In 1974 Frank Zappa performed 122 concerts in 105 cities across 16 countries. Even for a man who spent most of his working life on the road it was a busy, perhaps his busiest, year. The group captured here is the much loved Roxy band with Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Tom Fowler and Chester Thompson, but stripped for some unknown reason of its second drummer, Ralph Humphrey. The music presented is taken mainly from Zappa's two contemporaneous releases, Over-nite Sensation (1973) and Apostrophe (1974).
Performed live at the Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, N.Y. November 15th, 1974, originally broadcast by WNEW-FM.
Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals; Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, flute, vocals; George Duke – keyboards, vocals; Ruth Underwood – percussion; Tom Fowler – bass; Chester Thompson – drums.