Dweezil Zappa World

Dear Bob, 

I know that the loss of family and friends is devastating - and questions are rarely answered - no matter to whom those questions are posed. But there is one certainty that I can share, and this website, and the work of Dweezil and the ZFT stand as absolute testament to this truth: through memory, people do not die. My father, whom I loved and lost over five years ago is with me every day. Whenever I am joyful, I know exactly what he would have said. When I fail, I know how he would have guided me. We converse daily and I am not certifiable -- I am lucky. The music of Frank is as alive today as the day he put pen to manuscript. Dweezil's solos are his own, but we all hear Frank's fingers through them as well. And we all know what "putting eyebrows" on something means, and we all know whose eyebrows were the original ones. The great poet Hannah Senesh once wrote:

"There are stars up above,so far away we only see their light long after the star itself is gone; and so it is with people that we loved, their memory keeps shining ever brightly though their time with us is done. But the stars that light up the darkest night - these are the lights that guide us. As we live our days, these are the ways, we remember. We remember."

That gets me out of bed each morning and gives me hope each night. 

Gary