''The Roxy Performances'' is a box set by

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. It was released as a 7-CD boxset on February 2, 2018. The collection contains four full shows, a rehearsal, a recording session at

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, a sound check, and a previously unreleased version of "The Idiot Bastard Son" titled "That Arrogant Dick Nixon". In addition to previously unreleased material, the box set contains material that was released, in different edits and/or mixes, on ''

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'' (1974), ''

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'' (2014), and '' Roxy – The Movie / Roxy the Soundtrack'' (2015).

Track listing (digital version)

* Tracks 1–4: 12-10-73 Roxy rehearsal * Track 5: basic tracks: 12-9-73 Show 1, overdubs at Paramount Studios * Tracks 6–14: 12-12-73 Bolic Studios recording session

Track listing (CD version)

Disc one * Tracks 1–14: 12-9-73 Show 1 (tracks 1–14) * Total length: 76:43 Disc two * Track 1: 12-9-73 Show 1 (track 15) * Tracks 2–9: 12-9-73 Show 2 (tracks 1–8) * Total length: 58:25 Disc three * Tracks 1–3: 12-9-73 Show 2 (tracks 9-11) * Tracks 4–8: 12-10-73 Show 1 (tracks 1–4) * Total length: 74:57 Disc four * Tracks 1–11: 12-10-73 Show 1 (tracks 5–16) * Tracks 2–17: 12-10-73 Show 2 (tracks 1–6) * Total length: 67:50 Disc five * Tracks 1–11 12-10-73 Show 2 (tracks 7–17) * Total length: 62:46 Disc six * Tracks 1: 12-10-73 Show 2 (tracks 18) * Tracks 2–15: Bonus Section 1 (tracks 1–14) * Total length: 70:31 Disc seven * Tracks 1–10: Bonus Section 2: 12-8-73 Sound Check/Film Shoot (tracks 1–10) * Total length: 64:41

Personnel

Musicians

* Frank Zappa – lead guitar, vocals, original producer *

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– keyboards, synthesizer, vocals * Tom Fowler – bass *

Ruth Underwood Ruth Underwood (born Ruth Komanoff; May 23, 1946) is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of In ...

– percussion *

Bruce Fowler Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is an American trombonist and composer. He played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart and in the Fowler Brothers Band. He composes and arranges music for movies, an ...

–

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

, dancing (?) *

Napoleon Murphy Brock Napoleon Murphy Brock (born June 7, 1945) is an American singer, saxophonist and flute player who is best known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, including the albums '' Apostrophe (')'', ''Roxy & Elsewhere'', ''One Size Fits All'', a ...

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tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

, flute, lead vocals * Ralph Humphrey – drums, percussion *

Chester Thompson Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer best known for his tenures with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Santana, the progressive rock band Genesis and Phil Collins as a solo artist. Thomp ...

– drums, percussion

Also featuring

* Jeff Simmons – dialog on "Dummy Up" *

Pamela Des Barres Pamela Des Barres (; born Pamela Ann Miller; September 9, 1948) is an American rock and roll groupie, writer, musician, and actress. She is best known for her 1987 memoir, '' I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie'', which details her experie ...

– dancing * Carl Franzoni – dancing * Brenda – dancing

Technical personnel

* Kerry McNabb – recording engineer at The Roxy shows and "That Arrogant Dick Nixon" * Bob Hughes – recording engineer at Bolic Studios * Doug Graves – recording engineer at Bolic Studios * Craig Parker Adams – audio restoration, re-mix, mastering * Bob Stone – digital re-mix engineer (Bolic Studios) *

Ahmet Zappa Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa (born May 15, 1974) is an American musician and writer, and trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. Early life Ahmet Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to musician Frank Zappa and b ...

– producer for release * Joe Travers – producer for release, liner notes * Jen Jewel Brown – liner notes *

Dave Alvin David Albert Alvin (born November 11, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He is a former and founding member of the roots rock band the Blasters. Alvin has recorded and performed as a solo artist since the late 1980s a ...

– liner notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roxy Performances Frank Zappa live albums Frank Zappa compilation albums 2018 compilation albums