captain beefheart

don's birthday party

?? 2lp-bootleg ?? db 501/2

from "Rollin Red's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs - Volume #2" (Apocalypse) / 1995 :
"198? double european bootleg Don's Birthday Party on DB 501/2 is the original 1st pressing which arrived with the beautiful Anton Corbijn shot of Don in the Mojave Desert scanned onto a yellowish cover and was copied into caricature painting on the 2nd pressing. Each record differs in colour.
Disc 1 is brown marlbled vinyl. Disc 2 salmon pink.
As there are also copies in circulation on plain black vinyl, this could mean it was re-pressed on 3 different occasions, all still sought by collectors. So how many copies are in circulation is anyone's guess."

 

1981/01/15 concert 'showbox', seattle, usa

side one

  1. suction prints (intro version)
  2. my human gets me blues
  3. nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man
  4. hot head
  5. ashtray heart
  6. dirty blue gene

side two

  1. best batch yet
  2. safe as milk
  3. a carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond
  4. one red rose that I mean

side three

  1. doctor dark
  2. bat chain puller
  3. sugar 'n spikes
  4. veteran's day poppy

side four

  1. sheriff of hong kong
  2. suction prints (full band version)
  3. big eyed beans from venus