Occupation: Guitarist Birth: September 5, 1969
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians..
Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to b….
Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it ….
I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always hav….
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked so….
I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing..
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank w….
If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all..
I don't care about a social life..
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship..
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals,….
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guit….
On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio..
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazi….
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing ….
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level them….
The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody els….
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the ….
If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that….
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever.….
I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just see….