We’re incredibly proud to feature this interview with Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman, John “Pugwash” Weathers, and Gentle Giant mega-fan Mike Keneally.

Steven Wilson’s remix of “Free Hand” is fantastic. It’s a huge improvement over the previous releases. The remix offers a clarity and an energy that I’ve never detected before. Mike and I rave about it in the video.

Recorded live in Albuquerque, New Mexico at GORGG 2017, celebrating the greatness of Gentle Giant.

"Click" written by Mike Keneally, originally released on his solo album "Nonkertompf"

Bass: Andy West

Acoustic guitar: Anthony Garone

The Zappa Family Trust has partnered with Eyellusion to get Frank's former bandmates back out on the road to play alongside computer-generated, three-dimensional holographic projections of multimedia elements, including Frank himself. They'll be performing brand new songs and the Frank hologram will also be adding unreleased guitar solos to songs we already know and love.

Here's Mike playing 3 songs at the house concert we hosted in 2016:

1. 00:00 "Floating Face" from Boil That Dust Speck

2. 03:29 "Airport" from The Tar Tapes, Vol. 1

3. 06:26 "I Was Not Ready For You" from Dancing

Mike has played for Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Andy Partridge, Andy West, and many others. We have tons of other videos with Mike playing, talking, and just being quite wise.

This is one of my favorite Gentle Giant songs and I was incredibly honored to be asked to join such tremendous musicians on stage for this performance. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have an opportunity like this. Gary Green was a guitar hero for me growing up, and to look over to make eye contact while performing music with him is just indescribable.

We are thrilled and stunned to present one mega-video featuring interviews with Jan Zehrfeld of Panzerballett, Mattias IA Eklundh of Freak Kitchen, Jen Majura of Evanescence, and Mike Keneally of Frank Zappa/Joe Satriani/Steve Vai. "X-mas Death Jazz" is Panzerballett's new album and, if you ask us, one of the top albums of the year. Each artist talks us through the album and what it took to record it. Hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed making it!

It is an honor and a privilege to present this group conversation between Mike Keneally and three members of Gentle Giant: Gary Green (guitar), Kerry Minnear (keyboard), and Malcolm Mortimore (drums). It was Mike's first time meeting Kerry and Malcolm. In this diverse interview, they discuss songwriting, deadlines, the power of hats, investing in music, live performance, and more.

In November 2016, Mike Keneally played a concert at our Mesa, AZ USA headquarters/home. Here's a great clip of him plowing his way through some fun Gentle Giant song intros. Enjoy!

Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Dethklok) was kind enough to grace MWM headquarters in Mesa, AZ on November 12, 2016 with a house concert. He did several songs with the incredible Andy West (Dixie Dregs, Crazy Backwards Alphabet). Here's a song from the 1995 album they released together as The Mistakes. This is a pretty rare thing to see.

Sit down with Mike Keneally and Andy West having a conversation in my dining room. #surreal

They talk about the music industry and evolution of music since the 1970s, YouTube, recommending music to other people, Captain Beefheart, Henry Kaiser, Joe Satriani, and more.

Here is Mike playing one of my favorite of his songs in my dining room. He performed a house concert with Andy West the night before and we spent a little time the next day recording some other stuff, including this video. He's never played this song live, so I consider this pretty special.

In this 90-minute interview with the incredibly-talented Mike Keneally, we talk about composition, finding your voice, capturing and developing ideas, the Vai Piano Reductions, multi-instrumentalism, and more! Transcript and references available at: http://makeweirdmusic.com/interview/mike-keneally