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Confessions

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Dweezil is a monster on the guitar, and this album is his best work yet. He deserves to be ranked right up there with guys like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Zakk Wylde, but somehow Dweezil's guitar playing has gone more or less overlooked. (So has his music career, for the most part.)

Nuno Bettencourt (formerly of Extreme) produced this disc and even lends his vocals to one song "The Kiss," as well as some spoken parts here & there. The Zappa humor is there in most of the lyrics, but it's the guitar playing that makes me listen to this one again & again.

Dweezil's vocals are an acquired taste, but if you're into 80's guitar rock, this is a good buy.

People need to remember - this was cut in 1991. The 80s influence is all over it (in a good way). If you love the 80s style guitar work - this is must have. Nuno is totally under-rated and does an awesome job helping out here. Zakk Wylde in his early, early days. Some cutting lyrics. It is a 4 1/2 star CD... not perfect but very enjoyable. Dweezil is (was?) a very talented player - not sure what happened to him.

I'm not going to try to tell you Dweezil is up there with the greatist guitarists of all time, but he does play a great guitar on this album. He has a unique sound/tone to his playing and he rarely uses 4/4 time which makes his sound even more distinct. The beauty of his music, though, is his use of humor throughout his music. I can't think of many more albums I enjoy listening to more than this one. I particualry enjoy "Confessions of a Deprived Youth" but those are my '80s roots talking. the guest guitarists are phenomenol and really add to the music. It's just a really fun album to listen to.

I think this is the best Dweezil album of his early music, it's more experimental, developed, and more guitar, less vocal, has some great cover songs like ''anytime at all'' and ''staying alive''
and some guitar opuses such as ''shoogagoogagunga'' ''return of the son of shoogagoogagunga'' and ''earth'' special guests include donny osmond, moon zappa, ahmet zappa, josh freese and others.

This CD is really very good. The album is produced by Nuno Bettencourt who also does alot of singing on the album. The background vocals sound awesome and sound just like Extreme - Gary Cherone and Pat Badger from Extreme also sing so I guess that's why. The guitar playing at times also sounds like Nuno's trademark riffing so I guess Nuno has really stamped his influence all over this album! I bought this CD as a fan of Nuno and I'm really pleased I got. I would really like to recommend this CD to Dweezil Zappa fans but I think it is more appropriate to recommend it to Nuno Bettencourt fans! The only real Zappa influence is in the lyrical content which is mostly comical. There's also some guest soloing by Zakk Wylde, Warren DeMartini, and Steve Lukather - bonus!!!

This release of 1991 from Zappa junior confirmed him as the king
of guitar pop. His chops are right up there with the Vai's and
Satch's of the genre but what Dweezil does so differently is to
craft tunes with such a strong pop sensability! This album is infectious, it never lets up either and has some of the catchiest
tunes on it you're going to find anywhere.
The great thing about the tunes is that whilst appealing to guitarists and other musicians they trancsend the widly,widly riff,riff albums of other guitar oriented genrelikes and provide us with nothing more, nothing less than great music!
Check out the title track "Confessions" for some infectious riffing and silly lyrics (for which this album is loaded with) and check out the guest list, it's a mile long. Incidentally this features a little known drummer (at the time) Josh Freese, now well known in recent times as the Perfect Circle drummer (tool side project for Maynard) Along with help from Vocalists, brother
Ahmet and dare I say Donny Osmond!?!? on "Stayin' Alive" the BeeGees classic, this album's a one of and if it were'nt for the average production this would get a 5/5. Check this out!

When this album came out in '91, it was essentially the changing of the guard in the rock world. The Seattle grunge scene was rearing it's ugly head. Extreme was the last metal hair band to have success in the fall of heavy metal. Blame spandex and hairspray. And when I ventured in a record store, which to this day no longer exist, I was intrigued when finding this album. Dweezil Zappa did a song and music video called, "My guitar wants to kill your mother!" I thought it was great and hilarious. And when I looked at the producing credit and saw Nuno Bettencourt's name, I was ecstatic. So, when I played it I was completely surprised and overjoyed. This is one KILLER album. There is no way around it. I've never been a fan of Frank Zappa because his music was too diverse for my taste, but Dweezil had a pulse on the commercial application. Nuno's influence on this record is quite heavy as it reflects more of his musical genius but with Dweezil's comical flare. I can swear I hear allot of Nuno's playing. So the debate. Is this a Dweezil Zappa or an Extreme album? It's more so follows Nuno, but regardless it's a great album. Dweezil hasn't been able to produce something this great since, but if you find it before rare copies cost 100 dollars, by all means go and buy it. It's not a heavy metal album, but a collection of great melodic songs. I find myslef singing to them all the time. A lost and undiscovered treasure.

Dude, hey dude, your shred is excellent but you ain't no musician. You know your scales, but your music is uninspired, highly juvenile and without soul. I should not be so harsh; some parts are somewhat funny. But I think the most hilarious thing of all is that you are convinced you are way better than the guitar players you mock in the last song of the album, Return of the Son Of IHadRatherStickMyD!@#kInACarDoor.
Alright alright, I have a confession of my own to make: I bought this CD thinking the Dweeze woulda grown up a little since that Album I'd bought in the early nineties, and because Frank is one of my favorite musicians. I so confess, I am an old guy with a different set of values, one in which shredding does not equal musical talent.
So let's do this: Dude call me, let's hook up and jam. You can teach me some mild shreddar and I'll attempt to defibrillate your inspiration.