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| alt.fan.frank-zappa FAQ Bootlegs Information |
| Part 1 of 4 |
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| Original version by Rob Sweet (sw...@skat.usc.edu) |
| Maintained by Johan Wikberg (johan_...@ssco.se) |
| Version 4.0, April, 17, 1997 |
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This document is a very incomplete listing of bootleg recordings of Frank
Zappa on vinyl and CD, along with a very basic question-and-answer section
about bootlegs. If you want to read more about bootlegs, I fully recommend
the book BOOTLEG by Clinton Heylin (ISBN 0-312-14289-7).

Q: Are bootlegs illegal?
A: Yes, most of them are. Some are legal because they were made in
contries with very fuzzy or loopholey legislation (Italy and Japan spring
to mind). It's usually illegal to export these to other countries.

Q: Legal or not - aren't they immoral?
A: Frank Zappa hated these bootlegs very much. So do many Zappa fans.
On the other hands, some people love them - even at their most illegal.
Who am I to judge?

Q: Do bootlegs put record companies / artists out of business?
A: According to record company propaganda, yes. But in reality, no. The
kind of bootlegs that offer unreleased material for hard-core fans are A)
just complements to the official collection anyway, and B) simply not sold
in large enough quantities. Of course, in certain countries the market is
flooded by counterfeit copies of pop albums passed off as the real thing.
A whole different deal and a real threat.

Q: What are Beat the Boots?
A: They are "Official Zappa bootlegs". Zappa decided to licence a few
bootleg recordings to Rhino Records for legitimate release, because
someone was making money off of these albums and he didn't get any. (He
figured these guys wouldn't exactly sue him for copying their "product".)
They have the original (bad) bootleg sound and ugly covers.

Q: What about these tapes, then?
A: Many Zappa fans trade tapes instead of buying bootlegs. People have
taped shows from the audience, and sometimes sound board tapes have leaked
out, and copies of these tapes circulate among fans. Cheaper and less
illegal than buying bootlegs - and even though Zappa tried to stop tapers
sometimes, he didn't mind that people swapped the tapes for free. A list
of live tapes in chronological order is maintained by my fellow Swede Jon
Naurin <nau...@mbox300.swipnet.se> and available on St. Alphonzo's Pancake
Homepage at <http://www.wins.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/faq/text/fzshows.txt>.
If you want to get into tape-trading, there is also a tape traders'
homepage at <http://www.frontiernet.net/~prem/fztrade.htm>.

Q: Why are there so many copies of bootlegs?
A: When a product is illegal in the first place, no one can take legal
action if you copy it. In the vinyl age, this was very common; in the CD
age, it's even more common.

Q: Are you a bootlegger yourself, Johan?
A: No, I am not.

If you would like to contribute to this document, please send e-mail to me
at the address listed at the top. I will be delighted. Include AS MUCH AS
YOU CAN of the following data:

- Title
- Medium (CD, vinyl, type of vinyl &c)
- Date of performance
- Length of recording
- Track list
- Track lengths
- Musicians
- Sound quality (very subjective; included mostly for fun)
- Label and number (most of the time completely pointless)
- Gory details (artwork, liner notes &c &c)
- Any folk-loric anecdotes associated with performance or recording

(Many people have contributed, and I thank them all. There will, however,
be no credit given to individual contributers, with the exception of my
source "U", who has done a TREMENDOUS job compiling and sending me info.)

I did not creat this FAQ. Other people have worked on it and I'm the one
working on it now. Some of the sources at my disposal can not possibly
have been created by humans. I have done my best to extract information
from all sources, and to check and double-check, but half of it may be
wrong anyway. Corrections are only welcome. (Rule of thumb: If I sound
like there MIGHT be an error, then I KNOW there is; if I don't, I THINK
there is.)

The live boots are in chronological order, followed by live compilations,
orchestral bootlegs, studio oddity boots, huge boxes, counterfeit issues
of official products, La:ther and finally some bootleg 45s. The document
ends with a list of bootlegs I need more information on. If you're looking
for a particular boot, do a text search NOT for the full title (which you
and I may have differently) but for a key word.

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This is the start of a new section: the Concert Bootlegs section. These
are bootlegs where most of the material is from one or two concerts, or
from the same tour. The bootlegs in the Live Compilations section have
material from more than two concerts and from different bands (widespread
use of "bonus" and "filler" tracks makes the line hard to draw).

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- TITLE: Pigs & Repugnance (LP)
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- Garrick Theater, New York, 20-Jun-1967 or 30-May-1967 (?)

Length: ~43 min
Label: Flashback, Flash 04.89.0101-33
Sound quality: B

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Billy Mundi, Ian
Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner and Motorhead Sherwood

1. Big Leg Emma (2:15)
2. King Kong [listed as "Pigs and Repugnant Variations"] (17:55)
3. America Drinks [listed as "America Drinks and Go Home"] (2:00)

4. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (3:37)
5. King Kong Variations (15:30)
6. Status Back Baby (0:48)

Front cover is a painted pigsty view scenery: blue sky, white clouds,
yellow fields and the sty itself. Below the title is a pink-and-black pig:
the black spots on the pig form a stylized Zappa face. The pig stands on
the word ZAPPA in red letters, erected in the mud of the pigsty.

Back cover has the track list, some gray and yellow decoration and the
following notes: "Words and music composed and performed by Frank Zappa.
All songs recorded live from the GARRICK THEATRE, New York, June 20th,
1967. We thank: Brigette Kowalczyk for colour drawing. Andreas Rodenbeck
of Repro Art for color scans. Tko Yan of Ducks Design for typesetting and
logo works. Andrea Krueger of Duck Design for mounting. Cover design by
Duck Design, Ch. Knak, D-4600 Dortmund. Produced and published through
Flashback, L2914 Luxembourg, Flash 04.89.0101-33". But the track list
looks very similar (yes, identical) to a 30-May-1967 tape; it is quite
possible that this is that show instead. Note also that the shows at the
Garrick theater were billed as "Pigs & Repugnant", not "Repugnance" as the
album is called. Conveniently, "Pigs & Repugnant" is a different boot.

The record is pressed on see-through vinyl. Some copies have some kind of
sunburst figure of different colors.

On this record we hear Zappa make early use of the wah-wah pedal (but he
did NOT invent it). Jimi Hendrix did not use such a pedal in Monterey 18-
Jun-1967 or earlier, but he did use it in late July that year, recording
in New York with Curtis Knight - after he had attended a Zappa show on
July 7th!

Do not see also: Pigs & Repugnant
Do not see also: Son of Pigs & Repugnant

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- TITLE: 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly (LP/CD)
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- TITLE: Oldies but Goldies
- TITLE: Concerthouse 1967 (CD)
- TITLE: Thigh (2 LP)
- TITLE: Petrouska
- TITLE: King Kong Ripped My Flesh
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- Konserthuset, Stockholm, 30-Sep-1967 (date has been debated)
- CD bonus tracks from various sources

Re-issued on CD by Living Legend Records with plentiful bonus tracks
(later as a "promo" (?) and on Exile Records)
Re-issued as Oldies but Goldies (with "Uncle Meat" medley from the Royal
Festival Hall, London, 1968 as bonus track) and also as Concerthouse 1967
(on Koine Records)
Re-issued with a Hollywood 1981 record as Thigh (2 LP) on Shogun Records
Re-issued as King Kong Ripped My Flesh on Barner Wros
Concert also issued as Petrouska (with material from the Long Beach Arena,
31-Dec-1974) as ZX 3658
Legally re-issued as part of the Beat the Boots set

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: FM B
Label: "Bizarre" FVZ 967 (LP) / Living Legend Records LLR-CD002 (CD)

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don
Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins and Billy Mundi

The original vinyl track list:

1. You Didn't Try to Call Me
2. Petroushka [Stravinsky]
3. Bristol Stomp [Appel/Mann]
4. Baby Love [Supremes]
5. ???
6. Big Leg Emma
7. No Matter What You Do (Tchaikovsky's 6th) [?]
8. Blue Suede Shoes [Perkins]
9. Hound Dog [Leiber/Stoller]
10. Gee [William Davis / Viola Watkins]

11. King Kong
12. It Can't Happen Here

Track listings may vary slightly between re-issues. Track 2 was removed
from the legal CD re-issue but not the LP box (something at work). Track
10 is an old Crows number from 1953. Track 7 is also known as "I Don't
Care How You Treat Me", and is probably written by Zappa (don't expect too
much of Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony here). Apparently, Zappa gave the intro
to the Animals when he produced their album (Animalism) or whatever he
did.

This show was supposed to be televised or broadcast on radio, so Zappa
tried to play even though he was very ill. He soon left the stage,
however, and the band carried on without him. A unique performance you
don't have to like. (The boot is taken from a 1977 broadcast in the series
"Rock fra.n underjorden" (Rock from the Underground)).

The color cover shows a caricature of Zappa with a huge right foot,
spraying a sweaty sock with deodorant, thinking "Warum tut es weh, wenn
ich pinkle?" (German for "Why does it hurt when I pee?") - drawn by the
French comic artist Jean Sole (with an accentuated e) for a comic version
of "Stink-Foot" he made in a French mag called Fluide Glacial (of comic
artists interpreting rock songs).

Back cover has a short story called 'Tis the Season to be Jelly by science
fiction writer Richard Matheson, beginning "Pa's nose fell off at
breakfast, it fell right into Ma's coffee and displaced it" (a line which
later became the title of another bootleg). Artwork for some re-issues
completely unkown. Some LP labels have the incorrect title "TIS THE SEASON
TO JELLY".

The CD re-issue track list:

1. You Didn't Try to Call Me
2. Petroushka [Stravinsky] / Bristol Stomp [Appel/Mann]
3. Baby Love [Supremes]
4. Big Leg Emma
5. No Matter What You Do (Tchaikovsky's 6th) [?]
6. Blue Suede Shoes [Perkins]
7. Hound Dog [Leiber/Stoller]
8. Gee Improvisation ["Gee", William Davis / Viola Watkins]
9. King Kong
10. It Can't Happen Here
11. Opus 5
12. We Are the Mothers & This Is What We Sound Like
13. Run Home Slow
14. The Jelly
15. Igor's Boogie

The Stockholm section is taken from Petrouska, not the original 'Tis the
Season to Be Jelly: track 1 has a longer spoken intro section, and tracks
9-10 are edited down ("King Kong" is the 5:20-14:10 section and "It Can't
Happen Here" the first 50 seconds). Tracks 11-15 are CD bonus tracks:
- Track 11 is like "Mount St. Mary's Concert Excerpt" on The Lost
Episodes, but starting 70-80 seconds before the official version and
ending some 45 seconds earlier (falsely listed as "live Dallas")
- Tracks 12 & 15 live in America 1967 (track 12 is probably and
introduction and a noisy jam)
- Track 13 possibly the "Run Home Slow Theme" on the The Lost Episodes
- Track 14 recorded in 1967, same as on Apocrypha

Cover depicts some cut-out paraphernalia, not unlike the Joe's Garage Acts
I-III booklet, on a yellow background.

See also: Petrouska
See also: Thigh
See also: Pa's nose fell off at breakfast, it fell right into Ma's coffee
and displaced it
See also: Apocrypha

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- TITLE: Petrouska
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- Konserthuset, Stockholm, 9/13/30-Sep-1967 (probably 30th)
- Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974

Cropped re-issue of 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly with 1974 material
Re-issued as record 8 (bright yellow label) of The History & Collected
Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Soundboard B (Stockholm)
Label: ZX 3658
Cross-reference: Zappalog #207

Side 1 live in Stockholm 9/13/30-Sep-1967
Side 2 live at the Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974

Stockholm musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk
Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins and Billy
Mundi

Long Beach 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

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. Track 1 has a longer spoken intro section.

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- TITLE: Incognito
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- Royal Albert Hall, London, 1969
- Fillmore West, Los Angeles, 1971

Length: ~40 min
Label: Safe Records Ltd

Some tracks live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1969
Some tracks live at the Fillmore West, Los Angeles, 1971

1. Call Any Vegetable [1971]
2. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus [1971]
3. Improvisations
4. Sexually Aroused Vocals
5. Big Leg Emma [1969]

Whether tracks 3-4 are from 1969 or 1971 is also unknown. Originally
pressed on black vinyl, repressed on blue & yellow.

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- TITLE: Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympic
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- TITLE: For Sharleena (LP/CD)
- TITLE: Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympic /
200 Motels Live with Zubin Mehta & the LA Philharmonic (2 LP)
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- Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 7-Mar-1970

Also issued on LP and CD as For Sharleena by Flashback Records (FL
03.90.0113 (LP))
Re-issued with 200 Motels Live with Zubin Mehta & the LA Philharmonic (2
LP, TMOQ 7506, black/coloured vinyl) - and that double was copied on POD
Records (with a different cover) and re-pressed on green and orange vinyl
from the TMOQ plates by K&S records as K&S 020 (150 copies)
May have been re-issued on a "Big Pig" label

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: Trademark of Quailty Records TMOQ 71059
Cross-reference: Zappalog #208

Musicians (Hot Rats line-up): Frank Zappa, Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar,
Don "Sugar Cane" Harris and Max Bennett

1. Sharleena (10:25)
2. Twinkle Tits (10:20)
3. Directly From My Heart to You [Penniman] (5:50)

4. Chunga's Revenge [sometimes listed as "The Clap"] (24:31)

Track 3 is a Little Richard number. "Twinkle Tits" is the world premiere
of a piece which shares some sections with "Little House I Used to Live
in", not the world premiere of that song (which had been played before).
However, Zappa announces it as the world premiere of "Little House I Used
to Live in". Track 4 is listed as "The Clap" only on the original, not on
the re-issues. First pressed on black vinyl and housed in a hand-stamped
white cover, but later issues sport several printed covers and red and
blue vinyl pressings.

See also: 200 Motels Live with Zubin Mehta & the LA Philharmonic

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- TITLE: 200 Motels Live with Zubin Mehta & the LA Philharmonic
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- TITLE: Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympic / 200 Motels Live with
Zubin Mehta & the LA Philharmonic (2 LP)
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- University of California, Los Angeles, 15-May-1970

Re-issued with Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympic (2 LP, TMOQ 7506) -
and that double was later re-pressed on green and orange vinyl from the
TMOQ plates by K&S records as K&S 020

Length: ~45 min
Label: Trademark of Quality Records TMOQ 71010

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray Collins ("only briefly audible":), Jeff
Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, Billy Mundi, Ian Underwood, Don Preston,
Motorhead Sherwood, Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

1. 200 Motels

Track 1 is a long incorporation of the following numbers:

- A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
- Holiday in Berlin
- The Duke of Prunes
- Who Needs the Peace Corps
- The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
- Oh No
- Bits and pieces of the "200 Motels" score

This is the recording where Zappa says "Alright, Zubin - hit it!". Despite
the record number, this was the first Trademark of Quaility release. Early
TMOQ runs were on red vinyl, later runs on black and in various covers.
The very first edition (black vinyl) had hand-drawn covers!

See also: Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympic

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- TITLE: Freaks & Motherfu*#@%!
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- Fillmore East OR West, 1970 (location & date fiercly debatable)

Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots set

Length: ~45 min
Label: The Swinging Pig TSP 017
Sound Quality: Bad
Cross-reference: Beat the Boots

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley
Dunbar, George Duke and Ian Underwood

1. Happy Together [Bonner/Gordon] (01:25)
2. Wino Man - with Dr. John Routine (07:44)
["Wonderful Wino", Zappa/Simmons]
3. Concentration Moon (01:18)
4. Paladin Routine (01:14)
5. Call Any Vegetable (08:35)

6. Little House I Used to Live in (04:34)
7. Mudshark Variations (01:24)
8. Would You Like a Snack? [not listed]
9. Holiday in Berlin (03:33)
10. Sleeping in a Jar (07:23)
11. Cruisin' for Burgers (02:51)

Black & white cover: an ugly, sketchy drawing of Zappa holding a guitar.
Small texts read things like "Like this one!". Track listings scribbled on
the back. Sound characterized by myself as unlistenable. Made in Europe.

This seems to be hodge-podged together from tapes of two shows that night
(that goes also for the Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta boot). Probably tracks 4-5
& 10 are from the early show, and tracks 1-3, 6, 9 & 11 from the late
show. I don't know about tracks 7-8. Track 9 contains 40 seconds of "Inca
Roads" and 24 seconds of "Easy Meat". Track 6 includes "penis something",
whatever that is.

The location and date of this show is up for grabs. Beat the Boots claims
it as Fillmore East 11-May-1970, which is wrong; the Flo & Eddie band had
not been formed then. According to fanzine T'Mershi Duween, the tape the
boots are struck from is recorded at the Fillmore West and sometimes
identified as 24-May-1970, sometimes as 6-Nov-1970. Some people identify
them as 14-Dec-1970, but according to Miles' book A Visual Documentary,
Zappa was in Europe in December 1970, which has given rise to the date 14-
Nov-1970. The Hotel Dixie boot claims to be from that date, but is it the
same recording? Ah, pick your favourite.

See also: Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta
See also: Hotel Dixie

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- TITLE: Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta (LP/CD)
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- TITLE: A Snail in My Nose (CD)
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- Fillmore East OR West, 1970 (location & date fiercly debatable)

Re-issued on CD (Lost Rose 8)
Re-issued on CD as A Snail in My Nose (Teddy Bear Records TB 49 (Italy))
Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots II set

Length: ~52 min
Sound quality: Soundboard A
Cross-reference: Beat the Boots II

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley
Dunbar, George Duke and Ian Underwood

1. Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You? [intro]
2. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
3. Sleeping in a Jar
4. Interlude [may not be listed]
5. Sharleena
6. The Sanzini Brothers
7. The Groupie Routine [early version]
8. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
9. What Kind of a Girl Do You Think We Are?
10. Bwana Dik
11. Latex Solar Beef
12. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
13. Little House I Used to Live in
14. Mudshark Variations [may not be listed]
15. Holiday in Berlin [with lyrics!]
16. Cruisin' for Burgers

The Italian title comes from a 1980s number in the Uncle Meat movie and on
the Uncle Meat CD re-issue; an Italian has translated it as "I got a big
bunch of dick". Not idiomatic English perhaps, but you get the idea. An
Italian re-issue is cowardly renamed A Snail in My Nose.

This seems to be hodge-podged together from tapes of two shows that night
(that goes also for the Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! boot). Tracks 1-5 are
probably from the early show and tracks 8-16 from the late show. Tracks 6-
7 could be from both. Track 4 includes "Raindrops Keep Falling on My
Head", track 13 includes "penis something", whatever that is, and track 15
includes 40 seconds of "Inca Roads" and 24 seconds of "Easy Meat".

The location and date of this show is up for grabs. Beat the Boots claims
it as Fillmore East 11-May-1970, which is wrong; the Flo & Eddie band had
not been formed then. According to fanzine T'Mershi Duween, the tape the
boots are struck from is recorded at the Fillmore West and sometimes
identified as 24-May-1970, sometimes as 6-Nov-1970. Some people identify
them as 14-Dec-1970, but according to Miles' book A Visual Documentary,
Zappa was in Europe in December 1970, which has given rise to the date 14-
Nov-1970. The Hotel Dixie boot claims to be from that date - but is it the
same recording? Ah, pick your favourite.

A Snail in My Nose has a different, imagainative track listing on the
cover, but until someone confirms (CONFIRMS) otherwise I believe it's a
copy of Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta. The Lost Rose CD cover has a sepia head-
and-upper-body photo of Zappa playing guitar with a blurred portrait of
him in the background.

See also: Freaks & Motherfu*#@%!
See also: Hotel Dixie

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- TITLE: Hotel Dixie
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- Fillmore East, 14-Nov-1970

Also issued as record 5 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

Sound quality: Soundboard

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley
Dunbar, George Duke and Ian Underwood

1. Sharleena
2. The Air
3. Dog Breath
4. You Didn't Try to Call Me
5. King Kong
6. Concentration Moon
7. Mom & Dad

8. The Duke
9. Would You Like a Snack?
10. Inca Roads [segment]
11. Cruisin' for Burgers

Real early version of Inca Roads, predates the first studio version on The
Lost Episodes from 1972, when only the fast 16th-note version of the main
theme had been composed.

This boot gravitates towards the Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! / Tengo 'na
Minchia Tanta cluster of debatable dates and locations. Refer to any of
those albums for a closer look.

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa
See also: Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta
See also: Freaks & Motherfu*#@%!

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- TITLE: Wino Man
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- TITLE: Schischgebab
- TITLE: Los Botas Graciosas Marchan Sobre Polonia
- TITLE: Thanks for the Mammaries
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- The Mothers live in Uddel, The Netherlands, 18-Jun-1970
- Someone called Hite (Bob "Bear" Hite of Canned Heat?)
- Steve Miller
- Bob Dylan

Wino Man possibly re-issued as Schischgebab
Los Botas Graciosas Marchan Sobre Polonia and Thanks for the Mammaries are
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RECORDS just mentioned by the wayside

Length: ~45 min
Label: BM1020 (VPRO?)

Side one is the Mothers live in Amsterdam 6-Dec-1970
Side two is a bunch of other artists

1. Wino Man ["Wonderful Wino", Zappa/Simmons]
2. Mother People
3. Call Any Vegetable
4. King Kong

5. Hite: Future Blues
6. The Steve Miller Band: Shake
7. High Flyin' Bird [Miller or Dylan? You decide!]
8. Bob Dylan: Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie
9. Bob Dylan: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Tracks 1-2 also found on At the Circus

This album looks like the way-corniest bootleg issue, but was apparently
issued by the VPRO, a Dutch broadcast organisation, who televised the
Uddel set in a series called Piknik (the videotapes have been lost). It
sounds like it would have been legal, even though I don't see how it could
be.

The odd track assortment bears some resemblance to sampler issues like
Radura Una's Los Botas Graciosas Marchan Sobre Polonia (Zappa
"contributed" the "Camarillo Brillo Bomp" - the 1975 live version) and The
Amazing Kornyphone Record Label's Thanks for the Mammaries (Zappa appeared
with "Jones Crusher") - but these are generally more balanced. :)

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- TITLE: Disconnected Synapses (LP/CD)
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- TITLE: Not Just Another Zappa Record
- TITLE: Frankie Goes to Paris - Continued
- TITLE: Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia (CD)
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- Palais Gaumont, Paris, 15-Dec-1970

Also issued as Not Just Another Zappa Record (Z-5)
Also issued as Frankie Goes to Paris - Continued ("continued"?) in 300
copies, 50 on blue vinyl
Also issued on CD as Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia (Teddy Bear
Records TB48) - supposedly by the Italian Mafia :)
Also issued legally as part of the Beat the Boots II set

Sound quality: Soundboard A-
Label: Wild Bird (CD)
Cross-reference: Beat the Boots II

Musicians: Frank Zappa, George Duke, Aynsley Dunbar, Howard Kaylan, Mark
Volman, Jeff Simmons, Ian Underwood and special guest Jean-Luc Ponty

1. Sanzini Brothers
2. Penis Dimension (interpolating early "Bwana Dik")
3. The Air
4. Dog Breath
5. Mother People
6. You Didn't Try to Call Me
7. King Kong [32+ minutes long]
8. Who Are the Brain Police?

Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia does not seem to have track 1, and
tracks 4-5 appear as one CD track.

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- TITLE: Safe Muffinz (2 LP)
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- El Monte Legion Stadium, ??-Jun-1971

Also re-issued with Poot-Face Boogie as Vitamin Deficiency (2 LP)
Also re-issued with Poot-Face Boogie as No Commercial Potential (2 LP)

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label TAKRL 1929
Cross-reference: Zappalog #212

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley
Dunbar, Jim Pons, Ian Underwood (some sources also credit Bob Harris)

1. Call Any Vegetable
2. The Air
3. Dog Breath
4. Mother People
5. You Didn't Try to Call Me
6. Would You Go All the Way?
7. Rudy Wants to Buy You a Drink [sic?]

8. Road Ladies
9. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening
10. What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are
11. Bwana Dik
12. Latex Solar Beef
13. Daddy Daddy Daddy [partial]

Some lists for Vitamin Deficiency and No Commercial Potential also include
"Do You Like My New Car?", The Turtles' hit "Happy Together", and "What
Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?". Nevertheless, this is
apparently a good bootleg for Flo & Eddie Fans. Original 50 copies issued
with black & white inserts-in-the-shrink-wrap instead of covers - re-
issues have colour covers and colour inserts (first orange, later green).
First released in 1974.

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- TITLE: Grand Wazoo Comic Book Extravaganza (2 LP)
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- Felt Forum, New York, 23-Sep-1972

Length: ~90 min
Sound quality: Audience C+ (alas!)
Label: Mushroom Records FZ 0972

1. Lohengrin Act 3 [Wagner]
2. Think It Over
3. The Grand Wazoo
4. Approximate
5. The Grand Wazoo
6. Arooh, Who Did It? Acts 1-3
7. Fraudulents
8. Dog Breath
9. Uncle Meat Variations
10. Big Swifty
11. Penis Dimension
12. New Brown Clouds

Some sources list "New Brown Clouds" as "New Brown Clouds (Regyptian
Strut)". Track 6 seems to be made up of comic book sound effects. Track 4
could be "Little Dots", a Wazoo instrumental somewhat similar to
"Approximate".

First LP is red, second one is white (or possibly the other way around);
they may contain tracks 1-5 and 6-12, respectively, but this is
speculation. Artwork yet unknown, but it came in colour covers. Release
year: 1984.

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- TITLE: Pygmy Pony
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- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 22-Feb-1973

Re-released on Toasted Records with a deluxe color cover
Also abridged to Pygmy Pony (Spindizzle/Flat 8228)

Length: ~90 min
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: Impossible Recordworks IMP 2.24, Toasted ReCS. 2S902

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

1. RDNZL
2. Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat
3. Fifty-Fifty

4. Inca Roads
5. Warts & Mice [?]
6. Improvisation [?]

7. Montana
8. Dupree's Paradise
9. I'm the Slime

10. The Nancy & Mary Music ["Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?"!]
11. Cosmik Debris

Deluxe black & white cover. Released in 1979. Pygmy Pony has tracks 1-3 on
side 1 and either 5 or 6 (renamed "Son of the Clap") followed by 10 and 7
on the other.

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- Arlington, Texas, 11-Mar-1973
- Various

Re-issued as record 4 of the Mystery Box

Length: 44 min
Label: Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Records

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

4. Sink Trap
5. Ship Ahoy
6. Munchkin Tits
7. Drum Solo
8. T'Mershi Duween
9. Black Napkins

Tracks 1-3 live in Arlington, Texas, 11-Mar-1973. 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. [Hee-haw!]
'Black Napkins' features the Mike Douglas band." This version of "Black
Napkins" is also on Apocrypha; it features Frank Zappa; it was played when
he guested a TV show hosted by a Mike Douglas in 1976. Track 4 was
originally intended for single release with "Gypsy Airs" from the Lumpy
Gravy sessions, but this version is probably from the Orchestral Favorites
sessions in 1975. Track 6 is an "Inca Roads" solo (some say "RDNZL"), and
track 8 is live in Vancouver 1-Oct-1975.

See also: Mystery Box
See also: Apocrypha

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- TITLE: Ultra-Modern Stringbean
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- TITLE: Tiny Nightmares (2 LP)
- TITLE: Mudshark (CD)
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- Festival Hall, Melbourne, 29-Jun-1973

Re-issued with Zurkon Music as Tiny Nightmares (2 LP) by Beacon Island
Records, Australia, later re-issued by Impossible Recordworks (IMP 1.13),
reducing the deluxe color cover to black & white ("baby cover"), also
issued on Sunset Records with a "live cover"
Also issued on CD as Mudshark by Three Cool Cats (TCC049)
Also issued as record 1 (dark blue label) of The History & Collected
Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B+
Label: ZX 3651
Cross-reference: Zappalog #217

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. The Mudshark
CD has another sequencing: it flips the vinyl sides around (6-7-1-2-3-4-
5). Its cover has five superimposed pictures of Zappa playing guitar.

Robbert Heederik

unread,

May 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/3/97

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- TITLE: Live in Hollywood
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- Palace Theater, Hollywood, 21-Jul-1984

Label: AMT Productions 493040

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Chad Wackerman, Scott Thunes, Ike Willis, Ray
White, Bobby Martin and Alan Zavod

1. Montana
2. Easy Meat
3. Carolina Hard-Core Extasy
4. Advance Romance
5. He's So Gay
6. Bobby Brown
7. Keep it Greasy
8. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
9. Carol, You Fool
10. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
11. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
12. Oh No
13. Trouble Every Day
14. Zappa Contacts Audience
15. Improvisation
16. The Closer You Are

Track 14 has Zappa talking to the audience, and track 15 is improvisation
requested by a fan. Track 13 starts in the middle of "Oh No". The cover
shows a drawing of Zappa in a toilet (the drawing).

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- TITLE: Kreegah Bondola (2 CD)
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- Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, New York, 1-Sep-1984

Length: ~120 min
Sound quality: Soundboard A-
Label: Pyramid PYCD 078 / Triangel

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad
Wackerman, Alan Zavod and Bobby Martin

1. Heavy Duty Judy / Introductions
2. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
3. Advance Romance

4. I'm the Slime

5. Be in My Video
6. What's New in Baltimore?
7. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
8. Ride my face to Chicago
9. Teenage Wind
10. Truck Driver Divorce
11. Cocaine Decisions
12. Nig Biz
13. Sharleena
14. Keep It Greasy
15. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
16. Carol, You Fool
17. Chana in de Bushwop
18. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]
19. The Voodoo Margerine Underpants [!?]
20. He's So Gay
21. Bobby Brown
22. Crew Slut
23. The Women's Movement [?!]
24. Camarillo Brillo
25. Muffin Man
26. The Illinois Enema Bandit

Individual discs unknown.

This is one of the best 1984 shows, in its entirety, with very good sound.

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- Oslo or Stockholm 13-Sep-1984 or 14-Sep-1984

Length: 79:22
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: Tangoo Records ZS 141-98409 (LP) / MRDAT FZ009 (900-copy CD run
with deluxe box) / MRDAT FZ133 (CD without deluxe box)

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad
Wackerman, Alan Zavod and Bobby Martin

1. Heavy Duty Judy
2. Presentation ["Carol, You're a Fool"]
3. City of Tiny Lites
4. You Are What You Is
5. The Mudd Club
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

7. Ride My Face to Chicago
8. Sharleena
9. Joe's Garage
10. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
11. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
12. Cocaine Decisions

13. Nig Biz
14. He's so Gay
15. Bobby Brown
16. Kreegah Bondola [1984 version of "Let's Move to Cleveland"]

17. Dinah-Moe Humm
18. Cosmik Debris
14. Penguin in Bondage
15. Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
16. Whipping Post [listed as "Tied to the Whipping Post"]

Secret word: "Spoo". This appears to be the performance at "dramminn-
dramminn-hollin-hollin" referred to in the Real Frank Zappa Book, but this
has been challanged; maybe it's from Stockholm instead - the cover shows a
man reading a Swedish paper, next to a sign that reads "SUPERBURGARE"
("super burgers" in Swedish), and the labels look exactly like the ones on
the Realistic Dream records (Stockholm 1982).

Average sound. Numbered 900-copy edition in colour covers including some
sticker shit, released in 1985.

The title might instead be Fits Your 34B, No Matter What 34B You Are. (If
you didn't notice the difference, read again. :) I bet those are American
bra sizes. They thought it was funny because One Size Fits All.

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- Various live
- Various radio and TV

Also issued as record 11 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

1. Nite Owl [Tony Allen]
2. Penis Dimension
3. In Memorium: Hieronymus Bosch
4. The 12 Inches
5. Florentine Pogen

6. Debra Kadabra
7. Stranded in the Jungle
8. Hard Cheese
9. The Tolkien Tapes
10. Do the Funky Room Service

- Track 1 live at the Nassau Coliseum 9-May-1980
- Track 2 has been officially released on 200 Motels
- Track 3 is a live improvisation from a New York TV show called "The
Bitter End" in 1967, appearing also on Apocrypha
- Track 4 live at the Orpheum, Boston, 9-Oct-1974
- Track 5 live in Copenhagen 5-Mar-1979
- Tracks 6 and 10 live in Boston 29-Oct-1975
- Track 7 live in New York 30-Oct-1976
- Tracks 8-9 from WABX radio, Detroit, 25-May-1971

Some sources list tracks 8-9 as one track, additionally describing it as
"madness in the radio station". Flo & Eddie are reading from Tolkien's
"When the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon" to the tune of "Magdalena".

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- Various live
- Studio outtakes

Also issued as record 12 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

1. Zappa's Lecture
2. The Bust
3. Dinah-Moe Humm
4. Camarillo Brillo
5. Get a Little II

6. You Didn't Try to Call Me

7. Laid Back

8. Love of My Life
9. You Are What You Is
10. Catholic Girls
11. Fine Girl
12. Treacherous Cretins

- Track 1 is a short excerpt from the orchestral event at Mount Saint
Mary's College in 1963 (another part of which is officially released on
the Lost Episodes) (see also The Basic Primer: Z-A)
- Tracks 2 and 5 recorded at the Uncle Meat sessions (hmm)
- Tracks 3-4 live in Hartford, Connecticut, 17-Oct-1977
- Tracks 6 and 8-9 taken from Personality
- Track 7 is some spoken-word thing with Zappa
- Track 10 live in Munich, 31-Mar-1979
- Track 11 has been officially released on Tinsel-Town Rebellion
- Track 12 live in Copenhagen 5-Mar-1979

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- Untitled Picture Disc, sometimes referred to as "Frank Zappa",
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- Various unknown live

Length: ~40 min?
Sound quality: Excellent stereo (soundboard?)

1. Instrumental
2. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
3. Jumbo, Go Away

4. Swedish Botique Girl / I Have Been in You
5. Flakes
6. Broken Hears are for Assholes

Black & white picture disc made in Europe. Dates and locations unknown but
limited to late 1970s and early 1980s. 1000 copies made.

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- Horden Pavilion, Sydney, 8-Jul-1973
- KCET TV, Los Angeles (cover says KTC TV), December 1974
- Olympiahalle, Munich, West-Germany, 3-Jul-1980
- Fillmore East, New York, 1971

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

Length: ~123 minutes
Label: Seagull Records, SEAGULL 033/1-2 (Italy, April 1990)
Sound quality: Tracks 1-5 B+, 6-7 B-, 8-14 A, 15-26 A-, 27-30 C+

Musicians on tracks 1-7: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Ian
Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey & Sal
Marquez

Musicians on tracks 8-14 & 29-30: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon
Murphy Brock, Chester Thompson, Tom Fowler & George Duke

Musicians on tracks 15-26: Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Tommy Mars, Arthur
Barrow, Ray White & David Logeman

Musicians on tracks 27-28 (?): Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan,
Jim Pons (?), Aynsley Dunbar, Ian Underwood, Don Preston (?) & Bob Harris
(?)

1. Father O'Blivion (2:21)
2. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (1:57)
3. Nanook Rubs It (6:34)
4. St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast (1:59)
5. Mar-juh-rene (4:26)
6. Penguin in Bondage (5:10)
7. T'Mershi Duween (1:56)
8. Montana (3:58)
9. Stink-Foot (Tom Waits Version) (3:56)
10. Inca Roads (9:38)
11. Dog Breath (3:55)
12. Approximate (1:50)
13. Cosmik Debris 7:39)
14. Florentine Pogen (10:10)

15. Chunga's Revenge (4:40)
16. The Mudd Club [listed as "Mudclub"] (3:00)
17. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing [listed as "The Meek"] (2:35)
18. Joe's Garage (2:09)
19. Cosmik Debris (3:02)
20. Keep It Greasy [listed as "Keep it Greased"] (1:48)
21. Pick Me, I'm Clean (4:40)
22. The Illinois Enema Bandit (8:28)
23. You Didn't Try to Call Me [Stage #1 version] (3:15)
24. I Ain't Got No Heart (1:54)
25. Love of My Life (1:50)
26. City of Tiny Lites ["listed as City Of My Tiny Lights"] (1:57)
27. Studebaker Hoch (6:06)
28. Don't Fuck Around (1:52)
29. Ruthie, Ruthie [Stage #1 version] (2:19)
30. Smell My Beard [not the one on Stage #4] (5:16)

- Tracks 1-5 taken from Nifty, where "Mar-juh-rene" (Zappa improvising
around the letters MAR-JUH-RENE (margarine)) was edited down; here it's
complete
- Tracks 6-7 as on Nifty but with worse sound
- Track 7 is probably as on Piquantique, but sounds somewhat muddier
- Tracks 8-11 & 14 as on Indiscreet Picture Show ("Stinkfoot" mentions Tom
Waits and is sung through an octave-down transposer type device, hence the
"Tom Waits Version") (this version of "Inca Roads" provided the basic

tracks for the official One Size Fits All relese (the guitar solo came

from the Helsinki concert on Stage #2))
- Tracks 15-26 as on Songs Einstein Jr. Never Heard
- Tracks 27-28 live at the Fillmore East 1971; they're parts of "Billy the
Mountain" and possibly (probably) the same as on Randomonium
- Tracks 29-30 are listed as live in Pasaic, New Jersey, 1973, but Zappa
introduces the 1974 line-up (plus Marty Perellis on "boogers") in "Smell
My Beard" (track 29 includes the beginning of "Babette" on Stage #1) (he
introduces himself as Rondo Hatton, an actor who suffered from acromegaly
(look it up) (allegedly as a result of exposure to German poison gas) and
was promoted as "the ugliest man in movies")

The tracking on CD2 is partly fucked up. Track 23 is actually the guitar
solo from "The Illinois Enema Bandit", track 24 "You Didn't Try to Call
Me", track 25 "I Ain't Got No Heart", track 26 "Love of My Life" and track
27 "City of Tiny Lites" plus "Studebaker Hoch" (that last blend was very
professional), so the timings above are approximate.

Front cover has blue background with Zappa's blue face on it (from the
Baby Snakes CD booklet) plus red snakes hanging from the top. There is
also a picture of a woman in a red dress with Zappa's face. The title is
hand-written in yellow letters. Back cover has a picture of Zappa's face
from circa 1972-1975 on blue background, and lists the tracks, timings,
venues and approximate dates. Includes an 8-page booklet with some
photos.second half of track 12 "Approximate" is funny scat singing like on
Stage #2. (The scat version was also "played" in Finland at a wedding to
which Frank and Gail and the Mothers were invited. Maybe one day somebody
will prepare another FAQ called "The adventures of Frank Zappa in
Finland"; there are several funny stories waiting to be told.)
Conceptually continous, Zappa also makes fun of his drummer, saying
"Chester, you're not singing your drum fills!".

See also: Piquantique
See also: Indiscreet Picture Show
See also: Songs Einstein Jr. Never Heard
See also: Randomonium

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- Various live
- Various studio
- No lectures

Sound quality: "Quite good"
Label: "Munchkin Music"

Musicians: (probably) Frank Zappa, Tommy Mars, Scott Thunes, Bobby Martin,
Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Steve Vai, Ray White, Ike Willis, Denny Walley,
Arthur Barrow and Vinnie Colaiuta

1. Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar Again
2. Zoot Allures II
3. Dancin' Fool

4. Catholic Meat
5. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou
[Donald & Doris Woods/Obie Jesse]
6. Alien Orifice

Track 1 is what is called "Outside Now" on Demos, track 2 is a live solo
from Santa Monica 1981 ("The Deathless Horsie" as on Demos?), and track 3
may be from the Saturday Night Live TV show. Other than that, which tracks
are live and which are studio is not known. "Catholic Meat" is "Easy Meat"
ending in a "Catholic Girls" riff (segue and cut?). Whole thing made in
Denmark.

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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This is the start of a new section: the Orchestral Bootlegs section. These
are few and maybe not orchestral all the way, but special in that they
focus on "classical" or "serious" music.

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TITLE: Serious Music (LP/CD)
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TITLE: Orchestral Madness
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- Orchestral, Zellerbach Auditorium, UCLA, 16-Jun-1984
- The World's Greatest Sinner film music
- Studio 1978
- Studio 1972

Re-issued on CD (Japan OCT 31)

Length: ~52 min
Sound quality: FM radio A / Soundboard? (claims "digitally remastered")
Label: ICA Masterworks Oct 31 (original vinyl)

1. Sinister Footwear (26:54)

2. The World's Greatest Sinner (11:54)
3. Revenge of the Knick-Knack People (6:20)
4. RDNZL (4:08)
5. Inca Roads (3:56)

Track 1, the ballet "Sinister Footwear" was recorded at the "A Zappa
Affair" concert at the Zellerbach Auditorium at the UCLA. It was played by
the Berkely Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano. This is the only
time Sinister Footwear has been performed in its entirety (large part are
in-CRED-i-bly difficult) and Zappa was most unhappy with the results. The
ballet consisted of marionettes since Zappa's choreographic demands were
equally outrageous (with the difference that orchestral players, as
opposed to ballet dancers, don't injure themselves and/or their collegues
when they make mistakes). It is in three movements and 21 parts (averaging
(you guessed it) 7 parts per movement). The parts are named as follows:

1: Jake Who Designs It
2: Somewhere in New Jersey Where They Make Them
3: Illegal Aliens on a Lunch Break
4: At the Catering Truck
5: Jake Eats a Molded Jello Salad
6: Jake's Secretary
7: Illegal Aliens Work Slower in the Afternoon
8: Jake's Secretary Reads Her Magazine
9: Illegal Aliens Want to Go Home
10: Jake's Secretary Eats Cottage Cheese
11: Ugly Shoes on the Assembly Line
12: What You Think You Look Like When You're Wearing Them
13: Sometimes They Make You Walk Funny
14: Other People Pretend Not to Notice
15: Sometimes You Have to Take Them Off for a Minute
16: Then You Put Them Back On Because You Think They Look So Good on You
17: Children Can Also Have Ugly Shoes
18: The Foot Doctor Says You Might Need an Operation
19: But You're Going to Wear Them Anyway
20: Everybody Has a Pair Somewhere
21: A Place You Can Go When You've Got Them On

Track 2 is a part of the music for the film The World's Greatest Sinner
that Zappa scored in 1961. It 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. Track 3 is a ballet for piano, percussion
and tape effects. It has been performed live on stage but this is
reportedly a studio recording from 1978. (A version of this piece is on
La:ther, as a bonus track) Tracks 4-5 are the versions on The Lost
Episodes (these edits are a few seconds longer) - although the cover
boasts "WAZOO". By the way, the Japanese CD re-issue calls this an
"official unreleased album". The original was released in 1984.

There seems to be a very unknown bootleg called Orchestral Madness dealing
with the "Zappa Affair", as well as there is a "Son of Serious Music".

See also: Son of Serious Music
See also: Randomonium

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- Orchestral, Zellerbach Auditorium, UCLA, 16-Jun-1984

Length: ~48 min
Sound quality: FM radio (claims "digitally remastered")
Label: ICA Masterworks Jun 161984

1. Bob in Dacron (11:53)
2. Sad Jane (9:06)
3. Spontaneous Minimalist Composition (1:59)

4. Mo 'n Herb's Vacation (25:56)

Released (with colour covers) in 1986 as the follow-up to 1984's Serious
Music.

See also: Serious music
See also: Randomonium

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- Orchestral situation at Mount Saint Mary's College, 1963
- Other orchestral
- Synclavier

Re-issued as record 9 of the Mystery Box

Length: ~47 min

Label: Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Records

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
8. Francesco Opus 1/6
9. Francesco Opus 1/11
10. Francesco Rock
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. A part of this has been officially released on
the Lost Episodes, as "Mount Saint Mary's Concert Excerpt".

The liner notes on the Mystery Box claim that "While You Were Art #1" is
the "original, stripped-down version", and that the Francesco tracks are
out-takes. Very plausible. They also claim that Pedro's Dowry was played
by the Berkely Symphony Orchestra in June 1981. Anyway, this is not
related to the bootlegs Serious Music and Son of Serious Music - even
though it's supposed to look that way.

See also: Mystery Box
See also: Randomonium

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This is the start of a new section: the Studio Oddities section. These
bootlegs focus on and contain rare studio material. A lot of it has been
released since they came out.

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- Studio oldies
- Live oldies
- Orchestral oldie

Length: 20:54+21:06
Label: "Bizarre" DMO-30284

1. We Are the Mothers (3:32)
2. This Is What We Sound Like (3:51)
3. Variations on a Theme From "Run Home Slow" (4:15)
4. The Jelly (2:22)
5. Igor's Boogie (6:54)

6. Lost In a Whirlpool (2:13)
7. Do It in C (1:35)
8. The Story of Kenny & Ronny (2:08)
9. The Booger Freaks of America (1:22)
10. Any Way the Wind Blows (2:26)
11. Fountain of Love (2:16)
12. Opus 5 (3:43)
13. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (4:02)
14. Hey Nelda (1:21)

- Tracks 1-2 involve a made-for-radio-sounding publicity plug of the
Mothers introducing themselves (probably live 1967) and an extended
psychedelic underground freak-out jam
- Track 3 is possibly the "Run Home Slow" theme on The Lost Episodes
- Track 4 recorded in 1967, same as on Apocrypha
- Track 5 live in America 1967
- Most of tracks 6-14 have been officially released on The Lost Episodes -
track 7 is "Ronnie Sings?", tracks 8-9 must have a lot to do with Ronnie's
and Kennie's "Booger Stories"; track 12 is the same recording as "Mount
St. Mary's Concert Excerpt" but a different edit (starting 70-80 seconds
before the official version and ending some 45 seconds earlier)
- Track 14 is from a "Ned & Nelda" single Zappa made way before he was
famous (a Paul & Paula pastiche - see Zappa's singles discography for more
info)

The label has been made to look like a Bizarre release, with the air
compressor on the center sticker and everything. There is no indication as
to when it was produced. The cover uses a hand-colored promo photo from
the movie "Freaks", with Zappa's face pasted over the body of the Mother
Freak who is watching over
her Freaklets. The back cover incorporates a number of spot illustrations
a la Joe's Garage: an orangutang pulling intestines through a water pump,
turn-of-the-century gas-producing methods, the circulatory system, and
Egyptian hieroglyphs siphoning fluids out of vessels.

See also: Apocrypha

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- TITLE: Wasp Man Has Hornet's Wings
- TITLE: Metal Man Has Hornet's Wings
- TITLE: Wasp Man Has Metal Wings
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- Radio-broadcast oldies and rarities
- Other various

Re-issued as Wasp Man Has Hornet's Wings
Re-issued as Metal Man Has Hornet's Wings in 1976 (pressed from the
original Wasp Man Has Hornet's Wings plates) on Dragonfly Records and on
Wizardo
Re-issued as Wasp Man Has Metal Wings on colored vinyl (WRMB Records)

Length: ~45 min
Label: Wizardo 365 (Metal Man Has Hornet's Wings)
Cross-reference: Zappalog #206

1. Metal Man Has Hornet's Wings
2. Dupree's Paradise
3. Black Napkins
4. The Story of Electricity
5. Unconditionally Guaranteed
6. Whiskey Gone Behind the Sun
7. Mondo Hollywood
8. Lightning Rod Man
9. My Guitar
10. Rock Around the Clock
11. Sandwich Song
12. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
13. Boogie for Berkeley
14. Neon Meat Dream of a Octafish
15. King Kong
16. Speed Freak Boogie

Most of this record is from a radio show on KWST radio, 1-Nov-1975, where
Zappa and Beefheart played oldies and oddities. The Bootleggers have added
a few tracks (the ones that seem out of place). (There is a completely
unsubstantiated rumour that this radio show was actually a broadcast of a
Warner Brothers promo record with these songs on it, which has never been
found.)

- Track 1 is the Soots (featuring Don van Vliet) 1963, officially released

on the Mystery Disc in the Old Masters Box I

- Track 2 (and maybe track 3) live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles,
1974
- Track 4 is a 1964 recording with Don van Vliet
- Track 5 is the last Studio Z recording (1964) from the night before the
police raid (with van Vliet?)
- Track 6 is the first Mothers recording, released on the Mystery Disc in

the Old Masters Box I

- Track 7 live in Hollywood, 1965
- Track 8 is a 1968 or 1969 recording of the group Factory with Lowell
George
- Track 9 is the 1969 single version from A&R Studios, New York
- Tracks 10-11 are from Studio Z in 1964
- Track 12 is from the first studio rehearsal with the Mothers, 1965
- Track 13 could be live 1968
- Track 14 is from Trout Mask Replica
- Track 15 is live in London 1968
- Track 16 is the speeded-up guitar track from 1964, officially released

on the Mystery Disc in the Old Masters Box I

See also: Apocrypha

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- Studio oldies
- Boston, Massachusettes, 27-Apr-1975

Also issued as record 7 (pale yellow label) of The History & Collected

Improvisations of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Length: ~45 min
Label: ZX 3657
Cross-reference: Zappalog #201

Side 1 various studio recordings, mostly 1964
Side 2 live in Boston Massachusettes, 11-Sep-1975

Studio musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada,
Don Van Vliet, Paul Buff, Dick Barber, female vocalists on "Status Back
Baby", and probably other people too

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. Plastic People [Berry/Zappa] / Solo
5. Bobby Jameson: Gotta Find My Roogalator
6. Baby Ray & the Ferns: How's Your Bird
7. Baby Ray & the Ferns: The World's Greatest Sinner
8. The Penguins: Memories of El Monte [Zappa/Collins]

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

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.

- Track 1 is from the "rock opera" recorded in 1963 (the first part has
been issued on the Mystery Disc in the Old Masters box I)
- Tracks 2 & 4 has been officially released on the Mystery Disc in the Old
Masters box I
- Track 3 has been officially released on the Lost Episodes
- Tracks 5-8 are old single tracks from way before Zappa hit it big time
... see Zappa's singles discography for more info

See also: The Cucamonga Era
See also: Apocrypha

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- Studio oldies

Re-issued as Rustic Protrusion in two different covers; 1500 black vinyl
copies, 400 blue and 100 red ones (the original issue was limited to 2500
copies)

Length: 60 min (?)
Sound quality: Mono (cover says stereo)
Label: Mud Shark MZ 3601
Cross-reference: Zappalog #202

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Don
Preston, Bunk Gardner, Arthur Dyer Tripp III, Jim Sherwood, Don Van Vliet,
Ronny Williams, the Pomona Valley Symphony Orchestra, &c, &c, &c

1. Shop Talk
2. Sounds Like This
3. Gas Mask
4. Igor's Boogie

5. Lost in a Whirlpool
6. Do It in C ["Ronnie Sings"]
7. Booger Freaks of America
8. Anyway the Wind Blows
9. Fountain of Love
10. Opus 5
11. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
12. Hey Nelda [Zappa/Collins]

- Tracks 1-4 unknown songs or versions; tracks 3-4 supposedly from 1969
- Tracks 5-6, 8-9 & 11 have been officially released on The Lost Episodes,
5-6 as "Lost in a Whirlpool" and "Ronny Sings?"
- Track 7 may be either "Ronny's Booger Story" or "Kenny's Booger Story"
as released on The Lost Episodes, parts of either, or both
- Track 10 may be longer or shorter than "Mount St. Mary's Concert
Excerpt" as released on The Lost Episodes, but it's the same thing
- Track 12 is a single track from way before Zappa hit it big time - see
the singles discography for more info

Rustic Protrusion is a real Zappa title: planned for one record in the
planned but never realized 12-LP set The History & Collected
Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (not to be
cofused with the so named bootleg box (even though that was probably the
bootleggers' intentions)). The versions called Rustic Protrusion and
Necessity Is ... share the same catalog number. It was released in June
1980 with only a black & white paper insert to boot.

See also: Apocrypha

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- Various OLD single tracks

Also issued as record 3 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

1. The Penguins: Memories of El Monte
2. The Hollywood Persuaders: Grunion Run
3. The Hollywood Persuaders: Tijuana Surf
4. Mr. Clean: Mr. Clean
5. Mr. Clean: Jessie Lee
6. Rotation: Heavies
7. The Hollywood Persuaders: Drums a-Go-Go
8. The Hollywood Persuaders: Hot Water
9. Brian Lord & the Midnighters: Not Another One
10. The Masters: Sixteen Tons

11. The Masters: Breaktime
12. Baby Ray & the Ferns: How's Your Bird
13. Baby Ray & the Ferns: The World's Greatest Sinner
14. Ned & Nelda: Hey Nelda
15. Ned & Nelda: Surf Along
16. The Heartbreakers: Every Time I See You
17. Bob Guy: Dear Jeepers
18. Bob Guy: Letters from Jeepers
19. Brian Lord & the Midnighters: The Big Surfer

These are all single tracks made way before Zappa hit it big time. Some he
has written, some he has co-written, some he has produced, he plays on
some of them and so on, some are even B-sides of tracks he was involved
in. The coupling "Drums a-Go-Go"/"Hot Water" were made without any Zappa
involvement. See Zappa's singles discography for more info.

Many of these are wonderful tunes and you should try and find them. They
range from real love ballads through surf instrumentals and 60s twist/punk
to unmitigated novelty records: Bob Guy, for example, was a local TV
horror host who wanted to make a record - Zappa let him recite overloaded
monster-movie style letters from and to Count Dracula over slow rock
vamps, with tons of weird sound effects. Many of these tracks have been
issued officially (yes, the Zappa Family Trust indeed does not own the
exclusive rights!) on an LP/CD called Rare Meat, and on a Japanese CD
called The Cucamonga Years (longer than Rare Meat).

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- Various soundtrack music

Also issued as record 2 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

1. The Way the Air Smells
2. Run Home Slow
3. Your Eyes

4. Rance Muhammitz in a Steaming Briefcase
5. The World's Greatest Sinner
6. This Won't Take Long
7. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
8. People Think That Groupies Are Such Dirty Girls

- Tracks 1 and 3 are excerpts or out-takes from the Baby Snakes movie 1979
- Track 2 is from Run Home Slow, the cowboy movie Zappa scored in 1959
- Tracks 4 and 6-8 are from the 200 Motels movie 1971
- Track 5 is probably the part of the music for The World's Greatest
Sinner (a movie Zappa scored in 1961) that is also on Serious Music and
Apocrypha

See also: Twenty Years of Frank Zappa

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- Various live
- Various studio

Re-issued as record 10 of the Mystery Box

Label: Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Records

Length: ~48 min

1. America Drinks & Goes Home
2. Agency Man
3. Randomonium
4. Lumpy Gravy (dialogue outtakes)
5. Studebaker Hoch
6. Don't Fuck Around
7. Well

The liner notes: "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. None of the Above

Mr. & Ms. Liner Note: "Track 1 [on this side, remember]: 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".

Track 2 has been officially released on the Mystery Disc in the Old
Masters Box II, and was recorded at Apostolic Studios, New York. Track 3
is from the Uncle Meat sessions and track 8 is a live improvisation from a
New York TV show called The Bitter End in 1967. They all also appear on
Apocrypha. Tracks 5-6 appear to be the last bit of "Billy the Mountain".

See also: Mystery Box
See also: Apocrypha

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- Live in New Jersey 1975
- Various studio
- Various "media performances"

Length: ~90 min?
Sound quality: Excellent
Label: Tin Can Records TCR2003

Musicians: Unknown & various - Captain Beefheart much included

1. Ardous Journey
2. Who Are the Brain Police [mono]
3. Geef Mij Wat Vloerbedekking [mono]

4. Potential for Poetry
5. Peon
6. Alice in Blunderland
7. Willie the Pimp

8. 200 Years [old?]
9. Somebody's Walking [mono]
10. Leave me Alone [mono]

11. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus

12. Somebody's Walking
13. Call on Me
14. Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do [mono]
15. Yellow Brick Road [mono]
16. Plastic Factory
17. Willie the Pimp [mono]

Tracks 1-3 are listed as "media performances" but track 3 looks like it's
taken from Poot-Face Boogie; track 6 could be taken from the Captain
Beefheart album The Spotlight Kid, track 7 from Hot Rats (track 17 is
probably live) and track 5 from Beefheart's Lick My Decals Off, Baby.
Track 12 is Beefheart's Magic Band live in the Avalon Ballrom in 1968
(track 9 could be another version); track 13 is Beefheart; track 14 is
Beefheart too, probably from a John Peel session in 1968 ... other tracks
COMPLETELY unknown, could be anything. Bootleg magic. Deluxe color cover.

See also: Apocrypha

Robbert Heederik

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- TITLE: Waterbury, Connecticut, 29.10.75 (CD)
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- Waterbury, Connecticut, 29-Oct-1975

Label: ZAPP 1001

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

1. Stink-Foot
2. Dirty Love
3. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
4. I Ain't Got No Heart
5. I'm Not Satisfied
6. Black Napkins
7. Advance Romance

8. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?

9. The Illinois Enema Bandit
10. Carolina Hard-Core Extasy
11. Chunga's Revenge [partial]

The cover (front has a black & white picture of Zappa, as on page 19 of
Dominique Chevalier's book Viva Zappa!) lists a bonus track: Call Any
Vegetable from the Fillmore West in 1970 - but it's not included.

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

Also issued as record 10 (green label) of The History & Collected

Improvisations of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B

Label: ZX 3660
Cross-reference: Zappalog #227

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 and Collected Improvisations 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".

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- Osaka, 3-Feb-1976

Also issued as Strange Habits (SGCD 04), with a different cover but
identical CDs.

Length: ~120 min
Sound quality: Audience B
Label: Discurious (LP), Discurious DIS 202-A CD & DIS-202-B (CD)

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

1. Intro ["Inca Roads" vamp]
2. Stink-Foot [including poodle lecture]
3. Dirty Love
4. Filthy Habits

5. How Could I Be Such a Fool?

6. I Ain't Got No Heart

7. I'm Not Satisfied

8. Black Napkins
9. Advance Romance

10. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
11. The Illinois Enema Bandit
12. Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station
13. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
14. The Torture Never Stops
15. Chunga's Revenge / Drum Solo
16. Zoot Allures
17. Ship Ahoy
18. I'm the Slime
19. San Ber'dino

It is from this legendary concert that the (abridged) Zoot Allures version
of "Black Napkins" is lifted, just like "Ship Ahoy" on Shut Up & Play Yer
Guitar (and parts of "Duck Duck Goose" on La:ther); parts of the drum solo
appear on Stage #3, as "Hands with a Hammer", duly credited to Bozzio -
and the 1976 part of "Zoot Allures" on that album is also from Osaka.

This is quite similar to the Kyoto concert the next day. The major
differences are in tracks 1, 18-19 and 15 - the drum solo is shorter
there.

The cover is a blown-up mirror image of the Apostrophe (') cover. The
title "The Eyes of Osaka" must derive from "Eye of Agamoto", something
performed live in 1969.

Robbert Heederik

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This is the start of a new section: the Huge Boxes section - box sets of
four or more LPs or CDs.

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- Binghampton 17-Mar-1988
- Uniondale 25-Mar-1988
- Hartford 16-Feb-1988 & 17-Feb-1988
- Providence 16-Mar-1988
- Philadelphia 12-Feb-1988 & 13-Feb-1988
- Allentown 19-Mar-188
- Boston 20-Feb-1988
- Springfield 13-Mar-1988
- Chicago 3-Mar-1988 & 4-Mar-1988
- Uniondale 25-Mar-1988
- The Beacon, New York, 6-Feb-1988

Box set of four 1988 live compilation records.

Length: ~200 min
Sound quality: Audience
Label: Showtime Records 003

Musicians: 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
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 (Andre Williams)]
10. Stolen Moments
11. Big Swifty
12. The Untouchables [Broadway the Hard Way version]

13. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque
14. Uncle Remus
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 /
Theme from The Godfather (Mix) ["Mix"?]
[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) [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

- Side 1 live in Binghampton 17-Mar-1988
- 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 3-Mar-1988 and 25 on 2-Mar-1988
- Tracks 26-27 live in Uniondale 25-Mar-1988
- Tracks 28-29 live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988
- Track 30 live in New York 6-Feb-1988
- Tracks 31-32 live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988

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 Johny Otis [!], owners of Showtime Records, for
their faith in Frank Zappa and his music".