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