Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts, USA 5 December 1980 -------------------- Set list: Disc 1 [56:45] 01 Hair Pie Bake III (Bass Solo) - Audience [5:22] > incl. 30 seconds spoken Apes-Ma intro 02 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man [3:58] 03 Abba Zaba [4:46] 04 Hot Head [3:41] 05 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond [2:05] 06 Ashtray Heart [4:14] 07 Dirty Blue Gene [4:18] 08 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) [3:27] 09 Best Batch Yet [5:46] 10 Safe As Milk [4:06] 11 Flavor Bud Living [2:06] 12 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles [3:39] 13 One Red Rose That I Mean [2:02] 14 Untitled Poem [3:37] > may be a song? 15 Doctor Dark [3:30] Disc 2 [42:21] 16 Bat Chain Puller [5:29] 17 Band Introduction [1:26] 18 My Human Gets Me Blues [3:30] 19 Improvisation [3:10] 20 Sugar 'N Spikes [2:53] 21 Sheriff Of Hong Kong [7:19] > tape flip after song, no music missing 22 Kandy Korn [5:00] > false start cuts in 23 Encore Break [2:44] 24 Suction Prints [5:38] 25 Big Eyed Beans From Venus [5:08] Total time: 99.06 min -------------------- Lineup: Don Van Vliet - vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica, chinese gongs Eric Drew Feldman - synthesizer, bass guitar, mandolin, keyboards, moog synthesizer, grand piano Richard Snyder - guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar, slide guitar Robert Williams - drums, percussion -------------------- Lineage: Realistic twinhead stereo mike > Technics cassette deck (dolby off) > (average quality, not the crummy one I used a few months later) > Maxell XL-I master cassettes (normal bias) > played on Nak. 125 into soundforge 4.5 WAV (into Realtek soundcard) > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours. It's not a "masters of rock", or jazz, but a Masters of Whatever Production. Speed correction advice by: flambay, 2021 07 29 Edited by: Pittylabelle, 2021 07 29 -------------------- Extras: Artwork included -------------------- Comments: This was a rather busy time for concerts. Captain Beefheart played 2 nights (one show each night). I think this is the 1st of the 2 nights but not sure. This was the only time I went to see a Beef show. It is an acquired taste, and I don't agree with some of what he says (like track 2 title) but there are some folks who love this guy. Not really sure why, but nobody can accuse Captain Beefheart of being too restrained in his expressionism. This was about 6 years after he teamed up with Frank Zappa. I've heard a few rather marginal sounding Beefheart recordings. This one came out quite well, and it is the whole show except the 1st second or two of track 22 (it's not too noticable) and the 1st few seconds of the spoken intro (also not too noticable). The 1st flip was between songs and nothing's missing there. I don't know what the heck kind of music this can be called. It's fusion, but I wouldn't call it normal jazz (even though it has a sax in it). Avantgarde spazz in parts, bluesy folk rock in others. It's different. That's one thing I like about this music. It's not superficial either. This is music from and about the real world (not seen on MTV). Another thing I like about it is all the instruments can be heard clearly. The between song talk is very quiet, but it can be heard. The vocals, when there are vocals, are also easily heard and come through well. Well enough so even though I didn't HAVE to do a new transfer of this master recording, because my 1st CD of it sounded okay, I did one anyway. The 1st one was never posted. This one may be a little better but I mainly did the new transfer to keep "CD" and "CD extractor" out of this lineage, and to make sure there would be a few good choices for a disc break in case you don't like this one (or have the other night and want to make them a 3 CD set). There's alot of not much going on between songs, but I left it all in there because it wouldn't fit on 1 disc anyway (if I edited out all the nothing going on parts) and it's a 1st time post from the master so I wanted to put it up as completely as possible. Classic? Maybe, sorta, for some of us it is. Tough times call for some Beefheart. And these are tough times. Do not sell this recording (you want to buy some beef, go to a butcher shop, restaurant, supermarket or official record/CD distributor). Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly (gaps are so 80's, Beefheart is always). -------------------- Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com = 19 November 2020 Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com and updated to Zappateers standards = 6 February 2021 Seeded by Pittylabelle to Zappateers.com and updated to Zappateers standards = 3 December 2022 (speed corrected)