![]() St.Roxy by Proxy is a live album by Frank Zappa, recorded in December 1973 at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California and released posthumously in March 2014 by The Zappa Family Trust on Zappa Records.Green Genesĭisc 4: Show 1 (1-11) and Show 2 (12-17)ĭisc 6: Show 2 (1), Rehearsal (2-5), Unreleased Track (6) and Bolic Studio Session Medley: King Kong/Chunga's Revenge/Son Of Mr.Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church).The Roxy Performances (Zappa Records Official Release #111/ZR 20028, 2018)Īmazon U.S. The Roxy Performances is available tomorrow - pre-order it at the links below! The set includes a 48-page booklet of liner notes, including essays from Australian writer Jen Jewel Brown and Dave Alvin of The Blasters (both of whom attended Roxy shows), liner notes from Joe Travers (longtime Zappa "vaultmeister" and, alongside Zappa's son Ahmet, the box's co-producer) and archival press clippings. The music in The Roxy Performances presents new 2016 mixes by Craig Parker Adams, who used new 96/24 transfers of the multi-track masters. ![]() (His creative output was particularly high at this time months after the Roxy shows, Zappa released Apostrophe ('), a Top 10 album and his most commercially successful.) Fans from all over have lauded these performances Genesis drummer and eventual frontman Phil Collins invited Thompson to join the touring version of the band off the strength of Roxy & Elsewhere, and it's not hard to hear their drum duets as their own homage to what The Mothers were doing on stage at that time. ![]() He did not return to the stage for about nine months while healing.īut here in these concerts we find a rejuvenated Zappa leading the group on reworked favorites as well as new compositions. Then, a week later, while playing rented gear at London's Rainbow Theatre, a fan ran onstage and shoved Zappa offstage, landing into a concrete orchestra pit and suffering enough injuries that onlookers initially thought he was dead. First, the infamous Montreux Casino fire (immortalized in Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water") occurred during a Mothers gig, and while the band was safe, more than $50,000 worth of their equipment was gone. Almost exactly two years earlier, the guitarist had suffered two unbelievable setbacks. ![]() In fact, it was quite a few years for Zappa when he and a new version of The Mothers of Invention (which here included keyboardist George Duke, brothers Tom and Bruce Fowler on bass and trombone, singer/saxophonist Napoleon Murphy Brock and drummers/percussionists Chester Thompson, Ralph Humphrey and Ruth Underwood) appeared on the Sunset Strip. In addition to the four main shows from the 9th and 10th of the month, The Roxy Performances also includes material from an invite-only soundcheck and film shoot that commenced on the 8th and highlights from a session at Bolic Studio in Inglewood, CA on the 12th. The Roxy Performances is a 7CD box set that offers material from four incredible nights from December 8-12, 1973, as heard on 1974's Roxy & Elsewhere (in overdubbed form), 2014's Roxy By Proxy (which featured alternate performances sans overdubs) and 2015's Blu-ray/CD combo Roxy The Soundtrack. Fans of the uncompromising rock composer Frank Zappa have a special jewel to add to their collections tomorrow: a definitive set chronicling his 1973 stand at The Roxy in Hollywood.
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