Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Phoenix Theatre Petaluma, California, USA 25 January 1981 -------------------- Set list: 01 Hair Pie: Bake III (Bass Solo Full Band) [4:40] 02 Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man [4:47] 03 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go [2:09] 04 Hot Head [3:49] 05 Ashtray Heart [4:11] 06 Dirty Blue Gene [4:14] 07 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) [2:59] 08 Safe As Milk [3:57] 09 Flavor Bud Living [1:32] 10 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles [4:15] 11 Sue Egypt [3:27] 12 Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat [2:25] 13 Doctor Dark [2:45] 14 My Human Gets Me Blues [3:15] 15 Sheriff Of Hong Kong [7:28] 16 Suction Prints [4:40] 17 Big Eyed Beans From Venus [5:46] Total time: 66.29 min -------------------- 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 (Track 10) Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar, slide guitar Robert Williams - drums, percussion Gary Lucas - poetry (Track 12), guitar "National Steel Duolian" (Track 09) -------------------- Lineage: Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > you -------------------- Comments: Big thanks to the original taper, and to the trader (jbk) who hooked me up with a copy. I originally mastered this 2009-09-06. The only thing I did on the computer was place track marks before each piece. This FLAC fileset comes from WAVs from this dub, which only needed SBE corrections in TLH; no CD-Rs or EACs. I've had the Spotlight & Shiny outtakes on constant rotation in my car & it's on my mind to get some more Beefy goodness out here. Pulling out a variety of shows from different timeframes - here's one of his last shows. The venue was not noted on the tape I got; a little googling shows I'm not the only one without the venue noted. There's a mini cut about 3:10 into Big Eyed Beans From Venus. I assumed it was a dubbing flaw & went back to redo it, only to find it's that way on the source tape. Very excellent wide-separation stereo sound on this one; a bit of hiss, but not too bad, and a bit echo-ey / maybe far from the stage. This has gotta be one of the best sounding shows that wasn't already slapped onto vinyl or a disc. There's some yahoos in the audience (le Beef threatens to toss onee out), but whatyagonnado. A fine setlist mix here - recent LP tracks plus killer classics; I don't think I could have pulled a better list of picks. Ashtray Heart ... Suction Prints ... Hair Pie with the whole band ... Million Miles ... My Human ... Sue Egypt ... and Beans of course. Oh my oh my!, so many of my favorites. The band intros are at the very end, and are not broken out to a separate track. I dunno about you, but when I hear stuff this old, I am REALLY grateful that people went and recorded things like this. And I'm glad traders kept them going around long enough so I could get a copy many years later. Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "... -359" is 3 min 59 sec long). I mark the start of tracks when the music or count-in begins, not the talking about it before it starts. The usual schmack applies here: Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings. Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats. Please only trade this with others, don't sell it. Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities. -------------------- Seeded by SergiouSSan to Zappateers.com = 16 January 2010 Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com and updated to Zappateers standards = 26 March 2021