FRANK ZAPPA MYSTERY BOX 10 LP BOX SET NTB 8600 NM PSYCH

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Jul 4, 2004 Sold Date

Jul 3, 2004 Start Date

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ZAPPA FANS & COLLECTOR, THIS IS MY LAST & FINAL COPY!!!!

This 10 LP de-luxe set is in mint unplayed condition.

Here's a review of this box set from the Zappa Patio Website:

FRANK ZAPPA Mystery Box 10 LP BOX SET

Various live

Various studio

Musicians: Various

Label: Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Records NTB 8600

A deluxe-type 10-LP retrospective box. Here are the 10 records:

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."

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