Roxy & Elsewhere
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| Live album by Frank Zappa / The Mothers | ||||
| Released | September 10, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | December 10,11 and 12 of 1973 + May 8 & 11, 1974 | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion, progressive rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 68:04 | |||
| Label | DiscReet | |||
| Producer | Frank Zappa | |||
| Frank Zappa / The Mothers chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | C+ |
| Rolling Stone | (unfavorable) |
Roxy & Elsewhere is a live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, which was released in 1974. Most of the songs were recorded at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California on December 8, 9 and 10, 1973. The material taken from the Roxy concerts was later amended with some overdubs in the studio, while the "Elsewhere" tracks ("Son of Orange County" & "More Trouble Every Day") were recorded on May 8, 1974, at the Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania (and parts of "Son of Orange County" on May 11, 1974, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois (late show)) and do not contain overdubbed material.
This album is considered a high-water-mark recording of one of the most celebrated incarnations of the Mothers. It features an array of highly challenging instrumentals such as "Echidna's Arf (Of You)", "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?", and the opening theme of "Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church)". It also features "Cheepnis", Zappa's tribute to low-budget monster movies, and reworked versions of earlier songs such as "More Trouble Every Day" and "Son of Orange County" (excerpted from the songs "Oh No" and "The Orange County Lumber Truck" and given an extended guitar solo). "Village of the Sun" is about Sun Village, California, an unincorporated area near Palmdale, and also makes references to Lancaster, California, twin city to Palmdale and Zappa's hometown.
The album primarily comprised recordings from three shows at the Roxy Theater in Hollywood, and featured tracks never before or thereafter released on any Zappa/Mothers album. Material from the Roxy performances were partially overdubbed. The other tracks came from the 8th May 1974 show in Edinboro State College and the second show on 11 May (Mothers Day) 1974 at the Chicago Auditorium Theatre.
The opening track, "Penguin in Bondage" is edited together from performances at the Roxy and the Chicago date. The guitar solo on "Son of Orange County" is one of the few Zappa guitar solos edited together from more than one concert, in this case the Edinboro and Chicago dates.
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