Dweezil Zappa and mostly Danish ancestry. Dweezil's registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The hospital at which he was born refused to register him under the name Dweezil, so Frank listed the names of several musician friends. "Dweezil" was a nickname coined by Frank for an oddly curled pinky toe of Gail's. At the age of five years, Dweezil learned that his legal name was different, and he insisted on having his nickname become his legal name. Gail and Frank hired an attorney and soon the name Dweezil was official. In the 1980s, Zappa worked as an MTV VJ
Tom Moon Tom Moon Thomas Raphael Moon (born November 3, 1960) is an American saxophonist, author, and music critic. He is known for his book "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die". He has won two Deems Taylor Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Moon studied music at the University of Miami, and played in the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra for about a year on tour. In the 1980s, he put his career as a musician on hold to focus on music journalism. He began writing about music in 1983. In 1988, Moon accepted a job at the "Philadelphia