History Music / RoxyAndElsewhere

* RepurposedPopSong: "Trouble Every Day", "Oh No" and "The Orange County Lumber Truck" appeared on earlier Zappa albums, namely ''Music/FreakOut'' and ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''. Zappa also wrote a musical called "Hunchentoot" in 1971-1972, but never got around to staging it. Portions of the work did appear on record, though, mostly on ''Music/SleepDirt'' (1978) and in "Cheepnis". Consequently, the last number of "Hunchentoot" is also called "Cheepnis" and refers to a giant spider too.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: "Penguin In Bondage".
--> ''And that horrible eye go rollin' around''

* {{Corpsing}}: Happens during "Dummy Up" and "Be-Bop Tango".

* EvilEye and GiantEyeOfDoom: "Cheepnis"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the preamble of "Penguin In Bondage" Zappa says:
--> ''This song suggests to the suggestible listener that the ordinary procedure, uh, that I'm circumlocuting at this present time in order to get this text on television, is that, uh, if you wanna do something other than what you thought you were gonna do when you first took your clothes off and you just happened to have some DEVICES around . . . then it's, it's not only okay to get into the PARAPHERNALIA of it all but . . . hey!''
** Also, this album has a track called "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" and the appearance of a stripper during "Be-Bop Tango" [[note]] who doesn't take her clothes off here, as Zappa explains: ''Ladies and gentlemen, Brenda . . . Brenda is a PROFESSIONAL HARLOT, and she just got finished stripping for a bunch of guys at Edward's Air Force Base, and she made it down here in time for the show. Two hours of taking it off for the boys in the corps, really good.'' [[/note]]

* TheresNoBInMovie: As Zappa explains in his preamble to "Cheepnis": he simply ''loves'' monster movies and ''the cheaper they are, the better they are''.

''Roxy And Elsewhere'' is a 1974 LiveAlbum by Music/FrankZappa, well regarded as one of his most amazing records. Much of the material was recorded at Edinboro Stage College, Pennsylvania, Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois and the Roxy in Hollywood, California. Fan favorites include "Penguin In Bondage", "Pygmy Twylyte", "Cheepnis", "Be-Bop Tango" and a magnificent rendition of "Oh No", "The Orange County Lumber Truck" and "Trouble Every Day".

'''Roxy And Elsewhere''' is a 1974 LiveAlbum by Music/FrankZappa, well regarded as one of his most amazing records. Much of the material was recorded at Edinboro Stage College, Pennsylvania, Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois and the Roxy in Hollywood, California. Fan favorites include "Penguin In Bondage", "Pygmy Twylyte", "Cheepnis", "Be-Bop Tango" and a magnificent rendition of "Oh No", "The Orange County Lumber Truck" and "Trouble Every Day".

'''Tracklist'''

'''Personnel'''

** "Dummy Up" has Jeff Simmons describing the gym sock as: "The roach of this is really gonna be good, so I'll save it". This is a CallBack to "Mystery Roach" from ''Film/TwoHundredMotels''. Socks have also been described before in Zappa's work and are part of his conceptual continuity. The Winchell's Donuts mentioned during the song would return in "The Blue Light" from "Tinseltown Rebellion" (1981).

** "Penguin In Bondage" brings up dog imagery, while in "Cheepnis" a gigantic poodle is attacking people. Dogs, specifically poodles, have appeared in Zappa's lyrical imagery before. Zappa would perform "Penguin In Bondage" again live on ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' (1988), but targeted televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

** "Penguin In Bondage" brings up dog imagery, while in "Cheepnis" a gigantic poodle is attacking people. Dogs, specifically poodles, have appeared in Zappa's lyrical imagery before.

* {{Koan}}: "Dummy Up"
--> '''Napoleon''': ''Well, you get nothin', but that's what I want''
--> '''Zappa''': ''A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want... The results of a higher education.''

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Side 3

Side 4

* BMovie

* EpicRocking: The 5:03 "Dummy Up", the 9:47 "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?", the 5:55 "Son Of Orange County", the 6:08 "More Trouble Every Day" and the 15:23 "Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church".

** Also, this album has a track called "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" and the appearance of a stripper during "Be-Bop Tango" [[note]] who doesn't take her clothes off here, as Zappa explains: ''Ladies and gentlemen, Brenda . . . Brenda is a PROFESSIONAL HARLOT, and she just got finished stripping for a bunch of guys at Edward's Air Force Base, and she made it down here in time for the show. Two hours of taking it off for the boys in the corps, really good.''

** During "Cheepnis" Zappa references the monster movie ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'' and describes a funny special effects failure scene, which doesn't appear in the actual film, by the way. The song also namedrops "Little Miss Muffet" [[note]] an English nursery rhyme about a girl scared off by a spider, tying in with the Giant Spider mentions in the song.[[/note]], the "zipper" from "The Black Lagoon" [[note]] referring to ''Film/TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' [[/note]] and {{Kaiju}} films [[note]] In the line "while the monster just ate Japan" [[/note]]

* ThereIsNoBInMovie: As Zappa explains in his preamble to "Cheepnis": he simply ''loves'' monster movies and ''the cheaper they are, the better they are''.

** During "Cheepnis" Zappa references the monster movie ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'' and describes a funny special effects failure scene, which doesn't appear in the actual film, by the way. The song also namedrops "Little Miss Muffet" [[note]] an English nursery rhyme about a girl scared off by a spider, tying in with the Giant Spider mentions in the song [[/note]], the "zipper" from "The Black Lagoon" [[note]] referring to ''Film/TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' [[/note]] and {{Kaiju}} films [[note]] In the line "while the monster just ate Japan" [[/note]]

* SpecialEffectsFailure and StylisticSuck: A major theme during "Cheepnis" were Zappa glorifies cheap effects in B-monster movies. Also, when "Be-Bop Tango" is being performed Zappa tells an engineer to "turn on the bubble machine", which doesn't seem to deliver the desired effect, as Zappa concludes: "God, is that a cheap bubble machine!"

** "Village Of The Sun" is inspired by the location, Sun Village, where Zappa spent his teenage years. He mentions Johnny Franklin, alto saxophonist and bass player in his old band The Blackouts [[note]] who was also listed as one of his influences in the ''Music/FreakOut'' list inside the cover[[/note]] In ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook'' Zappa gives an explanation of all the things described in this song.

** "Village Of The Sun" is inspired by the location, Sun Village, where Zappa spent his teenage years. He mentions Johnny Franklin, alto saxophonist and bass player in his old band The Blackouts [[note]] who was also listed as one of his influences in the ''Music/FreakOut'' list inside the cover [[/note]] In ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook'' Zappa gives an explanation of all the things described in this song.

* DrugsAreBad: During "Dummy Up" Napoleon Murphy Brock is seduced by Jeff Simmons into smoking a high-school diploma, which makes he "not feel as good as he felt this morning".

* AnkleDrag: Zappa describes this trope while talking about cheap B-movies during the intro to "Cheepnis":
--> ''There is always a girl who falls down and twists her ankle ... heh-hey! Of course there is! You know how they are, the weaker sex and everything, twisting their ankle on behalf of the little ice-cream cone.''

** During "Be-Bop Tango" brings some people up stage to dance. The following dialogue exchange then takes place.

'''Roxy And Elsewhere''' is a 1973 LiveAlbum by Music/FrankZappa, well regarded as one of his most amazing records. Much of the material was recorded at Edinboro Stage College, Pennsylvania, Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois and the Roxy in Hollywood, California. Fan favorites include "Penguin In Bondage", "Pygmy Twylyte", "Cheepnis", "Be-Bop Tango" and a magnificent rendition of "Oh No", "The Orange County Lumber Truck" and "Trouble Every Day".