| Road Tapes, Venue #3 | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Frank Zappa |
| Cover: | Road tapes 3.jpg |
| Recorded: | July 5, 1970 (two shows) |
| Venue: | Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 144:09 |
| Label: | Vaulternative Records Catalog Number: VR 2016-1[1] |
| Producer: | Ahmet Zappa, Joe Travers |
| Prev Title: | Roxy The Soundtrack |
| Prev Year: | 2016 |
| Next Title: | The Crux Of The Biscuit |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Road Tapes, Venue #3 is a posthumous album of Frank Zappa, released in May 2016, consisting of the recording of the two (early & late) shows on July 5, 1970, at Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN. The album was recorded as one of the first shows with the (then) newly formed Mothers of Invention featuring Flo & Eddie, Aynsley Dunbar, George Duke, Jeff Simmons and returning member Ian Underwood. This release is notable for being one of the few tapes in the Zappa Vault from this time period, and line up.[2] It is the ninth installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete Zappa concerts, following the releases of (2002), Buffalo (2007), Wazoo (2007), Philly '76 (2009), Hammersmith Odeon (2010), Carnegie Hall (2011), Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012) and Road Tapes, Venue #2 (2013).
The track "Nancy & Mary Music" off the album Chunga's Revenge was made up from the tracks "King Kong/Igor's Boogie" and "The Clap (Chunga's Revenge)". Disc 1, tracks 1–14 make up the 1st show and tracks 15, 16 and all of disc 2 make up the 2nd show.[3]