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I'm curious as to why Frank made the switch from Gibson SG to Fender Strat. Is there mention of this in any of his interviews?

It's a good question. However, both guitars were so heavily modified that they were hardly just Gibsons or Strats. They were both some sort of hybrid.

By the way, if you go to the Guitar Player T.V. site, there's some nice videos of Dweezil describing how the SG was modified, as well as playing said guitar.......

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

I'd say for the whammy bar

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“The person who stands up and says, 'This is stupid,' either is asked to behave or, worse, is greeted with a cheerful 'Yes, we know! Isn't it terrific!" -Frank Zappa

Frank's SG on the Dub room special had a whammy bar.

Check this article out:

http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?s ... code=15018

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Faster'n a three-peckered owl!

Frank like the Strat cause it was lighter in weight. He did started to use a Les Paul 1980-1982 which he also said was too heavy.

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He left the Gibson in his other trousers.

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HAIL AMNERIKA!!!

SHUT THE FUCK UP

Wasn't there something about the SG being on the thin side and was starting to warp, so he got the Les Paul and liked the way it sounded.
Maybe someone can put me right on this.

Guitar Player Magazine: Why the switch from SG to Les Paul?

FZ: Because my SG has been injured a number of times and i had the neck shaved so it would fit my hand a little bit better, but it weakened the neck and there's a crack in the back of the neck and because the neck is so weak, it's hard to keep it in tune 'cause the neck moves around and this Les Paul is like a rock.

I think EFF ZED liked the gibson scale, and an extra fret. So he had his necks for fender style guitars made to Eb.

I was surprised when FZ pronounced his initials as eff zee. Its been eff Zed with me for years

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

How else would you pronounce it?

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Oh, its you. The Pink Floyd pedant.

I pronounce FZ correctly, which is eff Zed.

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

EFF ZEE.

Eff Zed is pretty gay. Or Europeen, or both.

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humf!

eff zed is hard staccato sound, and is more correct, and much more manly.

Two nations divided by a common language.

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

3 nations. Living in Canada, I sit in an EE-Zed chair, buy EE-Zed Off Oven Cleaner, and go to the zoo to see Zeh-bras.

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

ZEHbras......hilarious!

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I've decided I like Freddy Fender better than Mel Gibson.

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