MINT SCARCE LTD ED TWO-LP DELUXE ZAPPA / MOTHERS = PROXY ROXY UNRELEASED LP
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SCARCE LIMITED EDITION
TWO-LP's IN A SPIFFY GATEFOLD COVER with INSERT!
ZAPPA/MOTHERS
Roxy By Proxy
\ USA - ZAPPA RECORDS - ZR 20017-33
=MINT=
DELUXE...FULL COLOR...FABULOUSLY GRAND gatefold cover TWO-LP SET with insert
One of the longest-awaited of the posthumous Zappa LP releases, this album gathers several tracks from a series of December 1973 performances at the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood. These dates have become one of Zappa's most renowned gigs...This does not overlap with the Roxy & Elsewhere album. Although the track listing has some overlaps, different versions are present here. Zappa and the band are having a very good time and it comes across in the music. Less tight in places than usual, however, there are fantastic moments and the liner notes by Ruth Underwood alone are worth the price of entry ! Now for some selected highlights. Inca Roads features George Duke on lead voice, one of the first songs where Zappa entrusted this role to him. After a "Great American Songbook" style slow introduction with lyrics referring to Chariots of the Gods and the Nazca terraglyphs, the tempo picks up and Duke delivers the patter text amid time signatures in 5s and 7s. Duke then takes the first instrumental solo on synth, followed by Bruce Fowler on trombone. Fowler's solo doesn't mesh so well with this arrangement, which demands quickness and agility, two qualities not necessarily associated with that instrument. Fowler nails the ensemble parts though, and his soloing talents are better represented on RDNZL (or the Be-bop Tango that concludes R&E). After the trombone solo, Underwood's chops are on display (using only two mallets) along with Duke's tongue as the vocal refrain is reprised.
RDNZL, a comparatively straightforward rock improv tune, has a short but fluent Fowler trombone solo, followed by an extended Zappa solo. Brock gets in some sax licks, followed by a monophonic Duke synth solo. The ensemble section that comes next features several more Underwood mallet runs and tremolos. This is the band sound you've got to love in order to love the Roxy period. Echidna's Arf (of You) has a section in a fast five, again showcasing the fluency of Duke's fingers and Underwood's hands, with the other ensemble players also getting into the act of this energetic piece.
Cheepnis-Percussion is one of the two RBP novelties (songs without versions on the other albums cited above). Zappa introduces it as "the rhythm track of the next song: a Little More Cheepnis Please", and indeed Cheepnis proper does follow at a slower tempo than its introduction. The RBP Cheepnis is quite distinct from the overdubbed version on R&E. Further complicating the picture is the completely redone studio performance with backing vocals that's documented in a short video released in 2013 by ZFT and available from iTunes. Zappateers disagree over whether any of that version was spliced into the eventual R&E version.
Dupree's Paradise wraps up the (pre-encore) set. This version is distinct from the Roxy performance of Dupree's Paradise, bundled with Montana, that's documented in the half-hour video. As an encore, the band plays an appealing medley of King Kong, Chunga's Revenge and Mr. Green Genes, which comprises (along with Cheepnis-Percussion) the other novelty of the album :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1. "Carved In The Rock"
2. Inca Roads
3. Penguin In Bondage
4. T'Mershi Duween
5. Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat
6. RDNZL
7. Village Of The Sun
8. Echidna's Arf (Of You)
9. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing
10. Cheepnis - Percussion
11. Cheepnis
12. Dupree's Paradise
13. King Kong/Chunga's Revenge/Mr. Green Genes
CONDITION: The cover: fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated expect play grade to be with very enjoyable audio...NO distracting surface problems ... both labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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