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Bongo Fury is an album released by Frank Zappa and The Mothers and Captain Beefheart in 1975. The live portions were recorded on May 20 & 21, 1975 at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Tracks 5, 6 and 9 (intro only) are studio tracks that were recorded in January 1975 (during the sessions which produced One Size Fits All and much of Studio Tan). The album is a notable entry in Zappa’s discography, because it was the last to feature a majority of his early 1970s band, which appeared on albums Over-Nite Sensation (1973), Apostrophe (1974), Roxy & Elsewhere (1974), and One Size Fits All (1975). Napoleon Murphy Brock’s vocals are featured both on the sprawling “Advance Romance” as well as on the three-part harmonies of “Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy”. Captain... Read on...