![]() With the Universal Music Group re-releasing remastered versions of the entire Frank Zappa catalog beginning at the end of August, hopefully a Blu-Ray of the 1973 Roxy shows in 5.1 surround will soon be on the way. (Part of the Roxy performance of “Dummy Up” can be seen in the Zappa doc, The True Story Of 200 Motels). The Roxy shows were also a fantastic showcase for Ruth Underwood’s skills. George Duke’s solo that starts at about 11 minutes in is a thing of wonder to behold. This tantalizing 32-minute chunk of that film-neither song (“Montana” and “Dupree’s Paradise”) were actually on the Roxy & Elsewhere album-was screened at the Zappa Plays Zappa concerts and posted on the website for a while. It’s great stuff, but the process of just getting to that point is going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time.” I have no idea what Dweezil and Gail want to do. Edit the program together, camera angles, what shows, what we are going to include from what shows or include all the shows. Previously unreleased footage of Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Inventions performing during their three night shows at The Roxy in 1973, (Portions of which were included in the Roxy & Elsewhere album. Once we get all that together, then we need to cut the program. What we want to do is go back to the original negatives and do it in High Definition and then create a 5.1 mix from the original masters so that we have surround sound as well as Frank’s 2 channel stereo mix. Basically the film footage, the negatives were transferred by Frank in the ‘80s using ‘80s technology. Zappa “vaultmeister” Joe Travers was quoted on the Wikipedia entry for the album about the long-delayed DVD release: Maybe one day, when TV loosens up a little bit, we’ll be able to show the lovely Brenda, doing…(FZ and George Duke laugh).that was a real nice piece of film, that Brenda…(more laughter).”Ī DVD of the Roxy shows has long been promised, but has never come out. However, they’re too weird to show on television, and I don’t think there’s really a market in the theaters for a straight concert film like that…So right now, it’s sitting in my shelf, being an expensive piece of home movie. “Well, I wish there was…The status of that film is this: I spent about $30.000-40.000 trying to get the thing on film, and I got it on film, and there’s some things that happened down there that were absolutely fabulous. ![]() When Frank Zappa lectured at the Gifford Auditorium at Syracuse University on April 23, 1975, one of the audience members asked him “Can you tell us if anything is going on with your ‘Live at the Roxy’ movie?” The Roxy is a pretty intimate club-a performer onstage there could practically make eye-contact with every member of the audience-and the musicianship during these sets was particularly inspired. Roxy & Elsewhere was recorded primarily over three nights (December 8,9,10, 1973) live at The Roxy nightclub in the heart of the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. To Order Off Line or ask a question E-mail our sales team at or call 0844 264 0 991 quoting 991.Frank Zappa’s 1974 album Roxy & Elsewhere captured for posterity one of the most musically accomplished incarnations of The Mothers (George Duke, keyboards Tom Fowler, bass Ruth Underwood, percussion Bruce Fowler, trombone Walt Fowler, trumpet Napoleon Murphy Brock, tenor sax, vocals and Chester Thompson and Ralph Humphrey on drums) onstage and on fire. ![]() The Mothers,MOI,Zappa & The Mothers,The Mothers Of Invention,FZ However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.Īynsley Dunbar, Bob Harris, Bozzio Levin Stevens, Cal Schenkel, Chad Wackerman, Dale Bozzio, Don Preston (Keyboards), Dweezil Zappa, Easy Chair, Ed Palermo, George Duke, Geronimo Black, GTO's, Hampton Grease Band, Ike Willis, Jeff Simmons, Mike Keneally, Missing Persons, Moon Unit Zappa, Patrick O'Hearn, Pierrejean Gaucher, Ruben And The Jets, Sandy Hurvitz, The Grandmothers, The Hollywood Persuaders, Vinnie Colaiuta, Warren Cuccurullo, Wild Man Fischer, Zappa Plays Zappa Frank Zappa A Token Of His Extreme Germany DVD.Īll tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.ĭeleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. ![]()
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