Roxy & Elsewhere is a double live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, released on September 10, 1974. Most of the songs were recorded on December 8, 9 at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California. The material taken from the Roxy concerts was later amended with some overdubs in the studio, while the "Elsewhere" tracks ("Son of Orange County" and "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. 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. 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. Some of the unused tracks from the Roxy shows circulate as bootlegs, as well as the entirety of the Edinboro show. Other tracks were released on Volumes One, Three and Four of the You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series. On a side note, Zappa can be heard, on the released and unreleased Roxy tapes, speaking of the making of a 'film' that could potentially be "broadcast on television", as well as reminding the audience not to be "uncomfortable around the intimidatingly large 16 mm cameras."Ī four-channel quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but not released. The 2014 CD Roxy by Proxy includes other material from the Roxy shows, including alternate versions of some songs from Roxy & Elsewhere, with no overdubs. Collins and Thompson also used the drum fill from the chorus of "More Trouble Every Day" in the coda of live versions of the Genesis song "Afterglow." In the documentary Genesis: Together and Apart, Phil Collins states that the twin drum solos in "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" is what inspired him to ask Chester Thompson to join the touring version of Genesis. On February 2, 2018, Zappa Records/UMe released The Roxy Performances, a definitive set that collects all four public shows from December 9–10, 1973, and the December 8th film shoot and soundcheck, each presented in their entirety without overdubs, along with bonus content featuring rarities from a rehearsal, unreleased tracks and highlights from the recording session at Bolic Sound. On June 17, 2022, Zappa Records/UMe released Zappa/Erie, a 6 CD box set including the complete concert from Edinboro that had been one of the sources of "Son of Orange County" and "More Trouble Every Day" from Roxy & Elsewhere. There was a 3-minute trailer released in the new millennium advertising a Roxy DVD, which could potentially contain the footage from all three nights. The trailer was later included on the Baby Snakes DVD as a bonus feature. Joe Travers has stated that "It's sitting in the vault. ![]() I would have liked more presence of Ruth, though, but overall is balanced.Basically the film footage, the negatives were transferred by Frank in the '80s using '80s technology. The soundtrack is great soundwise, and the mix is more natural than the one Frank did in 1987 (see the tracks featured on YCDTOSA, or Roxy by Proxy). Thankfully, they managed to do it, and even though we still don't have "Dupree's Paradise", is a hell of a video I will surely revisit a lot. The brief liner notes explain how nearly impossible was to put this film together. "Dickie's Such An is simply great, and I don't know why it wasn't included on the main feature, because it works perfectly well as the closing encore. ![]() Of course, I ended asking for more after "The Idiot Bastard Son" cut when it was about to segue into another tune. The beautiful Miss Pamela makes it hard (no pun of any nature intended) for some of the boys to concentrate on their instruments, but as Frank says, "we're so professional". As I already had bought the movie via iTunes, I went directly to the extras (not featured on the download version). I finally received my CD/BR combo yesterday.
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