Kill Ugly Radio | Frank Zappa & Elsewhere

Well, son, I’m 41. I mean, 40… Uh, I’m so confused…

Dweezil has big plans:

“We have a really big plan for this year, something that we’ve never done before.” Dweezil says. “We’re going to put a band together and play only Frank’s music. We’re going to start in Europe then come back to the states and then go to Japan. We’re going to start in October, so we’re going to rehearse the band for three months in order to learn close to fifty songs, including a lot of the very difficult instrumentals. I’m learning a lot of stuff on guitar that was never meant to be played on guitar. For me, it will be like training for the Guitar Olympics. We are going to create a core band of people that haven’t played with Frank, and then we will have some special guests and Ahmet is going to sing. We want to have our own thing that we do that is free from interpretations of other people’s expectations.

According to a press release from Ema Telstar (a big Swedish concert promotor) published in yesterday’s Sundsvalls Tidning, there will be a big Zappa tribute concert in Stockholm this fall (see KUR’s earlier coverage). Gail, Dweezil and Ahmet are coming to Stockholm May 24 to announce it.

“We will probably be able to reveal the names of the musicians in a week, says Catarina Oscarsson at Ema Telstar. Some of the musicians played with Zappa – and the idea is to give you a feeling that he is present.”

And before you ask “Since when does Barry speak fluent Swedish”: all the above courtesy of Frippe. (Thanks Frippe!)