Zappa Records will be placing the three Road Tapes volumes from 2012 back on to shelves in May. These sets were recorded by Frank Zappa on mono and stereo reel to reel tape. He attempted to capture many of his shows. His three volumes of Road Tapes are excellent examples of great Zappa shows back when he was at a peak (if he ever really lost his peak).
On May 26, the label will resupply the three volumes of Road Tapes on 2CD sets:
Road Tapes, Venue 1: Live Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver B.C. – 25 August 1968
CD1:
01. The Importance Of An Earnest Attempt (By Hand)
02. Help, I’m A Rock
03. Transylvania Boogie
04. Flopsmash Musics
05. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
06. The Orange County Lumber Truck
07. The Rewards of a Career in Music
CD2:
01. Trouble Every Day
02. Shortly: Suite exists of Holiday In Berlin Full Blown
03. Pound For A Brown
04. Sleeping In A Jar
05. Oh, In The Sky
06. Octandre*
07. King Kong
Road Tapes, Venue 2: Live Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland 23, 24 August 1973
CD1:
01 Introcious
02 The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
03 Kung Fu
04 Penguin In Bondage
05 Exercise #4
06 Dog Breath
07 The Dog Breath Variations
08 Uncle Meat
09 RDNZL
10 Montana
11 Your Teeth And Your Shoulders and sometimes your foot goes like this….. /Pojama Prelude
12 Dupree’s Paradise
13 All Skate/Dun-Dun-Dun (The Finnish Hit Single)
CD2:
01 Village Of The Sun
02 Echidna’s Arf (Of You)
03 Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?
04 Big Swifty
05 Farther O’Blivion
06 Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
Road Tapes, Venue 3: Live Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN 5 July 1970
Volume 3 was recorded in Stereo on reel to reel. It showcases two compete shows that features Flo & Eddie, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar, and Jeff Simmons. It contains the following tracks:
CD1:
01. Tyrone Start The Tape… 1:59
02. King Kong 3:37
03. Wonderful Wino (Zappa/Simmons) 4:47
04. Concentration Moon 2:34
05. Mom & Dad 3:25
06. The Air 3:46
07. Dog Breath 2:01
08. Mother People 2:06
09. You Didn’t Try To Call Me 4:10
10. Agon – Interlude (Stravinsky) 0:36
11. Call Any Vegetable 7:59
12. King Kong / Igor’s Boogie 20:25
13. It Can’t Happen Here 3:05
14. Sharleena 4:59
Show 2
15. The 23rd “Mondellos” 3:13
16. Justine (Harris/Terry) 1:46
CD2:
Show 2 Continued
01. Pound For A Brown 5:07
02. Sleeping In A Jar 3:37
03. Sharleena 5:49
04. “A Piece Of Contemporary Music” 7:03
05. The Return Of The Hunchback Duke 10:00
including: Little House I Used To Live In, Holiday In Berlin
06. Cruising For Burgers 3:44
07. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black 1:42
08. Harry, You’re A Beast 1:29
09. Oh No/Orange County Lumber Truck 11:01
10. Call Any Vegetable 11:29
11. Mondello’s Revenge 1:46
12. The Clap (Chunga’s Revenge) 13:01