Bootleg Boxes

These are boxes of four or more discs, vinyl or CD. (Some boxes are listed elsewhere: Assault on New York (a box of the Toxic Shock Trilogy with a bonus single), Good Evening, Vienna!, Broadway the Hard Way (no connection to the official album (or a single-LP bootleg by the same name), Stairway to Berlin, Norwegian Rhapsody (a small box of 2 CDs :) and a 4-LP box of Läther.)

The Godfather Meets the Untouchables (4-LP box)

  • Various American 1988 live

Box set of four 1988 live compilation records. Also issued as part of the box (!) The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage, and re-issued as a 3-CD set by RXZ Records.

Length: ~200 min
Sound quality: Audience
LP box label: Showtime Records 003 / TGMTU #1-8
3-CD set label: RXZ Records

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman

1. The Black Page
2. Dickie's Such an Asshole [one source for the Broadway the Hard Way version]
3. Stick Together
4. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
5. Willie the Pimp

6. Packard Goose
7. The Torture Never Stops [part 1]
8. Lonesome Cowboy Burt

9. Confinement Loaf ["Bacon Fat" by Andre Williams / Brown]
10. Stolen Moments [Oliver Nelson]
11. Big Swifty
12. The Untouchables [Broadway the Hard Way version]

13. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque
14. Uncle Remus [Frank Zappa / George Duke]
15. Catholic Girls
16. Crew Slut

17. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
18. Let's Move to Cleveland
19. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling [Ernest Ball / George Graff / Chancey Olcott] / Theme from The Godfather (Mix) ["Mix"?] [Nino Rota] [The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version]
20. King Kong

21. Find Her Finer
22. Outside Now
23. Disco Boy
24. Murder by Numbers (with Sting) [Sting] [Broadway the Hard Way version]
25. What Kind of Girl (Would Suck His Rod)? [one source of the Broadway the Hard Way mix]

26. The Orange County Medley: Let's Make the Water Turn Black / Harry, You're a Beast / Oh No / Theme from Lumpy Gravy
27. Sharleena
28. Watermelon in Easter Hay
29. Peaches en Regala

30. Heavy Duty Judy
31. Eat That Question
32. Black Napkins
33. Bolero

  • Side 1 live in Binghampton 17-Mar-1988. Track 2 is one of the sources for the official Broadway the Hard Way version - 04:02-04:23 and 04:24-05:42 of that is from Binghampton (with a one-second splice from Lund in between). These tracks can also be heard on disc 1 of Broadway the Hard Way in USA.
  • Side 2 live in Uniondale 25-Mar-1988.
  • Tracks 9-10 live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988.
  • Tracks 11-12 live in Providence 16-Mar-1988.
  • Side 4 live in Philadelphia, track 13 13-Feb-1988 and 14-16 12-Feb-1988.
  • Tracks 17-19 live in Binghampton 17-Mar-1988.
  • Track 20 live in Allentown 19-Mar-1988.
  • Track 21 live in Boston 20-Feb-1988.
  • Tracks 22-23 live in Springfield 13-Mar-1988.
  • Tracks 24-25 live in Chicago, 24 on 04-Mar-1988 and 25 on 03-Mar-1988. Track 24 and part of track 25 ended up officially released on Broadway the Hard Way. They also appear on the bootleg Broadway the Hard Way in USA.
  • Tracks 26-27 live in Uniondale 25-Mar-1988.
  • Tracks 28-29 & 31-32 live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988.
  • Track 30 live in New York 6-Feb-1988.
  • Track 33 was not originally listed here but reported later. No data for this track. 

Tracks 12, 19 & 24-25 ended up on official albums ("What Kind of Girl?" on Broadway the Hard Way was edited together from this version and a March 1 recording), but of course these mixes sound a little different.

The cover shows Zappa in an Uncle Sam outfit, holding a giant pen or pencil. (A similar picture can be seen on page 98 of Miles' book A Visual Documentary.) Back cover has liner notes and two pictures of Zappa, one holding and one playing guitar. It also says: "If you like this great music, you will love The Untouchables (Showtime Records 002)" and "Special thanks to Jesse Belvin and John[n?]y Otis [!], owners of Showtime Records, for their faith in Frank Zappa and his music".

The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage

  • Various 1988 live

This is a 10-LP box made by Showtime Records, gathering all their 1988 tour bootlegs. It contains the following albums:

It seems to have been manufactured (as a box item) only in 50 copies, with the albums in paper sleeves with original xerox-insert "covers" enclosed in the box. Not only were these covers numbered, and the box itself numbered, but the box cover is also believed to have indicated the numbers of the individual records therein.

Broadway the Hard Way in USA (6-CD Box)

  • Various US live 1988

Label: RXZ Records RXZ CD 332A-337A

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman, plus special guests Daniel Schorr (disc 3) and Sting (disc 5)

Inside the box the CDs are packaged in regular trays, with separate 1988 colour cover pictures: disc 1 has Zappa playing guitar, disc 2 has Zappa holding panties, disc 3 has another picture of Zappa playing guitar, disc 4 has Zappa singing, disc 5 has a close-up of Zappa playing guitar, and disc 6 has tickets and backstage passes. The same label made another 6-CD box called Broadway the Hard Way in Europe.

(The track lists for this box were transcribed from very illegible scans of the back covers - the source of any inaccuracies.)

Discs 1-2

Binghampton 17-Mar-1988:

1. The Black Page (New Age Version) Including Intro (09:56)
2. Dickie's Such an Asshole (06:16)
3. Stick Together (01:58)
4. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (03:31)
5. Willie the Pimp (02:12)
6. Montana (04:00)
7. City of Tiny Lites (09:50)
8. A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus) / Make a Sex Noise (18:10)
9. When The Lie's So Big (03:34)
10. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk (07:20)

Track 2 is one of the sources for the official Broadway the Hard Way version - 04:02-04:23 and 04:24-05:42 of that is from Binghampton (with a one-second splice from Lund in between). Tracks 1-5 can also be heard on side 1 of The Godfather Meets the Untouchables.

1. Florentine Pogen (08:18)
2. Andy (05:29)
3. Inca Roads (10:25)
4. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (05:07)
5. Let's Move to Cleveland (07:40)
6. Where Irish Eyes Are Smiling [Ernest Ball / George Graff / Chancey Olcott] (00:48) [The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version]
7. Theme from THE GODFATHER [Nino Rota] [listed as the theme from THE GODFATHER II] (00:29) [The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version]
8. Who Needs the Peace Corps? (03:08)
9. I Left My Heart in San Francisco [George C Corney Jr / Douglas Cross] (01:13)
10. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant] (10:11)
11. Norwegian Jim ["Norwegian Wood" by Lennon/McCartney] (02:57)
12. Lousiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by Lennon/McCartney] (03:24)
13. Texas Motel ["Strawberry Fields Forever" by Lennon/McCartney] (03:09)
14. Sofa (03:06)
15. The Illinois Enema Bandit (07:10)

  • Tracks 4-7 can also be heard on side 5 of The Godfather Meets the Untouchables. Tracks 6-7 have been officially released on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life.
  • Tracks 11-13 are a medley of Beatles songs with the words changed to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Disc 3

Various US live 1988:

1. Danny Boy (Featuring Daniel Schorr) (05:41) [?] [misspelled as "Denny Boy"]
2. It Ain't Necessarily So (01:46) [?]
3. Summertime (Including Intro) [?]
4. Aďda [Giuseppe Verdi] / Lohengrin [Richard Wagner] / Carmen [George Bizet] / 1812 Overture [Piotr Tchaikovsky] (Outtakes) (01:17)
5. There Goes My Baby (00:22)  [?]
6. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque (11:57)
7. Jezebel Boy (02:23) [Broadway the Hard Way version]
8. Reverend A West ["A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" / "A Few Moments with Brother A West" [West/Zappa]] (10:01) [The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version of "A Few Moments with Brother A West"]
9. Not So Normal Requests - [illegible ("improv."?)] Medley Includes: a) FZ Conducting the Audience / b) Nice Artefacts / c) Chad Sings ["Love Boat Theme" (?)] / d) Approximate (Dance Version) (08:56)
10. The Closer You Are [a capella version?] [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson] (01:57)
11. Johnny Darling [Louis Statton / Johnny Statton] (00:46)
12. No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray] (01:24)
13. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou (Medley) (03:24) [Donald & Doris Woods / Obie Jesse]
14. Uncle Remus [Frank Zappa / George Duke] (04:55)
15. Catholic Girls (04:24)
16. Crew Slut (06:01)

  • Tracks 1-5 live at the Warner Theatre, Washington, DC, 10-Feb-1988. Daniel Schorr, who appears on track 1, was Zappa's favourite newscaster on CBS, and the man Zappa wanted to anchor the TV show Night School that he wanted to make in 1987, but which was never realised.
  • Tracks 6 & 10-16 live 10/12/13/14-Feb-1988 and 12-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from which date).
  • Track 7 has been officially released on Broadway the Hard Way. It is from Philadelphia 13-Feb-1988.
  • Track 8 live in Philadelphia, 14-Feb-1988. This is where the Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version of "A Few Moments with Brother A. West" comes from.
  • Track 9 live at the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 14-Feb-1988: the 1988 band doing audience requests. From Carl Merson:

    I, a fellow named William Schools and 3 guys from New Jersey (I think) were the folks dancing to "Approximate" on stage at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia on Valentine's Day, 1988. Check out the picture of us in the first edition of the US Society Pages, published in 1990. This event occured after a bunch of folks foisted a note to Frank after the intermission begging him to

a) conduct the audience in round (which he did),
b) have Chad Wackerman sing (he sang the "Love Boat" theme), and
c) have the band dance to "Approximate".

Since he wasn't sure how many band members knew "Approximate" (except for the Fowlers), he asked the audience if we knew the song. Of course, we were the first to volunteer. Having come off of a high the night before, after meeting Frank and family backstage, William and I were more than willing to have another chance to "meet" Frank, even it it meant going on stage in front of 3,000 people and making asses of ourselves!

The most hilarious thing I recall from my three minutes of fame was when Scott Thunes laid four pages of horribly dog-eared and yellowed sheet music in front of us and instructed us to "Dance to this!". What he put in front of us onto the stage floor was the original hand-written manuscript for "Approximate". I nearly peed myself with joy.

From Jon Naurin:

It was in fact Den Simms (of Society Pages) who passed Zappa the note with "some not so normal requests". They were actually as follows:

1) For Ike do so a "solo" with his collected artefacts (which he also did)
2) Anything a capella (they did "The Closer You Are")
3) Have Chad sing
4) Dance "Approximate"

Discs 4-6

Disc 4:

1. Stink-Foot (09:08)
2. Intro / Stainless The Maiden [?] (01:30)
3. King Kong (12:47)
4. Mr Green Genes (04:09)
5. Why Don't You Like Me? (02:26)
6. Confinement Loaf ["Bacon Fat" by Andre Williams / Brown] (02:37)
7. Stolen Moments [Oliver Nelson] (09:21)
8. We're Turning Again (04:41)
9. Chana in de Bushwop (04:18) [Frank/Diva Zappa]
10. The Texas Medley ["Norwegian Jim", "Lousiana Hooker with Herpes" and "Texas Motel" - "Norwegian Wood", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by Lennon/McCartney] (08:55)
11. Zomby Woof (05:40)
12. Cruisin' for Burgers (08:22)

  • Tracks 1 and 3-12 live 06/12-or-13/16/17/27-Feb-1988 and 12/15/19-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from which date).
  • Track 2 is some kind of once-only performance from Portland, 15-Mar-1988.
  • Track 10 is a medley of Beatles songs with the words changed to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Disc 5:

1. Chunga's Revenge Solo (Including Intro) (03:28)
2. Packard Goose Medley [including the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and a theme from Béla Bartók's third piano concerto] (07:58)
3. The Torture Never Stops / Lonesome Cowbuy Burt / Theme from Bonanza [Ray Evans / Jay Livingston] (18:10)
4. Filthy Habits (03:25)
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (03:08)
6. Heavy Duty Judy (05:58)
7. Murder by Numbers (Featuring Sting) [Sting] [Broadway the Hard Way version]
8. Watermelon in Easter Hay (04:45)
9. Peaches en Regalia (02:54)
10. Panty Rap (02:09)
11. Whippin' Post [Allman] (06:40)
12. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney] (03:38)
13. Improvisational Coda (02:19)

  • Track 7, featuring Sting, is live in Chicago 04-Mar-1988, and has been officially released on Broadway the Hard Way.
  • Tracks 1-6 and 8-13 live 02/06/17-Feb-1988 and 03/11/15/16/25-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from which date).

Disc 6:

1. Happy Birthday Chad (00:41)
2. Tinsel-Town Rebellion (04:21)
3. Dancin' Fool (03: 20)
4. Stevie's Spanking (04:21)
5. The Orange County Lumber Truck / Oh No / Theme from Lumpy Gravy (09:38)
6. What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are? [listed as "What Kind of Girl Would Suck His Rod?"] [one source for the Broadway the Hard Way version] (0?:13)
7. Keep It Greasey (03:28)
8. [illegible] (02:17)
9. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me? (04:02)
10. [illegible] (02:46)
11. Cosmik Debris (04:42)
12. Eat That Question (01:41)
13. Black Napkins (09:44)
14. Bolero [Ravel] (05:29)
15. Yo Cats (03:14)
16. The Untouchables [?] (02:16)
17. America the Beautiful [traditional] (03:12)

  • Tracks 8 & 10 were illegible on the scan of the back cover from which this track list was transcribed.
  • Tracks 1, celebrating drummer Chad Wackerman's birthday, and 17, "America the Beautiful", are from the Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, 25-Mar-1988, the last US show on the tour. "America the Beautiful" was, appropriotly, the last rock song Zappa ever played live in the USA.
  • Tracks 2-5 & 7-16 live 02/16/17/20/28-Feb-1988 (the 24 date is also mentioned, but there was no concert then) and 04/12/19/23/25-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from which date - March 24 is also listed, but the March 24 show at the Philadelphia spectrum was cancelled).
  • Track 6 live in Chicago 04-Mar-1988 - one of the sources of the Broadway the Hard Way version.

Broadway the Hard Way in Europe (6-CD Box)

  • Various European live 1988

Label: RXZ Records RXZ CD 338A-343A

Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman plus special guest Fabio Treves (disc 3).

Inside the box the CDs are packaged in regular trays, with separate colour cover pictures, which all seem to be close-ups of various details of Zappa's face or head. The same label made another 6-CD box called Broadway the Hard Way in USA.

(The track lists for this box were transcribed from very illegible scans of the back covers - the source of any inaccuracies.)

Disc 1

1. Roma Soundchecks [including "Arrivederci Roma" (?), "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, "Chana in de Bushwop" and "The Italian Medley" (?)] (09:51)
2. The Black Page (New Age Version) (06:55)
3. Intro (01:07)
4. Packard Goose Medley [including the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and a theme from Béla Bartók's third piano concerto] (07:04)
5. Trouble Every Day (Including Guitar Solo) (04:46)
6. Penguin in Bondage (04:55)
7. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel (06:35)
8. Dupree's Paradise (05:58)
9. Filthy Habits (04:23)
10. Bolero [Ravel] (05:31)
11. Bobby Brown (Goes Down) (03:02)
12. Whippin' Post [Allman] (06:38)

  • Tracks 1-9 live in Rome, 07-Jun-1988 (back cover says June 6).
  • Tracks 10-12 are claimed to be live in Paris 20-May-1988, but of those songs, only "Bolero" was played at that show. Oh well.

Disc 2

1. Zoot Allures (08:19) [The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version]
2. When The Lie's So Big (03:26)
3. Planet of the Baritone Women (02:40)
4. Any Kind of Pain (05:32)
5. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk (07:00)
6. Sharleena (07:09)
7. The Orange County Lumber Truck / Oh No /Theme from Lumpy Gravy (10:16)
8. Advance Romance (06:07)
9. You Are What You Is (05:46)
10. Keep It Greasey (03:16)
11. Joe's Garage (05:40)
12. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee (02:59)

  • Track 1 has been officially released on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life. It is live in Brighton 16-Apr-1988.
  • Tracks 2-5 live in Cologne 14-Apr-1988.
  • Tracks 6-8 & 10 live in Oslo 27-Apr-1988.
  • Track 9 live in Modena 05-Jun-1988 (back cover says June 3).
  • Tracks 11-12 live in London 19-Apr-1988.

Disc 3

1. Eat That Question (01:56)
2. Black Napkins (07:00)
3. Find Her Finer (02:45)
4. Big Swifty Medley (Super Extended [edited] Version Featuring Fabio Treves (Harmonica)) (20:56)
5. Rhymin' Man (05:42)
6. Sinister Footwear, 2nd Movement (06:12)
7. City of Tiny Lites (08:12)

  • Tracks 1-3 live in Paris 20-May-1988.
  • Track 4 edited together from Paris 20-May-1988 and Genoa 09-Jun-1988 (back cover says June 6), with special guest Fabio Treves on harmonica from the Genoa show.
  • Tracks 5-7 live in Genoa 09-Jun-1988, the very last concert of Zappa's last tour.

Disc 4

1. The Torture Never Stops / Lonesome Cowboy Burt / Theme from Bonanza [Ray Evans / Jay Livingston] (17:03)
2. Ring of Fire [Merle Kilgore / June Carter] (02:22)
3. Peaches en Regalia (02:50)
4. A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus) (10:09)
5. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque (05:52)
6. Loops #1 (03:05)
7. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney] (03:36)
8. Loops #2 (05:15)
9. Sofa (02:45)
10. Andy (05:51)
11. Inca Roads (09:51)

  • Tracks 1 & 6-7 live in Paris 20-May-1988.
  • Tracks 2-3 live in Mannheim 25-May-1988.
  • Tracks 4 & 10-11 live is Oslo, 27-Apr-1988.
  • Track 5 live in Berlin 12-Apr-1988.
  • Tracks 8-9 live in Munich 09-May-1988.

Disc 5

1. Stink-Foot (Including Intro) (08:04)
2. I Ain't Got No Heart (01:54)
3. Love of My Life (02:12)
4. Let's Move to Cleveland (09:06)
5. Alien Orifice (04:14)
6. Elvis Has Just Left the Building (02:26)
7. Disco Boy (03:06)
8. Teen-Age Wind (02:37)
9. Truck-Driver Divorce (04:08)
10. Star Wars Won't Work (Take #2) (10:55)
11. Outside Now (06:24)
12. When Yuppies Go to Hell (Take #2) (06:47)
13. The Dessicated Number (02:27)
14. Lohengrin [Richard Wagner] / Carmen [George Bizet] / 1812 Overture [Piotr Tchaikovsky] (01:56)
15. Bamboozled by Love (05:37)

  • Tracks 1-3 & 5 live in Olso 27-Apr-1988.
  • Track 4 may be live in Stuttgart 24-May-1988 (back cover scan all but illegible here).
  • Tracks 6-7 & 15 live in Mannheim 25-May-1988.
  • Track 8 unknown live 1988 (back cover scan illegible here).
  • Tracks 9 & 10-11 live in "Frankfurt 13-Apr-1988" - the real April 13 show was in Offenbach.
  • Tracks 12-13 live in Bremen 24-Apr-1988. Track 13, listed as "The Dessicated Theme" (Zappa called it "Dessicated" or "The Dessicated Number") was an instrumental piece the 1988 band played. Some of this piece (another recording) can be heard in "When Yuppies Go to Hell" on Make a Jazz Noise Here.
  • Track 14 live in Munich 09-May-1988.

Disc 6

1. Heavy Duty Judy (Including Intro) [edit] (04:37) [one of the sources of the Broadway the Hard Way version]
2. Chunga's Revenge (Featuring Dweezil Zappa) (08:24)
3. King Kong (11:22)
4. Marque-Son's Chicken (06:56)
5. Pick Me, I'm Clean (05:47)
6. Easy Meat (08:08)
7. Norewgian Jim ["Norwegian Wood" by Lennon/McCartney] (02:24)
8. Lousiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by Lennon/McCartney] (03:31)
9. Texas Motel ["Strawberry Fields Forever" by Lennon/McCartney] (03:14)
10. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant] (09:11)
11. Strictly Genteel (07:37)

  • Track 1 is edited together from Wurzburg 22-Apr-1988 (one of the sources of the Broadway the Hard Way version) and London 19-Apr-1988.
  • Track 2 live in London 19-Apr-1988.
  • Tracks 3 & 6 live in Grenoble 19-May-1988.
  • Track 5 live in Stuttgart 24-May-1988.
  • Track 4 live in Fürth 26-May-1988.
  • Track 7-11 live in Oslo 27-Apr-1988. Track 9 is a medley of Beatles songs with the words changed to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (10-LP box / 6-CD box (?) / 10-CD box)

  • Various live
  • Various studio

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

Length: ~400-450 min?
LP box label: ZX 3651-3660
CD box label: RXZ Records 301-310

Musicians: Various

This is a 10-LP box, with a 36-page (counting the cover) booklet called Ten Years on the Road with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (which may also have been sold separately?) consisting of reproductions of various newspaper, magazine and other articles. It has been re-issued several times on coloured vinyl and packaged with an unknown EP and some crap: a button and a sticker. All records were also sold separately, each in a 100-copy edition.

The front cover has six pictures of various Mothers line-ups from 1966-1973; the back has liner notes. Inside the box, the records are in plain white wrappers. They all have different label colours; the first two records are supposed to be dark blue and sky blue, respectively, but on some copies they are the same colour. On those copies, all other records also have "The History & Collected Improvisations" and "1962-1976" printed on the labels, along with side numbers - on other copies, they just have colour, no text.

This box may have been re-released on six CDs. There is a 6-CD box by the same name, but it is not known whether or not it contains the same stuff. But there were only 60 such sets printed, so you're not likely to come across one anyway (unless someone copied it and printed 6000, of course). In February 1999, a 10-CD box was reported: RXZ Records 301-310, lavishly packaged with "booklet and 5 photo inserts".

Instead of listing the tracks, I list the records:

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)

They have all been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries. Someone has also made the triple LP 40th Birthday - Previously Unreleased as a sampler of this big box.

The title, of course, is that of a many-LP box Zappa planned in the early '70s. It never came out - even though the You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series later formed a similar retrospective - and this, needless to say, is a fake. Curiosuly, this box doesn't use any of the titles Zappa planned for the albums in his own box; the Twenty Years of Frank Zappa bootleg does.

Mystery Box (10 LP)

  • Various live
  • Various studio

Musicians: Various

Boxed set of Pigs & Repugnant, Son of Pigs & Repugnant, Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension, Zut Alors, The Rondo Hatton Band, A Token of His Extreme, Chalk Pie, Crush All Boxes, Return of the Son of Serious Music and Randomonium

Label: Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Records NTB 8600

A deluxe-type 10-LP retrospective box. Here are the 10 records:

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

All the records have been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries.

In the book BOOTLEG by Clinton Heylin, the bootlegger behind this box is identified as "Richard", and "Next to the Beatles, his great love was the cantankerous Frank Zappa". "Richard in his time was to be responsible for one ten-album set, one four-album set and ten single albums [of Zappa], including the legendary 'Tis the Season to be Jelly". (The ten-album set, of course, is this Mystery Box, but the other albums are never identified.) He is quoted (on page 195) as saying:

I'm a big Zappa fan. In fact my Mystery Box got Zappa as upset as Columbia got over Ten of Swords [a Bob Dylan bootleg]. Zappa in America has a hotline for his fans to call and he went so far as to have the woman who does the hotline ask for help in tracking down the perpetrators of this heinous boxed-set, and Zappa called the FBI and the FBI didn't want to be bothered ... I guess the problem was that Zappa was doing his You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, his ongoing series that has just ended, and Mystery Box was a giant You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore. A lot of reviews were saying that Mystery Box was better because it was chronological and didn't jump all over the place and didn't have all these stupid edits in it. That kind of thing can annoy you if you're an artist putting out your own thing ... Zappa's reasoning behind that was that he was losing tons of money and in fact he wasn't losing any money. Most people who do Zappa bootlegs do so because they like Zappa. They don't do it for the money. I can imagine people making money off a lot of other bootlegs but not Zappa.

20 Years of Frank Zappa (12 LP-Box / 12 CD-Box)

  • this box contained the GRAY VINYL versionVarious live
  • Various studio
  • Various radio & TV
  • Interview

Boxed set of The Basic Primer: Z-A, The Soundtracks, The Cucamonga Era, Gas Mask, Hotel Dixie, The Grand Wazoo Orchestra, Show & Tell, The Night of the Iron Sausage, Warts & All I, Warts & All II, Soup & Old Clothes and Advanced Study: World Pop Domination

Length: ~514 min
Sound quality: Various
LP box label: Mud Shark MZ4801-4812
CD box label: RXZ Records 313A-324A

Musicians: Various

This is another one of those deluxe retrospective boxes: a 12-album set with a 16-page booklet. The classic recycled sentence is "1000 pressed; 565 seized in one raid; other legal problems netted a further 100 copies". Another recycled sentence, that I've never been able to quite figure out, is "25 sets with 11.5"x11.5" B&W covers front and back". It was released in April 1981. The records were in black & white paper covers. Since then, it has been re-issued twice on vinyl. Some copies have been pressed on grey vinyl, and there is a non-boxed issue known as the "silver set". In the 90s, an Italian (what else?) CD re-issue showed up, on 12 CDs, with two booklets and bonus tracks on The Cucamonga Era.

These are the 12 records:

1. The Basic Primer: Z-A
2. The Soundtracks
3. The Cucamonga Era (CD has bonus tracks)
4. Gas Mask
5. Hotel Dixie
6. The Grand Wazoo Orchestra
7. Show & Tell
8. The Night of the Iron Sausage
9. Warts & All I
10. Warts & All II
11. Soup & Old Clothes
12. Advanced Study: World Pop Domination

All the records have been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries. Their locations and dates are taken from available sources but could very well be quite wrong.

It should be noted that the titles "The Cucamonga Era", "Show & Tell", "Soup & Old Clothes" and "Hotel Dixie" (in that order) are real Zappa titles in that he planned to use them in his own 12-record set The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. Those plans were never realized, and the box should not be confused with the 10-LP boot box so named. "Soup & Old Clothes", of course, was later used for a solo in the Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar set. Warts & All was an album that never came out from around 1980 (and later the working title for the Lost Episodes). "Night of the Iron Sausage" was a track title on the unreleased double-album version of Zoot Allures, and possibly a working title for the whole album.

Apocrypha (Thirty Years of Frank Zappa) (4-CD box)
Whipping Post (2 CD)

Discs 2-3 also issued as the double CD Whipping Post, reportedly with better sound quality there.

  • Various live
  • Various studio

Length: 62:10+61:31+71:56+66:35 = 4:22:12
Sound quality: Various, often from vinyl
Label: Great Dane Records GDR9405/ABCD (Italy 1994)
Bar code: 8 013013 940524

Patrick Neve on Apocrypha & The Lost Episodes
OK, this is going from memory. The duplicated tracks are from the same sources, but in some cases there are significant differences. "Lost in a Whirlpool" is either up or down about a half step, I think the Lost Episodes version may have sped it up for clarity. On Apocrypha, "Do It in C" is "The Blackouts" plus "Ronnie Sings". I believe the Lost Episodes version, too, is sped up. "Fountain of Love" is an ever-so-slightly longer fadeout on Apocrypha, but the sound is so fantastically better on Lost Episodes it's not even funny. Same with "Inca Roads". The real gem is the Apocrypha version of "RDNZL", which although muddy by comparison does include a very sweet little FZ guitar solo which was inexplicably stripped from The Lost Episodes.
 

Musicians: Various

This is a very popular bootleg box with luxurious packaging: a book-style box with a leather appearance (although not at all made of leather). The front has a photo of Zappa's moustache, and says "APOCRYPHA", "FZ" and "Thirty Years Of Frank Zappa". The back cover shows Zappa walking down the street with his UHER portable tape recorder, wearing a bulbous derby (from the same session as the inside photo in the Strictly Commercial package). A paper insert is glued under the disc trays to discs 3 and 4, which extends out to boast the track listing. The package contains a large (40-page) colour booklet with dozens of pictures and a very long and confusing 1988 interview. Liner notes appear on the far right on every right-hand page - in the style of the Stage series, "complete with misinformation" (the band line-up details are especially abominable: they are not complete, and they falsely state that the Bob Harris from 1971 and the Bob Harris from 1980 were the same person). The front of the booklet has a mid-'70s Zappa picking his nose with his middle finger; the back has an old Zappa pulling down one of his eyelids, looking rather sickly. Some copies have had errata & corrigenda inserts.

The discs are an attractive black, and bear 1) the moustache photo from the front cover, 2) the legend "Apocrypha" as it appears on the front cover, 3) the disc number in silver with the beige letters FZ slapped on top, and 4) the legend "The Live Experience" which appears around the rim of all Great Dane releases.

Disc 1

1. Lost in a Whirlpool (02:45) [The Lost Episodes version]
2. Do it in C (01:45) ["The Black-Outs" plus "Ronnie Sings?" - The Lost Episodes versions]
3. Any Way the Wind Blows (02:28) [The Lost Episodes version]
4. Fountain of Love (02:18) [Collins/Zappa] [The Lost Episodes version]
5. Deseri (01:51) [Collins/Buff]
6. The Story of Electricity (02:22) [Power Trio from Saints & Sinners / Bossa Nova Pervertamento] [Mystery Disc version]
7. Metal Man Has Won His Wings (02:59) [Mystery Disc version]
8. I Was a Teenage Maltshop / Status Back Baby / Ned the Mumbler / Ned Has a Brainstorm (06:25)
9. Whiskey Gone Behind the Sun (01:19) ["Louisiana Blues" by McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield] [Mystery Disc version]
10. [Party Scene from] MONDO HOLLYWOOD (01:54) [Mystery Disc version]
11. Sandwich Song (01:43)
12. How Could I Be Such a Fool? (01:58) [longer edit of the Mystery Disc version]
13. Agency Man (05:43) [Mystery Disc version]
14. Randomonium (01:30)
15. My Head (00:45) [mislisted as outtake dialogue from Lumpy Gravy]
16. In Memoriam: Hieronymus Bosch (05:02)
17. In the Sky (02:00) ["Oh, in the Sky"]
18. Remington Electric Razor (00:57)
19. Directly from My Heart to You (05:46) [Penniman]
20. Twinkle Tits (10:09)

A lot of these tracks (1-4, 6-7, 10, 12-13 and 15) have been officially released on The Lost Episodes, Stage #5 and Mystery Disc. The sound quality is always a lot better on the official releases, but here are some other differences:

  • Tracks 1-2 are slightly slower/lower here - about one half step down.
  • Track 4 has a slightly longer fade-out here, "but the sound is so fantastically better on The Lost Episodes that it's not even funny".
  • Track 12 is a different, shorter edit on Mystery Disc:

BIFFY: I always miss hearing the part from the radio broadcast where Zappa pops in to say "Missed the beat that time, didn't he?"
SPLAT: Well, there will always be Apocrypha. :) About the first 15 times I heard that, it really annoyed me; like, "C'mon Frank, could you please not cut up this nice tune, just once?" It's funny, though. It'll be good to have both versions.

As for the other tracks:

  • Track 5 is a real oldie from 1962 (officially released on the Grandmothers' album Looking Up Granny's Dress)
  • Tracks 8-12 taken from I Was a Teenage Maltshop and Confidential
  • Parts of track 8 released on the Mystery Disc (called "I Was a Teenage Maltshop" and "The Birth of Captain Beefheart")
  • Track 9 has been officially released (in a shorter edit) on the Mystery Disc (as "Original Mothers at the Broadside (Pomona)"); the song they're playing is "Louisiana Blues" by McKinley Morganfield, known as Muddy Waters
  • A small fragment of track 11 has been officially released on the Mystery Disc, as "Original Mothers Rehearsal"
  • Track 14 is an alternate take of "Dwarf Nebula" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh, recorded at Apostolic Studios, New York
  • Track 16 is a live improvisation from a New York TV show called The Bitter End in 1967 (Hieronymus Bosch was a 15th/16th-century painter from the Netherlands, who painted monstrous images)
  • Track 17, a Ruben-esque tune sung by Roy Estrada, is a BBC TV recording from 1968
  • Track 18 appears to be a Remington electric razor commerical, and is featured on the Remington Electric Razor bootleg
  • Tracks 19-20 are live at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 07-Mar-1970, taken from the bootleg Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympic

Disc 2

1. Magic Fingers (02:47)
2. Studebaker Hoch (05:58) [excerpt from "Billy the Mountain"]
3. Interview (02:59) ["What's the Name of Your Group?"]
4. RDNZL (04:18) [longer edit of the Lost Episodes version]
5. Inca Roads (03:46) [Lost Episodes version]
6. T'Mershi Duween (02:20)
7. Stink-Foot (03:59)
8. Down in de Dew (02:54) [Läther version]
9. The Purple Lagoon / Approximate (03:59)
10. Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast / Rollo (04:03)
11. Black Napkins (04:34)
12. [A Solo from] Heidelberg (03:52)
13. The Squirm (06:03) [to be released on Trance-Fusion in the future, as "Bowling on Charen"]
14. Dong Work for Yuda (02:57)
15. Moe's Vacation / The Black Page #2 (07:07)

On the paper insert, "Down in the Dew" is listed as "Duck Duck Goose", but in the liner notes, "Down in the Dew" and "Duck Duck Goose" are BOTH listed, pushing the track numbers ahead a number. Only "Down in the Dew" appears, however. Track 8 has been officially released on Läther. As for the other tracks:

  • Track 1 is from 1970, maybe from Butte, Montana - it can also be found on Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension.
  • Track 2 is a 1971 excerpt from "Billy the Mountain", the same as on Randomonium and Cuccurrullo Brullo Brillo). It's a live recording, but there has been speculation that there are some overdubs on it.
  • Track 3 is taken from the Remington Electric Razor bootleg; it's an out-take from 200 Motels, really called "What's the Name of Your Group?". It includes the intro to "German Lunch" on Stage #5, which followed immediately after it on the original bootleg, Remington Electric Razor.
  • Tracks 4 and 5 have been officially released on The Lost Episodes, but in shorter edits: "RDNZL" is 04:11 here (22 seconds longer than on The Lost Episodes), and the fade-out in "Inca Roads" is a couple of seconds longer, too, "but the sound is so fantastically better on The Lost Episodes that it's not even funny". "RDNZL", though, includes a bit of guitar soloing by Zappa here, which may be interesting to hear.
  • Track 6 live at the War Memorial Gym, Vancouver, 01-Oct-1975.
  • Track 7 is a KCET-TV recording from 6/7-Aug-1974 (broadcast in December), which first appeared on the bootleg A Token of His Extreme (better sound here).
  • Tracks 9-10 from the Saturday Night Live TV show: track 9 from 11-Dec-1976 (with comedian John Belushi) and track 10 from 21-Oct-1978.
  • Track 11 is a version with the Mike Douglas band (from a 1976 TV show) backing Frank Zappa.
  • Track 12 has been officially released on The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa, as "A Solo from Heidelberg" (Eppelheim 24-Feb-1978); it's from the song "Yo' Mama".
  • Track 13 taken from the Zurkon Music bootleg (Halloween 1977, The Palladium, New York): it will be officially released on the guitar-solo album Trance-Fusion some time in the future, as "Bowling on Charen"
  • Tracks 14 and 15 taken from the Remington Electric Razor bootleg. Track 14 (source unknown, February 1977) is surrounded by additional dialogue on Remington Electric Razor, which has been edited out here. The first 4:08 of track 15 is "Moe's Vacation" (an early version of "Moe & Herb's Vacation" in a basic arrangement), the rest is "The Black Page #2". It is from Poughkeepsie 21-Sep-1978.

Disc 3

1. Suicide Chump (09:14)
2. Nite Owl (02:14) [Tony Allen]
3. Heavy Duty Judy (04:41) [with vocals]
4. Pick Me, I'm Clean (03:31)
5. Teenage Wind (03:06)
6. Harder Than Your Husband (02:33)
7. Bamboozled by Love (03:06)
8. Falling in Love is a Stupid Habit (01:46)
9. This is My Story (01:21) [Forrest/Levy]
10. Whipping Post (06:27) [Allman]
11. Clownz on Velvet (05:54)
12. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips (02:08) [Frank/Ahmet Zappa]
13. In France (03:55)
14. Broken Hearts are for Assholes (05:54)
15. Texas Medley (09:05) [Lennon/McCartney/Zappa]: Norweigian Jim ["Norweigian Wood"] / Louisiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"] / Texas Motel ["Strawberry Fields Forever"]
16. I Am the Walrus (03:43) [Lennon/McCartney]
17. America the Beautiful (03:16) [traditional]

  • Track 1 is live at Stonybrook, New York, 15-Oct-1978.
  • Track 2 is taken from the bootleg Remington Electric Razor. It's from the late show in Santa Monica on 11-Dec-1980 - a soundboard recording.
  • Track 3 is a soundboard recording from the second show in Pittsburgh 13-Nov-1980 (from Good Grief!). It has "vocals", in the sense that Ike and Ray sing "Heavy Duty Judy" in the very beginning over the riff.
  • Tracks 4-8 are taken from the Crush All Boxes version in the Mystery Box.
  • Tracks 9-11 are from The Ritz in New York, 17-Nov-1981, as on the bootleg Assault on New York - The Toxic Shock Trilogy (Part III: Clownz on Velvet). Al DiMeola guests on track 11. "This Is My Story" was originally recorded by Gene & Eunice, with Johnny's Combo (Johnny was Johnny Otis, inspiration for Zappa's moustache) on the Alladin label (3282), 17-Feb-1955, and peaked at #8 on the R&B chart 21-May-1955.
  • Track 12 is a 1981 studio version (taken from the Demos bootleg).
  • Track 13 is from Hollywood 22-Jul-1984, with George Duke and Jonny "Guitar" Watson guesting. It's the same performance as on the bootleg All You Need is Glove, but from a different source tape. Whereas the All You Need is Glove version is a soundboard A+, this sounds miserable, and also has a minute or so of "banter" before the song starts.
  • Track 14 is live in Santa Monica, 11-Dec-1981 (early show). Someone throws food on stage; Zappa stops the song and makes him eat it.
  • Tracks 15-16 are live in Springfield 13-Mar-1988, with the medley lyrics changed to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
  • Track 17 is live in Burlington 12-Mar-1988.

Disc 4

1. The World's Greatest Sinner (11:58)
2. Sink Trap [listed as "Gypsy Airs"] (01:51)
3. Some Ballet Music (06:33)
4. The Jelly (02:13) [last part of the CD version of "Didja Get Any Onya?" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh, plus a couple of extra seconds]
5. Revenge of the Knick-Knack People (06:25) [extended version]
6. Spontaneous Minimalist Composition (02:01)
7. Sinister Footwear (26:08)
8. The Black Page #1 (02:05)
9. While You Were Art #1 (07:19)

  • Track 1 is an excerpt from the film THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER that Zappa scored in 1961. The film music was played by the Pomona Valley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fred E. Graff, and the parts of Satan (the narrator) and Clarence "God" Hilliard were played by Paul Frees and Timothy A. Carey, respectively. It's taken from the Serious Music bootleg.
  • Track 2 is taken from the Zut Alors bootleg. 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. However, this recording is probably from the 1975 concert at the UCLA Royce Hall (the same concert as on Orchestral Favorites) instead.
  • Track 3 taken from the bootleg The Ark (Boston, 08-Jul-1969).
  • Track 4 is the last part of the CD version of "Didja Get Any Onya?" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh - a spring 1969 recording, exact date and location unknown. It appears on We Are the Mothers & This Is What We Sound Like!, which is both an unreleased album and a bootleg). It has a few seconds at the end that are not on the Weasels CD. 
  • Track 5 has been officially released (in a shorter edit) on Läther, as a bonus track. This longer version is taken from the Serious Music bootleg.
  • Tracks 6 and 7 were recorded at the "A Zappa Affair" concert at the Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley, 16-Jun-1984, played by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano. This is the only time "Sinister Footwear" has been performed in its entirety, and Zappa was most unhappy with the results. The ballet consisted of giant puppets with dancers inside them. It's taken from the bootleg Serious Music, and the Serious Music entry has a list of the titles of the 21 parts of the piece.
  • Track 8 is a 1986 synclavier version taken from something like an 8" flexi disc issued with Keyboard Magazine.
  • Track 9 is a 1985 synclavier version which has somehow found its way here.

Note that although much of Apocrypha has been officially released on The Lost Episodes and the Mystery Disc, the versions on Apocrypha are often slightly longer.

Music is the Best - 26 Years of Conceptual Continuity (aka "His Story")

An excellent fan-produced set, chronicling a whole mess o' not-available-on CD miscellany. It was eventually (and inevitably) copied by a commercial bootlegger. Sources report that "this will soon be known as the definitive FZ collection." It functions as an excellent career overview. Tracklisting is as follows:

CD1 (Total time: 78:38)

1) RAY COLLINS - Deseri (FZ on drums)
2) NED & NELDA - Hey Nelda (FZ co-songwriter, played most of the
instruments)
3) NED & NELDA - Surf Along (FZ co-songwriter, played most of the
instruments)
4) THE HOLLYWOOD PERSUADERS - Grunion Run (FZ songwriter, FZ on
guitars, bass & drums)
5) THE ROTATIONS - Heavies (FZ producer)
6) BURT WARD - Boy Wonder I Love You (FZ arranger, conductor,
songwriter)
7) BURT WARD - Orange Colored Sky (FZ arranger, conductor)
8) Hungry Freaks Daddy (Mothermania version)
9) Who are the Brain Police? (Mothermania version)
10) How Could I Be Such a Fool? (45 version)
11) You Didn't Try To Call Me (Old Masters version)
12) You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (Mothermania version)
13) Trouble Every Day (UK single version)
14) It Can't Happen Here (Mothermania version)
15) Call Any Vegetable (Mothermania version)
16) Why Don'tcha Do Me Right? (Trick or Treat LP version)
17) Remington Electric Razor radio spot
18) Who Needs the Peace Corps? (demo)
19) Mom and Dad (demo)
20) Harry, You're a Beast (demo)
21) What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (demo)
22) The Idiot Bastard Son (Mothermania version)
23) Mother People (Mothermania version)
24) Lonely Little Girl (new version)
25) Lumpy Gravy Excerpt (Transparency edit)
26) Sink Trap (acetate)
27) Gypsy Airs (acetate)
28) Jelly Roll Gumdrop (45 version)
29) Stuff Up the Cracks (Old Masters version)


CD2 (Total time: 78:50)

1) My Guitar (Unedited single version)
2) Uncle Meat Radio Spot - Medley
3) Dog Breath (single version)
4) Mr. Green Genes (Old Masters version)
5) Hot Rats Radio Spot - Peaches en Regalia
6) Peaches en Regalia (Old Masters)
7) Willie the Pimp (Old Masters)
8) Son of Mr. Green Genes (Old Masters version)
9) Hot Rats Radio Spot - Little Umbrellas
10) Little Umbrellas (Old Masters version)
11) The Gumbo Variations (Old Masters version)
12) It Must Be a Camel (Old Masters version)
13) Hot Rats Radio Spot - The Gumbo Variations
14) Bognor Regis (outtake)
15) Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich (demo)
16) Do It Now Radio Spot - Suzie Speedfreak
17) Weasels Ripped My Flesh Radio Spot #3
18) Didja Get Any Onya? (Old Masters version)
19) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask (Old
Masters version)
20) Weasels Ripped My Flesh Radio Spot #4
21) My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (Old Masters version)


CD3 (Total time: 77:56)

1) Willie The Pimp, Pt 1 (live, import version, ends abruptly)
2) Tears Began to Fall (single version)
3) Junior Mintz Boogie
4) Willie the Pimp, Pt 2 (Old Masters version)
5) Studebaker Hoch / Don't Fuck Around (live, unedited, 8/7/71)
6) Just Another Unreleased Solo (live, 8/7/71)
7) Who Are The Brain Police (live, 11/1/71)
8) 1972 Voter Registration Spot
9) I'm the Slime (single version)
10) Apostrophe TV Commercial (audio track)
11) Uncle Remus (instrumental version)
12) Roxy DVD trailer (audio track)
13) Cheepnis (Discreet vinyl version)
14) Dog Meat (KCET remaster)
15) Montana (KCET remaster)
16) Duke Solo (KCET remaster)
17) Approximate (KCET remaster)
18) Cosmik Debris (KCET remaster)


CD4 (Total Time: 78:02)

1) Stinkfoot (KCET remaster)
2) Pygmy Twylyte (KCET remaster)
3) Inca Roads (KCET remaster)
4) Oh No (KCET remaster)
5) Son of Orange County (KCET remaster)
6) More Trouble Every Day (KCET remaster)
7) A Token of My Extreme Outro (KCET remaster)
8) Orange Claw Hammer (live 11/1/75)
9) 200Years Old (acetate)
10) Black Napkins (live 2/3/76, Osaka, Japan)
11) Ship Ahoy (live 2/3/76, Osaka, Japan)
12) Find Her Finer (Old Masters version)
13) Disco Boy (WB LP version)


CD5 (Total Time: 77:41)

1) Ms. Pinky (WB LP version)
2) Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me (Discreet LP version)
3) The Illinois Enema Bandit (edited Discreet LP version)
4) Filthy Habits (Discreet LP version)
5) Flambe (Discreet LP version)
6) Spider of Destiny (Discreet LP version)
7) Peaches en Regalia (live, Saturday Night Live, 12/11/76)
8) Baby Snakes Trailer (audio track - Baby Snakes DVD)
9) Broken Hearts are for Assholes (live, Baby Snakes DVD)
10) Camarillo Brillo (live, Baby Snakes DVD)
11) Muffin Man (live, Baby Snakes DVD)
12) San Ber'Dino (live, Baby Snakes DVD)
13) Yo Mama (live, 2/15/78)
14) Baby Snakes (live, 2/25/78)
15) Watermelon in Easter Hay (live, 2/25/78)


CD6 (Total Time: 78:24)

1) Packard Goose (rehearsal, 8/16/78)
2) I Have Been in You (live, 9/21/78)
3) Flakes (live, 9/21/78)
4) Dancin' Fool (live, Saturday Night Live, 10/21/78)
5) Ancient Armaments (live, 10/31/78, single version)
6) Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (YCDTOSA vol. 1, live, 2/18/79)
7) Nanook Rubs It (YCDTOSA vol. 1, live edit, 2/18/79)
8) St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast (YCDTOSA vol. 1, live, 2/18/79)
9) Father O'Blivion (YCDTOSA vol. 1, live, 2/18/79)
10) Rollo (YCDTOSA vol. 1, live, 2/18/79)
11) Dead Girls of London (original version with Van Morrison on
vocals)
12) I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (single version)
13) Fine Girl (Crush All Boxes version)
14) Easy Meat (Crush All Boxes version)
15) For the Young Sophisticate (LP version)
16) Pick Me I'm Clean (LP version)
17) Dumb All Over (LP version)


CD7 (Total Time: 79:21)

1) Pop Medley (rehearsal excerpt, 2/9/80)
2) Valley Girl (12" version)
3) Cocaine Decisions (LP version)
4) The Dangerous Kitchen (LP version)
5) Stick Together (LP version)
6) Jazz Discharge Party Hats (LP version)
7) Falling in Love is a Stupid Habit (demo for Jimmy Carl Black)
8) Strictly Genteel (live, 10/31/81)
9) What's New in Baltimore (unedited version)
10) We're Turning Again (live, 12/11/81)
11) Won Ton On
12) He's So Gay (12" version)
13) Interview
14) In France (live 7/22/84, with George Duke and Johnny `Guitar'
Watson)
15) Sharleena (Guitar Player flexi-disc, live 12/23/84, with Dweezil)
16) Lumpy Gravy Excerpt (OM1 sampler)
17) The Black Page #1 (Keyboard Magazine flexi-disc)
18) While You Were Art I (Mystery Box)


CD8 (Total Time: 79:36)

1) Excerpt from Revised Music for Guitar & Low Budget Symphony
Orchestra (Guitar World cassette)
2) Things That Look Like Meat (Guitar World cassette)
3) A Solo from Heidelberg (Guitar World cassette)
4) A Solo from Cologne (Guitar World cassette)
5) Video From Hell intro
6) Confinement Loaf (LP only intro to "Dickie's Such an Asshole")
7) Murder by Numbers (unedited live version, 3/3/88, with Sting)
8) America the Beautiful (live 3/9/88)
9) Packard Goose Medley (live 3/25/88, with the Long Island Ballet
Company)
10) Texas Motel Medley (live, 3/25/88)
11) Whipping Post (live 3/25/88, with Dweezil)
12) Bobby Brown (live 4/22/88 - `Ring of Fire' version)
13) Joe's Garage (live 4/22/88 - `Ring of Fire' version)
14) Why Does it Hurt When I Pee? (live 4/22/88 - `Ring of Fire'
version)
15) Bolero (CD single version)
16) I am the Walrus (live 5/25/88)
17) The Untouchables (LP version)

Mother Universe

Re-issue of Demos, Poot Face Booogie, A Token of His Extreme, Rustic Protrusion, Remington Electric Razor and Pygmy Pony.

Label: Interscope Records CD-31145-4 (2002)

The funny thing is the track list in the booklet is copied and pasted straight from this web site. Even when I've listed stuff as "not listed", the bootleggers have copied the information and listed their own track as "not listed". The source bootlegs are identified in their track list, with the exception of Remington Electric Razor. From Hasi:

I just picked up a couple of boots at a record fair in Vienna, and among them was Mother Universe, a new 4-CD set ... while reading the liner notes, I had some sort of deja vu: For each and every disc the bootlegger(s) did a copy-and-paste-job, using the Zappa Patio as source ... the foolish young consumer is confronted with lines like this:

"From Biffy the Elephant Shrew: I recall an interview ..."
"Some eyewitness accounts: The first track ..."
"From an anonymous source: As for '1 of 9 Mothers' ..."

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