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Every child sees more by standing on the shoulders of a dad. And every musician plays better riffing on the chops of the giants before. Combine the two thoughts and you get, the Zappa Plays Zappa tour led by musical genius Frank Zappa's 37-year-old son, Dweezil — née Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa.

In a recent interview, Dweezil (a nickname he insisted become his legal tag) says of his motivation that his goal in playing his dad's music was to, "really show the difference between what Frank was about and what the traditional popular music scene is about. Frank always maintained his integrity, and he traveled his own path that virtually no one followed. There is stuff that he recorded 40 years ago that is still as shocking, provocative and contemporary as anything now."

The tour plays with minds in Chicago this evening and is currently scheduled to travel through North America and Europe with the final note to ring out Oct. 14th in Stockholm.

** The father was a Mother of Invention. Enough said. **