Career
He played with Zappa"s band from 1981 to 1988, and plays on such albums as The Manitoba From Utopia, Them or Us, Broadway the Hard Way, You Can"t Do That on Stage Anymore, Does Humor Belong In Music?, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, Make a Jazz Noise Here, and Guitar, a double-album compilation of Zappa"s live guitar solos. In February 2012, Thunes performed in California with Dweezil Zappa and the "Zappa Plays Zappa" band. Author Tomas Wictor included an expanded interview with Thunes that had first appeared in Bass Player magazine, in his book In Cold Sweat: Interviews With Really Scary Musicians (), in which Thunes talks of his career.
