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The Mystery Man from The Magic Band. Yes, indeed, here’s something to look forward to. Due to be published around 8 June Beefheart’s co-songwriter, Herb Bermann tells his story about the songs and how they came to be written. It also includes an introduction from John French and an interview with Herb conducted by the Radar Station’s former newshound Derek Laskie. Available from the publisher and I have been told that they will only be selling one copy per person. Published by Brass Tacks Press, this is what they have to say about the book: THE MYSTERY MAN FROM THE MAGIC BAND: Captain Beefheart collaborator’sRead More →

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Song List Side One A Token Of My Extreme Stinkfoot Sleeping In A Jar Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Side Two Debra Kadabra Florentine Pogen Why Doesn’t Someone Get Him A Pepsi (Torture) Radar Station Overview From the Bongo Fury tour recorded at Bridges Auditorium, Claremont College, California 11th April 1975 – second show. A single European vinyl originally pressed in “100 numbered copies with insert”. It came in a plain white cover (ah, those were the days!!) and inferior sound quaity. ‘Torture’ was actually premiered that night. Not to be confused with the bootleg known as ‘A Token of HIS Extreme’. Releases 198? ZX 3656 A/B Thanks to Rollin’Read More →

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The back cover of this single CD says: Frank HOT Rats Zappa and Captain BEEFheart INJECT their thoughts and songs in this classic 1975 WLIR radio broadcast This is the same excellent show as the An Evening With … CD release. Although “Hot Beef” claims to released earlier I thought “An Evening with” was first Song list: Cucamonga Orange Claw Hammer Debra Kadabra/Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy Will You Drink My Water Pachuco Cadaver I Was A Teenage Maltshop Status Back Baby Ned The Mumbler Toads Of The Sort Forest Charva Speedfreak Boogie Metal Man Has Won His Wings Instrumental Louisiana Blues Instrumental Studio Rehearsal How Could I Be SuchRead More →

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An amazing collection of rarities put together as a syndicated radio show by Zappa in 1975. It was broadcast on KWST and WLIR – and possibly others. Don is in the studio too and contributes throughout – the highlight being the version of ‘Orange Claw Hammer’ with Zappa playing guitar accompaniment Song List Cucamonga (Bongo Fury 1975) Orange Claw Hammer (live in studio 1975) Debra Kadabra/Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy (Bongo Fury 1975) Will You Drink My Water (The Smegmates) Pachuco Cadaver (Trout Mask Replica) I Was A Teenage Maltshop (CBS Demo 1965) Status Back Baby (CBS Demo 1965) Ned The Mumbler (CBS Demo 1965) Toads Of The Sort ForestRead More →

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A + Abba Zaba Atlanta + Amougies Festival 1969 + Another Chapter from the Life & Times of Captain Beefheart + Ashtray Heart + Avalon ’66 B + Bat Chain Puller + Bat Chain Puller (remastered version on vinyl) + Batlight Clearkid 1970s + Best Batch Yet + Bickershaw Festival + Bongo Fury in El Paso + Boston Music Hall 27/04/1975 (Late Show) 200 Years Special + Broadcast from London & Bremen 1968-72 C + Captain Hook + Captain Live in Liverpool + Captain’s Last Live Concert Plus + Case of the Punks + CB & his MB live in GB + Chronicle + Country Club ResedaRead More →

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Song List Mirror Man Upon The My-O-My Crazy Little Things Full Moon, Hot Sun Sugar Bowl This Is The Day Keep On Rubbing Be Your Dog Sweet Georgia Brown Abba Zaba Peaches Peaches (Encore) Overview From the live broadcast by KUDL-FM from the Cowtown Ballroom., Kansas City on 22nd April 1974. The sound quality is excellent but sadly it is the Tragic Band incarnation so not that much magic. Yes, it’s a pleasant, inoffensive listen but that’s not what most of us want from Beefheart. Already bootlegged as Crazy Little Things and Captain Hook. A two-disc vinyl version was issued with a revamped design in aRead More →

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Song List SIDE A 1. Mascara Snake 2. Click Clack Take 1 3. Click Clack Take 2 4. Golden Birdies SIDE B 5. I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby Take 1 6. I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby Take 2 7. Steal Softly Thru The Snow 8. I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby Take 3 Overview Recorded on 12th April 1972 at The Beat Club studios, Bremen for TV broadcast. Only one track was broadcast at the time but now the whole session can be heard. Released on 140g vinyl in a limited edition of 1000. Excellent sound quality. But I’m not entirely convinced this is an essential purchaseRead More →

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Song List Side 1 Rollin and Tumblin Well well well, Electricity Neon meat dreams of a octafish Side 2 Kandy Korn Sure enuff yes I do Moody Liz Yer gonna need somebody on your bond Notes From Ozit’s publicity blurb: Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl LP on purple wax with gatefold sleeve. One of the highlights of Captain Beefheart’s 1968 tour of the UK was the concert at Frank Freeman’s Dance Club in Kidderminster. Fortunately legendary DJ John Peel brought his tape recorder and recorded four brilliant numbers from the show which appear on this album along with four other tracks from that era. Pride ofRead More →

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Song List Disc 1 Hair Pie (instrumental) Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man I Wanna Find A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go Hot Head Ashtray Heart Dirty Blue Gene The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or The Big Dig) Best Batch Yet Safe As Milk One Red Rose That I Mean (instrumental) China Pig Disc 2 Sue Egypt (cut) Doctor Dark (cut) Bat Chain Puller My Human Gets Me Blues Sugar ‘N’ Spikes Sheriff Of Hong Kong Kandy Korn Veteran’s Day Poppy Big Eyed Beans From Venus Notes From the sleevenotes: Autumn 1980 through January 1981 captain Beefheart and theRead More →

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Song List Bass Solo – Suction Prints Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man I Wanna Find Me A Woman Hot Head Ashtray Heart Dirty Blue Gene Smithsonian Institute Blues Best Batch Yet Band Intros Safe As Milk One Red Rose Sue Egypt Dr Dark Bat Chain Puller My Human Gets Me Blues Sheriff Of Hong Kong Kandy Korn Suction Prints Big Eyed Beans From Venus Total time: 73.57 Notes From the sleevenotes: This FM recording was taken from The Magic Band’s ‘last ever’ concert at The Golden Bear, on Huntington Beach, California on the 31st January 1981 after a sell-out tour of Europe &Read More →

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Song List Volume 1 Side One Tropical Hot Dog Night Nowadays A Woman’s Got To Hit A Man Owed T’Alex Dropout Boogie Side Two Harry Irene Abba Zaba Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles Old Fart At Play Well Ice Rose Moonlight On Vermont Volume 2 Side One Floppy Boot Stomp You Know You’re A Man Bat Chain Puller Side Two My copy is pressed with the same tracks as side 2 of Volume 1! Can anyone confirm if copies are available with the rest of the show on side 2 of Volume 2? Radar Station Overview A French (well, it says ‘Made inRead More →

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Song List Disc One Tropical Hot Dog Night Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man Owed T’Alex Dropout Boogie Harry Irene Abba Zaba Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles Old Fart At Play Well Ice Rose Disc Two Moonlight On Vermont The Floppy Boot Stomp You Know You’re A Man Bat Chain Puller Apes Ma When I See A Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy Veteran’s Day Poppy Safe As Milk Suction Prints Radar Station Overview Recorded at My Father’s Place, New York on 18th November 1978. Broadcast on WLIR FM 11th December 1978. A 2 CD set of this excellent show. The date given forRead More →

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Song List 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 + nine mystery live tracks (on the CD version only) From Ozit publicity drivel New Updated version of the “Dustsucker” album which will be deleted after the current pressing has sold through. Captain Beefheart’s original tapes of the Bat Chain Puller album sent to his friend Roger Eagle in the UK toRead More →

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Song List 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 showRead More →

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Song List: Bat Chain Puller (1976) Bat Chain Puller Seam Crooked Sam Harry Irene ’81 Poop Hatch Flavor Bud Living Brick Bats Floppy Boot Stomp A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Owed T’Alex Odd Jobs The 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole Apes Ma Safe As Milk (mono mix 1967) Sure Nuff N Yes I Do Zig Zag Wanderer Call On Me Dropout Boogie I’m Glad Electricity Yellow Brick Road Abba Zabba Plastic Factory Where There’s Woman Grown So Ugly Autumn’s Child Radar Station Overview This is a top quality version of the original Bat Chain Puller album –Read More →

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Song List Bat Chain Puller Seam Crooked Sam Harry Irene A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Brick Bats Floppy Boot Stomp Flavor Bud Living Carson City (aka Owed T’Alex) Odd Jobs The 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole The Witch Doctor Life Candle Mambo #1 Candle Mambo #2 Run Paint Run Run (instrumental) Suction Prints When I See A Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy Radar Station Overview There is no “Poop Hatch” nor “Apes Ma” listed because for some reason they haven’t been included. Overall the sound quality is quite good. The songs 12 through to 16 are listedRead More →

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Song List Bat Chain Puller Seam Crooked Sam Harry Irene Poop Hatch A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Brickbats Floppy Boot Stomp Flavour Bud Living Carson City (Owed T’Alex) Odd Jobs 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole Apes Ma Bass Solo Alice In Blunderland Abba Zabba Click Clack My Human Gets Me Blues I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby Golden Birdies Tracks 1 – 12: Original Bat Chain Puller 1976 Tracks 13 – 19: The Bataclan, Paris 15th April 1972 (incorrectly labelled as 1973 on the cover) Radar Station Overview When this CD first appeared it presented the best qualityRead More →

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Song list: Side One Apes Ma When I See A Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy Veteran’s Day Poppy Interview ’78 Bat Chain Puller Poem Harry Irene Side Two 81 Poop Hatch Brickbats Floppy Boot Stomp Owed T’Alex Poem Human Totem Pole Apes Ma Side One Tracks 2 & 3: My Fathers Place, NYC 1978 Track 4: interview with John Peel from 1973 Track 6: Seam Crooked Sam Side Two Track 5: Odd Jobs Radar Station Overview A single vinyl release of the Original Bat Chain Puller album with additional tracks from a 1978 show and a mis-dated interview with Don by John Peel. Unfortunately the wholeRead More →

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Tied up in the legal wrangles between Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen before it could be offically released this album has been bootlegged many times over the years. Although production on the album hadn’t been finished advance copies were sent out to music reps and radio stations and it was these that enabled the easy bootlegging of this otherwise  (at the time) unreleased album. The Zappa Family Trust finally got around to releasing it in 2012 – see info on official release Here are the bootleg versions we know about: Original 1976 Shiny Beast Version (Der totem pole sagt) Year released: 198? See full info The Original BatRead More →

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  Song List DISC 1 Alternate Takes and Alternate Mixes Suction Prints #1 When I See Mummy #1 Candle Mambo #1 Witch Doctor Life #1 Love Lies #1 Run Paint, Run Run (Basics Only) Owed T’ Alex Suction Prints #2 When I See Mummy #2 Candle Mambo #2 Witch Doctor Life #2 Love Lies #2 DISC 2 Basic Tracks Only Tropical Hot Dog Night #1 Run Paint, Run Run You Know You’re A Man When I See Mummy #1 Candle Mambo Floppy Boot Stomp Brickbats Bat Chain Puller Owed T’ Alex Love Lies When I See Mummy #2 Tropical Hot Dog Night #2 (incomplete) RadarRead More →