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In top 100 guitarists of all time picked up by the Guitar Part edition Frank Zappa is on place 19. Two ex-members of Zappa band Steve Vai and Adrian Belew are listed as #7 and #96 respectively.

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Among the educational material accompanying the issue of the magazine on the Guitar Part website, a video advertised on the cover of the magazine, "Jimi Plays Zappa", featuring Jimi Drouillard and his band performing some of Zappa's songs, was released.

Review of the second volume of the Frank Zappa trilogy by Chriatophe Delbrouck.

Automatic translation: Zappa's moustaches are reminiscent of those of Groucho Marx and Nietzsche, two diametrically opposed personalities whom he manages to evoke in a single stroke, like his composite music which is at once flamboyant and chaotic, brilliant and absurd, disciplined and rebellious.

Among guitar geniuses, Frank Zappa occupies a very special place, both for the originality of his rhythmic and melodic vocabulary and his articulations, and for his sonic experiments. The mustachioed genius would sometimes send the signal from his SG to three or four different amplifiers, creating a completely unique hybrid sound. Iconoclastic and playful to the core, he once declared, "You only have to remove an eighth note or add one to a measure to sound radically revolutionary."

According to him, a guitar solo should be played as the note flows, in total improvisation, without arriving with a collection of pre-prepared licks, because for him, that was pointless. One can easily understand his argument when looking at his résumé: self-employed, songwriter, orchestrator, publisher, social commentator, and father of four. His life was structured like his compositions, with a great deal of rigor and technical and temporal constraints. So when the time came for a solo, it represented a space of absolute freedom without a safety net; he would say, "Once I get going, it's me against the laws of nature!" Therefore, we can't speak of the Zappa sound in the singular, because it is multifaceted, evolving over time and sometimes even within a single solo. I almost forgot to mention that he loved shredding.

Zappa's work, despite his young death (at 52), is vast and incredibly multifaceted. It would be futile to try to summarize it, so to focus solely on his guitar playing, here are a few tracks featuring legendary solos that exemplify the genre: "Black Napkins" and "Zoot Allures" from the album "Zoot Allures", "Yo Mama" from the album *Sheik Yerbouti*, and, more rarely, the acoustic version of "Sleep Dirt" from the album of the same name.

For those with a thirst for discovery, Zappa's discography includes around a hundred albums, including numerous legendary live recordings, bootlegs recovered by the genius himself, as well as his orchestral works and contemporary chamber music. If this adventure appeals to you, then bon voyage—it's truly interstellar. (read more)