1. Pigs & Repugnant
2. Son of Pigs & Repugnant
3. Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension
4. Zut Alors
5. The Rondo Hatton Band
6. A Token of His Extreme
7. Chalk Pie
8. Crush All Boxes
9. Return of the Son of Serious Music
10. Randomonium
All the records have been sold separately and have been given autonomous entries.
In the book BOOTLEG by Clinton Heylin, the bootlegger behind this box is identified as "Richard", and "Next to the Beatles, his great love was the cantankerous Frank Zappa". "Richard in his time was to be responsible for one ten-album set, one four-album set and ten single albums [of Zappa], including the legendary 'Tis the Season to be Jelly". (The ten-album set, of course, is this Mystery Box, but the other albums are never identified.) He is quoted (on page 195) as saying:
"I'm a big Zappa fan. In fact my Mystery Box got Zappa as upset as Columbia got over Ten of Swords [a Bob Dylan bootleg]. Zappa in America has a hotline for his fans to call and he went so far as to have the woman who does the hotline ask for help in tracking down the perpetrators of this heinous boxed-set, and Zappa called the FBI and the FBI didn't want to be bothered ... I guess the problem was that Zappa was doing his You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, his ongoing series that has just ended, and Mystery Box was a giant You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore. A lot of reviews were saying that Mystery Box was better because it was chronological and didn't jump all over the place and didn't have all these stupid edits in it. That kind of thing can annoy you if you're an artist putting out your own thing ... Zappa's reasoning behind that was that he was losing tons of money and in fact he wasn't losing any money. Most people who do Zappa bootlegs do so because they like Zappa. They don't do it for the money. I can imagine people making money off a lot of other bootlegs but not Zappa."
Record One (Pigs 'n' Repugnant)
01. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque (10:12)
02. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (03:38)
03. The Wild Man Fischer Story [Fischer] (03:38)
04. I'm The Meany [Fischer] (01:36)
05. Bacon Fat [Andre Williams / Brown] (03:55)
06. King Kong (29:16) (cut @ 14:21)
Recording Date & Location:
Tracks 01-02 - Appleton, Wisconson 05/23/69
Tracks 03-06 - California State College, Fullerton, 11/08/68
Record Two (Son of Pigs & Repugnant)
01. The String Quartet (24:35)
02. The Duke (08:39) (q: Aybe Sea & Transylvania Boogie)
03. Help, I'm A Rock! (05:18)
04. Return of the Son of Monster Magnet(10:15)
Recording Date & Location:
01 - California State College, Fullerton, 11/08/68
02-03 - Appleton, Wisconson 05/23/69
04 - Copenhagen 10/03/68 (according to Patrick Neve on the Patio)
Record Three (Beyond the Fringe of Audience Comprehension)
01. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?(incl. Watering Holes) (2:35)
02. What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are? (4:34)
03. Bwana Dik (1:52)
04. Latex Solar Beef (1:02)
05. Daddy Daddy Daddy (2:51)
06. Do You Like My New Car? (2:54)
07. Magic Fingers (2:36)
08. What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning? (3:50)
09. Interview (Part 1) (3:00)
10. The Final Solution (2:22)
11. Interview (Part 2) (1:45)
12. Penis Dimension (3:34)
13. Time Is Money (2:48)
14. Flambay (4:45)
15. Spider of Destiny (3:02)
16. Space Boy (2:50)
Recording Date & Location:
01-08 unknown (my guess - possibley Aug 1970 Whitney Studios)
09-12 Jan 18/Feb5, 1971 Pinewood Studios, UK
13-15 December 1974 Caribou Studios
Record Four (Zut Alors)
01. Mr. Green Genes/King Kong/Chunga's Revenge (21:27)
02. Sink Trap (1:49)
03. Ship Ahoy [Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar version + extra material] (5:49)
04. Munchkin Tits (5:19)
05. Drum Solo [shorter edit of "Hands with a Hammer" on Stage #3] (2:42)
06. T'Mershi Duween (2:18)
07. Black Napkins (4:34)
Recording Date & Location:
01 03/11/73, Texas Hall Auditorium, Arlington, TX
03 & 05 02/03/76 Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan
04 Unknown 1974 guitar solo from More Trouble Everyday
06 10/01/75, War Memorial Gym, Vancouver, BC, Canada
07 10/28/76 The Mike Douglas Show, NBC TV
Record Five (The Rondo Hatton Band)
01. I'm the Slime (3:02)
02. Ruthie-Ruthie [Stage #1 version] (2:20)
03. No, Babette ["Babette", Stage #1 version] (4:02)
04. Boogers of Marty Perellis ["Smell My Beard" on Stage #4] (4:49)
05. White Juice on His Beard ["The Booger Man" on Stage #4] (2:09)
06. Smell My Beard [NOT on Stage #4] (5:15)
07. Father O'Blivion [Stage #6 version] (2:22)
08. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (0:57)
09. Nanook Rubs It (6:42)
10. Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast (1:08)
11. Mar-juh-rene (3:30)
12. Penguin in Bondage (5:12)
13. T'Mershi Duween (1:53)
14. Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat (4:24)
Recording Date & Location:
01 - 03/20/73 Bolic Sound, Inglewood
02-06 - 11/08/74 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey
07- 06/24/73 Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia
Record Six (A Token of His Extreme)
01. Montana (03:58)
02. Stinkfoot (03:56) ["Tom Waits version"]
03. Inca Roads (09:38)
04. Dog Breath / Uncle Meat (03:53)
05. Approximate (01:25)
06. Cosmik Debris (07:39)
07. Florentine Pogen (10:09)
Recording Date & Location:
August 5/6, 1974 KCET-TV Culver City
Record Seven (Chalk Pie)
01. I'm the Slime (3:13)
02. Peaches en Regalia (3:23)
03. Dancin' Fool (4:01)
04. The Purple Lagoon (3:54)
05. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (3:32)
06. Son of Saint Alfonzo ["Rollo"] (4:19)
07. Chalk Pie [slightly different mix of the Guitar version] (4:46)
08. We're Turning Again (4:47)
09. Them or Us (7:59)
10. Clownz on Velvet (*Al DiMeola sits in) (4:50)
Dates & Locations:
SNL Appearances
01, 02 & 04 - 12/11/76 NBC Studios NYC
03, 05 & 06 - 10/21/78 NBC Studios NYC
07 - 12/07/81 Salt Lake City
08 - 12/11/81 Santa Monica & 12/07/81 Salt Lake City
09 - 12/12/81E guitar solo from "The Black Page #2", San Diego
10 - 11/17/81 Ritz, NYC
Record Eight (Crush All Boxes)
01. Fine Girl (3:36)
02. Pick Me, I'm Clean (3:31)
03. Teenage Wind (3:07)
04. Harder Than Your Husband (2:32)
05. Bamboozled By Love (3:03)
06. Drafted Again (3:44)
07. Falling in Love Is a Stupid Habit (1:49)
08. Teenage Wind (3:04)
09. Doreen (2:43)
10. Fine Girl (3:22
11. Easy Meat (8:09)
12. Goblin Girl (4:16)
Recording Date & Location:
01 - Outtake
02-05 - Studio rehearsals
06 - Outtake
07 - June, 1981 Studio FZ on piano/vocal
08 - Unknown outtake
09-12 - Side 1 of "Crush All Boxes"
Record Nine (Return of the Son of Serious Music)
01. Piece #1 (6:10)
02. Piano Piece (3:41)
03. Piece #2 (2:02)
04. Collage One (1:26)
05. Opus 5 (12:47)
06. While You Were Art #1 (7:23)
07. Francesco Opus 1, No. 1 (1:29)
08. Francesco Opus 1, #3 (1:51)
09. Francesco Opus 1, #6 (2:05)
10. Francesco Rock (2:20)
11. Pedro's Dowry (8:28)
Recording Date & Location:
01-05 - 05/19/63 Mount St. Mary's College, LA
10 - 05/20/84 FM Broadcast
11 - 06/16/84 "A Zappa Affair"
Record Ten (Randomonium)
01. America Drinks & Goes Home (0:50)
02. Agency Man [Mystery Disc version] (5:43)
03. Randomonium (1:30)
04. "My Head" [Stage #5 version] (0:45)
05. Studebaker Hoch (6:06)
06. Don't Fuck Around (1:42)
07. Well (Please Don't Go) (7:39)
08. In Memoriam: Hieronymous Bosch (5:07)
09. 2 on the Town (0:22)
10. Suicide Chump (9:02)
11. Truck-Driver Divorce (1:26)
12. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [Frank/Ahmet Zappa] (2:22)
13. The Kronos Quartet: None of the Above (6:31)
Recording Date & Location:
01 - 1969
02 - February 1968 (Apostolic Studio NYC)/10/25/68 (London, Royal Festival Hall)
03 - Dec. 1967-February 1968, Apostolic Studios NYC
04 - 09/10/68, Sunset Sound, Hollywood,
05-06 - Live 1971
07 - 06/06/71 Fillmore East NYC
08 - 1967, The Bitter End NYC
09 - Impromptu TV Theme Song
10 - 10/15/78 Stonybrook
11 - Summer 1982
12 - 1981 UMRK Studio
13 - April, 1984 Herbst Theater, San Francisco
