Mike Ragogna from Huffingtonpost.com spoke with guitarist DWEEZIL ZAPPA recently about a number of topics including his What The Hell Was I Thinking? project that features a star-studded line-up of special guests.

"It's a record that I started a while ago," Zappa reveals, "and I just haven't had a chance to really put it all together. I know I'm probably going to add some changes based on my own technical improvements to my playing. I guess the best way to describe the project is it's an audio movie. I recorded a bunch of different music that all segues together, so it's constantly morphing and turning. Each little segment has its own little audio environment, and then you have these cameo appearances by all these different guitar players who sort of start falling out of the speakers. So, it's got about thirty different people on there so far, I'll give you a list of some of the ones people would know: There's EDDIE VAN HALEN, BRIAN MAY, ERIC JOHNSON, STEVE VAI, STEVE MORSE, ANGUS and MALCOLM YOUNG - who never played on anything other than an AC/DC record before - YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, Warren DeMartini from RATT, ALBERT LEE, BRIAN SETZER, there are a ton of people like JIMMY VAUGHN, ROBIN FORD, JOE WALSH. And the thing is, all these different people, they all have a very recognizable sound, and in the world of guitar playing, that's a real challenge--to create your own sound to where when you hear just a couple of notes you actually know who it is.

The fun of it is that you're actually hearing a lot of these people out of context, they're playing on things they wouldn't normally be playing over, and that was part of the fun of making this project happen. So, either people are playing on exactly what you would expect them to play over, or something you would never expect them to play over.

But, you know, I have to finish the record first (laughs)."

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