The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
Rare 10-LP box with 36-page booklet

   

Deutsch:

Mega seltene 10-LP Box, veröffentlicht ca. 1978, mit einem verdammt coolen 36-Seiten Büchlein betitelt "Ten Years on the Road with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention", mit vielen Photos und Zeitungsartikeln.

Die LPs enthalten größtenteils rares Live-Material, obwohl es auch einige rare frühe Studio-Kreationen des Meisters gibt.
Die meisten dieser Aufnahmen sind bis heute tatsächlich auf keinen anderen Tonträgern wiederveröffentlicht worden.

Der Großteil des Live-Materials stammt von den Tourneen von 1973-1975, und präsentiert die unglaublichen Talente, die Zappa damals um sich scharte - so wie George Duke,  Jean-Luc Ponty, und natürlich Captain Beefheart. In der Tat ist der Captain auf 3 dieser LPs vertreten!
Ich bin selbst Zappa-Fan und höre diese Box lieber (und öfter) als die "20 Years Of Frank Zappa"-Box, da sie irgendwie besser zusammenpasst, und ich finde, daß wirklich alle dieser Aufnahmen Atemberaubend sind! Also nicht nur ein Sammlerstück, es sollte auch gehört werden. (Ja, ich verkaufe sie, weil ich sie doppelt habe :-)

Einige Highlights der Box: Zwei vollständig unveröffentlichte Zappa-Songs : "You Can Swallow My Pride" und "Farther Oblivion" (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem gänzlich anderen Song "Father O'Blivion"!), die Weltpremiere von "The Torture Never Stops", ein einmaliger Gastauftritt von Irma Coffee, und diverse frühe Perlen, so wie Bobby Jameson's ziemlich unbekanntes, aber großartiges "Gotta Find My Roogalator" auf dem Zappa, der es auch arrangiert hat, eine fette Gitarre spielt, und die ungekürzte Fassung der Mini Rock-Oper, die Zappa und Beefheart 1963 zusammengebastelt haben! (Auf "Mystery Disc" wurde nur der Anfang veröffentlicht!)

Die Box selber hat an zwei Stellen Tesa, ist aber ansonsten in top Zustand.

Das Buch und alle 10 LPs sind perfekt erhalten, wie neu!
   

English:

Mega rare 10-LP box set released around 1978, including a damn cool 36-page booklet entitled "Ten Years on the Road with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention" with copies of newspaper articles and various photos.

The albums are mostly comprised of rare live material, although there is some early studio material in here as well.
Most of these recordings, to this day, have in fact not been reissued elsewhere.

Most of the live material focuses on the 1973-1975 tours, showcasing the incredible talents Zappa was touring with at the time - such as George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and of course Captain Beefheart. In fact, the Captain is featured on three of these albums!
I am a Zappa fan and enjoy listening to this set much more than the "20 Years Of Frank Zappa" boxed set. This here has somewhat more of a flow, and I think really all of the performances are outstanding! So this is not only a collector's piece, it should also be listened to. (Yes, I'm selling it because I have two of them :-)

Highlights include: Two completely unreleased Zappa songs: "You Can Swallow My Pride" and "Farther Oblivion" (not to be confused with the completely different song "Father O'Blivion"!), the world premiere of "The Torture Never Stops", a unique guest appearance by Irma Coffee, and various early gems, such as Bobby Jameson's pretty scarce, but great "Gotta Find My Roogalator" on which Zappa, who also arranged it, plays a mean guitar, and the unedited version of the Mini Rock-Opera Zappa and Beefheart cooked up in 1963! (Only the beginning has been released on "Mystery Disc"!)

The box has tape in two spots, but is otherwise in top condition.

Booklet and all 10 LPs are in perfect condition, like new!
                         The titles are:

1. Ultra-Modern Stringbean (dark blue label)
2. Nifty (sky blue label)
3. Ein Monster in der Musikhalle (orange label)
4. If You Get a Headache (pink label)
5. Frank Zappa vs. the Tooth Fairy (red label)
6. A Token of My Extreme (silver label)
7. I Was a Teenage Maltshop (pale yellow label)
8. Petrouska (bright yellow label)
9. Zurkon Music (cream label)
10. Back on the Straight and Narrow (green label)

Detailed description of contents:

(thanks to http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio for their incredible efforts!)



LP 1: Ultra-Modern Stringbean (ZX 3651)
(later re-released as: Mudshark (CD), Live in Melbourne (CD), Tiny Nightmares (2 LP, Impossible Recordworks))

Festival Hall, Melbourne, 29-Jun-1973

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey and Sal Marquez

1. Uncle Meat (Main Theme) / Uncle Meat Variations ["Excercise 4"?]
2. Dog Breath
3. Uncle Meat (Main Theme)
4. Montana
5. Fifty-Fifty [instrumental version, not listed]

6. Mudshark
7. Farther Oblivion [listed as "Father O'Blivion"]

Track 7 is NOT "Father O'Blivion" but "Farther Oblivion", an officially unreleased number including themes from "Cucamonga" and "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" as well as the entire "Be-Bop Tango" theme.



LP 2: Nifty (ZX 3652)

Various 1973
1974 bonus tracks

New Jersey musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson, Napoleon Murphy Brock and special guest Irma Coffee

Sydney musicians: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey and Sal Marquez

1974 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler and Ralph Humphrey

1. Be-Bop Tango Preamble
2. Pygmy Twylyte / Dummy Up
3. "Dupree's Paradise" Stories [listed as "Room Service (variant version)"]
4. Be-Bop Tango
5. Dog Breath (0:37)
6. Uncle Meat

7. Father O'Blivion [Stage #6 version]
8. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
9. Nanook Rubs It
10. Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
11. Mar-juh-rene [edit]
12. Penguin in Bondage
13. T'Mershi Duween

Track 1 is live at the William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, 11-Nov-1973 (late show).
Track 2 is live at the William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, 11-Nov-1973 (early show), with Irma Coffee on guest vocals.
Track 3 is Zappa's "Dupree's Paradise" stories from the Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 22-Nov-1973 (late show).
Track 4 is live, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 18-Nov 1973 (from a radio broadcast).
Tracks 5-6 might be from Sydney, or even from the Roxy of Roxy & Elsewhere fame.
Tracks 7-11 are live at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, 24-Jun-1973; track 11 is Zappa improvising around the letters MAR-JUH-RENE.
Tracks 12-13 are unknown live 1974 bonus tracks.
The track list on the cover is quite wrong; the above should be correct. Side 2 has also been issued on Cuccurrullo Brillo Brullo (with complete "Mar-juh-rene"), tracks 4-7 are also issued on The Rondo Hatton Band, and track 13 is also inserted into Piquantique. Tracks 2 and 3 appear as filler tracks on No Bacon for Breakfast Part 2. The takes are from a radio broadcast (the WXRT "Un-Concert" 8-Nov-1974), mixed and edited by Zappa himself.



LP 3: Ein Monster in der Musikhalle (ZX 3653)

Wighalle, Vienna, 11-Sep-1974

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Chester Thompson, Tom Fowler and Napoleon Murphy Brock

1. Tush Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme)
2. A jam type thing / The Hook / The-Boogerman-type jamming / Ach Du Lieber Augustin [?] / Louie Louie [Richard Berry]
3. Dupree's Paradise

4. I'm the Slime
5. Pygmy Twylyte
6. Room Service [not listed]

The cover track list is very peculiar, and the above has been suggested to me instead. Side 1 is really listed as "Intro", "The Hook", "My Little Augustine", "Dixie" and "Dupree's Paradise". "The Hook" is a little snippet you can hear on Stage #4, introducing the Archie Shepp cut - it was also vowen into "The Be-Bop Tango" - and here it introduces a jamming number quoting "Ach Du Lieber Augustin", "Louie Louie" and maybe a song called "Dixie".



LP 4: If You Get a Headache (ZX 3654)

Kiel Auditiorium, Saint Louis, 13-May-1975
Music Hall, Boston, Massachusettes, 23-Oct-1975

Saint Louis musicians: Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, George Duke, Terry Bozzio, Tom Fowler, Bruce Fowler and Napoleon Murphy Brock
Boston musicians: Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Terry Bozzio, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Andre Lewis and Norma Bell

1. Intro
1. Apostrophe (')
2. Stinkfoot
3. I'm Not Satisfied
4. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy

5. You Can Swallow My Pride
6. Any Downers?
7. Packard Goose [listed as "The Mothers Go Cosmic" and "Love Is Where It's At"]
8. Camarillo Brillo
9. Muffin Man

Side 1 is live at the Kiel Auditiorium, Saint Louis, 13-May-1975.
Side 2 is live in Boston 23-Oct-1975.

"Packard Goose" is only the first lines recited over a "Black Napkins" vamp. "Any Downers?" is also in a very rudimentary state. "You Can Swallow My Pride" is an unreleased Zappa song.



LP 5: Frank Zappa vs. the Tooth Fairy (ZX 3655)

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California, 19-Jul-1974 / 21-Jul-1974

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson and Napoleon Murphy Brock

1. Gloria [story about Ruth Underwood]
2. Inca Roads

3. Pygmy Twylyte
4. The Idiot Bastard Son
5. Cheepnis
6. Clear Version of "Cheepnis"

Side 1 is live 21-Jul-1974.
Side 2 live 19-Jul-1974.

After "Cheepnis", Zappa complains about the sub-standard PA system, and instructs George Duke to play "romantic Holiday-Inn-type background music" and reads the "Cheepnis" lyrics on top of that, in case the audience didn't hear everything the first time.



LP 6: A Token of My Extreme (ZX 3656)

Bridges Auditorium, a collage in Claremont, California, 11-Apr-1975 (late show)

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Denny Walley, George Duke, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio and Napoleon Murphy Brock

1. A Token of My Extreme
2. Stinkfoot
3. Sleeping in a Jar
4. Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead

5. Debra Kadabra [listed as "Abra Kadabra"]
6. Florentine Pogen [listed as "Chester's Gorilla"]
7. Why Doesn't Someone Get Him a Pepsi? ["The Torture Never Stops", original version]

Track 7 is the world premiere of "The Torture Never Stops" - the original 1975 version like on Stage #4. Zappa introduced this number saying "Why doesn't someone get him a Pepsi?".



LP 7: I Was a Teenage Maltshop (ZX 3657)

Studio oldies
Boston, Massachusettes, 27-Apr-1975

Live musicians: Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Denny Walley, George Duke, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio and Napoleon Murphy Brock

1. I Was a Teenage Maltshop / Status Back Baby / Ned the Mumbler / Ned Has a Brainstorm / Toads of the Short Forest
2. Excerpt from the Uncle Frankie Show
3. Charva
4. Band Introductions from the Fillmore West [not listed]
5. Plastic People [Berry/Zappa] / Solo
6. Bobby Jameson: Gotta Find My Roogalator
7. Baby Ray & the Ferns: How's Your Bird
8. Baby Ray & the Ferns: The World's Greatest Sinner
9. The Penguins: Memories of El Monte [Zappa/Collins]

10. Camarillo Brillo
11. Muffin Man
12. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
13. Willie the Pimp

Some of this stuff comes from a radio show on KWST radio, 1-Nov-1975, where Zappa played oldies and oddities.

Tracks 2-5 have been officially released on The Lost Episodes and Mystery Disc.
Track 1 is from the "rock opera" recorded in 1963 (the first part has been issued on the Mystery Disc).
Tracks 6-9 are old single tracks from way before Zappa hit it big time.
Side 2 is identified as "live in Boston, Massachusettes, 11-Sep-1975". There was no such show; it could be live in Boston 27-Apr-1975 or somewhere else on the tour.



LP 8: Petrouska (ZX 3658)

Konserthuset, Stockholm, 30-Sep-1967 (date has been debated)
Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974

1967 musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins and Billy Mundi
1974 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson and George Duke

1. You Didn't Try to Call Me
2. Petrouska [Stravinsky]
3. Bristol Stomp [Appel/Mann]
4. Baby Love [Supremes]
5. Big Leg Emma
6. King Kong [edit]
7. It Can't Happen Here [edit]
8. No Matter What You Do (interpolating Tchaikovsky's 6th)

9. Pygmy Twylyte
10. Room Service

Side 1 is live in Stockholm 9/13/30-Sep-1967. (Spoken intro is longer than on "'tis The Season To Be Jelly", tracks 6 and 7 are shorter here)
Side 2 is live at the Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974.



LP 9: Zurkon Music (ZX 3659)

(also released as Donna U Wanna (CD), Invocations (CD), Jones Crusher (CD), Tiny Nightmares (2 LP), Special Halloween Issue (CD))

The Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1977

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann and Terry Bozzio

1. Intro [from "Flakes"]
2. San Ber'dino
3. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
4. City of Tiny Lites
5. The Squirm [guitar solo]
6. Big Leg Emma

7. Audience Participation
8. The Black Page #2
9. Jones Crusher
10. Camarillo Brillo
11. Black Napkins

This is the Baby Snakes concert, stereo soundboard recording taken from an FM broadcast. Tracks 2 & 4 and the entire side 2 appear in the BABY SNAKES video; tracks 8-9 even made it to the Baby Snakes album.



LP 10: Back on the Straight and Narrow (ZX 3660)

Apollo Stadium, Adelaide, Australia, 24-Jan-1976

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Andre Lewis, Terry Bozzio and Roy Estrada

1. The Illinois Enema Bandit
2. Wind up Working in a Gas Station
3. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
4. The Torture Never Stops

5. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
6. I Ain't Got No Heart
7. I'm Not Satisfied
8. Black Napkins
9. Honey, Don't You Want a Man like Me
       

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