FRANK ZAPPA MYSTERY BOX 10 LP BOX SET OF RARITIES, DEMOS, OUTTAKES NEAR MINT
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FRANK ZAPPA~MYSTERY BOX~10 LP BOX SET OF RARITIES, DEMOS, OUTTAKES~NEAR MINT!
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Frank Zappa – Mystery Box • 10-Record Monstrosity • A Really Spiffy Collection
Nifty Tuff & Bitchen Records – NTB 8600
AMAZING 10 LP BOX SET RELEASED IN A LIMITED DELUXE EDITION BACK IN 1986 - ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO!!
COMES IN A HARDCOVER BOX!
BOX AND VINYL ARE IN EXCELLENT/NEAR MINT CONDITION!
AN UNBELIEVABLE COLLECTIBLE FOR THE SERIOUS ZAPPA FAN!!
Tracklist
Pigs 'N Repugnant
A1 – The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
A2 – Hungry Freaks, Daddy
A3 – The Wild Man Fischer Story
A4 – I'm The Meany
A5 – Bacon Fat
B – King Kong
Son Of Pigs 'N Repugnant
C – The String Quartet
D1 – The Duke (Including Aybe Sea And Transylvania Boogie)
D2 – Help, I'm A Rock
D3 – The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet
Beyond The Fringe Of Audience Comprehension
E1 – What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
E2 – Watering Holes
E3 – What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?
E4 – Bwana Dik
E5 – Latex Solar Beef
E6 – Daddy Daddy Daddy
E7 – Do You Like My New Car?
E8 – Magic Fingers
E9 – What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?
F1 – Interview (Part 1)
F2 – The Final Solution
F3 – Interview (Part 2)
F4 – Penis Dimension
F5 – Time Is Money
F6 – Flambay
F7 – Spider Of Destiny
F8 – Space Boy
Mr. Green Genes
G2 – King Kong
G3 – Chunga's Revenge
G3 – Zut Alors
H1 – Sink Trap
H2 – Ship Ahoy
H3 – Munchkin Tits
H4 – Drum Solo
H5 – T'Mershi Duween
H6 – Black Napkins
I'm The Slime
I2 – Ruthie-Ruthie
I3 – No, Babette
I4 – Boogers Of Marty Perellis
I5 – White Juice On His Beard
I6 – Smell My Beard
J1 – Father O'Blivion
J2 – Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
J3 – Nanook Rubs It
J4 – St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
J5 – Mar-Juh-Rene
J6 – Penguin In Bondage
J7 – T'Mershi Duween / The Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat
J7 – The Rondo Hatton Band
Montana
K2 – Stink-Foot
K3 – Inca Roads
K4 – Dog Breath / Uncle Meat
L1 – Approximate
L2 – Cosmik Debris
L3 – Florentine Pogen
M1 – I'm The Slime
A Token Of His Extreme
M1 – Chalk Pie
M2 – Peaches En Regalia
M3 – Dancin' Fool
M4 – The Purple Lagoon
M5 – The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
M6 – St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast/Rollo
N1 – Chalk Pie
N2 – We're Turning Again
N3 – Them Or Us
N4 – Clowns On Velvet
Fine Girl
O2 – Pick Me, I'm Clean!
O3 – Teen-age Wind
O4 – Harder Than Your Husband
O5 – Bamboozled By Love
O6 – Drafted Again
O7 – Falling In Love Is A Stupid Habit
P1 – Teen-age Wind
P2 – Doreen
P2 – Crush All Boxes
P3 – Fine Girl
P4 – Easy Meat
P5 – Goblin Girl
Piece #1
Q2 – Piano Piece
Q3 – Piece #2
Q4 – Collage One
Q5 – Opus 5
R1 – While You Were Art #1
R1 – Return Of The Son Of Serious Music
R2 – Francesco Opus 1, No. 1, 2nd Movement Allegro Con Brio
Composed By – Francesco Zappa
R3 – Francesco Opus 1, #3, 2nd Movement Presto
Composed By – Francesco Zappa
R4 – Francesco Opus 1, #6, 2nd Movement Minuet
Composed By – Francesco Zappa
R5 – Francesco Rock, Opus 1, #1, 1st Movement Andante
Composed By – Francesco Zappa
R6 – Pedro's Dowry
America Drinks And Goes Home
S2 – Agency Man
S3 – Randomonium
S4 – My Head
S4 – Randomonium
S5 – Studebaker Hoch
S6 – Don't Fuck Around
S7 – Well (Please Don't Go)
T1 – In Memoriam: Hieronymous Bosch
T2 – Two On The Town
T3 – Suicide Chump
T4 – Truck Driver Divorce
T5 – Frogs With Dirty Little Lips
T6 –Kronos Quartet None Of The Above
Pigs 'N Repugnant:
Tracks 1-2 are live in Appleton 1969, taken from Gas Mask. Track 1 begins with "The Jelly" and cuts to "The Eric Dolphy Memroial Barbecue" at 02:20. Tracks 3-6 taken from Our Man in Nirvana (Fullerton College, 08-Nov-1968). "King Kong" is 31 minutes long on Our Man in Nirvana, here it is 28 minutes and 41 seconds. It IS the same recording, yet it is slower here (and in a lower key, of course) and includes a final "goodnight" which is cut from Our Man in Nirvana. So one part has been edited out of this version, and the edit occurs at 14:24.
Son Of Pigs 'N Repugnant:
Track 1 is "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" plus "Sleeping in a Jar", taken from Our Man in Nirvana (Fullerton College, 08-Nov-1968). At the time, Zappa called this conglomeration "The String Quartet". Tracks 2-4 are live in Appleton 1969, the recording that also appeared on Gas Mask. Track 2 is like "Return of the Hunch-Back Duke" on Stage #5 and includes "Aybe Sea" and "Transylvania Boogie", and track 4 is an instrumental jam. This side is a real live segued sequence.
Beyond The Fringe Of Audience Comprehension:
The Mystery Box version has these liner notes: "Tracks 1-4 [of side 2] are from the film 200 motels. Tracks 5-7 are from Hunchentoot." "'Space Boy' is the rarest track in this entire box. It was recorded for the Curtis Harrington film, Queen of Blood. Words, music and vocals by Florence Marley. Orchestration and additional instruments by FZ. Sound effects by Ackerman & Cole." Tracks 14-16 have been said to be the remixed Sleep Dirt versions. The suite on side 1 (often called "The Groupie Opera") has been circulated as either "unknown live 1970/1971" and "Butte, Montana 1970/1971" (they do sing "this is the swingingest place in Butte, Montana"), but sounds more like a studio job without an audible live audience. The title is from one of Zappa's catch-phrases: "Some of us live beyond the fringe of audience comprehension. The air is better here."
Zut Alors:
Track 4 is probably from the 1975 UCLA Royce Hall concert (the same concert as on Orchestral Favorites). The same recording also appears on Apocrypha, where it's listed as "Gypsy Airs". (The piece was originally recorded in 1967 for an unreleased single, which was planned for release on Capitol Records together with the all-orchestral original version of Lumpy Gravy, which was only released on 8-track.) Track 5 is a longer edit of the Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar version (Osaka 3-Feb-1976). Longer, but still edited; perhaps a tape edited by Zappa himself somehow found its way here. Track 6 is a guitar solo from "More Trouble Every Day". Track 7 is a different edit of "Hands with a Hammer" on Stage #3 (Osaka 3-Feb-1976). Those two are also what is listed as "Guitar Improvisation" on the Wanna Buy Some Acid? bootleg. Track 8 is live in Vancouver 1-Oct-1975. Track 9 is a version with the Mike Douglas band (from a 1976 TV show) backing Frank Zappa (also released on Apocrypha). According to the liner notes on the Mystery Box version, "Tracks 1-4 [on side 2] are the entire side 3 of the unreleased double album version of Zoot Allures". This may not be not correct, but there were serious plans for a double album version of Zoot Allures.
The Rondo Hatton Band:
Track 1 is the single version, with a different guitar solo from the album version. Tracks 2-6 are live at the Capitol Theater in Passaic 08-Nov-1974. Tracks 7-11 are live in Sydney 24-Jun-1973, also issued on Nifty (track 11 is Zappa improvising around the letters MAR-JUH-RENE) - from the "Un-Concert". Tracks 12-13 are December 1973 bonus tracks.
A Token Of His Extreme:
On both sides everything is adjusted to have an "all segue", but edits between songs are of course clear. Audience is only audible in the middle of "Approximate" and after "Florentine Pogen" (the song finish at 9:55). Most songs on side 1 (and expecially the second half of "Inca Roads") are overcrowded of crazy rumours overdubs. "Stinkfoot" is the "Tom Waits version" ("right around the corner ... over by Tom Waits's Restaurant"] and is sung through the voice modifier. "Approximate" is, of course, just a little bit of the song, with first the theme illustration by the whole band, then a vocal extravaganza (Zappa: "That's the melody"), after which Zappa says "Ok, this can also be danced" but "Cosmik Debris" starts.
Chalk Pie:
Track 7 has been officially released on Guitar in a slightly different mix; it's from Salt Lake City 07-Dec-1981. Track 8 is an officially unreleased live version edited together from Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (early show) and Salt Lake City 07-Dec-1981. Track 9 is an officially unreleased guitar solo from "The Black Page #2", from San Diego 12-Dec-1981, early show. Track 10 is from the Ritz show in New York on 17-Nov-1981 when Al DiMeola sat in (bootlegged on Assault on New York - The Toxic Shock Trilogy).
Crush All Boxes:
Quoth the liner notes: "'Fine Girl' and 'Drafted Again' are outtakes. Tracks 2-5 are studio rehearsals with drum machine. ('Teenage Wind' and 'Harder Than Your Husband' are instrumentals. 'Falling in Love Is a Stupid Habit' is a demo for Jimmy Carl Black (FZ: piano & vocal)." Zappa later denied that he ever wrote that last song in an interview published in the fanzine Society Pages. Tracks 2-5 and 7 also appear on Apocrypha.Tracks 9-12 on side two represent the entire side one of the unreleased Crush All Boxes. Bonus track 'Teenage Wind' is an outtake. It does not feature Bob Harris on vocals.
Return Of The Son Of Serious Music:
Side 1 is from an orchestral situation with the Pomona Valley Symphony Orchestra at Mount Saint Mary's College, Claremont, California in 1963, conducted by Frank Zappa. A small part of this has been officially released on The Lost Episodes, as "Mount Saint Mary's Concert Excerpt". According to the liner notes on the Mystery Box, "While You Were Art #1" is the "original, stripped-down version", and the Francesco tracks are out-takes. They sound like different orchestrations of Francesco Zappa album tracks. "Francesco Rock" has a drum track. The notes also claim that "Pedro's Dowry" was played by the Berkely Symphony Orchestra in June 1981, but it's from "A Zappa Affair", June 16, 1984. Anyway, this release may or may not be related to the bootlegs Serious Music and Son of Serious Music - it's certainly supposed to look that way.
Randomonium:
Track 2 has been officially released on the Mystery Disc. Track 3 is an alternate take of "Dwarf Nebula" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh, recorded at Apostolic Studios, New York. Tracks 5-6 are the last bit of "Billy the Mountain"; it also appears on Cuccurrullo Brullo Brillo and Apocrypha. It's a live recording, but there has been speculation that there are some overdubs on it. Track 7 is a longer edit of the Playground Psychotics version with John Lennon. Track 8 is a live improvisation from a New York TV show called The Bitter End in 1967. Track 10 is the same version as on disc 3 of Apocrypha (Stonybrook, 15-Oct-1978). Track 12 is a 1981 studio version that also appears on Demos and Apocrypha. Tracks 1, 9, and 11 are unknown versions. Track 1 must be from 1967-1968 as Ray Collins is on it. Track 11 must be from Europe, summer 1982, as Ed Mann is on it.
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