Jim Vogt's Collection
Frank Zappa ??/??/1994
Apocrypha Box Set, Various, Various
| Source | Great Dane Records GDR9405/ABCD (Italy 1994) |
| Media | CD-R 4 discs |
| Tech Notes | Patrick Neve on Apocrypha & The Lost Episodes OK, this is going from memory. The duplicated tracks are from the same sources, but in some cases there are significant differences. "Lost in a Whirlpool" is either up or down about a half step, I think the Lost Episodes version may have sped it up for clarity. On Apocrypha, "Do It in C" is "The Blackouts" plus "Ronnie Sings". I believe the Lost Episodes version, too, is sped up. "Fountain of Love" is an ever-so-slightly longer fadeout on Apocrypha, but the sound is so fantastically better on Lost Episodes it's not even funny. Same with "Inca Roads". The real gem is the Apocrypha version of "RDNZL", which although muddy by comparison does include a very sweet little FZ guitar solo which was inexplicably stripped from The Lost Episodes. Musicians: Various This is a very popular bootleg box with luxurious packaging: a book-style box with a leather appearance (although not at all made of leather). The front has a photo of Zappa's moustache, and says "APOCRYPHA", "FZ" and "Thirty Years Of Frank Zappa". The back cover shows Zappa walking down the street with his UHER portable tape recorder, wearing a bulbous derby (from the same session as the inside photo in the Strictly Commercial package). A paper insert is glued under the disc trays to discs 3 and 4, which extends out to boast the track listing. The package contains a large (40-page) colour booklet with dozens of pictures and a very long and confusing 1988 interview. Liner notes appear on the far right on every right-hand page - in the style of the Stage series, "complete with misinformation" (the band line-up details are especially abominable: they are not complete, and they falsely state that the Bob Harris from 1971 and the Bob Harris from 1980 were the same person). The front of the booklet has a mid-'70s Zappa picking his nose with his middle finger; the back has an old Zappa pulling down one of his eyelids, looking rather sickly. Some copies have had errata & corrigenda inserts. 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. 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. |
| Trades Allowed | Yes |
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· Last Updated May 23, 2023
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