Thread: Dweezil Zappa New Album

Story courtesy of Gibson website. This could be an album to watch for

Dweezil Zappa told The Huffington Post that he has lined up about 30 different legendary musicians to guest star on his next album. Among the famous guitarists: Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Yngwie Malmsteen and Warren DeMartini.

The son of rock legend Frank Zappa describes the project as an “audio movie.”

“I recorded a bunch of different music that all segues together, so it’s constantly morphing and turning,” he said. “Each little segment has its own little audio environment, and then you have these cameo appearances by all these different guitar players who sort of start falling out of the speakers.”

Dweezil said that some guitarists’ styles are instantly recognizable, despite sometimes being placed in a different context.

“The Van Halen thing is pretty funny because I put this section together where I asked Edward to play sort of a ‘greatest-hits’ from all his different guitar licks. We just took different licks from different solos from different records and made him play them all and string them together in one guitar solo. That was pretty fun because it was like having your own toy Eddie Van Halen – like, ‘I’ll make my Eddie Van Halen play this.’”

The forthcoming project has yet to be named and has no release date. Dweezil said it’s not even completed, yet.

i have to admit, it does sound very interesting, conceptually speaking. especially if it's like one long morphing thing with no dead air in between.