“Road Tapes, Venue #1” (2012), recorded in August 1968 at Vancouver’s Kerrisdale Arena, captures the wry Frank Zappa and his freewheeling Mothers of Invention as they "make an earnest attempt to rock out at the local electric ice box"

• and succeed handily by effortlessly blending rock, avant-garde, doo-wop and more into a typically freewheeling and unhinged 88-minute set. Great show.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Road Tapes, Venue #1

(Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver B.C., August 25, 1968)

2012

2CDs / 2012 / VBR-V0

Track List:

DISC 1:

1. The Importance of an Earnest Attempt (By Hand) (3:44)

2. Help I'm a Rock - Transylvania Boogie (9:30)

3. Flopsmash Musics (4:50)

4. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (3:59)

5. The Orange County Lumber Truck (20:56)

6. The Rewards of a Career in Music (3:29)

DISC 2:

1. Trouble Every Day (5:08)

2. Shortly: Suite Exists of Holiday in Berlin Full Blown (9:29)

3. Pound for a Brown (3:13)

4. Sleeping in a Jar (3:23)

5. Oh, in the Sky (2:42)

6. Octandre (7:40)

7. King Kong (10:17)

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Road Tapes, Venue #1

(Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver B.C., August 25, 1968)

2012

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