Road Tapes, Venue 1

The correct title of this article is Road Tapes, Venue #1. The substitution of the # is due to technical restrictions.

2012 live album by Frank Zappa

Road Tapes, Venue #1

Live album by

Frank Zappa

Released

October 31, 2012 (2012-10-31) ^[1]

Recorded

August 25, 1968 (1968-08-25)

Venue

Kerrisdale Arena (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Genre

Jazz rock, experimental rock, psychedelic rock

Length

88:21

Label

Vaulternative Records
Catalog Number: VR 20122 ^[1]

Frank Zappa chronology

Carnegie Hall
(2011)

Road Tapes, Venue #1
(2012)

Understanding America
(2012)

Road Tapes, Venue #1 is a double live album by Frank Zappa, released posthumously on October 31, 2012, by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records. It was recorded on August 25, 1968 at the Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.^[1] It is the seventh installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete Zappa concerts, following the releases of FZ:OZ (2002), Buffalo (2007), Wazoo (2007), Philly '76 (2009), Hammersmith Odeon (2010) and Carnegie Hall (2011).

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except where noted.

Disc 1
No.	Title	Length
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"	20:57
6.	"The Rewards of a Career in Music"	3:29

Disc 2
No.	Title	Length
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" (Edgard Varèse)	7:40
7.	"King Kong"	10:17

Personnel

Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals
Bunk Gardner – woodwinds, voice
Motorhead Sherwood – baritone sax, tambourine, harmonica
Don Preston – keyboards
Ian Underwood – keyboards, woodwinds
Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – drums, vocals
Art Tripp III – drums, percussion

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Zappa.com > FZ Official Discography > Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012)". zappa.com. Retrieved 12 October 2014.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention album discography

Official releases
(1966–1993)

1960s	Freak Out! Absolutely Free We're Only in It for the Money Lumpy Gravy Cruising with Ruben & the Jets Mothermania Uncle Meat Hot Rats
1970s	Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flesh Chunga's Revenge Fillmore East – June 1971 200 Motels Just Another Band from L.A. Waka/Jawaka The Grand Wazoo Over-Nite Sensation Apostrophe (') Roxy & Elsewhere One Size Fits All Bongo Fury Zoot Allures Zappa in New York Studio Tan Sleep Dirt Sheik Yerbouti Orchestral Favorites Joe's Garage Act I Joe's Garage Acts II & III
1980s	Tinsel Town Rebellion Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar You Are What You Is Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch The Man from Utopia Baby Snakes London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger Them or Us Francesco Zappa Thing-Fish The Old Masters, Box I Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention Does Humor Belong in Music? The Old Masters, Box II Jazz from Hell London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II The Old Masters, Box III Guitar You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 Broadway the Hard Way You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
1990s	The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life Make a Jazz Noise Here You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 Playground Psychotics Ahead of Their Time The Yellow Shark

Posthumous
official releases

1990s	Civilization Phaze III The Lost Episodes Läther Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute Have I Offended Someone? Mystery Disc Everything Is Healing Nicely
2000s	FZ:OZ Halloween Joe's Corsage QuAUDIOPHILIAc Joe's Domage Joe's XMASage Imaginary Diseases Trance-Fusion The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh) The MOFO Project/Object Buffalo The Dub Room Special! Wazoo One Shot Deal Joe's Menage The Lumpy Money Project/Object Philly '76
2010s	Greasy Love Songs "Congress Shall Make No Law..." Hammersmith Odeon Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison Carnegie Hall Understanding America Road Tapes, Venue #1 Finer Moments AAAFNRAA: Baby Snakes – The Compleat Soundtrack Road Tapes, Venue #2 A Token of His Extreme Soundtrack Joe's Camouflage Roxy by Proxy Dance Me This 200 Motels: The Suites Roxy the Soundtrack Road Tapes, Venue #3 The Crux of the Biscuit Frank Zappa for President ZAPPAtite: Frank Zappa's Tastiest Tracks Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object Audio Documentary Chicago '78 Little Dots Halloween 77 The Roxy Performances Zappa in New York 40th Anniversary Orchestral Favorites 40th Anniversary Halloween 73 The Hot Rats Sessions
2020s	The Mothers 1970 Halloween 81 Halloween 81 Highlights Zappa - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show 200 Motels 50th Anniversary Edition The Mothers 1971 Zappa/Erie Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana Waka/Wazoo Zappa '80: Mudd Club/Munich Funky Nothingness Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

Miscellaneous

Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)
The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa
Beat the Boots!
Beat the Boots! II

Compilations	The *** of the Mothers* Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa Strictly Genteel: A "Classical" Introduction to Frank Zappa Cucamonga Cheap Thrills Son of Cheep Thrills