Bootleg Boxes: The Godfather Meets The Untouchables (4-LP Box)
Bootleg Boxes: The Godfather Meets The Untouchables (4-LP Box)
Bootleg Boxes: The Godfather Meets The Untouchables (4-LP Box)
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Bootleg Boxes
These are boxes of four or more discs, vinyl or CD. (Some boxes are listed elsewhere: Assault on New
York (a box of the Toxic Shock Trilogy with a bonus single), Good Evening, Vienna!, Broadway the Hard
Way (no connection to the official album (or a single-LP bootleg by the same name), Stairway to Berlin,
Norwegian Rhapsody (a small box of 2 CDs :) and a 4-LP box of Läther.)
Box set of four 1988 live compilation records. Also issued as part of the box (!) The Best Band You Never Heard in
Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage, and re-issued as a 3-CD set by RXZ Records.
Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed
Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman
6. Packard Goose
7. The Torture Never Stops [part 1]
8. Lonesome Cowboy Burt
24. Murder by Numbers (with Sting) [Sting] [Broadway the Hard Way version]
25. What Kind of Girl (Would Suck His Rod)? [one source of the Broadway the Hard Way mix]
26. The Orange County Medley: Let's Make the Water Turn Black / Harry, You're a Beast / Oh No / Theme
from Lumpy Gravy
27. Sharleena
28. Watermelon in Easter Hay
29. Peaches en Regala
Side 1 live in Binghampton 17-Mar-1988. Track 2 is one of the sources for the official Broadway the Hard Way
version - 04:02-04:23 and 04:24-05:42 of that is from Binghampton (with a one-second splice from Lund in
between). These tracks can also be heard on disc 1 of Broadway the Hard Way in USA.
Side 2 live in Uniondale 25-Mar-1988.
Tracks 9-10 live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988.
Tracks 11-12 live in Providence 16-Mar-1988.
Side 4 live in Philadelphia, track 13 13-Feb-1988 and 14-16 12-Feb-1988.
Tracks 17-19 live in Binghampton 17-Mar-1988.
Track 20 live in Allentown 19-Mar-1988.
Track 21 live in Boston 20-Feb-1988.
Tracks 22-23 live in Springfield 13-Mar-1988.
Tracks 24-25 live in Chicago, 24 on 04-Mar-1988 and 25 on 03-Mar-1988. Track 24 and part of track 25 ended
up officially released on Broadway the Hard Way. They also appear on the bootleg Broadway the Hard Way in
USA.
Tracks 26-27 live in Uniondale 25-Mar-1988.
Tracks 28-29 & 31-32 live in Hartford 17-Feb-1988.
Track 30 live in New York 6-Feb-1988.
Track 33 was not originally listed here but reported later. No data for this track.
Tracks 12, 19 & 24-25 ended up on official albums ("What Kind of Girl?" on Broadway the Hard Way was edited
together from this version and a March 1 recording), but of course these mixes sound a little different.
The cover shows Zappa in an Uncle Sam outfit, holding a giant pen or pencil. (A similar picture can be seen on page
98 of Miles' book A Visual Documentary.) Back cover has liner notes and two pictures of Zappa, one holding and
one playing guitar. It also says: "If you like this great music, you will love The Untouchables (Showtime Records
002)" and "Special thanks to Jesse Belvin and John[n?]y Otis [!], owners of Showtime Records, for their faith in
Frank Zappa and his music".
See also: A Collector's 10 Favourite Zappa Boots (three 1988 Showtime boots shared the #10 spot)
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ... CAN Do That on Stage
Various 1988 live
This is a 10-LP box made by Showtime Records, gathering all their 1988 tour bootlegs. It contains the following
albums:
It seems to have been manufactured (as a box item) only in 50 copies, with the albums in paper sleeves with
original xerox-insert "covers" enclosed in the box. Not only were these covers numbered, and the box itself
numbered, but the box cover is also believed to have indicated the numbers of the individual records therein.
Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed
Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman, plus special guests Daniel Schorr
(disc 3) and Sting (disc 5)
Inside the box the CDs are packaged in regular trays, with separate 1988 colour cover pictures: disc 1 has Zappa
playing guitar, disc 2 has Zappa holding panties, disc 3 has another picture of Zappa playing guitar, disc 4 has
Zappa singing, disc 5 has a close-up of Zappa playing guitar, and disc 6 has tickets and backstage passes. The
same label made another 6-CD box called Broadway the Hard Way in Europe.
(The track lists for this box were transcribed from very illegible scans of the back covers - the source of any
inaccuracies.)
DISCS 1-2
Binghampton 17-Mar-1988:
Track 2 is one of the sources for the official Broadway the Hard Way version - 04:02-04:23 and 04:24-05:42 of
that is from Binghampton (with a one-second splice from Lund in between). Tracks 1-5 can also be heard on side 1
of The Godfather Meets the Untouchables.
Tracks 4-7 can also be heard on side 5 of The Godfather Meets the Untouchables. Tracks 6-7 have been officially
released on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life.
Tracks 11-13 are a medley of Beatles songs with the words changed to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist
Jimmy Swaggart.
DISC 3
1. Danny Boy (Featuring Daniel Schorr) (05:41) [?] [misspelled as "Denny Boy"]
2. It Ain't Necessarily So (01:46) [?]
3. Summertime (Including Intro) [?]
4. Aïda [Giuseppe Verdi] / Lohengrin [Richard Wagner] / Carmen [George Bizet] / 1812 Overture [Piotr
Tracks 1-5 live at the Warner Theatre, Washington, DC, 10-Feb-1988. Daniel Schorr, who appears on track 1,
was Zappa's favourite newscaster on CBS, and the man Zappa wanted to anchor the TV show Night School that
he wanted to make in 1987, but which was never realised.
Tracks 6 & 10-16 live 10/12/13/14-Feb-1988 and 12-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from which date).
Track 7 has been officially released on Broadway the Hard Way. It is from Philadelphia 13-Feb-1988.
Track 8 live in Philadelphia, 14-Feb-1988. This is where the Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version
of "A Few Moments with Brother A. West" comes from.
Track 9 live at the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 14-Feb-1988: the 1988 band doing audience requests. From Carl
Merson:
I, a fellow named William Schools and 3 guys from New Jersey (I think) were the folks dancing to "Approximate"
on stage at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia on Valentine's Day, 1988. Check out the picture of us in the first
edition of the US Society Pages, published in 1990. This event occured after a bunch of folks foisted a note to
Frank after the intermission begging him to
Since he wasn't sure how many band members knew "Approximate" (except for the Fowlers), he asked the
audience if we knew the song. Of course, we were the first to volunteer. Having come off of a high the night
before, after meeting Frank and family backstage, William and I were more than willing to have another
chance to "meet" Frank, even it it meant going on stage in front of 3,000 people and making asses of
ourselves!
The most hilarious thing I recall from my three minutes of fame was when Scott Thunes laid four pages of
horribly dog-eared and yellowed sheet music in front of us and instructed us to "Dance to this!". What he
put in front of us onto the stage floor was the original hand-written manuscript for "Approximate". I nearly
peed myself with joy.
It was in fact Den Simms (of Society Pages) who passed Zappa the note with "some not so normal
requests". They were actually as follows:
1) For Ike do so a "solo" with his collected artefacts (which he also did)
2) Anything a capella (they did "The Closer You Are")
3) Have Chad sing
4) Dance "Approximate"
DISCS 4-6
Disc 4:
1. Stink-Foot (09:08)
2. Intro / Stainless The Maiden [?] (01:30)
3. King Kong (12:47)
4. Mr Green Genes (04:09)
5. Why Don't You Like Me? (02:26)
Tracks 1 and 3-12 live 06/12-or-13/16/17/27-Feb-1988 and 12/15/19-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are
from which date).
Track 2 is some kind of once-only performance from Portland, 15-Mar-1988.
Track 10 is a medley of Beatles songs with the words changed to ridicule the disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy
Swaggart.
Disc 5:
Track 7, featuring Sting, is live in Chicago 04-Mar-1988, and has been officially released on Broadway the Hard
Way.
Tracks 1-6 and 8-13 live 02/06/17-Feb-1988 and 03/11/15/16/25-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from
which date).
Disc 6:
Tracks 8 & 10 were illegible on the scan of the back cover from which this track list was transcribed.
Tracks 1, celebrating drummer Chad Wackerman's birthday, and 17, "America the Beautiful", are from the
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, 25-Mar-1988, the last US show on the tour. "America the Beautiful" was,
appropriotly, the last rock song Zappa ever played live in the USA.
Tracks 2-5 & 7-16 live 02/16/17/20/28-Feb-1988 (the 24 date is also mentioned, but there was no concert then)
and 04/12/19/23/25-Mar-1988 (not known which tracks are from which date - March 24 is also listed, but the
Musicians (1988 band): Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman, Ed
Mann, Kurt McGettrick, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Albert Wing and Paul Carman plus special guest Fabio Treves
(disc 3).
Inside the box the CDs are packaged in regular trays, with separate colour cover pictures, which all seem to be
close-ups of various details of Zappa's face or head. The same label made another 6-CD box called Broadway the
Hard Way in USA.
(The track lists for this box were transcribed from very illegible scans of the back covers - the source of any
inaccuracies.)
DISC 1
1. Roma Soundchecks [including "Arrivederci Roma" (?), "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, "Chana in de
Bushwop" and "The Italian Medley" (?)] (09:51)
2. The Black Page (New Age Version) (06:55)
3. Intro (01:07)
4. Packard Goose Medley [including the Royal March theme from Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat"
and a theme from Béla Bartók's third piano concerto] (07:04)
5. Trouble Every Day (Including Guitar Solo) (04:46)
6. Penguin in Bondage (04:55)
7. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel (06:35)
8. Dupree's Paradise (05:58)
9. Filthy Habits (04:23)
10. Bolero [Ravel] (05:31)
11. Bobby Brown (Goes Down) (03:02)
12. Whippin' Post [Allman] (06:38)
Tracks 1-9 live in Rome, 07-Jun-1988 (back cover says June 6).
Tracks 10-12 are claimed to be live in Paris 20-May-1988, but of those songs, only "Bolero" was played at that
show. Oh well.
DISC 2
1. Zoot Allures (08:19) [The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life version]
2. When The Lie's So Big (03:26)
3. Planet of the Baritone Women (02:40)
4. Any Kind of Pain (05:32)
5. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk (07:00)
6. Sharleena (07:09)
7. The Orange County Lumber Truck / Oh No /Theme from Lumpy Gravy (10:16)
8. Advance Romance (06:07)
9. You Are What You Is (05:46)
10. Keep It Greasey (03:16)
11. Joe's Garage (05:40)
12. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee (02:59)
Track 1 has been officially released on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life. It is live in Brighton 16-
Apr-1988.
Tracks 2-5 live in Cologne 14-Apr-1988.
Tracks 6-8 & 10 live in Oslo 27-Apr-1988.
Track 9 live in Modena 05-Jun-1988 (back cover says June 3).
Tracks 11-12 live in London 19-Apr-1988.
DISC 3
DISC 4
1. The Torture Never Stops / Lonesome Cowboy Burt / Theme from Bonanza [Ray Evans / Jay Livingston]
(17:03)
2. Ring of Fire [Merle Kilgore / June Carter] (02:22)
3. Peaches en Regalia (02:50)
4. A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus) (10:09)
5. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque (05:52)
6. Loops #1 (03:05)
7. I Am the Walrus [Lennon/McCartney] (03:36)
8. Loops #2 (05:15)
9. Sofa (02:45)
10. Andy (05:51)
11. Inca Roads (09:51)
DISC 5
DISC 6
1. Heavy Duty Judy (Including Intro) [edit] (04:37) [one of the sources of the Broadway the Hard
Way version]
2. Chunga's Revenge (Featuring Dweezil Zappa) (08:24)
3. King Kong (11:22)
4. Marque-Son's Chicken (06:56)
5. Pick Me, I'm Clean (05:47)
6. Easy Meat (08:08)
7. Norewgian Jim ["Norwegian Wood" by Lennon/McCartney] (02:24)
8. Lousiana Hooker with Herpes ["Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by Lennon/McCartney] (03:31)
9. Texas Motel ["Strawberry Fields Forever" by Lennon/McCartney] (03:14)
10. Stairway to Heaven [Page/Plant] (09:11)
11. Strictly Genteel (07:37)
Track 1 is edited together from Wurzburg 22-Apr-1988 (one of the sources of the Broadway the Hard Way
version) and London 19-Apr-1988.
Track 2 live in London 19-Apr-1988.
Tracks 3 & 6 live in Grenoble 19-May-1988.
Track 5 live in Stuttgart 24-May-1988.
Track 4 live in Fürth 26-May-1988.
Track 7-11 live in Oslo 27-Apr-1988. Track 9 is a medley of Beatles songs with the words changed to ridicule the
disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
The History & Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of
Invention (10-LP box / 6-CD box (?) / 10-CD box)
Various live
Various studio
Boxed set of Ultra-Modern Stringbean, Nifty, Ein Monster in der Musikhalle, If You Get a Headache, Frank Zappa vs.
the Tooth Fairy, A Token of My Extreme, I Was a Teenage Maltshop, Petrouska, Zurkon Music and Back on the
Straight and Narrow
Musicians: Various
This is a 10-LP box, with a 36-page (counting the cover) booklet called Ten Years on the Road with Frank
Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (which may also have been sold separately?) consisting of reproductions of
various newspaper, magazine and other articles. It has been re-issued several times on coloured vinyl and
packaged with an unknown EP and some crap: a button and a sticker. All records were also sold separately, each in
a 100-copy edition.
The front cover has six pictures of various Mothers line-ups from 1966-1973; the back has liner notes. Inside the
box, the records are in plain white wrappers. They all have different label colours; the first two records are
supposed to be dark blue and sky blue, respectively, but on some copies they are the same colour. On those copies,
all other records also have "The History & Collected Improvisations" and "1962-1976" printed on the labels, along
with side numbers - on other copies, they just have colour, no text.
This box may have been re-released on six CDs. There is a 6-CD box by the same name, but it is not known
whether or not it contains the same stuff. But there were only 60 such sets printed, so you're not likely to come
across one anyway (unless someone copied it and printed 6000, of course). In February 1999, a 10-CD box was
reported: RXZ Records 301-310, lavishly packaged with "booklet and 5 photo inserts".
They have all been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries. Someone has also made the triple LP
40th Birthday - Previously Unreleased as a sampler of this big box.
The title, of course, is that of a many-LP box Zappa planned in the early '70s. It never came out - even though the
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series later formed a similar retrospective - and this, needless to say, is a
fake. Curiosuly, this box doesn't use any of the titles Zappa planned for the albums in his own box; the Twenty
Years of Frank Zappa bootleg does.
Musicians: Various
Boxed set of Pigs & Repugnant, Son of Pigs & Repugnant, Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension, Zut Alors,
The Rondo Hatton Band, A Token of His Extreme, Chalk Pie, Crush All Boxes, Return of the Son of Serious Music
and Randomonium
All the records have been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries.
In the book BOOTLEG by Clinton Heylin, the bootlegger behind this box is identified as "Richard", and "Next to the
Beatles, his great love was the cantankerous Frank Zappa". "Richard in his time was to be responsible for one ten-
album set, one four-album set and ten single albums [of Zappa], including the legendary 'Tis the Season to be
Jelly". (The ten-album set, of course, is this Mystery Box, but the other albums are never identified.) He is quoted
(on page 195) as saying:
I'm a big Zappa fan. In fact my Mystery Box got Zappa as upset as Columbia got over Ten of Swords [a
Bob Dylan bootleg]. Zappa in America has a hotline for his fans to call and he went so far as to have the
woman who does the hotline ask for help in tracking down the perpetrators of this heinous boxed-set, and
Zappa called the FBI and the FBI didn't want to be bothered ... I guess the problem was that Zappa was
doing his You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, his ongoing series that has just ended, and Mystery
Box was a giant You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore. A lot of reviews were saying that Mystery Box
was better because it was chronological and didn't jump all over the place and didn't have all these stupid
edits in it. That kind of thing can annoy you if you're an artist putting out your own thing ... Zappa's
reasoning behind that was that he was losing tons of money and in fact he wasn't losing any money. Most
people who do Zappa bootlegs do so because they like Zappa. They don't do it for the money. I can imagine
people making money off a lot of other bootlegs but not Zappa.
Various live
Various studio
Various radio & TV
Interview
Boxed set of The Basic Primer: Z-A, The Soundtracks, The Cucamonga Era, Gas
Mask, Hotel Dixie, The Grand Wazoo Orchestra, Show & Tell, The Night of the
Iron Sausage, Warts & All I, Warts & All II, Soup & Old Clothes and Advanced
Study: World Pop Domination
Musicians: Various
This is another one of those deluxe retrospective boxes: a 12-album set with a 16-page booklet. The classic
recycled sentence is "1000 pressed; 565 seized in one raid; other legal problems netted a further 100 copies".
Another recycled sentence, that I've never been able to quite figure out, is "25 sets with 11.5"x11.5" B&W covers
front and back". It was released in April 1981. The records were in black & white paper covers. Since then, it has
been re-issued twice on vinyl. Some copies have been pressed on grey vinyl, and there is a non-boxed issue known
as the "silver set". In the 90s, an Italian (what else?) CD re-issue showed up, on 12 CDs, with two booklets and
bonus tracks on The Cucamonga Era.
All the records have been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries. Their locations and dates are
taken from available sources but could very well be quite wrong.
It should be noted that the titles "The Cucamonga Era", "Show & Tell", "Soup & Old Clothes" and "Hotel Dixie" (in
that order) are real Zappa titles in that he planned to use them in his own 12-record set The History & Collected
Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. Those plans were never realized, and the box should not
be confused with the 10-LP boot box so named. "Soup & Old Clothes", of course, was later used for a solo in the
Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar set. Warts & All was an album that never came out from around 1980 (and later the
working title for the Lost Episodes). "Night of the Iron Sausage" was a track title on the unreleased double-album
version of Zoot Allures, and possibly a working title for the whole album.
Various live
Various studio
The discs are an attractive black, and bear 1) the moustache photo from the front cover, 2) the legend "Apocrypha"
as it appears on the front cover, 3) the disc number in silver with the beige letters FZ slapped on top, and 4) the
legend "The Live Experience" which appears around the rim of all Great Dane releases.
DISC 1
A lot of these tracks (1-4, 6-7, 10, 12-13 and 15) have been officially released on The Lost Episodes, Stage #5
and Mystery Disc. The sound quality is always a lot better on the official releases, but here are some other
differences:
Tracks 1-2 are slightly slower/lower here - about one half step down.
Track 4 has a slightly longer fade-out here, "but the sound is so fantastically better on The Lost Episodes that
it's not even funny".
Track 12 is a different, shorter edit on Mystery Disc:
BIFFY: I always miss hearing the part from the radio broadcast where Zappa pops in to say "Missed the
beat that time, didn't he?"
SPLAT: Well, there will always be Apocrypha. :) About the first 15 times I heard that, it really annoyed
me; like, "C'mon Frank, could you please not cut up this nice tune, just once?" It's funny, though. It'll be
good to have both versions.
Track 5 is a real oldie from 1962 (officially released on the Grandmothers' album Looking Up Granny's Dress)
Tracks 8-12 taken from I Was a Teenage Maltshop and Confidential
Parts of track 8 released on the Mystery Disc (called "I Was a Teenage Maltshop" and "The Birth of Captain
Beefheart")
Track 9 has been officially released (in a shorter edit) on the Mystery Disc (as "Original Mothers at the
Broadside (Pomona)"); the song they're playing is "Louisiana Blues" by McKinley Morganfield, known as Muddy
Waters
A small fragment of track 11 has been officially released on the Mystery Disc, as "Original Mothers Rehearsal"
Track 14 is an alternate take of "Dwarf Nebula" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh, recorded at Apostolic Studios,
New York
Track 16 is a live improvisation from a New York TV show called The Bitter End in 1967 (Hieronymus Bosch was
a 15th/16th-century painter from the Netherlands, who painted monstrous images)
Track 17, a Ruben-esque tune sung by Roy Estrada, is a BBC TV recording from 1968
Track 18 appears to be a Remington electric razor commerical, and is featured on the Remington Electric Razor
bootleg
Tracks 19-20 are live at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 07-Mar-1970, taken from the bootleg Frank Zappa
& Hot Rats at the Olympic
DISC 2
On the paper insert, "Down in the Dew" is listed as "Duck Duck Goose", but in the liner notes, "Down in the Dew"
and "Duck Duck Goose" are BOTH listed, pushing the track numbers ahead a number. Only "Down in the Dew"
appears, however. Track 8 has been officially released on Läther. As for the other tracks:
Track 1 is from 1970, maybe from Butte, Montana - it can also be found on Beyond the Fringe of Audience
Comprehension.
Track 2 is a 1971 excerpt from "Billy the Mountain", the same as on Randomonium and Cuccurrullo Brullo Brillo).
It's a live recording, but there has been speculation that there are some overdubs on it.
Track 3 is taken from the Remington Electric Razor bootleg; it's an out-take from 200 Motels, really called
"What's the Name of Your Group?". It includes the intro to "German Lunch" on Stage #5, which followed
immediately after it on the original bootleg, Remington Electric Razor.
Tracks 4 and 5 have been officially released on The Lost Episodes, but in shorter edits: "RDNZL" is 04:11 here
(22 seconds longer than on The Lost Episodes), and the fade-out in "Inca Roads" is a couple of seconds longer,
too, "but the sound is so fantastically better on The Lost Episodes that it's not even funny". "RDNZL", though,
includes a bit of guitar soloing by Zappa here, which may be interesting to hear.
Track 6 live at the War Memorial Gym, Vancouver, 01-Oct-1975.
Track 7 is a KCET-TV recording from 6/7-Aug-1974 (broadcast in December), which first appeared on the bootleg
A Token of His Extreme (better sound here).
Tracks 9-10 from the Saturday Night Live TV show: track 9 from 11-Dec-1976 (with comedian John Belushi) and
track 10 from 21-Oct-1978.
Track 11 is a version with the Mike Douglas band (from a 1976 TV show) backing Frank Zappa.
Track 12 has been officially released on The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa, as "A Solo from Heidelberg"
(Eppelheim 24-Feb-1978); it's from the song "Yo' Mama".
Track 13 taken from the Zurkon Music bootleg (Halloween 1977, The Palladium, New York): it will be officially
released on the guitar-solo album Trance-Fusion some time in the future, as "Bowling on Charen"
Tracks 14 and 15 taken from the Remington Electric Razor bootleg. Track 14 (source unknown, February 1977) is
surrounded by additional dialogue on Remington Electric Razor, which has been edited out here. The first 4:08 of
track 15 is "Moe's Vacation" (an early version of "Moe & Herb's Vacation" in a basic arrangement), the rest is
"The Black Page #2". It is from Poughkeepsie 21-Sep-1978.
DISC 3
DISC 4
Track 1 is an excerpt from the film THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER that Zappa scored in 1961. The film
music was played by the Pomona Valley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fred E. Graff, and the parts of Satan
(the narrator) and Clarence "God" Hilliard were played by Paul Frees and Timothy A. Carey, respectively. It's
Note that although much of Apocrypha has been officially released on The Lost Episodes and the Mystery Disc,
the versions on Apocrypha are often slightly longer.
1) Excerpt from Revised Music for Guitar & Low Budget Symphony
Orchestra (Guitar World cassette)
2) Things That Look Like Meat (Guitar World cassette)
3) A Solo from Heidelberg (Guitar World cassette)
4) A Solo from Cologne (Guitar World cassette)
5) Video From Hell intro
6) Confinement Loaf (LP only intro to "Dickie's Such an Asshole")
7) Murder by Numbers (unedited live version, 3/3/88, with Sting)
8) America the Beautiful (live 3/9/88)
9) Packard Goose Medley (live 3/25/88, with the Long Island Ballet
Company)
10) Texas Motel Medley (live, 3/25/88)
11) Whipping Post (live 3/25/88, with Dweezil)
12) Bobby Brown (live 4/22/88 - `Ring of Fire' version)
13) Joe's Garage (live 4/22/88 - `Ring of Fire' version)
14) Why Does it Hurt When I Pee? (live 4/22/88 - `Ring of Fire'
version)
15) Bolero (CD single version)
16) I am the Walrus (live 5/25/88)
17) The Untouchables (LP version)
Mother Universe
Re-issue of Demos, Poot Face Booogie, A Token of His Extreme, Rustic Protrusion, Remington Electric Razor and
Pygmy Pony.
Disc 1: Demos.
Disc 2: Poot Face Booogie and the first part of A Token of His Extreme up to and including "Pygmy Twylyte".
Disc 3: The rest of A Token of His Extreme plus Remington Electric Razor and Rustic Protrusion up to and
inlcuding "Igor's Boogie".
Disc 4: The rest of Rustic Protrusion plus Pygmy Pony.
The funny thing is the track list in the booklet is copied and pasted straight from this web site. Even when I've
listed stuff as "not listed", the bootleggers have copied the information and listed their own track as "not listed".
The source bootlegs are identified in their track list, with the exception of Remington Electric Razor. From Hasi:
I just picked up a couple of boots at a record fair in Vienna, and among them was Mother Universe, a new
4-CD set ... while reading the liner notes, I had some sort of deja vu: For each and every disc the
bootlegger(s) did a copy-and-paste-job, using the Zappa Patio as source ... the foolish young consumer is
confronted with lines like this:
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