Road Tapes, Venue 1

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).

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

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)

Track listing

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

Disc one

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 two

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