FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS HISTORY OF 10 LP Box Set +36 Page Booklet 1962-76 RARE

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USA very scarce private pressing 10 LP box set "The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention" with 36 page booklet & insert track listing sheet I got from an amazing Zappa collection years ago (more 70's rarities to come!). This really is one of the Holy Grails of Zappa collection & rarely see these offered up, the coolest Zappa piece I own of hundreds of CD's & records of Frank's over here in my music "compound".

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT ALL 12 PICTURES (FIRST TWO HAVE GREAT CLOSE UP DETAILS YOU CAN ZOOM IN ON).

(STEREO ZX-3651-3660 A / STEREO ZX-3651-3660 B).

Boxed set of: Ultra-Modern Stringbean, Nifty, Ein Monster in der Musikhalle, If You Get a Headache, Frank Zappa vs. the Tooth Fairy, A Token of My Extreme, I Was a Teenage Maltshop, Petrouska, Zurkon Music and Back on the Straight and Narrow.

RECORD LABELS: 1 & 2 orange & blank, 3 & 4 dark blue album title & pic of Frank, 5 & 6 orange title & pic of Frank, 7 & 8 reddish pink with pic of Frank, 9 & 10 orange album title & pic of Frank, 11 & 12 mint green & blank, 13 & 14 blue & blank, 15 & 16 dark yellow & pic of Frank, 17 & 18 white & blank, 19 & 20 white & blank. (sold AS IS as far as the label screwing up the recordings not matching the labels & records but I never heard of any issues with this set for that reason).

LP1 - Ultra-Modern Stringbean:

Festival Hall, Melbourne, 29-Jun-1973
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Audience B+ LP label: ZX 3651
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"]

The track list on the album is quite wrong; the above should be correct. 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.

LP2 - Nifty:

Various 1973 1974 bonus tracks Length: ~45 min LP label: ZX 3652
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. The takes are from a radio broadcast (the WXRT "Un-Concert" 8-Nov-1974), mixed and edited by Zappa himself.

LP3 - Ein Monster In Der Musikhalle:

Wighalle, Vienna, 11-Sep-1974
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Audience B LP label: ZX 3653
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 [Listed as "I'm in 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".

LP4 - If You Get A Headache:

Kiel Auditiorium, Saint Louis, 13-May-1975 Music Hall, Boston, Massachusettes, 23-Oct-1975
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Audience B+ (Boston) LP label: ZX 3654

St. 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

The cover track list is wrong. This should be correct: 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.

LP5 - Frank Zappa Vs. The Tooth Fairy:

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California, 19-Jul-1974 / 21-Jul-1974
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Audience C- LP label: ZX 3655

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. This is the clear version of "Cheepnis", which may not be listed on some copies.

LP6 - A Token Of My Extreme:

Bridges Auditorium, a collage in Claremont, California, 11-Apr-1975 (late show)
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Audience B+ (particularily hissy) LP label: ZX 3656

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?". The sound on "Debra Kadabra" is especially poor.

LP7 - I Was A Teenage Maltshop:

Studio oldies Boston, Massachusettes, 27-Apr-1975
Length: ~45 min LP label: ZX 3657
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 [Mystery Disc version] 3. Charva [The Lost Episodes version] 4. Band Introductions from the Fillmore West [not listed] [Mystery Disc version] 5. Plastic People [Berry/Zappa] / Solo [Mystery Disc version of something] 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.

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: see Zappa's singles discography for more info. They have been officially re-released on several albums. 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.

Some of this stuff comes from a radio show on KWST radio, 1-Nov-1975, where Zappa played oldies and oddities. The cover track list is wrong, but the above should be correct.

LP8 - Petrouska:

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

Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Soundboard B (Stockholm) LP label: ZX 3658

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
Side 2 is live at the Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974

Track 1 has a longer spoken intro section. Tracks 6 and 7 are much shorter than on 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly: "King Kong" is the 5:20-14:10 section and "It Can't Happen Here" the first 50 seconds.

LP9 - Zurkon Music:

Parts officially issued on the BABY SNAKES video and/or album.
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: FM/sound board A- Zurkon Music LP label: ZX 3659
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 [BABY SNAKES video version] 3. Tryin' to Grow a Chin [Stage #6 version] 4. City of Tiny Lites [BABY SNAKES video version] 5. The Squirm [guitar solo] 6. Big Leg Emma 7. Audience Participation [BABY SNAKES video version] 8. The Black Page #2 [BABY SNAKES video & Baby Snakes album version] 9. Jones Crusher [BABY SNAKES video & Baby Snakes album version] 10. Camarillo Brillo [BABY SNAKES video version] 11. Black Napkins [BABY SNAKES video version]

Some cover track lists are quite wrong; the above should be correct. This is the Baby Snakes concert: 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. "Donna U Wanna" is an approximation of the name of a character in the BABY SNAKES movie.

LP10 - Back On The Straight And Narrow:

Apollo Stadium, Adelaide, Australia, 24-Jan-1976
Length: ~45 min Sound quality: Audience B LP label: ZX 3660
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.

The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention flips the sides around, and lists only three tracks on side 2: "The Illinois Enema Bandit", "Show Me Your Thumb" and "The Torture Never Stops".

CONDITION:
BOX: The box back is in excellent to near mint (decent quality, not prone to splitting as much as some are (inside is coated white with paper) top lid is VG++ to excellent & the paper cover has been glued to the front & centered nicely (I have a 3 mil box set plastic bag sleeve I've always kept on this since I got it 15+ years ago) just a tiny stain on the bottom right corner & lightly dented bottom corner tips that you can see on the last 1/4" of the paper corners.
BOOKLET: is near mint, rarely handled you can see & pages haven't faded.
TRACK LISTING INSERT: is VG++ with minor corner crease on the upper right corner & some fingerprints & light dirtyness mainly on the right edge area (corrected info is above, I'll also send you to other links for timed tracks).
RECORDS: ever side has a numbered sticker the original owner I bought it from put on (actually very nice, you would be so lost otherwise! don't bother peeling them off, he wrote clearly & I guarantee they will leave stains underneath since this was done in the 70's). ALL RECORDS WILL NOW BE WITH CLEAN POLY LINED WHITE PAPER SLEEVES (the original white sleeves will go along for the ride also as extra padding on the outside of the box, they are still in quite good of shape without much browning or aging, plus I'm double boxing this set for safety) my track listing closeup picture shows side 2 in one of them (non leaking plastic).

Side #1 VG++ to excellent (light needlewear in spots).
Side #2 near mint.
Side #3: near mint.
Side #4: near mint.
Side #5: near mint.
Side #6: near mint.
Side #7: near mint
Side #8: near mint.
Side #9: near mint.
Side #10: near mint.
Side #11: near mint.
Side #12. near mint.
Side #13: near mint.
Side #14: near mint.
Side #15: near mint.
Side #16: near mint.
Side #17: ex- near mint (slightest needle wear spots).
Side #18: near mint.
Side #19: near mint
Side #20: ex- near mint (slightest needle wear spots).

overall excellent condition on the whole set, most sides look unplayed, about 6 to 8 sides have a spindle mark or two on them so I assume most are unplayed & the sides that have slight wear I'm pretty sure it will be inaudible. Also these look like quality pressings for it's era (probably made in 1977).
PACKING tight with outer box set sleeve (front will have the 10 extra sleeves on it, very unlikely for any seam splits in shipping now), bubble wrapped, then a black (new) oversized garbage bag & then into a normal box set sized box with about 1" of gaps between the edges filled with syrofoam peanuts & then into a LARGER 14" x 14" x 2 (actually taller, more like 4" tall). Total weight is just under 7 pounds, just adding five for the boxes & insurance on this (I'll cover the rest) otherwise actual postage.

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