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

(78:44)

1. Rocket Morten Plays Bass
2. Instrumental
3. Mirror Man
4. Low Yoyo Stuff
5. Sugar and Spice
6. Crazy Little Thing
7. Electricity
8. Peon/Instrumental
9. I'm Gonna Booglarise You
10.Alice in Blunderland
11.King Bee
12.Sugar Mamma
13.Big Eyed Beans from Venus

Tracklisting as I wrote it 35 years ago!

Steveb