Having Frank Zappa as your dad has its benefits. At 12 years old, Dweezil Zappa found that out when his guitar hero, Eddie Van Halen, showed up unannounced at the Zappa family home. Two weeks ...

Through his long-running Zappa Plays Zappa band, Dweezil Zappa has sought to keep the music of his late father, Frank, alive. If there's one through-line you can draw through all of the elder ...

Dweezil Zappa learned of Jimi Hendrix as a kid. Of course, that was from his legendary musical genius and rock ’n’ roll madman father, Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. “While I didn’t have ...