What's on MOFO

In December 2006 the Zappa Family Trust released The MOFO Project/Object aka The Making Of Freak Out! An FZ Audio Documentary. It was released in two versions, one for retail in 2cds (that we'll call "little MOFO") and one in 4 cds ("big MOFO") only available for mail order at Zappa.Com.
This page details, in some order, the contents of the 6 cds.

Keys

After every track:

• L indicates that the track is exclusive to the little MOFO;
• B indicates that the track is available in both versions of MOFO (timing may slightly change between L & B MOFO but there is no content difference except where noted);
• when no letter is shown, the track is available only in the big MOFO.

The complete "original 1966 vinyl stereo mix" of Freak Out!

• Hungry Freaks, Daddy (3:32)
• I Ain't Got No Heart (2:34)
• Who Are The Brain Police? (3:25)
• Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (3:43)
• Motherly Love (2:50)
• How Could I Be Such A Fool? (2:16)
• Wowie Zowie 2:55)
• You Didn't Try To Call Me (3:21)
• Anyway The Wind Blows (2:55)
• I'm Not Satisfied (2:41)
• You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (3:41)
• Trouble Every Day (5:53)
• Help, I'm A Rock (4:42)
• It Can't Happen Here (3:59)
• The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet (12:22)

It is available on disc 1 of both big and little MOFO (the two discs seems identical except for the art work: same picture but the big is on white, the little is on yellow, also the asterisk after the 1 is bigger on the little one)

Mono Mix / Single edit

• How Could I Be Such A Fool (2:13) L
• Trouble Every Day (2:39)
• Who Are The Brain Police (3:26) L

While big MOFO booklet states that Trouble Every Day is the single edit, nothing is said about How Could I Be Such A Fool and Who Are The Brain Police in the little one: possibly the mono versions and the single edits were the same?

Basic tracks

• Anyway The Wind Blows (2:48)
• Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (3:43)
• How Could I Be Such A Fool (2:24)
• Hungry Freaks Daddy (3:28) L
• I Ain't Got No Heart (2:36) B
• Trouble Every Day (7:11) B
• Who Are The Brain Police (3:42)
• You Didn't Try To Call Me (3:01) B
• You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (3:40)

All tracks instrumental except Trouble Every Day. All tracks mono except I Ain't Got No Heart and You Didn't Try To Call Me.

Vocal overdub takes

• Anyway The Wind Blows (2:54)
• Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (3:46) B
• Hungry Freaks Daddy (3:47)
• I Ain't Got No Heart (2:37)
• I'm Not Satisfied (2:38)
• Motherly Love (3:09) B
• You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (1:58)

All tracks mono. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here is an edit of two incomplete takes.

Outtakes, alternate takes and Zappa edits

• Groupie Bang Bang (3:51)*
• Who Are The Brain Police (1:16)*
  (both mixed by Joe Travers)

• Suzy Cream Cheese (Hold On To Your Small Tiny Horsies... ) (2:08)*

• Help I'm A Rock (d2t16) (5:48)
• Watts Riots Demo (Trouble Every Day) / Fillmore Sequence (2:07) L - only the first part of the track is really unique to the little MOFO (see later)

• Freaking Out Jam (Freak Out Zilophone) (3:00) L
• Freaking Out Percussion (Freak Out Drum Track w/ Timp. & Lion) (4:04) B
• Freaking Out Percussion (Percussion Object 1 & 2) (6:01)
• Freaking Out Percussion (Lion Roar & Drums From Freak Out) (5:36)

For these edits/mixes no date is given, so I assume they were made soon after the sessions. All track are said to be mono except the ones with *.

Raw segments from the freaking out jam

• Object (4:32)
• Freak Tim (5:14)
• Percussion Insert Session Snoop (3:18) - percussion only
• Vito Rocks The Floor (6:09)
• Low Budget Rock & Roll Band (2:14) B - on the little MOFO this contains also the last 30 secs of Vito Rocks The Floor

All tracks mono.

Live from the Fillmore West, San Francisco, 25 June 1966

• Motherly Love (3:12)
• You Didn't Try To Call Me (4:06)
• I'm Not Satisfied (2:53)
• Hungry Freaks Daddy (3:37)
• Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (2:31) - partial

All tracks mono. Short segments of You Didn't Try To Call Me and Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder are available also in the little MOFO in Watts Riots Demo / Fillmore Sequence.

Zappa later edit/remix

• It Can't Happen Here (3:19)
  from Mothermania (1969)

• Help I'm A Rock (4:43) L
• Hungry Freaks Daddy (3:37)
• It Can't Happen Here (3:58) L
• Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet (Cream Cheese) (8:18) - contains also a 22s segment from a 93 interview
• Who Are The Brain Police (4:32)
• Wowie Zowie (3:02)
  from January 1970 (remixed by FZ with Stan Agol)

• Any Way The Wind Blows (2:51) B
• Hungry Freaks Daddy (3:33)
• Who Are The Brain Police (3:39)
  from August 1987 (remixed by FZ with Bob Stone - Hungry Freaks Daddy and Who Are The Brain Police sound nearly identical to the 1987 cd version, while Anyway The Wind Blows is different)

All tracks stereo

Interview segments

• 8 from 1967 (approx. 17min)
• 1 from 1971 (5:49)
• 3 from 1986 (approx. 3:30) - two of them are also available on the little MOFO (2:51)
• 4 from 1993 (approx. 6min) - plus a short segment in Cream Cheese (see above)

Miscellaneous

Any Way The Wind Blows is always written Anyway The Wind Blows except for the '87 remix.

Related links:

• little MOFO at Román García Albertos's site;
• big MOFO at Román García Albertos's site;
• some notes about the FZ phonography.

This page created on January 2007 and latest revised on December 16, 2008

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