Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Le Bataclan Paris, France 15 April 1972 -------------------- Set list: 01 Don Speaks [0:11] 02 Hair Pie: Bake III (Bass Solo) [0:51] 03 Alice In Blunderland [3:36] 04 Abba Zaba [3:00] 05 Interview Part 1 [1:56] 06 Click Clack [2:54] 07 My Human Gets Me Blues [1:22] 08 Interview Part 2 [1:47] 09 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby [3:14] 10 Interview Part 3 [2:38] 11 Spitball Scalped A Baby [1:14] 12 Golden Birdies [2:08] Total time: 24.56 min Quality: 6.5-7.5/10 -------------------- Lineup: Don Van Vliet - vocals, sax, harmonica Mark Boston - bass guitar, guitar Roy Estrada - bass guitar Bill Harkleroad - guitar, slide guitar Elliot Ingber - guitar, slide guitar Art Tripp - drums, percussion -------------------- Lineage: French TV, Channel 2, TV Program Pop2 (1) TV > The Original Bat Chain Puller CD (Paris 1973) > EAC > WAV > Wavelab > edits > TLH > FLAC level 8 (tracks 02-04, 06-07, 09, 11-12) (2) TV > Tape unknown gen > Wavelab > WAV > edits > TLH > FLAC level 8 (tracks 01, 05, 08, 10) -------------------- Comments: The Bataclan 1972 gig as broadcast by French TV with several interview segments inserted. The tape I got with the whole broadcast is very hissy, probably 5th gen or higher. The Original Bat Chain Puller CD offered just the music coming with rough cuts but sounds a lot better. Theo Tieman translated 3 interviews made just after the gig, interesting reading stuff: http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/dutch/fracasse.html http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/dutch/hebdo.html http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/dutch/oeuf.html Allan Chauvant: the correct date for this Paris, Bataclan gig is April 15th 1972, not 1973 - he did not play in France in 1973. This was the first time I attended a Captain Beefheart gig, huge souvenir! The price was 5 francs! Even for this old time a very cheap show, probably because of the French TV. It was broadcast on French TV 2nd channel, on a program called 'Pop 2', some 25 or 30 minutes with an interview'. (Blimp Over Europe #1) Allan Chauvant: It was broadcast some 3 or 4 weeks later (may 1972) on French TV, 2nd channel, on a program called 'Pop2', some 25 or 30 minutes with an interview. At the end of 1972, for a kind of 'what happened in Paris this year' they aired 2 more songs, not previously broadcast. (SSTS #5) Paul Brown: The program Culture Rock, which was broadcast on French TV In April 1994, had a 40 second segment filmed on-stage at the Bataclan, Paris in 1972 - the Magic Band are playing Click Clack and are boogieing manically around the stage, with a Caped Captain, pretty much like the 1972 German Beat Club. The cameras are hand-held and on-stage around the guitarist while at the end Art Tripp III, in his big buttoned waistcoat, is shown efficiently beating the crap out of his drum kit! (SSTS #5) Olivier Delahaye: The second time (I saw Beefheart) was in Paris in 'Le Bataclan'. Roy Estrada replaced Rockette Morton on bass, and Rockette replaced Jimmy Simmons on guitar. Art Trip joined Drumbo to make the drums sound incredible. This was Clear Spot time and they did a version of Big Eyes Beans which is still in my mind. This concert (with a Frank Zappa concert in Rouen from the 80 tour) is my best ever 'live music souvenir'. (Fireparty) jazzfan 2009-05-02 -------------------- Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com = 19 November 2020 Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com and updated to Zappateers standards = 5 February 2021