Road Tapes, Venue 1

Road Tapes, Venue #1
Road Tapes, Venue #1
Live album by Frank Zappa
Released	October 31, 2012
Recorded	August 25, 1968
Venue	Kerrisdale Arena (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Genre	Jazz rock Experimental rock Psychedelic rock
Length	88:21
Label	Vaulternative Records; Catalog Number: VR 20122
Frank Zappa chronology

Road Tapes, Venue #1 is a double live album by Frank Zappa, released posthumously on October 31, 2012, by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records. It was recorded on August 25, 1968 at the Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.^[1] It is the seventh installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete Zappa concerts, following the releases of FZ:OZ (2002), Buffalo (2007), Wazoo (2007), Philly '76 (2009), Hammersmith Odeon (2010) and Carnegie Hall (2011).

Track listing[edit]

All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except where noted.

Disc 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Importance of an Earnest Attempt (By Hand)"	3:44
2.	"Help, I'm a Rock/Transylvania Boogie"	9:30
3.	"Flopsmash Musics"	4:50
4.	"Hungry Freaks, Daddy"	3:59
5.	"The Orange County Lumber Truck"	20:57
6.	"The Rewards of a Career in Music"	3:29

Disc 2
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Trouble Every Day"	5:08
2.	"Shortly: Suite Exists of Holiday in Berlin Full Blown"	9:29
3.	"Pound for a Brown"	3:13
4.	"Sleeping in a Jar"	3:23
5.	"Oh, in the Sky"	2:42
6.	"Octandre" (Edgard Varèse)	7:40
7.	"King Kong"	10:17

Personnel[edit]

Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
Bunk Gardner – woodwinds, voice
Motorhead Sherwood – baritone sax, tambourine, harmonica
Don Preston – keyboards
Ian Underwood – keyboards, woodwinds
Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – drums, vocals
Art Tripp III – drums, percussion

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Zappa.com > FZ Official Discography > Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012)". zappa.com. Retrieved 12 October 2014.

[ZFOD-1] "Zappa.com > FZ Official Discography > Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012)". zappa.com. Retrieved 12 October 2014.

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