Captain Beefheart

Performance Center

Cambridge, MA.

May 3rd 1974

Remastered audience recording.

Purists consider this era something of a sell-out but I like all the Beefheart albums

and he didn't exactly turn into Lionel Richie FFS.

This is a new remaster from my old CDs.

There is a bonus post-gig interview which sounds like it took place at the hotel

in the early hours of the following day.

Beefheart dismisses his connection to Frank Zappa

(He would be on tour with The Mothers the following year)

and even denies they went to school together.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/tuning

02 Mirror Man

03 Upon the My-O-My

04 Crazy Little Thing

05 Full Moon Hot Sun

06 Sugar Bowl

07 This is the Day

08 Keep on Rubbin'

09 Sweet Georgia Brown

10 Sweet Georgia Brown (reprise)

11 Abba Zabba

12 Peaches

13 Who'll Be the Next One?

Disc 2

01 interview

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Bouton Rouge (1967-68) DVD

Compilation of footage from French TV with remastered (still poor) audio.

This is a longer version of a previous Bouton Rouge post

but the Memphis Slim & Mickey Baker footage is not on this one. 

regards

Titus

Donovan

The Troggs

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Cream

Ten Years After

Jimii Hendrix

The Nice

Manfred Mann

The Who

Captain Beefheart

regards

Titus

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Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers

County Coliseum

El Paso, TX

May 23rd 1975

My remaster of this somewhat odd bootleg.

By odd, I am refering to the wealth of bonus material.

We get the bulk of the El Paso show

(itself, I suspect, compiled from different sources)

plus various other tracks...so sound quality varies throughout.

The 73 recording is, arguably, the weakest

although it is notable for Irma Coffee's contribution.

I hope my reworking is a modest upgrade.

Overall I'd give it a solid medium plus.

Music/performance, however, is excellent

and exactly what you would want/expect from mid 70s FZ.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Bongo Fury Initial

02 Apostrophe/band intros

03 Stink-Foot

04 I'm Not Satisfied

05 Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy

06 Velvet Sunrise

07 A Pound for a Brown on the Bus

08 Jimmy Carl Black intro/You're So Fine

09 Lonely, Lonely Nights

10 Debra Kadabra

11 Montana

12 Strange Things

Disc 2

01 Advance Romance

02 Florentine Pogen

03 200 Years Old (Outtake) (extended version)

04 Orange Claw Hammer (Outtake)

05 ReDuNZL (Outtake)

06 Camarillo Brillo

07 Muffin Man

08 Let's Make the Water Turn Black

09 Willie the Pimp

10 Pygmy Twylyte/Dummy Up

11 The Singing Lesson

12 Dupree's Paradise

101 - 202 County Coliseum, El Paso, May 23rd 1975 

203 unedited version of the track from Bongo Fury

204 live in the studio 1975 (Zappa/Beefheart)

205 longer edit of the Lost Episodes version

206 - 209 Music Hall, Boston, April 27th 1975

210 - 212 William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ

November 11th 1973 (with Irma Coffee on vocals)

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San Francisco Underground Radio

"It Crawled Out of the Vaults of KSAN" 1966-1968

Volume 4

The first two bands here are well generally known

but I had to read up a bit on Initial Shock.

Apparently they only released two singles

and never signed a record deal despite being popular.

This from a site I looked at:

The band played with almost every major group during

their rise to the top in the bay area including Steppenwolf,

Sopwith Camel, Fruminous Bandersnatch, Kaleidoscope, Crystal Syphon,

Ace of Cups, Indian Headband, et al. 

One concert poster featured Initial Shock as the headline group

with Clover (Huey Lewis) as the second billed band

and the Doobie Brothers as the opening act.

The Initial Shock opened for Pink Floyd on their first American tour

and were on many of the 1960’s posters of concerts at the Avalon,

Winterland, and The Fillmore West including one of the famous

Grateful Dead poster with the huge eyeball at the Avalon Ballroom.

regards

Titus

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Avalon Ballroom   1967   

01 Tupelo

02 Old Folks Boogie

03 Evil

04 Instrumental

Big Brother & the Holding Company

Avalon Ballroom   1967  (except track 8 - Fillmore 1968)  

05 Bye Bye Baby

06 Women Is Losers

07 Call On Me

08 Ball And Chain

Initial Shock   (KPFA/KPFB Broadcast)

Avalon Ballroom   1968    

09 Big Boy

10 Let Me Be Your Man

11 Goin' Down Louisiana

12 If You Gotta Go, Go Now/Jam

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