Live Compilation Bootlegs

These are bootlegs with mostly live material, taken from several different concerts and from different tours. The bootlegs in the Concert Bootlegs sections ('67-'70, '71-'75, '76-'80 & '81-'88) have material from only one or two shows or from the same band (widespread use of "bonus" and "filler" tracks makes the lines hard to draw).

Jungle Folksongs with Zappa & Kong (picture LP)

  • "Frank & King Side" live at the Fifth Dimension, Ann Arbor, 03-Dec-1967
  • "Jungle Side" live in Amsterdam October 1968

"Frank & King Side" musicians: Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Billy Mundi, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner and Motorhead Sherwood

Sound quality: not very good
Label: Flashback Records

The "Frank & King Side":

1 or 3. King Kong Variations (15:30)

The "Jungle Side":

2 or 1. Gas Mask Improvisation / Let's Make The Water Turn Black / Harry, You're a Beast / Oh No (09:31)
3 or 2. Orchestral Experiment (3:35)

The "Frank & King Side" has a colour drawing of Zappa being squeezed by King Kong, who looks bent on eating him. The "Jungle Side" has a colour drawing of a jungle with King Kong's silhuetto. The "King Kong Variations" is taken from Pigs & Repugnance, falsely known as a Garrick Theater recording. The cover is identical or similar to that of the "Strong Willie Shape".

My Guitar (CD)

  • Fillmore East or West (probably), 1970
  • The Ark, Boston, 1969
  • Fillmore musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, George Duke and Ian Underwood
  • Ark musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada and Arthur Dyer Tripp III

Label: Fabri Editori (Italy, 1994)

1. Little House I Used to Live in / Penis Dimension / Would You Like a Snack? / Holiday in Berlin / Cruisin' for Burgers (18:36)
2. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (09:02)
3. Uncle Meat / King Kong (24:03)
4. Big Leg Emma (2:12)

Track 1 is listed as New York 1970 and most likely edited together from Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta and/or Freaks of Motherfuckers. Tracks 2-4 are listed as Boston 1968 (this show, bootlegged as The Ark, really seems to be from 1969); "My Guitar" really is longer here; maybe it contains some dead air. This CD was issued in a series called Los Grandes del Rock (the Greats of Rock, you guess), as number 28.

Stockholm 1967 - Montreux 1971 (CD)

  • Konserthuset, Stockholm, 30-Sep-1967 (date has been debated)
  • The Casino, Montreux, 04-Dec-1971

Label: Armando Curcio Editore 1991 DIR-11
"Sound quality": "Stereo ADD digitally remastered" (at least the 1967 tracks are taken from vinyl, with crackling)
Length: 41:17

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

1971 Mothers: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Pons & Ian Underwood

This Italian protection-gap job slaps together most of Swiss Cheese with side one of 'Tis the Season to be Jelly.

1. Peaches en Regalia / Tears Began to Fall / She Painted Up Her Face (09:46)
2. Call Any Vegetable / Anyway the Wind Blows (13:16)
3. You Didn't Try to Call Me / Petrushka [Stravinsky] / Bristol Stomp [trad.] / Baby Love [Holland/Dozier/Holland] / Big Leg Emma / No Matter What You Do / Blue Suede Shoes [Perkins] / Hound Dog [Leiber/Stoller] / Gee (12:22)
4. King Kong (05:52)

Some credits:

Produzione: Armando Curcio Editore
Remastering: Wonderland Studio
Cover Art: Giovanni Mazzoleni [A green drawning from a late 80's short-hair photo of Zappa]
Made in Italy by OPTIMES

From Oscar Bianco:

This came out in Italy (legally - I suppose) in newspaper shops in 1991 (as label says) in a low-budget CD series called "il dizionario del Rock miti di ieri e di oggi" (Dictionary of Rock - Yesterday and Today Myths). Armando Curcio is one of the bigger low-budget CD publishers in Italy (especially for classical music), this kind of CDs are always sold in newspaper and book shops. Liner notes (two booklet pages) by Massimo Cotto.

See also: The Easy Rider Generation in Concert / The Easy Rider Years

The Easy Rider Generation in Concert: Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention (2 CD)
The Easy Rider Years

  • Also known as The Easy Rider Years
  • The Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, 4-Dec-1971
  • The Ark, Boston, 1969

A re-issue of selections from Swiss Cheese, Fire! and The Ark, as part of an Easy Rider Generation in Concert series of titles by various artists.

Label: NOTA BLU musica 930159, EEC 1993

The Ark musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada and Arthur Dyer Tripp III

1971 musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Pons & Ian Underwood

1. Intro (09:02)
2. Peaches en Regalia (03:28)
3. Tears Began to Fall (02:38)
4. She Painted Up Her Face (03:20)
5. Valarie [Clarence Lewis / Bobby Robinson] (03:02)
6. Sharleena (12:28)
7. Anyway the Wind Blows (03:42)
8. My Guitar (08:55)

9. Call Any Vegetable (07:42)
10. Big Leg Emma (02:16)
11. Some Ballet Music (05:45)
12. Status Back Baby (02:43)
13. Magdalena [Kaylan/Zappa] / Dog Breath (08:30)
14. Uncle Meat / King Kong (23:30)

  • Tracks 1-4, 6-7, 9 & 13 are live 1971 - taken from Swiss Cheese and Fire!.
  • Tracks 5, 8, 10-12 & 14 are live 1969 - taken from The Ark.

"It has an orange cover with dead cows hanging on."

The Easy Rider Generation in Concert: The Flower Power Hippy Years (2 CD)

  • "Peaches en Regalia" from The Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, 4-Dec-1971
  • Other artists

Label: NOTA BLU musica, prod. & distr. S.r.l., EEC 1993

1971 Mothers: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Pons & Ian Underwood

1. Cream: Strange Brew
2. The Rolling Stones: Dead Flowers
3. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Love the One You're With
4. Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy
5. The Byrds: Lay Lady Lay
6. Jimi Hendrix: Sunshine of Your Love
7. Pink Floyd: Green Is the Colour
8. Jefferson Airplane: Ballad of ["You and Mee and Pooneil"?]

9. Mamas & Papas: Monday Monday
10. Grateful Dead: Mountains of the Moon
11. The Who: Can't Explain
12. Frank Zappa: Peaches en Regalia (03:28)
13. Eric Burdon & The Animals: San Franciscan Night
14. Janis Joplin: Ball and Chain
15. Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
16. Scott McKenzie: San Francisco
17. The Doors: Light My Fire
18. Van Morrison: Into the Mystic
19. Yardbirds: For Your Love
20. John Lennon: Cold Turkey

The Nota Blu label made a series of albums called The Easy Rider Generation in Concert, for example one volume called Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention, and this compilation where they lumped him together with flower-power hippies. The Zappa track (12) is taken from Swiss Cheese, and also appears on the Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention volume of The Easy Rider Generation in Concert.

Time Sandwich

  • Various live 1966, 1970 and 1973 (from the so-called "Un-Concert")

Label: Head [no number]
Length: 72:50

1966 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Elliot Ingber, Roy Estrada and Jimmy Carl Black

1970 musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, Ian Underwood and George Duke

1973 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson Napoleon Murphy Brock and special guest Irma Coffee

1. Toads of the Short Forest / I'm Not Satisfied / Wedding Dress Song [traditional] / Handsome Cabin Boy [traditional] / Jam / Funicula Funicula [traditional] (13:12)
2. Have Gun, Will Travel [?] / Call Any Vegetable (11:46)
3. Guitar Event (04:45)
4. Be-Bop & Tango Dance Contest / Tango Variations (13:00)
5. Penguin in Bondage / Dog Breath Variations (11:24)
6. Pygmy Twylyte [instrumental] / Dupree's Paradise [listed as "The Tango / Dupree's Paradise Lounge"] (18:40)

  • Track 1 is live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, 24/25-Jun-1966.
  • Track 2 is live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, 06-Nov-1970.
  • Track 3 is live in Boston, 08-May-1973.
  • Track 4 (maybe not all of it) is live in Waterloo, Canada, 18-Nov-1973.
  • Track 5 is live in Los Angeles, or at the Roxy (of Roxy & Elsewhere fame) in December 1973 - it's the same arrangement (but not the same version) as that on Stage #2.
  • "Pygmy Twylyte" is live at the William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, November 1973
  • "Dupree's Paradise" is live in New York 22-Nov-1973.

Track 2 also appears on Incognito. Tracks 3-6 also appear on the Around the World boot. Track 4 also appears on Canada 1973. 

  • Track 1 is mono. Zappa sings lead, Ray Collins sings back-up. It's a nice unprocessed recording of Zappa's original (pre-larynx injury) voice. (Maybe this could be the June 1966 Fillmore tape, also circulated as "May 1966", with "Toads of the Short Forest", "I'm Not Satisfied" and "The Handsome Cabin Boy".)
  • "Have Gun, Will Travel" is a "comedy" routine featuring "Paldin and Hayboy, a Chinese manservant". ("Have Gun, Will Travel" was a real western show on American TV.) "Call Any Vegetable" has a long guitar solo. It's a stereo recording, probably soundboard.
  • Track 4 has been described as "Board mono of a great 'Be-Bop Tango' dance contest, with intro solo by Bruce Fowler on Trombone, and delicate little solos by Ian Underwood on clarinet and Jeal-Luc Ponty on violin in the background, and Ruth Underwood on percussion".
  • Track 6 is listed as "The Tango / Dupree's Paradise Lounge", but it's an instrumental "Pygmy Twylyte", a long drug-pusher routine with Napoleon Murphy Brock and a woman, whom he starts out addressing as "Ruth" but turns out to be Irma Coffee. Zappa also tells a story about 'Dupree's Paradise Lounge on Avalon Boulevard in Watts'."

From Patrick Neve:

I can confirm that the first track of this boot does include "Toads of the Short Forest", which would corroborate your theory that it was from the '66 tape you list. I have not heard the tape in question so I cannot confirm that 100%, but it looks more than likely. It also includes bits of BOTH "Weeding Dress Song" and "Handsome Cabin Boy", with some nice harmonica playing the melody. I have no idea who plays the harmonica. After that, and I'm still talking about track one here, is a a tune that I am positive is Disney in origin. I did some web searching and I came up empty handed. I'm thinking it might be from Pinocchio, but I just can't recall. I only remember bits of the lyrics ...

Blah blah blah blah SWEET POTATO PIE
PANCAKES PILED UP TILL THEY REACH THE SKY
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
WE'LL EAT AND EAT AND EAT AND EAT AND EAT UNTIL WE DIE

The song is "Beanero" by Oliver Wallace, from the MICKEY & THE BEANSTOCK / MICKEY & THE BEANSTALK movie - an oldie from 1947. (Donald Duck and Goofy are singing about what they're going to eat when Mickey Mouse comes back with money after selling their cow. (Mickey, of course, comes back with "magic beans" instead.)) The song is based on a traditional Italian folk song:

Although "Beanero" is most definitely based on "Funiculi Funicula", I'm not convinced 100% that Frank's guitar solo was based on either of those. Being of Sicilian descent and all, I would like to think that he was quoting a traditional Italian folk song rather than Mickey Mouse, but on the other hand, it's only a few notes in common, so it may have been coincidence.

The inside cover has a picture of Zappa and four girls.

Disney informants: M Yasko, A Bredlau, an Olson family, and Craig Wingerson at the Walt Disney World Song Archive. "Funiculi Funicula" informants: Charles Ulrich and Patrick Neve

Show & Tell (LP/CD)

  • Stockholm, 21-Aug-1973
  • Felt Forum, New York, 30-Oct-1974
  • Felt Forum, New York, 31-Oct-1975
  • Radio

Also issued as record 7 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa (re-issued on CD).

Length: ~45 min
LP label: Mud Shark MZ4807
CD label: RXZ Records 319A

  • 1973 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Jean-Luc Ponty and Ralph Humphrey
  • 1974 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson and Napoleon Murphy Brock
  • 1975 musicians: Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Terry Bozzio, Andre Lewis and Norma Bell

1. RDNZL
2. Farther Oblivion [listed as "Cucamonga"]
3. Zappa Reads the News
4. Chester's Gorilla [last part of "Inca Roads"?]
5. That's Right, Let's Boogie [instrumental]
6. A Few Minutes with Norma Bell [instrumental]

7. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
8. I Ain't Got No Heart
9. I'm Not Satisfied
10. Packard Goose
11. Black Napkins

  • Tracks 1-2 are live in Stockholm, 21-Aug-1973 (from Piquantique).
  • Track 3 is Zappa "reading the news", from KOAZ radio 1974.
  • Tracks 4-5 are unknown live versions - they're listed as live at the Felt Forum, New York, 30-Oct-1974, but there was no such show, and they don't really seem to match the set list for the 31st.
  • Tracks 6-11 are live at the Felt Forum, New York, 31-Oct-1975.

Track 2 is the last part of "Farther Oblivion", an officially unreleased piece including themes from "Cucamonga" and "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" as well as the entire "Be-Bop Tango" theme. It is NOT under ANY circumstances to be confused with the COMPLETELY different number called "Father O'Blivion". It also seems that "Chester's Gorilla" isn't even the expected "Florentine Pogen" but an "Inca Roads" segment. "Packard Goose" is a recital over the "Black Napkins" vamp. "That's Right, Let's Boogie" is a guitar solo, wherein Frank Zappa says "That's right, let's boogie".

Show & Tell was the title of one of the albums in The History & Collected Improvisations of The Mothers of Invention, a big box Zappa planned but never released: not to be confused with its bootleg box namesake.

Tiny Nightmares
Tiny Nightmares (2 LP)
Tiny Nightmares (?)
Mudshark (CD)

This is a bit special. There are three versions of Tiny Nightmares:

  1. A 1978 re-issue of Ultra-Modern Stringbean on Impossible Recordworks (IMP 1.13). The front cover has someone holding a baby with one hand and playing an accordion with the other hand. The back cover has Frank (in bib-and-braces overalls) and Gail with one of their babies.
     
  2. A double-LP re-issue of Zurkon Music and Ultra-Modern Stringbean on Beacon Island Records, Australia (2S726), in a "deluxe colour cover" with five superimposed pictures of Zappa playing guitar. (This cover was also used for the Mudshark CD - a re-issue of Ultra-Modern Stringbean, and on the Shogun Records boots Brest and Thigh.)
     
  3. A third version on Sunset Records, with a "live cover", and unknown content that might match either of the above.

Live Downunda

  • Apollo Stadium, Adelaide, 24-Jan-1976
  • Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, 24-Jun-1973 (from the so-called "Un-Concert")

Sound quality: Soundboard (Adelaide)

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

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

1976 musicians: Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Andre Lewis, Terry Bozzio and Roy Estrada

This track list may be side-flipped, so that side two comes before side one:

1. Black Napkins
2. The Illinois Enema Bandit
3. The Torture Never Stops

4. Father O'Blivion [Stage #6 version?]
5. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
6. Nanook Rubs It
7. Penguin in Bondage
8. Dog Breath

Tracks 1-3 are from Adelaide 1976 and tracks 4-7 probably from Sydney 1973; track 7 is probably from 1974 and track 8 unknown (tracks 4-8 purport to be from Sydney in 1973 and 1974, but are not). The Adelaide tracks first appeared on the bootleg Back on the Straight and Narrow, and the Sydney tracks are from the so-called "Un-Concert" and can be heard on many bootlegs, like Nifty, Around the World and Canada 1973.

The Night of the Iron Sausage (LP/CD)

  • Felt Forum, New York, 31-Oct-1975
  • Hartford, Connecticut, 17-Oct-1977

Also issued as record 8 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa (re-issued on CD).

LP label: Mud Shark MZ4808
CD label: RXZ Records 320A

  • 1975 musicians: Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Terry Bozzio, Andre Lewis and Norma Bell
  • 1977 musicians: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann and Terry Bozzio

1. Lonely Little Girl
2. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
3. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
4. Chunga's Revenge

5. Envelopes
6. Disco Boy
7. I Promise Not to Come in Your Mouth
8. Wild Love

("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.)

  • Side 1 live at the Felt Forum 31-Oct-1975.
  • Side 2 live in Hartford, Connecticut, 17-Oct-1977.

Frankie Boy - Toxic Shock Part 4

  • Various (unknown) live

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: "Superb stereo" / "OK"
Label: Collage Nbi-1188

Musicians: Various

1. Collage One [?]
2. Fine Girl [Tinsel-Town-Rebellion version, listed as "Catholic Girls"]
3. Disco Boy
4. Debra Kadabra
5. Stranded in the Jungle

6. Room Service [partial, listed as "Do the Funky Room Service"]
7. Nite Owl [Tony Allen]
8. RDNZL [partial]
9. Florentine Pogen [partial, listed as "Chester's Gorilla"]
10. That's Right, Let's Boogie [?]

  • Track 1 is from the Mount St Mary's College orchestral concert, another part of which has been released on The Lost Episodes.
  • Track 2 is from Tinsel-Town Rebellion - you can even hear the first split-second of "Easy Meat".
  • Track 3 is live 1977 or 1978.
  • Track 4 is live spring 1975, with Captain Beefheart.
  • Track 5 is an officially unreleased 1976 song, in a version from the Felt Forum, New York, 30-Oct-1976 (from Soup & Old Clothes).
  • Track 6 is an instrumental part (presumably) of "Room Service" (1974), starting with Zappa saying "Do the funky room service one more time!" from (Soup & Old Clothes).
  • Track 7 is an unknown live version.
  • Track 8 is live in Stockholm 21-Aug-1973 - the same recording as on Piquantique, but shorter (02:32).
  • Tracks 8-9 are listed as live at the Felt Forum, New Yok, 30-Oct-1974, but there was no such show. Track 8 is the end part of "Florentine Pogen", and track 9 is a is a guitar solo, wherein Frank Zappa says "That's right, let's boogie" (from Show & Tell).

It was issued in a white coveryellowly stickered with a colour concert picture of Zappa (barely recognisable) standing with a microphone. The edition is "Extremely Limited". The labels alone list the title "Toxic Shock Part 4" (they do not list "Frankie Boy"), but this "Part 4" does not seem related to the Toxic Shock Trilogy (which may of course still have been made by the same people).

Uncle Penguin's Brain [not bad!]

  • RATW (Rock Around The World) New Jersey radio broadcast recorded at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, USA, 02-May-1973
  • 15-Oct-1978, State University of New York, Stonybrook

Label: Barking Penguin Records [YES! YES!] - Phantas Music FZUB 14

1. Suicide Chump (09:06)
2. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (03:38)
3. City of Tiny Lites (08:30)
4. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (11:32) [including "Hail Caesar"]
5. Improvisation (Including Tommy Mars Solo) (03:05)
6. Preamble (00:46)
7. Pygmy Twylyte/Dummy Up (10:19)
8. Dupree's Paradise (10:14)
9. Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat (04:27)
10. Penguin in Bondage (05:24)
11. Nanook Rubs It (07:16)
12. St. Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast (04:55)

  • Tracks 1-5 are the entire The Brain bootleg, live at the State University of New York, Stonybrook, 15-Oct-1978
  • Track 6-12 are the entire FZ Uncle Penguin bootleg, from the so-called "Un-Concert"

The cover is identical to the FZ Uncle Penguin LP cover: yellow with a black & white penguin, a picture of Zappa, and the words "music is the best". Barking Penguin Records is my favourite name for a bootleg label! ("Uncle Penguin's Brain", of course, is a play on "Uncle Bernie's Farm", a song on Absolutely Free.)

Scandinavian Nights Part 1
Scandinavian Nights Part 2

  • Copenhagen 29-Feb-1976 (side 1 of part 1) / 05-Mar-1979 (side 2 of part 1)
  • Gothenburg 21-Jan-1977 (side 1 of part 2) / Copenhagen 05-Mar-1979 (side 2 of part 2)

Label: Faboulous Wizardo Records FWRMB ZX 50-1 and ZX 50-2
Sound quality: "awful: far too shreiky"

Each of these were manufactured in 500 copies on blue vinyl and 100 copies on marbled vinyl. They were not produced by the original Wizardo label, but by a European bootlegger using the same logo. They were made in 1984. A copy on red vinyl has also been confirmed.

Part 1

1. Stinkfoot [guitar solo only]
2. The Poodle Lecture
3. Dirty Love
4. Filty Habits

5. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
6. Nanook Rubs It
7. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
8. Father O'Blivion
9. A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus)

Part 2

1. Manx Needs Women [?]
2. Titties & Beer
3. Black Napkins

4. Jumbo, Go Away
5. Andy
6. Inca Roads

The Best of ... Pappa Zappa & Any Way the Wind Blows (2 LP)
Lactic Decay (2 LP)
Super Mix (2 LP)

The Best of ... Pappa Zappa & Any Way the Wind Blows label: FP
Lactic Decay label: FP 102 A/B
Super Mix label: FP-101

The first record is from Any Way the Wind Blows:

1. Watermelon in Easter Hay (04:27)
2. Dead Girls of London (02:38) [Zappa/Shankar]
3. Ain't Got No Heart (to Give Away) (02:11)
4. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (07:29)
5. Cosmik Debris (04:11)

6. Tryin' to Grow a Chin (03:34)
7. City of Tiny Lights (09:25)
8. Dancin' Fool (03:31)
9. Easy Meat (06:40)

The second record is from Pappa Zappa:

10. Advance Romance
12. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
13. The Illinois Enema Bandit [continues on side 4]

14. The Illinois Enema Bandit [continued from side 4]
15. Wind Up Working in a Gas Station
16. Trying to Grow a Chin
17. The Torture Never Stops
18. Chunga's Revenge

Lactic Decay was issued on brown vinyl with a black & white insert cover. Super Mix was issued on yellow & black vinyl.

Soup & Old Clothes (LP/CD)

  • Various live
  • Various radio and TV

Also issued as record 11 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa (re-issued on CD).

Musicians: various, but including Tom Waits

LP label: Mud Shark MZ4811
CD label: RXZ Records 323A

1. Nite Owl [Tony Allen]
2. Penis Dimension [200 Motels version]
3. In Memoriam: Hieronymus Bosch
4. The 12 Inches
5. Florentine Pogen

6. Debra Kadabra
7. Stranded in the Jungle
8. Hard Cheese [?]
9. The Tolkien Tapes [Tolkien/Kaylan/Zappa]
10. Room Service [partial, listed as "Do the Funky Room Service"]

  • Track 1 is live at the Nassau Colliseum in Uniondale 09-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. It also appears on Apocrypha.
  • Track 4 is live at the Orpheum, Boston, 09-Nov-1974 (late show), with Tom Waits guesting.
  • Track 5 is live in Copenhagen 05-Mar-1979.
  • Track 6 is live in Boston 27-Apr-1975 (?).
  • Track 7 is an officially unreleased 1976 song, in a version from the Felt Forum, New York, 30-Oct-1976.
  • Tracks 8-9 from WABX radio, Detroit, 25-May-1971. Some sources list them as one track, additionally describing it as "madness in the radio station". Flo & Eddie are reading JRR Tolkien's "When the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon" to the tune of "Magdalena".
  • Track 10 is an instrumental part (presumably) of "Room Service" (1974), starting with Zappa saying "Do the funky room service one more time!".

Soup & Old Clothes was the title of one of the albums in The History & Collected Improvisations of The Mothers of Invention, a big box Zappa planned but never released: not to be confused with its bootleg box namesake. Of course, the title was later used for a track on Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar.

Advanced Study: World Pop Domination (LP/CD)

  • Various live
  • Studio outtakes

Also issued as record 12 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa (re-issued on CD).

LP label: Mud Shark MZ4812
CD label: RXZ Records 324A

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 [Tinsel-Town Rebellion version]
12. Treacherous Cretins

  • Track 1 is a short excerpt from the orchestral event at Mount Saint Mary's College, another part of which is officially released on the Lost Episodes (see also The Basic Primer: Z-A).
  • Tracks 2 & 5 are from the Uncle Meat sessions ("Hmm, said Lionel suspicously").
  • Tracks 3-4 are live in Hartford, Connecticut, 17-Oct-1977.
  • Tracks 6 and 8-9 are taken from Personality (Live in Rotterdam, 24-May-1980).
  • Track 7 is a spoken-word thing with Zappa. Date and location unknown.
  • Track 10 is live in Munich, 31-Mar-1979.
  • Track 11 has been officially released on Tinsel-Town Rebellion.
  • Track 12 is live in Copenhagen 05-Mar-1979.

[untitled picture disc, ometimes referred to as "Frank Zappa", sometimes mentioned together with the words "I/II"]

  • "The Falcum", Copenhagen 05-Mar-1979 ("T-shirt side")
  • Scandinavium, Gothenburg 18-Feb-1978 ("jacket side")

Length: ~40 min?
Sound quality: Audience B+ ("T-shirt side") / B- ("jacket side")
Label: no label info indicated anywhere on this item

  • 1978 musicians: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann and Terry Bozzio
  • 1979 musicians: Frank Zappa, Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Vinnie Colaiuta, Arthur Barrow and Warren Cuccurullo

A black & white picture disc made in Europe. From Andreas Kerschgens:

On both sides are portraits of Zappa. On one side he wears a (grey?) T-shirt with the word "RENTAL" on it [a circa 1968 photo], which I know from another photo. On the album photo you can only see the letters E N T A. On the other side Mr. Zappa wears a jacket and holds his hands like people who pray in front of his mouth [a 1979 photo].

"T-shirt side":

1. The Deathless Horsie (09:28)
2. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (07:05)
3. Cosmik Debris (03:56)
4. Jumbo, Go Away (04:19)

"Jacket side":

1. Swedish Botique Girl (06:50) [a spoken intro to "I Have Been in You"]
2. I Have Been in You (05:31)
3. Flakes (07:55)
4. Broken Hears Are for Assholes (03:44)
5. King Kong (00:26)

Track 1 is an intro to "I Have Been in You", not totally unlike the one on Stage #6. (The "Sweeedish boutique girl" wanted to meet an "Eeenglish pop star" (Zappa says), and had to suck the crew four times to get backstage. She manages to get him to follow her home to her apartment with the Jimi Hendrix poster and the ABBA record collection, Zappa goes into some unflattering detail, and he says "I'm in you".) During "I Have Been in You", Zappa says "Of course, I know socialism is great ... by the way: I'm going in you again ..."

1000 copies made. Sold in clear plastic jackets.

Cuccurrullo Brillo Brullo (2 CD)

  • Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, 25-Jun-1973
  • KCET TV, Los Angeles (cover says KTC TV), 6/7-Aug-1974 (broadcast in December)
  • 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) [Stage #6 version]
2. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (1:57)
3. Nanook Rubs It (6:34)
4. St. Alfonzo'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 (9:28)
11. Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat [listed as "Dog Breath"] (3:55)
12. Approximate (1:50)
13. Cosmik Debris (7:39)
14. Florentine Pogen (10:10) [longer edit of the One Size Fits All version]

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 Greasey [listed as "Keep it Greased"] (1:48)
21. Pick Me, I'm Clean (4:40)
22. The Illinois Enema Bandit
23. The Illiniois Enema Bandit Solo
24. You Didn't Try to Call Me [Stage #1 version]
25. I Ain't Got No Heart
26. Love of My Life / City of Tiny Lites [part 1] [listed as "City Of My Tiny Lights"]
27. City of Tiny Lites [part 2] / Studebaker Hoch ["Billy the Mountain" excerpt]
28. Don't Fuck Around (1:52) ["Billy the Mountain" excerpt]
29. Ruthie-Ruthie [Berry/Brock] [Stage #1 version] (2:19)
30. Smell My Beard [not the one on Stage #4] (5:16)

  • Tracks 1-7 also appear on Nifty. "Mar-juh-rene", Zappa's verbal improvisation around the letters MAR-JUH-RENE was edited down there, but is unedited here. Tracks 1-5 are live at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, 24-Jun-1973; tracks 6-7 are unknown 1974 live bonus tracks. Those two sound worse here than they do on Nifty. Track 7 also appears on Piquantique. Track 1 has been officially released on Stage #6, but it's a bit speeded up here compared to the official release.
  • Tracks 8-14 are from the KCET-TV studio, Los Angeles, 6/7-Aug-1974. They first appeared on Indiscreet Picture Show and A Token of His Extreme.
  • Tracks 15-27.5 are live at the Olympiahalle, Munich, 03-Jul-1980. They hail from Songs Einstein Jr. Never Heard.
  • Tracks 27.6-28 are parts of "Billy the Mountain", and they also appear on Randomonium and Apocrypha. It's a live recording, but there has been speculation that there are some overdubs on it.
  • Tracks 24 and 29 have been officially released on Stage #1 (Track 24 is from Munich 03-Jul-1980).
  • Tracks 29-30 are listed as live in Passaic, New Jersey, 1973, but Zappa introduces the 1974 line-up (plus Marty Perellis on "boogers") in "Smell My Beard". He introduces himself as Rondo Hatton, an ugly movie actor. Track 29 includes the beginning of "Babette" on Stage #1.
  • The reason that "Stink-Foot" is listed as a "Tom Waits Version" is that Zappa mentions him: "just around the corner, over by Tom Waits's restaurant". It's sung through a frequency shifter (Zappa's own term, caught on tape in San Carlos 21-July-1974) transposing his voice down below normal range.
  • This version of "Inca Roads" provided the basic tracks for the official One Size Fits All relese. The One Size Fits All guitar solo came from a Helsinki concert on 17-Sep-1974 - Stage #2 is assembled from two or more shows, and "Inca Roads" there is from the 22nd.
  • "Florentine Pogen" is the One Size Fits All version, but here it is 9:40, whereas on One Size Fits All it fades and is several minutes shorter.
  • The second half of "Approximate" is funny scat singing like on Stage #2.

The front cover has a 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. The 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.

Thigh (2 LP)

  • Konserthuset, Stockholm, 30-Sep-1967
  • The Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981 (late show)
  • The Ritz, New York, 17-Nov-1981

Length: 71:37
Label: Shogun 13030, USA (Shogun Records, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo)
Sound quality: Record 1 B, record 2 B-

  • 1967 musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins and Billy Mundi
  • 1981 musicians: Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars and Bobby Martin

1. You Didn't Try to Call Me [03:19]
2. Petrouska [00:45] [Stravinsky]
3. Bristol Stomp [00:40] [Appel/Mann]
4. Baby Love [00:52] [The Supremes]
6. Big Leg Emma [02:08]
7. No Matter What You Do (Tchaikovsky's 6th) [03:02]
8. Blue Suede Shoes [00:38] [Perkins]
9. Hound Dog [00:15] [Leiber/Stoller]
10. Gee [01:42] [William Davis / Viola Watkins] 

11. King Kong [15:17]
12. It Can't Happen Here [06:25]

13. Bamboozled by Love [05:21]
14. Stevie's Spanking [05:48]
15. Cocaine Decisions [03:25]
16. Nigger Biznis [05:05] ["Nig Biz"]

17. Drowning Witch [09:45]
18. What's New In Baltimore? [05:58]
19. Moggio [01:14]

Front cover has Zappa's "True Glove" picture (as on Them or Us) and the word ZAPPA in it. Back cover has a tampered picture of Frank and some other band members on stage (four shots of Zappa in various stages of a guitar solo). The exact same picture was also used on the Shogun Records boot Brest, the Mudshark CD - a re-issue of Ultra-Modern Stringbean - and on a version of Tiny Nightmares. Back cover also lists the song titles (very incompletely). The spine has the following info: "Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Thighs [or "Thigh"?] - Sweden 67 - Hollywood 81". Late in "Drowning Witch" "What's New in Baltimore" seems to appear, and dissolve into "Envelopes".

Lectures

  • Various live
  • No lectures

Length: 37:44
Sound quality: "Quite good"
Label: "Munchkin Music"
Matrix: LOR 19-01A/B

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 [an "Outside Now" solo] [11:04]
2. Zoot Allures II ["Chalk Pie" on Guitar] [04:29]
3. Dancin' Fool [03:22]

4. Catholic Meat [07:15]
5. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou [Donald & Doris Woods / Obie Jesse] [05:48]
6. Alien Orifice [05:14]

  • Track 1 is an "Outside Now" solo from Munich 31-Mar-1979, similar to "Outside Now (Original Solo)" on Guitar; it also appears on Demos where it's called "Outside Now".
  • Track 2 is a "Zoot Allures" solo from Santa Monica 07-Dec-1981 (early show).
  • Track 3 is from when Zappa guested the Saturday Night Live TV show.
  • Track 4 is a live version of "Easy Meat" from Munich 31-Mar-1979, where "Catholic Girls" was inserted into the solo (this edit is incomplete and fades out before they even start singing "Catholic Girls").
  • Track 5 is live 1981 or 1982.
  • Track 6 is live around 1981.

Some copies came in white covers, with two xeroxed A4-size inserts, and some in black, real photo covers. Made in Denmark, in 1987. The label indicated "Munchkin Music" and "STEMRA".

40th Birthday - Previously Unreleased (3 LP)

Length: ~130 min
Sound quality: Various
Matrix: L.1.-L.6.

Musicians: various

1. Montana
2. Fifty-Fifty
3. I'm the Slime

4. Camarillo Brillo
5. Muffin Man
6. Pygmy Twylyte
7. The Idiot Bastard Son
8. Cheepnis

9. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
10. Ain't Got No Heart
11. I'm Not Satisfied
12. Black Napkins
13. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?

14. Wind Up Working in a Gas Station
15. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
16. The Torture Never Stops
17. You Can Swallow My Pride

18. The Hook
19. Dupree's Paradise

20. Pygmy Twylyte

This is a hodge-podge of tracks from a few of the bootlegs that form The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. It could have been issued around Frank Zappa's 40th birthday (21-Dec-1980) - a gift he wouldn't have liked.

Made in Europe and packaged in a "black jacket with one postcard outside and two inside". The vinyl is black, the labels are coloured, with pictures of Zappa's face on each side: the first record has green labels, the second ocher yellow, and the third brown. The black sleeve, which you have to unfold to get to the records, is sealed with a little yellow sticker with the title on it.

Chalk Pie

  • Saturday Night Live performances
  • From Chalk Pie, a live album Zappa produced but never released

Re-issued as record 7 of the Mystery Box

Length: 44 min
Sound quality: TV / UMRK
Label: Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Records

Musicians: various

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

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

Side 1 is from Zappa's appearances on the Saturday Night Live TV show: tracks 1-2 and 4 from 11-Dec-1976 (featuring John Belushi as the Be-Bop Samurai) and tracks 3 and 5-6 from 1978. Tracks 4-5 can be found on Apocrypha.

Side 2 is from Chalk Pie, a live double album (from the 81 and 82 tours) that Zappa produced but never released. A copy of this album leaked out to collectors through ONE OF THE GUYS IN THE BAND (yes, I know which guy). 

  • Track 7 has been officially released on Guitar in a slightly different mix; it's from Salt Lake City 07-Dec-1981.
  • Track 8 is an officially unreleased live version edited together from Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (early show) and Salt Lake City 07-Dec-1981.
  • Track 9 is an officially unreleased guitar solo from "The Black Page #2", from San Diego 12-Dec-1981, early show.
  • Track 10 is from the Ritz show in New York on 17-Nov-1981 when Al DiMeola sat in (bootlegged on Assault on New York - The Toxic Shock Trilogy).

Good Grief!
Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen

  • Various live 1978-1982
  • Studio out-take of "Fine Girl"

Also issued as Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen

Length: 39:21
Sound quality: various
Label: Flashback-8810 (cover) / Flashback Q-8810 (label)

Musicians: Various - Ahmet guests on "Frogs with Dirty Little Lips" and Lisa Popeil sings "The Dangerous Kitchen"

1. Lock Jaw Rap [00:41]
2. Hail Caesar [06:40]
3. The Closer You Are [Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson] / Johnny Darling [Louis Statton / Johnny Statton] [not listed] [03:25]
4. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [03:31]
5. Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen ["The Dangerous Kitchen"] [06:23]

6. Fine Girl [03:19]
7. Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? [01:35]
8. We're Turning Again [05:39]
9. Heavy Duty Judy [with vocals] [04:39]
10. What's New in Baltimore? [03:29]

  • Track 1 has Zappa talking to the audience for about 40 seconds, in London 19-Jun-1982 (first show). In a discussion on alt.fan.frank-zappa in March 2000 about "the dumbest or most embarassing thing Zappa said on stage", it was one of two things that came up. It goes like this:

"You know, as I look out here tonight, I see all these people and wonder what kind of people actually come to a show like this, and I know! Usually it's a bunch of guys who think that maybe it's cool to come here, and then they bring these girls along that wouldn't be caught dead in a place like this, listening to this shitty kind of music, and they sit there and grit their fucking teeth for two hours, and then maybe later they give the guy a blowjob. Well let me tell you something; all you guys that brought girls like this to this kind of a concert, I hope you do get blown by those lock-jawed little bitches that you brought in here." 

(The other thing that came up was the imfamous "women's movement" from Saratoga 1-Sep-1984, on Kreega Bondola.)

  • Track 2 is live in London 28-Feb-1978.
  • Tracks 3-4 are live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show); track 4 also appears as a "bonus track" on Welcome to the Mudd Club, where part of Zappa's spoken intro has been edited out. Apparently, this was the first live performance with Ahmet, Frank's son (noted on the cover).
  • Track 5 is live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (second show).
  • Track 6 is yet another different mix of the Tinsel-Town Rebellion recording; the unreleased Crush All Boxes album had another mix
  • Track 7 is live 1980.
  • Track 8 is an unknown 1982 or 1982 live version identified as "the Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1982", but there was no such show.
  • Track 9 is a soundboard recording from the second show in Pittsburgh 13-Nov-1980 (the same recording as on Apocrypha). It has "vocals", in the sense that Ike and Ray sing "Heavy Duty Judy" in the very beginning over the riff.
  • Track 10 is live in Cologne 21-May-1982.

Sound quality graded as A on track 5, B on track 6 and C on all other tracks. Track 6 is an incredibly good performance, also circulated on grade A soundboard tapes.

How Much Rot Can You Handle?

  • Various live 1978-1982
  • Snippets from a Varèse radio special in November (?) 1981

Sound Quality: Various, probably audience
Label: KB 1041

1. Guitar Solo from "King Kong"
2. Instrumental [?]
3. Sinister Footwear, Second Movement
4. The Hail Ceasar Variations

  • Track 1 is live in Brussels 14-May-1982.
  • Track 2 is live in Essen 10-Jun-1982.
  • Track 3 is live in Hamburg 08-Jun-1982.
  • Track 4 is live at Cambridge MA, October 1978 (second show). It has been called an "outtake from 'Pound for a Brown'"; one would guess it was (at least similar to) "Emperor of Ohio"

It says on it: "Produced by Rod & Nony for Cornhole Productions. Made in Belgium 1984". Between the tracks there are snippets from a 1981 radio special on Varèse. The title must be an allusion to an ad for Rod Stewart that goes "How much Rod can you handle?" - when Zappa played some Palladium 1978 material on WPIX radio in 1979, a guitar solo (possibly the unreleased "Mo' Mama" in the Guitar Book) segued right into that ad.

Arrogant Mop

  • The Palladium, New York, 31-Oct-1981 (both shows)
  • Stockholm 07-May-1982

Label: Om Shanti Productions (?) / Laccadive Production Team Ltd

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes and Chad Wackerman

1. We're Turning Again
2. Alien Orifice [unedited version of the Stage #6 recording]
3. Teenage Prostitute
4. Flakes
5. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes

6. Disco Boy
7. Teenage Wind
8. Truck-Driver Divorce
9. Montana
10. Whippin' Post [Allman]

Issued in 1983 in 700 copies; 200 on blue vinyl and 200 with a variant cover. Blue vinyl copies have been reported to have one red (side 1) and one blue (side 2) label, without print, and delivered in a flimsy cover just folded around the record, that is, not glued together and open on three sides. "LIMITED EDITION! Your copy no. ___/100" is printed on the cover, but no number has been written in the blank space.

("Arrogant Mop" was a working title of Joe's Garage, but while he was trying to release Läther, too, Zappa said in concert that his upcoming album might be called "Arrogant Mop".)

Muffin Research from the Utility Kitchen

  • Various live 1979-1981
  • 1980 & 1982 rehearsals in the UMRK truck (?)
  • Snippets from a radio special on Varèse in November 1981 (?)

Label: PHI Beta / Stemra PB 85011 (Phi Beta Kappa is an American sorority, and in the late '60s or early '70s, someone made an unauthorised Zappa poster using a picture of him on the toilet (also unauthorised) and the words "PHI ZAPPA KRAPPA"; Stemra is the Dutch organisation for collection and clearance of copyrights)

Musicians: Various

1. Teenage Wind
2. In France
3. Pick Me, I'm Clean
4. He's So Gay
5. Guitar Solo
6. Instrumental [?]
7. Treacherous Cretins
8. Instrumental [?]

  • Tracks 1-5 claim to have been recorded in the UMRK truck; 1 & 3 in "1980" (probably february; they are rehearsal recordings), 2 at 6-Apr-1982, and 4-5 at 20-Apr-1982 (the Crush All Boxes disc in the Mystery Box has some similar, probably identical tracks)
  • Track 6 live in Vancouver 01-Oct-1975
  • Track 7 live in Detroit 25-Nov-1981
  • Track 8 live in Hannover 26-Mar-1979

"Produced by Rob & Nobney for Cornhole Productions" - very charming. The UMRK truck band is listed as Ike Willis, Ray White, Arthur Barrow and "The Drumkit" in 1980, and as Tommy Mars, Scott Thunes, Ray White, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Steve Vai and Chad Wackerman in 1982. (According to this, track 5 is not a Zappa solo.) The tracks are bridged by snippets from a radio special on Varèse in 1981.

The Greatest Flops!!! (CD)

  • Various live 1974-1984

Sound quality: "Mostly excellent"
Label: Living Legend Records LLRCD 223 (1993)

Musicians: various

1. Prelude to "Bobby Brown" [02:53]
2. You Are What You Is [03:24]
3. Easy Meat [0?: 39]
4. Joe's Garage [02:22]
5. Why Does it Hurt When I Pee? [02:13]
6. Bobby Brown [03:23]
7. Ms. Pinky [04:26]
8. Montana [03:54]
9. Stink-Foot [0?:49]
10. Titties & Beer [05:31]
11. He's So Gay [02:26]
12. Dumb All Over [05:34]
13. Stick It Out [01:12] [listed as "Stick It All Out"]
14. I Have Been in You [07:59]
15. I Don't Wanna Get Drafted [02:35]
16. The Illinois Enema Bandit [03:51]
17. Dancin' Fool [03:09]
18. Bobby Brown [02:57]

  • Track 1 is an unknown 1978 recording.
  • Tracks 2-7 & 15-17 are live at the Ahoy in Rotterdam 24-May-1980 (a much bootlegged show).
  • Tracks 8-9 are live in Los Angeles 1974.
  • Tracks 10 & 14 are live in New York 1980.
  • Track 11 is live in Hollywood 1984.
  • Tracks 12-13 are US live 1984.
  • Track 18 is live in New York 1978, listed on the cover as a "bonus track".

Issued in a yellow jewel box with a cover drawing of Frank Zappa (yellow jacket, blue T-shirt) against an American flag.

We Don't Swap Around
It's More Than a Burp

Also issued as It's More Than a Burp, also on Angry Taxman Records (ATR-009)

  • Brest, France, 19-Mar-1979
  • Civic Center, Santa Cruz, 25-Jul-1984

Length: ~44 min
Matrix : Angry Taxman Records ATR-008-A & B (We Don't Swap Around)

1. I Ain't Got No Heart
2. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
3. Cosmik Debris
4. Tryin' to Grow a Chin [changed to "Tryin' to Grow a Dick"]
5. City of Tiny Lites

6. Joe's Garage
7. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
8. Cocaine Decisions
9. Nig Biz

  • Side one live in Brest 1979
  • Side two live in Santa Cruz 1984

We Don't Swap Around was made in 100 copies; It's More Than a Burp in 200.

Demos (2 LP / 2 CD)

  • Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show)
  • Munich 31-Mar-1979
  • Various live
  • From the unreleased Crush All Boxes
  • From Them or Us
  • From The Sleep Dirt CD

Length: 80:33
Sound quality: Various
Label: Space Magic (LP), RAS 8611 (CD)

  • Santa Monica 1981 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray White, Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Lisa Popeil and Nicholas Slonimsky
  • Munich 1979 musicians: Frank Zappa, Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Mann, Arthur Barrow and Warren Cuccurullo

1. Teenage Prostitute [02:26]
2. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus / Nicholas Slonimsky Whips It Out [04:53]
3. Lisa's Life Story [05:37] [full-length version of the Stage #6 edit] 
4. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes [06:04]

5. Doreen [02:19]
6. Easy Meat [08:42]
7. Stick It Out [01:15]
8. Truck-Driver Divorce [07:04]

9. The Deathless Horsie [10:23]
10. Outside Now Again & Again [10:50]

11. Flambay [extended version] [05:01]
12. Planet of My Dreams [Them Or Us version] [01:34]
13. Spider of Destiny [extended version] [03:07]
14. Time Is Money [not listed] [Sleep Dirt CD version] [02:51]
15. Truck-Driver Divorce [01:36]
16. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [Frank/Ahmet Zappa] [02:05]
17. In France [03:53]

(Side 4 is listed all wrong on the cover; the above should be correct.)

  • Side 1 is live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (first show).
  • Track 3 appears on Stage #6, edited down to 03:06, but here it's unedited: 05:36.
  • Track 4 is the same recording as on Apocrypha (Santa Monica, 11-Dec-1981, early show). Someone throws food on stage; Zappa stops the song and makes him eat it.
  • Tracks 5-6 are from Crush All Boxes (an unreleased album planned before Tinsel-Town Rebellion), but "Doreen" fades out earlier here and is not complete (02:47 vs 02:15).
  • Tracks 7-8 & 16 are live at the Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984, with George Duke guesting on "Truck-Driver Divorce".
  • Side 3 is live in Munich 31-Mar-1979.
  • Track 10 is an "Outside Now" solo from Munich 31-Mar-1979, similar to "Outside Now (Original Solo)" on Guitar; it also appears on Lectures where it's called "Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar Again".
  • Tracks 11 & 13 are the Sleep Dirt CD mixes, but longer edits: "Flambay" is 10 seconds longer here (a bass ending), and "Spider of Destiny" 20 seconds longer (the Sleep Dirt version is edited in the middle and end).
  • Track 14 is from the Sleep Dirt CD.
  • Track 15 is a part of a live 1981 version (about one and a half minute of the head).
  • Track 16 is a 1981 studio version (the same recording as on Apocrypha).
  • Track 17 is live at the Palace Theater, Hollywood, 22-Jul-1984, with George Duke and Johnny "Guitar" Watson guesting. It has a unique intro, but is available with better sound quality on All You Need Is Glove.

CD Version

The CD version was available in 1988 or even '87. Both discs come in jewel boxes with identical inserts and a "Made In Japan" sticker on the back of one jewel box. The cover shows a picture of some industrial machinery with the words "BLIND-RAMS" stenciled onto it along with a small pumpkin cartoon. The CD has is a simple screen-printed disc with the CD logo, the pumpkin cartoon, "Demo's", and the catalogue number RAS 8611.

Uncle Frankie's Prime Pork Cuts (Picture LP)

  • Various live 1968-1984

Matrix: Fart 10 A/B

Musicians: Various

1. Bacon Fat [Andre Williams / Brown]
2. Oh, in the Sky
3. Dupree's Paradise
4. T'Mershi Duween

5. Carol, You Fool
6. Chana in the Bushwop [Frank/Diva Zappa]
7. On Woman
8. No No Cherry [L. Ceasar / J. Gray]
9. Dead Girls of London [Zappa/Shankar]
10. Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?
11. What's New in Baltimore
12. The Dangerous Kitchen

  • Tracks 1-2 taken from Our Man in Nirvana (Fullerton, 11-Aug-1968, and Royal Festival Hall, London 1968, respectively). Track 2 is Roy Estrada singing a Ruben-esque tune.
  • Track 3 live 1973 (probably the same version as on Nifty).
  • Track 4 unidentified live.
  • Tracks 5-7 taken from Kreega Bondola (Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, New York, 01-Sep-1984).
  • Tracks 8-11 identified as "Berlin 1982", but doesn't exactly match up.
  • Track 12 live in Santa Monica 11-Dec-1981 (second show), a very good performance with Lisa Popeil. It's also available on the bootleg Good Grief!/Lisa's Dangerous Kitchen, but not in very good sound quality; however, there are very good quality tapes of it. The sound quality on this album is unknown.

This is a British black & white picture disc with with a 1984 photo of Zappa and the text "previously unreleased material featuring the original mothers of invention and Jean-Luc Ponty and the hot eighties band".

The Basic Primer: Z-A (LP/CD)

  • Various recordings

Also issued as record 1 of Twenty Years of Frank Zappa (re-issued on CD).

LP label: Mud Shark MZ4801
CD label: RXZ Records 313A

1. Return of Your Mama [instrumental (guitar solo?)]
2. Keep it Greasey
3. Village of the Sun
4. I Do a Bunch of Other Things [1976 interview]

5. Titties & Beer
6. What Kind of Group Do You Think We Are?
7. All the Way Down to the Tonsils
8. Rollo
?. Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
9. Zappa's Lecture

  • Track 1 is live February 1979.
  • Tracks 2-3 are live in Poughkeepsie 21-Sep-1978.
  • Track 4 is an out-take from a Jim Ladd radio interview 1976.
  • Tracks 5-6 are live at the Cobo Hall, Detroit, 19-Nov-1976.
  • Track 7 is recorded at the Uncle Meat sessions.
  • Track 8 is live in Washington DC 11-Nov-1972 (first show) (falsely known as 31-Dec-1972). It's an unreleased song called "Rollo", not the later "Rollo" part of the "Yellow Snow" suite.
  • Track ? - the track between 8 and 9 - is unknown and may not appear at all.
  • Track 9 is a short excerpt from the orchestral event at Mount Saint Mary's College, another part of which is officially released on The Lost Episodes.

What's Why (CD)

  • Various live 1980-1988

Sound quality: Mostly good
Length: 47:44
Label: CDM Records G-53 221 (EEC) - (P) 1994
Bar code: 5 450162 532218

1. Bobby Brown
2. Joe's Garage
3. Chunga's Revenge
4. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk
5. Mr. Green Genes
6. You Are What You Is
7. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
8. Easy Meat
9. Miss Pinky
10. Florentine Pogen

  • Tracks 1, 3 & 9 are live in Rotterdam 24-May-1980 (a much bootlegged show).
  • Tracks 2 & 7-8 are PROBABLY also live in Rotterdam 24-May-1980; they're at least from the same tour.
  • Track 6 is from the unreleased Crush All Boxes album.
  • Tracks 4-5 & 10 are from the bootleg The Untouchables, surface noise and all: track 4 is live in Washington 08-Feb-1988 and tracks 5 & 10 are live in Allentown 19-Mar-1988.

The 1980 tracks sound very good and are probably taken from a radio broadcast. "You Are What You Is" sounds good too and may be taken from a tape master. The 1988 tracks sound worse. The album has an ADD logo on it (don't believe the hype). Most of the album does sound really good, but the edits between songs are harsh, and the high end is a little swishy.

The label includes producer ("Raul Levi"), reprocessor and remaster ("Cindy Wilde") credits and production rights reserved for 1994. The oddly weird cover art (by "Klaus Boekhoff") depicts a bath tub tap under influence by a swirl effect.

Non-Foods (CD)

  • Various live guitar solos 1874-1988

1. Ancient Armaments (04:01) [Halloween version]
2. Trouble Every Day (02:47) 
3. Truck-Driver Divorce / Zoot Allures (07:08)
4. Now You See It - Now You Don't (04:56) [Tinsel-Town Rebellion version]
5. Sinister Footwear, Second Movement (02:38) [Them Or Us version]
6. City of Tiny Lights (03:41) [Make a Jazz Noise Here version]
7. Inca Roads (03:09) [One Size Fits All / Stage #2 version]
8. Stink-Foot (01:44) [Make a Jazz Noise Here version]
9. Pick Me, I'm Clean (01:45) [Tinsel-Town Rebellion version]
10. Any Kind of Pain (01:50) [Broadway the Hard Way version]
11. Alien Orifice (01:01) [Make a Jazz Noise Here version?]
12. The Sheik Yerbouti Tango (03:57) [Sheik Yerbouti version]
13. Black Napkins (06:41) [Make a Jazz Noise Here version]
14. RDNZL (03:34) [Stage #5 version]
15. Penguin in Boldage (02:01) [Roxy & Elsewhere version]
16. Easy Meat (04:05) [Stage #5 version]
17. Outside Now (04:09) [Broadway the Hard Way version]
18. Them Or Us (05:07) [Them Or Us version]
19. Theme from the 3rd Movement of "Sinister Footwear" (03:18) [You Are What You Is version?]
20. Yo' Mama (12:08) [Sheik Yerbouti version]

A weird assortment: are all tracks lifted off official releases? Most are at least from the same shows as official versions. Not sure about track 19, and the dates given for tracks 2-3 don't match official releases:

  • Track 1 live at the Palladium, New York City, 31-Oct-1978
  • Track 2 live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, 24-Sept-1984
  • Track 3 live at the Ritz, New York City, 17-Nov-1981
  • Track 4 live in Carbondale 15-Nov-1980
  • Track 5 live in Böblingen, 23-Jun-1982
  • Track 6 live in Modena, 05-Jun-1988
  • Track 7 live in Helsinki, 22-Sep-1974
  • Track 8 live in Poughkeepsie 23-Feb-1988
  • Track 9 live in Dallas, 17-Oct-1980
  • Track 10 live in Cleveland, 05-Mar-1988
  • Track 11 live in Firenze, 06-Jun-1988?
  • Track 12 live in Berlin, 15-Feb-1978
  • Track 13 live in Vienna, 08-Jun-1988
  • Track 14 live in Palermo, 14-Jun-1982
  • Track 15 live in Chicago, 11-May-1974
  • Track 16 live in Geneva, Switzerland, 01-Jul-1982
  • Track 17 live in Genoa, 09-Jun-1988
  • Track 18 live in Bolzano, 03-Jun-1982
  • Track 19 live at the Palladium, New York City, 27-Oct-1978
  • Track 20 live in Neunkirchen am Brand, 25-Feb-1978

Nose for Note (CD)

  • Playing time: 155:33 min
  • Sound: A- to B (allegedly)

Various, with CD2 focusing on "The Torture Never Stops."

Not much is clear about this piece. From the eBay auction:

This is a precious sampler crossing through Zappas work from '70 - '88, CD 2 is only reserved for "The Torture Never Stops" in different variations, different dates

Tracks (thanks, hk):

CD1
1: King Kong (20-Nov 1970, Veteran's Memorial Stadium, Columbus, Oh)
2: Pound For A Brown (23-Nov 1971, Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, Germany)
3: Dog Meat (15-Sep 1972, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany)
4: Inca Roads (11-Mar 1973, Texas Hall Auditorium, Arlington, Tx)
5: RDNZL (17-Nov 1974, The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa)
6: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (31-Oct 1975, Felt Forum, NYC)
7: Filthy Habits (8-Mar 1976, Palais des Sports, Paris, France)
8: The Black Page (20-Oct 1977, Music Hall, Boston, Ma -- early Show --)
9: Peaches En Regalia (25-Feb 1978, Hemmerleinhalle, Neukirchen, Germany)
10: Easy Meat Intro Solo (26-Mar 1979, Eilenriedhalle, Hannover, Germany)
11: Yellow Snow (3-May 1980, Music Hall, Boston, Ma -- late Show --)
12: Moggio (11-Dec 1981, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Ca -- early --)
13: Sinister Footwear 2nd Mvt. (2-Jul 1982, Stadio Comunale, Torino, Italy)
14: Drowning Witch (23-Dec 1984, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, Ca)
15: The Illinois Enema Bandit (9-Jun 1988, Palasport, Genova, Italy)

CD 2
1: Why Doesn't Someone Get Him a Pepsi? "The Torture Never Stops" original version (11-Apr 1975, Bridges Auditorium (late Show), Pomona College, Claremont, Ca
2: The Torture Never Stops (4-Feb 1976, Kyodai-Seibu-Kodo, Kyoto, Japan)
3: The Torture Never Stops (25-Feb 1978, Hemmerleinhalle, Neukirchen, Germany)
4: The Torture Never Stops (2-Dec 1980, Moby Gym, Ft Collins, Co)
5: The Torture Never Stops (31-Oct 1981, Palladium, NYC late)
6: The Torture Never Stops (25-Apr 1988, Falkoner Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Lookingly, Nose for Note is a limited-edition, German CDR set. The above info should be taken with a grain of salt.

The Lost Solos (CD)

  • Various live
  • Label: Magic Mustache
  • Catalogue Number: MMM 03-24-25-26
  • 3 CDs

Thanks to Eric-Jan for the following tracklisting. We'll add venue information when we get it. All tracks are presumed to be solos. Titles are likely the work of independent, literary genius.

Disc 1
1 Vile and Pernicious 
2 Jelly Bean Etiquette
3 Sound that Only Dogs Can Hear
4 Don't Look at the Sun
5 Acetylene Nirwana
6 Ten Long Years
7 Joey Psychotic
8 Twinkle Tits
9 Ageerk Alodnos
10 Where There Are Now?
11 nightly little big sky sound sculpture
12 three eyes open
13 we don't know that song
14 we da best!
15 tiny do
16 baron van vloerbedekkening
17 the bus strut torture test
18 their own secret language
19 when at the whiskey
20 briefcase blues
21 outrage at chappanquidick
22 imaginary guitar notes
23 the soul of a lemontree
24 return of the son of the son of alto wah
25 artificial animal cracker

Disc 2

1 and to continue now...
2 it's just an unflattering angle
3 euro law reality
4 makes it's own sauce!
5 cat's nightmare
6 metropolis
7 the dissimilar guest
8 promiscuity's finest hour
9 1st on the bill, carved up the hill
10 peering into dark water
11 no smoking on trailways
12 trick or treat
13 may snap shut on closed minds
14 spontaneous combustion
15 under the shitting oyster
16 in the memory of han preston blisterfeld
17 look at me go!
18 the 4th lie
19 hageerk olodnab
20 girl with the laminated resume
21 blue bag kenyons
22 caked crab refletions
23 epson sauce
24 stones been chokin'
25 the virgin judy
26 fifty-nine morgan

Disc 3

1 did any body dance?
2 little tiny auto horns
3 ornate punctuation
4 the dangerous kitsch
5 don't go for help, no one will need you
6 phony wheel guards
7 tall, dark and repulsive
8 the point's in my eye
9 cavett
10 never smoke in pajamas
11 deep street driver
12 funny, rolling stone didn't mention this
13 did i have a motor
14 one bound down
15 two apes meet, fall in love and mate
16 you can see it anytime
17 opened 3 of his eyes in the food stamp line
18 watch at the pestle go mortar
19 green honker croaking
20 i ain't the type for begging
21 tumershi inbetween
22 the girl that pretented to like me
23 directions without words
24 electric boot-chain puller
25 rat tamogo

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