Monday, August 15, 2011

Captain Beefheart - 1978-11-28 - Atlanta, GA

Early Show
Late Show

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Dr. Forrester said...

Early Show -

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1978-11-28 EARLY SHOW

The Great Southeast Music Hall

Atlanta, GA.

01. Band Introduction
02. Tropical Hot Dog Night
03. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
04. Owed T' Alex
05. Dropout Boogie
06. Harry Irene
07. Abba Zaba
08. Deserts Of Time
09. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
10. Old Fart At Play
11. The Dust Blows Forward N' The Dust Blows Back
12. Ice Rose
13. Moonlight On Vermont
14. Smithsonian Institute Blues ( or The Big Dig )
15. Crowd and Don
16. Bat Chain Puller
17. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy
18. Veteran's Day Poppy - Outro
19. Hair Pie ( Bass Solo )
20. Crowd
21. Suction Prints

Total time approx. 67min 43sec

THE BAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica, whistling
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, mandolin
Bruce Fowler trombone, air-bas
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Redus guitar, slide guitar, slide bass, accordion
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

( 2nd gen cassette ) Aud Recording. Great sound !

Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Audacity 1.3
( for speed correction ) > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc aka JBK Feb. 2011.

As all of my shares are, these tapes are sourced from my collection. I believe that this will be an upgrade to most who have it. As great as these shows sound, my copies ran very,
very slow. They now sound like they should !

The first of two shows performed on this night. Both sound very nice/excellent. The second one sounding slightly better. Both sets are really great. The crowd is very into the music and are largely quiet during the performance, which makes for some amazing live "fade-outs" . . . in fact, check out the end of "Owed T' Alex" here . . . WOW ! Needless to say, Bruce Fowler is incredible. The Air-Bass is super !

After Don recites " The Dust Blows Forward . ." he tells the crowd how great they are because of the fact that they stayed quiet during the piece for him. ( The version of " Well " from the second show is crazy amazing and again Don lets the crowd know that he thinks they are wonderful. ) HEADS UP . . the "Bass Solo" at the begining of the encore is a little bit loud, seems the taper hit record at the last second. It will not mess up your speakers or whatever, but it is a bit of a jolt ;) ( very thick bass sound ! ).

As with any show in which Don is comfortable, he really lets loose. I think these shows fall into that category. Enjoy.

August 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM
Dr. Forrester said...

Late Show -

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1978-11-28 LATE SHOW ( Partial )

The Great Southeast Music Hall

Atlanta, GA.

01. Tropical Hot Dog Night
02. Crowd and Don
03. Owed T' Alex
04. Dropout Boogie
05. Harry Irene
06. Low Yo Yo Stuff
07. Crowd and Don
08. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
09. Well
10. Ice Rose
11. Floppy Boot Stomp
12. Crowd and Don
13. My Human Gets Me Blues

( also included in a seperate folder . . . "Well", see below )

Total time approx. 43 minutes

THE BAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica, whistling
Eric Drew Feldman bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, mandolin
Bruce Fowler trombone, air-bas
Robert Williams drums, percussion
Richard Redus guitar, slide guitar, slide bass, accordion
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar

( 2nd gen cassette ) Aud Recording. Great sound !

Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .wav > Audacity 1.3
( for speed correction ) > .wav > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen

transfer - mcchocchoc aka JBK Feb. 2011.

As all of my shares are, these tapes are sourced from my collection. I believe that this will be an upgrade to most who have it. As great as these shows sound, my copies ran very,
very slow. They now sound like they should !

OK. Here is the late show. As a few of you already know, when I did the transfer I discovered that side two of the late show was blank. Bummer. Not sure what happened there. I am uploading what I do have because it sounds great and it just may be the best version that we will get here. If anybody has the full show in better quality, please do share. Even if it is not as good, I would really like to have the whole set. Thanks.

Mentioned above . . a seperate folder with the track "Well". I did that because the track on the main set is indexed too tightly. Instead of doing it all over again, I simply ripped that song over. You can insert it in place of the track within the main set if you'd like.

Another great set. The versions of "Well" and "Ice Rose" are easily among the best I have ever heard . . . worth the download for those two tracks alone ! When Ice Rose ends Don and Bruce continue to duet together for almost two minutes. It's great.

August 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM
zubbid said...

I wanted to take a few moments to testify about how much I'm enjoying this series of Beefheart posts. You've allowed me to replace a number of shows which I previously obtained and then lost in the days before I became vigilant about archiving my FLAC files, and for a few - these two in particular - which I hadn't managed to get my hands on before now.

Thanks for these, and, in general, for running an excellent blog.

August 15, 2011 at 3:21 PM

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