Interviews
Between 1990 and 2017, I interviewed a number of people who knew FZ – professionally, or otherwise. These included Arthur Barrow, Bruce Bickford, Terry Bozzio, Pauline Butcher, Warren Cuccurullo, Bob & Thana Harris, Mike Keneally, Robert Martin, Kent Nagano, Lisa Popeil, Craig ‘Twister’ Steward, Scott Thunes, The Tornadoes, Chad Wackerman, Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Albert Wing and Bob & Candy Zappa. The full transcripts of all of these interviews can be found in my book Frank Talk: The Inside Stories Of Zappa’s Other People (Wymer, 2017).
Since 2017, I have spoken with Sergio Albonico, Jay Anderson, members of Ensemble Modern, Patrick O’Hearn, Alessandra Izzo, Tony Palmer, Kris Peterson, Karen Sperling and Moon Unit Zappa.
On this page, you can find my interviews with the following (conducted between 1991 and 2024):
Dick Barber
Lady Bianca
Jimmy Carl Black
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Lorraine Belcher Chamberlain
Spencer Chrislu
Dr. Dot
Bunk Gardner
Martin Lickert
Brenda Starr Light
Nigey Lennon
David Logeman
Ed Mann
Essra Mohawk
Miss Sparkie Parker
Mark Pinske
Don Preston
Art Tripp
Steve Vai
Mark Volman
Ray White
Ahmet Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
If you don't want to buy my book, or would like to see any of the other interviews mentioned up above, drop me a line and I’ll consider adding them to the site. If not, please enjoy the ones here!
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