Optional Entertainment Set / Optional Entertainment Silver Box

Optional Entertainment Silver Box Front Insert

Optional Entertainment Silver Box:

Label: Mr. Natural

Released: 2011

Number of Copies: 50

 

Optional Entertainment Set:

Label: Mr. Natural

Released: 2011

Number of Copies: 10

  • Pig Music
  • The Artisan Acetate
  • Inter-Zappa Overdrive
  • Hot Rats At The Olympic
  • 200 Motels
  • Ugly Noises
  • Where´s That Wino Man?
  • Cum Together

   

Pig Music

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  • 1967 12 03 - Fifth Dimension, Ann Arbor, MI
    Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Billy Mundi, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood

Side #1

  1. 1967 Radio Advertisement
    for Freak Out! And Absolutely Free
  2. Big Leg Emma   
  3. King Kong

Side #2

  1. America Drinks And Goes Home
  2. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  3. King Kong

   

The Artisan Acetate

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  • arranged, compiled, edited and produced by FZ
  • original live recordings engineered by Dick Kunc
  • recorded October 1968 - May 1969
  • mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders, Hollywood CA., mid 1969

Side #1

  1. “Wipe Out” (Shrine Auditorium) (6-7 December 1968, The Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles CA?)
  2. “East L.A.” (Columbia University) (longer edit of You Call That Music? on YCDTOSA4 (+ 0:50) and There Is No Heaven From Where The Slogans Go To Die on FM (+ 0:20))
  3. “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” (The Ballroom) [edited from two different live performances: the first 2:58 are from February 16, 1969, The Ballroom, Stratford CT (cfr. Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit on MD), last 1:11 are from February 7, 1969, Thee Image, Miami Beach FL. (cfr. the last 1:09 of Right There on YCDTOSA5); see also Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit on FM; this unique edit appears also on the "Columbia (Capitol) YSA6477 test pressing")
  4. “Kung Fu” (Phil Wenz) (last 1:45 of Didja Get Any Onya? on the WRMF CD, +0:15)
  5. “Igor's Boogie“ (Phil Wenz)
  6. “Passalaglia” (Phil Wenz) (King Kong solos vamp with a theme and some FZ soloing)

Side #2

  1. “Copenhagen Night Music“ (68 10 03 København?)
  2. “Help, I’m A Rock” (different edit than on AOTT)
  3. “Chocolate Halvah” (longer edit than on YCDTOSA5 (+ 0:10))
  4. “Prelude To A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask” (same as on WRMF vinyl)
  5. “The Cookie Jar Lecture” (shorter edit of Tiny Sick Tears on YCDTOSA4)
  6. “It Must Be Your Breath” (same as Weasels Ripped My Flesh on WRMF)

   

Inter-Zappa Overdrive

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  • 1969 10 25 & 28 - Festival d'Amougies, Amougies, Belgium

Side #1

Pink Floyd w Frank Zappa on Lead Guitar

  1. Interstellar Overdrive

Side #2

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

w Frank Zappa on Guitar

  1. (Introduction by Zappa)
  2. My Human Gets Me Blues
  3. When Big Joan Sets Up
  4. Rare Blues Jam 

   

Hot Rats At The Olympic

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  • 1970 03 07 - Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
    Frank Zappa, Max Bennett, Aynsley Dunbar, Sugarcane Harris, Ian Underwood

Side #1

  1. Sharleena
  2. Directly From My Heart To You
  3. Willie The Pimp

Side #2

  1. Chunga´s Revenge

    

200 Motels

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  • 1970 05 15 - "Contempo '70", Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, Billy Mundi, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Motorhead Sherwood
    with The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Metha

Side #1

  1. 200 Motels: A Suite For Rock Group And Orchestra (Or “Zubin And The Jets”)

Side #2

  1. 200 Motels: A Suite For Rock Group And Orchestra (Or “Zubin And The Jets”)

    

Ugly Noises

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  • The Mothers Of Invention, June – December 1970
    Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Aynsley Dunbar
  • The Mothers Of Invention, May – December 1971
    Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jim Pons, Ian Underwood, Bob Harris #1
    (until July), Don Preston (from August), Aynsley Dunbar

Side #1

  1. Sofa
    (Dick Cavett Show 11-'71)
  2. It Can't Happen Here
    (Columbus, OH 11-20'70)
  3. 200 Motels Soundtrack Commercial (1971)
  4. Would You Like A Snack?
  5. Holiday In Berlin
    (Fillmore East 11-14-'70)
  6. Who Are The Brain Police
    (D. Cavett Show 11-'71)

Side #2

  1. Vienna Press Coverage (12-'70)
  2. Lonesome Cowboy Burt
    (San Rafael, CA 09-25-'70)
  3. She Painted Up Her Face
    (L.A. 08-07-'71)
  4. Peaches en Regalia
    (Montreux, Swiss 12-04-'71)
  5. Excerpt From Post Fire Interview
    (Montreux '71)
  6. Cruising For Burgers
    (Brussels 12-16-'70)

    

Where´s That Wino Man?

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  • 1974 11 09 - Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA (Late Show)
    Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tom Fowler, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson

Side #1

  1. Cosmik Debris (In Progress)
  2. Montana

Side #2

  1. Ol '55
  2. Oh No
  3. More Trouble Every Day

    

Cum Together

Set Cover LP #1

   

Set Cover LP #2

Box Cover LP #1

    

Box Cover LP #2

  • 1974 11 26 - Pershing Municipal Auditorium, Lincoln, NE
    Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson, James "Bird Legs" Youmans

Side #1

  1. Tush Tush Tush
  2. A Token Of My Extreme
  3. Stinkfoot
  4. RDNZL

 

Side #2

  1. Village Of The Sun
  2. Cosmik Debris
  3. Camarillo Brillo

Side #3

  1. Montana
  2. The Booger Man

 

Side #4

  1. The Booger Man
  2. Preamble
  3. 200 Years Old
  4. Tush Tush Tush
  5. Dinah-Moe Humm

Our Man In Italy

Label: Not On Label

Released: 1983

Number of Copies: 300

 

1974 09 08 - Stadio Comunale, Bologna, Italy

 

Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Tom Fowler, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson

Side #1

  1. Tush Tush Tush
    (listed as “A Token of My Extreme”)
  2. Introduction
  3. Stinkfoot
  4. Inca Roads
  5. Approximate

Side #2

  1. Penguin In Bondage
  2. T'Mershi Duween
  3. Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat
    (not listed)
  4. Cosmik Debris
    (listed as “Cosmic Debris”)
  5. David Bowie’s Soundcheck

Our Man In Nirvana

Label: Frank’s Records

Released: 1985

 

1968 11 08 - Titan Gymnasium, Fullerton, CA

 

Frank Zappa, Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood, Buzz Gardner

Side #1

  1. Intro       
  2. Bacon Fat
  3. The String Quartet
    incl. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus

 

Side #2

  1. The String Quartet
    incl. Sleeping In A Jar
  2. Wild Man Fischer:
    The Wild Man Fischer Story

Side #3

  1. Wild Man Fischer: I´m The Meany     
  2. Valerie   
  3. King Kong No 1

 

Side #4

  1. King Kong No 2

Outrageous Muzik Plus Other Knick Knacks

Label: Hoffman Records

Released: 2008

Number of Copies:

black vinyl: 25

blue, orange, split, splash vinyl: 

50 copies each

  • Side #1, track 1: the 1989 film score
  • Side #1, track 2: the german 1989 documentary by Henning Lohner, broadcast on 1991/10
  • Side #2, track 1: 1968/09/10 “sunset sound”, the mothers & captain beefhfeart wish arthur tripp a very bizarre 24th birthday
  • Side #2, track 2: true speed 1968 studio version
  • Side #2, track 3: the “Weasel Music” acetate / 1968 10 25 - Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
    Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Motorhead Sherwood    

Side #1

  1. Outrage At Valdez Film Score
  2. Elektronik Muzik

Side #2

  1. 24 Big Ones
  2. Curse Of The Knick Knack People
  3. Some Chamber Music