnson! Heartbeat (1986) Guitar!
- Sam Kinison! Leader of the Banned (1987) Guitar!
- Soundtrack! Back to the Beach (1987)
- Soundtrack! Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Winger! Winger (1988) Guitar!
- Frank Zappa! You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore... (1988) Guitar!
- Frank Zappa! You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore... (1989) Guitar!
- Various Artists! Gumby (1989) Guitar, Vocals, Producer!
- Frank Zappa! Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of... (1990) Vocals, Voices!
The Vandals! Fear of a Punk Planet (1991) Guitar!
Zappa's Universe! Zappa's Universe (1991) Guitar!
Spinal Tap! Break Like the Wind (1992) Guitar!
Blues Saraceno Hairpick (1994) Guitar, Photography!
Shampoohorn! Shampoohorn (1994) Guitar, Arranger, Composer, Vocals,
Producer!
Z! Shampoohorn (1994) Guitar, Arranger, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Liner Notes, Art Direction, Mixing!
Tim Pierce! Guitarland (1995)
Angelica! Angelica (1997) Guitar,
Engineer!
Z! Music for Pets (1996) Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Design, Mixing!
Various Artists! Hot for Remixes: A Tribute to Van Halen (1999) Guitar
Soundtrack! Anywhere But Here (1999) Engineer!
Soundtrack! Ready to Rumble (2000) Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Engineer, Mixing!
Soundtrack! Ready to Rumble [Clean] (2000) Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Engineer, Mixing!
TO PLAY OR NOT TO PLAY:
( A STATEMENT ABOUT MAKING MUSIC BY DWEEZIL ZAPPA)
In recent years I hadn't been pursuing a career in the world of
songwriting. I had stopped writing and recording because I couldn't
figure out why I even liked music anymore. I have always had a slightly
skewed perspective of the industry as you might imagine given my
lineage. But I had become thoroughly disenchanted with the industry for
a number of reasons. First of all, the music I grew up listening to
became very unpopular. I loved anything with loud rock guitars. If those
loud rock guitars were playing amazing solos, all the better. At one
point there seemed to be no end to the inventiveness flowing from guitar
music. Then something happened. I'm not exactly sure what, but it was
bad. It seemed as though we were witnessing an era of artists who were
failing upwards. Groomed by their record companies, new bands and
established, formerly creative and commercially viable artists, set out
to create music that would speak to the lowest common denominator and
therefore sell billions of copies. I have nothing against capitalism,
it's a great concept, but why can't record companies seek to sell
billions of high quality records replete with excellent musicianship
instead of lowering the standards as they have done? It is certainly
possible, isn't it? I'm not writing this article to preach, I'm writing
to share a few observations.
As I said before, I had lost interest in music and songwriting. I asked
myself why? The first thing that came to mind was the lack of new
interesting guitar players. Guitar playing has nearly become extinct.
Sure, there are alot of new bands out there that have guitar players,
but to me, no one stands out.
For my money, the guitar is the most expressive musical instrument ever
invented. The amount of options you have to create riffs,
accompaniments, soundscapes, or solos is limited only by your
imagination. Unless, of course, you suck! Then you are limited by your
skill as well. But the beauty of the guitar is that it allows the
individual who is operating it to be creative sometimes without even
knowing it. For example, a guitarist with poor technique may be able to
play a song he or she has written with much more personality that a
professional guitarist. In fact, sometimes the worse you are, the more
unique you are. Which brings me to an important point: music is very
subjective. You may string together an assortment of notes that you find
pleasing whilst someone else may find them to be filled with odious
stank. Regardless, phrasing and finger tone as well as amp tone are the
key ingredients to expressing yourself on guitar. The more personality
via phrasing and tone you can add to your guitar playing and your music
the more interesting and memorable it will become.
At what point did people lose interest in trying to be the best that
they could be? (The U.S. Army not withstanding.) It seems to be frowned
on to have an abundance of skill these days. Fat guitar riffs and guitar
solos which used to be staples of the rock diet have been replaced with
non-fat production, computers, samples, and quantizing. Sure, people
think they're doing something new and different that a human might have
to offer, but are they making better music? It's debatable.
It's true you don't have to be a virtuoso to be considered a musician.
In fact, nowadays it might even be a liability. You could sit down with
a guitar and write a hypnotic super rock riff that could be further
emphasized and complimented by the backbeat of a punishing drummer. You
could have the freedom to develop the arrangement of the song using
various motifs and textures without the sound of a pathetic A & R man's
voice in the back of your head telling you who you should sound like and
why you should start with a chorus or radio won't play your song. You
could write lyrics about anything you want with the confidence of
knowing that the riff is memorable enough on it's own to entice the
listener's ear years to come. Or you could cook up a batch of frosted
offerings on a triton keyboard with a Pro-tools rig and sell 'em to all
the boy bands. Hmm, it's a tough choice. How much is a Pro-Tools rig?
Dweezil Zappa
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