"Pygmy Twylyte/Idiot Bastard Son": another improptu event. Played a bit faster than on the previous shows, this is the one Frank used to construct the final heavily overdubbed and definitive version of the album. "Cheepnis": this third performance is preceded by Frank's classic intro (one of the best spoken parts in his whole discography). McNabb behind the board, but also a filming crew to capture this unique event. One of the top-moments of the Roxy shows. As you have already listened and watched, the drum battle segues into a percussion-only "Cheepnis" that guarantees jaw discolocation. Except for the case of those in this amazing new box set, all the previously released versions of the Roxy Village suite have been composite versions (LP, Proxy, Movie). "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" features both Frank's "watch Ruth" section and George's electric piano solo used for the LP. I'm sure that the consistent tempo in different shows made Frank's editing job much easier. If we compare both "Edchina's Arf (Of You)", they're nearly identical except for subtle differences which let us identify many of the parts that were chosen for the LP. "Village/Edchina/Don't You Ever.?": dedicated to John and Nellie Wilson (this intro is also on Roxy By Proxy, but the performance is not the same). Maybe it's that loose tightness we have been mentioning in this thread. But he was the composer, the leader, and the genius, so I won't argue. Well, it sounds pretty tight and organized to my ears. On the liner notes for YCDTOSA 1, Frank mentions the happy days of this band, in spite of crummy equipment and rather "under-rehearsed" sound. The variation lies on the solos Frank and George play on "RDNZL". All three are nearly identical regarding tempo and (stunning) quality. ![]() "T'Mershi/Dog Breath/Uncle Meat/RDNZL": third and final version of this sort of medley. Truly excellent, and like in the previous show, it segues into. A short excerpt from tris performance might have been used for the LP (the "shake up the pale-dry ginger ale" verse sounds really similar to the album). "Penguin In Bondage": a song not about a real penguin, but a person that sounds like a penguin, and not exactly bondage, but a conceptual sort of bondage, or maybe about manoeuvres that might be executed with the aid of extra-terrestrial gratification (choose the intro you prefer). ![]() Second night, second show, farewell to The Roxy.
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