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 on August 25, 1968 at Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver. 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

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
• 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