Frank's most famous project is probably his kids, but only since he gave them such idiotic names.  "Dweezil" and "Moon Unit," for god's sake? The other, lesser known kids were named "Ahmet Rodan" and "Diva."  Good luck guessing boy/girl from that lineup.

Considering the names of his children, along with "The Mothers of Invention/Necessity," and it's clear that names were not his strong point. At least not names that don't require a great deal of LSD to properly appreciate. And Frank's not getting any better at naming things, being dead since 1993.  It's tempting to add entries for the kids, since this Z page is so short and they have such funny names, but we must uphold some standards or we'd have an entry for Yoko before we knew it.

His name is not that bad; Zappa is sort of a rock and roll name, though he did nothing to earn it other than be born.  The band name isn't great, but he's one of the more interesting eponymous bands around, so we can't be too harsh.  However, he looses a bonus point for giving his kids names that would have been good rock bands, while giving his rock band a name that tells you nothing about it.

So what is the music?  The usual term is "schlock-metal", which is a campy, cheesy, comical version of shock metal.  Sort of Marilyn Manson with a lot more corn and less catchy songs.  Zombie always looks great and has a ton of energy, but very seldom are any of his/their songs any good.  It's a band you want to like more than you actually do.  Rob gets a bonus point for the whole House of 1000 Corpses saga, as well as ruthlessly ending White Zombie as soon as his first solo album sold more copies in a week than the last White Zombie album had sold in two years.

The name is pretty cool.  He was born Robert Cummings, and the Zombie stage name goes pretty well with his look and faux-horror stylings. It's not at all accurate if you go literally though; zombies are slow, shambling undead things, while Rob is very high energy and style.  Rob Daemon, perhaps?  White Zombie is a better name than Rob Zombie, obviously.  So we'll split the difference.

ZZ Top was one of the most successful music video bands in the heyday of Mtv in the early 80's.  Their videos were instant classics, with the classic red hot rod (1933 Ford Eliminator), the silver ZZ keychain, the flock of hot chicks that would spill out of the car in ridiculous mini skirts and titty tops, the 3 band guys making cameos as magical spirits, and the rags to riches story line in most of them. For supplying the hottest girls in the videos I watched while in junior high, a bonus point is awarded.  It would be more points, but for the fact that I lived in Texas and might well have had my mind imprinted to where only women in high heels, tons of make up, and panty-revealing mini-skirts could turn me on.  Fortunately that didn't happen, or I'd no doubt be nursing the second of my two-drink minimum in a strip club right now.