Dweezil Zappa's Guitars

According to Premier Guitar, Zappa uses his father's signature model - the Gibson "Roxy" SG.

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Dweezil Zappa now owns the Jimi Hendrix Sunburst Fender Strat. Given to his dad, Frank Zappa, by legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. The guitar was also modified by Frank. It has been modified by Dweezil to look like what it is on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine, released in Jan., 1977.

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"The earliest sounds I made were on a Fender Music Master that was given to me by my dad at age 6. I plugged it into one of his spare Pignose amps."

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"I've played my 58 re-issue Gibson Les Paul and a few Hagstrom Vikings, including an original 1969 Viking that was recently given to me as a gift during the 2011 Dweezilla music bootcamp by Ago Totaro."

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During this "Rig Rundown" for PremierGuitar, Dweezel speaks with Jason Shadrick about his on stage gear. At 4:19, Dweezel mentions this guitar. A quote from the associated article says "For the single-coil tones, Dweezil brings out a mostly stock Eric Johnson signature Strat. In order to quickly move to an acoustic sound, Dweezil installed a bridge with a piezo pickup."

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According to Premier Guitar, Zappa uses Fender Johnny Marr signature model.

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"I've used extensively on stage and in the studio since 2010. Another guitar I used a lot at that time was my gold sparkle Ibanez Iceman. It was given to me by a friend who found it in the closet of a house he had recently moved into. Originally black, I had it painted gold sparkle by Dan Lawrence. That guitar is most notably featured on the song "Badass." Dan did a lot of the art on my guitars going back to the Charvel/Jackson days. The watermelon guitar and the Madonna guitar were a few of the earliest graphic guitars he did for me. While at Moser he painted The Dr. Seuss and Where The Wild Things Are guitars."

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"At that time my main guitar became an Ernie Ball Albert Lee model. I didn't realize the subliminal effect of his signature on my tele until the time I started playing his signature model EB! He also played a very memorable solo on "What The Hell Was I Thinking?"

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Dweezil Zappa acquired the EVH Rasta Frankenstein guitar directly from Eddie Van Halen after Eddie finished using it, as reported by Van Halen Links.com.

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Listed for sale on Techno Empire in May 2021.

This listing is for a Gibson Trini Lopez LDT Limited Edition Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitar formerly owned by Dweezil Zappa. The guitar was sold on Reverb some months back and the owner recently traded it in here at Techno Empire. Dweezil Played this guitar on his Via Zammata Tour and includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity. (...) Serial #148 of 200

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In the Premier Guitar article "Dweezil Zappa: Roots and Branches," it's noted that Dweezil Zappa uses a Gibson Custom CS-336 Plain Top Electric Guitar, though it is mistakenly referred to as an ES-336.

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Dweezil talks about his Signature PRS backstage at NAMM 2011.

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