Frank Zappa The Roxy Guitar Solos
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- WARNING: THIS IS NOT A OFFICIAL ALBUM!
This is from my own private collection. I assembled it for my personal listening.
This is a 24 guitar solos collection, recorded live at the Roxy Theatre, Hollywood (Los Angeles), 09 & 10 December 1973.
You can find all these solos in their exalting original context in the new "The Roxy Performances" official box set.
I hope this collection will stimulate all fans to buy the official box. It's worth it! It is a well of gems!
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(If you find something here - pic, video or music - that you believe shouldn’t be here,
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Frank Zappa, George Duke, Tom Fowler, Bruce Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ruth Underwood, Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson
1973-12-09 Show 1
00:00 Cosmik Debris
02:46 Penguin In Bondage
04:10 RDNZL
05:40 Montana
08:03 Dupree’s Paradise
11:14 Dickie’s Such An Asshole
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1973-12-09 Show 2
13:05 Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?
16:07 I’m The Slime
17:28 Big Swifty
20:32 Be-Bop Tango
23:48 Chunga’s Revenge
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1973-12-10 Show 1
26:58 Montana
29:19 Dupree’s Paradise
33:59 Penguin In Bondage
36:47 Cosmik Debris
38:37 RDNZL
39:57 Pygmy Twylyte
41:11 Dickie’s Such An Asshole
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1973-12-10 Show 2
42:32 Penguin In Bondage
44:51 RDNZL
46:52 Pygmy Twylyte
50:52 Be-Bop Tango
53:33 Dickie’s Such An Asshole
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Roxy Rehearsal 1973-12-10
55:52 Farther O’Blivion - In Rehearsal
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www.zappa.com/
BUY THE OFFICIAL BOX!!!
This is a 24 guitar solos collection, recorded live at the Roxy Theatre, Hollywood (Los Angeles), 09 & 10 December 1973.
You can find all these solos in their exalting original context in the new "The Roxy Performances" official box set.
I hope this collection will stimulate all fans to buy the official box. It's worth it! It is a well of gems!
Directly from my heart to you : diotibenedica !!! :)
Well said br1tag. I bought the Roxy Box recently and am so happy I did. Love this line-up so much, and they perform so masterfully yet playfully. One thing that strikes me is how seemingly calm Frank remained under the pressure and expense of filming.
holy shit man...and I thought I was a big fan of Zappa with 80 albums or so ( back in the day when all this digital content was not available). Hands down to you master. And thank you for all this marvelous music of
Frank Amadeus Mozart Zappa.
Cheers!
This collection of solos from the Roxy is a definite must for a Frank Zappa enthusiast!
I need to add this boxed set to my collection of Zappa discs.
I THANK YOU MUCH for this download as I do appreciate the music of F.Z. and the talented musicians who have played with him.
Why no More Trouble Everyday?, If you know.
Frank has it all! Speed, technique, melody. Absolute excellence.
The greatestt ever in my opinion no one can touch frank!
nahh i doo ...
ah crud ...uh...my dog
i hope shes alright
You forgot that one little thing … “touch” great post my fellow devotee… AND … that “touch” is at 29:30 … ABSOLUTE PERFECTION …okay I am a bit …. b i a s s e d …. I am entering into my GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY … 50 years …
And I am here right now LISTENING still … on my dead bed I can only hope…
Steve Vai said that Franks music was the treasure for the guitar player who discovers it.
This guy was off the charts outa left field. Genius! Life would be shit without Zappa in it!
im 23 years old and listen to zappa since im born, see dweezil in paris in 2019. thx to my dad. thx very much br1tag for your magic youtube channel. RIP franck, rip my dad
Incredible.It was the second best performance out of nine shows I saw over the years.Philly 76 is great also,my first Zappa show and my first concert I just turned 14 Oct 25 the show was Oct 28.
U must listen to Zappa Tower Theatre 1980.There are two shows I was at the second show,that show was
Tower Theatre 1980 second show Best of Zappa.
In the second Montana solo take, Frank is wearing the "München" t-shirt. Love it, saw him twice in Munich back in the eighties. Frank Zappa was really big in Germany, three cities in Germany have streets named after Fank Zappa.
Best compilation of FZ solos I've ever heard!
ANYTHING ANYWHERE
ANYTIME
FOR
NO
REASON
AT
ALL
How the hell can anyone give this a thumbs down???
People who doesn't know anything about sarcastic music 😬
Coz them silly fools has their ears on backwards, and you should not worry your correctly adjusted ears 1 bit bout em, as them will not change, and is plenty capable to be carry on being silly, without you worrying.. ;-)
But yes.. one wonders why !
I bought my first Frank Zappa album when I was fifteen (Zoot Allures) which was back in 1975. From that year until today I always return to his music from time to time and still discover new aspects of his incredible work. I love this man and his music. In the eighties I saw him twice live in concert in my hometown Munich which were both fantastic performances.
Frank was definitely his best when jamming on the guitar!
Frank would say that soloing was the only time during a performance that he could shut his eyes and let the band go on autopilot and he was able to drift off into sololand.
Thompson and Humphrey’s team is sick....
I think some thing that I almost never see in Br1tags comment section, but deserves to be there is his mixing. All of his edits between the solos is seamless, like all of these cuts could have been an official release.
Some of the truly great solos he's ever done, 73& 74
Frank Zappa is one of the best musicians of his era (and ours) if not the best. He was a great guitarist and a great composer. What I never understood is that no matter of what guitar he uses - Gibson SG, Gibson Les Paul, or Fender Stratocaster, he always sounds... well like Zappa! Fantastic! and thans a lot for this wonderful collection of solos!!! I really don't understand how some people dare saying that Zappa was a bad soloist! Well, de gustibus...
This here Zappa feller seems like he might know his way around a guitar some
Seems he mite like those French fried taters
He could also play a mean bicycle!😉👌👍✌😈😂
Roxy & elsewhere, my first encounter with Frank. I’ve enjoyed this guy’s incredible talent ever since. Cheers!!
First heard Zappa way back in the 1960s who blew the Beatles out of the water with the Freak out LP. I now compose music and always find Zappa inspirational.
Killer assemblage of rippage! My fave Zappa solo era. Sir, you have done the Lord's work here. One of my favorite YT videos ever!
Not only are his solos incredible, but just listen to that fantastic percussion!! The present day composer refuses to die.
Zappa's ability to always improvise is the stuff of legends!
Now you must do the same to his other box sets. I was attracted, as a teen, to Zappa's lyrics and humor, but it is his instrumental jams that have kept me around 50 years later.
Thank you thank you thank you for sharing this. You brought joy to an otherwise dreary evening. I am digging this.
Fabulous collection...
I am a great fan of Zappa impro .
This is perfect for me.
Great job.
This is so tasty! And after all these years, and by his own words, I'm finally realizing that he was really a blues guitarist in the end.
I discovered the music of Frank Zappa in the mid 90's when I was 15, listened to 'Läther' and got hooked immediately ! I could not believe what I was hearing, all these different musical dimensions that man had created... 'RDNZL', 'Down in the Dew', 'Filthy Habits', 'The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny', 'San Berdino', Uncle Meat', etc, etc... It is a neverending quest through the infinite genius of Frank Zappa ! Each album has got its own unique color of genius and is a piece of the puzzle of his 'conceptual continuity' ! Each album is an exciting discovery... Vive Frank Zappa !
Welcome newbie.😊
Zappa had style, density, and unlimited quantity. There are great guitar players out there but none ever reached the level of Frank. Nice job br1tag. Very nice blend.
He was and still is the best
Hands down.
THIS collection is way better than the official Roxy Shows which are very disjointed with much talking. I love Frank and if I am to listen to him over and over again the guitar is great and the banter should be only a one time distraction. Repeated banter is a clever way to sell but it is not music and you only need to hear it once. GBG NO EDITS.
He's a Genius ~ very nice Mix
i loved the lineup he had at that time. ralph, tom, bruce, nepolian, ruth, george, chester. they did awesome things with frank.
This Rocks! Thanks for spending the time editing...
Agreed! I actually enjoyed this solo compilation much more than the complete Roxy Performances box set. Mucho thanks to br1tag!
Agreed. - way better.
Zappa at the Roxy...😮❤❤❤❤
Great year for Frank and great band !!!
Thank u!!
From Marseille 🇨🇵
They need to put Frank Zappa's most brilliant solos and some amazing live music on repeat and have it blasted through outer space if there is Life as We Know It out there Frank will be the connection. There's no way that any other life-form in the vastness of outer space will be able to ignore Frank Vincent Zappa's music
wish i could listen to nothing but Z solos every waking minute...I bet this is what's playin over the PA all the time in heaven..well..mine anyway..thank you sir for posting this wonderful compilation.
Zappa always played in a distinctive style. His leads usually had a beginning, climax, and ending. His ability to group instruments into a fine composition was simply amazing. The sounds produced were sometimes a one of a kind. They never get old.
Thanks for your service to humanity.
mi Padre me puso Frank en homenaje, fue y es el coleccionista Argentino mas tozudo de se haya conocido, no habla otro idioma que el zappiano, su coleccion apabulla, discos, cassettes, magazines, masters, un camion lleno, zappa vivio 52 años, pero dejo grabaciones para 1000 años mas
Been washing and waxing my MGB. Loving this music
I was lucky enough to seee Frank live 3 Times. I met the Fowler Brothers, and learned a lot of the back stories. He was a legend, and I feel sorry for people who don't realize his legacy on music.
This is absolutely wonderful I saw Frank a lot up and down the east coast I just think he is one of the greatest players of all time taught me a lot
Thanks to lifelong fan from Ireland Frank lives on in our hearts and minds.
Magnifique ! Quel créativité ! quel volcan ! quel génie !!
I devour all things Zappa. I only had the pleasure of seeing him once in '77 but have seen Dweezil several times. Moon is coming out with a memoir soon and i can wait to hear the stories she has about growing up in that house.
Well it's official! You are a FORCE Br1,a cultural influence! I read lots of comments. These people remark on genius,best ever,unequaled. It takes a keen ear as well as an educated ear. He has a Doctorate in music Theory,Dr. And a physical ability to put it all together. Not many with such a plethora!!!
Best Zappa band constellation ever...each and every bandmember a genious...great googelymoogely grande marveloso...😈🎶🎸🎼💪👍👍👍
Frank Zappa.............. ❤️Fra i più bravi chitarristi della storia è unico nel suo genere. Io amo ZAPPA FRANK
Whom may dislike this genius? The only reason we sell anything on this planet is because majority of the world is comprised of stupid people... God drops needle on this stuff
Awesome. Thanks again for taking the time to put this out there!
Bruno my friend, this collection is ASTUTE. This guitar was so sweet, and the band, man... any band with George, Ruth, Napoleon, Chester, Ralph and Bruce is an instant candidate for "The Best Band That You... exetera. A treasure
@udiseus - Caro udi, I always enjoy hearing from you. I wish you all the best.
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Zappa is not dead ,just smell funny,thank for your great job .
The guitar tone is absolute perfection
Butthole Dan I agree... this is that dream tone I want!
I keep comin back to this set...just had the neighbours ask me to turn it down..a first for everything.I was outside stargaizing..
By far, the best guitar player ever. Move over Jimi, let Frank take over!
Frank is best ever
Ah . . love this - this is my favorite of his many great bands and his sound and playing is fantastic here.
Thanks, a good accompaniment to The Hot Rats sessions.
🥰 more love for Zappa.
Had several chances to catch this lineup never failed to be killed.
The real king !!!
Great Band thank you FRANK Zappa
Another great collection from br1tag, thanks....The Best Guitar I never Heard in my Life...... Guitar is the Best !!! Just fantastic !
Because Frank Zappa's the quickest fingers Hands down
Zappa never gave in. Stood for what he beleived.
He didn't have to shoutout Marty on the smoke machine, but he did, because Zappa lived for the smoke machine.
Hahaha, who doesn’t??
I heard he would always say............MORE SMOKE MACHINE,WE NEED MORE SMOKE MACHINE!😉
Listening to Zappa playing guitar is exhilarating. Every single time.
Thanks God for the virtuosism of this guitar rock compouser and player.
This is all i'll say about him.
And thanks to you men for this magnificent compilation.
THANK YOU!!!
This is one of the best collections of Frank's solos I've heard.
Great quality recording too.
Zapa's on my ancestry tree ❤
HELL YESS!!! Thank you so much for putting this together. Makes my workday SO much more enjoyable.
Real music is the best
wowza!
Lancaster, California January 8th,2015
We left West Hollywood at about 4a.m. on a crisp, clear, invigorating (I dare write ‘as are bubbles in champagne’) morning on our way to production somewhere out ‘in the desert’.
It was at about hour number 2 in our excursion (this was my first time on set with my wife and her job as Creative Director - not bad, no? ;) after we had passed the meth-head wandering aimlessly in the Western Mojave (this was the only life seen so far) that I ‘freaked out’.
I borrow a definition of ‘freaking out’ from the album of same name ‘Freak Out’ by Frank Zappa :7{«
“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette to in order (sic) express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole (sic). Less perceptive individuals have referred to us who have chosen this way of thinking and FEELING as “Freaks,” hence the term: Freaking Out.
On a collective level, when any number of “Freaks” gather and express themselves creatively through music or dance, for example, it is generally referred to as a FREAK OUT. The participants, already emancipated from our national social slavery, dressed in their most inspired apparel, realize as a group whatever potential they possess for free expression.
We would like to encourage everyone who HEARS this music to join us…become a member of The United Mutations…FREAK OUT!”- Frank Zappa from website Green and Black Music.
And, given the etymologists study of the conception of this phrasal-verb, he was pretty close:
The sense of "capricious notion" (1560s) and that of "unusual thing, fancy" (1784) preceded that of "abnormally developed individual or production" (first attested in freak of nature, 1839, which later was popular in variety show advertisements for bearded ladies, albinos, etc.; compare Latin lusus naturæ, which was used in English from 1660s). As "drug user" (usually appended to the name of the drug) it attested by 1945. The sense in health freak, ecology freak, etc. is attested from 1908 (originally Kodak freak "a camera buff"). Freak show is attested from 1887.
I digress..
Anyway, I freaked out because out to the right of us we had just whizzed past a lonely little high school seemingly in the middle of the Mojave. That high school was Antelope High in an area known as Cucamonga. This was where Frank Zappa had attended high school in the early 1960s and was, perhaps, dreaming up the above definition as he sat in the back of a classroom completely bored by all that was around him because he was way ahead in his thoughts and would become, for me, an artist I studied exhaustively for EIGHT SOLID YEARS.
I guess I should write I was also freaking out because who knew I would reluctantly join my future wife for a ‘day on the job’, ‘out in the desert’ and would just happen to glance out the passenger window at 80 miles an hour and see a small speck of history that had occupied almost the entire circumference of my mind for those eight years? (if you don’t believe me, ask my poor roommate at this time of my life who had to endure 8-10 hours a day of Frank Zappa for a solid year?).
No one in the SUV knew I was ‘freaking out’. This was because I had well-learned that most people have/had no idea about Frank Zappa (and that he is potentially America’s Leonardo Da Vinci and that is because of how uncivilized the kleptomaniacal USA is and is becoming more so not less, I am sorry to write) and that if I had expanded the crew would have thought I was completely preoccupied with the most inane subject imaginable- I also learned this over years of experience that only a few people, relatively, ( a fan base of 1,000,000-10,000,00 souls?) will go nuts over FZ. In a way, I was kind of unlucky to have been drawn into the FZ subject/object macrostructure;(
Case in point, we reached our destination and without a word I hopped out of our SUV, not offering a hand, and had already set up my iPhone to begin snapping, hopefully, miraculous photos of the gnarled, Cucamonga trees in the rapidly evaporating early morning light. By the way, a Cucamonga tree is the uniquely styled ‘monkey-puzzle’ (no monkey can climb one) tree now referred to as Joshua trees. For the next 30 minutes I would occasionally sense out of the side of my tweaked eyes that the crew (now including the recently arrived photographer who thought I was trying to impress and was behaving like a jackass on his set) wondered wtf this ‘freak’ was doing and who fucken brought him..? ..Fashion people.. However, not my wife, she was used to this guy (me) acting like Richard Dreyfuss in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ and had learned to just stay calm.
Eureka!
Out of all the trees, I finally found a subject that might possibly express my spark of inspo- a ‘double entendre’ (Zappa used them unflinchingly- did not care if folks thought he was being too clever) used without any sexuality-which puritanical ‘merica simply cannot understand that such double-meaning verbosities could exist without sexual overtones(check out the ‘Chunga’s Revenge’ album cover- screaming, or yawning: is this sexual?) and would convey the overall oeuvre of Frank Zappa’s music- according to me: Art is, in a nutshell, taking something seen a million times, give it a weird angle, so it just might become quizzical enough to make a person go, “WOW”. Or as Frank Zappa said, “AAAFNRAA: Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All. Try applying that theory to your next NFT and watch the ‘freakness’ unfoldJ
However, no one noticed the stone figures of Easter Island that had just been sitting in the back of the set out ‘in the desert’ ..looming.. like ‘Civilization Phase III’ and had kept me busy this time for only ..2-3 hours?
hours?
picture not uploaded:)
This is really good.
ZAPPA le plus grand compositeur du 20e siècle !!
Outstanding. Thank you! Excellent mix!
Under headphones now while writing 5 weeks of menus. Just groovin' baby...
To Tony Michaelides from Manchester... I have always known how good Frank was. Rocked my mind !
Heavenly mining the gibson-coin
Ciao BELLA, ZAPPA is FRANK VINCENT ZAPPA, THE KING OF ORCHESTRATION MUSICALE.
best guitar man of world ,one of this
sins I prepared listening wwith'songboook an guitar playing, for ever genius
So good. Frank is a huge influence!
so liberating and unique 👍👍 frank- my favourite
Indeed, liberating and unique is exactly what it is, spot on!
Fantastic Frank. Nice assortment and arrangement.
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
Holy shit. This is SO GOOD.
Frank is sick on the mainstream jam man!!!!!!!!!
Br1tag, I seriously love you. You are simply amazing for all the wonderful content you share. I appreciate and admire all your hard work
Thanks Chunga Nanook!
This is unbelievably segued! The time and patience it took for you to do this is amazing!! Thanx much!!!
Great selection.It really shows who this man was,as a guitarist.Thanks pal
Just Brilliant. I love the Be-Bop solo..... Driving Blues... Just Ace
mmm, you´ve created a 'shut up´n play yer guitar - the roxy version', big thanks for this. can´t stop listening.
Fantastic set list. Always fun to find some new Frank tracks
Brilliantly Genius Frank !!
So glad I found your site. Thank you for the time and effort you put in to your creations. Such a nice way to spend the evening, with FZ always in the background
Vielen Dank für diese Würdigung eines der besten und innovativsten Musiker und Gitarristen, die unsere kleine Welt je gesehen hat.
Thanks again for all these great collections.
Pour moi avec Jimy Hendrix Zappa était le plus grand guitariste de tout les temps
Какая классная Музыка!
Можно бесконечно слушать, не надоедает, что интересно.
И не только гитарные дела!
man am 58 you turn me 24 thx dude from paris france thank s a lot .. i miss him so much...wath a beautifull collection ...concrats to U at a day i ll be somewhere else hope to be in the same place he is now... need a another concert to watch :)
I’m 25 and everyone my age acts like I’m 58 because I love zappa! Haha cheers!
The mystery man he's outasight
The mystery man he's outasight.
Im so appreciative that you compiled Frank’s music and done what I can only dream of , your capturing some of the best range of guitar solos produced !! you are a Zappa scholar, love your deep dives into the music, your bringing up some stuff I’ve never heard of thx.👊🏼👏
Happy to have seen two of these shows!
Very good work, incredible source and quality. Never heard better really.