Bongo Fury

Bongo Fury is an album of mostly live recordings of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, which was published in 1975. The live performances were recorded on 20 and 21 May 1975 at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin (Texas ). The studio tracks were recorded in January 1975 during the sessions on the Zappa albums One Size Fits All and Studio Tan.

Bongo Fury was the last album that Zappa recorded with the musicians of his early 1970s band Instrumentation who participated on Apostrophe (') and Roxy & Elsewhere. The vocals on Advance Romance and Carolina Hard - Core Ecstasy comes from Napoleon Murphy Brock. Captain Beefheart, on the probably the only tour with Zappa's band, provides the vocals to various songs and speaks two short prose texts, Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top and Man With the Woman Head. On Bongo Fury worked with Terry Bozzio and that was fixed 1975-1978 Zappa's drummer.

Title List ( LP)

All pieces are composed by Frank Zappa, except the pieces 3 and 8 These were composed by Captain Beefheart

Page one

Page two

Contributing musicians

  • Frank Zappa - vocals, guitar
  • Denny Walley - vocals, slide guitar
  • Tom Fowler - Bass
  • Terry Bozzio - drums
  • Chester Thompson - drums
  • Captain Beefheart - vocals, harmonica
  • George Duke - keyboards, vocals
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock - saxophone, vocals
  • Bruce Fowler - trombone

Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

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