Captain Beefheart - Peel Sessions January 24th & May 6th 1968

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Captain Beefheart - The Brown Star Sessions - 1972

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Originally posted July 3, 2014 & March 4, 2021

photo by Ebet Roberts

Captain Beefheart 

Brown Star Sessions 1972

Studio Session Outtakes @ 320

Info:
The 1972 sessions that produced the Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot LPs marked a new era in the recording career of Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. With the Captain appearing to have loosened the structural death grip he imposed on his musicians since the Trout Mask Replica LP, the tracks that make up the Brown Star Sessions illustrate the band exploring some new turf by stretching out the tunes and taking their polyrhythmic mayhem to new heights. The results are similar in feel to the officially released Mirror Man Sessions, but more relaxed and varied in style and instrumentation. A number of the tracks here are either instrumental or wildly different versions than those that would appear on Spotlight Kid, Clear Spot and subsequent LPs. Check out the rubbery "Boogler Risin'", which later became "I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby" and the slower than molasses take on "Clear Spot." The fidelity here is better in some points than others (some sound like studio masters, others contain a little tape hiss) but this is easy to overlook when the music is as potent as this stuff. Enjoy a good freak out.
~theheatwarps.blogspot.com

Track List:
1.Boogler Risin' 4:29 [Outtake]
2.Dirty Blue Gene I 2:53 [Outtake]
3.Dirty Blue Gene II 3:41 [Outtake]
4.Clear Spot 3:54 [Instrumental] [Outtake]
5.Harry Irene 3:00 [Outtake]
6.Happy Blue Pumpkin 4:43 [Outtake]
7.Kiss 2:42 [Outtake]
8.Little Scratch 4:45 [Outtake]
9.Your Love Brought Me To Life 3:30 [Outtake]
10.Pompadour Swamp 6:46 [Outtake]
11.Funeral Hill I 3:54 [Outtake]
12.Frying Pan 3:28 [Outtake]
13.Dual And Abdul 2:48 [Outtake]
14.Best Batch Yet 2:15 [Instrumental] [Outtake]
15.Suzy Murder Wrist 3:41 [Outtake]
16.I Can't Do This Unless I Can Do This 2:10 [Outtake]
17.Obenso Cinquo 3:48 [Outtake]
18.Funeral Hill II 5:59 [Outtake]
19.Flaming Autograph 2:57 [Outtake]
20.Scratch My Back 1:37 [Outtake]

 

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - BBC Sessions 1968

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Originally posted January 1, 2016

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
BBC Sessions 1968
(JWB Remaster)

FM Source @320

From Liberated Bootlegs

 

Track List:
01. Yellow Brick Road
02. Abba Zaba
03. Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do
04. Electricity
05. John Peel Outro

 

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

TOTAL TIME: 32:47

Recorded: 1/24/68
Broadcast: 2/4/68

Source:
"Out Here, Over There" CD


Recorded: 5/6/68
Broadcast: 5/12/68

Sources:
"Re-Brodacast Collectors Tape" (Beatle Bones, second half of Trust Us)
"Another Chapter" LP (Safe As Milk, Kandy Korn, first half of Trust Us)     
"Out Here, Over There" CD (John Peel's Intros, Beatle Bones end fill)
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TECHNICAL NOTES
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Re-equalization
Approximate Speed Correction
Mono Restoration
Various sources combined and edited

"Beatle Bones" is a different mix of the "Plain Brown Wrapper" version, and not a unique BBC performance.
Compiled & Remastered by JWB - August 2008


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Captain Beefheart - Live Reseda, CA. 1981

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Originally posted January 18, 2015

Captain Beefheart - Live The Country Club
Reseda, CA.

January 29, 1981

aka - Best Batch Yet

Vinyl rip @320

Tracks:
SIDE 01
01 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
02 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe 'Til I Have To Go
03 Hot Head
04 Ashtray Heart
05 Dirty Blue Gene
06 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or The Big Dig)
07 Sue Egypt

SIDE 02 (20:01)
08 Best Batch Yet
09 Safe As Milk
10 One Red Rose That I Mean
11 China Pig
12 Spitball Scalped The Baby

SIDE 03 (20:05)
13 Doctor Dark
14 Bat Chain Puller
15 My Human Gets Me Blues
16 Sugar N' Spikes
17 Sheriff Of Hong Kong

SIDE 04 (22:24) - OFFICIAL TRACKS REMOVED
18 Kandy Korn
19 Veteran's Day Poppy
20 Big Eyed Beans From Venus
21 Hard Workin Man (OMITTED)
22 Light Reflected Of The Oceands Of The Moon (OMITTED)


the BAND
JEFF MORIS TEPPER jeff tapir / white jew * guitar * slide guitar
RICHARD SNYDER midnight hatsize * guitar * slide guitar * bass guitar
ERIC DREW FELDMAN black jew kittaboo * bass guitar * keyboards * synthesizer ** mandolin
ROBERT WILLIAMS wait for me * drums * percussion
DON VAN VLIET captain beefheart * vocals * tenor sax * soprano sax * harmonica
guest GARY LUCAS ** national steel dualion
guest DENNY WALLEY feeler's reedo / walla walla ** guitar

info from:
http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/live/81batch.html

Boat and Blue Bodagress - Don Van Vliet, 1984

 

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Spotlight Kid Outtakes

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Originally posted November 20, 2011 and August 25, 2014

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band 

The Spotlight Kid Outtakes &

Other Studio Sessions

 Studio Recordings @320

 

Pompadour Sessions

Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles: May 1971

I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Jam (Take 1)
I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Jam (Take 2)
Pompadour I (Take 1)
Pompadour I (Take 2)
Pompadour II (Take 1)
Pompadour II (Take 2)
Pompadour II (Take 3)
Pompadour II (Take 4)
Pompadour II (Take 5)

The Spotlight Kid Outtakes Songs

Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles: May - September 1971

Funeral Hill #1
Drink Paint Run Run
Seam Crooked Sam #1
Dirty Blue Gene #1
Kiss Me My Love
Alice In Blunderland
Clear Spot
Low Yo Yo Stuff
Seam Crooked Sam #2
Funeral Hill #2

The Spotlight Kid Instrumental Sketches

Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles: May - September 1971

Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian
Dual & Abdul
Open Pins
Ballerino
Best Batch Yet #1
Suzy Murder Wrist
Obenso Cinco
The Witch Doctor Life
Little Scratch #2
Flaming Autograph
Love Grip
No Flower Shall Grow
Best Batch Yet #2
Your Love Brought Me To Life (Take 1)
Your Love Brought Me To Life (Take 2)
That little Girl
Campfires

Sun Zoom Spark Session

Early 1972 (mono)

Intro
Sun Zoom Spark #1
Scratch My Back
Blues Medley: Down In The Bottom; Key to The Highway; Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No More
Sun Zoom Spark #2

Brown Star Sessions

Amiga Studios, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood: Summer 1972

Sun Zoom Spark #3
Funeral Hill #3
Harry Irene
Little Scratch #2
Dirty Blue Gene #2

Spot Out pt1
Spot Out pt2

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Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow Backing Tracks 1982

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Originally posted November 30, 2015 & September 19, 2017

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Studio Sessions

Ice Cream For Crow Backing Tracks

June-July 1982

Warner Bros. Recording Studios

North Hollywood, California

Soundboard @320

That's right folks, the instruments only!

Track List:

01. The Host, The Ghost The Most Holy-O

02. Ice Cream For Crow

03. Cardboard Cutout Sundown

04. Witch Doctor Life

05. The Past Sure Is Tense

06. Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat

07. Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian

08. Witch Doctor Life

09. Ice Cream For Crow

10. Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian

11. The Past Sure Is Tense

12. Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat

13. Witch Doctor Life

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Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby - Outtakes

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Originally posted November 22, 2013 

 Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby
Outtakes

Studio soundboard recordings @256

Instrumental tracks only, no vocals. Some distortion here and their, but still very enjoyable!!

Track List
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

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Captain Beefheart - Live Amsterdam, NL. 1974

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Originally posted March 7, 2017

Captain Beefheart - Live Concertgebouw

Amsterdam, NL.

June 22, 1974

FM Source @320

Set List:

1. Mighty Crazy - Be Your Dog.
2. Sweet Georgia Brown.
3. This Is The Day.
4. Abba Zaba.
5. Peaches.
6. Who'll Be The Next One ? - Yer Gonna Need Somebody On Yer Bond

 

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band LIVE in San Francisco CA 1966

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Avalon Ballroom

San Francisco CA

1966-06-17

Soundboard @320

01 Down In The Bottom

02 Don't Start Me Talkin'

03 The Sun Is Shining 

04 Tupelo 

05 Somebody In My Home 

06 Old Folks' Boogie 

07 St. James Infirmary

08 Evil (Is Going On) 

09 Harp Instrumental 

The Blimp, Frank, It's The Blimp

Soon To Be Gone...

 

Captain Beefheart - If You Got Ears

Full Pro-Shot DVD

Captain Beefheart - Film Compilation
{burnable DVD}

Captain Beefheart - If You Got Ears 1966-1973 {DVD}

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These files will be REMOVED By 
January 15th

Frank Zappa - Live Providence College 1975

Frank Zappa & The Mothers 

with Captain Beefheart

Live Providence College

April 26, 1975

Providence, RI.

aka - The Muffin Man Goes To College

Very Good to excellent Audience Recording @320

OK folks, first and foremost the audio source for this double CD set is an audience recorded bootleg which I would generously rate as VG for bootleg quality. That would translate to 6 on a scale of 10. It has all the drawbacks of that medium-, not much sonic depth, negligible bass/bottom, lots of midrange and not much treble. Sounds like it was recorded directly in front of the PA speakers-it has that boxy quality. Also there is a definite splice around the 45 minute mark-occurs during a bass solo-which,I suppose,would make the original source some sort of cassette tho no hiss is apparent. Occasionally there's a bit of side conversation you pick up but it's not that intrusive. That's the downside. Here's the good stuff. It contains the full concert (@ 2hrs) on 2 CDs, the band is tight, the performances are excellent and Frank's guitar solos are stellar. The vocals are loud and clear and the instruments are defined quite well, from the trombone to the finger cymbals. There is an unreleased tune/skit called "Velvet Sunrise" and a very early version of "The Torture Never Stops"(done as a fast blues) which FZ introduces under it's original title, "Why doesn't somebody get him a Pepsi?"It is sung by Captain Beefheart. Speaking of the good Captain,he's a bit under represented during this show. He plays some atonal sax during the intro, some minor backing harmonica on two tracks, does great harp solos on "Penguin In Bondage" and "Advance Romance", recites his poem "Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top" and sings lead on the forementioned "Torture", "Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead" and "Willie The Pimp".Frank introduces him "on sax and forgetfulness" and dubs him Captain Report Card for the evening.It was a college venue show.It's a great set with lots of spotlighting band members,giving them time to shine.Grab this while you can because it is a bootleg manufactured in Europe and probably ILLEGAL (due to copyright violations). I surmize this can only exist because the Zappa Family Trust hasn't gotten a "cease and desist" order against it yet.One can only hope that ZFT will issue an authorized version of a recording from this tour because there was so much more than was issued on the "Bongo Fury" LP. Sound quality = 6. Performance = 10.BTW if your amp has simulated "live" surround settings the audio on these CDs improves quite a bit. I use the "Club" setting and it really sounds much better.
~The Reverend

Set List:
1. Improvisations (Live) ( 5:46)
2. Camarillo Brillo (Live) ( 4:29)
3. Muffin Man (Live) ( 1:45)
4. Stink-Foot (Live) ( 4:52)
5. I’m Not Satisfied (Live) ( 2:06)
6. Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy (Live) (10:38)
7. The Velvet Sunrise (Live) ( 7:36)
8. Pound For A Brown (Live) ( 9:59)
9. The Torture Never Stops (Live) ( 8:10)
10. Montana (Live) (12:09)
11. Improvisations (Incl. Chariot, Moon Trek) [Live] ( 9:39)
12. Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (Live) ( 2:35)
13. Penguin In Bondage (Live) (11:41)
14. Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead (Live) ( 3:19)
15. Echidna’s Arf (Of You) [Live] ( 0:37)
16. Drum Solo (Live) ( 3:06)
17. Advance Romance (Live) (15:16)
18. Encore Break (Live) ( 0:31)
19. Willie The Pimp (Live) ( 8:42)

Thanks to someone at http://www.israbox.info

Muffin '75

Franks Zappa with Captain Beefheart - Live Boston 1975

Franks Zappa with Captain Beefheart

Early Show - Music Hall

April 27, 1975

Boston, MA.
Audience B+ Recording

In his 1975 Bongo Fury Tour with Frank Zappa‘s band, Captain Beefheart delivers his blues-infused vocals in what I feel is the quintessential version of “The Torture Never Stops” (part one, above; part two, below). I’ve heard other vocalists sing this song, but besides the Zappa sung version, only Don Van Vliet ever truly made this song his own. I’ve always wondered why this version wasn’t released on ‘Bongo Fury‘ and then released so late (almost like an afterthought) on ‘You Can Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 4‘ and ‘Cheap Thrills‘?

Bongo Fury Tour Band:
Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar
Denny Walley – vocals, slide guitar
Captain Beefheart – vocals, harmonica
Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, vocals
George Duke – keyboards, vocals
Bruce Fowler – trombone, dancer
Tom Fowler – bass, dancer
Terry Bozzio – drums
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Early Show:
01 Improv
02 Token of my Extreme
03 Stinkfoot
04 I'm Not Satisfied
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 (Of You)
11 Improv
12 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing
13 Advance Romance
14 Willie the Pimp

Late Show:
01 Camarillo Brillo
02 Muffin Man
03 Lets Make The Water Turn Black
04 Penguin In Bondage
05 Debra Kedabra
06 Poofters Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
07 Improvisation
08 The Torture Never Stops
09 The Torture Never Stops (part2)
10 Marty's Dance Song
11 Montana
12 Florentine Pogen
13 Willie The Pimp

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Boston '75