If you never got a chance to experience Frank Zappa playing live, you’ll have the opportunity to witness the next best thing in 2018. It was announced that the hologram of Frank Zappa will embark on a tour later this year accompanied by the former members of musician’s backing band The Mothers of Invention.
Titled “Bizarre World of Frank Zappa”, the hologram tour will feature special appearances from Zappa’s frequent collaborators like Steve Vai, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ian Underwood, and Warren Cuccurullo.
“As a futurist, and hologram enthusiast, Frank fearlessly broke through boundary after boundary as an artist and in honoring his indomitable spirit we’re about to do it again, 25 years after his passing,” – said Zappa’s son Ahmet Zappa in a statement. “This mind-melting show we’re putting together celebrates the music, often surreal imagery and humor synonymous with Frank. We will be pushing the limits of what anyone has seen holographically on stage before in a live venue. Circumstances, objects, places and subject matter from Frank’s songs and imagination will be brought to life for the first time on stage. We are anthropomorphizing Frank’s music, so his own hand drawn illustrations, classic imagery from his album artwork and characters from his songs can all interact and perform on stage.”
During the “Bizarre World of Frank Zappa”, a never seen before footage of the musician playing in his Los Angeles rehearsal space will be used. Frank Zappa’s hologram will be created by the company credited with a hologram of Ronnie James Dio, which just finished its tour.
During his career, which spanned 30 years, Zappa was known as a productive artist, releasing 62 albums. After his death in 1993, the Zappa Family Trust released an additional 48 albums. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.
