Bat Chain Puller (listed as My Human Gets Me Blues)
Nowadays A Woman's Got To Hit A Man
One Man Sentence
One Red Rose That I Mean
Orange Claw Hammer
Safe As Milk
Dropout Boogie (listed as Sheriff of Hong Kong)
Kandy Korn (listed as Suction Print)
Sugar 'n' Spikes
Abba Zaba
Click Clack
Tracks 1/1, 1/7: Drury Lane, London June 1974
Tracks 1/2, 1/3, 1/5, 1/8, 1/10, 1/12, 2/1 - 2/6, 2/8 - 2/11: Apollo
Theatre, Manchester 30th October 1980
Track 1/4: Guildhall, Portsmouth 1st December 1975
Tracks 1/6, 1/13, 2/12, 2/13: Bickershaw Festival 7th May 1972
Track 1/9: Leicester University 1st May 1973
Tracks 1/11, 2/7: Knebworth Festival 5th July 1975
Notes
Ozit Publicity:-
Hand-numbered 2CD box set housed in a special card slipcase with
a limited edition set of six previously unpublished photos of the
Captain live on stage in London, 1980, with a special Beefheart
stamp printed on the back of the cards. Plus an eight-page beautiful
colour booklet and double-sided colour inlay, all with great Beefheart
images.
Dedicated to the late John Peel who was instrumental in exposing
Captain Beefheart to a wider audience.
Album overviews
The pre-release publicity promised 14 previously unreleased tracks
from a recently discovered live show. We actually get 16 songs taken
from the 1980 Manchester Apollo gig, but this particular show has
been circulating amongst collectors for many years, so they're stretching
the truth a bit there. They also failed to add that the other 12
tracks on this release have been 'borrowed' from other CDs - namely
London 1974 and Magnetic
Hands. Do they have no shame!
Why couldn't they have just released the complete Manchester show
instead of chopping it about and adding tracks unnecessarily from
other shows?
Overall the sound quality is of a better bootleg and is an improvement
on some of the other Ozit releases.
For
some bizarre reason the tracks have been arranged in alphabetical
order which has got to be the laziest piece of programming I've
ever come across. Although they can't even get that right - 'Old
Black Snake' is filed under 'B', and the tracks listed on the cover
as 'My Human Gets Me Blues', 'Sheriff Of Hong Kong' and 'Suction
Print' [sic] are actually 'Bat Chain Puller' (with the beginning
missing!), 'Dropout Boogie' and ' Kandy Korn' respectively. There
are also two tracks from Bickershaw stuck on the end for some reason.
As with all the other Beefheart releases from Ozit there has been
the usual lack of attention to detail. Apart from the cock-ups noted
above, they can't even be bothered to list the venue name or the
date of the shows included let alone the members of the different
Magic Bands featured - which I suppose does mean they avoid getting
even more stuff wrong.
The colourful booklet contains no notes whatsoever; of the eight
pages two are adverts for other products.
The six postcards do show photographs of Don on stage in 1980 (but
we're not told where) with Jeff Moris Tepper behind him and these,
as far as I know, haven't appeared anywhere before.
Note: Just in case you're interested the songs played at the 1980
Manchester show and not included here were:- 'Abba Zaba', 'Best
Batch Yet', 'Doctor Dark', [all of] 'Bat Chain Puller', 'My Human
Gets Me Blues', 'Veteran's Day Poppy', 'Sheriff Of Hong Kong', and
'Suction Prints'.
Releases
2004 CD on Ozit Morpheus Records Ozit CD9003.
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