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Frank Zappa’s Five-Hour ‘Dress Optional’ 1968 Concert at the Whisky Will Finally Come Out
- New box set, Whisky a Go Go, 1968, collects live recording sessions by the Mothers of Invention during one of their busiest years
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Steve Vai talks Joe Satriani relationship, music theory and more ahead of Cincinnati show
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