FRANK ZAPPA - IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 10 BOX LP SET "THE MY$T%RY BOX"
  $   325

 


$ 325 Sold For
Jan 26, 2020 Sold Date
Jun 14, 2019 Start Date
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Part of my brother's collection. He loved Zappa and at some point when Frank started the collector's club he offered this hard to find Mystery Disc with live recordings from different incarnations of the band. 

Here’s your big boy, your white whale, the cornerstone of your Frank Zappa bootleg collection.

Mystery Box is a 1986 bootleg consisting of ten (ten!) albums. The material spans 1968-81, mostly live but some alternate studio takes and rehearsals.  And look at that artwork! Slide this one into your stacks next to the Old Masters official release and it looks perfectly at home. These guys really put some time into this one.

Zappa hated bootleggers. An unofficial release meant no money in his pocket, and Zappa was a shrewd businessman. In ’91 he tried to beat the weasels at their own game by bootlegging himself with the Beat the Boots box set, which consisted of official releases of bootlegs that were already in circulation. Pretty clever idea, but Mystery Box is better than Beat the Boots.

Anyway, I don't know if he ever listened to it. If he did, he most likely only did it once and recorded it to tape or dat or disc or whatever. He loved to do that too.
This is almost impossible to find. I have no basis of value for it, so I will start high and go down from there.
Don't be afraid to offer, but I may say no once or twice... lol


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