Joe's Menage is a live album by Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

, posthumously released on October 1, 2008. It contains previously unreleased material from 1975. It is the fourth album in the "Joe's Corsaga" series, which is devoted to various rarities compiled by Joe Travers for the Zappa Family Trust. This album contains material from a concert in Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg is an independent city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, USA. As of the 2010 Census, the city had an estimated population of 14,068. It is bordered by James City County and York County, and is an independent city...

 on November 1, 1975 (the middle part). It presents for the first time extensive recordings featuring vocalist and alto saxophonist Norma Jean Bell, who was only in Zappa's touring band for a brief period in late 1975.

The album first germinated in 1978 when Zappa gave fan Ole Lysgaard several cassette tapes, including one of this 1975 concert. In 2004, Lysgaard sent the tapes to Gail Zappa, and she decided to release this particular dub made by Zappa. It was not possible to retrieve Zappa's original tapes, but the tape reel from which Zappa had produced the cassette dub was located in the vault. It was restored by Joe Travers and mastered by John Polito.

Track listing

1. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" –  3:57
2. "The Illinois Enema Bandit" –  8:42
3. "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy" –  6:02
4. "Lonely Little Girl" –  2:46
5. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" –  2:10
6. "What's The Ugliest Part of Your Body?" –  1:16
7. "Chunga's Revenge" –  14:18
8. "Zoot Allures" –  6:41

All compositions and arrangements by Frank Zappa

Musicians

• Frank Zappa (guitar and vocals)
• Norma Jean Bell (alto saxophone and vocals)
• Napoleon Murphy Brock
  Napoleon Murphy Brock
  Napoleon Murphy Brock is an American singer, saxophonist and flute player who is best known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, including the albums One Size Fits All, Roxy and Elsewhere, and Bongo Fury...
  
   (tenor saxophone and vocals)
• Andre Lewis (keyboards and vocals)
• Roy Estrada
  Roy Estrada
  Roy Estrada is an American musician and backing vocalist, best known for his bass guitar work with Frank Zappa and for co-founding Little Feat.-Biography:With drummer Jimmy Carl Black and Ray Collins, Estrada was an original member of Frank Zappa's...
  
   (bass and vocals)
• Terry Bozzio
  Terry Bozzio
  Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
  
  (drums and vocals)

Album credits

• Original recording and cassette produced by Frank Zappa
• CD Compilation reconstruction and vaultmeisterment: Joe Travers
• Recordist: Davey Moire
• Mastering and audio restoration: John Polito
• Art direction: Gail Zappa
• Title layout: Keith Lawler
• Production manager: Melanie Starks