Roxy & Elsewhere
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DiscReet Records Barking Pumpkin Records (CD) Rykodisc (CD) VideoArts Music (CD) |
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LP vinyl , CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
67:59 |
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Live |
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Roxy & Elsewhere is a music album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention . It was released in 1974 on the Discreet label and is classified as part of the progressive rock genre.
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Roxy & Elsewhere is the twelfth album by the Mothers of Invention. It is a live recording, most of the plays were recorded in the eponymous Roxy Theater (West Hollywood) in Los Angeles. Elsewhere, Son of Orange County , Trouble Every Day, and Penguin in Bondage , were recorded at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago and Edinboro State College in Pennsylvania. Most of the compositions were first released on the album, only More Trouble Every Day (album Freak Out! ) Had been released earlier.
Musically, the album offers progressive rock and rock , jazz elements can also be heard . It contains Echidna's Arf (Of You) and Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? two virtuoso instrumental pieces. In the piece Be-Bop Tango (of the old Jazzmen's Church) there is also an audience participation that is typical for Zappa's concerts in English-speaking countries . This composition also contains the well-known zappa phrase "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" ( Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny ).
The album also contains three short humorous addresses by Zappa to the concert audience ("Preambles") , which are intended to explain the content and circumstances of the composition of the following compositions (Penguin in Bondage, Village of the Sun, Cheepnis) . In contrast to the earlier vinyl editions, the CD versions do not include these introductions in the track list. The play Cheepnis is a parody of 'cheap' feature films like It Conquered the World from 1956, the main character of which, an alien monster, is characterized as an “inverted ice-cream cone” .
Track list
Unless otherwise stated, all pieces of music were composed by Frank Zappa.
- Penguin in Bondage (6:48) - parodic song about "experimental" sexual practices.
- Pygmy Twylyte (2:12) - Satire about the emotional life of a drug addict traveling by bus in withdrawal.
- Dummy Up (6:03) (Zappa / Simmons / Brock) - gloss on naivety; a gullible musician (portrayed by Napoleon Murphy Brock) is encouraged in the stage dialogue to smoke a small-cut, worn sock, rolled up in a diploma, as a drug.
- Village of the Sun (4:17) - autobiographical song about life in the southern California town of Sun Village (located in the Antelope Valley, near the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster in Los Angeles County ).
- Echidna's Arf (of You) (3:53) - instrumental piece.
- Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? (9:40) - Instrumental. With live commentary about percussionist Ruth Underwood.
- Cheepnis (6:31) - Parody of cheaply produced monster films of the 1950s. It tells the story of the giant poodle Frunobulax .
- Son of Orange County (5:53) - satirical swipes at the politics of US President Richard Nixon (with original Nixon quote: “I am not a crook” - “I'm not a crook”).
- More Trouble Every Day (6:00) - socially critical consideration of the Watts uprising of 1965 in Los Angeles.
- Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church) (16:41) - rhythmically complex tango parody with audience participation.
occupation
- Frank Zappa - electric guitar , vocals
- Jeff Simmons - electric guitar, vocals
- Tom Fowler - electric bass
- George Duke - keyboard , synthesizer , vocals
- Ruth Underwood - percussion
- Napoleon Murphy Brock - tenor saxophone , flute , vocals
- Bruce Fowler - trombone
- Walt Fowler - trumpet
- Chester Thompson - drums
- Ralph Humphrey - drums
Web links
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