Frank Zappa - Road Tapes #2 (2013) 2CD (Helsinki, 1973)

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Road Tapes, Venue #2"(2013) is mix from three shows in 1973 in Helsinki, Finland, edited together to form a more-or-less complete concert.

Joining him are longtime collaborators like Ruth and Ian Underwood and George Duke, plus some musicians who’d only be around for a couple of tours: bassist Tom Fowler and drummer Ralph Humphrey. And, for one tour only, Zappa was joined by Jean-Luc Ponty.

They twist and turn through some of Zappa’s quirkier compositions, like RNDZL, Dog Breath and Echidna’s Arf (Of You). On the free-form showcase Further Oblivion, Ponty and Ian Underwood stretch out their solos, showing how talented this band was improvising. But the real standout here is Duke: he takes the vocal lead on Village of the Sun, delivers a wild keyboard solo and then leads the band’s improvisations on Dupree’s Paradise.

By turns jazzy and discordant, with Zappa’s trademark “humanly impossible” compositions, it is a wonderful document of one of the most celebrated of the line-ups of The Mothers.


Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Road Tapes, Venue # 2

(Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 23 & 24, 1973)

2013


2CDs / 2013 / VBR-V0


Track List:

Disc 1:

1. Introcious

2. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue

3. Kung Fu

4. Penguin In Bondage

5. Exercise #4

6. Dog Breath

7. The Dog Breath Variations

8. Uncle Meat

9. RDNZL

10. Montana

11. Your Teeth And Your Shoulders and sometimes your foot goes.../Pojama Predlude

12. Dupree's Paradise

13. All Skate/Dun-Dun-Dun (The Finnish Hit Single)


Disc 2:

1. Village Of The Sun

2. Echidna's Arf (Of You)

3. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

4. Big Swifty

5. Father O'Blivion

6. Brown Shoes Don't Make It


Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Road Tapes, Venue # 2

(Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 23 & 24, 1973)

2013


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