Artist: FRANK ZAPPA/ MOTHERS
Album: ROXY & ELSEWHERE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1974/ 1992
Media type: CD

Roxy & Elsewhere is a live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, which was released in 1974. Most of the songs were recorded at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California on December 8, 9 and 10, 1973. The material taken from the Roxy concerts was later amended with some overdubs in the studio, while the "Elsewhere" tracks ("Son of Orange County" & "More Trouble Every Day") were recorded on May 8, 1974, at the Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania (and parts of "Son of Orange County" on May 11, 1974, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois (late show)) and do not contain overdubbed material.

This album is considered a high-water-mark recording of one of the most celebrated incarnations of the Mothers. It features an array of highly challenging instrumentals such as "Echidna's Arf (Of You)", "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?", and the opening theme of "Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church)". It also features "Cheepnis", Zappa's tribute to low-budget monster movies, and reworks of earlier tracks such as "More Trouble Every Day" and "Son of Orange County" (excerpted from the songs "Oh No" and "The Orange County Lumber Track" and given an extended guitar solo). "Village of the Sun" is about Sun Village, California, an unincorporated area near Palmdale, and also makes references to Lancaster, California, twin city to Palmdale and Zappa's hometown.

All selections composed by Frank Zappa and performed by Frank Zappa & the Mothers, except where noted. All tracks recorded at the Roxy, except "Son of Orange County", "More Trouble Every Day" and parts of "Penguin in Bondage".

TRACKLIST:
No.     Title     Length     

1.     "Penguin in Bondage"       6:48
2.     "Pygmy Twylyte"       2:13
3.     "Dummy Up" (Brock, Simmons, and Zappa)     6:02
    
4.     "Village of the Sun"       4:17
5.     "Echidna's Arf (Of You)"       3:52
6.     "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?"       9:40
    
7.     "Cheepnis"       6:33
8.     "Son of Orange County"       5:53
9.     "More Trouble Every Day"       6:00
    
10.     "Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)"       16:41