Directly from my heart to you : diotibenedica !!! :)

Well said br1tag. I bought the Roxy Box recently and am so happy I did. Love this line-up so much, and they perform so masterfully yet playfully. One thing that strikes me is how seemingly calm Frank remained under the pressure and expense of filming.

holy shit man...and I thought I was a big fan of Zappa with 80 albums or so ( back in the day when all this digital content was not available). Hands down to you master. And thank you for all this marvelous music of Frank Amadeus Mozart Zappa. Cheers!

This collection of solos from the Roxy is a definite must for a Frank Zappa enthusiast! I need to add this boxed set to my collection of Zappa discs. I THANK YOU MUCH for this download as I do appreciate the music of F.Z. and the talented musicians who have played with him.

Why no More Trouble Everyday?, If you know.

The greatestt ever in my opinion no one can touch frank!

nahh i doo ... ah crud ...uh...my dog i hope shes alright

You forgot that one little thing … “touch” great post my fellow devotee… AND … that “touch” is at 29:30 … ABSOLUTE PERFECTION …okay I am a bit …. b i a s s e d …. I am entering into my GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY … 50 years … And I am here right now LISTENING still … on my dead bed I can only hope…

People who doesn't know anything about sarcastic music 😬

Coz them silly fools has their ears on backwards, and you should not worry your correctly adjusted ears 1 bit bout em, as them will not change, and is plenty capable to be carry on being silly, without you worrying.. ;-) But yes.. one wonders why !

Incredible.It was the second best performance out of nine shows I saw over the years.Philly 76 is great also,my first Zappa show and my first concert I just turned 14 Oct 25 the show was Oct 28.

U must listen to Zappa Tower Theatre 1980.There are two shows I was at the second show,that show was

Tower Theatre 1980 second show Best of Zappa.

Frank would say that soloing was the only time during a performance that he could shut his eyes and let the band go on autopilot and he was able to drift off into sololand.

Seems he mite like those French fried taters

He could also play a mean bicycle!😉👌👍✌😈😂

He was and still is the best

Hands down.

Welcome newbie.😊

Agreed! I actually enjoyed this solo compilation much more than the complete Roxy Performances box set. Mucho thanks to br1tag!

Agreed. - way better.

@udiseus - Caro udi, I always enjoy hearing from you. I wish you all the best.

🎯

Butthole Dan I agree... this is that dream tone I want!

Hahaha, who doesn’t??

I heard he would always say............MORE SMOKE MACHINE,WE NEED MORE SMOKE MACHINE!😉

Frank is best ever

Thanks Chunga Nanook!

Lancaster, California January 8th,2015 We left West Hollywood at about 4a.m. on a crisp, clear, invigorating (I dare write ‘as are bubbles in champagne’) morning on our way to production somewhere out ‘in the desert’. It was at about hour number 2 in our excursion (this was my first time on set with my wife and her job as Creative Director - not bad, no? ;) after we had passed the meth-head wandering aimlessly in the Western Mojave (this was the only life seen so far) that I ‘freaked out’. I borrow a definition of ‘freaking out’ from the album of same name ‘Freak Out’ by Frank Zappa :7{« “On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette to in order (sic) express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole (sic). Less perceptive individuals have referred to us who have chosen this way of thinking and FEELING as “Freaks,” hence the term: Freaking Out. On a collective level, when any number of “Freaks” gather and express themselves creatively through music or dance, for example, it is generally referred to as a FREAK OUT. The participants, already emancipated from our national social slavery, dressed in their most inspired apparel, realize as a group whatever potential they possess for free expression. We would like to encourage everyone who HEARS this music to join us…become a member of The United Mutations…FREAK OUT!”- Frank Zappa from website Green and Black Music. And, given the etymologists study of the conception of this phrasal-verb, he was pretty close: The sense of "capricious notion" (1560s) and that of "unusual thing, fancy" (1784) preceded that of "abnormally developed individual or production" (first attested in freak of nature, 1839, which later was popular in variety show advertisements for bearded ladies, albinos, etc.; compare Latin lusus naturæ, which was used in English from 1660s). As "drug user" (usually appended to the name of the drug) it attested by 1945. The sense in health freak, ecology freak, etc. is attested from 1908 (originally Kodak freak "a camera buff"). Freak show is attested from 1887. I digress.. Anyway, I freaked out because out to the right of us we had just whizzed past a lonely little high school seemingly in the middle of the Mojave. That high school was Antelope High in an area known as Cucamonga. This was where Frank Zappa had attended high school in the early 1960s and was, perhaps, dreaming up the above definition as he sat in the back of a classroom completely bored by all that was around him because he was way ahead in his thoughts and would become, for me, an artist I studied exhaustively for EIGHT SOLID YEARS. I guess I should write I was also freaking out because who knew I would reluctantly join my future wife for a ‘day on the job’, ‘out in the desert’ and would just happen to glance out the passenger window at 80 miles an hour and see a small speck of history that had occupied almost the entire circumference of my mind for those eight years? (if you don’t believe me, ask my poor roommate at this time of my life who had to endure 8-10 hours a day of Frank Zappa for a solid year?). No one in the SUV knew I was ‘freaking out’. This was because I had well-learned that most people have/had no idea about Frank Zappa (and that he is potentially America’s Leonardo Da Vinci and that is because of how uncivilized the kleptomaniacal USA is and is becoming more so not less, I am sorry to write) and that if I had expanded the crew would have thought I was completely preoccupied with the most inane subject imaginable- I also learned this over years of experience that only a few people, relatively, ( a fan base of 1,000,000-10,000,00 souls?) will go nuts over FZ. In a way, I was kind of unlucky to have been drawn into the FZ subject/object macrostructure;( Case in point, we reached our destination and without a word I hopped out of our SUV, not offering a hand, and had already set up my iPhone to begin snapping, hopefully, miraculous photos of the gnarled, Cucamonga trees in the rapidly evaporating early morning light. By the way, a Cucamonga tree is the uniquely styled ‘monkey-puzzle’ (no monkey can climb one) tree now referred to as Joshua trees. For the next 30 minutes I would occasionally sense out of the side of my tweaked eyes that the crew (now including the recently arrived photographer who thought I was trying to impress and was behaving like a jackass on his set) wondered wtf this ‘freak’ was doing and who fucken brought him..? ..Fashion people.. However, not my wife, she was used to this guy (me) acting like Richard Dreyfuss in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ and had learned to just stay calm. Eureka! Out of all the trees, I finally found a subject that might possibly express my spark of inspo- a ‘double entendre’ (Zappa used them unflinchingly- did not care if folks thought he was being too clever) used without any sexuality-which puritanical ‘merica simply cannot understand that such double-meaning verbosities could exist without sexual overtones(check out the ‘Chunga’s Revenge’ album cover- screaming, or yawning: is this sexual?) and would convey the overall oeuvre of Frank Zappa’s music- according to me: Art is, in a nutshell, taking something seen a million times, give it a weird angle, so it just might become quizzical enough to make a person go, “WOW”. Or as Frank Zappa said, “AAAFNRAA: Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All. Try applying that theory to your next NFT and watch the ‘freakness’ unfoldJ However, no one noticed the stone figures of Easter Island that had just been sitting in the back of the set out ‘in the desert’ ..looming.. like ‘Civilization Phase III’ and had kept me busy this time for only ..2-3 hours? hours? picture not uploaded:)

Forget the box set this is way better.

Indeed, liberating and unique is exactly what it is, spot on!

I’m 25 and everyone my age acts like I’m 58 because I love zappa! Haha cheers!

The mystery man he's outasight

The mystery man he's outasight.