He can play the thing up to speed on the trombone, it just comes out an octave lower.” There’s also some stuff that sounds like trumpets in there that are actually Bruce Fowler playing at half speed. On that, the drums are original, the bass is original, the piano is original, the trombone is original and most of the tenor is original, but the rest of the synthesizer stuff was put on at the studio. “A good example of all this is the “Be Bop Tango” (from the “Roxy and Elsewhere” live album). Relevant on this matter is the following excerpt of a 1977 interview by Tony Bacon ( Zappa, International Musician And Recording World, March, 1977):
Then two shows on each night after.” Probably followed by at least one day of studio sessions at Bolic Sound. As clarified by Joe Travers, five performances: “one soundcheck/invite-only type show on the 8th.
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Then I started looking for new material, in terms of different takes if compared with the Roxy recordings included in the albums ( Roxy & Elsewhere, Roxy by Proxy, YCDTOSA) and I realized that new stuff is mainly in the extras even though there are plenty of nice little differences scattered around.įrank Zappa made as usual a lot of post production work, such differences are often due to the fact that The Movie is a no-overdubs view over The Roxy concerts. It is possible to compare the result with the 4:3 Montana-Dupree’s Paradise footage available on the Internet since 2006.Īs it would have been clear few days later, strangely enough this 32 minutes sort of Short Roxy has not been included in the Roxy: The Movie release, as well as the Dummy Up Roxy episode (featuring special guest Jeff Simmons) presented into The True Story Of 200 Motels, a 1988 Honker Home Video.įinally, I put my hands on this long awaited audiovisual and my first hour or two into The Movie has been rather erratic, I couldn’t help going around here and there looking for the visuals of what I knew deeply by hard ( Roxy & Elsewhere) or simply by hard ( Roxy by Proxy), watching for instance at the Be-Bop Tango dance (featuring Carl Franzoni and Brenda the Stripper!), or discovering that it is Ralph Humphrey playing timpani on Cheepnis – Percussion towards the end, living the one and only Chester Thompson on drums. Although the aspect ratio of the original film is 4:3, the production decided to crop it to 16:9, the modern day audience loose something but they say they did it to bring the Movie to contemporary standards. In the meantime I kept watching the trailer.Īs can be readily seen through this taster, the shooting is sometimes slightly out of focus but in spite of its venerable age, it gives intensely back the power and the fun of one of the best Zappa bands. As an old European Zappa hard-core fanatic, I had to wait a couple of weeks more to get the Eagle Rock DVD (the DVD + CD version) and when The Movie at last started, I could hardly believe my eyes. On Octothe Roxy Eon eventually found his way to the closing when Roxy: The Movie had his world premiere at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. Howie meets Joe and the secret word is Spastic Droopers.
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