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Also included is the sound check from December 8th and bonus content that features rehearsal nuggets and unreleased tracks along with highlights from the recording session at Bolic Studios that took place in conjunction with the filming dates. All 4 public shows from December 9th & 10th 1973, remixed in 2016 and presented in their entirety for the first time. A 7-Disc Box Set that contains the MOTHERLODE of all things Roxy.
Zappa Records presents The Roxy Performances. In typical Zappa fashion, he recorded it all. A few days later, continuing this incredibly prolific week, Frank Zappa brought his band and camera crew to Ike Turner’s Bolic Sound in Inglewood for a filmed recording session. Considered a high-water mark of his career, owing to the incredible, virtuosic performances of himself and his stellar band The Mothers, the five shows – across three nights – included a private invite-only performance/soundcheck/film shoot followed by back-to-back doubleheaders.
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Check the intricacy of “Inca Roads” and the associated “RDNZL,” which appear to lampoon the overly serious nature of many progressive rock groups while out-maneuvering them at their own game.43 years ago in December 1973, Frank Zappa played a series of legendary concerts at the famed Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. With a band that good, it’s no wonder Zappa took off for the stratosphere on the complex instrumentals “Echidna’s Arf (Of You),” “Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?” and “Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen’s Church),” all of which display Zappa’s fabulous chops as he peels off some ridiculously great solos. Listening to her keep up with – and ahead of – the pack is astonishing in itself. Don Preston’s synths are way ahead of the game – and that also goes for percussionist Ruth Underwood. Bassist Tom Fowler holds it down while brother Bruce Fowler brasses it right up on trombone. Keyboardist George Duke, one of Frank’s all-time favorite collaborators, adds so much jazz-funk to the mix that it explodes with – what else? – invention.
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He revels in their virtuosity and gives them free rein.
The interplay between Zappa and his players is astonishing. It’s time to gets your rocks off for The Roxy.” This box contains some of the best nights of music Los Angeles has ever seen with their ears at a historic venue. Co-producer of the project, Ahmet Zappa, executor of the Zappa Family Trust, describes it perfectly: “This is one of my favorite FZ line-ups ever.
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Long considered to be a Holy Grail period by Zappa aficionados, The Roxy Performances are the super-duper definitive item (portions of the evenings have previously been available on the albums Roxy And Elsewhere (1974) and Roxy By Proxy (2014), with special mention also for Roxy: The Movie (2015)). Listen to The Roxy Performances on Apple Music and Spotify. Collected in the 7CD box set The Roxy Performances, these shows stand today as some of the finest Zappa ever performed. Joined by what many consider to be one of his finest versions of The Mothers, Zappa delivered extraordinary performances of songs old and new, thrilling the lucky patrons both with his virtuoso skills and legendary panache as rock’s foremost bandleader. In 1973 Frank Zappa played a quartet of legendary concerts at the newly opened Roxy Theatre on LA’s Sunset Strip.
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