During the time I lived in NYC I had an apartment right around the corner from Mike and Leni Stern and used to go over quite often to jam and play tunes. (I've been friends with his wife Leni for almost 20 years and have...

I still work on trying to make things groove and "feel" right. This is just an example of a riff of mine that uses some open strings and is a little tricky to play. It's from a song called "You'd Rather Forget" but makes a...

Drew Dempsey hosts a Van Halen Round Table conversation from Sunset Sound Recorders - Dweezil Zappa EP 2...

This is a mini-documentary in 5 episodes about the making of my song "Dinosaur." This is episode 1. Today we learn about the Frank Zappa recording technique called "Xenochrony." ...

In 2018 legendary bassist Mark Egan asked me to contribute some guitar and lap steel to a project he was working on with a great percussionist named Arjun Bruggeman. This resulted in the recording entitled "Dreaming Spirits"....

From Dweezil Zappa: Song available at dweezilzappa.com/americans "This video is a behind the scenes look at the recording of my version of "I'm Afraid Of Americans." Captured at Sunset Sound, 9-5-17. This version features...

Getting back on the horse after a long time off from this gig. Feels great to play with old buddies again and make music together. Trying out a few new pedals and amplifier heads for the rehearsals- (still waiting on another...

This is me practicing Zoot Allures on my backup Fender Stratocaster. During the first half of the video, I am practicing what I have learned from Sweetwater's Youtube video, "3 Frank Zappa Licks Shown By Dweezil Zappa". Thank...

This is a little video that tells the history of the book "New Orleans Funk Guitar Styles." I wrote about 20 years ago (yikes)! and it's still in print and still sells all over the world. I talk about what inspired me to...

I made this song for an Eddie Jobson tribute album 2018. To be honest, it's more like a tribute to the swedish musician Lars Hollmer, who named his studio "The ChickenHouse". He's made such an impact on me, in his own albums...

I'm demonstrating the transition from pristine Clean to Distorted Feedback with natural harmonics while playing Zoot Allures. I use the expression pedal for Fractal 2 to add in the distorted sound and control the blend....

After having a somewhat bad day today, found this little jem. No matter what, we can always count on Frank making us laugh. Sorry if I embarrass Dweezil for this, but this video was a joy to watch. ...