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Song List 1. Rockette Morton’s bass solo 2. Mascara Snake 3. When It Blows Its Stacks 4. Click Clack 5. Grow Fins 6. Hobo Chang Ba (instrumental) 7. I’m Gonna Booglarise You Baby 8. Old Black Snake 9. Peon 10. Abba Zabba 11. Alice In Blunderland 12. My Human Gets Me Blues 13. Steal Softly Thru Snow (instrumental) 14. Golden Birdies 15. Spitball Scalped A Baby Notes Ozit Publicity: Fantastic set from the Captain with full biographical CD booklet of the show. There are a few references to the Spotlight Kid throughout the show, a reference to the spotlight being played on the band from the lighting towerRead More →

Track List CD One 1. Intro – Jim Morrison – talks about poetry and music 2. Captain Beefheart Poetry 3. – 9. Captain Beefheart Poetry 10. Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band – Poetry 11. – 20. Captain Beefheart – Poetry 21. Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band Poetry CD Two 1. Intro from Captain Beefheart. Jim Morrison – Rebellion Chaos 2. Jim Morrison – Run To You 3. Jim Morrison – Someone Knew 4. Jim Morrison – 25 per cent 5. Jim Morrison – New Orleans 6. Jim Morrison – Every Step 7. Jim Morrison – Reptiles Notes Ozit Publicity: Both men fronted rock bands from the 1960sRead More →

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band in Great Britain Song List Disc 1 Track list (as on cover) Track list (as it really is) Blows It Stacks Orange Claw Hammer Dali’s Claw Nowadays A Woman’s Hot Head Abba Zabba Woe is Up Me Bop Sax Duet/Drums Sam With The Shining Scalp Flat Top Improvisation Drop out Boogie One Man Sentence Doctor Dark Flavor Bud living Sheriff of Hong Kong Safe as Milk More Sugar ‘N’ Spikes Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles Moonlight On Vermont I’m Gonna Booglarise You Baby Electricity Big Eyed Beans from Venus Suction Prints When It Blows Its Stacks When It BlowsRead More →

Song List Side A: Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive (with Zappa on guitar) Side B: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – introduction by Zappa – My Human Gets Me Blues – When Big Joan Sets Up – Blues Jam ( with Zappa on guitar) Radar Station Overview This is a good recording of the Magic Band’s rare appearance promoting Trout Mask Replica in a cold and wet turnip field on the French/Belgian border at the Amougies Actuel Festival in October 1969. Released as a limited 200 copy pressing this quickly became a much sought after item with Floyd, Zappa and Beefheart collectors all wanting to get their hands onRead More →

Song List A Steal Softly Thru Snow B Click Clack Bit of an oddity this one. A 7″ vinyl with picture sleeve of two songs ‘Steal Softly Thru Snow’ and ‘Click Clack’ taken from the band’s appearance on the German TV show “Beat Club” in 1972. Apparently only 50 copies were cut so it’s definitely a rarity. Not sure why this was issued as the tracks are readily available on the Lost Broadcasts DVD and double vinyl LP. It’s a pity more thought wasn’t taken with the picture on the front which shows the 1975 touring band rather than the 1972 band that was onRead More →

Song List 1. Hair Pie Bake III 2. Smoking Rio 3. Hair Pie Bake III 4. The Mascara Snake 5. The Mascara Fake 6. The Mascara For God’s Sake 7. When It Blows It Stacks 8. Click Clack 9. Grow Fins 10. Band Intro 11. Hobo Chang Ba 12. I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby 13. Old Black Snake 14. Peon 15. Abba Zabba 16. Woe is Uh Me Bop 17. Alice In Blunderland 18. Spitball Scalped A Baby 19. More 20. Bass Solo 21. My Human Gets Me Blues 22. Steal Softly Through Snow 23. Saxophone Solo 24. Saxophone & Drums Medley 25. Band IntroductionRead More →

Song List 1. Intro [Apes Ma + bass solo with sax] 2. Nowadays a Woman’s … 3. Abba Zaba 4. Hot Head 5. Ashtray Heart 6. Dirty Blue Gene 7. Best Batch Yet 8. Safe As Milk 9. Dr Dark 10. A Carrot Is As Close… 11. One Red Rose That I Mean 12. Bat Chain Puller 13. My Human Gets Me Blues 14. Sugar ‘n’ Spikes 15. Sheriff of Hong Kong 16. The Dust Blows Forward… 17. Kandy Korn 18. Suction Prints 19. Big-Eyed Beans From Venus Notes A recording of the 11 December 1980 show at Harpo’s in Detroit. Publicity blurb from GonzoRead More →

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 →

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 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 to make sureRead More →

Song List When It Blows It Stacks Poofters from Wyoming Alice in Blunderland Big Eyed Beans From Venus Natchez Burning Moonlight On Vermont Dali’s Car Electricity Abba Zabba Deserts of Time Sax and Drum Duet Beatles Bones and Smoking Stones My Human Gets Me Blues Dali’s Claw Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top Notes Ozit Publicity:- This is the third in the series of Nan True’s Hole Tapes . All these tracks were recorded live in England in the 1970’s and taken from John Peel’s former archive of Beefheart live tapes. This volume presents more of a mystery than the others as Peel hadRead More →

Song list: 1. Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man 4.03 2. Abba Zaba 3.10 3. Hot Head 4.14 4. Ashtray Heart 3.16 5. Dirty Blue Jean 3.41 6. Best Batch Yet 5.13 7. A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond 2.14 8. Doctor Dark 2.58 9. Bat Chain Puller 5.45 10. Sheriff of Hong Kong 6.46 11. Kandy Korn 4.51 12. Big Eyed Beans from Venus 5.34 Bonus Tracks: 13. When Big Joan Sets Up 6.18 14. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop 2.23 15. Bellerin’ Plain 3.48 16. Orange Claw Hammer 4.19 17. Hot Head 3.41 18. Ashtray Heart 3.45 Tracks 1-12: (FMRead More →

Song List Abba Zabba Acapella Beefheart Alice in Blunderland Bass Solo – Hair Pie Booglarise Click Clack Grow Fins Hobo Chang Ba Peon When It Blows It Stacks Golden Birdies Spitball Scalped A Baby Steal Softly Through Snow My Human Gets Me Blues Notes Ozit Publicity: Tracks recorded live in England in 1972, taken from John Peel’s former archive of Beefheart live tapes. This is the classic period of The Magic Band, Rockette Morton, Zoot Horn Rollo, Orejon, Ed Marimba, Winged Eel Fingerling. Radar Station’s overview Well it doesn’t come as any great surprise that volume two has appeared. It didn’t take a great leapRead More →

Four disc boxset Rarities through the years – live show recordings, rehearsals, alternate mixes, demos, out-takes. Tracks never before on CD   Song list Disc 1 “Lick My Decals Off, Baby” Instrumental Out-takes 1. Lick My Decals Off, Baby 2. Doctor Dark 3. I Love You Big Dummy 4. Bellerin’ Plain 5. Woe Is Uh Me Bop 6. Japan In A Dishpan (Take 1) 7. Big Toe #25 8. Petrified Forest 9. The Buggy Boogie-Woogie 10. The Big Dig (The Smithsonian Institution Blues) 11. Space Age Couple 12. Clouds Are Full Of Wine 13. Flash Gordon’s Ape 14. Japan In A Dishpan (Take 2) 15.Read More →

Four disc boxset Rarities through the years – live show recordings, rehearsals, alternate mixes, demos, out-takes. Tracks never before on CD Song list Disc 1 1. Lost In A Whirlpool (’59) The Soots ’63 2. Teenage Maltshop 3. Metal Man Has Lost His Wings. Avalon Ballroom 1966 – 4. Tupelo, Mississippi 5. Somebody’s Walking 6. Old Folks Boogie 7. Evil 8. Avalon Blues Jam. pre-Safe As Milk Demos 9. Out Of The Frying Pan (Alternate Version) 10. Almost Grown 11. Call On Me (Acetate Slow ) Strictly Personal OTs 12. Moody Liz (Rare Acetate) 13. Korn Ring Finger Alt Trout Mask Demos 14. Frown LandRead More →

180 gram vinyl double album with gatefold sleeve Song List Side One Suction Prints Crazy Little Thing Electricity Golden Birdies Side Two I’m Gonna Booglarise You Baby King Bee /Sugar Mama Side Three Low Yo Yo Stuff Mirrorman Peon 2 Peon Side Four Bass Solo Suction Prints Sugar ‘n’ Spikes Notes Ozit Publicity: The title obviously is a reworking of Clear Spot – Translucent Fresnel (Fresnel is a spotlight). From the late 1960’s through to 1980 John Peel collected tapes of recordings of Captain Beefheart’s live shows particularly ones in the UK. During a tidy up at Nan True’s Hole in 2003 he discovered aroundRead More →