15 janvier 1941 / 17 décembre 2010

Captain Beefheart
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Cette page repose sur les données de plusieurs sites concernant Captain Beefheart.

-[Teejo]] - http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/gigs/gigs.html
-[SetlistFm] - http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html
-[SongKick] - http://www.songkick.com/artists/174703-captain-beefheart
-[FrogsEye] - http://www.frogseye.co.uk/beeftapes.htm
-[CUlrich] - http://fzpomd.net/giglist/1975.html
-[Sugarmegs] - http://sugarmegs.org/
-[FZshows] - http://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/
-[beefheartxyz] - https://beefheart.xyz/ (beaucoup de dates douteuses ?)
-[guestpectacular] - https://guestpectacular.com/artists/captain-beefheart-his-magic-band

plus diverses sources :
-Tickets, Flyers, Affiches qui trainent sur le Web.
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Discographie / Discography

Captain Beefheart

Mes Matérialisés

1969Captain BeefheartTrout Mask ReplicaStraightSTS 1053, 2 STS 10532xLP
1970Captain BeefheartLick My Decals Off, BabyStraightRS 6420LP
1970Captain BeefheartSafe As MilkBuddah RecordsBDS 5063LP
1970Captain BeefheartStrictly PersonalLibertyLBS 83172, LBS 83172ELP
1975Captain BeefheartBongo FuryDiscreetDS-2234, DS 2234LP
1978Captain BeefheartShiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)Warner Bros. RecordsBSK 3256LP
1980Captain BeefheartDoc At The Radar StationVirgin202870LP
1982Captain BeefheartIce Cream For CrowVirginV 2237LP
1996Captain BeefheartPearls Before Swine Ice Cream For CrowsSonic BookSONIC.001CD
1999Captain BeefheartMirror ManBuddah RecordsBDS-5077LP
1999Captain BeefheartSafe As MilkBuddah Records74321 69175 2CD
1999Captain BeefheartThe Mirror Man SessionsBuddah Records74321 69174 2CD
2002Captain BeefheartDust SuckerMilksafe ProductionsBF6003CD
2006Captain BeefheartLive London 74VirginCDVR2238, 00946 368577 25CD
2008Captain BeefheartBoston Music Hall 27/04/1975 (Late Show) 200 Years SpecialHedgehog RecordsHDG 0020LP

Mes Autres

1967Captain BeefheartSafe As MilkM32019
1969Captain BeefheartThe Hot Rats SessionsM3201
1969Captain BeefheartTrout Mask ReplicaM23456
1972Captain BeefheartSpotlight Kid & Clear SpotM16022
1977Captain Beefheart19771119 Fete du Nouveau Populaire de ParisF39419
1980Captain Beefheart19801109 Elysée MontmartreF32722

Allées O Venues

Captain Beefheart

193ticketT+1993(Compilation)A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond 301
1+[Compilation-bootleg]Alternate Takes
543ticketT+Live Toronto BroadcastAn Ashtray Heart f01
542ticketTDon s Piano Worktape 301
800ticketT+2002(Milksafe Productions)Dust Sucker CD301
5+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{10m/4}Early recordings (w Zappa) 1959-64
194BticketT+1979(Kimber Records/TCR-2003, TCR 2003)Frank Zappa with Captain Beefheart – Chronicle 301
801ticketT+1999(Revenant)Grow Fins Rarities 1965-1982 301
37BticketT+[Compilation-bootleg]Hoboism f01
25BticketT+[Compilation-bootleg]I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain T Weird 301
17BticketT+[Compilation-bootleg]If You Got Ears (1966-1973) Zappateers Edition 301
344B+2019(Studio Humbug /none)Improvisations (Live)
326+2014(MSI/MSIG 0956)Live 1966-67
49BticketT+2019(Viper/)Magneticism I : Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live In The UK/USA 1972-1981 301
347BticketT+2019(Viper/)Magneticism II : Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live In The USA 1966-1981 301
105BticketT+2020(Viper/)Magneticism III: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live in Canada 1973-1981 f01
338BticketT+2016(Parachute Recording Company /PARA007LP)Plastic Factory f01
319BticketT+2012(Ozit-Morpheus Records /CD 6013)Son Of Dust Sucker 301
198BticketTSun Zoom Spark (1970-1972) f01
281FThe Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart VideoD01
259BticketTThe Brown Star Sessions 301
274BticketT+1995(Beef Music /BF 5969)The Early Years (1959-1969) 301
9BticketT+[Compilation-bootleg]Edsel Records – BLIMP 902The Legendary a&m Sessions f01
322B+2013(Let Them Eat Vinyl /LETV110LP)The Lost Broadcasts
802FThe Lost Tapes (1966-1970) VideoD01
334B+2015(Let Them Eat Vinyl)The Muffin Man Goes To College Volume 1
278FThrow Me A Peach (1974) VideoD01
279FTrout Mask Replica Era (1966-1972) VideoD01
2BticketT+[Clear Spot and Lick My Decals Off, Baby plus a whole bunch of outtakes from The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot]Warner Brothers Outtakes 301
316B+2011(Guitar Master /GM-025/026)Water Turning Black

1965

13+[beefheartxyz]1965-02-19 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US?
4+[SongKick]1965-03-19 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US
53+[beefheartxyz]1965-03-28 Ivar Theatre, Lancaster, CA, US?
894+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-04-10 Teenage Fair, Hollywood, CA, US
895+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-04-16 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
209+[beefheartxyz]1965-04-17 Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, US?
896+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-05-07 San Fernando Valley State College, Los Angeles, CA, US
897+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-05-14 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
898+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-06-18 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
899+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-07-16 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
6+[Teejo][SongKick]1965-08-13 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US
7+[SongKick]1965-08-20 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US
219+[beefheartxyz]1965-08-27 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
220+[beefheartxyz]1965-08-28 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
221+[beefheartxyz]1965-08-29 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
232+[beefheartxyz]1965-08-30 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
241+[beefheartxyz]1965-08-31 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
243+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-01 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
247+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-02 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
252+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-03 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
283+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-04 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
286+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-05 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
287+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-06 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
288+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-07 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
292+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-08 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
297+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-09 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
299+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-10 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
301+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-11 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
302+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-12 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
304+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-13 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
306+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-14 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
307+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-15 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
311+[beefheartxyz]1965-09-16 Whiskey A Go Go, Denver, CO, US?
900+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-09-17 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
318AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-01 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
321AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-02 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
324AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-03 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
328AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-04 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
329AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-05 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
331AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-06 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
332AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-07 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
333AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-08 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
336AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-09 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
339AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-10 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
343AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-11 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
346AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-12 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
348AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-13 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
349AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-14 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
901+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-10-15 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
351AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-16 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
352AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1965-10-17 Yoko s nite club, Honolulu, HI, US?
902+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-11-12 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
903+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1965-12-10 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US

1966

904+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-01-03 Honolulu, HI, US
8+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-04 Honolulu, HI, US
10+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-05 Honolulu, HI, US
11+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-06 Honolulu, HI, US
12+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-07 Honolulu, HI, US
14+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-08 Honolulu, HI, US
15+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-09 Honolulu, HI, US
16+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-10 Honolulu, HI, US
18+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-11 Honolulu, HI, US
19+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-01-12 Honolulu, HI, US
905+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-01-14 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
906+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-02-11 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
354+[beefheartxyz]1966-02-18 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US?
355+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-05 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
357+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-06 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
358+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-07 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
359+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-08 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
361+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-09 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
362+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-10 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
907+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-03-11 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
363+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-12 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
364+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-13 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US?
366+[beefheartxyz]1966-03-18 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US?
20+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-04-08 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US
908+[SetlistFm]1966-04-11 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
367+[beefheartxyz]1966-04-15 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US?
368+[beefheartxyz]1966-04-28 khj-tv studio, Los Angeles, CA, US?
369+[beefheartxyz]1966-04-30 kfmb-tv studio, San Diego, CA, US?
909+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-06 Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA, US
910+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-05-07 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
911+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-08 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
912+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-09 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
913+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-10 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
914+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-11 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
22+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-05-12 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
23+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-05-13 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
915+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-14 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
24+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-05-15 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
26+[Teejo][SongKick]1966-05-16 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
916+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-17 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
917+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-18 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
918+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-19 Gay 90 S A Go Go, Bakersfield, CA, US
100BticketTAfficheA+2018[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm](Magneticism II 610347001)1966-05-20Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1966 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
919BticketTAfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-21Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1966 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
920+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-22 The Barn, Scott Valley, CA, US
921+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-23 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
922+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm](Trout Mask Era 610278001 Dick Clark : Where The Action Is)1966-05-24(Trout Mask Era) Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
923+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-25 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
924+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-26 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
925+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-27 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
371+[beefheartxyz]1966-05-28 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US?
372+[beefheartxyz]1966-05-29 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US?
926+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-05-30 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
927+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-05-31 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
928+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-06-01 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
929+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-06-02 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
930+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-06-03 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
932+[Teejo]{2Shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1966-06-04 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
933+[Teejo]{2Shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1966-06-05 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
373+[beefheartxyz]1966-06-14 Mecca, Buena Park, CA, US?
374+[beefheartxyz]1966-06-15 Mecca, Buena Park, CA, US?
376+[beefheartxyz]1966-06-16 Mecca, Buena Park, CA, US?
934AfficheA+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-06-17 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
935+[Teejo][SetlistFm]?1966-06-18 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
21+[Teejo][Compilation-bootleg]?1966-06-18American Bandstand TV Show
936AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+The Beach Boys and The Byrds, Lovin Spoonful, Chad & Jeremy, Percy Sledge, The Outsiders, Leaves, Sir Douglas Quintet, Love1966-06-25 The Beach Boys Summer Spectacular, Hollywood, CA, US
937+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-06-28 Ice House, Glendale, CA, US
938+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-06-29 Ice House, Glendale, CA, US
939+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-06-30 Ice House, Glendale, CA, US
940+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-07-01 Ice House, Glendale, CA, US
941+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-07-02 Ice House, Glendale, CA, US
942+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-07-03 Ice House, Glendale, CA, US
377+[beefheartxyz]1966-07-22 Exhibit Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, US?
378+[beefheartxyz]1966-07-23 Starlite Ballroom, Oxnard, CA, US?
379+[beefheartxyz]1966-08-19 Exposition Hall, Lancaster, CA, US?
943+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-08-26 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
944+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1966-08-27 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
945+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-09-30 Bakersfield, CA, US
946+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-10-28 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, US
947+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1966-10-29 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, US
948+[Teejo]{2Shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1966-10-30 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, US

1967

33OticketT+1967(Buddah Records)1967Safe As Milk LP/CD
201+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{25m/4+/5}1967Safe As Milk acetate
29+[Compilation-bootleg]1967Safe As Milk Outtakes
762O+1967(Bell Sound Studios, Inc. /none)1967Untitled
27+[Teejo][SongKick]1967-03-05 California Hall, San Francisco, CA, US
949+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-03-16 Topanga Corral, Topanga, CA, US
950+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-06-11 Fantasy Fair And Magic Mountain Music Festival, San Francisco, CA, US
951+[SetlistFm]1967-06-22 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
381+[beefheartxyz]petula clark party1967-07 Beverley Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA, US?
382+[beefheartxyz]1967-07 Legion Stadium, El Monte, CA, US?
383+[beefheartxyz]1967-07 Peppermint Twist, Pismo Beach, CA, US?
28+[Teejo][SongKick]1967-07-01 Crystal Palace, London, England
952+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-07-22 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
953+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-07-27 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
954+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-07-28 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
955+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-07-29 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
956+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-07-30 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
30+[SongKick]1967-08-22 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
31+[SongKick]1967-08-27 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
32+[SongKick]1967-08-28 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
34+[SongKick]1967-08-29 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
35+[SongKick]1967-08-30 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US
957AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1967-09-22 Cheetah Club, Venice, CA, US
958AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1967-09-23 Cheetah Club, Venice, CA, US
959+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1967-09-24 Washington Park, Denver, CO, US
960AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+Lothar And The Hand People1967-09-29 Family Dog, Denver, CO, US
961AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1967-09-30 Family Dog, Denver, CO, US
962AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1967-10-06 Genesis IX, Los Angeles, CA, US
963AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1967-10-07 Genesis IX, Los Angeles, CA, US
964+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-10-13 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
965+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-10-14 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
967+[Teejo][SetlistFm]?1967-10-15 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
966+[Teejo][SetlistFm]?1967-10-15 Pop Music Festival, Sacramento, CA, US
968+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1967-10-28 Crawford Hall, Irvine, CA, US

1968

1151968 Allegro Sound Studios, New York, NY, US
1201968 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, US
125OticketT+1968(Bell Sound Studios, Inc.)1968Strictly Personal LP
969+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-01-16 Congress Hotel Am Stadtpark, Hannover, Germany
384+[beefheartxyz]1968-01-19 Middle Earth, London, England?
970AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-01-20 Middle Earth, London, England
971+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-01-21 Speakeasy, London, England
972ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]Out-takes{15m/4}[SetlistFm]1968-01-24 John Peel Session, London, England301
973+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{10m/4/4+}[SetlistFm](The Lost Tapes 610802001)(Trout Mask Era 610278001)1968-01-27(The Lost Tapes) Le Midem, Cannes, France
974+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1968-01-28 Casino Le Croisette, La Ferté Saint Aubin, France
989ticketT+[Ticket]1968-01-29 L Olympia, Paris, France
975+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-02-01 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
976+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-02-02 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
977+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-02-03 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
978+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-02-04 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
386+[beefheartxyz]1968-02-09 The Blue Law, Torrance, CA, US?
36+[Teejo][SongKick]1968-03-28 Irvine, CA, US
979+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-03 Middle Earth, London, England
387+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1968-05-05 The Speakeasy, London, England?
980AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]Out-takes{20m/4 /4+}[SetlistFm](Trout Mask Era 610278001)1968-05-05(Trout Mask Era) Pop Festival, Roma, Italy01
130ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{20m/4+}1968-05-06 John Peel Session, London, England3
388+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-08 Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead, England?
389AfficheA+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1968-05-09 Club a gogo, Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
391+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-10 Middle Earth, London, England?
392+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-10 Southampton University Student S Union, Southampton, England?
982+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-11 London School Of Economics, London, England
983+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{25m/4/4+}[SetlistFm]1968-05-12 Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham, England
692+[guestpectacular]1968-05-15 Toby Jug, Kingston upon Thames, England?
984+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-16 Zodiac Club, London, England
985ticketT+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1968-05-17 Magic Village, Manchester, England
986+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-18 Southampton University Student S Union, Southampton, England
987+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-19 Frank Freeman S Dancing School, Kidderminster, England
988+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-21 Toby Jug Blues Club, Kingston upon Thames, England
394+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-24 Middle Earth, London, England?
990+[Teejo]+Regent s street polytechnic[songKick][SetlistFm]1968-05-25 Middle Earth, London, England
397+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-26 Netherlands?
396+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-26 Middle Earth, London, England?
398+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-27 Netherlands?
399+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-28 Netherlands?
401+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-29 Netherlands?
402+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-30 Netherlands?
403+[beefheartxyz]1968-05-31 The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands?
991+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+Frank Zappa1968-06-01 Community Concourse, San Diego, CA, US
992AfficheA+[SetlistFm]1968-10-28 Crawford Hall, Irvine, CA, US
993+[Teejo][SetlistFm][CUlrich]1968-12-06 Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles, CA, US
994+[Teejo][SetlistFm][CUlrich]1968-12-07 Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles, CA, US

1969

341B+2017(Grey Scale /GSGZ049CD)1969Trout Mask House Sessions 1969
174OticketT+1969(Straight)1969Trout Mask Replica 2xLP
995+[Teejo][SetlistFm][CUlrich]1969-03-31 Aquarius Theatre, Hollywood, CA, US
203S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{90m/3}1969-07-20WB Promo Interview with Meatball Fulton CA, USInterview01
552+[CUlrich]FZ and Capt. Beefheart jammed with Juicy Lucy1969-10-23 Speakeasy, London, England
135+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{35m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Trout Mask Era 610278001)1969-10-28(Trout Mask Era) Festival D Amougies, Amougies, Belgium
202S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{10m/}1969-11CB & FZ Straight Press Conference EnglandInterview01
997+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm][CUlrich]+Frank Zappa1969-11-28 Thee Experience, Los Angeles, CA, US
998+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm][CUlrich]+Frank Zappa1969-11-29 Thee Experience, Los Angeles, CA, US
999+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1969-12-04 Thee Experience, Los Angeles, CA, US
701+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1969-12-05 Thee Experience, Los Angeles, CA, US
706+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1969-12-06 Thee Experience, Los Angeles, CA, US

1970

1551970 Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, US
1401970 Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, CA, US
206S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{75m/3}1970Bob Chorush (for Creem magazine) Interview
308B+2008(Ozit-Morpheus Records /OZIT CD 9008)1970CB & MB in GB (Live In GB 1970 - 1980)
207+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{90m/4}1970Clear Spot o/ts 1971/72
208+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{3m/}1970Decals Radio ads
150BticketT1970Lick My Decals Off Baby Outtakes Hollywood, CA, USf01
176OticketT+1970(Straight)1970Lick My Decals Off, Baby LP
211+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{2m/}1970Safe As Milk Reissue Radio ad
342B+2017(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart) /none)1970Zappa - Beefheart Commemorative Set 1970 - 78
41+[Compilation-bootleg]1970-02-02Video Compilation
693+[guestpectacular]1970-06-26 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US?
711+[SetlistFm]1970-07-03 International Pop Festival, Atlanta, GA, US
213S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{10m/}1970-09-12Frank Zappa (re: TMR From Incredibly Frank Boot) Interview
160+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{40m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1970-09-18 Pepperland Auditorium, San Rafael, CA, US01
716+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-09-19 Pepperland Auditorium, San Rafael, CA, US
721+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-09-26 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, US
726+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-10-08 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, US
731+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-06 The Warehouse, Anaheim, CA, US
736+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-07 The Warehouse, Anaheim, CA, US
741+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-13 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, US
746+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-20 Ludlow S Garage, Cincinnati, OH, US
751+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-21 Ludlow S Garage, Cincinnati, OH, US
756+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-22 Houston Music Hall, Houston, TX, US
761AfficheA+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-27 Pepperland Auditorium, San Rafael, CA, US
766AfficheA+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1970-11-28 Pepperland Auditorium, San Rafael, CA, US
404+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-02 The Bitter End, Los Angeles, CA, US?
406+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-03 The Bitter End, Los Angeles, CA, US?
407+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-04 The Bitter End, Los Angeles, CA, US?
408+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-05 The Bitter End, Los Angeles, CA, US?
409+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-06 The Bitter End, Los Angeles, CA, US?
411+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-07 The Bitter End, Los Angeles, CA, US?
771+[SetlistFm]1970-12-08 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, US
412+[beefheartxyz]1970-12-12 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, US?
776+[SetlistFm]1970-12-16 The Bitter End, Hollywood, CA, US

1971

216+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{3m/}19711971 Tour Radio Ad
177S+1971(Reprise Records /PRO 447)1971An Interview With Captain Beefheart / Ry Cooder - Talking About Interview
178OticketT+1971(Buddah Records)1971Mirror Man LP
282OticketT+1999(Buddah Records)2008(2000 FruitGum Corp.)1971The Mirror Man Sessions CD
225ticketT+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{180m/4+}1971The Spotlight Kid Outtakes (1971-1972) f01
217S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{30m/4}1971Vancouver (CB & Ed Marimba) Interview
218S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{60m/4+}1971-01New York (Richard Einhorn / WFMU Interview) Interview
1751971-01-01 The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, US
413+[beefheartxyz]1971-01-09 University, Tempe, AZ, US?
781+[Teejo]+Detroit Tubeworks[songKick][SetlistFm]+(Trout Mask Era 610278001 Tube Works)1971-01-15(Trout Mask Era) Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI, US
791+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1971-01-16 Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI, US
38+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-01-17 The Agora, Columbus, OH, US
180+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{35m/4-}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1971-01-18 La Cave, Cleveland, OH, US01
185+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{40m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1971-01-19 Ludlow S Garage, Cincinnati, OH, US01
39+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-01-20 Ludlow S Garage, Cincinnati, OH, US
190+[Teejo]{2Shows}[SetlistFm]1971-01-21 Ingle Auditorium, Rochester, NY, US
40+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-01-22 Small Club, Ithaca, NY, US
195+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/3/3+}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1971-01-23 Boston University, Boston, MA, US01
42+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-01-24 Portland, ME, US
200AfficheA+[FrogsEye]{45m/4-}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1971-01-25 Ungano S Nightclub, New York, NY, US01
43AfficheA+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-01-26 Ungano S Nightclub, New York, NY, US
44+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-01-27 Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, US
414AfficheA+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1971-01-28 Ungano S Nightclub, New York, NY, US?
796+[Teejo]{2Shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1971-01-29 The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, US
601+[Teejo]{2Shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1971-01-30 The Virginia Theatre, Alexandria, VA, US
46AfficheA+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-02 Comerford Theatre, Wilkes Barre, PA, US
416+[beefheartxyz]1971-02-03 Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, US?
417+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1971-02-04 Twelfth Gate, Atlanta, GA, US?
47+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-05 Cape Colony Inn Auditorium, Cocoa Beach, FL, US
48+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-06 Pirates World, Miami, FL, US
606+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1971-02-07 The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA, US
50+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-08 Georgia State Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA, US
51+[SongKick]1971-02-09 Carbondale, IL, US
418+[beefheartxyz]1971-02-10 Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL, US?
52+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-11 Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN, US
54+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-13 Des Moines, IA, US
611AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1971-02-19 Of Our Own, Houston, TX, US
55+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-20 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
56AfficheA+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-21 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
419+[beefheartxyz]1971-02-23 SUB Ballroom, Albuquerque, NM, US?
58+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-02-28 SUB Ballroom, Albuquerque, NM, US
45S+{77m}1971-03Bob Chorush interview Interview01
616+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1971-03-06 WDCA TV, Washington, DC, US
621+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1971-03-20 Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, CA, US
59+[SongKick]1971-03-25 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, US
2051971-06-24 Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, US01
626AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{40m/4}[SetlistFm]1971-06-25 Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, US
421+[beefheartxyz]1971-07-03 Irvine Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA, US?
422+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1971-09-10 Ritz Theatre, Staten Island, NY, US?
423+[beefheartxyz]1971-09-11 Irvine Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA, US?
210+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{40m/4-}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1971-09-17 Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada01
60AfficheA+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-09-18 Jasper Place Arena, Edmonton, Canada
62+[Teejo][SongKick]1971-09-19 Foothills Arena, Calgary, Canada
631+[Teejo]{2Shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1971-10-08 New York, NY, US
215+[Teejo][songKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm][FrogsEye]{65m/4-}1971-10-09 Tufts University, Boston, MA, US01
424+[beefheartxyz]1971-10-15 Daniels Theater, Worcester, MA, US?
425+[beefheartxyz]1971-10-23 Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, PA, US?
426+[beefheartxyz]1971-10-24 Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, PA, US?

1972

179O+1972(Reprise Records)1972Clear Spot
293O+2002(Viper/VIPER CD 011)1972Magnetic Hands (Captain Beefheart And His Magic Bands Live In The UK 72-80)
296O+2003(Viper/CD 015)1972Railroadism (Captain Beefheart And His Magic Bands Live In The USA 72-81) US
224+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{20m/4+}1972Rehearsal (w/o Don)
181O+1972(Reprise Records)1972The Spotlight Kid
182O+1972(AFRTS /RL-37-2)1972The Spotlight Kid / Tapestry
314O+2011(Ozit-Morpheus Records /OZITLP 8008)1972Translucent Fresnel Live 72/73 - The Nan True s Hole Tapes - Vol. 1
2301972-01-01 Shelter Of Don Van Vliet S Living Room, Santa Cruz, CA, US
2351972-01-02 Beat Club, London, England
427+[beefheartxyz]1972-01-08 New York, NY, US?
240+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{70m/3-}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-01-15 Anderson Theatre, New York, NY, US01
428+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-01-21 Daniels Theater, Worcester, MA, US?
245+[Teejo]{2Shows}[FrogsEye]{50m/4+!}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-01-22 Fenway Theatre, Boston, MA, US
429+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-01-23 Yale University, New Haven, CT, US?
431+[beefheartxyz]1972-01-24 Boston, MA, US?
636AfficheA+[SetlistFm]1972-01-26 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI, US
641+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-01-28 The Paramount Theater, Springfield, MA, US
432+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-01-29 Ferris Athletic Center, Hartford, CT, US?
226+[FrogsEye]{45m/4}1972-02 Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH, US
223S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{20m/}1972-02David Tearson interview Radio WMMR, Philadelphia, PA, USInterview01
646+[Teejo]{2Shows}[SetlistFm]1972-02-04 University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US
433+[beefheartxyz]1972-02-05 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, US?
651+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-02-11 University Of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US
434+[beefheartxyz]1972-02-12 Ritz Theater, Indianapolis, IN, US?
250+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-02-13 Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH, US01
656+[Teejo]{2Shows}[SetlistFm]1972-02-18 Academy Of Music, New York, NY, US
2551972-03 Hollywood, CA, US
222S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{5m/}1972-03Interview Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, EnglandInterview
227S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{11m/4+}1972-03-01Andy Hall interview London, EnglandInterview01
260+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-03-10 Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, CA, US01
436+[beefheartxyz]1972-03-11 Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, CA, US?
437+[beefheartxyz]1972-03-12 Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, CA, US?
265+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4!}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-03-24 Colston Hall, Bristol, England
438+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-03-25 Town Hall, Birmingham, England?
270ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/3/3+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]+Foghat1972-03-27 Royal Albert Hall, London, England01
661+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-03-28 Royal Albert Hall, London, England
275AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-03-29 The Brighton Dome, Brighton, England01
280AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/3+/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-03-30 Montfort Hall, Leicester, England01
285+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4!}[SetlistFm]1972-04-01 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
290+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4}[SetlistFm]1972-04-02 Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland01
666AfficheA+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-04-03 Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool, England
439+[beefheartxyz]1972-04-04 Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland?
295+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/3}[SetlistFm]1972-04-05 Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, England
694+[guestpectacular]1972-04-06 Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland?
441+[beefheartxyz]1972-04-07 Stadsschouwburg, Groningen, Netherlands?
671+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-04-08 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
443+[beefheartxyz]1972-04-09 Stockholm, Sweden?
442+[beefheartxyz]1972-04-09 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands?
444+[beefheartxyz]1972-04-10 Club 7, Oslo, Norway?
300+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4/4+}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-04-11 Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark01
679F+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{25m/5}[SetlistFm](The Lost Tapes 610802001)(Trout Mask Era 610278001)1972-04-12(The Lost Broadcasts) Beat Club, Hamburg, GermanyVideoD01
305AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{40m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-04-14 Jahrunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany01
310+[Teejo]Pop 2[FrogsEye]{25m/4-}(The Lost Tapes 610802001)1972-04-15(The Lost Tapes)(Trout Mask Era) Le Bataclan, Paris, France
446+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-19 Cumberland County Memorial Auditorium, Fayetteville, NC, US?
447+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-20 Dorton Arena, Raleigh, NC, US?
315+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{30m/3}[Sugarmegs]1972-04-22 The Scope, Norfolk, VA, US
448+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-23 Civic Center, Salem, VA, US?
449+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-24 Anderson Arena, Bowling Green, OH, US?
681+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-04-25 West Virginia University Coliseum, Morgantown, WV, US
451+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-26 Virginia Polytechnic, Blacksburg, VA, US?
452+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-27 Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA, US?
453+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-04-28 Coliseum, Athens, GA, US?
320+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{30m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-04-29 West Palm Beach Auditorium, Palm Beach, FL, US
686+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-05-01 De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England
691BticketT+2007(Ozit-Morpheus Records /OzitCD9006)1972-05-06Live At Bickershaw Festival - North West England 1972 Bickershaw Festival, Bickershaw, England
325BticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4!}[Sugarmegs](Magneticism I 610049001)1972-05-07Live At Bickershaw Festival - North West England 1972 Bickershaw Festival, Bickershaw, England
696+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{55m/3}[SetlistFm]1972-05-31 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US01
454+[beefheartxyz]1972-07-26 Arts and Culture Centre, Saint John, Canada?
456+[beefheartxyz]1972-10-06 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US?
457+[beefheartxyz]1972-10-07 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US?
458+[beefheartxyz]1972-10-10 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, US?
330+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1972-10-13 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, US01
459+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1972-10-15 Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA, US?
461+[beefheartxyz]1972-10-16 Civic Center, Springfield, MA, US?
462+[beefheartxyz]1972-10-18 Civic Center, Charleston, WV, US?
506+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-10-22 WBCN Radio, Boston, MA, US
511AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4/4+}[SetlistFm]?1972-10-28 Town Hall, New York, NY, US01
516+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1972-10-30 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, US
463+[beefheartxyz]1972-10-31 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, US?
464+[beefheartxyz]1972-11-01 Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, US?
466+[beefheartxyz]1972-11-03 Thomson Student Centre, Saint John, Canada?
467+[beefheartxyz]1972-11-04 Thomson Student Centre, Saint John, Canada?
468+[beefheartxyz]1972-11-13 Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, US?
697+[guestpectacular]1972-12-02 KHSU-FM Studio, Arcata, CA, US?

1973

353S+Unknown (Carlotta s Cds /none)1973Interview With Wolfman Jack 1973 Interview
228S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{30m/4+}1973Radio KBPI Denver Interview
229+[FrogsEye]{45m/3+/4}1973-01 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
469+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1973-01-02 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US?
471+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1973-01-02 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US?
526+[guestpectacular]1973-01-03 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
473+[beefheartxyz]1973-01-04 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US?
340+[guestpectacular]1973-01-05 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
474+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1973-01-06 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US?
476+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1973-01-07 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US?
63+[SongKick]1973-02-02 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
64+[SongKick]1973-02-03 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
102+[SongKick]1973-02-04 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
103+[SongKick]1973-02-05 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
104+[SongKick]1973-02-06 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
107+[SongKick]1973-02-07 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
477+[beefheartxyz]1973-02-15 Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, Canada?
478+[beefheartxyz]1973-02-16 Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, Canada?
531+[Teejo]{2Shows}[SetlistFm]1973-02-23 Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA, US
345+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{75m/4+}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)1973-02-24(Magneticism I) Town Hall, New York, NY, US01
536+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-02-25 Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, US
541+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-02-28 Green Hall, New York, NY, US
546+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-02 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada
350OticketT+2014[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+}[SetlistFm](Magneticism III 610105001)1973-03-03Somewhere Over Vancouver Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada
231S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{100m/4}1973-03-04The Restaurant Interview with Gary Barclay Vancouver, CanadaInterview01
479+[beefheartxyz]1973-03-05 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US?
551+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-06 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US
556+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-07 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US
561+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-08 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US
3+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1973-03-09 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US01
108+[Teejo][SongKick]1973-03-10 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US
109+[Teejo][SongKick]1973-03-11 Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US
481+[beefheartxyz]1973-03-16 Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, AZ, US?
566+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-17 Civic Auditorium, El Paso, TX, US
360+[Teejo][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1973-03-23 Winterland, San Francisco, CA, US
571+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-24 Winterland, San Francisco, CA, US
576+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1973-03-29 Bovard Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, US
581+[FrogsEye]{60m/3+/4}[SetlistFm]1973-03-31 Winterland, San Francisco, CA, US
586+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-05 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
591+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-07 Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool, England
596+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-09 Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England
66+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-10 Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England
67+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{70m/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-12 Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, England01
68+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-13 Green S Playhouse, Glasgow, Scotland
69+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/3+/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-14 Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
365+[Teejo][songKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Throw Me A Peach 610278001)1973-04-17(Throw Me A Peach) Rainbow Theatre, London, England
70+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-18 Rainbow Theatre, London, England
71+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{62m/3}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-21 Colston Hall, Bristol, England
72+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{10m/4/4+!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-22 Locarno Ballroom, Stevenage, England
73S+[Teejo]Bristol/Cancelled[FrogsEye]Interviews{15m/4+}[SetlistFm]1973-04-24BBC Radio by John Peel BBC Radio, London, EnglandInterview01
74+[Teejo]Cardiff/Cancelled[songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-25 Bradford University, Bradford, England
75+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-26 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England
76+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-27 Preston Guild Hall, Preston, England
77ticketT+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-28 Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, England
78+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/3+/4!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-04-30 University Of Nottingham, Nottingham, England
370+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1973-05-01 University, Leicester, England
375+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1973-05-02 University, Leeds, England
79+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-05-03 Polytechnic, Oxford, England
80+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-05-04 Lancaster University, Lancaster, England
380+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{75m/4}[SongKick]1973-05-05 University, Southampton, England01
482+[beefheartxyz]1973-05-06 University Of Kent, Canterbury, England?
81+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1973-05-07 University Of Essex, Colchester, England
82+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/3+/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1973-05-08 University Of Kent, Canterbury, England
483+[beefheartxyz]1973-05-12 Music Festival, Vienna, Austria?
698+[guestpectacular]1973-06-23 Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI, US?

1974

183O+1974(Virgin)1974Bluejeans & Moonbeams
184O+1974(AFRTS /RL-48-4)1974Desitively Bonnaroo / Unconditionally Guaranteed
186O+1974(Mercury)1974Unconditionally Guaranteed
3851974Unconditionally Guaranteed Backing Hollywood, CA, US
236S+[Teejo]Roxy/Cancelled[FrogsEye]Interviews{20m/4}1974-04-01Toronto interview Interview
390+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]?1974-04-03 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US01
83+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-04-04 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
84+[Teejo]Roxy/Cancelled[songKick][SetlistFm]1974-04-05 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
85+[Teejo]Roxy/Cancelled[songKick][SetlistFm]1974-04-06 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
86+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{55m/4+!}[SetlistFm]1974-04-07 Convocation Hall, Toronto, Canada
87+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1974-04-09 The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, US
88+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1974-04-10 The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, US
89+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-04-11 Town Hall, New York, NY, US
110+[SongKick]1974-04-12 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US
112+[SongKick]1974-04-13 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US
113+[SongKick]1974-04-14 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US
90+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-04-17 The Brewery MSU West, Lansing, MI, US
91+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-04-19 Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH, US
92+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-04-20 Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH, US
93+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-04-21 Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, US
395OticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{65m/5}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]2015(Full Moon in Cowtown Iconography – ICON039)1993(German Records World Productions /German Records 033)1974-04-22Captain Hook/Full Moon in Cowtown Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO, US01 / 02
484+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-24 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US?
486+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-25 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US?
487+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-26 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US?
488+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-27 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US?
489+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-28 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US?
491+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-29 Max S Kansas City, New York, NY, US?
492+[beefheartxyz]1974-04-30 The Performance Center, Cambridge, MA, US?
114+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-01 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US
117+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-02 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US
400+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1974-05-03 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US
118+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-04 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US01
233S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{25m/}1974-05-04Augie and Andy Demartino interview Radio WMLN, Cambridge, MA, USInterview01
119+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-05 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US
122+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-06 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US
123+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-07 The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US
94+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4}[SetlistFm]1974-05-08 Electric Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
493+[beefheartxyz]1974-05-09 Electric Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US?
95+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-05-10 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
96+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-05-11 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
494+[beefheartxyz]1974-05-12 Municipal Stadium, Phoenix, AZ, US?
97+[Teejo]Reims[songKick]Reims[SetlistFm]Nantes1974-05-23 École Polytechnique, Nantes, France
98F+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{40m/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm](The Lost Tapes 610802001)(Throw Me A Peach 610278001)1974-05-24(The Lost Tapes)(Throw Me A Peach) HEC Paris, Jouy en Josas, FranceVideoD01
124+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-05-25 Lyon, France
99+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-05-26 Théâtre Antique, Arles, France
127+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1974-05-28 Royal Albert Hall, London, England
101+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm](The Lost Tapes 610802001)1974-05-29(The Lost Tapes) Old Grey Whistle Test, London, England
106+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-05-30 Loughborough University, Loughborough, England
405+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4}[SongKick]1974-05-31 University, Norwich, England
111+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-01 University Of Leeds, Leeds, England
496+[beefheartxyz]1974-06-02 Royal Theatre Drury Lane, London, England?
116+[Teejo][SetlistFm]?1974-06-03 Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England
121+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm](The Lost Tapes 610802001)1974-06-03(The Lost Tapes) Pinkpop FestivalNetherlands
126ticketT+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-04 Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, England
131+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-05 Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
136ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]+(Throw Me A Peach 610278001 Old Grey Whistle Test Free Trade Hall, Manchester)1974-06-06(Throw Me A Peach) Caley Palais, Edinburgh, Scotland
803+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-07 Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, England
804+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-08 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
415OticketT+1994[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{40m/5}[SongKick][SetlistFm]+Henry Cow?1974-06-09London 1974 Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, EnglandCD
410+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{40m/5}[Compilation-bootleg]?1974-06-09The Mirror Man Looks Back
805+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-10 Hove Centre, Hove, England
806+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-11 New Theatre, Oxford, England
128+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-06-13 University, Cambridge, England
807+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-14 Sports Centre, Bracknell, England
808+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-15 Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool, England
809+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-16 Colston Hall, Bristol, England
810ticketT+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-17 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales
811+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm](Throw Me A Peach 610278001)1974-06-18(Throw Me A Peach) Old Grey Whistle Test, London, England
812+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1974-06-20 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
813+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1974-06-21 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
420+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{50m/4-}[SongKick][SetlistFm]+Vpro Tv Studio/Udel(Throw Me A Peach 610278001)1974-06-22(Throw Me A Peach) Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
129+[Teejo][SongKick]1974-06-23 De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
521S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{20m/4+}[SetlistFm]1974-10Humboldt State Univesity interview Radio KHSU, Arcata, CA, USInterview01
699+[guestpectacular]1974-11-01 Crystal Lake Ballroom, Ellington, CT, US?
753+[guestpectacular]1974-11-02 Crystal Lake Ballroom, Ellington, CT, US?

1975

187OticketT+1975(Discreet)1975Bongo Fury LP
237S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{60m/5}1975Radio KWST(CB & Frank Zappa) Interview
188B+1975(Wizardo Records)1975What s All This Booga-Booga Music?
132+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-02-13 Copenhagen, Denmark
133+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-02-26 Paris, France
134+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-02-28 Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
137+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-01 Leeds University, Leeds, England
138+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-02 Manchester Opera House, Manchester, England
139+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-04 Hove Town Hall, Hove, England
141+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-05 Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England
142+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-07 University, Edinburgh, Scotland
143+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-08 University Of Strathclyde Student Union, Glasgow, Scotland
144+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-09 Colston Hall, Bristol, England
145+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-10 Southampton University Student S Union, Southampton, England
146+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-11 Heavy Steam Machine, Hanley, England
147+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-14 Rainbow Theatre, London, England
148+[Teejo]Cancelled[SongKick]1975-03-15 Rainbow Theatre, London, England

Bongo Fury Tour

702+[CUlrich],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{2Shows/15m/4}Ea115b-,La115b-/c+1975-04-11 Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, CA, US01
703S+[CUlrich],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{105m/4+}Interviews{15m/4-}a105c1975-04-18FZ & CB on WPLR New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT, USInterview
704+[CUlrich],[Sugarmegs],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{2Shows/180m/4}Ea100b+/b,La110b+/b1975-04-19 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, US01
707+[CUlrich]?1975-04-20 Keystone Hall, Kutztown, PA, US
708+[CUlrich]1975-04-22 Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, NY, US
709+[Sugarmegs][FrogsEye]{125m/5}?1975-04-23 Gifford University, Syracuse, NY, US
712+[CUlrich]1975-04-24 Palace Theatre, Albany, NY, US
713+[CUlrich],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{90m/4}a85b1975-04-25 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, US
714ticketT+[CUlrich],[Sugarmegs],[FZshows]a125a1975-04-26 Alumni Hall, Providence, RI, US01
327BticketT+2014(Keyhole)1975-04-26Providence College, Rhode Island, April 26th 1975 Providence College, Rhode Island
718BticketT+[CUlrich],[Sugarmegs],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{2Shows/90m/4+}Ea90a-/b+,La90b+1975-04-27Providence College, Rhode Island, April 26th 1975 Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, US01 / 02
719+[CUlrich]1975-04-29 Civic Center, Trenton, NJ, US
722+[CUlrich]1975-04-30 War Memorial Auditorium, Johnstown, PA, US
723+[CUlrich]?1975-05-02 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA, US
724+[CUlrich],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{105m/4+}a120b/b-1975-05-03 Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, US
727+[CUlrich]?1975-05-04 Civic Center, Charleston, WV, US
728+[CUlrich]?1975-05-06 University Union Auditorium, Normal, IL, US
729+[CUlrich]?1975-05-07 Capitol Plaza/CPA Sports Center, Frankfort, KY, US
732+[CUlrich]1975-05-09 Morris Civic Auditorium, South Bend, IN, US
733+[CUlrich]1975-05-10 Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN, US
734+[CUlrich],[Sugarmegs],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{95m/4}a95b1975-05-11 International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL, US
737+[CUlrich],[FZshows][FrogsEye]a95b-1975-05-13 Kiel Opera House, Saint Louis, MO, US01
738+[CUlrich]?1975-05-14 Roberts Municipal Stadium, Evansville, IN, US
739AfficheA+[CUlrich]?1975-05-16 Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, OH, US
742+[CUlrich]?1975-05-17 Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI, US
743+[CUlrich][FrogsEye]Interviews{15m/4-}1975-05-18FZ & CB on WBAX Detroit Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, US
744AfficheA+[CUlrich],(1975/05/20-21)1975-05-20 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
747AfficheA+[Webalice]1975-05-21 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
748BticketT+[CUlrich],[FZshows][FrogsEye]{90m/4+}s90a1975-05-23Bongo Fury In El Paso In 1975 County Coliseum, El Paso, TX, US01 / 02
749+[CUlrich],(1975/05/25-26)1975-05-25 Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, AZ, US
752+[Webalice]1975-05-26 Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, AZ, US

1975

497+[beefheartxyz]1975-07-03 Teevee Sound Stage Studio, Chicago, IL, US?
337OticketT+2016(Dandelion Records/)1975-07-05Live At Knebworth Park Saturday 5th July, 1975 Knebworth Park, Knebworth, England
149+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+!}[SongKick]1975-07-14 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US
430+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1975-07-15 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US01
816+[songKick][SetlistFm]1975-07-16 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US
498+[beefheartxyz]1975-09-18 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, US?
151+[Teejo][SongKick]1975-10-18 Halles De La Villette, Pantin, France
435+[FrogsEye]{8m/4-}[SetlistFm]1975-10-19 La Fete Rouge, Paris, France
499+[beefheartxyz]1975-10-22 Alhambra, Bordeaux, France?
502+[beefheartxyz]1975-10-24 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium?
501+[beefheartxyz]1975-10-24 Parc des Expositions, Poitiers, France?
503+[beefheartxyz]1975-10-25 Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden?
440+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{55m/4!}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1975-10-27 Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland01
817+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1975-10-28 Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden
445+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs]1975-10-30 Chateau Neuf, Oslo, Norway
450+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs]1975-10-31 Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark01 / 02
152ticketT+[Teejo]Århus Stakladen[SongKick]1975-11-01 Stackladen, Aarhus, Denmark
818+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1975-11-02 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
504AfficheA+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1975-11-04 Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland?
507+[beefheartxyz]1975-11-07 Palais des Sports, Lyon?
819+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1975-11-08 L Olympia, Paris, France
508+[beefheartxyz]1975-11-10 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium?
820+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-12 University Of Warwick, Coventry, England
821+[Teejo]Coventry Warwick university[songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-13 Civic Hall, Guildford, England
455+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{70m/4!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-14 New Victoria Theatre, London, England01
822+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+Secret Oyster1975-11-15 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
823+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-16 Empire Theatre, Liverpool, England
460+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-18 Town Hall, Birmingham, England
824+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-19 Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales
153+[Teejo][SongKick]1975-11-21 University, Edinburgh, Scotland
465AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]+Secret Oyster1975-11-22 Friars Club, Aylesbury, England01
470+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-24 University, Southampton, England
826+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-25 The Brighton Dome, Brighton, England
827+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-26 Brunel University, Uxbridge, England
828+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-27 Guildford University, Guildford, England
829+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/3/3+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1975-11-28 Colston Hall, Bristol, England
830+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+Aj Webber1975-11-29 University Of Leeds, Leeds, England
831+[Teejo]Leeds leeds university[songKick][SetlistFm]+Chris Spedding1975-11-30 Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England
832+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)1975-12-01(Magneticism I) Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, England
154+[SongKick]1975-12-21 The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
156+[SongKick]1975-12-22 The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
157+[SongKick]1975-12-23 The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
472+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm][CUlrich]1975-12-26 Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA, US
475+[Teejo][songKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm][CUlrich]+Frank Zappa1975-12-27 Winterland, San Francisco, CA, US01
158+[SongKick]1975-12-28 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA, US
833+[Teejo][SetlistFm][CUlrich]1975-12-29 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA, US
834+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{45m/4}[SetlistFm][CUlrich]1975-12-31 The Forum, Inglewood, CA, US

1976

4801976 Record Plant Studio, Sausalito, CA, US
189O+1976(AFRTS /RL 20-6)1976Bongo Fury / Another Live
191B+1976(Wizardo Records)1976Confidential
242+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{10m/4}1976Hoboism + Train Crossing
356B+Unknown (Shelter Records/)1976Original 1976 Shiny Beast Version
57ticketT+[Compilation-bootleg]1976The Original Bat Chain Puller 301
509+[beefheartxyz]1976-07-27 Dovregubbens Hall, Skien, Norway?
512+[beefheartxyz]1976-07-27 Hjertnes Kulturhus, Sandefjord, Norway?
835+[SetlistFm]1976-09-03 Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle, England
836AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1976-12-03 Keystone, Berkeley, CA, US
837AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1976-12-04 Keystone, Berkeley, CA, US
485AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{70m/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1976-12-05 Keystone, Berkeley, CA, US01
838+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1976-12-10 Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
839+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1976-12-11 Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
840+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/3+/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1976-12-12 Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
490+[Sugarmegs]1976-12-26 Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, US
159+[SongKick]Frank Zappa1976-12-29 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA, US

1977

495+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{E/85m/4+!,L/25m/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism II 610347001)1977-04-21(Magneticism II) Keystone, Berkeley, CA, US
841+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1977-04-22 Keystone, Berkeley, CA, US
842+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/110m/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1977-04-23 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA, US01
513+[beefheartxyz]1977-04-24 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA, US?
161+[Teejo]{2shows}[SongKick]1977-07-06 Old Roller Rink, Vancouver, Canada
162+[Teejo]{2shows}[SongKick]1977-07-07 Old Roller Rink, Vancouver, Canada
163+[Teejo]{2shows}[SongKick]1977-07-08 Old Roller Rink, Vancouver, Canada
164+[Teejo]{2shows}[SongKick]1977-07-09 Old Roller Rink, Vancouver, Canada
843+[Teejo][songKick]Vancouver[SetlistFm]Seattle1977-07-10 Parker S Ballroom, Seattle, WA, US
844+[Teejo]{2shows}[SetlistFm]1977-07-11 Ken S Afterglow, Portland, OR, US
845+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1977-07-12 Eugene, OR, US
165+[SongKick]1977-07-13 Seattle, WA, US
500+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{E/70m/4,L/85m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1977-07-15 The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US
514+[beefheartxyz]1977-07-16 The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US?
846+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1977-10-31 Moot Hall, Buffalo, NY, US
505+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/85m/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism III 610105001)1977-11-01(Magneticism III) Colonial Tavern Club, Toronto, Canada
847+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/85m/4+!}[SongKick][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)(Magneticism III 610105001)1977-11-02(Magneticism I/III) Colonial Tavern Club, Toronto, Canada
510+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{E/45m/4,L/60m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)1977-11-03(Magneticism I) Red Creek Inn, Rochester, NY, US01
518+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-04 Poughkeepsie, NY, US?
517+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-04 My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US?
519+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-05 My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US?
515+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{60m/4}[SetlistFm]1977-11-06 My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US
522+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-09 Paul S Mall, Boston, MA, US?
523+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-10 Paul S Mall, Boston, MA, US?
848+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1977-11-11 Childe Harold, Washington, DC, US
520AfficheA+[FrogsEye]{35m/4-}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1977-11-12 Childe Harold, Washington, DC, US
524AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-13 Childe Harold, Washington, DC, US?
527+[beefheartxyz]1977-11-14 Stone Balloon Ale House, Newark, DE, US?
525OticketTAfficheA+2014[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][Sugarmegs][DM]1977-11-19Somewhere Over Paris Grande Halle De La Villette, Paris, France01 / 02
849+[FrogsEye]{90m/4+}[SetlistFm]1977-11-20 Hippodrome De Pantin, Paris, France
5301977-11-22 The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US
535+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/135m/4/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)(Magneticism II 610347001)1977-11-25(Magneticism I/II) The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US
540+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/145m/4/4+!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1977-11-26 The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US01 / 02
850+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1977-12-02 Cellar Door, Washington, DC, US

1978

192B+1978(The Impossible Recordworks)1978Easy Teeth
317OticketT+2012(VAULTernative Records /VR2012-1)1978Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) LP
61B+1978(Warner Bros. Records)1978Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Outtakes
248+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{90m/5}1978Shiny Beast b/ts & o/ts
166+[Teejo]{2shows}[SongKick]1978-01-19 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US
851+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-01-27 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US
545+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{65m/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1978-01-28 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US
550+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{45m/4-}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1978-02-16 The Backdoor, San Diego, CA, US01
555AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{70m/4/4+}[SetlistFm]1978-02-17 The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US
560ticketTAfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{95m/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1978-02-18Easy Teeth The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US01 / 02
852AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-04-27 Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, US01
853AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-04-28 Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, US
854AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-04-29 Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, US
528+[beefheartxyz]1978-06-03 raincross square rock show, Riverside, CA, US?
5651978-06-06 The Automatt, San Francisco, CA, US
570+[Sugarmegs]1978-08-28 The Automatt, San Francisco, CA, US
529AfficheA+[beefheartxyz]1978-10-26 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US?
855AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1978-10-27 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US01
575AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4+}[SetlistFm](Magneticism II 610347001)1978-10-28(Magneticism II) The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US
856+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{65m/4/4+!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1978-10-31 The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA, US01
857+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick]Detroit[SetlistFm]Grosse Pointe1978-11-08 Punch And Judy Theater, Grosse Pointe, MI, US
858+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-11-09 Vegetable Buddies, South Bend, IN, US
859+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick]South Bend[SetlistFm]Boston1978-11-10 Paradise Theatre, Boston, MA, US
860+[Teejo]Cancelled[FrogsEye]{70m/4}[SetlistFm]1978-11-11 Paul S Mall, Boston, MA, US
861+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-11-12 The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US
580+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{75m/4!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1978-11-13 The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US
862+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1978-11-16 Good Times Cafe, Poughkeepsie, NY, US
863+[Teejo][songKick]Boston[SetlistFm]Roslyn1978-11-17 My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US
585ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{85m/5}[SetlistFm]1978-11-18I m Going To Do What I Wanna Do (Live At My Father s Place 1978) My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US
532+[beefheartxyz]1978-11-20 Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA, US?
533+[beefheartxyz]1978-11-21 Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA, US?
864+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{45m/4/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1978-11-22 The Bayou, Washington, DC, US
865AfficheA+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1978-11-23 Exit/In, Nashville, TN, US
866+[songKick][SetlistFm]1978-11-25 The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US
590+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{E/75m/4+,L/75m/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism II 610347001)1978-11-28(Magneticism II) The Great South East Music Hall & Emporium, Atlanta, GA, US01
595+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{75m/4-}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1978-11-29 Tipitina S Uptown, New Orleans, LA, US
867+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1978-11-30 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
600+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{70m/4/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)(Magneticism II 610347001)1978-12-01(Magneticism I/II) Opry House, Houston, TX, US
868+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1978-12-02 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, US
869+[songKick]Dallas[SetlistFm]Cleveland1978-12-03 Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH, US
246S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{20m/5}1978-12-03Dr Demento interview KMET Radio, Los Angeles, CA, USInterview01
6051978-12-11 My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US
244S+Interviews{10m15s}1978-12-18Interview HoustonInterview01

1980

289+2000(MSI/MSIF 7746)1980 Liverpool
249S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{10m/}1980Amsterdam Radio interview Interview
251S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{15m/5}1980David Hepworth interview BBC Capitol Radio, London, EnglandInterview01
196OticketT+1980(Virgin)1980Doc At The Radar Station LP
294BticketT+2003(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart))1980Electric Poetry: Live In Holland 1980 Netherlands
197B+1980(Haro Records /CB1180)1980Flavor Bud Living
167+[SongKick]1980-01-12 Tut S, Chicago, IL, US
393+(Hoboism 610037001)1980-01-28(Hoboism) The Country Club, Reseda, CA, US?
870+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+Comsat Angels1980-10-25 Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales
871AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{60m/4/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]+Comsat Angels1980-10-26 Colston Hall, Bristol, England
872+[Teejo][songKick]Birmingham[SetlistFm]Edinburgh+Comsat Angels1980-10-27 Odeon Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
873+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]+Comsat Angels1980-10-28 Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
610OticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{85m/4+/5!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]+Comsat Angels(Magneticism I 610049001)1980-10-29Merseytrout (Live In Liverpool 1980) The Rotter S Club, Liverpool, England
615+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{85m/4/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]+Comsat Angels1980-10-30 The Apollo Theatre, Manchester, England01
620OticketT+2006[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-11-01Amsterdam 80 The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands01
874+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1980-11-02 Stadsschouwburg, Sittard, Netherlands
875+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1980-11-03 Hal 4, Rotterdam, Netherlands
876AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-04 De Brinkhoeve, Norg, Netherlands
622ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-11-05 Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium01
625F+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{30m/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-07Chorus Théâtre De L Empire, Paris, FranceVideoD01
877ticketT+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-08 Théâtre Du 8e, Lyon, France
630ticketT+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{75m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][DM][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)1980-11-09(Magneticism I) Elysée Montmartre, Paris, France01
6351980-11-11 The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
637+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{80m/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-11-12 The Venue, London, England01
878+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/3+/4}[SongKick][SetlistFm]+Associates1980-11-13 Civic Hall, Guildford, England
640ticketT+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{90m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-11-14 The Venue, London, England
645ticketTAfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-11-15 Loughborough University, Loughborough, England01
879+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-16 Unity Hall, Wakefield, England
880+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4/4+!}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-17 University, York, England
881+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-18 The Venue, London, England
168+[Teejo][SongKick]1980-11-19 The Venue, London, England
534+[beefheartxyz]1980-11-21 Gabe S Oasis, Iowa City, IA, US?
650+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm](610037001)1980-11-22(Hoboism) Saturday Night Live, New York, NY, US
882+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1980-11-23 Duffy S, Minneapolis, MN, US
169+[Teejo][SongKick]1980-11-24 Starship, Milwaukee, WI, US
883+[Teejo]{2shows}[SetlistFm]1980-11-26 Emerald City, Cherry Hill, NJ, US
655+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-27 Center Stage, Providence, RI, US
660AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4+!}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-11-28 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, US
884+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-29 JB Scott S Theater, Albany, NY, US
885AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-11-30 E M Loew S, Worcester, MA, US
253+[FrogsEye]{20m/4}1980-12 Texas Soundcheck
665+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/140m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-12-02 The Bayou, Washington, DC, US01
670+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-12-03 My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US01
886+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1980-12-04 The Stanhope House, Stanhope, NJ, US
675+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{100m/4+!}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-12-05 The Paradise Club, Boston, MA, US
676+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-12-06 The Paradise Club, Boston, MA, US
887+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1980-12-07 Toad S Place, New Haven, CT, US
677+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1980-12-09 Irving Plaza, New York, NY, US
678F+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{30m/4/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1980-12-10The Dark Footage Mudd Club, New York, NY, USVideoD01 / 02
685OticketT+2015[Teejo][FrogsEye]Interviews{30m/4+}{85m/4}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism II 610347001)1980-12-11Somewhere Over Detroit Harpo S, Detroit, MI, US
888+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{2shows/140m/03/04/2017}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1980-12-12 Tuts, Chicago, IL, US
690AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{90m/4+}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1980-12-13 Milwaukee Auditorium, Milwaukee, WI, US
889+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1980-12-14 Gabe S Oasis, Iowa City, IA, US
170+[SongKick]1980-12-15 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
171+[Teejo][SongKick]1980-12-16 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
172+[Teejo][SongKick]1980-12-17 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
173+[SongKick]1980-12-18 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
695ticketT+[Teejo]{2shows}[songKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]+B-people1980-12-19 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US01
700+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{E/70m/4/4+,L/90m/4+/5}[SongKick][Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]+B-people1980-12-20 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US
537+[beefheartxyz][guestpectacular]1980-12-21 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US?

1981

313B+2011(Leftfield Media)1981An Ashtray Heart - Toronto Broadcast 1981
705AfficheA+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{80m/4+}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism II 610347001)1981-01-15(Magneticism II) Showbox Theatre, Seattle, WA, US01
890+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1981-01-16 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada
710BticketT+2019[Teejo][FrogsEye]{(FM broadcast 28/02/81)/50m/4}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism III 610105001)1981-01-17Live In Vancouver 81 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada
715+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{65m/4/4+}[SetlistFm]1981-01-18 Euphoria, Portland, OR, US01
891AfficheA+[Teejo][songKick][SetlistFm]1981-01-19 WWU PAC Mainstage, Bellingham, WA, US
717AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{85m/4+}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1981-01-21 Wow Hall, Eugene, OR, US
892AfficheA+[Teejo]{2shows}[SetlistFm]1981-01-22 Red Pepper, Arcata, CA, US
720+[Teejo][SetlistFm]1981-01-23 The Stone, San Francisco, CA, US
725+[Teejo]{2shows}[FrogsEye]{E/75m/4/4+,L/75m/4-}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1981-01-24 The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA, US
730+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{70m/4+}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm]1981-01-25 Phoenix Theatre, Petaluma, CA, US
538+[beefheartxyz]1981-01-26 Country Club, Reseda, CA, US?
735OticketT+2016[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/5}[Sugarmegs][SetlistFm](Magneticism I 610049001)1981-01-29Somewhere Over California / Best Batch Yet The Country Club, Reseda, CA, US01 / 02
893+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4+}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1981-01-30 The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US
740+[Teejo][FrogsEye]{90m/4+/5}[SongKick][SetlistFm]1981-01-31 The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US

1982

254S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{15m/}1982David Letterman TV Interviews Interview
256S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{10m/}1982Earth News promos Interview
199OticketT+1982(Virgin)1982Ice Cream For Crow LP
257+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{30m/5}1982Ice Cream for Crow backing tracks
272B1982Ice Cream For Crow Instrumentals f01
65+[Compilation-bootleg]1982Ice Cream For Crow Outtakes
258+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{90m/5}1982Ice Cream for Crow rehearsals
7451982-06 Warner Brothers Studios, Hollywood, CA, US

1983

7501983 Late Night With David Letterman, New York, NY, US

1985

204B+1985(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart))1985No Bacon For Breakfast Vol. 1 & 2

1987

212B+1987(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart))1987Violant Rape
261S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{50m/}1987-10-18KCRW Santa Monica Phone In W Kristine McKenna (talk Only) Radio KCR, Santa Monica, CA, USInterview01

1989

234B+1989(Archive Productions/ARK 002)1989Another Chapter From The Lives And Times Of Captain Beefheart
238B+1989(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart))1989The Lives And Times Of Captain Beefheart - Somebody In My Home

1992

239B+1992(Hallmark)1992Live At My Father s Place
262+[FrogsEye]Out-takes{6m/5}1992Six Poems

1993

269B+1993(Triangle Records/)1993Crazy Little Things
263S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{90m/4}1993-07-23Co De Kloet Dutch Radio (complete Phone Interview) Interview

1994

271B+1994(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart))1994Don s Birthday Party
273B+1994(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart) /CBCD514)1994The Original Bat Chain Puller
264S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{10m/}1994-01-15Bill Harkleroad (Phone Int. W John Ellis) Interview

1998

276B+1998(Iguana/)1998An Evening With... Frank Zappa And Captain Beefheart
277B+1998(Head/none)1998Out Here Over There
266S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{240m/5}1998-07-27Supplement Dutch Radio (inc. Some Of Above Interview) Interview

1999

267S+[FrogsEye]Interviews{30m/}1999-11-28Bill Harkleroad (Phone Int. W Waldemar Hepstein On For-Sort Kanal, Student Radio, Oslo) Interview

2000

284B+2000(Not On Label (Captain Beefheart) /none)2000Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Case Of The Punks

2004

298S+2004(Chrome Dreams /CIS2009)2004The Classic Interviews Interview

2006

303B+2006(Ozit-Morpheus Records /OZIT CD 9004)2006The Captain s Last Live Concert Plus...

2008

309O+2008(Sundazed Music)2008It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper

2010

996M+Don Glen Vliet : 15 janvier 1941 / 17 décembre 2010 (Arcata, CA, US)692010-12-17Mort de Captain Beefheart Arcata, CA, US69

Enregistrements

(2/1) Captain Beefheart, , Warner Brothers Outtakes

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

WB OUTTAKES

disc 1

01. My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains (instru.)
02. Clear Spot (instru.)
03. Crazy Little Thing (instru.)
04. Dirty Blue Gene (instru.)
05. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (instru.)
06. untitled blues jam
07. Sun Zoom Spark (instru.)
08. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (instru.)
09. Low Yo Yo Stuff (instru.)
10. Circumsatnces (w/vocal)
11. Li'l Scratch (w/vocal)
12. Li'l Scratch # 2 (w/vocal)
13. Suzy Murder Wrist
14. U Bean So Cinquo ( Obenso Cinco )
15. unknown title ( Witch Doctor Life working title )
16. Li'l Scratch ( slow blues jam version )
17. Flaming Autograph
18. Love Grip

total time disc 1 66:25

disc 2

01. No Flower Shall Grow
02. " No More Fun "
03. Best Batch Yet
04. Your Love Brought Me To Life # 1
05. Your Love Brought Me To Life # 2
06. That Little Girl
07. Campfires
08. Funeral Hill # 1 ( w/vocal )
09. Drink Paint Run Run (w/vocal)
10. I Can't Do This Unless I Can Do That
11. Dirty Blue Gene (guitar/voice/harp)
12. Sun Zoom Spark (alternate version)
13. Two Rips In A Haystack (w/vocal)
14. Funeral Hill # 2 (w/vocal)
15. Sun Zoom Spark ( acoustic version )
16. Too Much Time (instru.)
17. Long Neck Bottles (instru.)
18. Funeral Hill # 3 (cut )

total time disc 2 72:44

disc 3 ( all instrumental except trk. 15 vocal by Rockette Morton )

01. Lick My Decals Off, Baby
02. Doctor Dark
03. I Love You, You Big Dummy
04. Bellerin' Plain
05. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
06. Japan In A Dishpan
07. I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
08. Petrified Forest
09. The Buggy Boogie Woogie
10. The Smithsonian Institue Blues ( or The Big Dig )
11. Space Age Couple
12. The Clouds Are Full OF Wine ( not Whiskey or Rye )
13. Flash Gordon's Ape
14. " Holy Shit ! "
15. Well, Well, Well ( Rockette Morton vocal )
16. Japan In A Dishpan ( horn solo # 1 )
17. Japan In A Dishpan ( horn solo # 2 )
18. Japan In A Dishpan ( drums/bass )
19. Flash Gordon's Ape # 2
20. Flash Gordon's Ape # 3

total time disc 3 56:35

Master tapes > HK Tapes > ZR Tapes > My Tapes :)
Maxell XLII-S Tapes > ONKYO ( ? ? ) Deck > TDK DA-3826 Stand Alone Burner > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 transfer by JBK/mcchocchoc from the Archives at The Shielded Vessel at some point during the year 2001.

Many folks have copies of these tracks in one form or another. I have collected many different versions over the years. I believe that the recordings I have here still sound best to my ears, so because of that I figured I would share them. Last year I shared these copies with a longtime, hardcore trader ( for a second opinion ) and he also agreed. They sound awesome. See what you think ! You might agree, you might not. Either way, the sound here is Excellent. I transferred 2 of the tapes as they are. Raw. No eq, noise reduction. Nothing. Straight transfer. Same running order as the cassettes. The titles are also as written on my tapes. ( I have seen different titles or variations of words for several of the tracks here. ) ENJOY ! ! !

Musicians > > >
Captain Beefheart - Vocals/harp/horns
Zoot Horn Rollo - Guitar
Drumbo - Drums
Art Tripp - Drums, Percussion
Rockette Morton - Bass, Guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling - Guitar ( solos ) ( I know this because many years ago I gave copies of these tapes to Zoot and he told me that was who played the solos ).


seeded at dimeadozen on Feb. 05, 2011.

Never for sale. Free/Trade always and only.


(9/1) Captain Beefheart, , The Legendary a&m Sessions

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610009001a
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band

The Legendary A&M Sessions

Sortie: 1986

A1 Diddy Wah Diddy
A2 Who Do You Think You're Fooling
A3 Moonchild
B1 Frying Pan
B2 Here I Am, I Always Am


(17/1) Captain Beefheart, , If You Got Ears (1966-1973)

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610017001a
Captain Beefheart

If You Got Ears

1994

1 Hard Working Man 3:13
2 Moody Liz 4:37
3 Odd Jobs 5:26
4 Mirror Man 4:50
5 Torture 9:14
6 Little Scratch 2:31
7 Funeral Hill 4:03
8 Dirty Blue Gene 3:00
9 Picture Of Mahavishnu 3:53
10 Light Reflected 4:35
11 Evil 2:23
12 Flash Gordon's Ape 3:45
13 Lick My Decals Off 2:39
14 Hard Working Man 3:43


(25/1) Captain Beefheart, , I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain T Weird

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610025001f
Captain Beefheart

i may be hungry

01. Trust Us (Take 6)
02. Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones (Part 1)
03. Moody Liz (Take 8)
04. Safe As Milk (Take 12)
05. Gimme Dat Harp, Boy
06. On Tomorrow (Instrumental)
07. Trust Us (Take 9)
08. Safe As Milk (Take 5)
09. Big Black Baby Shoes (Instrumental)
10. Flower Pot (Instrumental)
11. Dirty Blue Gene (Instrumental)


(37/1) Captain Beefheart, , Hoboism

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610037001f610037001b
Captain Beefheart - Hoboism
Liberated Bootleg

Silver CD -> EAC -> WAV -> FLAC level 8

Studio outtakes 1970:

01. Little Scratch
02. Dirty Blue Gene
03. Funeral Hill
04. Flash Gordan's Ape

Studio rehearsal 1972:

05. Sun Zoom Spark
06. Key To the Highway

Saturday Night Live Nov 1980:

07. Hot Head
08. Ashtray Heart

Live-The Country Club, Reseda CA Jan 28 1980:

09. Safe As Milk
10. China Pink
11. Sheriff of Honk Hong
12. Kandy Korn
13. Veterans Day Poppy
14. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Studio demo:

15. Hoboism

Artwork (such as it is) has been included.

(49/1) Captain Beefheart, , Magneticism I : Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live In The UK/USA 1972-1981

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610049001a610049001b
Captain Beefheart – Magneticism:

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Bands Live In The UK/USA 72-81

Click Clack
Old Black Snake
Dali's Car
Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
Drop Out Boogie
Kandy Korn
Abba Zaba
Electricity
Golden Birdies
A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
Veteran's Day Poppy
Big Eyed Beans From Venus


(105/1) Captain Beefheart, , Magneticism III: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live in Canada 1973-1981

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610105001a
MAGNETICISM III The Best of Captain Beefheart & his Magic Bands Live in the Canada 1973 – 81

Viper DL139

TRACKS

Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, 17/1/1981

1. Abba Zaba
2. Hot Head
3. Dirty Blue Gene
4. Doctor Dark
5. Bat Chain Puller

1st show, Tavern Club, Toronto 1/11/1977

6. Grow Fins

2nd Show, Tavern Club, Toronto 1/11/1977

7. Low Yo Yo Stuff
8. A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond
9. China Pig
10. Golden Birdies

1st Show, Tavern Club, Toronto 2/11/1977

11. Dali’s Car

Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, 3/3/1973

12. Peon


(193/1) Captain Beefheart, , A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond

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610193001a
Track list

Sugar Bowl
The Past Sure Is Tense
Happy Love Song
The Floppy Boot Stomp
Blue Jeans and Moonbeams
Run Paint Run Run
This Is the Day
Tropical Hot Dog Night
Observatory Crest
The Host, the Ghost, the Most Holy-O
Harry Irene
I Got Love on My Mind
Pompadour Swamp
Love Lies
Sheriff of Hong Kong
Further Than We’ve Gone
Candle Mambo
Light Reflected off the Oceands of the Moon

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond

Album overview from Graham Johnston

Compilation of mid-to-late / Virgin-era Beefheart with a track list which seems to have been chosen at random. Just to completely spoil whatever redeeming qualities the collection may have, it also features snippets of dialogue edited into tunes where they just do not belong.
One to skip, especially now that The Dust Blows Forward has been released which is a far superior package.
Releases

1993 UK CD A CARROT IS AS CLOSE AS A RABBIT GETS TO A DIAMOND Insert says COMPILATION AND SLEEVENOTES BY SIMON HOPKINS 1993 – tracks from Virgin’s 5 Albums and 1 EP (’82 “OCEANDS”) “OCEANDS” cut from the ’82 EP appears in digital form for the first time. The CD itself is an art-CD featuring an alarming close-up of Don Vliet’s 1974 moustache.


(194/1) Captain Beefheart, , Frank Zappa with Captain Beefheart – Chronicle

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Frank Zappa with Captain Beefheart

Chronicle

Sortie: 1979

A1 Regyptian Strut
A2 Sofa
A3 Who Are The Brain Police?
A4 Orange Claw Hammer

B1 200 Years Old
B2 Willie The Pimp
B3 Peon
B4 Alice In Blunderland

C1 Revised Music For Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra
C2 A Pound For A Brown On The Bus

D1 Somebody In My Home
D2 Almost Grown
D3 Call On Me
D4 Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do
D5 Yellow Brick Road
D6 Plastic Factory


(198/1) Captain Beefheart, , Sun Zoom Spark (1970-1972)

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Captain Beefheart

Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 To 1972

Année: 2014

Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Lick My Decals Off, Baby 2:38
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Doctor Dark 2:46
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– I Love You, You Big Dummy 2:54
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Peon 2:24
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Bellerin' Plain 3:35
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop 2:06
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Japan In A Dishpan 3:00
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go 1:53
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Petrified Forest 1:40
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– One Red Rose That I Mean 1:53
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– The Buggy Boogie Woogie 2:19
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) 2:11
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Space-Age Couple 2:32
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye) 2:50
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band– Flash Gordon's Ape 4:57
The Spotlight Kid
Captain Beefheart– I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 4:34
Captain Beefheart– White Jam 2:55
Captain Beefheart– Blabber 'N Smoke 2:46
Captain Beefheart– When It Blows It Stacks 3:40
Captain Beefheart– Alice In Blunderland 3:54
Captain Beefheart– The Spotlight Kid 3:21
Captain Beefheart– Click Clack 3:30
Captain Beefheart– Grow Fins 3:30
Captain Beefheart– There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage 3:11
Captain Beefheart– Glider 4:34
Clear Spot
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Low Yo Yo Stuff 3:38
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 3:45
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Too Much Time 2:46
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Circumstances 3:11
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains 2:57
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Sun Zoom Spark 2:11
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Clear Spot 3:35
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Crazy Little Thing 2:35
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Long Neck Bottles 3:17
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles 2:54
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Big Eyed Beans From Venus 4:23
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band– Golden Birdies 1:37
Out-Takes
Captain Beefheart– Alice In Blunderland (Alternate Version) 3:55
Captain Beefheart– Harry Irene 3:33
Captain Beefheart– I Can't Do This Unless I Can Do This / Seam Crooked Sam 2:00
Captain Beefheart– Pompadour Swamp / Suction Prints 4:23
Captain Beefheart– The Witch Doctor Life (Instrumental Take) 5:27
Captain Beefheart– Two Rips In A Haystack / Kiss Me My Love 2:38
Captain Beefheart– Best Batch Yet (Track - Version 1) 2:18
Captain Beefheart– Your Love Brought Me To Life (Instrumental) 3:11
Captain Beefheart– Dirty Blue Gene (Alternate Version 1) 2:52
Captain Beefheart– Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (Early Mix) 3:59
Captain Beefheart– Kiss Where I Kain't 2:44
Captain Beefheart– Circumstances (Alternate Version 2) 3:23
Captain Beefheart– Little Scratch 2:57
Captain Beefheart– Dirty Blue Gene (Alternate Version 3) 3:03


(259/1) Captain Beefheart, , The Brown Star Sessions

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Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

"The Brown Star Sessions" (Bootleg) 1972

The cult continued,during the 1972 sessions that produced the Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot LPs but ,unlike other 'cult leaders',this marked a new era with the Captain appearing to have loosened the structural death grip he imposed on his musicians since the Trout Mask Replica LP,allowing them to improvise and express themselves a tad.
These were sessions intended for an album called "Brown Star", but ended up mainly as the style from which 'The Spotlight Kid was culled. A few of the songs were spruced up for "Clear Spot" and even later albums.
There are indeed a few lost classics that should have seen the light of day,but were never revisted, like "Kiss Me My Love"and "Funeral Hill",which was at least mixed for inclusion on "Spotlight Kid, but never made the cut, as didn't 'Harry Irene'.
There are many versions of songs that hung around for decades before appearing on the later albums, like "Dirty Blue Gene" which was around since near the inception of the group,at least since '67 anyway;then waited 15 years before inclusion on "Doc at the Radar Station".This feels like a lost album,all fleshed out with an obligatory handful of marimba and guitar instrumentals and why not?....I guess the phrase 'Brown Star' is street slang for an asshole is it not? He always had a sense of humour inbetween the pretentiousness and bullying.
Here's Don's painting called,funnily enough, "Brown Star"
I may unleash a tumult of astonishment here, but Don Van Vliet's paintings aren't actually very good are they?
I quite enjoy looking at them, but they're pretty unoriginal,and a tad pointless.I said the same when i saw an exhibition of paintings done by Chimpanzees. They were 'as good', but not, 'better than'.
Donny should have stuck with music;he had potential.
Having said that,as rock star painters go he's far better than Ronnie Wood, whose paintings really are shit.

Tracklist:

1 Boogler Risin'
2 Dirty Blue Gene I
3 Dirty Blue Gene II
4 Clear Spot (instrumental)
5 Harry Irene
6 Happy Blue Pumpkin
7 Kiss me my love
8 Little Scratch
9 Your Love Brought Me To Life
10 Pompadour Swamp
11 Funeral Hill I
12 Frying Pan
13 Dual And Abdul
14 Best Batch Yet (instrumental)
15 Suzy Murder Wrist
16 I Can't Do This Unless I Can Do This
17 Obenso Cinquo
18 Funeral Hill II
19 Flaming Autograph
20 Scratch My Back


(274/1) Captain Beefheart, , The Early Years (1959-1969)

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Captain Beefheart

The Early Years 1959-1969

1 Lost In A Whirlpool 2:21
2 Teenage Maltshop 1:13
3 Metal Man Has Lost His Wings 3:25
Avalon Ballroom 1968
4 Tupelo Mississippi 4:11
5 Somebody's Walking 2:46
6 Old Folks Boogie 3:17
7 Evil 2:23
8 Blues Jam 3:10
Studio Recordings 1966 - 1970
9 Out Of The Frying Pan - Alt Version 1:57
10 Almost Grown 2:08
11 Call On Me - Slow Version 2:57
12 Sure Nuff And Yes I Do - J. Peel 1968 2:33
13 Moody Liz - Rare Acetate Version 4:38
14 Korn Ring Finger 7:38
15 Frownland 1:50
16 Ella Guru 2:33
17 Hair Pie - Bake 1/Hair Pie - Bake 2 5:53
18 Pachuco Cadaver 4:01
19 Sugar N' Spikes 2:37
20 Neon Meat Dream Of A Octofish 2:28
21 The Blimp - Edit/Candy Man/China Pig 5:40
22 Well Well Well 1:58


(278/1) Captain Beefheart, , Throw Me A Peach (1974)

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Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band 1974

"Throw Me A Peach" NTSC DVD

(hothcanada - voltarized)

Contents & track listing:

1. 1974-05-24 Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris, France 36.26 (Dummkompf)

01 Mirror Man
02 Upon The My-O-My
03 Full Moon, Hot Sun
04 Crazy Little Thing
05 Improvisation
06 Peaches
07 Take Me To Your House
08 You're Gonna Need Somebody
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2. 1974-06-06 *Old Grey Whistle Test* Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England 3.18 (trashamericanstyle)

01 Peaches
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3. 1974-06-18 *Old Grey Whistle Test* England 3.51 (kotdd)

01 This Is The Day
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4. 1974-06-22 *VPRO* Holland 2.35 (BC - hothcanada)

01 Upon The My-O-My
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5. 1974-06-?? Pink Pop Festival, Holland 5.29 (unknown)

01 Mirror Man
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bonus : 1973-04-17 *Old Grey Whistle Test* Rainbow Theater, London, England 3.46 (BC - hothcanada)

01 Big Eyed Beans From Venus

credits:

segment 1 : Dummkompf
segment 2 : trashamericanstyle
segment 3 : kotdd
segments 4 & 6 : BC - hothcanada
segment 5 : unknown
zappateers intro : unicrayon
audio mastering, segment 4 : ImGoingUnder
authored by : voltarized


(279/1) Captain Beefheart, , Trout Mask Replica Era (1966-1972)

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Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band

"Trout Mask Era 1966-1972"

(trashamericanstyle - hothcanada - voltarized)

Contents:

1. 1966-05-24 Dick Clark : "Where The Action Is" 3.59 (jazzfan)
2. 1968-01-27 Cannes Festival France 6.46 (trashamericanstyle)
3. 1968-05-04 "If You Got Ears" Rome Pop Festival 1.28 (trashamericanstyle)
4. 1969 Trout Mask Photo Shoot 2.25 (BC - hothcanada)
5. 1969-10-28 Amougies Festival Belgium 5.30 (LudzNL)
6. 1970 Trout Mask 8MM Promo 5.07 (BC - hothcanada)
7. 1970 Lick My Decals Commercial 1.09 (trashamericanstyle)
8. 1971 Tubeworks Detroit 18.36 (trashamericanstyle)
9. 1972 Spotlight Kid Commercial 0.55 (trashamericanstyle)
10. 1972 Beat Club Germany 5.00 (BC - hothcanada)


Track-listings:

1. 1966-05-24 Dick Clark : "Where The Action Is" 3.59 (jazzfan)

01. Who Do You Think You're Foolin'?
02. Diddy Wah Diddy
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2. 1968-01-27 Cannes Festival France 6.46 (trashamericanstyle)

01. Electricity
02. Sure Nuff'N'Yes I Do
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3. 1968-05-04 "If You Got Ears" Rome Pop Festival 1.28 (trashamericanstyle)
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4. 1969 Trout Mask Photo Shoot 2.25 (BC - hothcanada)
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5. 1969-10-28 Amougies Festival Belgium 5.30 (LudzNL)

01. She's Too Much For My Mirror
02. My Human Gets Me Blues
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6. 1970 Trout Mask 8MM Promo 5.07 (BC - hothcanada)
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7. 1970 Lick My Decals Commercial 1.09 (trashamericanstyle)
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8. 1971 Tubeworks Detroit 18.36 (trashamericanstyle)

01. When Big Joan Sets Up
02. Woe Is Uh Me Bop
03. Bellerin Plain
04. Instrumental For Feet & Fingers
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9. 1972 Spotlight Kid Commercial 0.55 (trashamericanstyle)
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10. 1972 Beat Club Germany 5.00 (BC - hothcanada)

01. I'm Gonna Booglarize You

Credits:

Segments 2, 3, 7-9 : trashamericanstyle
Segments 4, 6 & 10 : BC - hothcanada
Segment 1 : jazzfan
Segment 5 : LudzNL
Trout Mask Replica cover art interpretation : Calvin Schenkel
Zappateers intro : unicrayon
dvd authoring : voltarized


(281/1) Captain Beefheart, , The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart

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(319/1) Captain Beefheart, , Son Of Dust Sucker

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Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band

Son Of Dust Sucker

1 Bat Chain Puller 5:07
2 Seam Crooked Sam 3:09
3 Harry Irene 3:25
4 81 Poop Hatch 2:35
5 Flavor Bud Living 1:49
6 Brickbats 4:27
7 Floppy Boot Stomp 3:57
8 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 1:37
9 Owed T' Alex 3:19
10 Odd Jobs 5:14
11 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole 5:49
12 Apes-Ma 0:43

Mystery Bonus Tracks
13 Untitled 1:19
14 Untitled 3:35
15 Untitled 3:10
16 Untitled 2:51
17 Untitled 6:18
18 Untitled 3:22
19 Untitled 2:23
20 Untitled 3:01
21 Untitled 3:47

Drums, Percussion, Guitar – Drumbo
Guitar, Slide Guitar – Walla Walla, White Jew
Keyboards – John Thomas
Remastered By – Owith Sahmet
Vocals, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Don Van Vliet

13 - My Human Gets Me Blues (Paris 1972)
14 - Alice In Blunderland (Paris 1972)
15 - I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (Paris 1972)
16 - Click Clack (Paris 1972)
17 - When Big Joan Sets Up (Detroit 1971)
18 - Golden Birdies (sax improv intro, date & place unknown)
19 - Woe Is Uh Me Bop (Detroit 1971)
20 - Abba Zabba (Paris 1972)
21 - Bellerin' Plain (Detroit 1971).


(338/1) Captain Beefheart, , Plastic Factory

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Captain Beefheart

Plastic Factory


Radio Broadcasts From The Ballroom San Francisco 1966
A1 Down In The Bottom
A2 Don´'t Start Me Talkin'
A3 The Sun Is Shining
A4 Tupelo
A5 Somebody In My Home
B1 Old Folk's Boogie
B2 St. James' Infirmary
B3 Evil (Is Going On)
B4 Harp Instrumental
Various Radio Sessions 1967 & 1968
C1 Somebody In My Home
C2 Sure 'Nuff 'N' Yes I Do
C3 Call On Me
C4 Yellow Brick Road
C5 Plastic Factory
C6 Sure 'Nuff 'N' Yes I Do
C7 Yellow Brick Road
C8 Abba Zabba
D1 Kandy Korn
D2 John Peel Interview (1973)


(347/1) Captain Beefheart, , Magneticism II : Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live In The USA 1966-1981

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Captain Beefheart – Magneticism II

The Best Of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bands Live In The USA 1966 - 81

Old Folks Boogie 3:15
St James Infirmary 6:14
Evil (Is Going On) 2:40
Carson City Poem 0:59
Dali's Car 1:33
Abba Zabba 3:39
Electricity 4:27
China Pig 6:06
Click Clack 7:19
Harry Irene 4:03
Well 2:53
Her Eyes Are A Blue A Million Miles 3:10
The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back 1:49
Nowaday's A Women's Gotta Hit A Man 3:53
Hot Head 3:18
Ashtray Heart 3:27


(542/1) Captain Beefheart, , Don s Piano Worktape

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Don's Piano Work Tape

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(543/1) Captain Beefheart, , An Ashtray Heart

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An Ashtray Heart - Toronto Broadcast 1981

A1 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 4:03
A2 Abba Zaba 3:10
A3 Hot Head 4:14
A4 Ashtray Heart 3:16
A5 Dirty Blue Gene 3:41

B1 Best Batch Yet 5:13
B2 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 2:14
B3 Doctor Dark 2:58
B4 Bat Chain Puller 5:45

C1 Sheriff Of Hong Kong 6:46
C2 Kandy Korn 4:51
C3 Big Eyed Beans From Venus 5:34

D1 When Big Joan Sets Up 6:18
D2 Woe Is Uh Me Bop 2:23
D3 Bellerin Plain 3:47
D4 Orange Claw Hammer 4:18
D5 Hot Head 3:14
D6 Ashtray Heart 3:44

Tracks A1 to C4: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada FM Broadcast 17.1.81
Tracks D1 to D3: Tubeworks WABX TV Detroit, 15.1.1971
Track D4: KWST FM Broadcast 1.11.1975 Radio Show with Frank Zappa
Tracks D5 & D6: Saturday Night Live, November 1980


(800/1) Captain Beefheart, , Dust Sucker

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1. Bat Chain Puller
2. Seam Crooked Sam
3. Harry Irene
4. 81 Poop Hatch
5. Flavor Bud Living
6. Brickbats
7. Floppy Boot Stomp
8. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
9. Owed T'Alex
10. Odd Jobs
11. 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole
12. Apes-Ma
13. Bat Chain Puller
14. Harry Irene
15. Flavor Bud Living
16. Floppy Boot Stomp
17. Owed T'Alex
18. Well Well Well
19. My Human Gets Me Blues

Tracks 1 to 12: the original Bat Chain Puller
Tracks 13 - 17: taken from the My Fathers Place 1978 show
Track 18: a 'Decals' out-take.
Track 19: Amougies Festival 1969
Notes

The original version of the Bat Chain Puller album gets a 'legitimate' release alongside some additional live tracks and out-takes. Released on 18th March 2002 by Milksafe Productions and marketed by Ozit-Morpheus Records (http://www.geocities.com/uheep2/ozit.htm), the people who gave us the Merseytrout CD.

Includes an 8 page booklet and the first 4000 come with a 'special limited' cover apparently.

(801/1) Captain Beefheart, , Grow Fins Rarities 1965-1982

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Captain Beefheart

Grow Fins rarities 1965-1982

cd1
101 obeah man (66 demo)
102 just got back from the city (66 demo)
103 im glad (66 demo)
104 triple combination (66 demo)
105 here i am i always am (early 66 demo)
106 here i am i always am (later 66 demo)
107 somebody in my home (live avalon 66)
108 tupelo (live avalon 66)
109 evil (live avalon 66)
110 old folks boogie (live avalon 67)
111 call on me (65 demo)
112 sure nuff n yes i do (67 demo)
113 yellow brick road (67 demo)
114 plastic factory (67 demo)

cd2
01 obeah man
02 sure nuff 'n' yes i do
03 rollin' n tumblin
04 electricity (live kidderminster 68)
05 yer gonna need somebody on yer bond
06 kandy korn
07 korn ring finger

cd3
301 dachau blues (tuning up)
302 bush recording
303 hair pie (bake 1)
304 hair pie (bake 2)
305 noodling 1
306 hobo chang ba
307 hobo (practice)
308 hobo chang ba (take 2)
309 dachau blues
310 old fart at play
311 noodling 2
312 pachuco cadaver
313 sugar n spikes
314 noodling 3
315 sweet sweet bulbs
316 frownland (take 1)
317 frownland
318 noodling 4
319 ella guru
320 silence
321 shes too much for my mirror
322 silence 2
323 steal softly through snow
324 noodling 5
325 my human gets me blues
326 untitled 26
327 when big joan sets up
328 silence 3
329 candy man
330 china pig

cd4
01 blimp playback
02 'herb alpert'
03 'septic tank'
04 'we'll overdub it 3 times'

cd5
01 blimp
01 my human gets me blues
02 when big joan sets up
04 bellerin' plain
05 black snake moan i
06 grow fins
07 black snake moan ii
08 spitball scalped uh baby
09 harp boogie i
10 one red rose that i mean
11 harp boogie ii
12 natchez burning
13 harp boogie iii
14 click clack
15 orange claw hammer (live radio 75)
16 odd jobs
17 odd jobs
18 vampire suite
19 mellotron improv
20 evening bell
22 mellotron improv
23 flavor bud living


(802/1) Captain Beefheart, , The Lost Tapes (1966-1970)

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The Lost Tapes: 1966-1970

A propos du DVD.
Filmée de bric et de broc, parfois avec une pelle à charbon, cette compilation d'enregistrements live de la période de 1966 à 1970, pour la moitié en France et jamais visibles jusqu'à présent, est bien à l'image du Capitaine Cœur de Bœuf et de sa musique. Au premier abord ça fait un peu crade et une heure après on s'aperçoit qu'on n'a pas décroché une seconde. Un mec qui était un des meilleurs potes au Zappa et, alors qu'il pouvait tranquillement poursuivre sa carrière musicale, car il est indémodable, s'est retiré dans le désert pour faire de la peinture ne peut que mériter notre empathie ou notre intérêt.

Le Capitaine Cœur de Bœuf :

Quel peut bien être le lien réunissant des artistes aussi éloignés qu’Alain Bashung, LCD Soundsytem, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys ou Deus ? Tous ont revendiqué, pour son esprit tordu ou sa musique déstructurée, l’influence de Captain Beefheart.

On mesure ainsi chaque jour, au rythme des chansons libres, frondeuses, tabassées qui émergent sur le Net, à quel point le Californien, rangé des bécanes pour une carrière de peintre désertique depuis le début des eighties, a été une force de proposition et de libération inouïe, dès les années 60.

Car en réinventant le blues, primitif, possédé, sale et sexuel avec une incompétence gracieuse sur des albums aussi fondamentaux que son Trout Mask Replica (1969), il ouvrait la porte en grand à des générations futures de musiciens plus portés sur la sauvagerie, l’irrespect que la virtuosité, la sagesse.

L’avant-garde, sans le bullshit et les fastidieuses explications de textes : la musique populaire américaine (du blues antique au free jazz en passant par le funk) a été la victime constante, parfois consentante, des dynamitages carabinés et jeux polissons de Captain Beefheart…

Le punk, la lo-fi et tout un tas de leurs rejetons hagards, mal élevés, électrocutés doivent ainsi beaucoup, souvent sans le savoir, à ce formidable médecin accoucheur que restera le Californien, cascadeur sans filet, mineur de grands fonds.

“Les animaux sont assez malins pour rester à l’écart des humains”, disait-il depuis sa retraite en plein
désert de Mojave. Captain Beefheart était un ours mal léché, un crotale, un hobo beau : en pensant à son bayou
asséché, nos larmes sont de crocodiles.
Source : lesinrocks.com

Liste des morceaux :
Les numéros correspondent aux lieux de tournage, voir plus bas.

* electricity [1]
* sure nuff yes i do [1]
* i'm gonna booglarize you [2]
* mirror man [3]
* upon the my o my [3]
* full moon [3]
* crazy little thing [3]
* improvisation [3]
* peaches [3]
* take me to your house [3]
* you're gonna need somebody [3]
* upon the my o my [4]
* this is the day [4]
* mirror man [5]
* click clack [6]


Lieux de tournage :

[1] Cannes, 1968, Midem.
[2] Beat club, 1972
[3] The "tragic band" live HEC, jouy-en-josas, paris, france may 24, 1974
[4] Old grey whistle test, 1974
[5] Dutch "pink pop" festival, 1974
[6] Bataclan, paris, 1972

Genre : Compilation d'extraits de concerts
Durée : 60 mn
Image : Couleur
Date de sortie du DVD : IMV BLUELINE 2013

Qualité : DVDrip
Format : MKV H264 - 720x456p / AC3 stéréo (Détail complet avec le nfo)
Taille totale : 972 Mo

Enjoy !


(972/1) Captain Beefheart, 1968-01-24, John Peel Session, London, England

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

BBC Sessions 1968

01. Yellow Brick Road
02. Abba Zaba
03. Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do
04. Electricity
05. John Peel Outro (from 2001 rebroadcast)

Recording: Maida Vale, Studio 4, London UK; Wednesday 24 January 1968
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear'; Sunday 4 February 1968
Producer: Bernie Andrews
Engineer: Dave Tate/Bob Conduct

Personel:
Don Van Vliet (Vocals, Harmonica)
John French (Drums)
Alex St. Clair (Lead Guitar)
Jerry Handley (Bass)
Jeff Cotton (Guitar)

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01. Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones
02. Safe As Milk
03. Kandy Korn
04. Trust Us
05. John Peel Outro (from 2001 rebroadcast)

Recording: 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London UK; Monday 6 May 1968 (except Tr. 01: TTG Studios, Hollywood, CA; November 1967)
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear'; Sunday 12 May 1968
Producer: Bernie Andrews
Engineer: Pete Ritzema/Allen Harris

Personel:
Don Van Vliet (Vocals)
John French (Drums)
Alex St. Clair (Lead Guitar)
Jerry Handley (Bass)
Jeff Cotton (Guitar)


(980/1) Captain Beefheart, 1968-05-05, (Trout Mask Era), Pop Festival, Roma, Italy

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(203/1) Captain Beefheart, 1969-07-20, WB Promo Interview with Meatball Fulton, CA, US

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART aka DON VAN VLIET

1969-07-20 California

WB Promo Interview with Meatball Fulton

Tracks

01. pt. 1
02. pt. 2
03. pt. 3

total time approx. 25 minutes

unknown (low) gen cassette made from LP source. ( pre/non broadcast version )
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Excellent 1969 Interview that was sent out to Radio Stations to promote Captain Beefheart and the soon to be released ablum TROUT MASK REPLICA. This Promo LP was never sold or commercially available. I would doubt that many stations even played it. It is said a longer version from the original tape source exists. Many famous Captain Beefheart quotes can be heard here. This is one of the more interesting interviews. A wide range of topics are covered. I found this spread across a couple of tapes, that's why the tracks are split up. The sound is excellent. Enjoy.

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(202/1) Captain Beefheart, 1969-11, CB & FZ Straight Press Conference, England

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Captain Beefheart - Interviews 1969-1978

More Beefheart interviews for you all:

-Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa 1969 11 xx STRAIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE UK 5m
-Captain Beefheart 1972 02 xx WMMR Philadelphia 14m10s
-Captain Beefheart probably 1974 05 04 WMLN Cambridge w/ Augie and Andy Demartino (24m24s)
-Captain Beefheart 1974 10 xx KHSU Humboldt State Univesity Arcata CA interview 20m*
-Captain Beefheart 1978 12 18 Houston Interview 10m15s

Thanks to mcchocchoc for date confirmations and helping decide which of the two of us had the best versions to share with you all.
Some great stuff here!

*For whatever reason, they decided to use the 15 second "beep" to indicate it was being recorded, rather annoying, seemed to annoy Don for a second too.
Interesting interview, very small radio station.
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(150/1) Captain Beefheart, 1970, Lick My Decals Off Baby Outtakes, Hollywood, CA, US

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610150001a
Captain Beefheart

"Lick My Decals Off, Baby (Outtakes)" (Bootleg) 1970

If you ever wanted a soundtrack for an alternative Karaoki soirée,then this is perfect for you. Nineteen instrumental Beefheart tracks from the 'Lick My Decals Off, Baby' sessions;then beaf(pun intended) it up with the instrumental tracks from the "Trout Mask House Sessions", and you got yerself a swinging avant-blues Karaoki night.......I'm reserving 'Dachau Blues' for my Beefheart Party,hows 'bout yous?

Tracklist:

01-Lick My Decals Off,Baby
02-Doctor Dark
03-I Love You Big Dummy
04-Bellerin' Plain
05-Woe Is Uh Me Bop
06-Japan In A Dishpan
07-Big Toe # 25
08-Petrified Forest
09-The Buggy Boogie-Woogie
10-The Big Dig (The Smithsonian Institute Blues)
11-Space Age Couple
12-Clouds Are Full Of Wine
13-Flash Gordon's Ape
14-Japan In A Dishpan (Take 2)
15-Japan In A Dishpan (Take 4)
16-Japan In A Dishpan (Bass & Drums)
17-Flash Gordon's Ape # 1
18-Flash Gordon's Ape # 2
19-Bellerin' Plain (No Overdub)
20-The Buggy Boogie Woogie (Vocals Only)
21-Well Well Well (Rockette Morton on vocals)


(160/1) Captain Beefheart, 1970-09-18, Pepperland Auditorium, San Rafael, CA, US

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TORRENT TITLE

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - 1970-09-18 Pepperland, San Rafael, CA

ARTIST NAME

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

BOOTLEG TITLE

N/A

VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE

Pepperland, San Rafael, CA 1970-09-18

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 (52:44)

01 When Big Joan Sets Up....................(8:39)
02 Bellerin' Plain..........................(4:19)
03 I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big
Toe Until I Have To Go..............(2:17)
04 Peon.....................................(3:12)
05 I Love You, You Big Dummy................(4:49)
06 The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or
Rye)................................(3:12)
07 Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop.........................(3:41)
08 One Red Rose That I Mean.................(2:45)
09 Hair Pie.................................(2:28)
10 Doctor Dark..............................(3:36)
11 Space-Age Couple.........................(2:31)
12 Earth Angel (For Jimi Hendrix) (CUT).....(4:30)
13 Earth Angel (For Jimi Hendrix) (alt
source).............................(6:36)

LINE UP

Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet - vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston - bass
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad - guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp - marimba
Drumbo/John French - drums

ARTWORK

N/A

SOURCE / LINEAGE

Stereo AUD trade tape

Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
Big thanks to the original taper, and to the trader (jbk) who hooked me up with a copy.
I originally mastered this 2009-08-30.
The only thing I did on the computer was place track marks before each piece.
This FLAC fileset comes from WAVs from this dub, which only needed SBE corrections in TLH; no CD-Rs or EACs.

NOTES

I've had the Spotlight & Shiny outtakes on constant rotation in my car & it's on my mind to get some more Beefy goodness out here.
Pulling out a variety of shows from different timeframes - here's a nice old one.

Always thought this was mono by ear, but I see on the computer there really is some separation, if a bit limited.
Not perfect by today's clear digital standards, but pretty good considering it's 1970.
It's a bit dodgy at first (heads not lined up), but settles down after a bit.

As I note below, I start tracks with the count-in or the music.
For this show, someone seemed to yell "hey!" as a one-beat count-in, so I left that shout intact as the lead in to tracks where present.

The band intros are just after Joan, I didn't break that out to a separate track.

There's an edit in the source tape just before One Red Rose.

Hendrix died that day, that's why Earth Angel is dedicated to him; the source for the bulk of the show has this song cut off before completion.
As it came to me on my source tape, there's an alternate source version that is NOT missing the end, which follows the cut-off version.
I've included both, in the same way they both came to me.

A fine set including a nice version of Bellerin' Plain.

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I dunno about you, but when I hear stuff this old, I am REALLY grateful that people went and recorded things like this.
And I'm glad traders kept them going around long enough so I could get a copy many years later.

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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).

I mark the start of tracks when the music or count-in begins, not the talking about it before it starts.

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The usual schmack applies here:

Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.

(225/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971, The Spotlight Kid Outtakes (1971-1972)

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
The Spotlight Kid Outtakes 3rd Revision

The Spotlight Kid & Pompadour Sessions
October-early November 1971
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA

Acoustic Blues Session
early 1972
probably Amigo Studios, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, CA
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This torrent is an upgrade, as detailed in the next paragraph, to the Spotlight Kid Outtakes 2nd revision I posted in October 2006. This is the link to the old torrent if you want to compare:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=117977

A very friendly DIME fellow who wants to stay anonymous sent his collection of Spotlight Kid outtakes. Thank you very much for your generosity!
Every Beefheart fan has its own version, but this time we are talking about a known 2nd gen!
A former band member received the tapes on getting the gig, they were made for him in order to learn the tunes. Our guy got them directly from him, he transferred the tapes to CDR using a stand alone CD burner, no editing or mastering in this step.
What I got are FLAC files directly ripped from the CDR. The sound quality of the tracks is astonishing, my english isn't good enough to describe the details. You have to hear them!

Some statistics:
- 41 tracks overall. Length: 198:33
- 33 tracks from the 2nd gen in excellent sound quality (1)
- 8 tracks from 3rd gen with improved sound quality (2), (3), (4)
- 2 new tracks: Circumstances and a new version of Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian
- 2 tracks uncut: Funeral Hill (Version 1), Low Yo Yo Stuff (Instrumental)
- 1 stereo upgrade: Dirty Blue Gene (Version 1) before only available in mono

Lineage:
(1) studio->tape 2nd gen->stand alone CD burner->CDR->flac->TLH->wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac
(2) studio->tape 3rd gen?->Spotlight Kid DVD (from puzzleoyster)->wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac (2nd revision)->TLH->wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac
(3) studio->tape 3rd gen?->The Spotlight Kid Outtakes CDR (from perebeef)->wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac (2nd revision)->TLH->wav-> Wavelab: sound editing->TLH->flac
(4) studio->tape 3rd gen?->Beefheart Studio Sessions 1970-72 (flac torrented on DIME)->TLH: wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac (2nd revision)->TLH->wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac

Tracklist:
1-01 Drink Paint Run Run (7:28:977) (1) excellent sound quality
1-02 Seam Crooked Sam (Version 2) (2:18:290) (1) excellent sound quality
1-03 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 1) (2:54:642) (1) stereo, excellent sound quality
1-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 3)(4:12:283) (1) excellent sound quality, 4,5% slower
1-05 Kiss Me My Love (2:38:779) (1) excellent sound quality
1-06 Funeral Hill (Version 1) (6:46:236) (1) excellent sound quality, 2% slower, 0:50 longer (coda uncut)
1-07 Harry Irene (2:51:164) jazzy guitar version, (1) excellent sound quality
1-08 Open Pins (5:41:854) (3) improved sound
1-09 Dual & Abdul (2:44:970) (1) excellent sound quality, 5% faster
1-10 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (Version 2)(3:05:670) (1) new version, excellent sound quality (different guitar outro)
1-11 Balladino (2:27:607) (1) excellent sound quality
1-12 Clear Spot (Instrumental) (4:46:150) (2) improved sound
1-13 Circumstances (9:09:407) (1) new track, excellent sound quality (marimba, harmonica, different to Clear Spot o/t)
1-14 I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (Instrumental)(5:54:142)(1) excellent sound quality
1-15 Low Yo Yo Stuff (Instrumental) (6:08:188) (1) uncut, excellent sound quality
1-16 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (Version 1) (4:11:118) (1) excellent sound quality, 4,5% faster
1-17 Little Scratch (Version 2) (2:53:510) (4) improved sound

Pompadour Session (1) excellent sound quality, 3,8% slower
2-01 Pompadour I (13:54:520) 2 takes
2-02 Pompadour II (12:41:308) 5 takes

3-01 Suzy Murder Wrist (3:47:285) (1) excellent sound quality
3-02 U Bean So Cinquo (2:51:291) (1) excellent sound quality
3-03 The Witch Doctor Life (3:51:869) (1) excellent sound quality
3-04 Little Scratch (Version 1)(4:48:648) (1) excellent sound quality
3-05 Flaming Autograph (4:44:098) (1) excellent sound quality
3-06 Love Grip (4:48:176) (1) excellent sound quality
3-07 No Flower Shall Grow (5:44:902) (1) excellent sound quality
3-08 Best Batch Yet (Version 1)(3:40:819) 3 takes (1) excellent sound quality
3-09 Your Love Brought Me To Life (4:10:338) 2 takes (1) excellent sound quality
3-10 That Little Girl (5:18:342) (1) excellent sound quality
3-11 Campfires (5:47:664) (1) excellent sound quality
3-12 Well Well Well (1:57:587) (1) excellent sound quality (Lick My Decals Off Baby o/t)
3-13 Funeral Hill (Version 3) (3:55:744) (1) excellent sound quality
3-14 Seam Crooked Sam (Version 1) (2:15:360) (2) improved sound
3-14 Alice In Blunderland (3:55:727) (2) improved sound
3-15 Funeral Hill (Version 2) (3:17:453) (2) improved sound
3-16 Best Batch Yet (Version 2) (2:14:814) (2) improved sound
3-17 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 2) (3:14:470) (2) improved sound

The Acoustic Blues Session (mono) (1) excellent sound quality, less bass, 2,1% faster
4-01 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 1) (8:03:536)
4-02 Scratch My Back (1:51:574)
4-03 Blues Medley (7:16:838)
4-03a Down In The Bottom (Howlin' Wolf, 1961)
4-03b Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy, 1941)
4-03c Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No More
4-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 2) (8:28:741)

Further notes about sound edits included in the torrent.
None of the tracks is released officially.

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Don Van Vliet: I was thinking warm and nice when I did that one (The Spotlight Kid) and I feel that it has all come through. Actually, though there are only ten tracks on the album, we recorded thirty-five songs altogether.
(Roy Carr: Svengali Zappa And A Horrible Freak Called Beefheart. New Musical Express. January 12, 1972)

Mike Barnes: Bill Harkleroad explains the genesis of the mass of unfinished material from this era: "We had a blocked amount of time (for The Spotlight Kid) and we had an cache of tunes. We just went in there in the typical way that we worked. Just take it, keep it, move on. Don was trying to use the studio more. (He thought) here we are, they're paying for it, let's get the most out of it and put some things down - unfinished licks and riffs that he thought were songs. It was a very incomplete, uncontrolled situation, like "What the hell's going on, what are we playing and where does this go?" Even with tunes that were "done", and that people think are great, a lot of them were unfinished ideas with a part missing here and there."
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

Dave Lynch: An incredible quantity of various takes in semi-annotated form, many given different titles; everybody seems to have a different set of these. All in all, they're interesting demos, but not particularly cohesive, with lots of loose jamming and repetition. Quality is mostly clean, although a significant amount of tape hiss mars some spots.
(Captain Beefheart Tapes)

Pete Mulvey: There are more out-takes for Spotlight Kid than any other album. Well, more to my knowledge, but you're right, that might just be sloppy controls for a brief period in history. There must have been a large number of demo tapes flying around as Beefheart sought to get out from under Zappa, and as Warners tried to capitalize on their investment. Beefheart regularly used to claim that none of the first three albums recouped their recording costs sufficiently to pay royalties, a wonderful allegation gleefully repeated in acolyte interviews, yet the Captain also claims that the album was recorded in under five hours. Let's say that two and a half days is a more rational estimate. The Record Company would also pay for rehearsals, and the band was note perfect on arrival, but rehearsal space is not the big expense. No, if the man has not been accounted for royalties on 'Trout Mask', it is because there are large cash advances to be deducted, keeping the band in meals, women, socks, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Don't blame them, myself, but there's no substitute for a happy band on the road, getting their material straight in front of people who cannot hear the detail of the difficulties they are experiencing.
So, the band completed the sixties and started touring the more accessible blues approach that would be The Spotlight Kid. The out-takes of the period are an extraordinary bunch. I have heard two C90s, the first of which contains a range of material most of which does not make the album, but gets resurrected on a future release. The second is more extended, instrumental-based stuff, reminiscent of those tapes of backing tracks that are around for some of the albums. Some are rambling runs, seven minutes of 'Drink Paint, Run, Run' and twenty-five of a blues-based jam which contains the words 'Sun Zoom Spark', along with 'Key To The Highway' and 'Baby Scratch My Back'. Beefheart can be heard referring to the number as 'Sun Zoom Spark', but he kept very little of this Bill Harkleroad performance, the emphasis shifting to that extraordinary rhythm. Hard to hear such work-outs without thinking that if anyone came up with the key phrase, new sound, or decent rhythmic touch, then Beefheart would incorporate it. If not, they take place simply to loosen fingers. If so, the musicians' claims to have had more than a hand in the writing could carry a little weight. Of course, if they can't prove it with their tape collection, then maybe Beefheart wrote the lot. It is just so hard to believe because it is such a varied but excellent body of work, and so hard to imagine someone describing what they want from an instrument they cannot play. There are instrumentals that are part of the development of backing tracks that will one day carry lyrics, 'Best Batch Yet' and 'Clear Spot', and there are instrumentals that will be honed into, well, instrumentals, 'Alice In Blunderland' and 'Pompadour' (which became 'Suction Prints'). These last four are intact, have their key passages all mapped out for them even at this stage. 'Harry Irene' appears for some reason in a spacious, lilting, delicate version, close to the final answer, yet a decade away from release. Also sounding very similar to the version that appears in the Shiny Beast sessions, Bill's work presumably considered well worthy of repetition. The boring 'Funeral Hill' is also well represented; if the tapes are anything to go by, they played that more often than anything else. Baffling. As so often, Beefheart has retained the number, certain that it can be something worth having, and has resurrected it in these sessions. It is just possible to believe that it metamorphosed into 'There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage', but I can put together an argument for 'Glider' as well. He obviously has great faith in both that and 'Little Scratch', although the latter at least changed cosmetically, becoming 'Natural Charm' before it finally achieved release as 'The Past Sure Is Tense', in a much changed format.
While on the subject of alternate titles, I have seen 'Funeral Hill' listed as 'Flat On Your Back', and 'Seam Crooked Sam' as 'Can't Do This Unless I Can Do That'. 'Little Scratch' can come across as 'Sure Had A Real Good Time', and 'Kiss Me My Love' as 'Two Rips In A Haystack'. I could make up a load of them; they have a certain logic, normally the first line of the song. The blues dominate the tapes, though. The acquisition of Winged Eel Fingerling must have been a shot in the bluesman's arm, his guitar blues education competing with his view of the unstructured potential of the blues and complementing Don's desires to veer off the mainstream blues path. The songs were obviously not created in long jams, but Elliot Ingber must have been taken with Don's music to extend anything to that length. Having said that, there are certain pictures of Ingber that suggest he would have had trouble finding an end to a tune that day at least.
The unreleased instrumentals are intriguing as work in progress. They contain classic sounding Beefheart figures, some just played to death in the absence of further instructions; the musos do not dare to express more than was required of them. Some of the backing track tapes are produced without him, but here one has the feeling of a controlling presence in the booth.
The band's line-up identifies the instrumentals anyway; they are Beefheart. His is a unique voice in composition, bringing a different sound out of familiar instruments and writing in a distinctive rhythmic style, colored with that marimba. If only he or Jan could have bolted some lyrics onto these, there would be an unreleased album fighting to get out. As it is, the potential of this twenty-five year old material will never be realized: it will tantalize forever. There are the beginnings of 'Clear Spot' and 'Low Yo Yo Stuff', 'Seam Crooked Sam' and 'A Carrot Is As Close'. The harmonica is featured on 'Seam Crooked Sam' in a terrific introduction to the track. The 'Spotlight Kid' LP is only 36 minutes long; you'd have thought some of these would not have disgraced the finished album. One fears that he is providing a minimum to satisfy a contractual requirement rather than producing value for the fans. Just listening to the twenty-five minutes of Pompadour you can hear pleasure in the band's playing that does not stay the course to the 'Shiny Beast' version. Also you can hear the Rockette Morton bass riff from 'Blabber 'n Smoke' and the Zoot Horn Rollo guitar from 'Booglarize'. Were they created for 'Pompadour'? By whom? This would have edited into an excellent track for the album, and with the references to other tracks, perhaps would have made an overture; revise a few lyrics and stick in a few self-referential solos and we could have had a concept album, and called it Conservation Act 1.
Where is the recognition that Beefheart deserves? His music demands and repays regular listens. Do Blues fans appreciate his work? I suspect not, yet cannot explain their indifference, given his obvious influences. No-one did it like that before him, and no-one could do it like that even after. Only Pere Ubu come near enough to nod in recognition, yet one would anticipate a school of composers exploring the rooms whose doors Don opened. There is no better introduction than the twofer CD Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot. Cheap to the point of gift, it contains a consistent range of glorious songs, culled from what we now know to be a much bigger bank of material. It may not please the purist, leaning as it does towards accessibility, but it is some of the fruit of a year of hard creative work.
(The Spotlight Kid Outtakes. Steal Softly Thru Snow #6)

Steve Froy: As far as I'm aware during 1971 Don had unprecedented access to studio time, presumably courtesy of Reprise, and so a lot of the rehearsals, jams etc. seem to have been recorded. We're talking about the preparations and recording of The Spotlight Kid, Brown Star and Clear Spot albums all within the space of a year. Many of the out-takes appear to come from the Spotlight and Brown Star sessions. They appear (to me at least) to have the same 'downer' feel as Spotlight (if you remember Bill Harkleroad spoke about the band being physically and emotionally drained at this time). I think Don realised that Brown Star wasn't happening and aborted it; had a rest and then had another go which Ted Templeton moulded into Clear Spot. There does exist another bunch of out-takes and backing tracks that are definitely from Clear Spot.
Without knowing exactly when each one was recorded it's difficult to give definitive answers about the origins of these tracks. So much of what I've said is speculative. Most of the Spotlight/Brown Star stuff are instrumental jams although there are a couple of early vocal versions of some well known songs. This was a very productive period and Don would return to plunder it for his last three albums. Although familiar titles are used for many of the out-takes/jams it can get very confusing because Don would reuse the same title for another song at a later date.
(Fire Party)

Henry Kaiser: EVERYTHING IS FROM ONE SESSION. I HAVE SEEN ALL THE MASTER TAPES AND THE DATES> I KNOW THIS> JOHN FRENCH CAN CONFIRM. BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR HIS BOOK. THE ARE FINISHED MASTERS FOR 'FUNERAL HILL' AND 'HARRY IRENE' - THEY WERE PULLED AT THE LAST MINUTE. NO OTHER TRAKS ARE COMPLETE BECAUSE THE $$$ & TIME RAN OUT FOR THE STUDIO.
ONLY ONE SESSION FOR ALL. ELLIOT JUST COMES IN FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS. ALL SONGS EXCEPT 'ALICE', 'POMPADOR SWAMP' AND 'BALLERINO' ('CARROT IS AS CLOSE'>>) WERE MEANT TO HAVE VOCALS OVERDUBBED. THEY ARE ALL BASIC TRACKS FOR SONGS> THERE ARE NO SKETCHES _ IT'S JUST THAT MANY SONGS WERE NEVER FINISHED> ALL IS LATE 1971 maybe OCT OR EARLY NOV. - I WOULD NEED TO GO IN MY VAULT TO CHECK THE TAPES FOR PRECISE DATES. ALL IS ONE SESSION. ONE SESSION>
Who was/could have been the drummer? What's about John French? IT"S ALL JF.

Gary Lucas: Don told me the correct spelling of #6 was 'U Bean So Cinquo'--"You've been so FIVE! Hey, Gary, isn't that HIP?" Just what it all meant he never actually said...
I believe also it should be 'Your Love Brought Me to Life', 'Balladino', 'Two Rips in a Haystack' (definitely, recycled as "two tears" (as in tearing a piece of paper, not tears of joy) "in a haystack" in the 'Ice Cream for Crow' lyrics--sublime yonic and anal symbolism here combined, boys and girls.
I got most of this music courtesy of Ted "Hey" Laffey, who "liberated" these tracks (with Kaiser I'm told) from the Warner Vaults in '80--Laffey used to be a special projects guy there--also of interest on these tapes is the fantastic 'I Can't Do This, Unless I Can Do This', which features the mic'ed up percussive thump of John French tap dancing as the rhythm track, Don wheezing through his harp in great 'White Jam' ("it's about some white people jamming, Gary"--right, not about cunning lingual mucous mules twat trala trala) style, then reciting the opening lines of Odd Jobs before it thumps to a halt.
I totally agree with that previous remark about Don's feedback harp solo on 'Funeral Hill' being an analog to Hendrix's guitar, exactly what I thought when I first heard this 22 years ago, amazing performance, unbeatable track- "Man, we cut that on angel dust" --also: "Y'know, Hendrix came to me one time and said 'Hey Don...' (dramatic pause)...'Your Voice' (pointing to throat)...'My Guitar (miming air guitar)...he actually wanted me to join him in a new group! Isn't that silly?".
I never knew whether to take him seriously about alot of this...but occasionally, it did check out. sometimes not...
"Man that poor little Marianne Faithfull, did you see her on Saturday Night Live last night? You know, she never wanted to be with JAGGER (disdainful drawn-out sarcastic pronunciation here)...she wanted to be with ME!!"
I scanned Marianne's memoirs once for a mention of this torrid infatuation... but no Don...(he does figure rather comically in Pamela des Barres book, which was actually alot more convincing a tale).
(Fire Party)

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The Spotlight Kid Sessions
October-early November 1971
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA

1-01 Drink Paint Run Run (7:28:977) alternate 'Run Paint Run Run' (released on Doc At The Radar Station)
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Comments:
Colin David Webb: He also experimented with early versions of 'Drink Paint Run Run' (totally different lyrics, the tune was to be used later as the basis for 'Ice Cream For Crow').
(Captain Beefheart. The Man And His Music, 1989)
Mike Barnes: 'Run Paint Run Run' (from Doc At The Radar Station) propagates a germ of an idea from 'Drink Paint Run Run' from the 1971 Spotlight Kid sessions, although the semantic overlap is about the only thing they have in common. ... The guitar line of ('Ice Cream For Crow') originates from 'Drink Paint Run Run' from the Spotlight Kid sessions from 1971, and a few ideas for the lyrics from its contemporary, 'Two Rips In A Haystack'.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

1-02 Seam Crooked Sam (Version 2) (2:18:290) AKA 'Can't Do This Unless I Do That' (recorded for Bat Chain Puller)
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Art Tripp?: maracas
John French: tap-dance
Comments:
Colin David Webb: a ripping blues version.
Pete Mulvy: The harmonica is featured on 'Seam Crooked Sam' in a terrific introduction to the track.
(The Spotlight Kid Outtakes. Steal Softly Thru Snow #6)
Gary Lucas: Also of interest on these tapes is the fantastic 'I Can't Do This, Unless I Can Do This', which features the mic'ed up percussive thump of John French tap dancing as the rhythm track, Don wheezing through his harp in great 'White Jam' ("it's about some white people jamming, Gary"--right, not about cunning lingual mucous mules twat trala trala) style, then reciting the opening lines of 'Odd Jobs' before it thumps to a halt.
(Fire Party)

1-03 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 1) (2:54:642) different version released on Doc At The Radar Station
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Comments:
Scott Hand: This thing about the later albums being drawn from old material comes up a lot, so I thought I would give my take on it. While there were songs with the same titles and some of the same lyrics laying around for years, they really aren't the same songs. Right off the top of my head, I can remember first hearing the old blues version of 'Dirty Blue Gene', no way i would have if not for looking at the title.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)
Mike Barnes: 'Dirty Blue Gene' is another example of material released at last after a lengthy metamorphosis. Its thirteen-year transmutation saw it progress from a good title (which Van Vliet obviously loved) for an instrumental piece recorded in 1967, to completely different music complete with lyrics in 1971 and then a version close to this one (released on Doc At The Radar Station) from the 1972 Clear Spot sessions. With a few minor changes it became the thunderous song on 'Doc At The Radar Station'.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

1-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 3)(4:12:283) electric version, different version released on Clear Spot
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: guitar
Roy Estrada: bass
Art Tripp: drums, percussion

1-05 Kiss Me My Love (2:38:779) AKA 'Two Rips In A Haystack' (like the painting) AKA 'Two Lips In A Haystack'
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
Don Van Vliet: "I've gotta hear that thing, man".
Mike Barnes: The guitar line of ('Ice Cream For Crow') originates from 'Drink Paint Run Run' from the Spotlight Kid sessions from 1971, and a few ideas for the lyrics from its contemporary, 'Two Rips In A Haystack'.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

1-06 Funeral Hill (Version 1) (6:46:236) AKA 'Don't Get Chicken Blues' 'wild version' AKA 'Flat On The Back'
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Elliot Ingber: guitar
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Comments:
Pete Mulvey: The boring 'Funeral Hill' is also well represented; if the tapes are anything to go by, they played that more often than anything else. Baffling. As so often, Beefheart has retained the number, certain that it can be something worth having, and has resurrected it in these sessions. It is just possible to believe that it metamorphosed into 'There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage', but I can put together an argument for 'Glider' as well. He obviously has great faith in both that and Little Scratch.
(The Spotlight Kid Outtakes. Steal Softly Thru Snow #6)
Gary Lucas: I totally agree with that previous remark about Don's feedback harp solo on 'Funeral Hill' being an analog to Hendrix's guitar, exactly what I thought when I first heard this 22 years ago, amazing performance, unbeatable track- "Man, we cut that on angel dust".
(Fire Party)
David Lynch: absolutely killer version of 'Funeral Hill'.
Steve Froy: As if these 'blues' are not enough Don rubs our noses in it with 'There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin Stage'. I have already discussed this track. I don't see how this fits in with the "warm and nice" feel Don described he had for this album. It is interesting to note that there is one out-take from this time which is very similar in feel to There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin Stage but is even more depressing. It is called 'Funeral Hill' and it is just as well this didn't make it onto the released version or it would have been a real downer of an album.
(Captain Beefheart. At the Crossroads with The Spotlight Kid. Perfect Sound Forever, 1999)
Mike Barnes: The only tracks that were mixed down to two-track for possible inclusion on The Spotlight Kid but were discarded were 'Harry Irene' ... and 'Funeral Hill'. This uncromisingly grim tune is as slow as the slowest tracks on the album. The railing against mortality, the fist in the face of death that hallmarked 'Fallin' Ditch', is itself ditched as the protagonist of the song is actually deceased. The only advantage of this state is that it avoids life. The boss man of Plastic Factory is again recast as the "fat man", the oppressor, but he can no longer "spat [sic] in your eye", as you've finally "paid your bill". There are two versions of the track: a shorter, tighter one and an elongated version where Ingber sets off a berserker-style fretboard foray.
(Captain Beefheart. 2000)

1-07 Harry Irene (2:51:164) jazzy guitar version, different version recorded for Bat Chain Puller, another version released on Shiny Beast
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, whistling
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: guitar
Art Tripp: drums, percussion
Comments:
Pete Mulvey: 'Harry Irene' appears for some reason in a spacious, lilting, delicate version, close to the final answer, yet a decade away from release. Also sounding very similar to the version that appears in the Shiny Beast sessions, Bill's work presumably considered well worthy of repetition.
(The Spotlight Kid Outtakes. Steal Softly Thru Snow #6)
Mike Barnes: The only tracks that were mixed down to two-track for possible inclusion on 'The Spotlight Kid' but were discarded were 'Harry Irene' ... and 'Funeral Hill'.
(Captain Beefheart. 2000)

1-08 Open Pins (5:41:854)
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba

1-09 Dual & Abdul (2:44:970)
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums

Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Dual & Abdul' has been floating around for at least 20 years but always associated with the Decals Outtakes. If it was actually recorded during the Spotlight Kid takes, as seems likely ... (it has a similar feel to many of the above) then there is also ... 'Open Pins' to re-locate to this period.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)

1-10 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (Version 2) (3:05:670) different version released on Ice Cream For Crow
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: Featuring guitar and inevitably, marimba.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow)
Mike Barnes: The instrumental 'Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian' is, titlewise, a take on one of Van Vliet's oft-repeated quotes: "Everyone's coloured or you wouldn't be able to see them". It dates back to the Spotlight Kid era and dances like 'Suction Prints', although it is slower and more melodic.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

1-11 Balladino (2:27:607) AKA 'Ballerino', early version of 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Comments:
Gary Lucas: I believe also it should be ... 'Balladino'.
(Fire Party)
Paul Brown: the original title of the piece that was later re-arranged to become 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond'.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #8)
Mike Barnes: The instrumental ('A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond') is a tightened-up version of an earlier piece entitled 'Ballerino'.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

1-12 Clear Spot (Instrumental) (4:46:150) different instrumental version of the song later released on Clear Spot
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba, piano (?)
Comments:
Early instrumental version of 'Clear Spot' based on Bill Harkleroad's guitar.

1-13 Circumstances (9:09:407) new track, different to the 'Clear Spot Outtakes', coming with marimba and different harmonica
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba, piano (?)

1-14 I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (Instrumental) (5:54:142) 2 takes AKA 'Booglarize Jam'
Line-up:
Elliot Ingber: guitar
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Comments:
The Rollin' Web: Instrumental Jam. The tape kicks off with a rehearsal/jam that is the basis of 'I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby'. Yet it is not a backing track awaiting Beefheart's vocals - but it it's 80% there!!! (even if parts of it are a little tentative) Also it has the 1974 'pick-up band's' introduction to 'Mirror Man'. If you listen to the V-Virgin Sampler of the Drury Lane '74 version - there it is!! Not exactly 'note for note' but as near as 'damn-it!!'
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)

1-15 Low Yo Yo Stuff (Instrumental) (6:08:188) slow instrumental version of the song later released on Clear Spot
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums, (overdubbed?)
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
Early instrumental version of 'Low Yo Yo Stuff'. Different start, slow.

1-16 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (Version 1) (4:11:118) different version released on Ice Cream For Crow
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: Featuring guitar and inevitably, marimba.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow)
Mike Barnes: The instrumental 'Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian' is, titlewise, a take on one of Van Vliet's oft-repeated quotes: "Everyone's coloured or you wouldn't be able to see them". It dates back to the Spotlight Kid era and dances like 'Suction Prints', although it is slower and more melodic.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

1-17 Little Scratch (Version 2) (2:53:510) AKA 'Natural Charm' AKA early 'The Past Sure Is Tense'
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston or Roy Estrada: bass
Art Tripp: drums, percussion
Comments:
Mike Barnes: The material from the Spotlight Kid era work-in-progress sessions was left aside, apart from 'Little Scratch', which was re-recorded and mixed down for inclusion (on Clear Spot), but again discarded.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

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Pompadour Sessions
October-early November 1971
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA

2-01 Pompadour I (13:54:520) 2 takes
2-02 Pompadour II (12:41:308) 5 takes
Line-up:
Elliot Ingber: guitar
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums, percussion
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
David Lynch: Loose jamming on themes that would become 'Suction Prints', 'Grow Fins', 'Flaming Autograph'.
Colin David Webb: The way in which 'Suction Prints' evolved is also an insight into the way in which the band worked. Bootleg tapes have Winged Eel playing a twenty five minute loose version about 1971. Whether it was specifically written by Beefheart at that length or is Winged Eel experimenting with the basic theme is unclear. The live tours of the post 1972 period begin with a bass introduction that is a variation on the theme. By 1975 it had become a guitar and trombone showcase and by live shows in 1980 it featured guitar and saxophone. Clearly some material did allow for improvisation or change over time.
(Captain Beefheart. The Man And His Music. 1989)
Pete Mulvey: Just listening to the twenty-five minutes of 'Pompadour' you can hear pleasure in the band's playing that does not stay the course to the 'Shiny Beast' version (of 'Suction Prints'). Also you can hear the Rockette Morton bass riff from 'Blabber 'n Smoke' and the Zoot Horn Rollo guitar from 'Booglarize'. Were they created for 'Pompadour'? By whom? This would have edited into an excellent track for the album, and with the references to other tracks, perhaps would have made an overture; revise a few lyrics and stick in a few self-referential solos and we could have had a concept album, and called it Conservation Act 1.
(The Spotlight Kid outtakes. Steal Softly Thru Snow #6)
Mike Barnes: The lengthy 'Pompadour Swamp' is a mixture of strictly composed sections with some looser passages, with Ingber again given the nod to blow his own stacks in extemporization.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

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The Spotlight Kid Sessions
October-early November 1971
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA

3-01 Suzy Murder Wrist (3:47:285) AKA 'Instrumental #3'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Comments:
Paul Brown: another instrumental sometimes performed live pre 1974.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #8)

3-02 U Bean So Cinquo (2:51:291) AKA 'Instrumental #4' AKA 'Obenso Cinco'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: percussion
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Obenso Cinco' was more commonly known as 'Instrumental #4' featuring a 'guitar and marimba' in unison at the forefront. Again it's a 'stopper and a starter' but this time, a much more 'repetitive riff' and lacking the subtleties we have come to expect from Captain Beefheart. (probably, was work-in-progress?).
(Steal Softly Thru Snow)
Gary Lucas: Don told me the correct spelling of #6 was 'U Bean So Cinquo'--"You've been so FIVE! Hey, Gary, isn't that HIP?" Just what it all meant he never actually said...
(Fire Party)

3-03 The Witch Doctor Life (3:51:869) AKA 'Instrumental #5'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums, percussion
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Witch Doctor Life' kicks in next. Starting with a distinctive riff and a more up-tempo piece, very firmly 'a drums, bass and lead guitar piece, this seems to have been the middle period of the tune.
Paul Brown: Drumbo recalls playing it in the 'late 60s' and of course it was to appear in a very different format at the end of Captain Beefheart's career.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)
Mike Barnes: A piece dating back to the Brown Wrapper Sessions. ... 'The Witch Doctor Life' was a long time in the pipeline, Van Vliet working on it then abandoning it over fifteen years. At last it made the grade.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

3-04 Little Scratch (Version 1)(4:48:648) AKA 'Natural Charm', early 'The Past Sure Is Tense'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
Pete Mulvey: (Beefheart) obviously has great faith in ... 'Little Scratch', although the latter at least changed cosmetically, becoming 'Natural Charm' before it finally achieved release as 'The Past Sure Is Tense', in a much changed format.
(The Spotlight Kid Outtakes. Steal Softly Thru Snow #6)
The Rollin' Webb: 'Little Scratch' follows, always known as 'Little Scratch' and the instrumental version of the out-take 'Natural Charm'. The guitar has a slight 'echo'y effect with a marimba helping out in the background.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)
Mike Barnes: 'Little Scratch', discarded from both 'The Spotlight Kid' and 'Clear Spot' sessions, resurfaces as 'The Past Sure Is Tense', a much tougher version than its predecessors.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

3-05 Flaming Autograph (4:44:098)
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Flaming Autograph' is next up, and is the shorter version without the fault on 'one of the channels.' (Fairly familiar stuff, but nice to have the name confirmed!) It's another 'marimba and guitar' piece, fairly languid in performance and also fairly repetitive. It was as yet still at a development stage. The end section of the repeated guitar riff has some 'nifty' marimba work.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)
Mike Barnes: ... the serene 'Flaming Autograph'.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

3-06 Love Grip (4:48:176) AKA 'Instrumental #6' "Amen!!"
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: fuzz guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Love Grip' used to masquerade as 'Instrumental #6' with bass introduction followed by a 'fuzz-' lead guitar onto amiddle section with some nice climbing 'guitar' notes. Presumably a 'second guitar' over-dubbed, would have made this a rather tasty completed piece!? (It is difficult to tell if these were intended for more work or not, but the band versions don't feel as complete as the duet on 'A Carrot' or the 'Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian' take - maybe because we know the final versions of them, or maybe because the band pieces tend to be much longer and more in the nature of a jam!?
Paul Brown: Beefheart speaks from the control room at the end "Amen!!" - (sarcastic?) Are they taking too much studio time?
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)

3-07 No Flower Shall Grow (5:44:902) AKA Instrumental #7, jamming on a section of 'Petrified Forest'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'No Flower Shall Grow' is again no stranger, previously 'Instrumental #7' and known by this title, having sprung from that line of the Decals track 'Petrified Forest'. Now if a single line of one song can create a whole new song, what could he have eventually come up with? Basically - lead, bass and drums, fairy jaunty in tempo but again a lot of repetitive riffs. The likelihood that this was more of a jam; comes at the end when a grumpy Captain Beefheart says from the control room "Ahl right ... I don't want you to have anymore fun on that ... That's it!!!"
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)

3-08 Best Batch Yet (Version 1) 3 takes (3:40:819)
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Best Batch Yet' is the well-known 'early 1970s-version,' with two 'alternate guitar breaks' recorded, (just in case!?). But it was to be some years before the song actually made it to vinyl. This sounds as if it could be the backing track plus two 'possible' solos! ('ready for Captain Beefheart to sing over?')
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)
Mike Barnes: Another song originating from the 1971 sessions is 'Best Batch Yet'. Again, the rearranged version blows holes in the original rough sketch.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

3-09 Your Love Brought Me To Life (4:10:338) 2 takes AKA 'Instrumental #8', somebody saying "let's take it from there, let's take it from your soul ... and touch it in" "alright".
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Your Love Brought Me To Life' features 'guitar and marimba' in a much slower piece. A laboured guitar, with the marimba in-filling, then there's a faster brighter section, with the drums more prominent, then back to the laboured 'guitar and marimba' duet. Again difficult to see it standing as a finished piece? Also, difficult to see it standing as an instrumental - on its own ...!? (but with some cutting down and a second guitar overlay ... ??) It stops abruptly in mid-phrase, then picks up again.
(Steal Softly thru Snow #7)
Paul Brown: This is one of the 'guitar and marimba' slower pieces, probably unfinished.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #8)
Mike Barnes: Tepper looks back with particular fondness on some earlier pieces that never got past the rehearsal stage, which were, in his opinion, some of Van Vliet's most tender and most affecting musical moments: 'Your Love Brought Me To Life' - originally from 1971 - and later pieces like 'Rhino In The Redwoods' and 'Child Ecologist'. The time needed to realize his more complicated pieces, together with the loss of momentum in his career, had left a lot still stuck on the drawing board.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

3-10 That Little Girl (5:18:342) AKA 'Instrumental #9'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'That Little Girl' starts with some neat guitar picking then continues as a slow-paced number with guitar to the fore again and the marimba occasionally heard in the background. In the middle there's some tentative guitar, trying to find the correct phrase, suggesting another 'work-in-progress,' rather than a finished piece.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)

3-11 Campfires (5:47:664) AKA 'Instrumental #1'
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Comments:
The Rollin' Webb: 'Campfires' was previously known as 'Instrumental #1' (Brown-Star-fast-ish!). It's a lively piece with a strong drums, bass, and lead guitar line-up again. The guitar has a slightly sleazy feel to it, but again it's the repeated riffs that suggest - It is not a finished piece.
(Steal Softly Thru Snow #7)

3-12 Well Well Well (1:57:587) Lick My Decals Off, Baby Outtake
Line-Up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet, harmonica
Mark Boston: bass, vocals
John French: drums
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
Mike Barnes: I still can't find that original fax from Henry Kaiser but he had said that 'Well Well Well' was the only thing from that Decals session which was mixed down for inclusion (onto 2 track from 8 I think) but was rejected. I don't know if this was a rough mix or finished mix but I'm wondering if it was the former. The reason being that there was often a big discrepancy between rough mixes and the finished ones which Don OK'd.
Just think of all the Spotlight Kid outtakes (none of which were properly mixed down) and how they differ from the sound of the finished album. They all sound sharper and less muddy and gloomy than the album. Don was notorious for going for a dry, flat sound with little or no reverb and, in my opinion, wasn't too good behind the mixing desk. And all the Decals instrumental dubs sound a lot different to the album, as we said.
The only two tracks mixed down for possible inclusion on SK were 'Funeral Hill' (short) and an early version of 'Harry Irene'. Again this comes from Kaiser who I can't think would be anything less than ultra-diligent.
Who knows - could Kaiser be wrong? Heaven forbid!
(Fire Party)

3-13 Funeral Hill (Version 3) (3:55:744) abrupt finish
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston or Roy Estrada: bass
Art Tripp: drums, percussion, piano (?)

3-14 Seam Crooked Sam (Version 1) (2:15:360)
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Art Tripp?: maracas
John French: tap-dance
Comments:
Mike Barnes: a rough sketch... dating back to 1972. The only instrumentation on the spartan original was maracas, harmonica and the clattering of French doing his tap-dancing routine.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

3-14 Alice In Blunderland (3:55:727) instrumental, different version with Ingber's guitar mixed low
Line-up:
Elliot Ingber: guitar
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass guitar
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments:
David Lynch: Ingber's guitar is mixed unreasonably low in this version.

3-15 Funeral Hill (Version 2) (3:17:453) faded
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston or Roy Estrada: bass
Art Tripp: drums, percussion, piano (?)

3-16 Best Batch Yet (Version 2) (2:14:814) different version released on Doc At The Radar Station, begins with, "that is three"
Line-up:
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston: bass
John French: drums
Art Tripp: marimba
Comments: Sounds like take #1 of 'Best Batch Yet (Version 1)' with marimba overdubbed.

3-17 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 2) (3:14:470)
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: guitar
Mark Boston or Roy Estrada: bass
Art Tripp: drums, percussion
Comments:
Mike Barnes: 'Dirty Blue Gene' is another example of material released at last after a lengthy metamorphosis. Its thirteen-year transmutation saw it progress from a good title(which Van Vliet obviously loved) for an instrumental piece recorded in 1967, to completely different music complete with lyrics in 1971 and then a version close to this one (released on Doc At The Radar Station) from the 1972 Clear Spot sessions. With a few minor changes it became the thunderous song on Doc At The Radar Station.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)

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The Acoustic Blues Session: Don and Bill doing 'Sun Zoom Spark'
probably Amigo Studios, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, CA
early 1972
mono

4-01 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 1) (8:03:536)
4-02 Scratch My Back (1:51:574)
4-03 Blues Medley (7:16:838) AKA Pork Chops 'n Beans
a. Down In The Bottom (Howlin' Wolf, 1961) AKA Going Down To The Border AKA Going To The Bottom
b. Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy, 1941)
c. Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No More
4-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 2) (8:28:741)
Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Bill Harkleroad: acoustic guitar
Comments:
Colin David Webb: The musical direction at this time is confusing. Bootleg tapes indicate a range of different approaches - straight blues in three gutsy takes of a totally different 'Sun Zoom Spark'; a ripping blues rendition of 'Seam Crooked Sam'; two heavy blues versions of 'Funeral Hill'; and a medley of non-originals featuring 'Scratch My Back', 'Going To The Bottom (Border or Brazos)', 'Keys To The Highway' and 'Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No More'.
(Captain Beefheart. The Man And His Music. 1989)
Mike Barnes: 'Sun Zoom Spark' first came into being on a rambling rehearsal demo, with Van Vliet improvising the words over Harkleroad's guitar lines.
(Captain Beefheart, 2000)
Henry Kaiser: The above is just a blues jam for fun with El and Don. Maybe they thought to get a blues duo jam tune out of 'Sun Zoom Spark' to us as they played it - but they got nothing finished...
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Done!
Enjoy!

jazzfan 2009-03-08


(180/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-01-18, La Cave, Cleveland, OH, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
La Cave
Cleveland, OH
January 18th 1971

My CDR says 'La Cave', but some sources say its' the 'Agora'.

Audience recording
Lineage:
Trade CDR>EAC>WAV>TLH>FLAC>You

Samples in the comments section

1.When Big Joan Sets Up
2.Hair Pie Bake III
3.My Human Gets Me Blues
4.I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
5.One Red Rose That I Mean
6.Abba Zaba
7.Hobo Chang Ba
8.Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
9.Flash Gordon's Ape
10.Golden Birdies

Running Time: 35:45

I'm not a Beefheart expert by any means, so maybe someone can confirm whether the bass intro to 'When Big Joan Sets Up' is actually 'Frownland Blues'?

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) - Vocals, Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Bass Clarinet, Harmonica
Rockette Morton (Mark Boston) - Bass, Guitar
Drumbo (John French) - Drums & Percussion
Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) - Guitar, Slide Guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling (Elliot Ingber) - Guitar, Slide Guitar
Ed Marimba (Art Tripp) - Drums, Percussion, Marimba

(185/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-01-19, Ludlow S Garage, Cincinnati, OH, US

Audio/wma, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
Ludlow Garage
Cincinnati, OH
01/19/71

orig audience sources > Mr. Brown cass. > DAT > CDR > Flac > wav (single file for entire show - foobar2000) > Adobe Audition 2.0 > stretched to 102.77% of original length / from-scratch track indexing/titleing > flac

Trout Mask and Clear Spot albums used for pitch reference

01 When Big Joan Sets Up
02 I Want To find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
03 Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
04 Doctor Dark
05 Hair Pie: Bake III - bass solo
06 Frownland - bass solo
07 My Human Gets Me Blues
08 Hair Pie: Bake II
09 One Red Rose That I Mean
10 Abba Zaba
11 Hobo Chang Ba
12 Mirror Man
13 Golden Birdies
14 Spitball Scalped Uh Baby

(195/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-01-23, Boston University, Boston, MA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

610195001a
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Sargent Gymnasium, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
January 23, 1971

Lineage: AUD>Tape (unknown gen)>WAV (using Wavelab)>FLAC (level 8, using Trader's Little Helper)
Sound Improvement: Freefilter using sound template of 1971-01-19 files shared some weeks ago.

01. Tuning-The Crowd-Opening Drum Solo (7:04)
02. Alice In Blunderland (7:34) middle cut
03. Bass Interlude: When Big Joan Sets Up Theme (0:35)
04. When Big Joan Sets Up (9:32)
05. Hair Pie: Bake III (2:05)
06. My Human Gets Me Blues (3:36)
07. Hair Pie: Bake II (0:48)
08. I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go (2:31)
09. One Red Rose That I Mean (2:20)
10. Abba Zaba (3:15)
11. Gimme Dat Harp Boy (5:12)
12. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:21)
13. Flash Gordon's Ape (10:41)
14. Golden Birdies (3:42) including saxophone-drum duet

Total length: 61:16

Quality: 6.5/10

Photos by: Ronald Karr http://www.branchlinepress.com/RonKarr/RockGallery.html

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Drumbo/John French: drums, percussion
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: marimba, drums, percussion

Comments:
Langdon Winner: The tour drew 2,000 delighted fans at Boston University while 700 more waited outside in the snow.
(Langdon Winner: In Search Of America. Captain Beefheart and the Smithsonian Institute Blues. Rolling Stone #79. April 1, 1971)

Stephen Graham: Most people who have atttended a fair number of rock concert will tell you that what makes it all worthwhile are those rare nights when the combination of talented musician, the right atmosphere and a variety of intangibles produces a couple of hours of really good solid music; the kind that makes you want to jump out of your seat, or scream, or pound your chest.
One of these magic evenings happened at Boston University's Sargent gym a week ago Saturday, when the widely diverging talents of Captain Beefheart and Ry Cooder came together to produce an uninterrupted flow of beautiful sound in front of a packed house.
The first act was Cooder and his four-piece blues band. (Ry Cooder has been playing guitars and various instruments since he was three, and he has spent the last six years as a studio musician - among his recent credits is the mandolin part on the Rolling Stones' version of Love In Vain. (...) like his whole act, it was honest and unpretentious, and these two qualities alone go a long way towards making a great bluesman.)
Things shifted into totally different gear for the second act, as Captain Beefheart, with his band and entourage, filed through the audience and filtered onto the stage. The Magic Band, as it stands now, includes Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) and Winged Eel Fingerling (Elliot Ingber) on guitars, Rockette Morton (Mark Boston) on bass, Ed Marimba (Art Tripp) on percussion and marimba, and Drumbo (John French) on drums.
The audience was suitably impressed by their weirdness. And Beefheart is obviously content with the bizarre image he projects. However, this leads to a tendency to dismiss the Captain and his band as just another of just another of Frank Zappa's freak shows, on a par with Alice Cooper and the G.T.O.'s. Nothing could be further from the truth. Captain Beefheart plays a wild, intense, dissonant brand of music which has been compared to the avant-garde styles of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. Actually, his music is less formal and less organized than theirs, but much more personal. The Magic Band is, in fact, an extension of Beefheart and his musical ideas.
He has been rehearsing them for months, teaching them his melodies and rhythms note for note, and as he stands impassively among them on stage, you get the impression that he is mentally directing the whole show. Without his unique personality the music could not stand. He and the music were both in fine form on Saturday; the Magic Band was incredibly tight, both with each other and with Beefheart. They played almost continuously for over an hour, intermingling songs from Trout Mask Replica with new material.
The Captain would frequently step up to the mike to blow shrieking choruses on soprano sax and harmonica, leading the band through changes that were so precise as they were complex. The powerful sound of his four-and-a-half octave voice was muted somewhat by a distorting p.a., but this was the only bummer of the evening, and the fact that the tickets were priced at one dollar made up for it. And so, despite what you may have concluded after dozens of musical rip-offs, there still can be such a thing as a well-run concert.
(Stephen Graham: Captain Beefheart: Magic Band, Magic Man. Boston After Dark. February 2, 1971)

Bill Harkleroad: While I'm on the subject of sexcapades, I remember a particularly strange gig we played in a gymnasium in Boston. We showed up and the equipment was sitting up there but there was no sound check. To get to the stage we had to walk right through the middle of the audience accompanied by a few bodyguards to stop people grabbing at us - which was kind of lame but made us feel important. The stage was this 6 to 8 foot high big plywood construction at the end of the gymnasium. I'm sure it was an echo bin for everybody.
Anyway, it was very crowded and there were about 3,000 people jammed in on the floor right infront of us. So, we're playing along and Don gives me the nod as if to say, "Look, what's going on down there!" As ever, I was onstage left and I came up to the front of the stage and looked off this 8 foot cliff at the people sitting on the floor and there's this couple humping away, and I thought, "Wow, that's shocking." But I couldn't look too long, for fear of losing concentration on playing the parts - if I noticed too much of anything I'd be totally lost. So back to business, and a little bit later I come up to the front of the stage again and this time there's three couples down there going at it! Well that's about all I can handle, I'm cracking up laughing and trying to play at the same time.
(Bill Harkleroad: Lunar Notes)


(200/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-01-25, Ungano S Nightclub, New York, NY, US

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Ungano's
New York City, NY
January 25, 1971

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Tracks:
01. Alice In Blunderland (7:33)
02. When Big Joan Sets Up Bass Solo (0:32)
03. When Big Joan Sets Up (6:52)
04. Hair Pie: Bake III (0:26)
05. Frownland Bass Solo (1:39)
06. My Human Gets Me Blues (3:48)
07. Hair Pie: Bake II (0:50)
08. I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe (Till I Have To Go) (2:05)
09. One Red Rose That I Mean (2:17)
10. Abba Zaba (3:32)
11. Japan In A Dishpan (1:42)
12. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:16)
13. Flash Gordon's Ape (11:09)

Total length: 44:41

Quality: 7/10

Line-up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Drumbo/John French: drums, percussion
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: marimba, drums, percussion

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Bill Harkleroad: We also had a lot of connections outside of the normal rock crowd of musicians. Don was friendly with people like Ornette Coleman. I remember one particular occasion when Don was visiting Ornette and we were going to pick him up to take him to play this gig the band was playing at a Manhattan club. With us was the writer Langdon Winner and we were both in this taxicab with my three guitars in the back and Don's horns and stuff.
So, we pull up to Ornette's house on Prince Street, and I step out of the cab to go up to knock on the door. I'm standing there and all of a sudden I notice that Langdon's standing behind me because he really wants to go up to meet Ornette. And then we both turn around and notice the cab driver driving off with all of our instruments! And there goes my 1950's three digit Stratocaster - it was $360 or something, a Telecaster, Don's Mark IV Selmer Soprano and Tenor saxes. It was some bucks leaving in that cab! I don't blame Langdon for it, but I thought he was staying in the cab.
I ended up having to buy a guitar at a hawkshop, and borrowing another guitar from someone in the audience and of course with my very aggressive right hand technique I was ripping the strings off the bridge pieces - it was tough! It had to be the gig where Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman had come to see us and I'm out of my mind because those were my idols!!!
(Bill Harkleroad: Lunar Notes)

Joe Gore: By this point, says Harkleroad, the musicians were listening almost exclusively to avant-garde jazz, even though they rarely improvised themselves. There were starstruck when Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson and Charles Mingus all attended one memorable New York City gig. Bill played that night on a borrowed guitar - earlier that day a cab driver had driven off with many of the band's instruments, including the never recovered Trout Mask Tele. "I tried to talk to Mingus," recalls Bill, "but he wouldn't even look me in the eye, though his wife leaned across his belly and said, "He liked it a lot.""
(Joe Gore: Bill Harkleroad. Guitar Player Magazine)

Bob Palmer: Ry Cooder, with his group, and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, bowed to the New York Press at Ungano's in mid-winter. Both are among the more progressive Warner/Reprise acts, though their use of musical traditions accounts in part for their unique sounds.
Cooder, on first, played a brief set composed entirely of country blues pieces from the 1920s and 30s, originated by Blind Willie Johnson, Sleepy John Estes, and others. His bottleneck guitar, and his mandolin styling as well, were classic in that he approached his material as a series of composed pieces. (Few country blues pieces were improvisational in character; most were worked out by their originators down to the last note.) His technique was flawless, the accompanying trio navigated the metrical difficulties with ease, and Cooder's vocals were genuine and personally idiomatic.
Beefheart's Magic Band is a legend in its own time. Their set was a bare indication of their capabilities, but it did demonstrate the free ensemble style they have developed. The band played with a crashing, rolling motion, rocking but without any heavy handed emphasis on bar lines. Beefheart's incredible penetrating voice was a bit contained, but right on with a few songs and some recitation. His band is far into his conception, and together they are creating the most advanced pop music of the decade, with roots both in the blues and in the New Jazz.
(Bob Palmer: Jazz & Pop News. April 1971)

Joel Vance: Eventually the crowd moved into the main room to hear the music. Ry Cooder went on first and did a brilliant twenty minutes. There was a long wait between sets because of the amount of the Captain's equipment. The current Magic Band is made up of Rockette Morton (bass), Zoot Horn Rollo and Winged Eel Fingerling (guitars), Drumbo (drums) and Ed Marimba (marimba and drums). Marimba wore a China Theatre of Operations WWII cap and a black and white 40s bathrobe. He looks something like the actor who played Prince Baron in the Flash Gordon serials.
Morton, with a antennae of greased hair sticking from the top of the head, lunged to the apron of the stage and thunked out a bass riff on his double necked guitar. Marimba plunked away. Morton retreated, lunged again, played again and the two guitars joined in. Drumbo slapped at the snare. Suddenly they all came together. You have to hear the Captain live or listen to his albums; his dogwhistle music is further out than most ears (including mine) can hear. I was reminded of the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris in 1914 when the audience went mad because they thought all music, the very idea of music, was being attacked. Stravinsky goes down easy today but it took the world awhile. So it is with The Captain.
He stood between one of the guitarists and Morton, holding a 1934 coloring book, smoking a cigarette and looking out over the audience as though he was chairing a board meeting or watching troops storm the beach. Then he advanced, put his mouth around the microphone and bawled out the words to I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe 'Till I Have To Go, gesturing with his cigarette hand. He sang two verses and retired quietly back to the amps, where he plugged in his electric soprano sax. When he came back again he put the bell of the sax over the mike, drew in his breath and let it all out, fingering the sax like a piccolo.
Suddenly the tune stopped. No one was quite sure it had, and by the time they realized it and began to clap the band was into its second number which climaxed with a drum duet between Drumbo and Ed Marimba. He flow a final sax chorus, the band quit and as the Captain stepped back the mike fell out of its holder. The Captain picked it up and said into it, "Webcor, Webcor. Thank you." He and the band departed the stage. Jan Van Vliet came out and gave her husband a hug. The audience looked at each other, wondering how long it would take to figure out what had just happened to them. For me, I figure it'll take about five years.
(Joel Vance: Capt. Beefheart A Day In The Life. Hit Parader. August 1971)

Jim Cim: The first time I heard a recording was the week Trout Mask was released. A person played it for a group of us mostly as a joke. He wanted us to hear The Blimp, and Old Fart At Play. Soon after that though, another friend who was really into Beefheart took us into Manhattan to hear him live at Ungano's, which was a very small club.
I wasn't 10 feet from the stage and what I experienced that night changed my musical existence forever. Drumbo - Artie Tripp - Rockette Morton - Zoot Horn Rollo. Just that would have been to much for me..........................but the Captain..................Christ, he was awesome.
Ed Marimba (Artie Tripp) came out on stage first and opened a silver cigarette case, took out a cigarette, lit it, and then proceeded to tap on the cigarette case into the microphone.
In the middle of what seemed to me to be the most amazing percussion demonstration I had ever seen, Rockette Morton came onto to the stage to play along with this. Next Drumbo followed by Zoot Horn Rollo in a one piece clown costume. When they were finally all playing, out walks Beefheart. He walks right up to the microphone, sticks his clarinette right on the mic and starts blowing the most ungodly sounds. I was changed that night. I don't know any other way to explain it.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Don about Ungano's: should it be called the 'periscope' instead of 'Ungano's? I don't have a thing for small clubs, nor do I have a thing for big clubs. I don't care that much about wee-wee.
(Child's Garden Of Beefheart. Changes Vol. 2 #23. March 15, 1971)
Don ten years later: "Hey, man, take a look at these," Captain Beefheart exclaims, holding some slides up to the bare bulb in his dressing rooms at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. "These are some pictures!" Taken by a local freelancer, the slides show Beefheart standing at the microphone, blowing his soprano sax. "These were taken in 1969 at Ungano's, the first time I came to New York" he exclaims, and it's hard not to do a double-take. In 11 years, Beefheart appears to have aged hardly at all.
(John Morthland: Captain Beefheart. Music & Sound Output. May/June 1981)
Glenn Jones: I saw Beefheart for the first time that night at New York City's Ungano's. (Basement club -- 200 person occupancy, closed down a few months later.) I'd been a fan since Trout Mask Replica, and had had my head blown off seeing the band live at Ungano's in New York City in 1971.
I found out 20+ years later, while interviewing Gary Lucas on a radio show I was doing in Cambridge, that that show was his first Beefheart experience too.
(Fireparty)

How did you get involved with Don Van Vliet?
Gary Lucas: I was a fan originally. I knew his records up to Trout Mask Replica and I admired him a lot. When I was a freshman at Yale University, in 1971, I saw that he was making an appearance in New York - his first on the East Coast - so some friends and I drove down to see him play in a little mafia club called Ziggalano's. We went into the club and they were playing Flying by the Faces over the p.a. I'll never forget: Don came out before the show and said: "Will you please take off that music? How dare you think that people want to hear this music. I mean, really, let's have some concern for the audience here". I liked his spirit because he was bucking up against the corporate rock thing - this was Warner Brothers' attempt to push another of their artists at the show.
Anyway, they came out and demolished the house and my head, I remember thinking: "God, if I ever do anything professionally, I would like to play with this guy". It just seemed to kind of go with musical achievements; he was just killing everybody.
(Andrew Bennett: Guitar God & Monster. Your Flesh #26. Summer 1992)

John French: One spot I remember us being well-received is Ungano's, a club in Manhattan where young listener Gary Lucas became very impressed with Bill Harkleroad's guitar playing.

Gary Lucas: (Bill Harkleroad) sounded great. He did One Red Rose That I Mean, and that's what convinced me to want to be in that band. I heard that and thought, "Man, that is the hippest thing I have ever heard in music." I said to myself, "If I ever do anything in music professionally, I'm going to play with this band." I made a promise to myself. I swear to you, that is a fact. I was completely blown awy, I thought it was the hippest form of expression of music I had ever heard. That show just completely changed my life. Don didn't look too happy. He walked out grimacing, kind of tense looking.

John French: Don's attitude probably had something to do with the fact that earlier that evening he and Bill had all their instruments stolen when Bill stepped out of a cab and it quickly drove away with the gear still in the trunk.
(Grow Fins linernotes)

Gary Lucas: I built my playing as a single-string Rock/Blues guitarist with heavy British Invasion influences. Then, I discovered Captain Beefheart's -- Don Van Vliet's -- music, and this was the big shift in my development and evolution as a guitarist. Hearing that, it was, "What are they doing? I've never heard a guitar played like that."
I went to see him play his debut gig in New York City when Lick My Decals Off, Baby came out. Warner Bros. had him tour; it was an artist development project and they had Ry Cooder opening for him. This really rocked my world. It was the most incredible band and the music they were playing was sheer ecstasy. I remember thinking to myself, "If I ever do anything in music, I want to play with this guy." I made a vow with myself to pursue this. Everybody in the band exuded charisma -- it was really heavy.
(Steven Cerio & George Petros. Interview with Gary Lucas. Seconds Magazine. April 1996)
Gary Lucas: The first time I saw him perform I was just transfixed. To me it was the pinnacle: so complex and yet so beautiful and effortless and fun-loving. And Beefheart himself was a magical personality: he had a very refreshing iconoclastic attitude - like an early punk - and his comments to the audience used to crack me up. I remember him yelling at people who were sitting down: "Get up, get up, I'm older than you."
(Beef Encounters. Independent on Sunday, August 21, 1994)


(45/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-03, Bob Chorush interview

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Captain Beefheart
Don interviewed by Bob Chorush
1971-03

18 tracks, (76:53)

Mr. Anonymous CDR > wav > flac

a published excerpt of this interview can be found here:
http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/argue/maiden.html


(205/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-06-24, Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, US

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Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Paramount Theatre
Portland, OR
06/24/71

orig audience sources > Mr. Brown cass. > DAT > CDR > Flac > wav (single file for entire show - foobar2000) > Adobe Audition 2.0 (retracking/minor fixes on between-song gaps) > flac

01 Alice in Blunderland
02 Abba Zabba
03 Steal Softly Thru Snow (instrumental)
04 Gimme Dat Harp Boy
05 Old Black Snake
06 Woe-is-uh-me-bop
07 Flash Gordon's Ape
08 When it Blows Its Stacks (instrumental)
09 Frownland (bass solo)
10 When Big Joan Sets Up
11 Hair Pie (bake 3)
12 My Human Gets Me Blues (cuts after 2:15)


(210/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-09-17, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART 1971-09-17
Jasper Place Arena - Vancouver, BC
24Bit Transfer

Captain Beefheart: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica
John "Drumbo" French: drums
Zoot Horn Rollo: guitar
Art Tripp III: marimba
Rockette Morton: bass guitar, guitar
Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar

Low Gen Maxell XLII cassette > Tascam Professional Cassette Deck Model 130 analog out > Apogee
Mini-Me @ 24/48 Hz spdif out > Digigram VX Pocket V2 (in data mode = no resampling of bits) > Samplitude
Professional 8 @ 24/48 Hz > resampled to 16/44.1 Hz w/ Samplitude > FLAC Frontend Encode level 6

No EQ or hiss reduction has been used. Only minor edits and fades to remove tape flip clicks and crowd noise.
Please Note:
I reduced the frequency 15,738 Hz by -16.0db because it was extreme tape hiss. The frequency 15,738Hz still exists, but it was minimized to an acceptable listening level.

Do Not Convert to MP3 or other Lossy Formats

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1. Drums/Soundcheck
2. Alice in Blunderland
3. When Big Joan Sets Up
4. Hair Pie Bake II (bass solo)
5. Black Snake Blues
6. Steal Softly Thru Snow
7. Hair Pie Bake II

Check out Rick McGrath's interview with the Captain in Vancouver 1971
http://www.rickmcgrath.com/beef1.html

Baked Tapes 2006


(215/1) Captain Beefheart, 1971-10-09, Tufts University, Boston, MA, US

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART 1971-10-09
Tuft's University - Boston, MA
24Bit Transfer

Captain Beefheart: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica
John "Drumbo" French: drums
Zoot Horn Rollo: guitar
Art Tripp III: marimba
Rockette Morton: bass guitar, guitar
Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar

Low Gen Maxell XLIIS cassette > Tascam Professional Cassette Deck Model 130 analog out > Apogee
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Professional 8 @ 24/48 Hz > resampled to 16/44.1 Hz w/ Samplitude > FLAC Frontend Encode level 6

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Do Not Convert to MP3 or other Lossy Formats

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1. Hair Pie Bass Solo
2. When It Blows It Stacks
3. Japan In A Dishpan
4. Click Clack
5. Grow Fins
6. I'm Gonna Booglarize you
7. Black Snake Blues
8. Peon
9. Abba Zabba
10. Frownland (bass solo/sax solo)
11. Woe Is Uh Me Bop (contains a small passage of noise from the master reel to reel)
12. Alice In Blunderland
13. Spitball Scalped Uh Baby

Baked Tapes 2006

(240/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-01-15, Anderson Theatre, New York, NY, US

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610240001a610240001b
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Anderson Theater, New York City
1972-01-15

Lineage: AUD>tape (unknown gen)>WAV (using Wavelab)>FLAC (level 8, using Trader's Little Helper)

Tracks:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (3:01)
02. Alice In Blunderland (9:59)
03. Old Black Snake (3:36)
04. Steal Softly Thru Snow (3:58)
05. Click Clack (5:07)
06. Grow Fins (5:38)
07. I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (5:20)
08. When It Blows Its Stacks (6:41)
09. Abba Zaba (3:53)
10. Peon (3:33)
11. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (3:10)
12. Band Intro (1:11)
13. Spitball Scalped A Baby (4:58)
14. More (2:25)

Total length: 62:30

Quality: 4.5/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion, marimba

Photos by Ed Gallucci (Don Van Viet) and Eric Rudolph (Mark Boston). Source: Crawdaddy. March 19, 1972.

Comments:
Patrick Carr: The Anderson Theater is in that area of New York now known as the Lower East Side. Once it was called The East Village, when Flower Power sowed its stone fields with the waifs and strays and prophets of the New America. Even if it is no longer a cool 'n groovy place to live, let alone hang out on a Saturday night, some Junior Entrepreneurs chose the Anderson for the scene of Captain Beefheart's recent sell-out concert.
On stage, they are a visual delight: Rockette Morton, looking like a reincarnation of Baudelaire, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gene Vincent all rolled into one, jerks the most astounding dance to the thrashing of his bass that you are ever likely to see. His playing is certainly the best of any bass-player I have ever seen, and Charlie Mingus is likewise impressed. Zoot Horn Rollo and Winged Eeel Fingerling sway in unison, and blend two beautiful flowing fluid guitars. Ed Marimba, monocle and yachting cap secure from the rhythms of his drums, blows out the patterns of the skins.
Beefheart stands and paces, watching like a benevolent giant until he moves up to the microphone to howl and screech and moan and rasp any one of a thousand voices from the Mississippi delta to the farther reaches of the Cosmos, or play chaotic rainbows from his horns.
I cannot describe their music, just as I cannot tell you how Beefheart plays with the words in his head (except by saying that he does play with words, turning the boundaries of semantics into starting-points for the surreal expansion of meaning). Beefheart tries to paint the clouds in music; he comes in colors.
(Patrick Carr: Where Are The Animals In This Program. A Study of Captain Beefheart. Crawdaddy. March 19, 1972

Bill Harkleroad: I also remember playing with Larry Coryell and Eleventh House as our opening act at the East Town Theatre in New York. (There is an Eastown Theater in Detroit.) He had Alphonse Mouzon on drums. (The Coryell LP Introducing Eleventh House with Alphonse Mouzon listed on percussion for the first time is from 1974) Larry looked like he was around twelve years old although he was probably around forty at the time (born April 2, 1943). He slung on one of those big Gibson Super 400's and he was just dwarfed by it. He was always kinda fun - I talked to him maybe four or five times and he'd say, "hey you Beefheart guys what's goin on? Let's go out and play some music", and he'd go out there and rip out some stuff. And those guys were just damned good. Just because it wasn't atonal and polyrythmic with an attitude, didn't mean it wasn't good.
(Bill Harkleroad: Lunar Notes)

Guy Gonzo: Every Beefheart performance was astounding. Especially my first one, a year or two before at the Anderson Theater on 2nd ave. It was just other-worldly. The band, their get-ups, the music, THE AUDIENCE! What a freak show. And they say "There's nothing like a Greatful Dead concert."
(Fender Discussion Forum: Moe's Tavern)


Circular: This publication is not without its New York contacts, one of whom furnished this report of Beefheart's Gotham triumph: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band made a rare concert appearance in the Big Apple and performed a truly magic set before a sell-out audience of Beefheart connoisseurs.
After an exceptional performance by the great Larry Coryell, the curtains in the old but funk-filled Anderson Theater rose to the apocalyptic bass solo of the one and only Rockette Morton. Morton was shortly joined by the Captain, Zoot Horn Rollo, Ed Marimba and Winged Eel Fingerling who, as a collective unit, proceeded to work the Citizens for Beefheart (sponsors of the concert) into a veritable frenzy with their blues-flavored excursions into the outermost reaches of the cosmos.
After providing the audience with an hour-long high, the Captain responded to the pleas of the cheering throngs ("More! More!") with an encore of -what else- More, which he whistled, unaccompanied. Q: I heard that New York was just sensational.
Don Van Vliet: I wish you could have heard it. I did Black Snake Blues. I dig that song.
Q: You did some things a cappella, didn't you?
Don Van Vliet: Yeah. My voice is really there.
(America Is Bullish On Captain Beefheart. Circular Vol. 4 #4, January 31, 1972)


(223/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-02, David Tearson interview, Radio WMMR, Philadelphia, PA, US

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Captain Beefheart - Interviews 1969-1978

More Beefheart interviews for you all:

-Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa 1969 11 xx STRAIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE UK 5m
-Captain Beefheart 1972 02 xx WMMR Philadelphia 14m10s
-Captain Beefheart probably 1974 05 04 WMLN Cambridge w/ Augie and Andy Demartino (24m24s)
-Captain Beefheart 1974 10 xx KHSU Humboldt State Univesity Arcata CA interview 20m*
-Captain Beefheart 1978 12 18 Houston Interview 10m15s

Thanks to mcchocchoc for date confirmations and helping decide which of the two of us had the best versions to share with you all.
Some great stuff here!

*For whatever reason, they decided to use the 15 second "beep" to indicate it was being recorded, rather annoying, seemed to annoy Don for a second too.
Interesting interview, very small radio station.
blackpage 2010-08-21


(250/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-02-13, Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH, US

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610250001a
Captain Beefheart
Cincinatti, Music Hall
February 13, 1972

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Don Van Vliet - vocals, soprano saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton - bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon - bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo - guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling - guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba - drums, percussion

01. Bass Solo
02. When It Blows Its Stacks
03. Japan in a Dishpan
04. Click Clack
05. Grow Fins
06. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
07. Old Black Snake
08. Alice in Blunderland
09. Spitball Scalped A Baby

TT: 41m

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(227/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-03-01, Andy Hall interview, London, England

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET

*********** 1972 - 1987 INTERVIEWS ***********

01. 1973-04-24 BBC Radio London, England 1 by John Peel FM

02. 1972 March Radio London, England by Andy Hall FM

03. 1978 KMET Radio L.A., Calif. Dr. Demento Radio Show pt. 1 FM
04. pt. 2
05. pt. 3
06. pt. 4
07. pt. 5
08. pt. 6
09. pt. 7

10. 1980 BBC Capitol Radio London, England by Richard Hepworth pt. 1
11. pt. 2
12. pt. 3

13. 11-18-87 Radio KCRW Santa Monica, Calif. with Christina McKenna and Callers pt. 1
14. pt. 2

Total Time approx 99:14


Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

A collection of various interviews with Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet.
The Dr. Demento show is indexed at all the points where music had to be edited out.
Same goes for the 1980 London interview. This is a nice little batch of interviews.
Many topics covered. The quality varies from excellent to very good. Some of these I have 2 or 3 different sources for. These are all of the best versions that I have.

The 1987 interview is very nice. The callers really make it great. Enjoy !

Much thanks to all of the traders that I used to trade with back in the days before the interwebs. Damn, I have a lot of cassettes :) Also much thanks to all of the tapers of these programs.

upped on dimeadozen on August 15, 2010.

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(260/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-03-10, Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, CA, US

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, California
1972-03-[10-12]

Lineage: Audience>tape (unknown gen)>WAV (Wavelab)>FLAC (level 8, Trader's Little Helper)

Tracklist:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (0:50)
02. The Mascara Snake (1:12)
03. When It Blows Its Stacks (4:14)
04. Steal Softly Thru Snow (3:12)
05. Click Clack (4:22)
06. Grow Fins (4:29)
07. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:27)
08. Old Black Snake (3:33)
09. Abba Zaba (3:13)
10. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (1:14)
11. Japan In A Dishpan (1:00)
12. Spitball Scalped A Baby (5:44)
13. Thank You Very Much (0:54)

Total length: 39:24

Quality: 7/10
Very loud clicks are on the tape each time when the taper stopped his recorder. For my own listening pleasure I deleted these clicks and smoothed the transitions from one track to another.

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, sax, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass
Zoot Horn Rollo Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
Richard Rainey: In the spring of '68, I went down to Mother Earth in London to see the group. ...
I saw him twice more over the years, in Long Beach in '72 and in Chicago in '80 or '81. They were all great shows, but the first was definitely the best.
(Richard Rainey: Up Me 'N Up The Canyon)

Voot Zombo: (Beefheart gig #1) March 11, 1972 Fox West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, California.
(Fireparty People)
Voot Zombo: The first time I saw the Magic Band in concert was at the Fox West Coast Theatre in Long Beach, CA. The opening act was The Pure Food and Drug Act featuring Mr. Harvey Mandel on guitar AND Mr. Sugar Cane Harris on electric violin. Sugar Cane's violin was made out of a clear acrylic and had a small blue lamp inside that made the insturment glow brightly in the darkened theatre. Nice effect.
(Fireparty)

Voot Zombo: While standing outside the theatre waiting to get in to see Beefheart just after the release of The Spotlight Kid, the road crew was bringing the band's equipment in through the side alley door. My friend and I were checking out the Magic Band's drum cases and were confused by what was stenciled on them in large letters: CAUTION - LIQUID DRUM SET. What the hell is a liquid drum set?
Finally, after sitting through too many opening bands (including The Pure Food and Drug Act with Harvey Mandell and Sugar Cane Harris on electric violin - how's that for a real 60's rock and roll band name?) the curtain went up for Beefheart.
The stage is PITCH BLACK with only the power lights on the amps glowing. Soon a single guitar is heard. A black light is turned on the figure playing the guitar. It's a very bizarre sight because the fellow is wearing a black and white diagonally stripped suit. The stripes are about 4 inches wide and his guitar is striped the same way, so it all sort of looks like you are looking through a set of window blinds at this guy. His guitar seems to be some weird part of his body, because of the stripes. A wonderful sight!
Anyway, when the lights go up so the band can be seen, it turns out that the drum set is constructed entirely of a clear acrylic. All that shows up from the first row on back is the chrome hardware. Behold! A liquid drum set!
(Voot Zombo: Caution - Liquid Drums....)

Chester Bob: I saw that same show and later saw Sugar Cane Harris in the Mothers Of Invention ......... but did you know he was 'Don' of 'Don and Dewey', a vocal duo out of Southern California on the Specialty label (Little Richards' label) in the 50's? They had a couple of hits, most notably Don't Ever Leave Me and their most remembered ..... Justine, which became a garage band staple of the 60's.
Small world!
(Fireparty)

Nigey Lennon: I recollect one night in 1972, for instance, when Beefheart and The Magic Band were playing a concert in Long Beach. I hadn't seen Beefheart for a few months at the time, but I was totally unprepared for my reception after the show, when I went backstage to say hello. Beefheart seemed literally not to know me. "Hi, Don," I said, walking up to shake hands. He mumbled a hello, but looked right past me.
Puzzled, I walked around to his other side, as though to enter by another door and start over again. "Hi - it's me, Nigey, you know." I thought he was playing a strange, zen-like joke on me. But he wasn't; he really seemed not to know who I was or what I was doing there. Finally, I walked right up to him and waggled my index finger under his nose.
"You do know who I am, don't you?" he looked almost frightened. "Of course I know who you are." With that, he shuffled away nervously, leaving me staring after him ... (He later excused this behavior by saying that he had been in 'a trance' for a period of time, owing to problems he was having with his landlord in Santa Cruz, as well as personnel problems regarding the Magic Band.)
(Nigey Lennon: Trout Mask Rendezvous. Eleven Straight Hours In A Desert Denny's With Captain Beefheart. Reader, May 30, 1980)

Lance Buterbaugh: I happened across your Captain Beefheart page this evening and enjoyed it, it brought back memories from way back. I thought I might add a few trivial details to your description of the March 10th, 1972 concert, since I was at that particular event.
1. A local whacked-out character walked down and sat at the edge of the stage for a while playing violin along with Sugar Cane Harris. (the atmosphere there at the Fox West Coast Theater (a former movie theater from earlier days) was very casual. there was no security at all, so no one really cared about this. the audience was probably about 99% stoned, since pot smoking there in the theater was very common.)
2. Daddy Cool was an Australian group who was getting some minor local airplay. The did very cool arrangements of 50's-style songs that transitioned into long, spaced-out 70's-style solos, and then broke unexpectedly back to the 50's to end. Very innovative at the time, I thought, and very entertaining.
3. The Captain Beefheart set began with Rocket Morton alone on stage doing a very tasty bass solo. Beneath his suit coat, which he shortly removed, he was wearing a western-style two-tone shirt (black on the bottom part and red on the top, with pearl snaps) which had embroidered fighting roosters on the front. I remember being rather astounded by this, because I had just the week before purchased this exact same shirt and a local clothing store there in Belmont Shores, except that mine was green on the bottom and yellow on the top. I was amazed to see one of my great heroes there with a shirt like mine. (I still have it.) The music was fantastic, but the details are slightly fuzzy due the mental state of the time (see note 1). I remember being amused by Captain Beefheart's technique of putting the bell end of his soprano sax over the microphone and playing it in quarter tones while flapping his arms, bird-like.

Michael Agnos: I did see Beefheart and the Magic Band in concert at the Fox Long Beach Theater, CA, in 1972. Harvey Mandel/Sugercane Harris, followed by Aussie band Daddy Cool opened the show. It was without a doubt the most memorable concert I've ever attended, even though I can't remember the specific compositions Beefheart performed! At one point during the Magic Band's set, Beefheart announced, "and now Rockette Morton would like to perform a composition." This was the most artistic, profound, inventive, and Beautiful bass playing I've ever heard. That much I do remember. Wow! Double Wow!!
My friend and I swear to this day that the whole concert, from Harvey Mandel's opening guitar notes, to the last echo of the Magic Band, had been scripted! I know it sounds wierd, but it seemed to us that we were watching a play; a very strange and wondrous play unfold before our eyes and ears...
(Fireparty)

Phil Kellogg: I was there! I'm 54, and I took my girlfriend at the time and her brother and his wife to the show. I remember we drove a long time - brother lived in Thousand Oaks and we were staying with him for a visit (we lived in Portland, Or). I remember Harvey Mandel/Sugarcane, but don't recall Daddy Cool. I do recall being blown away by Rockette Morton's bass solo.
I recall the Long Beach show as the worst of the 3 I saw back then. But then, the other two were REALLY good. One was at a small jazz club in SF called Keystone Korner - that was incredible, loose, almost jazzy; basically a TMR-style outing. The other was at the Paramount Theatre in Portland - a delightful, playful romp with both Drumbo and Art Tripp on percussions; the full LMDOB band in excellent form. Don't ask me for dates, or even the sequence of shows; no, was not on drugs but all were a long time ago. The Keystone show was one of the 3 best shows I've ever seen by anyone period.
(Fireparty)

Interview with Daddy Cool member Ian 'WSllie' Winter: Was there a great price difference on the door, compared to here?
Well a concert is about $3 or $4 dollars a head to get in, but there's generally three bands, like say one of them might be Captain Beefheart, which is pretty good value for your money.
What bands did you dig the most over there?
Well, Captain Beefheart was the most impressive visually and musically. The audience treats Beefheart as a bit of a freak you know, because he's a jolly, big type of fellow and he walks onto the stage in a cape and he really looks bizarre.
He gets right across to the audience. I think they're just getting into what he's on about now. When we played with him the first few times at the Fox Theatre he went over really good and the band were insane, but the last gig we played with him in Santa Monica when he'd got back from England, the audience went wild and Beefheart and his band had actually improved even though they were incredible before. They were the most impressive and John McLaughlin's band were amazing musically. In the States they try to toss you out, (the audience, that is) after a band's set so they can fit more people in for the next set, so I hid because I wanted to see McLaughlin's second set.
(Jenny Brown. Planet, June 21, 1972.)


(270/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-03-27, Royal Albert Hall, London, England

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Royal Albert Hall, London
1972-03-27

Lineage: AUD>tape (unknown gen)>WAV (using Wavelab)>FLAC (level 8, using Trader's Little Helper)

Tracks:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (0:55)
02. The Mascara Snake (0:20)
03. The Mascara Fake (0:24)
04. The Mascara For God's Sake (0:48)
05. When It Blows Its Stacks (4:38)
06. Click Clack (4:56)
07. Grow Fins (4:51)
08. Hobo Chang Ba (2:53) instrumental
09. Peon (2:45)
10. Abba Zaba (4:21)
11. Alice In Blunderland (4:45)
12. Frownland (2:08) bass solo
13. Spitball Scalped A Baby (3:12) cut
14. More (1:57)
15. My Human Gets Me Blues (4:06)
16. Steal Softly Thru Snow (3:37) instrumental
17. Golden Birdies (1:52)

Total length: 48:28

Quality: 6.5/10. Taper stopped the recording between the songs several times>I removed the gaps and smoothed the transitions between the songs. Also lots of clicks and further gaps within the tracks>again removed as carefully as possible. Hiss reduction using equalizer. Altogether: 6 hours work, damn.

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, sax, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn/Rollo Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
Melody Maker cover: Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band booglarised a packed Royal Albert Hall London, on Monday evening, and ended his show with a 10-minute encore. The Captain doesn't usually hand out encores.
The some occurred at Bristol last week where Beefheart opened his first British playing tour since 1968. Apologizing for his weak sound system, the Captain said "I am genuinely sorry about this. I really am." But he carried on regardless - things like that don't seem to disturb him too much. "I don't take things like that too seriously," he said.
Michael Watts: A MAN with a bass guitar, white suit and hat to match, suddenly lopes from the darkness and onto the stage, plucks aggressively at his instrument and prowls around the speakers like Groucho Marx meets the cost of West Side Story. Finally he stops and tells us he's going to smoke a cigar - twice. This is Rockette Morton.
There shambles into the spotlight a catatonic figure that looks as if it stopped by while sleepwalking. He plays something like a washboard. He scrapes this thing once. This is Ed Marimba. He plays drums.
The man emerging in the lustrous pinky orange suit with the furry black and white cape looking like a tubby Billy Butlin, is The Cap, short for The Captain, Captain Beefheart alias Don Van Vliet.
He walks front stage, lifts the microphone, cups it in his hands with his harp, and blows and sings Click Clack. For the next five minutes a train choogles and clatters around the old hall its wheels powered by The Magic Band, its whistle shrilling from the fingertips of Zoot Horn Rollo's guitar. This is the beginning of a performance to savour - Captain Beefheart plays the Albert Hall.
Beefheart live is legend made flesh. Some legends are best kept under wraps for fear the mysterioso quality should look threadbare under the spotlights. This isn't one of those.
Van Vliet is truly a monumental figure in contemporary music. For once the talent equates the image. At the Albert on Monday night one could only marvel at his magnificent voice with its four-and-a-half octave range, that progresses from a subterranean growl, through a stentorian bellow to a falsetto hiccup - a voice of such amazing power that the Albert's difficult acoustics were mastered and cowed in frightening fashion. His music is a sort of blues exotica. The bassist is R and B, but he has restructured the form, imposing discordant, fragmented rhythms that are linked to wild, enigmatic imagery. The music is as truly surreal in its spellbinding fascination as looking at one of those vaguely sinister Dodo objects, like the cup made of fur. Irritating almost in the way it rubs against the nerve-ends, but as if it contains all the secrets of the universe if you only knew the key.
With the Captain everything is strange. "A psychiatrist," he sold at one point, "is someone who wants to die in your other life." It's one of his Beefheartian pieces of epigrammatic wisdom. There's a pause after each song introduction, then The Magic Band spills out its rhythms on cue. They've all been totally immobile whilst not playing, now they jerk around the stage like metallic puppets, motivated by some unseen power.
Zoot Horn, a tall, thin figure, bobs and weaves on his heels; Marimba's arms, which seem to be unnaturally long for a human being, splay outwards and Roy Estrada, the old Mothers bassist, shifts rhythmically from one foot to the other. Rockette grouches over his bass. Winged Eel Fingerling, the second guitarist, looks almost natural, just shuffling around. But none of it seems quite lifelike.
Beefheart, although not a guitarist himself, is said to have taught his band how to play each note of his music. They mesh with such absolute precision that it's frightening. And yet after a time one hopes they would play just one straight lick to break that formulaic perfection. Of course, they never do.
When they finally left the stage and the audience yelled for more, the Captain came back and did just that. He whistled the theme of More. Weird scenes indeed.
(Michael Watts: A Legend Comes To Live. Melody Maker. April 1, 1972)

Bill Harkleroad: One of the few gigs I can definitely remember from this time was at the Albert Hall in London. I almost couldn't relate to it because the place was packed. I don't know how many people the place holds 3,000 or something like that - but I'm looking up at three balconies high and they're packed! We were used to opening up for bands like Jethro Tull, but on this occasion we were the headliners and for some reason that just didn't fit with what we were doing, having that many people in front of us.
At that point we used to open the show with When It Blows Its Stacks which was one of our stronger songs. It was this E 'pa-chunkchunk' type tune, pretty simple actually. I was waiting to start the number from behind the curtains and I made the horrible mistake of not checking to see if my amp was on! The roadie, Danny, hadn't checked either. So anyway, I ran out from behind the curtains and just as they're announcing, "Here's Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band!" I go to hit this big fat E chord - and there's no sound! All of a sudden I become little Billy from Palmdale, California - feeling about 2ft 9' tall and thinking about my mommy because I've got this crowd of people in front of me and no sound! I've never been the typically bodacious extrovert, unlike many performing musicians. So when nothing happens, my life passes before me!
I don't know where it came from but I held my hand up, put my finger in the air as if to indicate, "Wait a minute I'm going to rectify this", and went back behind the curtain. I knew immediately what was wrong so I turned the amp on and ran out, paused just a second, and started the show again. I'm sure it seemed to the audience that it was done on purpose. I was totally freaked, but the crowd loved it!
Then Mark comes out wildly strumming his bass in unison with the riff that I had started. We were playing through these enormous amps, and being a real pro he wrapped his cord around his amp head, but the cord was slightly too short and didn't reach far enough to take him to the front of the stage. So, rather than unplugging his guitar - all it did was to pull his 7ft stack of amps down! Of course the roadies are jumping around trying to flip it up. So that was our entrance to our big gig!
After such a dramatic opening we settled down and ran through our normal set which included Slim Harpo's King Bee, Click Clack, Abba Zaba, Electricity. At this time there was definitely a lot of improvisation happening on stage, so we tended to play these tunes as they were slightly more stretchable or expandable. The other tunes, particularly those on Trout and Decals, were so exactly formed that they weren't easy to stretch out or improvise on.
(Bill Harkleroad: Lunar Notes)

At what is said to be Royal Albert Hall, London there was a great instrumental version of' Veterans Day Poppy after which, in response to an heckler apparently shouting "It's old music!", Beefheart shouts back "somebody is out there on an ice-berg ... yeah, I know cold music ... alright we'll play you some cold music ... we'll play Alice In Blunderland."
(Blimp Over Europe #1)

John Peel: At the Albert Hall last year, Beefheart was standing at the back of the floor while the band worked towards a balance. "How's that, Don," asked Zoot Horn Rollo. "Like a custard with two feathers sticking in it," replied Don and the band went "Aha" and adjusted their instruments accordingly.
(John Peel: The New Captain Beefheart Album Clear Spot. Creem February 1, 1973)

Paul Brown: These two London dates, almost four years since the last Magic Band left our shores were eagerly awaited by critics and fans alike. I can vividly remember the sheer excitement and look of anticipation on everyone's faces.
There surely was, and has never been, anyone to touch them and the Captain seemed to enjoy himself immensely. Throwing in an untitled instrumental and finishing the set with an impromptu sax and drums duet Spitball Scalped A Baby.
(Paul Brown. Blimp Over Europe #1)

'jaytee': The live show the Captain and Magic Band did at the Albert Hall (1970 or 1971?) still stands as one of the best shows I have ever seen -- in terms of loudness, visual interest and musical highs.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Oliver Garus: When I saw the Beefheart/Magic Band at the Royal Albert Hall in 1972, it apparently was the first show in London with a stereo PA. Foghat opened the show. Is there a tape of this? Everywhere you went in London at that time was playing Spotlight Kid, too. It was fantastic.
(Fireparty)
Oliver Garus: So, Captain Beefheart and Magic Band were in glorious live stereo that night. I remember solos being performed on various objects like flower sifters, etc... Captain Beefheart performed a long recitation of a poem, I believe, reading from a very long scroll of paper which trailed down onto the stage, it was so long, about ten feet of paper. Fantastic.
(Fireparty)

Steve Roberts: It was 1972, I saw the same show in the Albert Hall which was packed out. Same cloak. John Peel introduced the show, he was in tears (had waited 5 or 6 years for the band to tour UK). Rockette came on and said "I'm going to have a smoke for the real #6".
The real show began with a ballerina solo, then a dancer in harem-type dress with yashmak. Then there was a couple of minutes of darkness with nothing visible or audible, then the lights all came up full and the band was standing there - they launched into When it Blows Its Stacks. Very loud.
The Captain broke quite a few microphones, his voice must be very powerful close up.
There were blokes in the audience from Newcastle, Dundee and all sorts of places over the UK. Quite an event.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Steve Roberts: I saw the same gig in the Royal Albert Hall. I was in about row 6. Concert started with a dark stage, solo ballerina piece in spotlight, dark stage again, dancer in Eastern costume with veils, dark stage again, then suddenly ALL the lights came up full, the whole band was on the stage, they launched into When It Blows Its Stacks at full blast exactly as the lights came on. At some point during this (or later?) Rockette came on and said "I'm going to have a smoke for the Rio #6".
The Captain broke most of the microphones that were available, he must have a hell of a voice close up.
I was staying in a flat at the time (with 3 other guys, whose enlightenment to Captain Beefheart was not as wide as mine) and I lived there from late 1971 to mid 1972, so I reckon these concerts were in April 72. There had been a Leonard Cohen concert at the Albert Hall a few months before.
John Peel, famous London DJ, introduced the band. He was in tears - had played their music a lot on his radio show (to the horror of the Authorities) and had waited 5 or 6 years for the band to tour the UK.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Nigel Armstrong: The first time I saw him was at the Albert Hall in London. It was the Spotlight Kid tour (so it was what - 1971?) with Winged Eel Fingerling. Foghat supported - who remembers them now? - not me, for one.
I remember between the bands a ballet dancer, then a belly dancer came on to entertain us. It was all very mysterious and exciting, I was about 15 then so any gig was special.
Don was pretty fat at the time and wearing a cape. I have to say I don't remember exactly what was played although I do remember Electricity making the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Since Winged Eel was playing they must have done Alice in Blunderland as well, and I'm pretty sure there were some tracks from Trout Mask Replica ...
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Ann Jousiffe: Been a closet Beefheart fan for ages. My first introduction was on Willie the Pimp. Hot Rats found me when I was 16 and I have always been into Zappa and Beefheart. The turning point was in the early 70s, London, Royal Albert Hall of all places. A red plush introduction to a great artist. My sweet, but very conservative local newsagent was part-time usher at the Albert Hall and had a free box to all the concerts. He offered me tickets to Beefheart and the Magic Band - not just tickets, a whole gilded box. God knows, he didn't want them. The concert was amazing - among the last before the Albert Hall put a stop to rock concerts (after Zappa's attempt to put on 200 Motels there). I still recall it as one of the most intense and brilliant concerts I have ever been to.
(Fireparty)

Lady Bangla Boom: "I really must apologize for this PA," the Captain said to his Albert Hall audience, "I’m sorry, really sorry." The audience fell silent - "I’m not THAT serious," APPLAUSE - "but I am very sorry. The next time I am here, I will bring my own PA."
The long awaited concert was sadly marred by hired PA trouble (stop me if you've heard this story). The Captain was visibly upset by the strange noises being emitted from the massive ($$$) system, and in the middle of one composition, he flung the microphone to the floor. He retrieved it quickly, "Well, I might as well sing through it. What can one do when one is far from home without one's own PA?" he pleaded. "SING MIRROR MAN!"' offered the audience.
"Is that the solution?" the Captain mused.
The concert was an event, to say the least. Beefheart's set was opened by a ballerina, followed by a belly-dancer, which in a rather abstract way (if you're into it), demonstrated the Captain's dual personality. "He has the voice, stance and build of a Chicago gangster," observed DJ Andy Dunkoid, "his suit is even cut gangster style. But he's very kind and gentle so he puts flower appliques on the suit."
The Captain did his set, obliged the audience with an encore, then marched, triumphantly offstage swirling his long cape behind him. It might have been the end - but it wasn't. While the houselights were being brought up, Beefheart strolled back on-stage to thank the crowd for their patronage and pay a sincere tribute to his friend, DJ John Peel. Then, of course, a Beefheart oracle:
"When I become a famous star we will still be able to look each other in the eye, because our feet will be on the same ground." I'd feel rude not to mention the Magic Band who were superb. Bassist Rockette Morton was being an energetic rock star, while Zoot Horn Rollo preferred to hop in place. (Also on bass - Roy Estrada). I most enjoyed the drummer (whose name I can't for the life of me grasp) who, for this auspicious occasion, wore a brightly colored pair of panties on his head. The Magic Band don't know anything about the word "can't," they simply thunder through each composition in a way that would give conventional musicians a bad case of stage and audience paranoia.
I won't be surprised if England doesn't see the Captain for a long while after this. After all, it's not just another night out, it's a special occasion and they don't happen all that often. Thank you Captain, you were too much.
(Lady Bangla Boom: Live at The Albert Hall, London. Phonograph Record Magazine. May 1972)


(275/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-03-29, The Brighton Dome, Brighton, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
The Dome, Brighton
1972-03-29

Lineage: audience>Wav (using Wavelab)>sound improvement (using Freefilter with 1972-03-24 as sound template, using equalizer for hiss reduction)>FLAC (level 8, using Trader's Littel Helper)

Tracks:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (0:54)
02. Smoking Rio 6 (1:01)
03. Hair Pie: Bake III (0:54)
04. The Mascara Snake (0:45)
05. The Mascara Fake (0:39)
06. The Mascara For God's Sake (2:31)
07. When It Blows Its Stacks (4:33)
08. Click Clack (4:48)
09. Grow Fins (5:13)
10. Band Intro (1:37)
11. Hobo Chang Ba (2:46) instrumental
12. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:49)
13. Old Black Snake (3:21)
14. Peon (3:53)
15. Abba Zaba (3:18)
16. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:48)
17. Alice In Blunderland (4:17)
18. More (5:40)
19. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish (4:29) bass solo
20. My Human Gets Me Blues (4:10)
21. Steal Softly Thru Snow (3:45) instrumental
22. Spitball Scalped A Baby (7:27)
23. Golden Birdies (2:10)

Total length: 76:48

Quality: 7.5/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, sax, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn/Rollo Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
Nick Kent: After a seemingly endless journey - the first coach had broken down halfway between London and Brighton - we finally arrived at the Dome, a sort of mini-Albert Hall filled to capacity, as all the Beefheart gigs have been. In the dressing-room the band get changed, while Zoot Horn Rollo gets his spider-like fingers around the fret-board of his guitar, crafting almost impossible chords from the instrument in preparation for the show. Beefheart disappears into the john, eventually emerging in his stage clothes: an incredible red silk suit over a black shirt with a gold necklace in place of a tie. All this is topped off with a black cloak emblazoned with some weird embroidered design and he looks every inch a rock and roll star just like Little Richard.
"Better man. Richard was too little."
The stage looks fine. It must be after the first three bars of When It Blows Its Stacks that you realise something truly astounding is going to be laid on you. The Captain told me that the band never do free gigs because "we need money to buy good food in order to play good music". All I can say is that Beefheart and company are no vegetarians, they're cannibals. Their music comes right out and eats up the audience. The guitars slip and slide with a vengeance, slicing up the music into magnificent splinters while Beefheart howls like some croned shaman going werewolf.
The numbers the band does, come from Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off, Baby and The Spotlight Kid exclusively and the live sound that they get now, makes most of their studio effects look sick by comparison. The Magic Band at full strength on such numbers as Click Clack, I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby and My Human Gets Me Blues are quite unique: Beefheart sums it all up - "their playing is so together that they look as if they are untogether, if you know what I mean". Their music is both jagged and flowing and when, for an encore, the Captain produced his alto sax and proceeded to assault the p.a. with his highly 'unconventional' style of playing it was all literally a bit too much for some of the kids in the audience - although I would imagine that the whales coasting off Brighton beach appreciated the communication from a fellow spirit.
(Nick Kent: Rough Trade From Venus Hits It Big. Frendz #26. April 28, 1972. Reprinted in: The Lives And Times Of Captain Beefheart)

Brian Bashford: Hmmm ... My decaying memory seems to recall that during the 1972 tour in the UK the supporting act was a small troupe of overweight ballet dancers (this was the Brighton Dome) and the Magic Band drummer wore a pair of ladies knickers on his head throughout the concert.
Perhaps 'belly' has mutated into 'ballet' in my mind over the years but I'm sure there was more than one.
(Fireparty)

Ben Waters: I too saw Beefheart for the first time in 72, in Brighton, and had my life changed forever. There was something truly magical generated on that tour, and yes I do feel honoured to have witnessed it. I would guess that the majority of the audiences were first timers like you and I; probably with very high expectations; and the reality of seeing that particular magic band so far surpassed those expectations that we'll never forget it.
(Fireparty)

Ben Waters: I was 17. I'd been a fan for 2 years and had all the albums, but this was to be my first (and best) concert. I travelled the 25 miles to Brighton on the back of my mates Yamaha 100 motorbike. The first thing I remember is all the weird and wonderful characters in the audience: people with plastic ray guns, someone had an inflatable robot, and one guy was dressed up like the Trout Mask sleeve, complete with shuttlecock. The support band came and went. I can't remember anything about them. There was an air of excitement and anticipation in the hall that was very strong. The lights dimmed and some strange classical music drifted out of the speakers. A female ballet dancer comes on and dances about. She goes off, the music changes, and a belly dancer comes on and shakes about.
Next thing I remember is Beefheart swooping on stage in that embroidered cape with the clouds. He waits for the ecstatic welcome to die down, then says, "Meditation soothes the mind and body" and walks off. Then we got Rockette Morton dancing like a cross between Groucho Marx and an epileptic ballet dancer, playing an amazing free form bass solo. He really claws at the strings, producing chords and runs of unbelievable dexterity. Suddenly he stops and makes a big show of lighting a cigar. Then he leaps in the air, and resumes playing, faster and harder than ever, still puffing on the cigar. After this there were some more shenanigans with a wooden fish being scraped and called the mascara fake, mascara for god's sake by various band members. Suddenly they're all there on stage: Winged Eel Fingerling, black clothes, black hair and beard, black shades, I think he even had a black guitar, looking mean and brooding; Rockette Morton dancing wildly as he did all through the gig; Ed Marimba, long arms and legs and a monocle, Zoot Horn Rollo, very tall in a patchwork coat.
They started playing and it was like hearing a band from another planet, while at the same time it occurs to you that this is how music SHOULD sound, if it is done in a spirit of truth and beauty. These are the tracks I remember them playing: Abba Zabba, Human Gets Me, Hobo Chang Ba, When It Blows, Woe Is A Me Bop, Peon, Alice,Old Black Snake, Booglarise Ya, Spitball. They may have played Click Clack, Grow Fins and others. Beefheart was on fine form; assured, confident and playful. There were many little games with the audience and band. I remember him telling us about Rockette Mortons' waxed moustache, and taking a phial of liquid from his sax case to give a sniff of it to Ed Marimba to revive him after some strenuous drumming. The phial was then thrown into the crowd. I wonder what it contained.
I saw Beefheart 5 more times after that, each time (except maybe Drury Lane) he was utterly brilliant. But that first concert at the Dome must be my favorite. I've just remembered the encore, a few bars of the 50s song More whistled by the Capt.
(Ben Waters: Brighton Dome)


(280/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-03-30, Montfort Hall, Leicester, England

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
March 30, 1972
De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England

Tracklist Version 1:
1-01-Hair Pie: Bake III (0:43)
1-02-Smoking Rio 6 (1:52)
1-03-Hair Pie: Bake III (0:55)
1-04-The Mascara Snake (0:36)
1-05-The Mascara Fake (0:30)
1-06-The Mascara For God's Sake (0:14)
1-07-When It Blows Its Stacks (4:42)
1-08-Click Clack (4:43)
1-09-Grow Fins (4:38)
1-10-Band Intro (0:45)
1-11-Hobo Chang Ba (2:53)
1-12-I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:46)
1-13-Old Black Snake (2:27)
1-14-Peon (4:11)
1-15-Abba Zaba (3:32)
1-16-Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:45)
1-17-Alice In Blunderland (4:32)
1-18-Spitball Scalped A Baby (10:29)
1-19-More (2:25)
1-20-Bass Solo (1:47)
1-21-My Human Gets Me Blues (4:08)
1-22-Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:26)
1-23-Saxophone Solo (2:02)
1-24-Saxophone-Drums Duet (1:25)
1-25-Band Intro (0:35)
1-26-Golden Birdies (2:09)

Total length: 1:13:10

Lineage:
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Quality:
6 of 10

Tracklist Version 2:
2-02-Smoking Rio 6 (2:06)
3-03-Hair Pie: Bake III (1:04)
2-04-The Mascara Snake (0:40)
2-05-The Mascara Fake (0:32) cut
2-11-(cut) Hobo Chang Ba (1:54)
2-12-I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (6:04)
2-13-Old Black Snake (2:37)
2-14-Peon (4:18)
2-15-Abba Zaba (3:31)
2-16-Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:46)
2-17-Alice In Blunderland (4:58)
2-18-Spitball Scalped A Baby (10:06)
2-19-More (3:40)
2-20-Bass Solo (1:52)
2-21-My Human Gets Me Blues (3:40)
2-22-Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:03)
2-23-Saxophone Solo (1:51)
2-24-Saxophone-Drums Duet (1:12)
2-25-Band Intro (0:30)
2-26-Golden Birdies (3:28)

Total length: 58:52

Lineage:
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Quality:
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Personnel:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon-Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
Gerry Pratt: In spring 1972 I was a fanatical 22-year old Beefheart fan - ever since I'd bought Trout Mask in December '69 and worked backwards thru' Strictly Personal to Safe As Milk. I can remember endlessly searching shops in Leicester in 1970 for Safe As Milk and actually being told by a Woolworth's assistant that there was a budget-priced LP called The World of Captain Beefheart, that was Safe As Milk, but that it was unfortunately out of stock - I thought this sounded a truly magical LP! I saw Beefheart and the band play live twice, once in Leicester, at the infamous De Montfort Hall, in 1972 and again in autumn 1980 at York University. So two completely different Magic Band lineups. The '72 gig was just amazing - definitely the best live show I've ever seen. In fact if I didn't have some photos I might think I'd imagined it. I was living in Norwich at the time, dossing about after finishing at UEA, and I was driven over to Leicester just for the evening in a mate's car.
We were in the second row so only about 15ft from the stage. The support band Fog Hat wore on first. I cannot now remember anything about them. What I do remember is this intense, almost overwhelming, feeling of anticipation. Fog Hot went off. Then we waited ... and we waited ... and fiddled with the cassette recorder under the chairs ... and we waited .... the house lights went down and ... out come a ballet dancer!!! for about 3 mins ... then the lights went down again and we waited and ... out came a belly dancer!!! With all this awful distorted music thru' the PA!! (Someone told me that the strange act to soften up the audience seems to have been a Beefheart trademark - apparently in Boston (USA) he had a monkey act open for him, this at Boston's Music Hall, which generally had fairly respectable shows.)
The house lights went down again and ... and we waited ... and out came a big Geezer all in black (Beefheart) and muttered something about Rockette Morton. Then this little manic guy Mark Boston AKA Rockette Morton comes out with a multicolored suit and a white hat smoking a cigar and proceeds to play right in front of us very loud solo bass while jumping and spinning around. Then he suddenly stops and the big Geezer strides rapidly back onto the stage ... up to the microphone and says 'we smoke Rio 6' and holds up a Rio 6 cigar packet - like an advert - then wanders off again. Mark Boston starts up again, even faster now, and starts spinning around even more and then suddenly all these strange looking people swarm on to the stage - Art Tripp III AKA Ed Marimba on drums wearing a monocle
... this really tall thin guy in a really strange patchwork coat, Bill Harkleroad AKA Zoot Horn Rollo, striding backwards and forwards over to our right playing the fastest most incredible slide guitar imaginable ... the music sounding like a big clockwork animal jumping around on stage ... just stunning. I'll never forget the look of total concentration on Bill Harkleroad's face ... like he had to play almost impossible music very fast live. I spoke about this to a guy called Dave who runs Tudor House Records in Chester (I bought a Beefheart concert program off him) and he said when he saw Bill Harkleroad playing live in the early '70s it looked like he was doing everything backward ... you really just could not believe it was happening.
Also when Beefheart wasn't singing he was laughing his head off and grinning ... like he thought it was the greatest thing ever to bring this band to this dreary hall in the middle of nowhere and play this incredible music. After the concert my brother, Mick, went back to the tour bus and got some albums signed. Beefheart was very friendly and was quite taken with the 1970 French Super Group Safe As Milk album cover, showing Beefheart performing on the beach at Cannes in 1968, that my brother stuck in front of him to sign. Beefheart had never seen this French album and showed it to his wife Jan, who was sitting next to him on the tour bus telling her "this is us at Cannes in 1968" - then he asked my brother if he could have it. My brother, being a sensible sort of bloke, of course said "no!"
(Gerry Pratt. Blimp Over Europe #1)

Stewart Osbourne: I was talking a few weeks ago to one of the rep.s who comes into our office from time to time. We got onto the topic of music and when I mentioned Beefheart he told me that he once saw CB&TMB playing at some club near where he lived in Leicester.... he also said it was the worst gig he had ever seen in his life and the only one he has ever walked out of halfway through.
We are now looking for a new stationary supplier!
(Fireparty)

Dave Lang: This was the first time I saw Beefheart and he and the Magic Band were just brilliant. They played one of the most magnificent sets of music I had ever heard. A major attraction however, was the strangeness of the band and its figurehead. Of course being a long term fan of Trout Mask Replica and the earlier albums, I was expecting some eccentricity of dress and behaviour. The reality however, was something else again. Nothing could have truly prepared me for the audio visual onslaught delivered by this crew of misfit genius's.
The attire varied from the majestic to the downright loony. The majesty was supplied by Don Van Vliet, resplendent in his magnificent embroidered sun and moon cape and tuxedo. The loony element was catered for fully by Ed Marimba, wearing his long hair through the leg holes of a pair of women's panties in a strange parody of a viking helmet. Zoot Horn Rollo and Winged Eel Fingerling were pretty weirdly attired as well, sporting multi coloured coats and trousers. Rockette Morton veered towards the magnificent in his natty hat and suit, but this combination of attire was pretty mind jarring I attended this gig with my mates Charlie, Rodger and The Skull.
Rodger was pretty well heeled (compared to the rest of us that is), he actually owned his own house and had a fairly flash car, a Rover, Jag or some such like. Whatever, he was well off compared to us impoverished students, whose collective transport at the time amounted to a 1930's bicycle and a Norton 16H which had been stolen,
found by the local police, but in such a bad state that it was irreparable.
Let's flash back in time to follow the Intrepid Travellers as they make their way to the concert ....Commander Lang speaks.........
I believe that Rodger has plans to Bootleg the Beef concert, he being the sort of guy who has aspirations to make it big someday and I think he sees a way to make a quid out of the show. With this in mind he decides to bring along his Phillips cassette recorder, not exactly state of the art recording equipment, but the best we can do without lugging in my old reel to reel which is about the size of a small suitcase and not exactly a covert device. .
Before we actually get to De Montford Hall we have to detour to Leicester General Hospital casualty dept, because Rodger has impaled his foot on a rusty six inch nail earlier on and is only now realising that he might acquire tetanus if he does not get medical treatment for his stricken appendage.
Of course, when we get to casualty we find there is a huge queue and as we have limited time before we have to be at the show, there is some degree of concern as to whether we can make it on time. However, Rodger is driving and has now become really worried about his foot, so we have no choice but to wait it out,as its some distance between the two venues and we will not make it on foot. Charlie, as is his wont, decides to make a nuisance of himself and by exaggerating how bad Rodger really is and pestering the nursing staff he ensures that we get seen to quickly and thus arrive at De Mont in time to get ourselves tickets.
We are not down the front, but we are only about 12 rows back,right in the middle, so we get a nice view of the proceedings. There are no problems with Rodger being frisked by security, as they are distracted by his bandaged foot which is now without a shoe, as well as my attire of bowler hat and giant size 20 woman's striped coat with six inch wide heliotrope and khaki stripes which I have worn specially for the show. They are really taken by The Skull, who has a shaven head and proto skinhead attire. He always looks as if he is up to no good, even though he is essentially harmless.
So whilst the Skull is arguing with the security guys the rest of us take our places and Rodger, being somewhat paranoid as to the degree of interest being taken in our weird attire, slides the deck under the row as Rockette Morton hits the stage and blows us out of our seats with his massive bass solo. The show is fabulous, the place is rocking with the combined output of six of the best musicians on the planet and we are screaming for more as well as giving a standing ovation by the end of the gig.
The MAGIC BAND prance, stumble (but do not fall), twist, leap, shooglenifty, caper, blast, carouse, rouse, sublimate, roister, blabber and SMOKE. They are indescribably good and surpass all our wildest dreams. So out we stumble into the night, absolutely floored by this incredible music and wanting to hear the glories of the evenings music preserved in pristine form on our state of the art Phillips tape deck. Rodger did manage to flip the tape at some time during the evening and he is pretty confident that he has captured it all.
However, when we go to listen to the tape, it becomes clear that we should have been better equipped to carry out the task, as the results sound as though they were recorded in a toilet next door to the venue whilst the flush is being used. The floor was not the best place to put a device that was low fi to say the least,as the music is muffled and one can hear foot shuffling and crowd noise far better than one can the music.
Unfortunately, the tape sucks, so bang goes Rodger's idea of being the Robert Stigwood of the bootleg set. We listen to it a few times, but the quality is too naff to bother with. Like an idiot I do not make a copy on my reel to reel.
During the course of the next few years I lose touch with Rodger, Charlie and the Skull, which means I also lose touch with the whereabouts of the tape. As far as I know Rodger keeps it, but no one bothers to make a copy, as most of us do not have tape decks in those days.
So now, 26 years down the road and back to reality, I ask myself.
Is this tape still around, mouldering in a bottom draw amongst Rodger's old socks, has it pride of place in his tape collection, been remastered, digitalised, equalised and through wonders of technology, been restored to a state of the art recording? Or (horror of horrors)has it been wiped so Rodger's kids could listen to their fave Spice Girls albums when out for a spin in the car ...?
If the tape is still around, is it worth listening to?
I need this tape, even it is absolute trash, but even if I did ever hear it, deep down, I know I'll never be able to fully recreate the ectasy of that first time I heard The Magic Band. But if I could I'd close my eyes and bring back visions. Visons of Ed Marimba, his monocle reflecting back the colours from the lights, his hair, in two pigtails, stuffed through the legholes of the pair of ladies panties that adorned his head, like some warped aviator helmet. Visions of Rockette Morton, in snappy loud suit, striding onstage and laying down the most bass bomb solo you ever heard in your life. Visions of Zoot Horn Rollo, his spindly legs dwarfed by the huge coat he wore on his upper half, busy Booglarising our collective souls. Visions of Winged Eel Fingerling , wide eyed and reckless, flying all over the stage in his wild abandon to the music. Visions of the stocky Orejon, he of the Mothers and Little Feat, pinning it all together with his rock solid bottom lines, the Bill Wyman of the Magic Band, still, whilst all around him was a frenzy. But above all, I'd conjure up visions of the gifted Captain Beefheart, whose voice just broke me up SO much, that it was almost hurtful to hear him at times, so much emotion and soul was contained therein ...
It was an amazing performance, by an amazing band, playing incredible music and putting on an incredible theatrical show, which was rarely matched by anyone else. Those of us who did attend any of their concerts in the late 60s and early 70s should feel honoured to have been able to live through those wonderful musical events, which will probably never come our way again.
For all that though, if anyone has a copy, well. I'd like to hear it ...
(Captain Beefheart in concert. Leicester 1972)
http://users.bigpond.net.au/the-archive/leicester72.html


(290/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-04-02, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
1972-04-02

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Tracks:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (1:05)
02. Smoking Rio 6 (1:26)
03. Hair Pie: Bake III (0:56)
04. The Mascara Snake (0:35)
05. The Mascara Fake (0:25)
06. The Mascara for God's Sake (1:25)
07. When It Blows Its Stacks (4:06)
08. Click Clack (5:01)
09. Grow Fins (4:53)
10. Band Intro (0:36)
11. Hobo Chang Ba (3:14) instrumental
12. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:38)
13. Old Black Snake (3:56)
14. Peon (3:36)
15. Abba Zaba (3:21)
16. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (3:22)
17. Alice In Blunderland (5:07)
18. Spitball Scalped A Baby (21:46)
19. My Human Gets Me Blues (3:53)
20. Steal Softly Through Snow (0:49) instrumental cut

Total length: 75:10

Quality: 7/10. Sound improvement using Freefilter, equalizer.

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, sax, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn/Rollo Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
Danny Houston: There used to be a great club in Glasgow, Scotland called The Maryland, and the owner Willie Cuthbertson (one of the great unacknowledged heroes of Scottish Rock) brought Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band up to play at a place called the Kelvin Hall. This venue was famous already in the halls of rock n roll fame as the site of the Kinks first "Live" album. Because we knew Willie he promised to take us back stage to meet the Captain before the concert.
We were all massive Beefheart fans - there were about 6 of us - and Gus (Angus Macintyre) was the biggest Beefheart fan of all. We met up for the gig and were all pretty excited. Gus had hired a tuxedo and looked like a drunk waiter in a posh hotel! When it came time to go back stage we all walked in single file behind him into the dressing room. I was a massive Zappa fan so was knocked out to meet Roy Estrada (Orejon), Artie Tripp and Elliot Ingber (Winged Eel Fingerling). The Captain was very gracious, and I remember him making small talk and jokes about Pluto, the Disney mutt that I had on my T-shirt, which helped me to calm down a wee bit.
Now, Gus was very artistic, and unbeknown to us he had some gifts for the Captain. He reached into this brown paper bag he had brought in, and pulled out this bottle of Spanish brandy that he had read somewhere in an interview that the Captain liked. Then he pulled out this glass cube that he had made, and suspended inside it somehow was an orchid. It looked really fantastic, and he presented it to Jan, the Captain's wife. Then he brought out this other larger glass cube, that had this large cigar inside, trapped diagonally in top and bottom corners, with a nail through the middle of it. Well, the Captain was really touched by this and the whole vibe in the dressing room was really great. These 6 extraordinary Americans, producing the best music on the planet, all nattered away to these rather drunk and very excited Glaswegians (did anyone except the Captain understand what we were saying?).
Too soon it was show time and we went out and parked our arses in our front row seats. The show began with a ballerina which was in fact a constant on this tour. Who was this ballerina? Why have I never read an interview with her? Then Rockette came out and strutted around doing a wonderful dance and bass solo. As his bass solo shaped itself into the riff from When It Blows Its Stacks, the rest of the band came on. Finally the Captain came out with the bottle of brandy that Gus had given him and he said, "This is for Angus Macintyre!" and took a big swig from the bottle and the show began. Well, we were all blown away completely, of course, and the show was an absolute blinder.
We didn't go backstage after the show, but had tickets for the gig in Edinburgh, a few days later.
I do remember one part of the show where things went askew and the Captain and Artie Tripp both said something peculiar in the middle of a song that we didn't really understand. Years later in a mid-page spread in the Melody Maker, in an article entitled something like "Rock and the supernatural" there were all these quotes from rock stars about 'weird stuff' happening on stage. The Captain said that he and Artie Tripp saw something on stage at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. I particularly remember it because the closing quote from the Captain was "Perhaps it was the Loch Ness Monster"!
Gus had given the Captain his phone number, and the next day the Captain phoned up, found he was out, but sent a taxi round to pick up his mum and sister and they both had dinner with the Magic Band and the Captain in their hotel. Because it was Easter weekend, all the shops were closed and the Captain was really disappointed - he wanted to go out and buy a tartan suit!
(Danny Houston: A Meeting With The 25th Century Quaker)

Brian Kerr: I remember the gig well, although the band were 50 mins late as they were held up in fog somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow, I think. The band played most of the songs from the "Clear Spot" album and of course closed with "Golden Birdies". My main memories are of Captain Beefheart's (Don Van Vliet) amazing voice and of course the twin guitars of Zoot Horn Rollo and the other guy? ... Also Rockette Morton was amazing strutting around the stage playing the bass in his inimitable style. I must also mention Ed Marimba who was superb on drums also. A good night was had by all. Of course! Of course!
(Glasgow/Apollo Forums)

Andy Richards: don't know what gig you were at mate i saw the Captain in 1972 got there about 10.30 problems from manchester, captain came on said sorry threw Rockette on came back a little later Huge spliff in his gob, blew the house down finished about 12.30 Electricity highpoint Zoot Horn Rollo with straw hat and cherout playin fkn amazin slide support band was John Cann renamed Bullit band something daft.....they really were The Magic Band.
(Glasgow/Apollo Forums)

Don Van Vliet: "You know what? I'll tell you something very funny.... when I was up in Scotland this time, in Glasgow, and I was playing the part with Ed Marimba - and he saw this too, it's really funny - I was playing the horn and I was kind of labouring. I was tired, really tired, about ready to scoop myself, and all of a sudden pow! I just went completely out. We played for two hours and I didn't see two minutes of it. And after I had played I heard my voice saying over the microphone: "Go down and see the Loch Ness monster, 'cause it's here'. Now, that's funny, that's funny." He looked across to see if I thought it was funny too. Yep, it was funny.
"My wife," he continued, "said: 'what are you doing man?', and really, I could see her point. But then Ed came up and said he saw something on stage. "Now wait a minute," I told him, "did you see it, too?". and he said, before I even mentioned it:"Ii swear I saw something gold on that stage". It's silly to talk about it, but we both saw it. It was gold and it moved, like some sort of energy. A circle, and it came down on stage. And - you won't believe this - there was a little woman with it" he looked across again, and shook his head in bewilderment. "I know, I know ... I thought myself: you're crazy! But I saw it, and now I am convinced that those things, those people are there. It has to do with the magnetic poles, you know. I have heard people say leprechauns, maybe that was, what it was. But I've never had them described to me." He paused. "It certainly didn't have any clothes on, I can tell you that."
(Michael Watts: Captain's Log ... A Strange Coach Trip With Captain Beefheart. Melody Maker. April 22, 1972)

In the article Beef art In The Guardian soon after this Don Vliet is quoted as saying "I hate the English 'language'- you know, conforming to set rules and correct grammar. I've just been in Glasgow, and listening to those people speak is so different; there's real music in it. But the English language - I call it a word crawling over a razor blade."
(Merete Bates: Beef Art. The Guardian. April 15, 1972. Cited in: Blimp Over Europe #1)


(300/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-04-11, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Tivolis Koncertsalen, København, Denmark
Tivoli Gardens
April 11, 1972

Eric: The gig in Copenhagen was weird also. I had bought a ticket in advance but ran out of money a week before the concert. I survived somehow with the help of some friends because I really wanted to go, but I was pretty hungry when I went. I hitchhiked back to Holland right after the show. There was a support act and those Danes were doing already some very heavy drinking before the pause. Many of them went sick and the personnel was handing out buckets for the people to throw up. I had to divide my attention to the concert and the people around me, taking care not to be hit by splatters of vomit. The concert was great. The band started to play without the Captain who was first announced as the master of fake and then as the master of truth.

Colin David Webb: One point of interest in the Copenhagen concert is that Beefheart introduces the instrumental version of Steal Softly Through Snow as One For The Cuckoo Bird, confusing fans who thought it was new. Later in the set he played Spitball Scalped A Baby, another of his sax and drums outings, finishing with Japan Is A Dishpan.
(Blimp Over Europe #1)

Personnel:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Orejon-Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Tracklist:
01-Hair Pie: Bake III (1:33)
02-Smoking Rio 6 (1:13)
03-Hair Pie: Bake III (0:51)
04-The Mascara Snake (0:38)
05-The Mascara Fake (0:28)
06-The Mascara For God's Sake (1:17)
07-When It Blows Its Stacks (4:35)
08-Click Clack (4:55)
09-Grow Fins (5:18)
10-Band Intro (1:43)
11-Hobo Chang Ba (3:00)
12-I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:49)
13-Old Black Snake (3:24)
14-Peon (2:52)
15-Abba Zaba (3:00)
16-Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:30)
17-Alice In Blunderland (6:15)
18-My Human Gets Me Blues (3:54)
19-Steal Softly Thru Snow (AKA One For The Cuckoo Bird) (3:01)
20-Saxophone-Drums Duet (2:31)
21-Golden Birdies (2:13)
22-Spitball Scalped A Baby (13:19)
23-Japan In A Dishpan (2:10) cut

Total length: 1:16:29

Lineage:
AUD>tape 3rd gen>Wavelab 5>WAV>time correction (side 1 of the tape was 5% too slow), heavy boosting the midrange, cutting some bass and treble above 10 khz, using Freefilter and Timeworks Mastering EQ>FLAC frontend>FLAC (level 8)

Sound quality:
7.5 of 10


(679/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-04-12, (The Lost Broadcasts), Beat Club, Hamburg, Germany

Video/mpg, ?/?, (?)

610679001a610679001b610679001c
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

The Lost Broadcasts

1 Mascara Snake (Bass Solo) 3:06
2 Click Clack 1 3:44
3 Click Clack 2 1:26
4 Golden Birdies 1:58
5 Band Intros 0:56
6 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 1 4:26
7 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 2 5:02
8 Steal Softly Thru Snow 3:33
9 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 3 5:19


(305/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-04-14, Jahrunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1972-04-14

Lineage: AUD>tape 3rd gen>Wavelab>WAV>sound improvement using Freefilter and Timeworks Mastering EQ>Flac Frontend>FLAC (level 8)>Trader's Little Helper>WAV>Wavelab>sound improvement using Freefilter, Equalizer>Trader's Little Helper>FLAC (level 8)

Tracklist:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (1:35)
02. The Mascara Snake (0:39)
03. The Mascara Fake (0:26)
04. The Mascara For God's Sake (1:09)
05. When It Blows Its Stacks (3:54)
06. Click Clack (3:48)
07. Band Intro (0:47)
08. Hobo Chang Ba (2:35) instrumental
09. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:06)
10. Old Black Snake (2:45)
11. Peon (3:50)
12. Abba Zaba (2:48)
13. Spitball Scalped A Baby (12:21)
14. My Human Gets Me Blues (3:40)
15. Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:40) instrumental
16. Golden Birdies (1:44)

Total time: 48:49

Quality: 7.5/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Orejon-Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Werner Neumann: Fun For Fans - Captain Beefheart at the Hoechst Century Hall.
When someone should ask about the strangest rock concert of the season: it took place in the 'Hoechster Jahrhunderthalle'. Only a handful of insiders had lost its way into the hall, and a kind of familiar atmosphere reigned as 'Captain Beefheart' and his 'Magic Band' started with their work.
'Captain Beefheart' alias Don Van Vliet (a Zappa comrade from the land of the unlimited chances), on the outside a bear, an unicum with a voice of four-and-a-half octaves, makes rock theatre in an unusual way. His vocal cord acrobatics begin somewhere low down in the basement, roar impassioned from the stereo walls, practice as pneumatic crackling and shrieking drag - and finally end at circular saw pitch, a sort of torture rack for harmony loving ears, a thing like a synthesizer.
The 'Magic Band' works against the atonal, un-melodic anarchy of his voice: drums, two basses, two guitars that tear up rock devices in a wild mix - but skilled - and create an unheard tensile, polymetric music out of the remaining fragments. As solo players the musicians are accomplished: they know their manual between blues and free jazz.
All together: a total anti-music, a bombastic hubbub. The lyrics Van Vliet produces and recites (complete unintelligible - but you can't have all) range - eye-blinking like the man himself - between mystic twaddle, much kitsch and beautiful nonsense.
Whether Beefheart takes himself serious or not - it's funny anyway. Thus - as also known from Zappa's Mothers - his show makes a clear distance to the hectic of the commercial pop music through irony and satire.
(Werner Neumann: Darmstädter Echo. April 18, 1972. A reprint of this review appears in 'Garantiert Ungewöhnlich', the German translation of Colin David Webb's 'Captain Beefheart'. Thanks to Theo Tieman for providing the gorillacrow trancelation from 1995)

Bernd Gockel: Nachdem der Veranstalter des Konzerts in Bremen wegen mangelnden Interesses kurzfristig abgesagt hatte, war die Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle wieder einmal der einzige Ort in Deutschland, an dem sich ein so wichtiges Musikereignis wie der Auftritt von Cpt.Beefheart abspielte. Ebenso traurig ist die Tatsache, daß selbst hier und bei einem derartigen Anlaß die Halle nicht einmal halb gefüllt war. Auf der anderen Seite aber erfreulich, denn das kleine Publikum war gut wie selten zuvor, und man konnte es dem nicht immer publikums-freundlichen Captain anmerken, daß ihm die relaxte Atmosphäre und dazu die gute Akustik der Jahrhunderthalle Freude machten.
Zuvor gab es noch eine Vorgruppe aus deutschen Landen, u. z. eine neue Zwei-Mann Blues-Formation namens Greyhounds, die auf Akustik-Gitarren traditionelle Bluesstücke von J.B. Lenoir, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson u. a. spielten. Es fehlte den beiden offensichtlich die nötige Bühnenerfahrung, sie wirkten etwas nervös und verspannt, was natürlich gerade dem Blues-Feeling nicht besonders zuträglich ist. Für meine Begriffe wurde zu sauber und glatt gespielt, die Technik stand noch mehr im Vordergrund als Emotion und Musikalität der ausführenden Person. Den freundlichen Beifall jedoch hatten sie sich voll verdient.
Es war eine ausgezeichnete Idee, eine Gruppe mit traditionellem Blues-Background dem Captain und seiner Magic Band voranzustellen. Denn was Beefheart von 10-12 Jahren (damals noch als Don Van Vliet) gemacht hat, dürfte von dieser Musik gar nicht allzu weit entfernt gewesen sein. Der kontrastierende Vergleich läßt erahnen, wie tiefgreifend die zwischenzeitlichen Veränderungen gewesen sein müssen. Beefheart hat im Laufe seiner langjährigen Fortentwicklung kompromißlos mit den elementaren Bestandteilen seiner Musik experimentiert und so die rhythmischen und harmonischen Beschränkungen, die ihm die Bluestradition auferlegte, mehr und mehr überwunden, sie dann aber wieder in einer neuen, höchst persönlichen Synthese verarbeitet. Da der Beefheart von 1972 ohne diesen "historischen" Hintergrund nur schwer verständlich ist, seien die wichtigsten Stationen seiner Metamorphose - soweit sie durch Schallplatten dokumentiert sind - hier noch einmal kurz skizziert.
1964 erscheinen die beiden ersten Singles mit gängigem R&B - Material, darunter auch Bo Diddleys Do Wah Diddy.
Auch das Debutalbum Safe As Milk und der erst im letzten Jahr veröffentlichte Mirror Man (beide 1965) basieren noch auf traditionellen Bluesformen, jedoch zeigt schon hier ein Stück wie Abba Zaba, wie artfremde Elemente in die Musik eindringen: Der kontinuierliche Rhythmus splittert auseinander, metrische Akzente werden verschoben; dazwischen schieben sich Beefhearts surrealistische Poeme, vorgetragen mit seiner schweren, kraftvollen Stimme, die immense Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten beherrscht, tiefe, kaum mehr hörbare Baßtöne (4 1/2 Oktaven soll sein Stimmumfang betragen) ebenso wie das schrille Hochziehen und Sich-Überschlagen der Stimme ins Falsett am Ende einer Phrase.
Nach Strictly Personal (1968), das von der psychedelischen Bewegung, beeinflußt ist, dann 1969 ein Meilenstein zeitgenössischer Musik, das Doppelalbum Trout Mask Repliqua [sic!], welches den beschrittenen Weg konsequent zu Ende führt und die Blues-Elemente bis zur Unerkenntlichkeit verfremdet; eine Collage-Technik, die Beefhearts Free-Ausbrüche auf Sopran/Tenorsax und Baßklarinette neben Sprech-Passagen und "Gedicht"-Rezitationen stellt, Weiterentwicklung der Stimme als ein gleichberechtigtes Instrument, das auch Perkussionsaufgaben erfüllen kann, völlige Ausschöpfung voka1er und instrumentaler Klangmöglichkeiten, rhythmische und harmonische Freiheiten, wie sie die Pop-Musik bisher nicht kannte.
1970 dann Lick My Decals Off, Baby, dessen neuerliche Hinwendung zu einfacheren Songstrukturen überraschend, aber dennoch erklärbar ist. Beefhearts Entwicklung ähnelt hier derjenigen einiger Free-Jazzer (z.B. Gato Barbieri), die nach der totalen Auflösung der von ihnen bisher verwendeten musikalischen Formen nun die Freiheit zu einer individuellen Neugestaltung der freigelegten Elemente besitzen.
Dieser Aspekt trifft noch in verstärktem Maße auf die Anfang dieses Jahres erschienene LP Spotlight Kid zu, die vor allem durch die stärkeren Rock-Akzentuierungen und die dadurch entstehende rhythmische Vereinfachung unzweifelhaft das am leichtesten zugängliche Album ist. Nach Trout Mask Repliqua scheint sich Beefhearts heutige Musik wieder zur Ausgangsposition zurückzuneigen. Und doch sind beide Phasen in keiner Weise vergleichbar. Die jahrelange Auseinandersetzung mit den elementarsten musikalischen Mitteln wie Rhythmus und Harmonie ist in Spotlight Kid integriert und verarbeitet worden. Die gemachten Erfahrungen sind zu einer neuen Musik verschmolzen, über die der englische Kritiker R. Williams mit Recht bemerkte, daß sie auch nicht annähernd von einer anderen Gruppe der Welt reproduziert werden könne.Zum Konzert! Es wurde eröffnet durch ein fünfminütiges Baß-Solo von Rockette Morton, das sich aus unglaublichen Akkordgruppen zusammensetzte, die Morton mit der ganzen Handfläche schlug. Dann der Rest der Gruppe in der Besetzung von Spotlight Kid, also auch mit Winged Eel Fingerling, von dem man erzählte, er habe nach einigen Monaten des Zusammenseins mit der Gruppe das Weite gesucht; außerdem mit einem zweiten Bassisten, der mit 99%iger Sicherheit die Ex-Mother Roy Estrada gewesen sein muß. (Beefheart nannte bei der Vorstellung der Gruppe zwar einen anderen Namen, aber das will bei ihm ja nicht viel heißen.)
Die Hereinnahme eines zweiten Basses erwies sich als entscheidender Faktor für die oben erwähnte verstärkte Hinwendung zum Rock. Estrada orientierte sich mit seinem sehr tief gestimmten Baß an Marimbas Schlagzeug und spielte relativ durchgängige, an den Grundrhythmus gebundene Baßlinien, während Rockette Morton sprunghaftes Akkord-Spiel Off-Beat-Akzente dagegensetzte.
Überhaupt waren die Zweier-Bildungen innerhalb der Gruppe nicht zu übersehen, was sogar äußerlich daran abzulesen war, daß die vier Gitarristen/Bassisten ständig ihren Platz wechselten, sich paarweise für einige Momente fixierten und dann wieder neu gruppierten. Das zweite Paar rekrutierte sich aus den Gitarristen Zoot Horn Rollo und Winged Eel Fingerling, deren Zusammen- bzw. bewußtes Gegeneinander-Spiel offensichtlich war, wenn es auch nicht mit herkömmlichen Schemata wie das Ruf-Antwort-Prinzip des Blues. Auf das dritte Paar mußte man leider verzichten, da der frühere Schlagzeuger Drumbo, der sich mit dem jetzigen Drummer Ed Marimba auf der letztjährigen US-Tournee mitreißende Schlagzeugduelle geliefert haben soll, jetzt nur noch als Roadie hinter den Verstärkertürmen tätig ist. Dadurch entfielen folglicherweise auch Marimbas Marimba- und Piano-Einlagen, die der Musik auf der Platte eine zusätzliche Dimension verleihen.
Stärker noch als Spotlight Kid erwies ihr Live-Auftritt, daß aus dem Chaos von Trout Mask Repliqua inzwischen ein organisiertes Chaos geworden ist, das zwar nicht mehr jene Freiheit und Vielfältigkeit besitzt, dafür aber in einer ganz neuen Weise reizvoll ist. Rufe aus dem Publikum nach Trout Mask Repliqua waren deshalb völlig verfehlt, da sie die vollzogene und nicht mehr aufhebbare Wandlung ignorierten. Das Repertoire umfaßte je fünf oder sechs Stücke von Spotlight Kid und Lick My Decals Off, Baby, aber selbst das zum Schluß gespielte Abba Zaba sowie My Human Gets Me Blues und Steal Softly Thru Snow (von Trout Mask Repliqua) paßten sich dem neuen Stil reibungslos an. Zu diesem neuen Stil gehörte auch, daß nur wenig Raum für Soli zur Verfügung stand; so hatte W. E. Fingerling wie auf Platte in Alice In Blunderland seine kurze Feature-Nummer, die sich aber ebenso wie die restlichen Instrumental-Soli und eine Vokal-Einlage des Captain nie allzu weit vom Grundmotiv eines Titels entfernte. Neben Mortons Baß-Solo zu Beginn war die einzige Ausnahme ein zehnminütiges Beefheart-Free-Solo auf dem Sopransax, dem der begleitende Ed Marimba auf den Drums überhaupt nichts entgegenzusetzen hatte. Allgemein ist auffallend, daß Beefhearts Saxophon-Spiel die Gruppe in eine konträre Richtung führt als beim Einsatz der Mundharmonika (z. B. in Grow Fins), die gleich Assoziationen an einen rustikalen Country-Blues erweckt. Aber gleichgültig, ob es Blues, Rock oder Free-Rock ist, Live-Auftritt oder Studio-Aufnahme, hinter der Musik steht immer eine ausgeprägte Persönlichkeit und ein genialer Musiker, und man kann nur hoffen, daß bald größeren
Kreisen von Musikfreunden die Augen geöffnet werden.
(Bernd Gockel: Cpt. Beefheart and His Magic Band zum ersten Mal in Deutschland. Sounds (Germany). June 1972)

hamza: wow, that brings back memories: Me and some friends had made the ride from Hamburg to Frankfurt (550 km) for the show in my old battered VW bus, then this show blew our minds completely, in a way "Total Music Theatre", the most impressive "concert" I've ever attended (I still have some b&w photographs from that night). I do not remember how in heaven we made the the ride back (again 550 km) that same night, but we did.
(DIME)

(696/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-05-31, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, US

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Captain Beefheart & THe Magic Band
Hollywood
California
Sometimes between end of February and end of May 1972

Not the best sounding gig but it's rare stuff. Are there more than 4 people with this tape in their collection?
Ok, after doing some sound improvement with Wavelab the sound is not so bad at all for a 1972 gig. Details like Don's whistling or his comments can now be heard. The taper was late, the first tracks of the gig are missing. As usual in 1972 you can hear some interesting improvisation at the end of the gig.
The date and the venue are a bit of a mystery. My assumption is a date in March 1972 when the band was back home from another US tour.
Theories and facts about time and place are very welcome!

Lineage: Audience>tape (unknown gen)>WAV (Wavelab)>FLAC (level 8, Trader's Little Helper)

Setlist:
01. Click Clack (5:37)
02. Grow Fins (5:34)
03. Band Intro (1:48)
04. Hobo Chang Ba (3:01)
05. I'm Gonna Booglarise You Baby (5:46)
06. Don Whistling (0:26)
07. Old Black Snake (3:33)
08. Peon (3:00)
09. Abba Zaba (3:08)
10. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:31)
11. Alice In Blunderland (6:19)
12. Don Whistling (0:09)
13. My Human Gets Me Blues (3:53)
14. Steal Softly Thru Snow (3:05)
15. Saxophone-Drums Improvisation (2:33)
16. Golden Birdies (2:16)
17. Spitball Scalped A Baby (1:24) cut

Total length: 54:03

Quality: 6,5/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, sax, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion


(330/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-10-13, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, US

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Captain Beefheart & THe Magic Band
Aragon Ballroom, Chicago
1972-10-13

Lineage: Audience>tape (unknown gen)>WAV (Wavelab)>FLAC (level 8, Trader's Little Helper)

Setlist:
01. cut Low Yo Yo Stuff (1:24)
02. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (1:38) cut
03. Clear Spot (2:57)
04. Old Black Snake (2:16)
05. Band Intro (0:28)
06. Sugar 'n Spikes (0:56) cut
07. Too Much Time (1:51)
08. Crazy Little Thing (2:45)
09. One Red Rose That I Mean (2:35)
10. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (4:51)
11. Click Clack (3:53)
12. Alice In Blunderland (4:02)
13. Circumstances (3:38)
14. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (4:34)
15. Golden Birdies (2:58)
16. Bass Solo (3:16)
17. Steal Softly Thru Snow (3:49)

Total length: 47:51

Quality: 7/10. Lots of gaps between the tracks and in the tracks carefully removed.

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Dave Bunk and Mike Fitzgerald saw Beefheart at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.
Dave: Was fortunate enough to see the Captain and band three times; the aforementioned Phoenix, at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and at a club in Minneapolis. As for the Captain - if your're listening "it's alright, God dug your dance...".
(Graham Johnston's guestbook)
Mike: We saw them in 1972. I was living in New Jersey in 1973. I remember a band Trapeze opened. Later the group Sailcat came on and did Motorcycle Mama ("We'll see the world from my Harley"). People started chanting Beefheart, Beefheart, Beefheart. A member of the Sailcat said "Come on give us a chance" but the chanting just got louder. All in all ........... a good time was had by all.

Jim Ryan listed Beefheart gigs he saw: Oct 19, 73 (must have been 1972) Aragon Ballroom Chicago w/Trapeze (Glenn Hughes) and Sailcat (Motorcycle Mama).
(Fireparty People)

Hot Scott Fisher: Friday the thirteenth, indeed it was. It was clearly a Beefheartian crowd but for a few Trapeze fans...
As we all know, Chicago is renowned for having its roots firmly planted in the blues. That, of course, makes it fertile territory for Captain Beefheart who unmistakingly got his start with the idiom (listen to his Buddha LP Safe As Milk or an obscure A&M single from the mid-sixties Frying Pan). No matter how far from its standards he journeyed in his avantgarde jazz - verbal, imagery period well expressed on Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby he never really lost touch with it, he just used it as a launching pad for widely unexplored musical regions. Now, he's returned to his original foundation, albeit more freely and loosely structured than the norm, thanks to the wildly imaginative rhythms concocted by Drumbo.
Drumbo's incredible technique shatters the boundaries of predictability abetted by the highly individualistic polyrhythmic bass and steel appendage guitar, put together as one instrument, played by the invincible Rockette Morton. The unique sounds that emanate from the glass finger slide guitar of virtuoso Zoot Horn Rollo along with the marvelous bass runs of newcomer ex-Mother Roy Estrada rounded out the current roster of the always brilliant Magic Band.
The Captain no longer blows a frenzied sax or clarinet, concentrating instead on harmonica and his Grandmamyish singing voice. He and the Magic men performed the title track from Clear Spot, as well as what's sure to become a new dance craze, The Yo Yo. Also the surreal Big Eyed Beans From Venus and several other new things never done before. Unaccompanied save by harp, he impressed with John Lee Hooker's Black Snake Blues. Zoot was allowed to exhibit his melodic charm on the only cut still done live from Decals, the exquisite One Red Rose That I Mean. The band minus the Captain demonstrated their commensurate ability on Alice In Blunderland. Unfortunately, the rare appearance of probably the most underrated band in the states was cut short by Zoot seriously cutting his slide propelling finger. But Don Van Vliet promised they'd be back so until next time there'll be plenty to remember.
(Scott Fisher: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band In The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois. Phonograph Record Magazine, April 1973)

(511/1) Captain Beefheart, 1972-10-28, Town Hall, New York, NY, US

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
New York City, Town Hall
October 28, 1972

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Don Van Vliet – harmonica, vox
Zoot Horn Rollo – guitar
Alex 'Pajama' St. Clair – guitar
Rockette Morton – bass
Orejon - bass
Ed Marimba – drums

01. Hair Pie Bake Two (Bass solo)
02. Suction Prints
03. Low Yo Yo Stuff
04. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
05. Clear Spot
06. Black Snake Moan
07. Sugar 'N' Spikes
08. Too Much Time
09. Steal Softly Through Snow
10. Crazy Little Thing
11. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
12. One Red Rose That I Mean - officially released, not included here
13. Click Clack
14. Band Intros
15. Alice In Blunderland
16. Circumstances
17. Abba Zaba
18. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
19. Golden Birdies
20. Bass Solo
21. Mirrorman

TT: 1h 02m

Unknown Audience Source > Trade CD > EAC (wav) > Audacity/Ozone 5/RX4 (editing/mastering) > CD Wave > TLH (flac, SBE)



(345/1) Captain Beefheart, 1973-02-24, (Magneticism I), Town Hall, New York, NY, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
NYC, Town Hall
February 24, 1973

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Don Van Vliet – vocals, harmonica
Zoot Horn Rollo – guitar
Alex 'Pajama' St. Clair – guitar
Rockette Morton – bass, guitar
Orejon - bass
Ed Marimba – drums

01. Suction Prints
02. Low Yo Yo Stuff
03. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
04. Abba Zaba
05. Band Intro's
06. Crazy Little Thing
07. Sugar 'N' Spikes
08. Peon
09. Bass Solo
10. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
11. Alice In Blunderland
12. King Bee
13. Mirror Man
14. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
15. Golden Birdies
16. Click Clack

TT: 1h 04m

Unknown Audience Source > Maxell XLII of Unknown Generation > Tascam CD-RW950SL > CD 1 > EAC (wav) > Audacity/Ozone 5/RX4 (editing/mastering/speed correction) > CD Wave > TLH (flac, SBE)



(231/1) Captain Beefheart, 1973-03-04, The Restaurant Interview with Gary Barclay, Vancouver, Canada

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET

1973-03-04 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Private Interview " The Restaurant Interview " with Gary Barclay.

tracks.

01. pt. 1
02. pt. 2
03. pt. 3

Total Time Approx 94 minutes

Unknown (low) Gen
Maxell XLII-S Tape > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc

Recorded in a Restaurant . . . overall the sound is great on this. As the first tracks moves along you will hear the backround chatter of other people in the place get louder . . while still being able to hear the conversation. They end up moving to a more quiet section of the place for the second half of the tape. This one is really something ! Enjoy.

thanks to Don Van Vliet & Gary Barclay.

upped at dimeadozen on August 20, 2010.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY.


(3/1) Captain Beefheart, 1973-03-09, Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, US

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Ebbets Field, Denver
1973-03-09

Lineage: AUD>tape (low gen)>Wavelab>WAV>Trader's little Helper>FLAC (level 8)

Tracklist:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (2:08)
02. Suction Prints (5:31) instrumental
03. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (4:54) instrumental
04. Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:36) instrumental
05. Abba Zaba (3:46) instrumental
06. Crazy Little Thing (2:55) instrumental
07. Sugar 'n Spikes (2:39) instrumental
08. Veteran's Day Poppy (3:50) instrumental
09. I'm A King Bee/Sugar Mama (16:55) Slim Harpo/Howlin' Wolf
10. Peon (4:41)
11. Band Intro (3:05) w/Alex Snouffer as mystery guest
12. Click Clack (7:07)
13. Alice In Blunderland (6:05)
14. Electricity (3:26) instrumental
15. Mirror Man (7:54)
16. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (4:51)
17. Golden Birdies (2:14)

Total Length: 84:37

Quality: 7.5/10. Speed and pitch corrected, sound optimized using Freefilter and compressor.

Lineup:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: blown vocals, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Alex (Pyjama) St. Claire/'Mystery Guest'/Alex Snouffer: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
Extraordinary gig in Ebbets Field Denver as band refuse to cancel gig despite Don suffering from sore throat and problems with PA. Audio survived of mostly instrumental show.
(SSTS #7)

(67/1) Captain Beefheart, 1973-04-12, Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart
Sheffield City Hall
1973-04-12

Lineage
Master Cassette (Audience) > TDK D C-90 (Sony TC161 to JVC KD21 in approximately 1979) > TEAC W865R (no Dolby) > Behringer UCA222 (USB interface) > Audacity (volume adjustment) > flac files

01 Suction Prints (7:22)
02 Mirror Man (7:15)
03 Low Yo Yo Stuff (3:36)
04 Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man (3:39)
05 Crazy Little Thing (2:55)
06 Band Introductions (4:38)
07 Sugar And Spikes (3:29)
08 Peon (2:49)
09 Abba Zaba (2:34)
10 I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby (8:15)
11 I’m A King Bee (10:57)
12 Big Eyed Beans From Venus (4:32)
13 Golden Birdies (2:20)

This recording is not complete, the short bass solo that normally precedes Suction Prints in the 1973 shows is missing.

Some background on the recording.
The master tape was lent to me in about 1979 by my friend Chris who told me his older brother had recorded the show.


(73/1) Captain Beefheart, 1973-04-24, BBC Radio by John Peel, BBC Radio, London, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET

*********** 1972 - 1987 INTERVIEWS ***********

01. 1973-04-24 BBC Radio London, England 1 by John Peel FM

02. 1972 March Radio London, England by Andy Hall FM

03. 1978 KMET Radio L.A., Calif. Dr. Demento Radio Show pt. 1 FM
04. pt. 2
05. pt. 3
06. pt. 4
07. pt. 5
08. pt. 6
09. pt. 7

10. 1980 BBC Capitol Radio London, England by Richard Hepworth pt. 1
11. pt. 2
12. pt. 3

13. 11-18-87 Radio KCRW Santa Monica, Calif. with Christina McKenna and Callers pt. 1
14. pt. 2

Total Time approx 99:14


Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

A collection of various interviews with Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet.
The Dr. Demento show is indexed at all the points where music had to be edited out.
Same goes for the 1980 London interview. This is a nice little batch of interviews.
Many topics covered. The quality varies from excellent to very good. Some of these I have 2 or 3 different sources for. These are all of the best versions that I have.

The 1987 interview is very nice. The callers really make it great. Enjoy !

Much thanks to all of the traders that I used to trade with back in the days before the interwebs. Damn, I have a lot of cassettes :) Also much thanks to all of the tapers of these programs.

upped on dimeadozen on August 15, 2010.

NEVER FOR SALE. FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY


(380/1) Captain Beefheart, 1973-05-05, University, Southampton, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
May 5th, 1973
Old Refectory, Southampton University, Southampton

Captain Beefheart to audience: Is everyone feeling all right?
Audience: Yeahhhhh!!! awright...!!!
Captain Beefheart: That's not a soulful question, that's a medical question. It's too hot in here.

Tracks:
01-Intro (0:36)
02-Mirror Man (7:20)
03-Low Yo Yo Stuff (3:36)
04-Crazy Little Thing (2:41)
05-Band Introduction 1 (2:26)
06-Tap Dance (0:24)
07-Sifter Solo (1:03)
08-Band Introduction 2 (0:31)
09-Sugar 'n Spikes (2:30)
10-I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (7:23)
11-Electricity (Poem) (0:28)
12-Electricity (8:38)
13-Peon (4:46)
14-I'm A King Bee/Sugar Mama (12:12)
15-Click Clack (cut) (1:37)
16-Alice In Blunderland (3:36)
17-Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (5:02)
18-Big Eyed Beans From Venus (4:27)
19-Golden Birdies (3:08)

Total Length: 74:24

Sound quality: 8 of 10

Personnel:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon-Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo/Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Alex (Pyjama) St. Claire/Alex Snouffer: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Lineage:
2nd gen tape->wav (using Wavelab 5.0)->flac (using FLAC frontend, level 8)

Thanks to Dave Allen, who gave me a copy of the tape, he got from the taper, his friend Jim Lush.


(390/1) Captain Beefheart, 1974-04-03, Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US

Audio/wma, ?/?, (?)

610390001f
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Whiskey-A-Go-Go
Los Angeles
California
April 3, 1974

Now I am interested to see how many of you will d/l this beast and if there will be a bootlegger again selling this gig at eBay.

Geoff Geddes: Another 'new' recording has turned up, I have a copy of a gig at The Whisky A Go-Go dated 3rd April 1974. I think this may be the first outing of the 'Tragic Band'. The recording is poor but interesting as you can here the audience getting increasingly frustrated with the music and calling for the old band members. A very valuable piece of history.

Lineage: AUD>?>CD-R>WAV (using Wavelab)>FLAC (using Trader's Little Helper, level 8)

01. Unconditionally Guaranteed (5:38) instrumental
02. Upon The My-O-My (13:50)
03. Crazy Little Thing (3:24)
04. Full Moon Hot Sun (4:40)
05. This Is The Day (6:30)
06. Sugar Bowl (3:10)
07. New Electric Ride (2:37)
08. It's Mighty Crazy (6:57) Lightnin' Slim
09. Sweet Georgia Brown (3:40) sort of Captain's Holiday
10. Peaches (7:02)

Unconditionally Guaranteed is the curious instrumental track which surfaced on several Zappa bootlegs like Metal Man Has Won His Wings or Confidential. Long time this track was attributed to Beefheart Hyde Park '74, which was defintely wrong. I was totally surprised to find it as intro to the first tragic gig.

Total length: 56:46

Quality: 7/10
Issues: the CD-R wasn't mastered very well: lots of digital defects, 2 second gaps between the tracks, 1 second gaps probably from the original tape deleting the most interesting parts, more of the reaction of the crowd. Probably the guy who mastered this one didn't like the gig.
Finally I had to normalize this transfer at low level (-6 dB) to suppress a sometimes rattling sound. But altogether a still enjoyable sound!

Line-up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica, saxophone, clarinet
Fuzzy Fuscaldo: rhythm guitar
Ty Grimes: drums
Del Simmons: tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute!
Dean Smith: lead guitar
Michael 'Bucky' Smotherman: keyboards
Paul Uhrig: bass

Comments:
Alan Saul: Sorry, shorthand for the 1974 band that the evil producer Andy DiMartino brought in when the Magic Band quit precipitously. I won't attempt to write the whole sorry history, though it is amusing. Don was mad enough about the Magic Band quitting that he was willing to put up with these guys for awhile, I suspect.
I caught them closely at the beginning when they played the Roxy for a week, and I found it was easy to walk upstairs after each set and hang out with them. Don referred to everybody in the band as Motherbaugh after the actual funny name of the bass player, if I recall correctly. The real (only) star of the group was a middle-aged Italian horn player named Del Simmons. He couldn't play Don's music, but he could entertain pretty well and was a good guy at least. The others seemed pretty much like kids looking to get high all the time.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Henry Kaiser: In 1973 I went to a gig in LA (I had spoken to Bill a couple of weeks before and planned to see him at the show) but I was completely shattered when the Bluejeans And Moonbeams new and not-so-Magic-Band came out on the stage instead of my friends.
(Henry Kaiser: Foreword to Bill Harkleroad's Lunar Notes)

Connor McKnight: There had been stories from America that presaged the dreadful music he played at the Royal Theatre (London, June 1974): a picket at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles who warned customers not to go in, and a hectoring lecture to the audience in New York after a less than sensational gig there.
(Connor McKnight: Whatever Happened To The Magic Band? ZigZag #44, August 1974)

Harald Sundt: I later saw the Los Vegas type pick-up band back Beefheart at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go after the Unconditionally Guaranteed era Magic Band broke up ... he seemed so dispirited!
Drugs are no longer an experiment ... they are a way of coping with living in Long Beach California and seeing Peace and Love become party bunnies up so many days they are varnished with funky shine, ants crawling, legs hopping, scalded by their bulging eyes. Bezidrex inhaler felt stems stirred in strong black coffee, mean so mean everywhere its a kind of grim mirth. I drive out to the Whisky-A-Go-Go, (remember Grazarri's Dancers? Black Tee sHirts bouncing boobs banned by biddys from Channel 9 on Friday Nights?). Don is playing with a Los Vegas Quality Lounge Act pick up band with great sad eyes.
At the end I shake his hand, and he says, "This Band has some magic to it!". I smile like a Doctor shaking hands with a family member leaving a hospital room so the patient can be told he's dying.
(Fire Party)



(395/1) Captain Beefheart, 1974-04-22, Captain Hook/Full Moon in Cowtown, Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

610395001f610395001b
Captain Beefheart
22 April 1974
Cowtown Ballroom
Kansas City, MO

"Captain Hook"

Total time 72:05

cdr from trade > eac > wav > flac level 6

01. Mirror Man 7:30 (some digi or FM static during intro, before music)
02. Upon The My-Oh-My 3:17
03. Crazy Little Things 5:07
04. Full Moon Hot Sun 4:21
05. Sugar Bowl 3:01
06. This Is The Day 7:58
07. Keep On Rubbing 4:56
08. Be Your Dog 7:18
09. Sweet Georgia Brown 3:45
10. Abba Zaba 3:27
11. Peaches 12:36
Filler:
12. Sam with the scalp showing flat top * 3:11
13. Grow Fins # 5:31

* recorded May 1975
# recorded 1977

from http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/albums/boots/capthook.htm :

This is the FM broadcast Cowtown show that was also booted as 'Crazy Little Things'. However it does also include a version of 'Sam with the showing scalp...' from a May 1975 Bongo Fury tour and a great 'Grow Fins' from an unknown venue in 1977. Both 'Sam' and 'Fins' sound as if they were dubbed from vinyl - 'Sam' could well be from the Los Botas Graciosas Marchan Polonia boot.

Releases:
1993 German Records 033


(395/2) Captain Beefheart, 1974-04-22, Captain Hook/Full Moon in Cowtown, Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO, US

Audio/Mp3, ?/?, (?)

610395002a610395002b
Captain Beefheart

Full Moon in Cowtown

Label: Iconography – ICON039

1 Mirror Man 7:31
2 Upon The My-O-My 3:17
3 Crazy Little Thing 5:08
4 Full Moon, Hot Sun 4:21
5 Sugar Bowl 3:01
6 This is the Day 7:58
7 Keep On Rubbing 4:59
8 Be Your Dog 7:45
9 Sweet Georgia Brown 4:44
10 Abba Zaba 3:26
11 Peaches 6:51
12 Peaches (Encore) 5:48


(118/1) Captain Beefheart, 1974-05-04, The Garage, Cambridge, MA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
May 3, 1974 Friday
Performance Center,
Cambridge, Ma. USA

Late Show 10:30pm

Audience Mono
Sony TC-55 with built in condenser mic and auto level control
Nakamichi MR-1 > Tascam DA-20 > Tascam CD-RW900
Master Cassette > DAT > CD > EAC > FLAC
Azimuth aligned; no noise reduction, processing or EQ
Total Time - 61:45
Original recording and interview by Doug Ehrlich
Transfer and encoding by Steve Hopkins

Disc One 61:45
01. tuning & intro 1:30
02. Mirror Man 6:30
03. Upon The My-O-My 3:53
04. Crazy Little Thing 4:44
05. Full Moon Hot Sun 5:22
06. Sugar Bowl 2:20
07. This Is The Day 4:58
08. Keep On Rubbin' 7:23
09. Sweet Georgia Brown 4:09
10. Sweet Georgia Brown reprise 2:01
11. Abba Zabba 3:29
12. Peaches 8:20
13. Who'll Be The Next One 7:06

Captain Beefheart - vocals, harmonica
Fuzzy Fuscaldo - guitar
Ty Grimes - drums
Del Simmons - clarinet, saxophone, oboe, flute
Dean Smith - guitar
Michael "Bucky" Smotherman - keyboards, vocals
Paul Uhrig - bass

http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=416594

----------------------------------

Post show interview with
Captain Beefheart & Producer Andy Dimartino
May 4, 1974 Saturday A.M.
Fenway Hotel,
Cambridge, Ma. USA

Disc Two 25:43
01. interview part one 10:00
02. interview part two 8:12
03. interview part three 7:31

Please do not remaster or alter and repost these files

PLEASE DO NOT BUY OR SELL THIS RECORDING
FOR FREE TRADE ONLY - SHARE THE MUSIC


(233/1) Captain Beefheart, 1974-05-04, Augie and Andy Demartino interview, Radio WMLN, Cambridge, MA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart - Interviews 1969-1978

More Beefheart interviews for you all:

-Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa 1969 11 xx STRAIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE UK 5m
-Captain Beefheart 1972 02 xx WMMR Philadelphia 14m10s
-Captain Beefheart probably 1974 05 04 WMLN Cambridge w/ Augie and Andy Demartino (24m24s)
-Captain Beefheart 1974 10 xx KHSU Humboldt State Univesity Arcata CA interview 20m*
-Captain Beefheart 1978 12 18 Houston Interview 10m15s

Thanks to mcchocchoc for date confirmations and helping decide which of the two of us had the best versions to share with you all.
Some great stuff here!

*For whatever reason, they decided to use the 15 second "beep" to indicate it was being recorded, rather annoying, seemed to annoy Don for a second too.
Interesting interview, very small radio station.
blackpage 2010-08-21


(98/1) Captain Beefheart, 1974-05-24, (The Lost Tapes)(Throw Me A Peach), HEC Paris, Jouy en Josas, France

Video/DVD, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart
Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris, France
1974-05-24

Lineage: Mpeg-2 > DVDLab Pro 2.5 > authored DVD


Setlist: (36:01)

Mirror Man
Upon The My-O-My
Full Moon, Hot Sun
Crazy Little Thing
Sweet Georgia Brown
Peaches
Take Me To Your House
You're Gonna Need Somebody


Provided by Red Dog
Authored by BONG
Thanks to hothcanada


Video: PAL 720x576 4:3
Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 2 48000Hz 224 kb/s


(521/1) Captain Beefheart, 1974-10, Humboldt State Univesity interview, Radio KHSU, Arcata, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart - Interviews 1969-1978

More Beefheart interviews for you all:

-Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa 1969 11 xx STRAIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE UK 5m
-Captain Beefheart 1972 02 xx WMMR Philadelphia 14m10s
-Captain Beefheart probably 1974 05 04 WMLN Cambridge w/ Augie and Andy Demartino (24m24s)
-Captain Beefheart 1974 10 xx KHSU Humboldt State Univesity Arcata CA interview 20m*
-Captain Beefheart 1978 12 18 Houston Interview 10m15s

Thanks to mcchocchoc for date confirmations and helping decide which of the two of us had the best versions to share with you all.
Some great stuff here!

*For whatever reason, they decided to use the 15 second "beep" to indicate it was being recorded, rather annoying, seemed to annoy Don for a second too.
Interesting interview, very small radio station.
blackpage 2010-08-21


(702/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-04-11, Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, CA, US

?/?, /, (?)

From FZ Shows:

11-Apr 1975, Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Early Show: 115 min, Aud, C+
---------- --

Here:
107:25min Aud C+

Hoosac92 (??gen) Maxell XLII 1995 tapes > Pioneer Ct939 > Avance AC97souncard
> CoolEdit retracking, level adjustments & speed correction > flac frontend level 6

Track list:

01 Intro
02 A Token Of My Extreme (With Band Presentation at the end)
03 Stinkfoot
04 Tuning & Preamble
05 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
06 Velvet Sunrise
07 Pound For A Brown
08 Sleeping In A Jar
09 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
10 Echidna's Arf (q: Don't Be Shy, Under Milkwood)(my pasting at 2:27) (tf at 3:42)
11 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
12 Advance Romance
13 Portuguese Lunar Landing
14 Debra Kadabra
15 Florentine Pogen (intermission, tf just at the end)
16 Band Return & Tuning
17 Orange Claw Hammer
18 Preamble & Tuning
19 George's Boogie
20 Crowd noise & Intro
21 I'm Not Satisfied
22 Willie The Pimp


Thanks to Flambay for speed advices

Taped by: n/a
Tapes: Hoosac92 (??gen) recorded in 1995
Transferred & edited by: kristoftof (jan 2007)

Muzikizzebest

(704/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-04-19, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, US

?/?, /, (?)

19-Apr 1975, Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ
Early show:
97:51 min, Aud, B+/B

Lineage: Aud>master tape>CDR/?>EAC>wav (CEP, retracked)>flac (Frontend with SBE correction) (468 MB)
Taped by: Grapeman (SONY TC126 with the SONY F-99S stereo unidirectional microphone)
Transferred by: Grapeman? Musigny?
Ripped & retracked by: BengoFury (from traded CDR's)


Setlist:
Improvisations
Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top
A Token Of My Extreme
Stinkfoot
I'm Not Satisfied
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Velvet Sunrise
A Pound For A Brown (incl. Mr. Green Genes)
Chunga's Revenge (incl. Crazy Little Thing)
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Willie The Pimp

== The Mothers Of Invention Apr-May 1975 ==
FZ, Denny Walley, Captain Beefheart, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio, Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Bruce Fowler.

(714/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-04-26, Alumni Hall, Providence, RI, US

?/?, /, (?)

Frank Zappa
Providence College
Providence, RI
1975 04 26

~~ Master audience recording, taped by Dan Lampinski ~~

24/96 DIME upload, speed corrected,
downsampled and dithered with Soundforge 9 to 16/44.1

Newly surfaced (DIME seeds). No alternate source/fills available.

This version: 123.02 min, AUD MC, A

Recording Equipment:
Sony TC-152SD Tape Recorder
Sony ECM-99 Stereo Microphone
Maxell cassettes

Lineage:
Master Cassette ->
Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction ->
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 ->
CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files ->
Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) ->
CDWAV (track breaks) ->
FLAC Front End (FLAC 8)
FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger (DIME seed) >
wav -> Soundforge 9: speed correction [between -30cts and 0cts],
minor volume level adjustments, minor re-tracking, re-sampled to 16bit/44.1kHz >
flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (830 MB)

No EQ'ing.

Master audience recording taped by: Dan Lampinski
Mastered and FLAC'ed by: Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)
first seed at DIME by: djscomics
re-edited for Zappateers: flambay

Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers, April - May 1975:
FZ, Denny Walley, Captain Beefheart, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio,
Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Bruce Fowler.

Setlist:

01 Improvisations [5:46]
02 Camarillo Brillo [4:29]
03 Muffin Man [1:45]
04 Stinkfoot [4:52]
05 I'm Not Satisfied [2:06]
06 Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy [10:38]
07 The Velvet Sunrise [7:36]
08 A Pound For A Brown [9:59] °°° tf/splice at 8:26
09 The Torture Never Stops [8:10]
10 Montana [12:09]
11 Improvisations (incl. Chariot, Moon Trek, q: Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top) [9:39]
12 Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (q: Straight No Chaser) [2:35]
13 Penguin In Bondage [11:41] °°° tf/splice at 11:26
14 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead [3:18]
15 Echidna's Arf [0:36]
16 Drum Solo [3:05]
17 Advance Romance [15:16]
18 encore break (tuning up) [0:31] °°° cuts in, no music missing
19 Willie The Pimp [8:43]

Total Time 123.02 min

Also included: Cover Art.tiff files and ticket scan.jpg coming with the original DIME 24 bit seed.
From original djscomics notes (with his DIME seeds):
Dan Lampinski recorded over 100 concerts in the Providence/Boston area, mostly between 1974 and 1978. His earliest recordings were made with an internal microphone deck, and though they are somewhat lo-fi compared to his later work, some very great moments in rock history were captured for posterity. In late 1974 he bought a Sony TC-152SD tape recorder, a Sony ECM-99 stereo microphone, and began using Maxell cassettes. He was also fortunate enough to have a friend who provided excellent taping seats for many shows, resulting in high quality recordings. In 1977, he switched over to a Nakamichi 550 tape recorder, two Nakamichi CM-300 microphones, and continued using Maxell cassettes.
He recorded many of the major 70's bands: Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, ELP, Kiss, Black Sabbath, The Who, Al Stewart, Alice Cooper, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen, Supertramp, Jean-Luc Ponty, Moody Blues, Neil Young, The Faces, Rush, Rick Wakeman, Kansas, as well as several "under the radar" acts.
Since Dan never traded copies of his recordings, they are all essentially uncirculated. Some copies were made for friends, but these releases are the first time most of these recordings have ever seen the light of day, and are direct from his master cassettes. No EQ'ing has been done to any of the transfers. Feel free to EQ, matrix, patch, etc and re-post if you like, just give Dan credit for the original recording.
Dan was very meticulous about taking good care of his tapes and is very pleased that these recordings will now circulate among the trading community. Please honour his kindness and generosity by sharing these recordings freely.
The transfers are available as 16bit/44.1KHz flac files suitable for CD burning, and also as 24bit/96KHz flac files for those who prefer the higher resolution.
Always remember - the more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you.

Kev & Carl
October 2010

Credits:
Thanks to Dan Lampinski for taping this show
Thanks to Carl Morstadt for transferring and mastering this recording
Thanks to Kev (djscomics) for premiere sharing this Master recording with the world via DIME

Huge thanks to the Lampinski Team (Dan, Carl and Kev) for allowing us
to share this excellent sounding recording here at Zappateers !!

Enjoy !!

-- flambay

www.zappateers.com/bb - October 2010

---------- ~~~~~

original 24 bit DIME seed (copy in Shoebox): http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=19944


(718/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-04-27, Providence College, Rhode Island, April 26th 1975, Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, US

?/?, /, (?)

Frank Zappa
19750427
Early
Music Hall,Boston,MA, US

1975 04 27 early t1 a
1975 04 27 early t1 ba

(718/2) Captain Beefheart, 1975-04-27, Providence College, Rhode Island, April 26th 1975, Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, US

?/?, /, (?)

Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers
Music Hall
Boston, MA

1975 04 27 - Late Show

~~ from Robsam's low gen tape ~~

Upgrade to current FZ Shows seed (FTA unknown gen: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3037)

Original DR-1 transfer by doctorzap (in Shoebox: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=21898)
speed corrected, tracked & drop outs fixed, for FZ Shows.

Missing parts (start of tape, around Torture tf, large FZ solo section in Willie The Pimp)
included (patched) from FTA version (same source origin, but different dubline)

Current FZshows entry:
1975 04 27 - Music Hall, Boston, MA
...
Late Show
90 min, Aud, B+
Camarillo Brillo, Muffin Man (instrumental), Let's Make The Water Turn Black, Penguin In Bondage, Debra Kadabra, Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead, Echidna's Arf, improvisations, The Torture Never Stops, Marty's Dance Song, Montana, Florentine Pogen, Willie The Pimp

This copy: 90.04 min, AUD, A-/B+

Lineage: Maxell XLII > Nakamichi DR-1 > Realtek HDAudio pentium i7 > Soundforge 10 Pro Highest quality setting Izotope 64 bit src downsampling / MBIT+dither> TLH > flac (Shoebox) >
Soundforge 9: speed correction, tracking, patching in fills from FTA copy >
flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (580 MB)

Taped by: unknown
Collected & contributed by: robsam
Transferred by: doctorzap
Edited by: flambay

Fills (additional material) taken from previous FZ Shows seed (90.17 min, AUD, B+/B) by FlyingToAdel,
same source/different dubline: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3037
Lineage: Traded cassette (generation 3 plus?)~Pioneer deck~onboard sound card~Sound Edit Pro capture to wav~normalization (nil noise reduction)~Flac Frontend level 6>
Soundforge 9: extracting patches & merging with main source
Taped: Unknown
Transferred: FlyingToAdel
Edited: FlyingToAdel, flambay

Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers, April - May 1975:

FZ, Denny Walley, Captain Beefheart, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio,
Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Bruce Fowler.

Setlist:

01 Improvisations [1:12] °°° cuts in, start missing, patch from FTA copy {0:00-0:55}
02 Camarillo Brillo [4:29]
03 Muffin Man (instrumental) [3:24]
04 Let's Make The Water Turn Black [4:03]
05 Penguin In Bondage [10:54]
06 Improvisation (Beefheart Instrumental style) [2:31]
07 Debra Kadabra [4:57]
08 Band Introductions [1:06]
09 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead [2:49]
10 Echidna's Arf [0:37]
11 George Duke Improvisations [5:10]
12 The Torture Never Stops [13:49] °°° master tf cut at 3:27 °°° FTA patch {3:24-3:28}
13 Marty's Dance Song [7:31] °°° drop out flaw - replacement patch from FTA copy {3:29-3:31}
14 Montana [9:36]
15 Florentine Pogen [7:16]
16 encore break [0:45] °°° FTA patch {0:01-0:42}
17 Willie The Pimp [9:46] °°° FTA patch {4:20-7:58}

Total Time (patched version) 90.04 min

Unpatched tracks (robsam tape source only)
in separate subfolder (179 MB):

01 Improvisations (unpatched) [0:20] °°° cuts in, start missing, flaws over first 5 secs
12 The Torture Never Stops (unpatched) [13:45] °°° master tf cut at 3:24
13 Marty's Dance Song (unpatched) [7:31] °°° drop out flaw at 3:30
16 encore break (unpatched) [0:04] °°° cut/splice at 0:01
17 Willie The Pimp (unpatched) [6:10] °°° cut/skip at 4:21

Total time (robsam copy only) 84.53 min

Note: no alternate source version avaiable at this time
to help fill the gaps left from this source (robsam/FTA versions combined)

Credits:
Many thanks to the unknown taper.
Many thanks to robsam for contributing this 1st gen tape sourced version.
Many thanks to FlyingToAdel for the fills material.

Enjoy !!

Brought to you by robsam, doctorzap and flambay

www.zappateers.com/bb - August 2011

---------- ~

previous seeds (FZ Shows & Shoebox):
(all versions originating from same source recording)

FlyingToAdel unknown gen (FZ Shows Archives): http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3037
RobSam-doctorzap unknown gen (Shoebox): http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=21898


(737/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-05-13, Kiel Opera House, Saint Louis, MO, US

?/?, /, (?)

Frank Zappa
13-May 1975
Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO

available tapes according FZshows:
100 min, Aud, B-

This copy: 94.05 min, Aud, B-
source: unknown gen cassette
Lineage:
AUD > unknown mics > cassette > (?) > cassette > Nakamichi DR-10 > Terratec
DMX6 Fire 24/96 soundcard > Adobe Audition 2.0 > WAV > FLAC Frontend encoding level 5 > WAV
> Soundforge 5: speed correction, phase offset & volume level adjustment, de-clicking, tracking, adding h-k portion > flac lvl7 w/SBA (625 MB)

show recorded by: unknown
tape transferred: WIU2B
edited by: flambay

Fills (last two tracks) kindly provided by hoosac92-Kristoftof:
source: unknown gen cassette, Aud, C/C+
lineage:
Hoosac92 (??gen) Maxell XLII 1995 tapes > Pioneer CtW 504R > Avance AC97soundcard
> CoolEdit retracking, few level adjustments > flac frontend level 7 > wav
> Soundforge 5: speed correction, merging to main body
taped by: unknown
contributed by: hoosac92
transferred by: Kristoftof
edited by: Kristoftof and flambay

== The Mothers Of Invention Apr-May 1975 ==
FZ, Denny Walley, Captain Beefheart, Tom Fowler, Terry Bozzio, Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Bruce Fowler.

Setlist:
01 Improvisations 3:51
02 Apostrophe (') 5:27
03 Stinkfoot 5:22
04 I'm Not Satisfied 2:04
05 Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy 9:10
06 The Velvet Sunrise 7:47
07 Pound For A Brown (q: Debra Kadabra) 20:38 °°° tf/cut @ 9:20
08 Sleeping In A Jar 2:07
09 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead 2:36
10 Echidna's Arf 0:36
11 The Booger Man (George Duke improvisation) 9:14
12 Advance Romance 13:54
13 Florentine Pogen 4:55 °°° source change WIU2B > H-K at 2:49 °°° cuts at end
14 Willie The Pimp 6:24

total time 94.05 min

Note:
a few minor clicks left in the H-K fill portion (only audible on headphones)

No fill available to tf/cut in Pound For A Brown,
all available versions having that same tf/cut.

credits:
thanks to the unknown taper
thanks to hoosac92-Kristoftof for the fills

A WIU2B NAK rip & a Muzikizzebest transfer

Enjoy !!!

-- WIU2B~hoosac92~Kristoftof~flambay

www.zappateers.com/bb - October 2007


(748/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-05-23, Bongo Fury In El Paso In 1975, County Coliseum, El Paso, TX, US

?/?, /, (?)

Frank Zappa

1975-05-23

County Coliseum, El Paso, TX, US

mp3

01 - Presentation
02 - Bongo Fury Initial
03 - Apostrophe (')
04 - Band Introduction
05 - Stinkfoot
06 - I'm not satisfied
07 - Carolina Hard-Core Exstacy
08 - Velvet Sunrise
09 - A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (Medley & Improvisations)
10 - FZ introduces El Paso Son Ji
11 - You're so fine
12 - Lonely lonely Nights
13 - Debra Cadabra
14 - Montana
15 - Strange Things (incl Boogie Improvisation)
16 - Advance Romance
17 - Florentine Pogen
18 - 200 Years old (Outtake)
19 - Orange Claw Hammer (Outtake)
20 - ReDuNZL (Outtake)
21 - Camarillo Brillo
22 - Muffin Man
23 - Let's make the Water turn black
24 - Willie the Pimp

(748/2) Captain Beefheart, 1975-05-23, Bongo Fury In El Paso In 1975, County Coliseum, El Paso, TX, US

?/?, /, (?)

Frank Zappa
County Coliseum
El Paso, Tx
1975 05 23

~~ From 2nd gen SBD tape ~~

This tape surfaced in 1997, when a trader got in touch with a roadie. Up until then, we hardly had anything decent sounding from the Bongo Fury tour, so this quickly became a very popular show.

FZShows entry:

1975 05 23 - County Coliseum, El Paso, TX
90 min, SBD, A

With Jimmy Carl Black on guest vocals (*)

Improvisations, Apostrophe, Stinkfoot, I'm Not Satisfied, Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy, Velvet Sunrise, A Pound For A Brown, You're So Fine*, Lonely Lonely Nights*, Debra Kadabra, Montana, improvisations (incl. The Hook, q: Hall Of The Mountain King), Advance Romance, Florentine Pogen

This version: 92:13 min, SBD, A

Lineage: 2nd gen SBD tape (Maxell XLII) > Denon DRM-800A > M-Audio Audiophile 2496 > SoundForge 9.0 (speed correction, editing, tracking) > FLAC Frontend level 7

Taped by: R. the roadie
Transferred by: Yojimbo
Edited by: Yojimbo

Setlist:
01 intro and tune-up
02 improvisations
03 Apostrophe
04 Stinkfoot
05 I'm Not Satisfied
06 Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
07 Velvet Sunrise
08 A Pound For A Brown (tape flip @ 14:09)
09 You're So Fine (w/ Jimmy Carl Black)
10 Those Lonely Lonely Nights (w/ Jimmy Carl Black)
11 Debra Kadabra
12 Montana
13 improvisations
14 Advance Romance
15 Florentine Pogen (cuts)

Samples:
This version: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=16833
BengoFury: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=16819
enggopah: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=16821

Previous seeds, in Bad Sources:
BengoFury: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1705
enggopah: http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2272

(430/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-07-15, The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US

Audio/wma, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
15 July 1975
The Roxy, Los Angeles, California

Audience Master Recording > ? > CDR > EAC Secure > FLAC Frontend (8)
59:48 minutes - Sound: Very Good (+)
Average hiss for a generational tape of this vintage...doesn't interfere with enjoying a decent performance and is mostly just noticable in the inbetween segments.

1. Moonlight On Vermont
2. Abba Zaba
3. Band Intro > Orange Claw Hammer
4. Dali's Car
5. When It Blows Its Stacks
6. My Human Gets Me Blues
7. The Blimp
8. Improvisation including Drumbo's Tap Dance - Part 1
9. Improvisation including Drumbo's Tap Dance - Part 2
10. Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones
11. Gimme Dat Harp Boy
12. Electricity
13. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
14. Sam With The Showin' Scalp Flat Top
15. Ella Guru
16. Improvisation



(440/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-10-27, Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1975-10-27
Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland

Lineage: Reel tape > Cassette -> PC -> Audacity -> TLH (SBEs, FLACs)
Taper: Mr. T
Transfer: Arcana May 2010
Quality: B+/A-, Audience
No Artwork

01. Introductions
02. Moonlight On Vermont (false start)
03. Moonlight On Vermont >
04. Abba Zaba
05. Orange Claw Hammer
06. Dali's Car >
07. When It Blows Its Stacks >
08. My Human Gets Me Blues
09. Alice in Blunderland
10. The Natchez Burning
11. Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones (tape flip)
12. Gimme Dat Harp Boy
13. Improvisation / Drumbo's Tap Dance
14. Golden Birdies >
15. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Total: 53:59 min

Captain Beefheart: voc,harm,ss
Elliot Ingber: g
Denny Walley: g
Bruce Fowler: tb ("air bass")
John French: d,g

Notes:

First concert of this European tour with Pegasus (feat. Jean-Luc Ponty).
Song titles unverified. Previously uncirculated. RIP Don Van Vliet.


Arcana, December 2010
---
NEVER SELL, TRADE FREELY!

(450/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-10-31, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND

1975-10-31

Tivoli Gardens. Copenhagen, Denmark

(Tivolis Koncertsal, København, Denmark)

01. Moonlight On Vermont
02. Abba Zaba
03. Orange Claw Hammer
04. Dali's Car
05. When It Blows It Stacks
06. My Human Gets Me Blues
07. Band Introductions
08. Alice In Blunderland
09. Natchez Burning
10. Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones
11. Improvisations
12. Drumbo's Tapdance
13. Drumbo's Tapdance ( cont'd )
14. Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
15. Electricity
16. Golden Birdies - Quack, Quack, Quack
17. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

total time approx. 62:29


the Band . . .
Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Drumbo John French drums, percussion, guitar [on: Dali's Car]
Bruce Fossil Fowler air-bass, trombone
Winged Eel Fingerling Elliot Ingber guitar, slide guitar
Feeler's Reedo / Walla Walla Denny Walley guitar, slide guitar

3rd gen aud.
Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc/jbk march 2011

Happy Halloween ! This should be an upgrade to most. It is the best copy that I have heard so far. Of course, if you have better . . . share it. A couple of things . . there is a cut within 'My Human Gets Me Blues' and there was a tape flip during 'Drumbo's Tapdance'. There are some click and pops on the latter part of the tape. That is how my tape is. I do not "clean up" recordings ( although I will correct spped issues, none here ), just simple raw transfers. Anyhow, the extra noises are not that bad at all, just mentioning it. Ok . . . .

Overall sound quality is very good. As far as 1975 Beefheart tapes go, it is one of the better sounding for sure. The first song 'Moonlight On Vermont' is a little bit rough soundwise, but everything quickly settles in and the rest of the show sounds great. The performance is pretty excellent and the vocals are loud and clear. I know many fans really like this show,largely due to Don's vocals throughout the performance. He makes it quite clear that he is not happy with the p.a. system, but despite that, he really give it his all. A very exciting listen for sure. The 'Orange Claw Hammer' here is really swell. Elliot whips out some nice licks during 'Natchex Burning', followed by a smokin' slide solo by Denny. Excellent stuff. Lots of good banter with the crowd here. Enjoy the show.

NEVER FOR SALE. FREE / TRADE ALWAYS AND ONLY. THANK YOU.

March 07, 2011


(450/2) Captain Beefheart, 1975-10-31, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark

Audio/wma, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Tivolis Koncertsal, Tivoli Gardens
København
Denmark
October 31, 1975

One of the best Beefheart gigs for your pleasure.

Lineage: AUD>Tape (unknown low gen)>WAV (using Wavelab)>FLAC (Level 8/using FLAC Frontend)
Sound improvement: lots of pops on the tape deleted by hand using Wavelab

01-Moonlight On Vermont (3:49)
02-Abba Zaba (3:32)
03-Orange Claw Hammer (4:11)
04-Dali's Car (1:24)
05-When It Blows Its Stacks (3:50)
06-My Human Gets Me Blues (2:26)
07-Band Intro (1:07)
08-Alice In Blunderland (4:37)
09-Natchez Burning (7:04)
10-Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones (4:16)
11-Improvisation (5:27)
12-Drumbo's Tapdance (4:13)
13-Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead (3:10)
14-Electricity (4:31)
15-Golden Birdies (1:41)
16-Quack Quack Quack (0:37)
16-Big Eyed Beans From Venus (5:01)

Total length: 1:00:56
Quality: 8/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Drumbo/John French: drums, percussion, guitar (on: Dali's Car)
Bruce 'Fossil' Fowler: air-bass, trombone
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla/Denny Walley: guitar, slide guitar

Comments:
Dave Lynch: Despite intermittent microphone problems and poor mixing which results on the trombone hardly being heard, this is a great show - Don's voice is at the strongest I've heard.

Dave Lynch: Formerly available on the Radar Station. A forgotten Magic Band formed from the ashes of Zappa's 'Bongo Fury' lineup. Denny Walley on scorching slide guitar, Bruce Fowler on 'Air Bass' (trombone- the 'Golden Birdies' from this tour must be heard), DRUMBO!, fun improvisation, a fantastic take on 'Natchez Burning', and Don's voice in true PA-blowing form.
(Fire Party)

Michael R. Godwin: Just listened to 'Natchez Burning' from Copenhagen. What's going on there? It really sounds as if Don is being given the bird, especially when he grumbles about the vocal level (which is already way up). Can anyone elucidate?
(Fire Party)

Graham Johnston: This show is simply astonishing, demonstrating the full raw power of the live Magic Band at its very best on a Halloween night, with the Captain seemingly intent on ripping out his vocal cords. Take a deep breath and dive in ...
(Radar Station)


(455/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-11-14, New Victoria Theatre, London, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

1975-11-14

New Victoria Theater London, England

set list

01. Moonlight On Vermont - Intros
02. Abba Zaba
03. Orange Claw Hammer
04. Dali's Car
05. When It Blows It Stacks - My Human Gets Me Blues
06. Alice In Blunderland
07. Natchez Burning
08. Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones
( Improvisation - removed due to terrible flaw )
09. Poofter's Froth Wyoming
10. Electricity
11. Golden Birdies
12. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Total Time Approx 52 minutes

the band

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Drumbo John French drums, percussion, guitar [on: Dali's Car]
Bruce Fossil Fowler air-bass, trombone
Winged Eel Fingerling Elliot Ingber guitar, slide guitar
Feeler's Reedo / Walla Walla Denny Walley guitar, slide guitar


1st or 2nd gen tape received from Taper. Not sure if it came from his master
or a back up dub.

Maxell XLII-S Tape > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc

There were two shows on this night. I have no idea as to which one this set
came from. A little bit of Moonlight On Vermont is missing at the top.
There is a flaw present about 1:45 into When It Blows It Stacks. The Improvisation
is not included because of a flaw throughout that sounded truly terrible. You can hear
a little bit of said flaw starting up toward the end of Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones.
The Improvisation would have followed that. All that aside, this is a great set and
a very nice recording ! Another upgrade for most who have a copy. Enjoy.

A big thanks to the Taper for taping and hooking me up with this copy.

upped at dimeadozen on August 26, 2010.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY. Thank you.


(465/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-11-22, Friars Club, Aylesbury, England

Audio/wma, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Friars Club, vale Hall, Civic Centre
Aylesbury
England
November 22, 1975

Sound is a rough but no defects, i would say: a good one. Beefheart fighting with the audience ("Fuck you man!") and he wins!

Lineage: AUD>Tape (unknown gen)>WAV (using Wavelab)>FLAC (Level 8/using FLAC Frontend)

01-Moonlight On Vermont (4:07)
02-Abba Zaba (3:57)
03-Orange Claw Hammer (5:16)
04-Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones (5:00)
05-Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead (3:50)
06-Dali's Car (1:52)
07-When It Blows Its Stacks (3:48)
08-My Human Gets Me Blues (2:26) cut
09-Alice In Blunderland (4:17)
10-Band Intro (1:56)
11-Natchez Burning (5:44)
12-Improvisation (6:46)
13-Drumbo's Tap Dance (2:49)
14-Electricity (6:01)
15-Golden Birdies (2:01)

Total length: 59:50

Quality: 7.5/10
Quality issues: My Human Gets Me Blues is cut probably cause of a tape change.

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Drumbo/John French: drums, percussion, guitar (on: Dali's Car)
Bruce 'Fossil' Fowler: air-bass, trombone
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla/Denny Walley: guitar, slide guitar

Comments:
Andy Bean: November 22 1975 Aylesbury Friars...my third ever gig (Hawkwind, then Knebworth...)... great. Highlight was Drumbo's tapdance, low point was the rather boistrous audience, some of whom insisted on shouting 'Captain Beefheart shags Alsatians' throughout the set! Hey, I was a young boy, I had a great time!
(Fire Party)

Steve Froy: First, we had to endure the support band 'Secret Oyster' - anyone remember them? I wish I didn't. They were the remnants of a once fairly fine Danish band 'Burnin Red Ivanhoe' but they were now a pompous prog-rock band of the most tedious kind with a keyboard player who'd obviously got some new equipment with lots of new noises he could play with and pretend to be Keith Emerson (and who needs another one of them) ...
.. but to cut to the chase ...
The last time I'd seen Don was in 1973 with that great storming Magic Band. Since then I had become somewhat disillusioned because he seemed to have lost the plot completely - by that I mean releasing the distressing albums Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams. However there had been some good news in that he was touring with the Mothers (had I heard Bongo Fury by this time ... I'm not sure?) and he had played at Knebworth (which I have to admit being at but must have been too far gone to remember any of it apart from the opening drum beats of Moonlight on Vermont and a few other snatches of songs!!). So going to see him again now was worrying me - would he be any good? ... would my faith be restored? ... who would be in the Magic Band?
When the band finally took the stage they seemed tired - which is not surprising after driving down from Scotland. It soon became apparent there was an anti-Captain element in the audience. My recollections of the first part of the gig - lazy, lack-lustre and out-of-tune - playing, are coloured by the bad atmosphere created by this small bunch of tossers. I know it was not unusual for Don to be heckled - I'm just ashamed I had to witness it. If this happened regularly I'm surprised Don didn't give up touring a lot earlier. He got so exasperated with interruptions during Orange Claw Hammer he ended up shouting "Fuck you, man" and during Beatle bones .. he stared one guy down, leant forward with microphone in one hand, pointed straight at him and beckoned him to come closer - not surprisingly Don's offer was declined. Eventually the hecklers gave up/crawled back under their stones/turned back into pumpkins and for me a cloud lifted. It seemed as if the band sensed it too because the performance took on a greater urgency and conviction.
(Having since heard a tape of the gig I was pleasantly surprised to hear just how good the music was - the first part was definitely nowhere as bad as I'd remembered.)
I remember thinking that the set list seemed odd. But maybe that was due to lack of rehearsal time - presumably Poofters Froth Wyoming was only included because most of the band knew it from the Bongo Fury tour with Zappa and the blues jam section was a filler and geared to Winged Eel Fingerling and Denny Whalley's abilities. This Magic Band was not the best by any means, although it had the great advantage of John French in his Drumbo seat. But they made a good showing of Beatle bones .., My human gets me .. and Electricity. Bruce Fowler's 'air-bass' didn't really cut it for me on the break in Abba Zabba but for the rest of the set it provided a unusual throbbing undertow.
One of the more bizarre highlights of this tour at each gig had to be Drumbo's Tap dance ... every drummer at this time was expected to do a solo - but they usually had a vast battery of drums, snares, cymbals, gongs etc etc. So it was rather incongruous when Drumbo started going to town on his very small kit. It then became hilarious as, banging his feet on the stage to create more sounds, he eventually stood up and tap danced his way around the stage accompanied by some cheesy trombone from Bruce Fowler. It had to be seen to be appreciated - the perfect antidote to the pomposity of rock drummers and drum solos.
Overall this gig was not a great one, although it had its moments. But I came away at the end reassured that Don was back on the right track again after the Tragic Band episode.
(Steve Froy: Friars Club, Vale Hall, Aylesbury: 22/11/75)


(475/1) Captain Beefheart, 1975-12-27, Winterland, San Francisco, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

December 27, 1975

Winterland, San Francisco, California.

Recorded by Matt Groening

set list

01. Introduction
02. Moonlight On Vermont
03. Abba Zaba
04. Orange Claw Hammer
05. Don addresses the audience
06. Dali's Car
07. When It Blows It Stacks
08. My Human Gets Me Blues
09. band introductions
10. Alice In Blunderland
11. improvisations
12. Electricity
13. Golden Birdies
14. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Total Time Approx 44 minutes

The Band
Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Drumbo John French drums, percussion, guitar [on: Dali's Car]
Bruce Fossil Fowler air-bass, trombone
Winged Eel Fingerling Elliot Ingber guitar, slide guitar
Feeler's Reedo / Walla Walla Denny Walley guitar, slide guitar

AUD>1ST GEN CASSETTE>TEAC W-890R>AUDACITY then Soundforge 10 to do speed & volume corrections, tracking. Flac Frontend to convert to Flac.

The below from Zapateers...this was an upload of same recording/show, but without the (key) known lineage:

Another show from the short run of gigs opening up for Frank Zappa in California,
December 1975. Holy Shit ! Wow. What can I say about this show ? It is REALLY something else. Very intense to say the least. The Orange Claw Hammer here will blow your mind.
Seriously.

The quality here is much better than I remembered ! Great. Not quite as
good of a recording as the Paramount Theater show, but very close. A must have for sure.

This tape was often traded back when we traded tapes as " New Years Eve 1975 ".
That is incorrect. Enough has been documented online by fans who were there and
by John French to give this show the location and date that I have listed here.

Many years ago John French did a series of Q&A's with fans.
Here is what John remembered about the show . . . . ( first, the question. followed
by John's answer ) . . . . .

Q - John Ellis: I have a tape from Oakland, where the audience turns en mass on Don and he begins throwing very creative insults in their face. I believe you quit after the California dates, or so I heard. I'm referring to the small California tour for what became the unreleased LP Bat... I have a tape of that Oakland date and something happened that turned the entire audience against Don, so that he started throwing insults at them like, "Trying to sing for you is like trying to turn a jar of pickle relish back into cucumbers." I wondered what he did that turned them so that they were booing every number - unique among the many tapes I have. Also, was it an outdoor gig? Sounds odd on the tape.
I wondered if that incident had anything to do with you quitting –

John French: I do recall a concert which was not in Oakland but in San Francisco at Winterland in late December of 1975 in which Don said those exact words to the audience. This was, however, before the recording of the original Bat Chain Puller.
Frank was the headliner, and some guy in the audience was flipping Don off… giving him the finger. To Frank, this was a salute and a sign of respect, to Don, it was an insult.
Don "gave the finger" to the guy in an insulting way, got right in his face and started hurtling insults to the audience. The objective of this behaviour seemed to be to intentionally provoke the audience. People were throwing objects at the stage. I was upset with Don for not just ignoring the guy and performing. Don eventually left the stage. We played Alice in Blunderland and appeased the crowd a bit, but as soon as Don came back up, they became hostile again.
Afterwards, we walked into the dressing room, which was completely dark. Don had broken out all the lights. Every light in the dressing room was broken, and there were shards of glass everywhere. He was saying "I wanted the audience to do that, man! That was exactly what I wanted them to do!" It was a very unnerving evening, but certainly not the first time Don had managed to alienate an entire crowd. He had recently behaved very similarly in Lyon, France.
[Burundi Drumbi! John French's Series Of Q&As 2000/1]

This show is very unique among all of the CB/MB tapes out there. Enjoy.

Much thanks to the taper of these shows.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY Thank you.


(57/1) Captain Beefheart, 1976, The Original Bat Chain Puller

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart
the original 1976 bat chain puller

01. Bat Chain Puller
02. Seam Crooked Sam
03. Harry Irene
04. 81 Poop Hatch
05. Flavor Bud Living
06. Brickbats
07. The Floppy Boot Stomp
08. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
09. Owed T' Alex
10. Odd Jobs
11. The Thousandth And Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole
12. Apes-Ma


(485/1) Captain Beefheart, 1976-12-05, Keystone, Berkeley, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Keystone Corner, SF, CA
04 December 1976

unknown gen cassette and audience taper->SF9 via Diamond Xtreme Audio 44/16->no adjustments, just seaming up->CDWave->FLAC->TLH (sector
boundary check)

1 Picture of Mahavishnu (mellotron solo)
2 Deserts of Time
3 Moonlight On Vermont
4 Low Yo Yo Stuff
5 I Wanna Find A Woman...
6 Electricity
7 Click Clack
8 A Carrot Is As Close...
9 Old Black Snake/intros (tape flip seamless)
10 On Tomorrow
11 Pachuco Cadaver
12 //(fade in) My Human Gets Me Blues
13 Veterans Day Poppy
14 Big Eyed Beans From Venus

notes by mcchocchoc (big thanks!!):

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

December 5, 1976
Keystone Korner, Berkeley, California
Shows at 9:30 and 11:30

the band
Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, keyboards, mellotron
Gary Jaye drums, percussion
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar
Denny Walley guitar, slide guitar

Live Guest: Harry Duncan harmonica

One of a small handful of shows performed during 1976, there were less than ten that year. John "Drumbo" French had left again and Gary Jaye was in on the drums. All of the shows in '76 were played in California and they are the only shows to feature Gary on drums. Eric and Jeff were also still pretty new to joining the band. This crew were rehearsing for about two months prior to this show, or so says Don on this tape. That seems about right considering the date. The set list is very nice here and many of the songs really come of well.

The opening keyboard solo is just great. It reminds me a bit of Eric's playing a few years later with Snakefinger. Don plays a little horn at the end of that keyboard solo and it works rather nicely. Denny Walley is always a treat to listen to and he's great all over this material, starting with some tight licks during "Moonlight On Vermont". That song also features a lil' horn blast at the end. Why did Don count to twenty-six ? Hmmm.

Later in the set Don and Harry Duncan blow some nice harp together during "Click Clack", very cool version and the tempo really cooks. The vocals overall are great here, Don is pretty much in synch most of the time. Great version of "...Big Toe". Lots of banter going on here. Don and the audience. Some funny stuff. In fact one of the more odd things heard on a tape is here . . . audience member asks " What kind of toilet paper do you use ?". Wow. Very cool and different take on "Black Snake Moan" here, Denny is playing the China Pig guitar groove and parts while Don sings Black Snake Moan. "Electricity" is really great here, very tight with some super slide playing. "On Tomorrow" is excellent and the Trout Mask songs toward the end are also played very well.This was a great line-up and it's certainly a treat to be able to hear such a clean recording of this show.

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thanks to http://www.frogseye.co.uk/setlists2.htm#keystone76 for setlist info

blackpage 2010-09-03


(842/1) Captain Beefheart, 1977-04-23, Keystone, Palo Alto, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart
1977-04-23
Keystone
Palo Alto, CA

Source: Master recording (unknown equipment/taper name withheld) -> Reel copy -> DAT (ca.1995) -> CDR

flac16 upload April 2020 by mossa to private torrent > setlist/renaming/metadata/cover/new chksums by z4e April 2020


Disc 01
01 Hair Pie Bake (Bass Solo)
02 Abba Zabba
03 I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
04 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
05 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
06 China Pig
07 Orange Claw Hammer
08 Bat Chain Puller
09 My Human Gets Me Blues
10 Owed T'Alex
11 Click Clack
12 Veteran's Day Poppy

Disc 02
13 ...When Big Joan Sets Up
14 Electricity
15 Low Yo Yo Stuff
16 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
17 Moonlight On Vermont
18 Dali's Car
19 China Pig
20 The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back
21 On Tomorrow
22 Pachuco Cadaver
23 Spitball Scalped Uh Baby
24 Click Clack


Band:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet - vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Denny Walley - Slide Guitar
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
Jeff Morris Tepper - guitar, slide-guitar
Gary Jaye - drums, percussion
Gary Duncan - harmonica

note: missing start of t13 'When Big Joan Sets Up'


(510/1) Captain Beefheart, 1977-11-03, (Magneticism I), Red Creek Inn, Rochester, NY, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and THE MAGIC BAND

November 3, 1977

Red Creek Inn, Rochester, New York

LATE SHOW

01. Crowd - Tuning - Introduction
02. Hair Pie Bake III ( Bass Solo )
03. Suction Prints
04. Low Yo Yo Stuff
05. Don Talks - Band Introductions >
06. > Band Intros Cont'd > Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
07. Electricity
08. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
09. China Pig / Hoboism
10. On Tomorrow
11. -Crowd-
12. -Crowd-Tuning-
13. Owed T' Alex ( cut/tape flip )
14. My Human Gets Me Blues
15. Veteran's Day Poppy > Outro
16. Orange Claw Hammer
17. Golden Birdies

Total Time Approx. 63 minutes

The Band . . . . . . .

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar
Denny Walley guitar, slide guitar

Also performing on the bill this night were Sunnyland Slim and
DeLyon (magician, mentalist as special guest).


( 2nd or 3rd gen cassette ) Aud Recording. Excellent sound.

Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Audacity 1.3
( for speed correction ) > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc aka JBK Feb. 2011.

Another super show here. One of my favorites. I have two sets of both the Early and Late Shows for this night. According to a notebook I kept back in the mid-90's one set was
2nd gen the other 3rd gen. For whatever reason I did not mark the actual tapes. I compared the tapes and picked what I think is the better sounding version. They ran a bit fast, so I corrected the speed. After many sessions messing around with the recording I am now very
happy with the end result. It sounds great ! A very even mix of all players and Don. The bass sounds very nice here. ( Keeping in mind that I listen to music on stereos most all of the time. Then again, I am listening to this show now on my pc as I type all this and it sounds sweet. ) Easily among the best sounding of the 1977 tapes.

This was the first tour that Robert Williams was playing drums in the band. Denny Walley is still in the band and the version of " China Pig / Hoboism " here is amazing. Among the best live performances I have heard. The way Don throws his voice all around is just crazy. This is another show in which Don is in what seems to be a very good mood. Relaxed. Also very chatty. The banter throughout is really great and often funny. When an audience member asks where is ( what happened ) to Drumbo, Don offers up an interesting answer. Don also really enjoyed the chocolate pie at this club. Hahaha. Nice.

" On Tomorrow " get cut a bit short due to an electrical malfunction.
The ending of "Owed T' Alex" is cut short due to a tape flip.

ENJOY THE SHOW.

NEVER FOR SALE. FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY.


(525/1) Captain Beefheart, 1977-11-19, Somewhere Over Paris, Grande Halle De La Villette, Paris, France

Audio/flac, Dime/SousMarin, (?)

SMJ032
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Captain Beefheart
1977-11-19
Fete Du Nouveau Populaire De Paris
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The DM's Tapes : DM007
Taper : DM
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(1977) cassette recorder
(2013) Marantz stereo cassette recorder CP230 > Realtek ALC888S
Lineage: ANA(M) > WAV(PCM 44.1Khz 16 bits) > Flac(Level 8)
-Audacity v 2.0.2
-Trader's Little Helper v 2.7.0 (Build 172)
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Lineup

Captain Beefheart
Jeff Morris Tepper
Eric Drew Feldman
Denny Walley
Harry Duncan
Robert Williams
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Tracklist

01 x
02 Low Yo Yo Stuff
03 Bat Chain Puller
04 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
05 Abba Zaba
06 Dali's Car/One Nest Rolls After Another/The Dust Blows Forward & The Dust Blows Back
07 Nowadays A Woman's Got To Hit A Man
08 Click Clack
09 Grow Fins
10 Golden Birdies
11 Electricity
12 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
13 China Pig
14 Sun Zoom Spark
15 My Human Gets Me Blues
16 Floppy Boot Stomp
17 Moonlight On Vermont
18 Carson City
19 x

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2013-05-17
posted on Zappaters by Galeans
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Le Nouvel Hippodrome (Fete Du Nouveau Populaire De Paris), Paris Sorbonne Université (1),
Paris, France

1977 11 19

This copy: 99.06 min, Aud, B+ MONO

Lineage: (1977) cassette recorder
(2013) Marantz stereo cassette recorder CP230 > Realtek ALC888S
Lineage: ANA(M) > WAV(PCM 44.1Khz 16 bits) > Flac(Level 8)
-Audacity v 2.0.2
-Trader's Little Helper v 2.7.0 (Build 172)

Taped and transferred by: sousmarin (2)

Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart): vocals, tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet
Denny Walley (Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla): guitar, slide guitar
Jeff Morris Tapper (Jeff Tapir/White Jew): guitar, slide guitar
Eric Drew Feldman (Black Jew Kitabo): bass, keyboards, synth
Robert Williams (Wait for Me): drums, percussion

Setlist:

01 Hair Pir: Bake III [02:06]
02 Suction Prints [04:22]
03 Low Yo Yo Stuff [04:40]
04 Bat Chain Puller [06:17]
05 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go [01:54]
06 Abba Zaba [03:39]
07 Dali's Car [02:50]
08 One Nest Rolls After Another [00:24]
09 The Dust Blows Forward & The Dust Blows Back [02:59]
10 Nowadays A Woman's Got To Hit A Man [04:31]
11 Click Clack [07:15]
12 Grow Fns [05:19] °°° tf at the end, no music missing
13 Golden Birdies [02:35]
14 Electricity [04:31]
15 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond [03:01]
16 China Pig [06:05]
17 Sun Zoom Spark [03:02]
18 My Human Gets Me Blues [03:32]
19 Floppy Boot Stomp [05:04]
20 Moonlight on Vermont [05:23]
21 Owed T'Alex [04:58]
22 Old Black Snake [00:58]
23 Pachuco Cadaver [04:42]

Alastair Dickson: The following year, I seem to recall that the Magic Band played Paris, either financed by or at a benefit for a French Trotskyist group ... And continuing on interesting concerts, around 77, wasn't there a double-headed Magic Band and Prime Time concert? That would have been wonderful, given that they were the only two bands to be operating a sound based on 2 guitars playing very different lines.
[alt.fan.capt-beefheart]

Alastair Dickson: On the subject of Captain Beefheart outside the English speaking world, I have this vague memory that a Magic Band circa 76 was scheduled for a concert in Paris but not the UK etc. My recollection was that this was at some kind of festival organised by a French Trotskyist party. Anyone confirm this or tell me that my memory's faulty?
[alt.fan.capt-beefheart]

Robert Williams: One of my favorite shows was the one we played in Paris on November 11th, 1977 at the Hippodrome. There were ten thousand kids under the big top that night.
[Scott McFarland: WAIT FOR ME! Robert Williams Pants Out. Private source. Early 1997]

John Gray: How did it go in Paris at the Hippodrome?
Don Van Vliet: The people were dancing to Trout Mask Replica music! I mean dancing! In France!
[John Gray: Dancing With the Captain. The Bat Chain Puller Is Flushed With Optimism. Sounds. December 12, 1977]

John Morthland: He's feeling particularly sprightly right now - just came from Paris, where he played before 10,000 at a National Socialist Party music festival, the highlight of a tour that's done quite well despite there being no new album in the stores or record label behind him. In truth, this could conceivably be his time. Earlier in his career, he was the number one weirdo for audiences that prized weird above and beyond all else. That's a lot of baggage to carry, and in more subdued times such as these, perhaps his music can be taken strictly on its own terms and viewed as the unique, vital stuff that it is.
[John Morthland: The Number One Weirdo Comes Back To Earth. Gig, February 1978]

John Orme: Don Van Vliet is a happy man. A fortnight ago he brought his new Magic Band to Paris for its European debut, and although the gig is now three days away, it is easier to whistle a dance-along selection from Trout Mask Replica than to stop him talking about the success of the concert and the band.
Don Van Vliet: This band is so good - the best I have ever had! They play with a smile. They really breathe up there when they are playing. After all this time I have finally found the band I'm looking for. It's amazing! Playing with this group is like going for a walk: they are so happy when they play. People I meet from the audience have been coming up and telling me how pleased they are that I have finally found a band that I am content with - and they are right.
The gig we played in Paris was monstrous. It was three days ago, but I haven't slept since - it was so good! And my voice, well, I can still feel that show in my voice. It hit me so hard I am down to three octaves .... I couldn't get over the way the audience was singing along with it, singing the words back at me in English - and I don't speak a word of french.
This group, I tell you, I couldn't believe that there were such nice people still around on this earth. True, they are playing what I have written, but they really are playing. This band is moving so fast that very soon I won't have to tell them anything. I really must say: this band is the best ....
[John Orme: Captain Horn-Blower. Melody Maker, December 12, 1977]

Don Van Vliet: I played a thing in France - a festival. There were ten thousand people in the rain, and me under a thing where the rain didn't hit me. I was feeling sorry for the people in the rain. Things like that are hard if you're at all feeling. I apologised at least twelve times, I probably bored everyone to tears. That's not good business. god, that was terrible. It's wonderful to see people out in the rain, but not with me under a canopy. Do you know how cold it was that night? It would freeze the fur on a
fishing pole, I'll tell you that. Contact lenses would be frightening in that kind of cold. I think it must have been at least ten below.
[Byron Coley: Captain Beefheart Pulls A Hat Out Of His Rabbit. New York Rocker #18, January 1979]

Great show with a great setlist, from one of his comeback tours, in which he proved to still be the great Captain everybody knew and loved. This is, apparently, a second source compared than the one perviously circulating. I don't know how this compares to the other source, as I don't have it, but this is from the master and sounds pretty nice. This version, anyway, apparently misses the last three songs ("Veteran's Day Poppy", "The Blimp" and "Big Eyed Beans from Venus"), which, unfortunately, I don't have.

This is a re-tracked re-seed of the recent dimeadozen seed. If you want to help seeding, rename everything as above and trash files 01, 06, 19 and the fingerprints.

Credits:
Thanks for sousmarin for taping and sharing (2)

Enjoy !!

-- Galeans

www.zappateers.com/bb - May 2013
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NOTES :
(1) Paris Sorbonne Université : why?
(2) The taper is DM (Daniel Mercurin)
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SMJ032 / DM007
v2015.04.14
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(525/2) Captain Beefheart, 1977-11-19, Somewhere Over Paris, Grande Halle De La Villette, Paris, France

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
Fête du PSU (Parti socialiste unifié)
Le Nouvel Hippodrome,
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
11/19/1977

AUD > ? > CDr > EAC > WAV > FLAC

-source first archived in 2004
-not the "sousmarin" source - this seems to be a different recording entirely, with better sound and featuring the entire show
-I believe Zappateers currently has this original source down just as "CB - 1977 11 19 Paris FR 89.23 AUD (???)"
-tape sometimes stopped between songs, only the first few notes of "Click Clack" seem to have been missed
-speed corrected (slowed 4%) in Adobe Audition, Jan 2020, now runs 93m 11s
-disc break between t13 & t14
-Don considered this show to have gone very well, being enthusiastically received by a very large crowd of French students, speaking in glowing terms to more than one publication in the days afterwards.
-note: like many CB amateur show tapes, this show has been released as a commercial bootleg which you can find on amazon and elsewhere. I'll gladly stake my uploading priveleges on the unwavering belief that this release is not legitimate!
-additional show notes & photos at http://www.beefheart.com/1977-11-paris/

anazgnos 2021

01 Hair Pie: Bake III
02 Suction Prints
03 Low Yo Yo Stuff
04 Bat Chain Puller
05 I Wanna Find A Woman That 'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
06 Abba Zaba
07 Dali's Car
08 One Nest Rolls After Another
09 The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back
10 Nowadays A Woman's Got To Hit A Man
11 Click Clack
12 Grow Fins
13 Golden Birdies
14 Electricity
15 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
16 China Pig
17 Sun Zoom Spark
18 My Human Gets Me Blues
19 Floppy Boot Stomp
20 Moonlight On Vermont
21 Carson City (Owed t'Alex)
22 Old Black Snake
23 Pachuco Cadaver
24 Veteran's Day Poppy/Band Intro
25 The Blimp
26 Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet
Denny Walley: guitar, slide guitar
Jeff Morris Tapper: guitar, slide guitar
Eric Drew Feldman: bass, keyboards, synth
Robert Williams: drums, percussion
Harry Duncan: harmonica, voice

tt: 93m 11s




(540/1) Captain Beefheart, 1977-11-26, The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US

Audio/Flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Bottom Line NYC (E) 1977-11-26

Here is the third of four shows from two nights as captured by the Grape. Two tapers were present and recently the other master source was posted here and elsewhere. This is the first digital circulation of this source as far as I know, despite it having been transferred about 8-9 years ago. The two sources sound remarkably similar but a careful comparison does reveal distinct differences. Grape and the other taper know each other and did at the time of the show.

When Grape sent his tapes to the west coast to Grner1 for archiving and digital transfer, he sent both the cassette masters and the 1st gen. reel copy of this run. We were surprised to discover that the cassettes had faded some from their original fidelity and that the reel actually sounded better. Crisper, brighter and clearer. In retrospect that was not all that surprising considering that the reel uses about four times more oxide to store the signal and was hardly played in the intervening years, if at all. So for that reason the reel was transfered rather than the master cassettes. This was not a close call and please trust that what is presented here represents the best possible version of this source.

Exact gear for capturing this is uncertain. Grape went through a number of setups during the 70s. Master cassettes were transferred shortly afterward to a TEAC 2300 r to r and Maxell UD 35-90 7" reel @ 3.75 ips 1/4 track mono.

Circa 2003 Grner1 transferred, edited and mastered audio CDs. 2012 he extracted the audio and created flacs

Tandberg 9241XD (1st gen. reel) > DigiDesign AudioMedia III soundcard > Pro Tools (normalization and tracking - No EQ or hiss reduction)(OSX) > Aiff > xACT > CDr

Grape taped - Grner1 transferred, edited - Musigny23 prepped for Zappateers (file naming and posting)

1977-11-26 early show - 73:24

(disc)(track)(timing)(title)
3 01 [2:28] Intro > Hair Pie >
3 02 [5:16] Suction Prints
3 03 [4:46] Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
3 04 [6:38] Bat Chain Puller
3 05 [4:10] Abba Zabba
3 06 [4:52] Electricity
3 07 [5:10] Floppy Boot Stomp
3 08 [1:48] Dali's Car
3 09 [6:23] China Pig
3 10 [6:43] Grow Fins
3 11 [7:05] Click Clack
3 12 [4:54] Owed T' Alex (Carson City)
3 13 [3:03] Human Gets Me Blues
3 14 [5:23] Veterans Day Poppy[Band Intros]
3 15 [4:36] Big Eyed Beans From Venus


(540/2) Captain Beefheart, 1977-11-26, The Bottom Line, New York, NY, US

Audio/Flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
THE BOTTOM LINE, NEW YORK, NY, USA
NOVEMBER 26, 1977 (LATE SHOW)
AUDIENCE RECORDING BY ANON. X

AUD>MASTER CASSETTE>1ST GEN REEL TO REEL>STAND ALONE BURNER>WAV>AUDACITY (FOR TRACKING ONLY)>FLAC

BAND:
Captain Beefheart - vocals
Denny Walley - guitars
Jeff Morris Tepper - guitars
Eric Drew Feldman - bass, keys
Robert Arthur Williams - drums
Harry Duncan - harmonica/mgt

SETLIST:
01. Bass Intro/Suction Prints 7:33
02. Low Yo Yo Stuff 5:37
03. Bat Chain Puller 7:13
04. I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Til I have To Go 3:03
05. Floppy Boot Stomp 4:54
06. A Carrot Is As Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond / China Pig 8:35
07. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 5:41
08. On Tomorrow 4:40
09. Click Clack 6:01
10. My Human Gets Me Blues 4:00
11. Veterans Day Poppy 6:49
12. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (w/false start) 6:11
13. Golden Birdies 2:18
14. The Blimp 2:34

no mp3's, no selling, YES SHARING - “Your last shirt wont have a pocket” (Lone Taper)
please no remaster/reposts - it is what it is.
“It ain’t perfect, but it ain’t bad”
Enjoy!!


(550/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-02-16, The Backdoor, San Diego, CA, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

This is a slight upgrade of the torrent found here:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=264665

It has been prepared for us by Professorgoody...here is what he did:

"This show has now been tuned, as it ran quite fast/sharp in any previous editions, and the tracks now all start with music, rather than long applauses and silences. I haven't applied any noise reduction or EQ to any of this. The music is untouched, other than the necessary pitch correction done to the whole thing to the best of my ability. That, in turn, slowed it down a bit in the process, back to where it was first performed and heard. "I believe I'm presenting this in much better condition than that in which it currently circulates."

"I wish I knew the name of the original taper and seeder for this set from when I got it in 2005 so I could thank him/her. I imagine I did at the time I got it in one of these DimeEZ incarnations. It was a very well preserved source, considering the date and probable circumstances, although not without some hiss. Perhaps they'll leave a comment and say "Hi!"

"Thanks to Cyrus who seeded the version at Dime which proceeded this, from his own traded source, but which we confirmed to be as close to identical as we could determine. I really like the teamwork and camaraderie here among the whole Dime community! So glad to be able to get another classic back out to the world in the best condition available."

Goody

So, on behalf of the good "Professor", and without further ado, here is the good "Captain".

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
February 16, 1978
Aztec Center, The Back Door, San Diego State University,
San Diego, California, USA
Goody Pitch-Corrected, Retracked Edition

First Show, audience;
Quality: very good

Liberated boot (no lineage) > cdex-wav > dBpoweramp-flac

Goody's additional lineage:

2005-07-01: Pitch fixed - was 67 cents sharp:
dBpoweramp (WAV) > Cool Edit Pro (Pitch Bender -67 cents) > Trader's Little Helper (FLAC level 8)

2009-09-01: Completely retracked:
CD Wave Editor (Split tracks) > Cool Edit Pro (Retrack, other small edits to smooth transitions) >
Trader's Little Helper (FLAC Level 8, ffp)

TT: 51:34

01 [04:07] // Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
02 [04:04] Harry Irene > Band Intros
03 [06:38] Click Clack
04 [02:05] A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
05 [02:45] The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back
06 [04:57] Floppy Boot Stomp
07 [04:36] Owed T'Alex
08 [03:12] Crazy Little Thing
09 [03:03] My Human Gets Me Blues
10 [05:14] Veteran's Day Poppy
11 [05:12] When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy
12 [05:42] Big Eyed Beans from Venus > Outro //


(560/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-02-18, Easy Teeth, The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
HUNTINGTON BEACH,CA:GOLDEN BEAR
2/18/78

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

1) Hair Pie intro
2) Electricity
3) That Song is 12 years old...it's a square dance'>Bat Chain Puller >I Love You, You Big Dummy recitation
4) Low Yo-Yo Stuff
5) I Wanna Find Me a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe til I Have to Go >Abba Zaba (cut)


(560/2) Captain Beefheart, 1978-02-18, Easy Teeth, The Golden Bear, Huntington, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

610560002a610560002b
Captain Beefheart & THe Magic Band
Golden Beach
Huntington Beach
California, USA
February 18, 1978

Needledrop of an excellent Beefheart gig culled from mint vinyl played for the first time. Audience recording of show at the Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, California, on 18 February 1978. Clear-sounding and powerful performance, excellent recording.

Lineage: Audience > 'Easy Teeth' vinyl LP > wav (Wavelab) > flac (level 8, Trader's Little Helper) > nero > flac

Setlist:
52:01
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (2:27) mistitled Flavor Bud Living
02. Suction Prints (5.12)
03. Electricity (4:54)
04. Click Clack (8:21)
05. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond (2:07)
06. Floppy Boot Stomp (4:20)
07. Bat Chain Puller (6:15)
08. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (4:52)
09. Crazy Little Thing (3:12)
10. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy (5:22)
11. Owed T'Alex (4:53)

47:43
01. I Love You, You Big Dummy (0:16) poem
02. Low Yo Yo Stuff (4:06)
03. Pachuco Cadaver (5:02)
04. Abba Zaba (4:57)
05. Grow Fins (7:43)
06. Dali's Car (1:34)
07. China Pig (8:34)
08. Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I Do (3:22)
09. Sun Zoom Spark (2:30)
10. When You Smile (0:46)
11. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (6:11)
12. Golden Birdies (2:37)

Total length: 1:39:38

Quality: 8,5/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Eric Drew 'Black Jew/Kitabo' Feldman: bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
Robert 'Wait For Me' Williams: drums, percussion
Jeff 'Tapir/White Jew' Moris Tepper: guitar, slide-guitar
Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla/Denny Walley: guitar, slide guitar
Harry Duncan: harmonica
Paul 'Eazy Teeth' Young: vocals (on: When You Smile)

Artwork included.

Comments:
Whitney Quinn: One time (late '70's?) I got a chance to meet him backstage at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, California, and Don and I spent about two hours in a wonderful one-on-one conversation, where we talked about everything BUT music. Being a professional musician myself, I'm not usually an awe-struck fan, but, punk kid that I was, I asked Don if he might autograph an LP for me. He said sure, so I went back to my car, came back with an armful and said, "Which one?" His eyes lit up, and Don signed every one, inscribed, "To Whitney - love over gold. Love, Don" and the date.
The things I remember most about seeing him and his band were the consistently tight ensemble playing, the roaringly powerful performances by Don himself, his gentle and playful interaction with his audiences and his beautiful soprano sax improvisation. That such creative energy can be physically contained in one body is astonishing.
(Whitney Quinn: Love Over Gold, Radar Station)

Richard Snyder: Side note: 'Easy Teeth' was Don's nickname for our ready-and-able road manager, Paul Young -- a man with a perpetual smile and a great organizational sense.
(Justin C. Sherill: Interview With Rick Snyder)
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/hatsizejustin.html

D. McComb: Among other things, I got to hear Don tell a heckler, in reference to Alex St. Clair-Snouffer, "I never fired a musician in my fucking life!"
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Steve Froy: This is a 2 record US bootleg with a heavy card cover featuring a black and white photograph on the front of Don wearing sunglasses and looking uncomfortable on a sofa. The labels are black spirals on a yellow background.
A reasonable quality but a bit bass-y recording of an excellent show which includes a rare (but not very successful!) outing for 'Sure Nuff'.
The crowd sound pretty stoked and Don attempts to calm them down between songs by reciting various lyrics, including 'Big Dummy' and 'China Pig'. He tries to gain their sympathy with "they put these damned lights on me and give me no water!". He also tells the Roland Kirk and ribs story.
Before 'Owed T'Alex' he explains the song's about Alex St Claire and his tendency to always blame things on his motorbike and then after 'Electricity' he says "that song is 25 years old ... it's a square dance .. that's right ... it's a dance for squares".
At one point he realises Bruce Fowler is in the audience and, amid much whooping from the audience, tries to get him to join the band on stage, vaguely asking someone "do you have a trombone?".
(Bootleg discography, Radar Station)


(855/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-10-27, The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA @ ROXY THEATRE
1978-10-27 (EARLY SHOW)

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

01. Tropical Hot Dog Night
02. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03. Owed t'Alex
04. Dropout Boogie
05. Harry Irene
06. Abba Zabba
07. Her Eyes Are A Million Blue Miles
08. Old Fart At Play
09. Well
10. Ice Rose
11. Floppy Boot Stomp
12. Moonlight On Vermont
13. You Know You're A Man
14. Bat Chain Puller
15. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy
16. Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop
17. Suction Prints


(856/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-10-31, The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

610856001a
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Old Waldorf - early show
San Francisco, CA
1978-10-31 (Tuesday)

CHTP Release 5

Recording:
Panasonic mono portable cassette recorder > Memorex MRX2 Oxide 120-minute cassette

Archival Process:
Vintage JVC cassette deck (Memorex MRX2 120-minute cassette) > 13" MacBook Air (Retina) > Audio Hijack to capture the audio in uncompressed mono aiff (768 Kbps, 16 bits) and 48000 Hz PCM.

Dime release processing:
AIFF Master Files > Audacity (minor level tweaks and cleanup; splits, export 16 bit FLAC 8) > tagging, cover artwork, checksums.

Recorded, preserved, and master AIFF files provided by: Clay Holden

This is the first time this Master tape recording has ever been shared or released.

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Setlist:
01. audience
02. Tropical Hotdog Night
03. audience
04. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man"
05. audience
06. Owed t'Alex"
07. audience
08. Drop Out Boogie
09. audience
10. Harry Irene
11. audience
12. Abba Zabba
13. audience
14. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
15. audience
16. Old Fart At Play
17. audience
18. Well
19. talking
20. Ice Rose
21. audience
22. The Floppy Boot Stomp
23. band intros
24. Moonlight On Vermont
25. audience
26. Bat Chain Puller
27. Apes-Ma
28. outro//

Length: 1:00:55

Band:
Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet (Don Glen Vliet) - vocals, various instruments
Richard Redus - slide guitar, guitar, bass
Jeff Moris Tepper - slide guitar, guitar
Eric Drew Feldman - mandolin, bass, synthesizer, keyboard bass
Bruce Fowler - trombone
Robert Williams - drums, percussion

Mary Jane Eisenberg - percussion (Tropical Hotdog Night)

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Comments (Clay Holden):

* Yeah, he had a pretty solid lineup at that time, including Bruce Fowler on trombone and Robert Wiliams on drums.

* Don responds at one point when the calls for songs repeated over and over again starts to get annoying: "We never were a push-button".

* [Between song audience chatter tracks] allows jumping to the beginning of the next song without listening to the constant ... repeated calls for specific songs by loudmouth assholes who unfortunately happened to be Beefheart fans.

* [Show is] complete except (again) for the encore, which I accidentally ... recorded over...

* I shot a roll of photos at this show, but they pretty much sucked. I did some silk-screens from one of the photos [included, and also as cover.jpg image]. I did include my cover of the 1970 Rolling Stone cover-story issue that Don signed for me at the Keystone Korner SFO show a couple of years earlier, it doesn't really go with this, but it's a really sweet souvenir.
We were only able to stay for the early show at this one (Halloween, y'know), and somehow I either missed the encore here or recorded over it...

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Notes:
* Missing the Encore.
* RIP Don Van Vliet 2010-12-17
* Beefheart fan site: http://www.beefheart.com/
* About Captain Beefheart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart#The_Magic_Band
"Don Van Vliet (/væn ˈvliːt/, born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. He conducted a rotating ensemble called the Magic Band, with whom he recorded 13 studio albums between 1964 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and the avant-garde with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, and his wide vocal range. Known for his enigmatic persona, Beefheart frequently constructed myths about his life and was known to exercise an almost dictatorial control over his supporting musicians. Although he achieved little commercial success, he sustained a cult following as a "highly significant" and "incalculable" influence on an array of new wave, punk, and experimental rock artists.
...
Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and regained critical approval through three final albums: Shiny Beast (1978), Doc at the Radar Station (1980) and Ice Cream for Crow (1982). Van Vliet made few public appearances after his retirement from music in 1982."
* Captain Beefheart in response to audience requests: "We were never push-buttons"
* About Bruce Fowler (aka Fossil):
http://www.beefheart.com/bruce-fowler/
"Bruce comes from a musical background. He’s the son of Dr William Fowler, a successful music educationalist, and his three brothers are also great musicians.
His mastery of the trombone enables him to play any type of music. As a member of the Magic Band he played ‘air bass’; that is, he substituted for a conventional string bass player by playing his trombone through an octave splitter. This was first heard as part of the short-lived Knebworth band.
After he’d left the band there was an occasion when he went to see them perform live and Don tried to get him to join them onstage, asking the audience if anyone had a trombone with them!
The nickname came from his interest in paleontology. Even on tour he would make the vehicle stop so he could jump out and chip away at an interesting piece of rock."
* About Richard Redus:
http://www.beefheart.com/richard-redus/
"Richard Redus, known as Rick, was friends with Eric Drew Feldman and Jeff Moris Tepper in Portola Junior High in Tarzana, CA and Taft High School in Woodland Hills, CA). So, it was somehow inevitable that when the Magic Band needed a new guitarist it was him that the other members of the band thought of.
He joined the Magic Band in 1978 replacing Denny Walley on guitar. He also played accordion (as Denny had also done).
He was from a ‘hippy’ background, his parents ran The Third Eye head shop on Ventura Boulevard, Encino. According to a former high school friend Rick was a bright and intense person, and quite mercurial."
* About Moris Tepper:
http://www.beefheart.com/moris-tepper/
"Moris met Don sometime in 1974 when he was still an art student. He was asked to join the Magic Band on guitar in 1976 and went straight into recording ‘Bat Chain Puller’ (which has yet to be legitimately released). He then stayed in the band until 1982 (working with four different second guitarist) which makes him one of the longest serving (without a break) Magic Band members.
Since the demise of the Magic Band Moris Tepper has divided his time between music and painting. Apart from working in the studio and on stage with Tom Waits and Frank Black he has found time to release some albums and play live under his own name."
* About Eric Drew Feldman aka Black Jew Kitabu:
http://www.beefheart.com/eric-drew-feldman/
"As a young teenager Feldman had visited the Magic Band at the ‘Trout’ house in Woodlands Hills. In 1976 he was to join the band to play keyboards, accordion and bass after Don had sacked John Thomas for playing on the second Mallard album.
After the demise of the Magic Band Feldman has been in demand as a sideman and as a producer, playing with Pere Ubu, Snakefinger, Polly Harvey to name only a few."
* About Robert Wlliams:
http://www.beefheart.com/robert-williams-needs-your-help/
"Robert Williams, the Beefheart drummer from 1977 to 1981"
* More about Robert Williams:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(drummer)
"Robert Williams (born 1955 in Boston) is a drummer and solo artist who has worked with Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, John Lydon, the Spo-it's, Tex and the Horseheads, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Zoogz Rift and performed on recordings for the Peewee Herman Show original cast recording. "
* About Mary Jane Eisenberg:
http://www.beefheart.com/answers-to-opaque-questions-that-would-bug-most-people/
"Mary Jane Eisenberg famously shook bouquet and danced at Beefheart’s My Father’s Place concert on 18 th November 1978. At the Rhino website there is a photograph of her on stage with Don, curlers in her hair and a red telephone in her hand. Don was a big fan of hers and there is a photograph online showing Don at one of her other performances. Mary Jane Eisenberg went on to perform with Bette Midler and later formed her own dance company."

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About Clay Holden:
Clay was an avid photographer of the scene during this era. Some of his photos were published in RE/Search publications and ZigZag magazine. Bands he photographed range from Throbbing Gristle (who included one of his photos as a band poster in '20 Jazz-Funk Greats'), to Cabaret Voltaire to Nico to The Sleepers.

He also took many photos of the Ramones, including one Dee Dee kept on his wall the rest of his life, and which Dee Dee's wife Vera King used as the back-cover to her bio "Poisoned Heart". Joey Ramone said about Clay's photos: "These are like the best pictures of us I've ever seen. It totally looks like World War II!"

Additionally, he took many photos of Tex & The Horseheads, Mark Pauline & SRL shows, Factrix jamming with Cabaret Voltaire on Halloween, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lou Reed, Lita Ford, Twisted Sister (good lord!), Half Church, The Start (nee The Roommates) and even a post-Sleepers/pre-Sleepers Sleepers line-up with Roz from Negative Trend on vocals (while Ricky was singing with Flipper).

Wherever possible his photos, with his permission, are also used in these releases.

He recorded a variety of shows from this era using a remarkably effective Panasonic $65 portable mono cassette recorder.

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No distribution in lossy formats!!
No selling!!
No bootlegging!!
Yes sharing. Definitely share.

All photos: © 1978 Clay Holden, with permission granted for NON-COMMERCIAL sharing here.
All photos are distributed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (share, noncommercial use, no-derivative works) license:
Plain text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Legal: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Please correct any errors or oversights in this information in the comments section so the information can be as accurate as possible.

If you can find related materials like flyers, posters, ticket stubs, etc, please add them in a comment and I will add them to the main release folder, so that can be included on the next re-seeding. Every bit is welcome.

Please make an effort to pick at least one of these CHTP releases and keep it seeded for as long as you can. That will really help out long term.

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* About Old Waldorf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Waldorf
"Old Waldorf was a music venue located in San Francisco, California. The famous club was located at 444 Battery St, and was originally opened by Jeffrey Pollack in 1976 before selling it to Bill Graham who closed it in 1983. During its time Old Waldorf hosted some of the biggest names in the music industry, such as AC/DC, Dire Straits, Blue Öyster Cult, Iggy Pop, Blondie, Rory Gallagher, Metallica, Pat Benatar, R.E.M., Spirit, Poco, U2 and Dead Kennedys.
The Punch Line comedy club now occupies part of Old Waldorf's location.".
Note: 444 Battery Street (at Washington St.) is about 6 blocks from the location of the Mabuhay Gardens (at Broadway & Montgomery/Kearny), which was in a much seedier part of town (The Famous Carol Doda Condor Strip bar was right by the Fab Mab, on the corner of Broadway and Columbus). But the Old Waldorf was situated right in the heart of the downtown business district, which tended to be completely empty at night after the business crowd had left, so these two venues were very different in feel.


(590/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-11-28, (Magneticism II), The Great South East Music Hall & Emporium, Atlanta, GA, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1978-11-28 EARLY SHOW

The Great Southeast Music Hall

Atlanta, GA.

01. Band Introduction
02. Tropical Hot Dog Night
03. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
04. Owed T' Alex
05. Dropout Boogie
06. Harry Irene
07. Abba Zaba
08. Deserts Of Time
09. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
10. Old Fart At Play
11. The Dust Blows Forward N' The Dust Blows Back
12. Ice Rose
13. Moonlight On Vermont
14. Smithsonian Institute Blues ( or The Big Dig )
15. Crowd and Don
16. Bat Chain Puller
17. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy
18. Veteran's Day Poppy - Outro
19. Hair Pie ( Bass Solo )
20. Crowd
21. Suction Prints

Total time approx. 67min 43sec

THE BAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica, whistling
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, mandolin
Bruce Fowler trombone, air-bas
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Redus guitar, slide guitar, slide bass, accordion
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

( 2nd gen cassette ) Aud Recording. Great sound !

Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Audacity 1.3
( for speed correction ) > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc aka JBK Feb. 2011.

As all of my shares are, these tapes are sourced from my collection. I believe that this will be an upgrade to most who have it. As great as these shows sound, my copies ran very,
very slow. They now sound like they should !

The first of two shows performed on this night. Both sound very nice/excellent. The second one sounding slightly better. Both sets are really great. The crowd is very into the music and are largely quiet during the performance, which makes for some amazing live "fade-outs" . . . in fact, check out the end of "Owed T' Alex" here . . . WOW ! Needless to say, Bruce Fowler is incredible. The Air-Bass is super !

After Don recites " The Dust Blows Forward . ." he tells the crowd how great they are because of the fact that they stayed quiet during the piece for him. ( The version of " Well " from the second show is crazy amazing and again Don lets the crowd know that he thinks they are wonderful. ) HEADS UP . . the "Bass Solo" at the begining of the encore is a little bit loud, seems the taper hit record at the last second. It will not mess up your speakers or whatever, but it is a bit of a jolt ;) ( very thick bass sound ! ).

As with any show in which Don is comfortable, he really lets loose. I think these shows fall into that category. Enjoy.

As always, much thanks to the Taper of these excellent shows and much thanks to all my old trading pals from many years ago.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY

shared at dimeadozen on Feb. 18, 2011.


(246/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-12-03, Dr Demento interview, KMET Radio, Los Angeles, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET

*********** 1972 - 1987 INTERVIEWS ***********

01. 1973-04-24 BBC Radio London, England 1 by John Peel FM

02. 1972 March Radio London, England by Andy Hall FM

03. 1978 KMET Radio L.A., Calif. Dr. Demento Radio Show pt. 1 FM
04. pt. 2
05. pt. 3
06. pt. 4
07. pt. 5
08. pt. 6
09. pt. 7

10. 1980 BBC Capitol Radio London, England by Richard Hepworth pt. 1
11. pt. 2
12. pt. 3

13. 11-18-87 Radio KCRW Santa Monica, Calif. with Christina McKenna and Callers pt. 1
14. pt. 2

Total Time approx 99:14


Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

A collection of various interviews with Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet.
The Dr. Demento show is indexed at all the points where music had to be edited out.
Same goes for the 1980 London interview. This is a nice little batch of interviews.
Many topics covered. The quality varies from excellent to very good. Some of these I have 2 or 3 different sources for. These are all of the best versions that I have.

The 1987 interview is very nice. The callers really make it great. Enjoy !

Much thanks to all of the traders that I used to trade with back in the days before the interwebs. Damn, I have a lot of cassettes :) Also much thanks to all of the tapers of these programs.

upped on dimeadozen on August 15, 2010.

NEVER FOR SALE. FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY


(244/1) Captain Beefheart, 1978-12-18, Interview, Houston

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart - Interviews 1969-1978

More Beefheart interviews for you all:

-Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa 1969 11 xx STRAIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE UK 5m
-Captain Beefheart 1972 02 xx WMMR Philadelphia 14m10s
-Captain Beefheart probably 1974 05 04 WMLN Cambridge w/ Augie and Andy Demartino (24m24s)
-Captain Beefheart 1974 10 xx KHSU Humboldt State Univesity Arcata CA interview 20m*
-Captain Beefheart 1978 12 18 Houston Interview 10m15s

Thanks to mcchocchoc for date confirmations and helping decide which of the two of us had the best versions to share with you all.
Some great stuff here!

*For whatever reason, they decided to use the 15 second "beep" to indicate it was being recorded, rather annoying, seemed to annoy Don for a second too.
Interesting interview, very small radio station.
blackpage 2010-08-21


(251/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980, David Hepworth interview, BBC Capitol Radio, London, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET

*********** 1972 - 1987 INTERVIEWS ***********

01. 1973-04-24 BBC Radio London, England 1 by John Peel FM

02. 1972 March Radio London, England by Andy Hall FM

03. 1978 KMET Radio L.A., Calif. Dr. Demento Radio Show pt. 1 FM
04. pt. 2
05. pt. 3
06. pt. 4
07. pt. 5
08. pt. 6
09. pt. 7

10. 1980 BBC Capitol Radio London, England by Richard Hepworth pt. 1
11. pt. 2
12. pt. 3

13. 11-18-87 Radio KCRW Santa Monica, Calif. with Christina McKenna and Callers pt. 1
14. pt. 2

Total Time approx 99:14


Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

A collection of various interviews with Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet.
The Dr. Demento show is indexed at all the points where music had to be edited out.
Same goes for the 1980 London interview. This is a nice little batch of interviews.
Many topics covered. The quality varies from excellent to very good. Some of these I have 2 or 3 different sources for. These are all of the best versions that I have.

The 1987 interview is very nice. The callers really make it great. Enjoy !

Much thanks to all of the traders that I used to trade with back in the days before the interwebs. Damn, I have a lot of cassettes :) Also much thanks to all of the tapers of these programs.

upped on dimeadozen on August 15, 2010.

NEVER FOR SALE. FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY


(615/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-10-30, The Apollo Theatre, Manchester, England

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Manchester, Apollo Theater
October 30, 1980

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Don Van Vliet - vocals, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, synthesizer
Richard Snyder - guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar
Robert Williams - drums, percussion

01. Bass Solo
02. Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man
03. Abba Zaba
04. Hot Head
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Dirty Blue Gene
07. Best Batch Yet
08. Band Intro's
09. Safe As Milk
10. Flavor Bud Livin'
11. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
12. One Red Rose That I Mean
13. One Man Sentence
14. Doctor Dark
15. Bat Chain Puller
16. My Human Gets Me Blues
17. Sugar 'N' Spikes
18. Veteran’s Day Poppy (cut)
19. Dropout Boogie
20. Sheriff of Hong Kong
21. Kandy Korn
22. Suction Prints
23. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

TT: 1h 25m

Unknown Audience Source > Maxell XLII of Unknown Generation > Sony TC-WE435 > Tascam CD-RW950SL > CD 1 > EAC (wav) > Audacity/Ozone 5/RX4 (editing/mastering) > CD Wave > TLH (flac, SBE)


(620/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-11-01, Amsterdam 80, The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Audio/mp3, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart

1980-11-01
Amsterdam, live at the paradiso, The Netherlands


mp3

01. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
02. Abba Zaba
03. Hot Head
04. Ashtray Heart
05. Dirty Blue Gene
06. Best Batch Yet
07. Safe As Milk
08. Flavor Bud Living
09. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
10. One Red Rose That I Mean
11. One Man Sentence
12. Doctor Dark
13. Bat Chain Puller
14. My Human Gets Me Blues
15. Sugar 'n' Spikes
16. Veteran's Day Poppy
17. Dropout Boogie
18. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
19. Kandy Korn
20. Suction Prints
21. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

(622/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-11-05, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1980-11-05 Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium

tracks:

01. Apes-Ma
02. Hair Pie (Bass Solo)
03. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
04. Abba Zaba
05. Hot Head
06. Ashtray Heart
07. Band Intorductions
08. Dirty Blue Gene
09. Best Batch Yet
10. Safe As Milk
11. Flavor Bud Living
12. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
13. One Red Rose That I Mean
14. POEM Untitled
15. Doctor Dark
16. Bat Chain Puller
17. Old Fart At Play
18. My Human Gets Me Blues
19. Sugar 'N Spikes
20. Veteran's Day Poppy
21. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
22. Kandy Korn
23. Suction Prints

total time: 01:26:22

Low Gen Maxell XLIIS > ONKYO TA W460 Cass Deck > harman/kardon standalone burner > cd > EAC > .wav > cd wave for trk splitting > tlh flac level8 > you

tape and transfer: mcchocchoc june 2014

Line-Up:

Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman: bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Williams: drums, percussion
Richard Snyder: guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles]
Jeff Moris Tepper: guitar, slide-guitar
Live Guest: Gary Lucas national steel dualion [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, Flavor Bud Living], bass [November 14, 1980]

notes:

One of the better sounding aud tapes from the European Leg of the 1980/81 Tour. A bit of hiss and the room sounds a bit boomy (as Don mentions a few times). Despite those issues this tape sounds nice! There are a few flaws, nothing major. During trks 13 & 14 there is a bit of "noise" in the right channel. Apes Ma cuts in and is missing a little bit of the top. Sugar 'N Spikes cuts in, but it sounds like all of the music is there. There was a tape flip after Untitled, but no music is missing! Enjoy.

A big thanks to all of my old snail mail trader friends and the person who recorded this!

NEVER FOR SALE. FREE/TRADE ONLY & ALWAYS. THANK YOU.

seeded at dimeadozen on june 26, 2014.


(625/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-11-07, Chorus, Théâtre De L Empire, Paris, France

Video/mp4, ?/?, (?)

610625001a
Chorus
Théatre De L’Empire, Paris
7 November 1980.

Track list

Nowadays
A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man
Best Batch Yet
Dirty Blue Gene
Safe As Milk
Flavor Bud Living
Bat Chain Puller
Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Band members

Don Van Vliet
Eric Drew Feldman
Rick Snyder
Jeff Moris Tepper
Gary Lucas
Robert Williams


(630/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-11-09, (Magneticism I), Elysée Montmartre, Paris, France

Audio/flac, Dime/SousMarin, (?)

SMJ035
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
1980-11-09
Elysee Montmartre, Paris, France
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The DM's Tapes : DM010
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(1980) cassette recorder
(2013) Marantz stereo cassette recorder CP230 > Realtek ALC888S
Lineage: ANA(M) > WAV(PCM 44.1Khz 16 bits) > Flac(Level 8)
-Audacity v 2.0.2
-Trader's Little Helper v 2.7.0 (Build 172)
----------
Lineup

Don Van Vliet : vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Eric Drew Feldman : bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Williams : drums, percussion
Richard Snyder : guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper : guitar, slide-guitar
Gary Lucas : guitar, voice

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Tracklist

01 Apes Ma
02 Hair Pie Bake III
03 Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
04 Abba Zaba
05 Hot Head
06 Ashtray Heart
07 Dirty Blue Gene
08 Best Batch Yet
09 Band Introductions
10 Safe As Milk
11 Flavor Bud Living
12 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
13 One Red Rose That I Mean
14 One Man Sentence
15 Doctor Dark
16 Bat Chain Puller
17 Old Fart At Play
18 My Human Gets Me Blues
19 Sugar'N Spikes
20 Veteran's Day Poppy

21 Suction Prints
22 Sheriff Of Hong Kong
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SMJ035 / DM010
v2013.12.11
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(637/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-11-12, The Venue, London, England

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

1980-11-12

The Venue, London, England

set list

01. Hair Pie Bake III
02. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03. Abba Zaba
04. Hot Head
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Dirty Blue Gene
07. Best Batch Yet
08. Band Introductions
09. Safe As Milk
10. Flavour Bud Living
11. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
12. One Red Rose That I Mean
13. Untitled
14. Doctor Dark
15. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
16. Suctions Prints

total time approx 60:30

the band
Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Snyder guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles]
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

Live Guest: Gary Lucas national steel dualion [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, Flavor Bud Living], bass [November 14, 1980]

1st gen
Maxell XLII > Sony TC-WE805S > CD-R > PC > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc

A good show from fairly early into the first leg of the 1980/81 Tour. Very cool vocals on " Safe As Milk ", pretty intense actually. Cool little horn solo during the last part of " Sheriff Of Hong Kong ". Hot Head is a bit "off" here and has a different feel that most other versions performed on this tour. Enjoy.

upped at dimeadozen on September 06, 2010.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS AND ONLY. Thank you.
----------
This show was part of the group's "Doc At The Radar Station" Promo Tour in Europe. Posted here by mcchocchoc in Sept. '10. zappateers labels this as: CB 1980 11 12 London 60.30 AUD 1st (mcchocchoc)

I recommend this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011225051149/ http://www.beefheart.de/perf80c.html#801100CapitalRadio

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
The Venue (Virgin Records' night club)
London, England (UK)
November 12, 1980

Source: Audience recording > ? > Maxell XLII > Sony TC-WE805S > CD-R > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC (level 8). Transfer by mcchocchoc.

CD 1:
01. Hair Pie Bake III
02. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03. Abba Zaba
04. Hot Head
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Dirty Blue Gene
07. Best Batch Yet
08. Band Introductions
09. Safe As Milk
10. Flavour Bud Living
11. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
12. One Red Rose That I Mean
13. Untitled
14. Doctor Dark
15. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
16. Suctions Prints

Total time = 60:28

Personnel:
Don Van Vliet - vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert (or Robin) Williams - drums, percussion
Richard Snyder - guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles]
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar, slide-guitar

Guest: Gary Lucas - national steel dualion [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, Flavor Bud Living], bass [November 14, 1980]

(Comments by mcchocchoc in Sept. '10 posting): "A good show from fairly early into the first leg of the 1980/81 Tour. Very cool vocals on 'Safe As Milk,' pretty intense actually. Cool little horn solo during the last part of 'Sheriff Of Hong Kong.' Hot Head is a bit off here and has a different feel that most other versions performed on this tour. Enjoy."








(645/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-11-15, Loughborough University, Loughborough, England

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

1980-11-15

Student Union Bar, Loughborough University.
Loughborough, England.

01. Hair Pie Bake III ( Bass Solo )
02. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03. Abba Zaba
04. Hot Head
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Dirty Blue Gene
07. Best Batch Yet
08. Safe As Milk
09. Flavor Bud Living
10. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
11. One Red Rose That I Mean
12. Untitled
13. / / Doctor Dark
14. Bat Chain Puller
15. Band Introductions
16. Old Fart At Play
17. My Human Gets Me Blues
18. Sugar N' Spikes
19. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
20. Suction Prints
21. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

total time approx. 81 minutes

1st gen. aud. cassette.

Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer by mcchocchoc. Another from the Archives here. Excellent sound.

The Band . . .

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Snyder guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles]
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

Live Guest: Gary Lucas national steel dualion [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, Flavor Bud Living]

The top of Doctor Dark is cut due to a tape flip. According to the old database, there were two shows on this date. This is the only recording I have in the collection. On my cassette it is not note if this is either a late or early show.

I also decided to add an extra to this torrent/share. Included is a text file of an email "interview" I did with Richard Snyder back during some point in 1997 or 1998. It has never been on posted any websites or anywhere else, only a few friends have read it. It is pretty neat. Enjoy !

Here are some quotes from the old database about this show . . . ( thanks D. for all of your hard work ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

----------
Dave Lang: I have to agree that live was the best experience, if only because of the tremendous personalities of the various magic band members, the whole band oozed charisma and the cap'n especially. I also agree that the Jeff Morris Tepper band kicked ass, I thoroughly enjoyed the 1980 show I saw at Loughborough, tremendous playing.
[FireParty]

Geoff Geddes: By 1980 technology had moved on and the Loughborough tape is of excellent audience tape quality (B+?), the good atmosphere at this show is evident and the nature of the small Loughborough Student Union Bar make the music sound loud and effective. Audience noise is limited to people pushing through to the bar at the back of the room 'scuse me, scuse me' etc. You can also hear our discussions between numbers but these could easily be edited out.
The audience was split between Beefheart fans who had come from all over the East Midlands to see their man and the regular student union crowd who would turn up on any Saturday night to drink at the bar and 'listen' to who ever happened to be playing. Even in 1980 there must of been a ten to twenty year age gap between the two halves of the audience. Being students they have tendency to show off and offer scant regard to any act that happened to be on. However it is wonderful to hear how the Captain won over this audience, helped by the glowers and threatening looks of the true fans who did not want some nerdy young students wrecking the set. The Captain was treated with due respect and given a rousing greeting when he came on stage, you can here him remark "Better than London". The students were a bit bemused by the poetry, this was not exactly ZZ Top and they found it difficult to concentrate, note the shout of "Who shot JR?" during the reading, an interesting contemporary reference since the Dallas Series was the big TV talking point in the UK at this time.
The music is wonderful, full of energy and invention. Sugar 'n Spikes is outstanding, I think it is my favorite version of this number. At the time I thought it not as good as previous gigs I had been to but this was just the jaded view of a long time fan still missing Rocket Morton and the old Magic Band. With the passing of the years the tape now sounds just fine to me. ----------

( yep . . the tape sounds fine ! ). Enjoy.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY. THANK YOU

shared at dimeadozen on Feb. 21, 2011.


(665/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-12-02, The Bayou, Washington, DC, US

Audio/Flac, ?/?, (?)

610665001a610665001b
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

1980-12-02

Bayou Club, Washington, D.C.

Two Sets/Shows

set lists / track listing

first show

01. crowd noise
02. Bass Solo Intro ( Hair Pie Bake III )
03. The Captain is welcomed by the crowd
04. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
05. Hot Head
06. Ashtray Heart
07. Dirty Blue Gene
08. Best Batch Yet
09. The Captain introduces The Magic Band
10. Doctor Dark
11. My Human Gets Me Blues
12. The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back
13. Bat Chain Puller
14. A Carrot Is As CLose As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
15. One Red Rose That I Mean
16. Sugar 'N Spikes
17. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
18. Suction Prints

total time approx 70:40

second show

01. crowd noise
02. Bass Solo Intro ( Hair Pie Bake III )
03. The Captain is welcomed by the crowd
04. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
05. Abba Zaba
06. Hot Head
07. Ashtray Heart
08. crowd requests
09. Hobo Chang Ba
10. Dirty Blue Gene
11. A Carrot Is As CLose As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
12. One Red Rose That I Mean
13. Smithsonian Institue Blues ( or The Big Dig )
14. crowd & The Captain
15. Bat Chain Puller
16. Safe As Milk
17. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
18. Kandy Korn
19. more crowd requests
20. Suction Prints
21. The Captain introduces The Magic Band
22. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
23. final thoughts from The Captain

total time approx 70:56

The Band . . . .

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Snyder guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

*************************************************************************************
Taper's notes . . .

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band live at The Bayou, Georgetown, Washington DC, December 2, 1980. Recorded from the front center of the balcony with a mono Sony TC-150 (built-in microphone with ALC) on standard bias Maxell 90 minute cassettes.

A tape flip in first set clipped the beginning of "A Carrot is...". Tape flips in the second set clipped the end of Ashtray Heart and resulted in the loss of several seconds of music in "Big Eyed Beans From Venus" prior to the long lunar note. Otherwise complete, with no use of the pause button.

The FLAC files were made from WAV files that were in turn made from the master tapes several years ago. The WAV files were originally compressed for archiving via APE, a non-lossy compression format that is no longer widely used. The APE files were recently decompressed back to WAV, and the WAV files were then converted to FLAC.

Do not sell. For free sharing only.
**************************************************************************************
Flac Files ( DVD ) > pc > dimeadozen.

Incredible upgrade. Excellent sound. THANKS TO THE TAPER FOR EVERYTHING.

upped at dimeadozen on Sept. 01, 2010

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE / SHARE Always & Only. Thank you.
**************************************************************************************
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band live at The Bayou, Georgetown, Washington DC, December 2, 1980. Recorded from the front center of the balcony with a mono Sony TC-150 (built-in microphone with ALC) on standard bias Maxell 90 minute cassettes.

A tape flip in first set clipped the beginning of "A Carrot is...". Tape flips in the second set clipped the end of Ashtray Heart and resulted in the loss of several seconds of music in "Big Eyed Beans From Venus" prior to the long lunar note. Otherwise complete, with no use of the pause button.

The FLAC files were made from WAV files that were in turn made from the master tapes several years ago. The WAV files were originally compressed for archiving via APE, a non-lossy compression format that is no longer widely used. The APE files were recently decompressed back to WAV, and the WAV files were then converted to FLAC.

Do not sell. For free sharing only.


(670/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-12-03, My Father S Place, Roslyn, NY, US

Audio/Flac, ?/?, (?)

610670001a
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Long Island, My Father's Place
December 3, 1980

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Don Van Vliet - vocals, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, synthesizer
Richard Snyder - guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar
Robert Williams - drums, percussion

Soundcheck:
01. Talking and Cymbals
02. My Human Gets Me Blues
03. Suction Prints
04. My Human Gets Me Blues

Concert:
05. Bass Solo
06. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
07. Abba Zaba
08. Hot Head
09. Ashtray Heart
10. Dirty Blue Gene
11. Best Batch Yet
12. Safe As Milk
13. Flavor Bud Living
14. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million
15. One Red Rose That I Mean
16. Doctor Dark
17. Bat Chain Puller
18. Sugar 'N' Spikes
19. Sheriff Of Hong Kong (cut)

Missing Two Songs:
Suction Prints
Big-Eyed Beans From Venus

TT: 1h 18m

Unknown Audience Source > Maxell XLII of Unknown Generation > Sony TC-WE435 > Tascam CD-RW950SL > CD 1 > EAC (wav) > Audacity/Ozone 5/RX4 (editing/mastering) > CD Wave > TLH (flac, SBE)


(678/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-12-10, The Dark Footage, Mudd Club, New York, NY, US

Video/DVD, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart
December 10, 1980
Mudd Club
New York City

Source: audience master > 2cd gen NTSC VHS
Lineage: VHS(2) > SA (XP) > DVD > PC (audio re-master, re-author) > DVD

tape & transfer: BC-hothcanada
audio re-mastered by: S.T.O.H. Productions
Zappateers intro: unicrayon
authoring: voltarized

NTSC DVD, menus with chapter selection
Length: 35:05
Video: MPEG-2 8000Kb/s
Audio: LPCM 1536Kb/s

Setlist:
Bass Solo
Best Batch Yet
Dirty Blue Gene
Sugar 'n' Spikes
Ashtray Heart
Doctor Dark
Sheriff Of Hong Kong
Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee
Suction Prints
Big Eyed Beans From Venus


(678/2) Captain Beefheart, 1980-12-10, The Dark Footage, Mudd Club, New York, NY, US

Video/DVD, ?/?, (?)

610678002a
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band 1980-12-10 "The Dark Footage" NYC NTSC DVD (hothcanada - trashamericanstyle - voltarized)

Contents & track listing:

1. 1980-12-10 Mudd Club, NYC 35.04 (BC - hothcanada)

01. bass solo
02. Best Batch Yet
03. Dirty Blue Gene (incomplete)
04. Sugar N' Spikes
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Doctor Dark
07. Sheriff Of Hong Kong (incomplete)
08. Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee
09. Suction Prints
10. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. 1980-11-22 Saturday Night Live 8.23 (BC - hothcanada)

01. Hot Head
02. Ashtray Heart
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. 1980 "Eyewitness" Los Angeles News Bio 6.57 (trashamericanstyle)

A brief run-down:

Segment 1:
Ripped from a well preserved, low-gen tape that I found in BC's stash in April '07. A monster-sized THANKS to BC for all the great Beefheart vhs sources he contributed to these dvds. The "If you got ears..." Beefheart live database refers to this one as "Dark Footage" which pretty much says it all.

Segment 2:
This is sourced from a Comedy Central re-broadcast, not the original (hence, their station logo at the bottom of the screen throughout). Host Malcolm McDowell's song intros are not present on this copy (bummer....I couldn't think of a better SNL host to pair with Captain Beefheart). The show credits outro with Don & co. waving good-bye are intact.

Segment 3:
Another from our friend MT at trashamericanstyle, this source is a little shakey & has some picture break-ups. That said, it's the best (as in lowest gen) of the 4 copies we had available to us & the only one that had the "Eyewitness" station id at the beginning. We cut off the short news reporters outro/critique that concludes this segment because: a) it was incomplete on this copy & b) they had nothing intelligent to say anyway.

Credits:

Segments 1 & 2 : BC - hothcanada
Segment 3 : trashamericanstyle
Zappateers intro : unicrayon
dvd authoring : voltarized


(695/1) Captain Beefheart, 1980-12-19, Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
LIVE AT THE WHISKEY A GO-GO IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 19, 1980
LATE SHOW


01. HAIR PIE
02. HOT HEAD
03. ASHTRAY HEART
04. DIRTY BLUE GENE
05. THE BIG DIG
06. BEST BATCH YET
07. SAFE AS MILK
08. A CARROT IS AS CLOSE AS A RABBIT GETS TO A DIAMOND
09. ONE RED ROSE THAT I MEAN
10. BAT CHAIN PULLER
11. SUGAR AND SPIKES
12. SHERIFF OF HONG KONG
13. SUCTION PRINTS
14. BIG EYED BEANS FROM VENUS
[57:54]


Recorded by Mike Martin, John Musgrave (possibly) and Mark (the B man)
Our team was known as the Los Angeles Tape eXchange (LAX).

Source: 2 Sennheiser MKH 404-tu microphones > Sony D5M w/ Dolby > Maxell MX-90 cassette

Transfer of master: Nakamichi CR3A w/ Dolby > Audigy 4 Pro @ 24/44.1
Editing with NERO > Audacity (16-44) > CD Wave > TLH (Flac level 8)
song information embedded with Stamp ID3 tag editor


I recorded this show not long after meeting Don in the record store that I worked at (Slipped Disc Records in the Los Angeles suburb of the San Fernando Valley).
I remember asking him for permission to record this show but also remember that he did not give it to me.
So with a small bit of guilt I borrowed my friend John?s recording gear and snuck it into the Whiskey anyhow.
Set up in stealth at a table about 15 feet from the stage.
Lucky for us that we were not discovered.
The Captain was not fond of being captured live by amateur recorders and was known to make a big scene when he discovered someone doing this.
I sort of remember placing the microphones on the table and covering them with a jacket and this would be the source of the ruffling noises that can be heard during the quiet parts between songs.
Some of the worst of this ruffling noise was after the first song.
Some editing was done to remove this noise and to splice together the tape flip and then blend the audience sections back together to make a seamless transition.
Also employed the NERO wave editor to remove the loudest explosive clapping by deleting one clap at a time.

For historic reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use.

-M- (2009)(Rev A: tagging and text file updates in Oct 2016)
Flying M Productions

FAN RECORDINGS FOR COLLECTORS
TRADE FREELY BUT PLEASE DO NOT SELL


(705/1) Captain Beefheart, 1981-01-15, (Magneticism II), Showbox Theatre, Seattle, WA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (20220803)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Seattle, Showbox Theater
January 15, 1981

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Don Van Vliet - vocals, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, synthesizer, piano
Richard Snyder - guitar, slide guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar, slide guitar
Robert Williams - drums, percussion

01. Bass Solo (+ sax)
02. My Human Gets Me Blues 
03. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
04. Hot Head 
05. Ashtray Heart 
06. Dirty Blue Gene
07. Best Batch Yet 
08. Band Intro's
09. Safe As Milk 
10. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
11. One Red Rose That I Mean
12. Dr Dark
13. Bat Chain Puller
14. Sugar 'N' Spikes
15. Veteran's Day Poppy
16. Sheriff of Hong Kong
17. Suction Prints
18. Big-Eyed Beans From Venus

TT: 1h 15m

Unknown Audience Source > Maxell XLII of Unknown Generation > Sony TC-WE435 > Tascam CD-RW950SL > CD 1 > EAC (wav) > Audacity/Ozone 5/RX4 (editing/mastering) > CD Wave > TLH (flac, SBE)


(715/1) Captain Beefheart, 1981-01-18, Euphoria, Portland, OR, US

Audio/flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1981-01-18

Europhia Tavern

Portland, OR.

01. / / Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
02. Abba Zaba
03. Hot Head
04. Crowd and Don
05. Ashtray Heart
06. A few words from Don
07. Dirty Blue Gene
08. Best Batch Yet > intros (cut)
09. intros ( cont'd ) > Safe As Milk
10. Don talks some more
11. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
12. One Red Rose That I Mean
13. tuning - Don
14. Doctor Dark
15. Crowd
16. Bat Chain Puller
17. My Human Gets Me Blues
18. Sugar 'N Spikes
19. tuning > Sheriff Of Hong Kong
20. Kandy Korn
21. Suction Prints
22. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

total time approx. 73:25

The Band . . . .
Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Snyder guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

Soundboard Recording ( unknown ( low ) gen ).

Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Audacity 1.3
( for speed correction ) > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc aka JBK Feb. 2011.

This may not be too heavily circulated. It will be an upgrade to most everyone.

I know of an incomplete audience source that many people likely have. I do not have that version. That tape cuts off after Sheriff Of Hong Kong. That is the tape listed at the old Beefheart Database ( thanks D. I still use the site for research ! ). Assuming that the information from the old database is correct, the "aud" version also begins with "Nowaday's . . . ".

Considering that nearly all of ( if not all ) of the shows from the 80/81 DOC TOUR began with a Bass Solo, the "Bass Solo / Hair Pie" may be missing from this recording.
The first couple of beats of "Nowaday's . . ." are missing and it cuts in. No big deal,
we are talking a few seconds.

I have two copies of the Soundboard version here in the Archives. The better copy out of the two was missing the encores. They were very close in overall quality, but I went with the first source for the main show. Lucky for me ( and you ! ) my second source had the encores. The main portion of the show ( tracks 01-20 ) ran very, very fast. The second source ran very slow. After I transferred the cassettes I used Audacity to correct the speed. I think it sounds pretty right on. This was the first time I had bothered with(tried) speed correction. I am happy with the results and I think most will agree. I'm pretty good at this point with video and authoring dvds. As far as audio, I just do what I can. Considering that I have had no complaints after many shares, I guess I am doing ok. Heh heh heh.

Much thanks to the person that traded me this tape many years ago and also thanks to my local buddy Greg for the second source (for the encores). Also, much thanks to the original taper who got a board patch ! Awesome.

It's funny, the trading world, the better copy I have here was sent to me from Europe and the other copy from Greg ( who was at the show ) came from where we live, in Portland ! Neat-o !

I think the overall sound quality here is very good / great. The mix is well balanced and all instruments are heard clearly, including the vocal. Don seems relaxed here and having some fun. His mood seems rather playful on this evening. His only complaints are about the stage lighting and people smoking clove cigs ( he also mentioned that at the Seattle show a few days before ). If you listen closely and follow the lyrics he makes a few funny remarks here and there. He is also very chatty throughout the show. Several funny remarks and he also mentions the volcano eruption that happend up here around that time. Pretty cool ! I've been listening to this show as I am creating this text file . . . great set and it sounds super ! I hope you all enjoy the show.

NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY.

shared at dimeadozen on Feb. 17, 2011.


(735/1) Captain Beefheart, 1981-01-29, Somewhere Over California / Best Batch Yet, The Country Club, Reseda, CA, US

Audio/mp3, ?/?, (?)

The Best Batch Yet

The Magic Band live at The Country Club,
Reseda, California on 29th January 1981.

This show was kindly sent to me by Alan Tautfest, so many thanks to him.
Sound quality is excellent throughout.

featuring:
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar & slide-guitar
Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - guitar & slide guitar
Denny Walley - guitar on China Pig
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, mandolin, synthesizer, electric piano & mellotron
Robert Williams - drums & percussion
Captain Beefheart - vocals, tenor sax, soprano sax & Chinese gongs

1.Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man - 3,470K
2.I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go - 1,832K
3.Hot Head - 3,532K
4.Ashtray Heart - 3,092K
5.Dirty Blue Gene - 3,752K
6.The Smithsonian Institute Blues - 2,034K
7.Sue Egypt - 1,618K
8.Best Batch Yet - 4,632K
9.Safe As Milk - 4,044K
10.One Red Rose That I Mean - 2,016K
11.China Pig - 4,944K
12.Spitball Scalped The Baby / Hair Pie (Bake 2) - 3,208K
13.Doctor Dark - 2,504K
14.Bat Chain Puller - 5,274K
15.My Human Gets Me Blues - 2,468K
16.Sugar 'N Spikes - 2,474K
17.Sheriff Of Hong Kong - 5,840K
18.Kandy Korn - 4,372K
19.Veteran's Day Poppy - 4,170K
20.Big Eyed Beans From Venus - 4,834K


(735/2) Captain Beefheart, 1981-01-29, Somewhere Over California / Best Batch Yet, The Country Club, Reseda, CA, US

Audio/Flac, ?/?, (?)

610735002a610735002b
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
Best Batch Yet
{30th Anniversary Edition}
==========================

DISC 01
-------
01 Hair Pie
02 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe 'Til I Have To Go
04 Hot Head
05 Ashtray Heart
06 Dirty Blue Gene
07 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or The Big Dig)
08 Best Batch Yet
09 Safe As Milk
10 One Red Rose That I Mean
11 China Pig
12 Sue Egypt

DISC 02
-------
01 Doctor Dark
02 Bat Chain Puller
03 My Human Gets Me Blues
04 Sugar N' Spikes
05 Sheriff Of Hong Kong
06 Kandy Korn
07 Veteran's Day Poppy
08 Big Eyed Beans From Venus

===================================

Line Up:
Captain Beefheart - vocals/harmonica/saxophone
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar
Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - guitar/bass
Eric Drew Feldman - bass/keyboards
Robert Arthur Williams - drums/percussion

Special Guest:
Denny Walley - guitar on "China Pig"

===================================

Recorded Live @ The Country Club in Reseda, CA on January 29, 1981

Sound Quality is Excellent Soundboard

Source is the amazing 1st Gen reel transferred by Mike Martin

Speed, EQ and balance were tweaked to achieve the ultimate version!

A JWB PRODUCTION - AUGUST 2011


(272/1) Captain Beefheart, 1982, Ice Cream For Crow Instrumentals

Audio/Flac, ?/?, (?)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Ice Cream For Crow Backing Tracks

Studio Sessions
Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California
June-July 1982

The last Beefheart rarity I got lately from a friend who wants to stay anonymous. I didn't know about these instrumental versions before, these tracks are not the rehearsal tape form ICFC sessions, hre the tracks are nearly finished, several tracks starts with somebody counting.
Otherwise the same story as with the other outtakes: the tapes were made for a former band member in order to learn the tunes. Our guy got his tape directly from him, transferred the tapes to CDR using a stand alone CD burner.
Track 13 was damaged by maybe 65 diginoise scratches. It took some time but the problem could be solved by editing the track with Wavelab pencil.

Thank you very much again to Mr. Anonymous!

Lineage: Studio->1st gen tape->2nd gen tape->Fostex X-1 Portastudio->CDR->CDR->Wavelab->WAV->Trader's Little Helper->FLAC Level 8

Tracklist:
01. The Host, The Ghost The Most Holy-O (2:25)
02. Ice Cream For Crow (5:35)
03. Cardboard Cutout Sundown (2:38)
04. Witch Doctor Life (2:43)
05. The Past Sure Is Tense (3:05)
06. Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat (4:48)
07. Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (6:02)
08. Witch Doctor Life (2:38)
09. Ice Cream For Crow (4:43)
10. Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (5:08)
11. The Past Sure Is Tense (3:28)
12. Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat (4:54)
13. Witch Doctor Life (2:43)

Total length: 50:57.40

Line-up:
Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs, prop horn/kazoo
Gary Lucas: guitar, steel-appendage guitar, glass finger guitar, national steel dualion
Cliff Martinez: drums, percussion, shake bouquet, glass washboard, metal drums
Richard Snyder: bass guitar, marimba, viola
Jeff Moris Tepper: guitar, slide-guitar, steel-appendage guitar, acoustic guitar

Producer: Don Van Vliet
Engineer: Phil Brown

Comments:
Cliff Martinez: Yeah! I've tried to think about the logic behind it all, the feeling, the emotion that was created, and what effect all at tension had on the music. When we went into the studio, I felt very much like I was in tune with the spirit of the music. The music always struck me as being, well, brilliant, melodic, angry, incomprehensible, with an undercurrent of humor. That was sort of the pressure, the tension that there was to play the part. You never really had the feeling of confidence. Everything had this real raw edge to it. You played every note like it was the last note you were ever going to play. lt demanded this kind of superhuman intensity, and that got on the record. We always discussed playing with this superhuman energy and the almost angry feeling that came across in the music. Maybe that's deliberate or maybe it's just a by-product of the way you feel after working with this man. The mindset you were in translated into the music. I never played anything with more energy, I mean, I played in a bunch of punk rock bands which was supposed to be high energy and angry. But that was never quite as close as the Beefheart thing. lt was always played with a spirit of anger and extreme high tension energy. lt seemed to benefit the music. bather that was intentional or not, I don't know.
(Grow Fins booklet)

Scott McFarland: I talked to someone who was there at the sessions and they described how Don basically ignored all advice from the engineers and gave the record a flat 2-dimensional (Don's conception of it) sound. It only makes sense that it would be a source of frustration for the engineers. I mean, let's face it, Ice Cream is exceedingly flat in sound, and Doc is too. Had Don ceded some of the reins in the studio, these recordings might be even more amazing. Personally, I think one of the reasons that Trout Mask stands out as such a masterpiece has to do with Zappa & his team's efforts to capture the sound of the band accurately and crisply.
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Robert Williams: Phil Brown was the engineer on Ice Cream For Crow. Cliff Martinez told me that on the first day of recording Phil took a baffle and placed it two inches in front of the kick drum. I guess Phil was more concerned with microphone leAKAge than giving the bass drum a chance to breath. Now he's trying to suffocate us all with his scathing remarks about Don. I'll tell you one thing, he was God damned lucky to have the chance to work with Don in the first place. He should be grateful. "Boo hoo! Don yelled at me!"
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)

Rick Snyder: His lack of formal musical training was his own enemy and his greatest asset. It was his nemesis insofar as it presented him with little or no vocabluary with which to communicate to musicians on their terms (e.g., at one time he instructed the drummer, Cliff, to play a beat that he had just given him "as if (he) was juggling a plate full of B.B.'s". Don really meant for him to play it in free time, without concern to making the downbeats of the phrase occur at regular intervals -- but he couldn't say it that way!). At no time could Don request of any of us that we play a specific note by name (e.g., "play an E flat there") -- he would instead whistle it, play it on a harmonica or, in a fit of exasperation, grab the neck of your instrument and percussively hit the fretboard with his hands in search of the note he was looking for. He frequently assumed the responsibility for any difficulty we were having, apologizing for not being able to tell us, in musical terms, what he was asking us to do. Armed, as it were, with a distinct lack of musical convention or vocabulary, Don was conversely able to create some of the most remarkable artistic "compositions" (he never called them "songs"), as if the noises made by our instruments were little more than colors to be applied to a canvas of air -- nothing more, nothing less.
In fact, the only time that we had an outright disagreement was when he instructed me to cut my hair (which I was quite fond of at the time), stating that if I insisted on keeping it long that I would not be allowed on either the album cover shot or the video, saying that I looked like "somebody's old aunt" with hair of such length. I eventually yielded, but not without a certain amount of grief on my part. A small price to pay ...
(Justin C. Sherill: Interview With Rick Snyder)

Rick Snyder: Light Reflected Off The Oceands Of The Moon, to the discerning listener, is in fact the same backing track for Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat, albeit with a bunch of Don's horns slapped on top of it and without the fade-out that brings "... Garland ..." to its close.
Ice Cream For Crow was, unfortunately, a bit of a rush job. The band, once again reshuffled, had to learn the material for this album and record it in a matter of months. There was little opportunity for the band that played on this record to acquire the intensity and volatile chemistry that the preceding band had attained through life together on the road, something which I view as a 'missed opportunity' of the highest order.
The only stuff that there might be would be alternate mixes and/or takes of Ice Cream For Crow tracks. A viola part which Don had asked me to dub on top of the title track was scrubbed in the final mix. There was, in my opinion, a better basic track for Witch Doctor Life than the one that was used. There are a few moments on the album that cry out for remixing, especially the last part of The Past Sure Is Tense where the guitar and harmonica parts seem to have been pushed just a little 'too' far over the edge. Oh, well ... if Don wanted it that way, then that way shall it be.
To anticipate the question, there were no recording sessions post-Ice Cream For Crow. That was the "swansong" -- or should I say, 'crowsong'?
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart. Posted by Ted Alvy)


(261/1) Captain Beefheart, 1987-10-18, Kristina McKenna interview, Radio KCR, Santa Monica, CA, US

Audio/Flac, Dime/?, (?)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET

*********** 1972 - 1987 INTERVIEWS ***********

01. 1973-04-24 BBC Radio London, England 1 by John Peel FM

02. 1972 March Radio London, England by Andy Hall FM

03. 1978 KMET Radio L.A., Calif. Dr. Demento Radio Show pt. 1 FM
04. pt. 2
05. pt. 3
06. pt. 4
07. pt. 5
08. pt. 6
09. pt. 7

10. 1980 BBC Capitol Radio London, England by Richard Hepworth pt. 1
11. pt. 2
12. pt. 3

13. 11-18-87 Radio KCRW Santa Monica, Calif. with Christina McKenna and Callers pt. 1
14. pt. 2

Total Time approx 99:14


Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Sony TC-WE805S Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > Wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

A collection of various interviews with Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet.
The Dr. Demento show is indexed at all the points where music had to be edited out.
Same goes for the 1980 London interview. This is a nice little batch of interviews.
Many topics covered. The quality varies from excellent to very good. Some of these I have 2 or 3 different sources for. These are all of the best versions that I have.

The 1987 interview is very nice. The callers really make it great. Enjoy !

Much thanks to all of the traders that I used to trade with back in the days before the interwebs. Damn, I have a lot of cassettes :) Also much thanks to all of the tapers of these programs.

upped on dimeadozen on August 15, 2010.

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ON TV

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1966-07-21UsaWhere The Action Is, Captain Beefheart ,
1968-02-03FranceBouton Rouge, Captain Beefheart ,
1971-01-15UsaDetroit Tubeworks, Captain Beefheart ,
1972-09-23FrancePop Deux, Captain Beefheart ,
1973-01-09Great BritainOld Grey Whistle Test, Captain Beefheart ,
1973-10-16Great BritainOld Grey Whistle Test, Captain Beefheart ,
1974-06-18Great BritainOld Grey Whistle Test, Captain Beefheart ,
1974-10-13BelgiumFolllies, Captain Beefheart ,
1975-01-24Great BritainOld Grey Whistle Test, Captain Beefheart ,
1975-09-14BelgiumFolllies, Captain Beefheart ,
1980-11-15FranceChorus, Captain Beefheart ,
1993-02-20Great BritainSounds Of 70s, Captain Beefheart ,

Bibliographie / Bibliography


BEEF06
The Lives and Times of Captain Beefheart / David Britton (Babylon Books, Manchester (1977, 1st edition)) jpg


BEEF07
The Lives and Times of Captain Beefheart / John Muir (Babylon Books, Manchester (1982, 3rd edition)) pdf


BEEF04
Captain Beefheart and his magic band / Guy Cosson (Paralleles (5 janvier 1994))


BEEF02
Captain Beefheart s Trout Mask Replica / Kevi Courrier (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (15 juin 2007) epub


BEEF03
Captain Beefheart - Through The Eyes of Magic / John Drumbo French (Proper Music Publishing Ltd (11 janvier 2010)) epub


BEEF01
Captain Beefheart / Mike Barnes (Omnibus Press (8 aout 2011)) epub


BEEF05
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band(s) / Benoit Delaune (21 avril 2011)


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