captain
beefhearthot dog night
| ?? | 2lp-bootleg | ?? | coeurboef cm 284 |
from "Glass Finger's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs -
Volume #1" (Apocalypse) / 1993 :
"198? European double bootleg on coeurdeboef CM 284. The cover has an
incongruous but atmospheric photo of a castle by a fyord at twilight. This is
the only Beefheart bootleg I know of released as a numbered limited edition of
500 - the one I've seen, officer, is 98/500 - but I don't know whether that
makes it the rarest. The discs are individually labelled as Drury Lane 1974 and
Paris 1980. The first disc is of the concert from which 2 songs appeared on the
Virgin "V" sampler. This is The Tragic Band (most of Buckwheat) pulled
together in 5 days by Beefheart after the real one left and turned into Mallard.
The music, some from Unconditionally Guaranteed, is pretty grim and this is the
only time Beefheart performed any of this stuff. The concert has recently,
December 1993, come out as an official issue on the Euro / Portugese CD London
1974 - highlights of the Sunday June 9th 1974 evening concert recorded at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, England. A "live set" from Virgin
was mentioned in the UK music press in May 1991 and I assume this has been
licenced from them. The first disc si filled up with the Direct News Interview
from '78 where Don Vliet expresses strong environmental concert about animals
being killed by trafic. The second disc is the Paris concert of November '80
which features a very enthusistic audience and a less enthusiastic Captain - the
lowpoint is the tape machine being turned off during the "hit that long
lunar note and let it float" part of Big Eyed Beans From Venus. If this is
the same show that went out on French TV, I assume it is, then Beefheart spends
most of his time waving to the sound engineers to get them to turn up the volume
of his voice so he can hear himself sing. Tropical and Nowadays (again!) are
performed as encores."
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