I don't have a whole lot to say about Automatic other than it's....interesting. When you have the last name "Zappa" you are burdened with certain expectations of strangeness. The original material is fairly standard guitar-driven instrumental work. However, any attempts at being taken seriously are undercut by all-guitar reworkings of songs from Carmen and the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. They are good for a chuckle and of course the only songs from the albums I'm still humming.
Dweezil had one more solo album left in him and it appears he is now dedicated to leading a tribute band to his late father, Zappa Plays Zappa.
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