Interviews

Between 1990 and 2017, I interviewed a number of people who knew FZ – professionally, or otherwise. These included Arthur Barrow, Bruce Bickford, Pauline Butcher, Warren Cuccurullo, Bob & Thana Harris, Mike Keneally, Ed Mann, Lisa Popeil, Craig ‘Twister’ Steward, Joe Travers, The Tornadoes, Denny Walley, Albert Wing and Bob & Candy Zappa. The full transcripts of most 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, 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 1990 and 2025):

Dick Barber

Lady Bianca

Terry Bozzio

Jimmy Carl Black

Napoleon Murphy Brock

Lorraine Belcher Chamberlain

Spencer Chrislu

Dr. Dot

Ensemble Modern

Bunk Gardner

Mike Keneally

Martin Lickert

Brenda Starr Light

Nigey Lennon

David Logeman

Robert Martin

Essra Mohawk

Kent Nagano

Miss Sparkie Parker

Craig Pinkus

Mark Pinske

Don Preston

Scott Thunes

Art Tripp

Steve Vai

Mark Volman

Chad Wackerman

Ray White

Ike Willis

Ahmet Zappa

Dweezil Zappa


If you don't want to buy my book (which is now Print on Demand, anyway) or would like to see any of my other interviews mentioned above, drop me a line and I’ll consider adding them here. If not, please enjoy the ones that are already here!