The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention—9 LPs Version: Possible Identifications

Volume I. Origins & Comparisons

I. Side One

1.1.01. "LOST IN A WHIRLPOOL" 2:09

 

1.1.02. THE BLACKOUTS 0:23

 

1.1.03. Ronnie Williams sings 1:10

 

1.1.04. Kenny Williams describes Ronnie's BOOGER-WINDOW 0:48

 

1.1.05. Ronnie Williams explains his "collection" 1:18

 

1.1.06. Ray Collins & THE BOOGER-FREAKS OF AMERICA 1:19

  • WATMATIWWSL (Columbia Test Pressing 6477) 6. Booger Freaks Of America 1:20

 

1.1.07. "ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS" 2:52

 

1.1.08. "FOUNTAIN OF LOVE" 2:13

 

1.1.09. "OPUS 5" excerpt & explanation 3:37

 

1.1.10. "TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF WHEN YOU DANCE" 3:55

 

1.1.11. "NED 'N NELDA" 1:18

 

I. Side Two

1.2.01. "RUN HOME SLOW" main title music 1:22

 

1.2.02. "DUKE OF PRUNES" 1:18

 

1.2.03. Opening night party at STUDIO 'Z' collage 1:49

 

1.2.04. Group introductions at THE VILLAGE INN 1:18

 

1.2.05. "STEAL AWAY" 2:43

 

1.2.06. "I WAS A TEEN-AGE MALT SHOP OVERTURE" demo 1:10

 

1.2.07. "STATUS BACK BABY" demo 1:34

 

1.2.08 "NED THE MUMBLER" demo 1:52

 

1.2.09. "TOADS OF THE SHORT FOREST" demo 1:48

 

1.2.10 Excerpt from THE UNCLE FRANKIE SHOW 0:41

 

1.2.11. "CHARVA" demo 1:58

 

1.2.12. "SPEED-FREAK BOOGIE" demo 4:14

 

I. Side Three

1.3.01. "METAL MAN HAS WON HIS WINGS (HUI-HUI)" 3:06

 

1.3.02. Live jam from THE SAINTS & SINNERS 0:34

 

1.3.03. "AZTEC METRONOME, PATENT PENDING" 1:46

 

1.3.04. "LOUISIANA BLUES" 1:19

 

1.3.05. Party music from MONDO HOLLYWOOD 1:55

 

1.3.06. Random conversation from an early rehearsal tape 1:45

 

1.3.07. "HOW COULD I BE SUCH A FOOL" rehearsal 1:57

 

1.3.08. "BOOGIE FER BERKELEY" rehearsal 2:16

 

1.3.09. "PFLUTED TRANSOMS" rehearsal 1:10

 

1.3.10. "I'M NOT SATISFIED" excerpt from the original demo 0:29

 

1.3.11. Group introductions from FILLMORE WEST '66 1:11

 

1.3.12. "PLASTIC PEOPLE / RAGA ITEM" excerpts 1:58

 

1.3.13. "LEFTZE-RIGHTZE" excerpt 0:45

 

1.3.14. The first "Choral Rehearsal" excerpt 0:32

 

I. Side Four

1.4.01. The Old M.O.I. interview on KPFK 3:26

 

1.4.02. "SPECIAL METAL TEETH" 3:44

  • WATMATIWWSL (Columbia Test Pressing 6477) 13. Lowell George Whips It Out 3:44

 

1.4.03. "ROY'S ECSTASY & ENCORE" 4:09

 

1.4.04. "KUNG FU" 2:06

 

1.4.05. "THE ORIGINAL IGOR'S BOOGIE" 1:41

 

1.4.06. "BUNK'S TENOR EXECUTION" 3:04

 

1.4.07. "HALLOWE'EN IN DÜSSELDORF" 2:07

  • The Weasel Music (Bizarre Records Test Pressing) 4. Some Zany MOI Bullshit
  • WATMATIWWSL (Columbia Test Pressing 6477) 18. Studio Piece 2:09

 

I. Side Five

1.5.01 "A POUND FOR A BROWN ON THE BUS" (Old M.O.I.) 1:56

 

1.5.02. "SLEEPING IN A JAR / SWORD ACT" (New M.O.I.) 4:21

 

1.5.03. "TINY SICK COOKIE JAR" (Old M.O.I.) 5:22

 

1.5.04. "MEANWHILE" (New M.O.I.) 4:42

 

1.5.05 "THE OTHER KIND OF IGOR'S BOOGIE" (New M.O.I.) 4:39

 

I. Side Six

1.6.01. "SHIRLEY-ANN" 2:09

 

1.6.02. "THAT'S THE NICEST THING ANYBODY'S SAID TO ME ALL DAY" 5:01

 

1.6.03. DEAD AIR 0:27

  • Fillmore East, New York, NY, April 20, 1968, early show—6. Dead Air 4:48
FZ, Cirkus Krone, Munich, Germany, August 31, 1978

Listen, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna perform a number. This number hasn't been performed since actually 1968. This piece is ten years old and we're gonna give it its 10th anniversary performance, right here at the Circus Krone. Now, the last time this piece was performed was at the Fillmore East, by the old Mothers Of Invention. Now, the name of this piece is "Dead Air."

Robin Richman, "The New Rock," Life, June 28, 1968

On stage there is the "possibility that anything can happen." Dolls are mutilated. A gas mask is displayed. A bag of vegetables is unpacked and examined. There are spaced intervals of "honks" and suddenly The Mothers perform Dead Air. They stop, sit down and ignore the audience. Zappa might get a shoeshine from Motorhead, the percussionist. They keep this going for as long as it takes the audience to become unsettled, uncomfortable and angry. Then Zappa calmly approaches the mike and says, "It brings out the hostilities in you, doesn't it?"

 

1.6.04. "RIGHT THERE" 13:23

 

Volume II. Life On The Road

II. Side One

2.1.01. "GARBANZO DUCK" 2:45

 

2.1.02. Jimmy Carl Black & Canzus Kansas, part I 2:10

 

2.1.03. "MUFFIN MAN MUSIC" 2:24

 

2.1.04. The lunch break 1:18

 

2.1.05. "ALL NITE LONG" 2:33

 

2.1.06. Jimmy Carl Black & Canzus Kansas, part II 2:16

 

2.1.07. The bus arrives at Yale 1:11

 

2.1.08. "THE BUZZ GARDNER TRUMPET CADENZA" 0:36

 

2.1.09. "HOT DAMN" 6:40

 

II. Side Two

2.2.01. "NACHT UND NEBEL" 4:07

Chato Segerer, June 30, 2021

Improvisation at German/Austrian concert? Meaning "Night and Fog."

 

2.2.02. "ANOTHER WALTZ" 15:30

 

2.2.03. "DUET (FROM PROGRESS!)" 2:17

Chato Segerer, June 30, 2021

Is this a shorter edit of Holding the group back + Holiday in Berlin from AOTT?

 

II. Side Three

2.3.01. "THE EYE OF AGAMOTO" 2:58

 

2.3.02. News of THE DISASTER 3:10

 

2.3.03. A typical Copenhagen dressing room, circa 1967 2:30

 

2.3.04. "FULL BORE DUNCE WITH A BIG DRESS" 2:31

 

2.3.05. Introductory explanation at Festival Hall 1:25

 

II. Side Four

2.4.02. Toronto dressing room Old M.O.I. interview 3:22

 

2.4.03. "THE COPENHAGEN NIGHT MUSIC, 1968" 3:00

 

2.4.04. The New M.O.I. on CKGM-FM, Montreal: "ELEMENOH" 4:28

 

II. Side Five

2.5.01. "WHAT'S THE NAME OF YOUR GROUP?" 3:00

 

2.5.02. On stage in Buffalo 1:12

 

2.5.03. "TURN IT DOWN" 4:01

 

2.5.04. Preparations for departure to Spokane 1:00

 

2.5.05. Arrival / Bruce Bissel & The Living Garbage Truck 2:38

 

2.5.06. Sound-check in a Spokane skating rink 1:42

 

2.5.07. Driving to & registering at a typical motel 1:55

 

2.5.08. Cruising on the lounge therein 0:55

 

2.5.09. Up in the room 0:37

 

2.5.10. Arriving at the gig & entering the hall 1:13

 

2.5.11. Text rehearsal in the dressing room 1:01

 

2.5.12. "DIPTHERIA BLUES" 2:25

 

II. Side Six

2.6.01. Approaching the stage 0:50

 

2.6.02. The M.O.I. ANTI-SMUT LOYALTY OATH 2:31

 

2.6.03. "EASY MEAT" 4:25

Chato Segerer, June 30, 2021

shorter edit of EITHER the version on The official Mothers of Invention Bootleg album OR the version on Zappa Mothers 1970...but probably former

 

2.6.04. Group recreation & therapy 1:27

 

2.6.05. The breakfast report 1:51

 

2.6.06. Another typical airplane interior 1:38

 

2.6.07. The next motel 1:36

 

2.6.08. Excerpt from the Mark Volman cassette playback 1:52

 

2.6.09. Excerpt from the first '200 MOTELS' script reading 3:37

 

2.6.10. Excerpt from the following night: Jeff Simmons quits 1:59

 

Volume III. Things That Never Escaped From The Studio (And Elsewhere)

III. Side One

3.1.01. "FUNK IT" 3:06

 

3.1.02. Roy in the piano 0:55

 

3.1.03. "WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?" harpsichord variations 4:00

 

3.1.04. Aynsley & Phyllis ("Won't that hurt your kidneys?") 1:44

FZ, Unreleased Chunga's Revenge Original Liner Notes, 1970

1. WON'T THAT HURT YOUR KIDNEYS? features Aynsley Dunbar & Phyllis Altenhaus in a section of dialogue from the film "UNCLE MEAT", which we are still trying to raise money to finish. At one time a very famous film company had guaranteed completion money. The first time they saw any of the material edited together, they went berserk & took the money back. As of this writing, the film is about 1/3 complete. This scene deals with Mr. Dunbar's fetish for being flogged as part of any erotic procedure.

 

3.1.05. "LOLA STEPONSKY" 2:33

 

3.1.06. "THE WEDDING DRESS SONG / HANDSOME CABIN BOY" 2:56

 

3.1.07. "DIEMOS TENDRIL" 4:38

 

3.1.08. "THE CHARLES IVES HARMONICA CONCERTO" 2:21

 

III. Side Two

3.2.01. An average day at the photography studio 1:44

 

3.2.02. "THE R.A.K. OVERTURE" 0:52

 

3.2.03. Dick Kunc's story 1:22

 

3.2.04. "RANDOMONIUM" 1:28

Richard Sandomir, "Reese Schonfeld, A Founder Of CNN And Food Netword, Dies At 88," The New York Times, July 28, 2020

Mr. Schonfeld adopted the word "randomonium," first used by the rocker Frank Zappa in 1980, to describe CNN's fluid mix of content.

 

3.2.05. "MOTORHEAD'S IMAGINARY BOOGIE" 1:48

FZ, Unreleased Chunga's Revenge Original Liner Notes, 1970

2. MOTOR HEAD'S BOOGIE features Roy Estrada on bass, Euclid James motor Head Sherwood on rhythm guitar & Frank Zappa on acoustic lead and primordial grunts. This selection was recorded in late fall 1967 at Apostolic Studios, at the end of one of the sessions for "UNCLE MEAT" . . . the weird ending is where the tape ran out (you can also hear a slight change of pitch at the end due to a failure of the Scully tape machine transport to compensate for reel load balance).

 

3.2.06. You gotta turn it around / GROSS MAN 1:11

 

3.2.07. "FENJA 'N MENJA" 2:42

 

3.2.08. Cops & Buns 3:11

 

3.2.09. "HE'S REACHING THAT STAR" 4:36

 

3.2.10. "SALIVA CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH" 3:17

 

III. Side Three

3.3.01. "DELLA'S WHIPPING MUSIC" 11:07

 

3.3.02. The German Lunch 8:32

 

3.3.03. "MY GUITAR WANTS TO KILL YOUR MAMA" (single version) 2:12

 

III. Side Four

3.4.01. "LIGHTNING ROD MAN" 2:03

 

3.4.02. Viscosity 2:44

 

3.4.03. Dense Light Compression 0:15

 

3.4.04. "THE TOMMY/VINCENT COMPRESSED GREGORIAN BOOGIE" 6:42

Chato Segerer, June 30, 2021

Maybe from the Lumpy Gravy sessions featuring Tommy Tedesco & Vincent De Rosa?

 

3.4.05. "THE AWARD-WINNING COUGH DROP MUSIC" 0:43

 

3.4.06. "HOTEL DIXIE / HOTEL EARL" 3:28

 

3.4.07. Both Herbies 0:23

 

3.4.08. Soothing Membranes 1:48

 

3.4.09. "STICKS TRIPP" 1:07

 

3.4.10. "THE WHISKY A-GO-GO INEVITABLE CONCLUSION" 0:49

 

III. Side Five

3.5.01. "CHUCHA" 2:48

 

3.5.02. "ENIGMAS ONE THRU FIVE" 11:19

 

3.5.03. "BOGNOR REGIS" 8:11

 

III. Side Six

3.6.01. "RED TUBULAR LIGHTER" 4:50

 

3.6.02. "THE HARRY PARTCH BONGO EXTRAVAGANZA & LIMBO CONTEST" 3:22

 

3.6.03. "PORTUGUESE FENDERS" 3:30

 

3.6.04. The Mudshark Interview 2:54

 

Informants: Ben Jenkins, Charles Ulrich.

Research, compilation and maintenance by Román García Albertos
http://www.donlope.net/fz/
This page updated: 2022-07-22