Road Tapes, Venue 1

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Road Tapes, Venue #1 is a double live album by Frank Zappa, released posthumously on 31 October 2012, by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records. It was recorded at Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver, on August 25, 1968. This is Official Release #92.

Track listing

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

Disc one

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 two

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" 7:40 (Varèse)
   
7. "King Kong" 10:17

Personnel

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