Sunday, August 14, 2011

Captain Beefheart - 1973-04-17 - London

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Dr. Forrester said...

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band live at the Rainbow Theatre 17.4.73

This tape hasn't been circulated as far as I can recall. Anyway this is from the master cassette recorded onto a high quality reel-to-reel at 3.5 ins per sec at the time. It was quite nerveracking smuggling a recorder into the Rainbow as
security was quite high fuelled by bootleg albums being sold by a certain Mr.Virgin at his shop in central London. I had difficulty setting the record level and towards the end of the show the tape suffers a little distortion due to the sound level going up in the theatre.
Being a big Mothers/Zappa fan this was concert to see although I wish I'd seen them a couple of years earlier when I think they almost filled the Albert Hall. Being young and impressionable Beefheart seemed to have great charisma and easily wooed the audience.
I remember it as a great event. Hope you enjoy the recording.

Lineage: Master cassette>Akai reel-to-reel>Phillips standalone CDR>Dime>FLAC8


1. Hair Pie: Bake iii (Bass Solo) - 7:48
2. Sue Egypt (instrumental)/Mirror Man - 8:40
3. Low Yo Yo Stuff - 3:59
4. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man - 4:07
5. Crazy Little Thing - 2:56
6. Band Intros/Sugar 'n Spikes - 7:26
7. Electricity - 4:02
8. Peon - 4:06
9. Abba Zaba - 2:37
10. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby - 7:01
11. Alice In Blunderland - 4:33
12. I'm A King Bee/Sugar Mama - 14:34
13. Big Eyed Beans From Venus - 7:03

Band:
Rockett Morton - Bass
Alex St. Claire - Guitar
Ed Marimba - Drums
Captain Beefheart - Vocals/Harp
Zoot Horn Rollo - Guitar

Total Time: 1:18:52

August 14, 2011 at 6:17 PM

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