Road Tapes, Venue 2

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Road Tapes, Venue #2 is a posthumous album of Frank Zappa, released in October 2013, consisting of songs from three concerts held in August 1973 at the Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland: the August 23 early & late shows and the August 24 show. With a duration of more than two hours, this collection gives the experience of a full concert. It is the eighth 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), Carnegie Hall (2011) and Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012).

Track listing

All tracks are written by Frank Zappa

Disc one

No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Introcious"	August 24, 1973	5:18
2.	"The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"	August 24, 1973	1:07
3.	"Kung Fu"	August 24, 1973	1:11
4.	"Penguin in Bondage"	August 24, 1973	4:07
5.	"Exercise #4"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	1:58
6.	"Dog Breath"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	1:36
7.	"The Dog Breath Variations"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	1:30
8.	"Uncle Meat"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	2:27
9.	"RDNZL"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	6:17
10.	"Montana"	August 24, 1973	7:02
11.	"Your Teeth and Your Shoulders and Sometimes Your Foot Goes Like This . . . /Pojama Prelude"	August 24, 1973	10:14
12.	"Dupree's Paradise"	August 24, 1973	15:55
13.	"All Skate/Dun-Dun-Dun (The Finnish Hit Single)"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	14:10

Disc two

No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Village of the Sun"	August 24, 1973	5:40
2.	"Echidna's Arf (Of You)"	August 24, 1973	4:22
3.	"Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?"	August 24, 1973	11:24
4.	"Big Swifty"	August 23, 1973 (late show)	14:14
5.	"Farther O'Blivion"	August 23, 1973 (late show) & August 24, 1973	24:18
6.	"Brown Shoes Don't Make It"	August 23, 1973 (early show)	7:33

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
• Jean-Luc Ponty – electronic violin
• George Duke – keyboards, vocals
• Ian Underwood – synthesizer, woodwind instruments
• Ruth Underwood – percussion
• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Tom Fowler – bass guitar
• Ralph Humphrey – drums