Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Europhia Tavern Portland, Oregon, USA 18 January 1981 -------------------- Set list: 01 Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man [4:05] 02 Abba Zaba [3:47] 03 Hot Head [3:42] 04 Audience And Don [0:34] 05 Ashtray Heart [3:21] 06 A Few Words From Don [0:34] 07 Dirty Blue Gene [3:54] 08 Best Batch Yet [5:46] > cuts out 09 Safe As Milk [3:50] > cuts in 10 Don Talks Some More [1:22] 11 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond [1:41] 12 One Red Rose That I Mean [2:24] 13 Tuning - Don Talks [0:39] 14 Doctor Dark [3:08] 15 Audience [0:34] 16 Bat Chain Puller [5:24] 17 My Human Gets Me Blues [3:12] 18 Sugar 'N Spikes [2:57] 19 Sheriff Of Hong Kong [6:54] 20 Kandy Korn [5:10] 21 Suction Prints [4:48] 22 Big Eyed Beans From Venus [5:23] Total time: 73.19 min -------------------- Lineup: Don Van Vliet - vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano Robert Williams - drums, percussion Richard Snyder - guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar, slide guitar -------------------- Lineage: Soundboard Recording (unknown low gen). Maxell XLII-S Tapes > Onkyo Deck > TDK DA-3826 > CD-R > PC > .WAV > Audacity 1.3 (for speed correction) > .WAV > Traders Little Helper Flac level 8 > dimeadozen Transfer - mcchocchoc aka JBK Feb. 2011. -------------------- Comments: This may not be too heavily circulated. It will be an upgrade to most everyone. I know of an incomplete audience source that many people likely have. I do not have that version. That tape cuts off after Sheriff Of Hong Kong. That is the tape listed at the old Beefheart Database (thanks D. I still use the site for research !). Assuming that the information from the old database is correct, the "aud" version also begins with "Nowaday's . . . ". Considering that nearly all of (if not all) of the shows from the 80/81 DOC TOUR began with a Bass Solo, the "Bass Solo / Hair Pie" may be missing from this recording. The first couple of beats of "Nowaday's . . ." are missing and it cuts in. No big deal, we are talking a few seconds. I have two copies of the Soundboard version here in the Archives. The better copy out of the two was missing the encores. They were very close in overall quality, but I went with the first source for the main show. Lucky for me (and you !) my second source had the encores. The main portion of the show (tracks 01-20) ran very, very fast. The second source ran very slow. After I transferred the cassettes I used Audacity to correct the speed. I think it sounds pretty right on. This was the first time I had bothered with (tried) speed correction. I am happy with the results and I think most will agree. I'm pretty good at this point with video and authoring dvds. As far as audio, I just do what I can. Considering that I have had no complaints after many shares, I guess I am doing ok. Heh heh heh. Much thanks to the person that traded me this tape many years ago and also thanks to my local buddy Greg for the second source (for the encores). Also, much thanks to the original taper who got a board patch ! Awesome. It's funny, the trading world, the better copy I have here was sent to me from Europe and the other copy from Greg (who was at the show) came from where we live, in Portland ! Neat-o ! I think the overall sound quality here is very good / great. The mix is well balanced and all instruments are heard clearly, including the vocal. Don seems relaxed here and having some fun. His mood seems rather playful on this evening. His only complaints are about the stage lighting and people smoking clove cigs (he also mentioned that at the Seattle show a few days before). If you listen closely and follow the lyrics he makes a few funny remarks here and there. He is also very chatty throughout the show. Several funny remarks and he also mentions the volcano eruption that happend up here around that time. Pretty cool ! I've been listening to this show as I am creating this text file . . . great set and it sounds super ! I hope you all enjoy the show. NEVER FOR SALE / FREE / TRADE ALWAYS & ONLY. -------------------- Shared at Dimeadozen.org = 17 February 2011 Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com = 19 November 2020 Seeded to Zappateers.com and updated to Zappateers standards = 3 February 2021