Ep094: Dweezil Zappa Says Whatever the F@%k He Wants
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dweezil Zappa had a front row seat to music history in the Zappa home. Today he discusses growing up in the Zappa household, his father's contributions to his work, the influence and learnings of their time together and much much more.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for fans and collectors of vinyl records. |
| 0:06.9 | And this week we have on the show with us, Dweezel Zappa. |
| 0:10.3 | Dweezel talks music, his father, the records he listened to in the Zappa household, playing his dad's music, and his new 50 years of Frank tour, |
| 0:19.2 | which is now heading toward the UK, Europe, then giving a bit of a |
| 0:23.3 | reach around to Australia and New Zealand in early 2018. Check out his tour dates at dweaselzapah.com. |
| 0:30.2 | And we're brought to you this week by groove washer.com. Clean your records with the best |
| 0:34.8 | manual record cleaning system on heaven, earth, and beyond. Get a |
| 0:38.9 | groove washer starter kit for only 2995 at groove washer.com. And with that, join me on entering |
| 0:46.4 | into the Zappa universe with the vinyl guide's interview of Dweasel Zappa. Do you listen to and |
| 0:53.1 | collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey, hey, hello. Howdy? |
| 1:07.0 | Bonjour. |
| 1:08.0 | Aloha, conichia, ahoy there. |
| 1:11.1 | Hey, what is in the fridge? It's Nate, host of the vinyl guide. I hope you're well. Thanks for downloading. Thanks for listening. Thanks for sharing. Those of you who are sharing the episodes. You know, we do this podcast once a week. We don't charge for it. It's totally free. and we just do it because we love vinyl records and we love talking to the artists and hearing the stories behind them. And the success of the vinyl guide really is a great credit to the folks who have been sharing it, getting their friends involved in it, you know? So if you like this episode, you like this podcast, please share it with your friends. |
| 1:44.8 | It's been a big week for us here. |
| 1:46.7 | You know, not only last week did we have John Tefteller tell the history of Paramount Records |
| 1:51.3 | and answer a bunch of questions about those old 78 Shalak records that he pays tens of thousands of dollars for. |
| 1:58.3 | But the vinyl guide was also in a lot of newspapers, a lot of online |
| 2:02.3 | articles. A couple of weeks ago, we had Ian Gillen of Deep Purple on the show, and he said a few |
| 2:08.8 | choice words about Richie Blackmore, and apparently they just ran with it. You know, that's what |
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