Ehhmm... I was a Dweezil fan once, but through reading plenty of Dweezil interviews, I'm not anymore. He has this "idea" that he is the only one who can play Zappa music properly because he has the genes.

(This remark could earn this site the boot, but I'm willing to risk that.)

Really? I think Terry Bozzio said a short while ago that Dweezil had to work very very hard on his playing in order to do the ZPZ thing. There's a video of him saying that on youtube. That's not genetic. It's practise. I always thought he was a very cool and humble bloke. Could you post a link or two to the interviews you've read Bonny?

Actually I have them in magazines... And yeah, I knew he had to work hard on his playing. But he has put his genes in as argument, saying that he's the only one who can play Zappa properly because of DNA. Then again, it could be a journalist getting a spiffy quote, tweeking words a little.

One thing I appreciated about Dweezil is it taught me that being a famous kid (like, say, Kelly Osbourne. Even I can sing better than Kelly Osbourne) may get you an album in the style of My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (which carries a song called "The Coolest Guy In The World", in which DZ describes how tough it is to be cool), a bit of practice gets you Confessions, and a lot of practice gets you Go With What You Know (which is a pretty good album).

It's weird in another way because that kind of statement was exactly the kind of thing that Frank loved to ridicule mercilessly his whole life, especially since he was self taught in everything he did and had to work very hard himself.

Yup... and judging from Dweezil's earlier albums, he wasn't born with it either. I'll look for it today...

I could be totally wrong, but I always thought Dweez's pose as such a cool guy was also ironic, a posture that is as funny as it might be true to some:
that he knows it's all a sham and that 'coolness' is something somebody else puts on us and not something we can project without expecting a fair share of ridicule . . .

Yeah, that was my impression of him as well.