Frank Zappa 'History And Collected...' 10LP Box Super rare
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FRANK ZAPPA
'The History And Collected Improvisations Of Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention - A Ten Record Set' 10LP Box Set
ZX-3651-3660
'The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention' 10LP Box
Various live & studio
Boxed set of Ultra-Modern Stringbean, Nifty, Ein Monster in der Musikhalle, If You Get a Headache, Frank Zappa vs. the Tooth Fairy, A Token of My Extreme, I Was a Teenage Maltshop, Petrouska, Zurkon Music and Back on the Straight and Narrow.
Length: ~400-450 min?
LP box label: ZX 3651-3660
Musicians: Various
This is a 10-LP box, with a 36-page (counting the cover) booklet called Ten Years on the Road with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (which may also have been sold separately?) consisting of reproductions of various newspaper, magazine and other articles.
The front cover has six pictures of various Mothers line-ups from 1966-1973; the back has liner notes. Inside the box, the records are in plain white wrappers. They all have different label colours; the first two records are supposed to be dark blue and sky blue, respectively, but on some copies they are the same colour. On those copies, all other records also have "The History & Collected Improvisations" and "1962-1976" printed on the labels, along with side numbers - on other copies, they just have colour, no text.
LP1 - Ultra-Modern Stringbean
Festival Hall, Melbourne, 29-Jun-1973
Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Audience B+
LP label: ZX 3651
Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey and Sal Marquez
1. Uncle Meat (Main Theme) / Uncle Meat Variations ["Excercise 4"?]
2. Dog Breath
3. Uncle Meat (Main Theme)
4. Montana
5. Fifty-Fifty [instrumental version, not listed]
6. Mudshark
7. Farther Oblivion [listed as "Father O'Blivion"]
The track list on the album is quite wrong; the above should be correct. Track 7 is NOT "Father O'Blivion" but "Farther Oblivion", an officially unreleased number including themes from "Cucamonga" and "The Adventures of Greggary Peccary" as well as the entire "Be-Bop Tango" theme.
LP2 - Nifty
Various 1973
1974 bonus tracks
Length: ~45 min
LP label: ZX 3652
New Jersey musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson, Napoleon Murphy Brock and special guest Irma Coffee
Sydney musicians: Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey and Sal Marquez
1974 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler and Ralph Humphrey
1. Be-Bop Tango Preamble
2. Pygmy Twylyte / Dummy Up
3. "Dupree's Paradise" Stories [listed as "Room Service (variant version)"]
4. Be-Bop Tango
5. Dog Breath (0:37)
6. Uncle Meat
7. Father O'Blivion [Stage #6 version]
8. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
9. Nanook Rubs It
10. Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
11. Mar-juh-rene [edit]
12. Penguin in Bondage
13. T'Mershi Duween
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