FRANK ZAPPA & MOTHERS OF INVENTION ROXY & ELSEWHERE USA 1ST PRESSING gatefold 2LP 12" VINYL Album

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Double LP Gatefold (FOC) cover design with artwork / photos on the inside cover pages

This album "FRANK ZAPPA & MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Roxy & Elsewhere DLP FOC" is the live album by Frank Zappa & 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

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The album: "FRANK ZAPPA & MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Roxy & Elsewhere DLP FOC" was produced by: Frank Zappa

This album was mastered at: Artisan Recorders, Hollywood

Album cover design: Cal Schenkel

Album cover photography: Sherwin Tilton, Coy Featherston, Steve Magedoff

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Personnel/Band Members and Musicians on: FRANK ZAPPA & MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Roxy & Elsewhere DLP FOC

Band-members, Musicians and Performers
• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, producer
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – flute, tenor saxophone, vocals
• Robert "Frog" Camarena – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• Debbie – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• Lynn – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• Ruben Ladron de Guevara – backing vocals ("Cheepnis")
• George Duke – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
• Bruce Fowler – trombone, dancer
• Tom Fowler – bass guitar
• Walt Fowler – trumpet, bass trumpet
• Ralph Humphrey – drums
• Don Preston – synthesizer
• Jeff Simmons – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Chester Thompson – drums
• Ruth Underwood – percussion

Complete Track-listing of the album "FRANK ZAPPA & MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Roxy & Elsewhere DLP FOC"

The detailed tracklist of this record "FRANK ZAPPA & MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Roxy & Elsewhere DLP FOC" is:

Track-listing Side One:
Penguin in Bondage 6:48
2. Pygmy Twylyte 2:13
3. Dummy Up (Brock, Simmons, and Zappa) 6:02

Track-listing Side Two:
Village of the Sun 4:17
2. Echidna's Arf (Of You) 3:52
3. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? 9:40

Track-listing Side Three:
1. Cheepnis 6:33
2. Son of Orange County 5:53
3. More Trouble Every Day 6:00

Track-listing Side Four:
1. Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church) 16:41