I honestly like those tiny little (previously unknown) factoids that time after time see the light of day and reveal something we did not know before. Here’s something I know you all were wondering about (just like I did), and this is one more reason why one should follow the ZPZ reviews:
Dweezil proved an easygoing frontman, (…) explaining song titles like “RDNZL,” pronounced Redunzel a contraction of redundant and Repunzel.
Finally. There were several guesses before, and the New Knowledge is already on the site Information Is Not Knowledge as well.
Ruthie
Duke
Napoleon
Zappa
Luc Ponty
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Please share your feelings. I’m puzzled.
RALPH Humpries
so with this revelation, we now have a term to distinguish Zappaspeak from Gailspeak (“redunzel”).
The frost is off the pumpkins, the eons are closing. 😉
I spoke to someone (I think Gail) about 18 years ago on the 818-PUMPKIN line. During the conversation I asked “what does R-D-N-Z-L stand for?” She said ‘It’s Redunzel which is a nickname Frank uses for Gail.’ (I think he was still around at the time.) I wasn’t aware this was a big debate or I would have shared this nugget long ago.
As an aside, the original reason for my call to 818 was I had just read an article that described young Diva having catered lunch delivered to her at school every day. For some reason I found this unbelievable and slightly infuriating. I mean, what the hell? So after a couple beers I called the number and asked the question. Sure enough, the answer I got was ‘Yes, it’s true.’ The woman sounded offended that I would ask (another ‘I think it was Gail’ clue) so I sort of cheerfully changed the subject to the RDNZL question.
During the introduction to this song in Houston (11/21), Dweezil stated the name derived from the license plate of a car Frank owned
Could be dude. Although that conflicts with the explanation given by DZ at the Austin show. All I know is I asked the question and that was the answer I was given by the ‘experts’ at the hotline. She didn’t even pause before answering my question as if it was asked all the time.