Zappa Plays Zappa – review

Barbican, LondonFrank Zappa was one of the harder of musical tastes to acquire. A determined contrarian, before his death in 1993 he recorded close on 80 albums of music that melded intricate progressive rock, ferocious avant jazz, demented time signatures and pun-heavy surrealist lyrical musings delivered with a supercilious sneer.It must be even harder to love such a man if he has bestowed upon you the name Dweezil, but after early career spells as a heavy metal guitarist, an MTV VJ and a sitc...

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