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While this might seem like a deluxe version of Roxy & Elsewhere, it really isn't. There's lots of chatter in the Bolic studios material, and it also has a rehearsal feel, but there's also a nice audio nugget that would appear on Apostrophe(') less than six months later.
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The rehearsals are exactly that, and the songs don't really get full run-throughs. George Duke is amazing and an absolute joy throughout, and Zappa clearly loves having him and Ruth Underwood in the band (much of this material was written specifically with their talents in mind). Everyone's solos are completely different each night. It's mostly new material (the stuff that ended up on Roxy & Elsewhere, of course) with some old favorites thrown in, and interesting early versions of "Inca Roads" and "Rdnzl." It's tricky stuff, but the band handles it with aplomb. The tunes played from night to night are mostly the same and some songs were played as a suite, but Frank has to call out what they're playing to the band, and the order of songs is different for almost every show. Unlike most Zappa shows, there was no prearranged set list. The band is so well-rehearsed, they're both loose and tight. This is really everything a fan could expect. This box set is all five shows (four public and one for invited guests) as well as some soundcheck rehearsals and material recorded a couple days later at Ike Turner's Bolic studios.
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For fans of Zappa’s intricate material like “RDNZL,” “The Black Page,” or “Inca Roads,” this album is a must-have.ĭiscreet – 2DS 2202 Stereo Vinyl 2 x LP 1974 US Pressingīacking Vocals – Debbi, George, Lynn, Froggy, RubenĢ.Frank Zappa's 1973 band was certainly one of his best, and in order to showcase it, Frank booked a series of shows at Hollywood's Roxy club that were both recorded and filmed. All the pieces were premiere recordings, except for “More Trouble Every Day” and “Son of Orange County,” a revamped, slowed down “Orange County Lumber Truck”/”Oh No.” Compared to the man’s previous live recordings (Fillmore East: June 1971, Just Another Band from L.A.), this one sounds fantastic, finally providing an accurate image of the musicians’ virtuosity.
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Other highlights include “Penguin in Bondage” and “Cheepnis,” a horror movie tribute. The sequence “Echidna’s Arf (Of You)”/”Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?” stands as Zappa’s most difficult rock music and provides quite a showcase for Underwood.
The band is comprised of George Duke (keyboards), Tom Fowler (bass), Ruth Underwood (percussion), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Walt Fowler (trumpet), Napoleon Murphy Brock (vocals), and Chester Thompson (drums) - drummer Ralph Humphrey, keyboardist Don Preston, and guitarist Jeff Simmons appear on the non-Roxy material. Only three tracks (“Dummy Up,” “Son of Orange County,” and “More Trouble Every Day”), taken from other concerts, are 100 percent live. Three-quarters of the album was recorded live at the Roxy in Hollywood and extensively overdubbed in the studio later. But the temptation for more challenging material was not long to resurface and, after a transitional LP (Apostrophe, early 1974), he unleashed a double LP (reissued on one CD) of his most complex music, creating a bridge between his comedy rock stylings and Canterbury-style progressive rock. After his affair with jazz fusion (Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo, both released in 1972), Frank Zappa came back in late 1973 with an album of simple rock songs, Over-Nite Sensation.
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