Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Old Waldorf Theatre
San Francisco, California, USA
24 January 1981, Early Show + Late Show

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Set list:

Early Show

01 Hair Pie: Bake III (Bass Solo Full Band) [4:03]
02 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man [4:06]
03 Hot Head [4:15]
04 Ashtray Heart [4:01]
05 Dirty Blue Gene [3:54]
06 Best Batch Yet [5:23]
07 Band Introduction [1:32]
08 Safe As Milk [3:54]
09 Flavor Bud Living [2:11]
10 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles [3:45]
11 One Red Rose That I Mean [2:15]
12 You Should Know By The Kindness Of Uh Dog The Way Uh Human Should Be [1:46]
13 Bat Chain Puller [5:54]
14 Sugar 'N Spikes [3:36]
15 Kandy Korn [5:05]
16 Suction Prints [4:56]
17 Big Eyed Beans From Venus [5:13]

Total time: 65.49 min

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Late Show

01 Hair Pie: Bake III (Bass Solo Full Band) [3:58]
02 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man [4:06]
03 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go [1:53]
04 Hot Head [3:39]
05 Ashtray Heart [3:47]
06 Dirty Blue Gene [4:13]
07 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) [2:35]
08 Safe As Milk [3:58]
09 Flavor Bud Living [1:15]
10 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles [3:47]
11 Sue Egypt [3:07]
12 Untitled Poem [2:44]
13 Doctor Dark [3:13]
14 My Human Gets Me Blues [3:12]
15 Sheriff Of Hong Kong [7:24]
16 Suction Prints [4:25]
17 Band Introduction [1:18]

Total time: 58.34 min

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Lineup:

Don Van Vliet - vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Richard Snyder - guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar, slide guitar
Robert Williams - drums, percussion

Gary Lucas - poetry (Track 12), guitar "National Steel Duolian" (Track 09)

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Lineage:

Recording: ElectroVoice RE10 microphones > Dolby B encoded Maxell UDXL-I cassettes > Sony TCD5. 

Transfer: Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking) > AIFF. FLAC files (level 8) created with xACT (sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

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Comments:

Audience cassette masters - decent sound quality, though the early show sounds somewhat better than the late show - check the samples to judge the sound for yourself.

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Seeded by hothcanada to Zappateers.com = 14 May 2008

Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com and updated to Zappateers standards = 26 March 2021