FRANK ZAPPA - Mystery Box *******rare 10 LP - BOX****

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Rare 10 record box-set in ausgezeichnetem Zustand (M-/M-). Label: Nifty Tuff & Bitchen Records, NTB-8600.
Die legendäre Mystery Box wird generell als besser bewertet, als die von Zappa herausgegebene Serie von Live-Aufnahmen "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore". Hier sind einige Perlen versammelt, wie unveröffentlichte Albumversionen und andere rare Sachen. Hier die 10 LPs im einzelnen:

1. Pigs & Repugnant
2. Son of Pigs & Repugnant
3. Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension
4. Zut Alors
5. The Rondo Hatton Band
6. A Token of His Extreme
7. Chalk Pie
8. Crush All Boxes
9. Return of the Son of Serious Music
10. Randomonium

1. Pigs & Repugnant

1. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque (10:01)
2. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (03:36)
3. The Wild Man Fischer Story [Fischer] (03:34)
4. I'm The Meany [Fischer] (01:34)
5. Bacon Fat [Andre Williams / Brown] (03:32)

6. King Kong (28:41)

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  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.

2. Son of Pigs & Repugnant

1. The String Quartet (24:05)

2. The Duke (08:46) ["Return of the Hunch-Back Duke" - including "Aybe Sea" & "Transylvania Boogie"]
3. Help, I'm A Rock! (04:55)
4. [instrumental jam, listed as "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"] (10:02)

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. From Oscar Bianco: 

The second side of Son of Pigs & Repugnant includes all track 6 of Gas Mask, starting some minute before with the normal intro of "Little House I Used to Live in" interpolated with the "Penis Dimension" theme and fading out many minutes later after the "Help, I'm a Rock"/"Transylvania Boogie" and various madness jam. This is the most complete live 60s version of "Little House I Used to Live in" avaible on boot.

3. Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension

§                                 Live/studio 1970/1971

Length: 46 min
1. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
2. Watering Holes
3. What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
4. Bwana Dik
5. Latex Solar Beef
6. Daddy Daddy Daddy
7. Do You Like My New Car?
8. Magic Fingers.
9. What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?

10. Interview (Part 1)
11. The Final Solution
12. Interview (Part 2)
13. Penis Dimension
14. Time Is Money
15. Flambay
16. Spider of Destiny
17. Space Boy

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.

4. Zut Alors

Length: 44 min

1973 musicians: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler & Ralph Humphrey

1. Mr. Green Genes
2. King Kong
3. Chunga's Revenge

§                                 Side 1 is  live in Arlington, Texas, 11-Mar-1973.

4. Sink Trap
5. Ship Ahoy [Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar version + extra material]
6. Munchkin Tits
7. Drum Solo [shorter edit of "Hands with a Hammer" on Stage #3]
8. T'Mershi Duween
9. Black Napkins

§         Track 4 is probably from the 1975 UCLA Royce Hall concert (the same concert as on Orchestral Favorites). The same recordingalso 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).

Tracks 1-4 [on side 2] are the entire side 3 of the unreleased double album version of Zoot Allures

5. The Rondo Hatton Band

§                                 Capitol Theater, Pasaic, New Jersey, 8/18-Nov-1974

§                                 Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, 25-Jun-1973

§                                 Length: 48 min
New Jersey musicians: Frank Zappa, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock and George Duke

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. I'm the Slime
2. Ruthie-Ruthie [Stage #1 version]
3. No, Babette ["Babette", Stage #1 version]
4. Boogers of Marty Perellis ["Smell My Beard" on Stage #4]
5. White Juice on His Beard ["The Booger Man" on Stage #4]
6. Smell My Beard [NOT on Stage #4]

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
12. Penguin in Bondage
13. T'Mershi Duween / Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat [listed only as "Dog Breath"]

§                                 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. From Milhouse481:

6. A Token of His Extreme

KCET-TV studio, Culver City, Los Angeles, 6/7-Aug-1974 (broadcast in December)

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

1. Montana (03:58)
2. Stinkfoot (03:56) ["Tom Waits version"]
3. Inca Roads (09:38)
4. Dog Breath / Uncle Meat (03:53)

5. Approximate (01:25)
6. Cosmik Debris (07:39)
7. Florentine Pogen (10:09)

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.

7. Chalk Pie

§                                 Saturday Night Live performances

Length: 44 min
1. I'm the Slime
2. Peaches en Regalia
3. Dancin' Fool
4. The Purple Lagoon
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
6. Son of Saint Alfonzo ["Rollo"]

7. Chalk Pie [slightly different mix of the Guitar version]
8. We're Turning Again
9. Them or Us [may be bootlegger's title only]
10. Clownz on Velvet

Side 1 is from Zappa's appearances on the Saturday Night Live TV show: tracks 1-2 and 4 from 11-Dec-1976 (featuring John Belushi as the Be-Bop Samurai) and tracks 3 and 5-6 from 1978. Side 2 is from Chalk Pie, a live double album (from the 81 and 82 tours) that Zappa produced but never released.

8. Crush All Boxes

Officially unreleased album from around 1980

1. Fine Girl
2. Pick Me, I'm Clean
3. Teenage Wind
4. Harder Than Your Husband
5. Bamboozled By Love
6. Drafted Again
7. Falling in Love Is a Stupid Habit

'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)." 8. Teenage Wind
9. Doreen
10. Fine Girl
11. Easy Meat
12. Goblin Girl

"Tracks 2-5 [on this side] 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.")

9. Return of the Son of Serious Music

§                                 Orchestral situation at Mount Saint Mary's College, 1963

§                                 Other orchestral recordings

§                                 Synclavier recordings

Length: ~47 min
1. Piece #1
2. Piano Piece
3. Piece #2
4. Collage One
5. Opus 5

6. While You Were Art #1
7. Francesco Opus 1, No. 1, 2nd Movement Allegro con Brio [Francesco Zappa]
8. Francesco Opus 1, #3, 2nd Movement Presto [listed as Opus 1/6] [Francesco Zappa]
9. Francesco Opus 1, #6, 2nd Movement Minuet [listed as Opus 1/11] [Francesco Zappa]
10. Francesco Rock [Opus 1, #1, 1st Movement Andante] [Francesco Zappa]
11. Pedro's Dowry

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. “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. 

10. Randomonium

Length: ~48 min

1. America Drinks & Goes Home
2. Agency Man [Mystery Disc version]
3. Randomonium
4. "My Head" [Stage #5 version] [listed as "Lumpy Gravy (Dialogue Outtakes)"]
5. Studebaker Hoch [excerpt from "Billy the Mountain"]
6. Don't Fuck Around [excerpt from "Billy the Mountain"]
7. Well (Please Don't Go) [Ward]

"Track 1: Live 1969, Tracks 2, 3 and 4: Studio outtakes circa 1967. Tracks 5 and 6: Live 1971. Track 7: Unedited version from The Fillmore East."

8. In Memoriam: Hieronymous Bosch
9. 2 on the Town
10. Suicide Chump
11. Truck-Driver Divorce
12. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [Frank/Ahmet Zappa]
13. The Kronos Quartet: None of the Above

"Track 1 [on this side]: Studio outtake, with live performance at The Bitter End, 1967. Track 2: Impromptu Theme for Los Angeles Television show. Track 3: Live blues version. Tracks 4 & 5: Studio outtakes. Track 6: Performed by the Kronos Quartet, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA 4-19-85".

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