Track listing Īll songs produced, composed and realized by Frank Zappa. All five shows were released in full on The Roxy Performances 7 CD box set in 2018, with audio restoration and 2016 mixes by Craig Parker Adams. Featuring Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals, mysterious hand signals), Napoleon Murphy Brock (lead vocals, saxophone, flute), George Duke (keyboards, vocals), Ruth Underwood (pyrotechnic displays of percussion mastery), Bruce Fowler (Trombone), Walt Fowler (bass), Chester Thompson (drums) and Ralph Humphrey (drums). Roxy by Proxy presents the material without overdubs, closer to what the audiences heard live (some songs are combinations from different shows), and is different from material released on Roxy & Elsewhere in 1974.Īdditional material from these shows was released on Roxy The Movie and Roxy the Soundtrack in 2015, with new mix by Bruce Botnick. The album uses a mix from March/April 1987 by Bob Stone at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. Roxy by Proxy consists of unreleased material recorded live from the four shows held on December 9 & 10, 1973 at The Roxy (early and late shows). Frank Zappa ‘s legendary two-night, four-show December 1973 stand at Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre will be the focus of an upcoming box set packed with unreleased. Among the many musical talents Zappa was known for was his guitar work, including his solo-quenched extended. In September 1974, parts of the five shows on December 8, 9 & 10, 1973 (early and late shows on 9th and 10th) at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California were released on the double-LP set Roxy & Elsewhere, along with music recorded a few months later (on May 8, 1974, at the Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania and on May 11, 1974, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois), with all of that material being overdubbed and remixed. Roxy & Elsewhere also captures some of Frank’s finest guitar work. A concert movie showing a performance by the much-loved 1973 incarnation of the Mothers of Invention. With Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tom Fowler. Roxy by Proxy is a live album by Frank Zappa, recorded in December 1973 at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California and released posthumously in March 2014 by The Zappa Family Trust on Zappa Records. Roxy: The Movie: Directed by Frank Zappa.
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