A look into the early influences of Frank Zappa and how he was freaking people out with avant-garde rock long before the Mothers of Invention were started.

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 ...

Since his days alongside Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Robert Fripp ... “We could interlock our styles of guitar playing – but ...

Frank Zappa once made a jilted boyfriend so angry that he stormed the stage and attacked him in front of a crowd of people.

You would expect nothing less than Frank Zappa covering a band he hated simply to mock them by turning their anthem into a parody.

As the Fender Stratocaster celebrates its 70th anniversary as one of, or surely the world’s most successful electric guitar design of all time, Guitar World has been leafing through the cover ...

What would be totally ridiculous and would grab everyone’s interest? I said, ‘I’m going to make my guitar talk!’”: When Steve ...

It’s different to what I do. “There was a time in Zappa’s band when I was a heavy picker. That stuff was hard because Frank didn’t write on guitar, he would write on piano and then give it to you. His ...

Frank Zappa helped the Alice Cooper Band transform from an unsuccessful nightclub band to one of the pioneers of shock rock.

Frank Zappa’s name isn’t featured on the front of 1967’s Absolutely Free, The Mothers Of Invention’s second album. But, as his looming mustachioed face on the cover hints, the disc would ...