Live album · 1999
Tracklist
CD 1. Just Got Back From The City (1965-67)
1.01 Obeah Man (1966 Demo) 2:47
1.02 Just Got Back From The City (1966 Demo) 1:53
1.03 I'm Glad (1966 Demo) 3:44
1.04 Triple Combination (1966 Demo) 2:48
1.05 Here I Am I Always Am (Early 1966 Demo) 3:15
1.06 Here I Am I Always Am (Later 1966 Demo) 2:32
1.07 Somebody In My Home (1966 Live) 3:03
1.08 Tupelo (1966 Live) 4:15
1.09 Evil Is Going On (1966 Live) 2:33
1.10 Old Folks Boogie (1967 Live) 3:15
1.11 Call On Me (1965 Demo) 3:04
1.12 Sure Nuff N Yes I Do (1967 Demo) 2:11
1.13 Yellow Brick Road (1967 Demo) 1:45
1.14 Plastic Factory (1967 Demo) 2:57
CD2. Electricity (1967-68)
2.01 Electricity (1968 Live) 3:42
2.02 Sure Nuff N Yes I Do (1968 Live) 2:57
2.03 Rollin N Tumblin (1968 Live) 11:08
2.04 Electricity (1968 Live) 3:54
2.05 Yer Gonna Need Somebody On Yer Bond (1968 Live) 6:25
2.06 Kandy Korn (1968 Live) 4:21
2.07 Korn Ring Finger (1967 Demo) 7:23
CD 3. Trout Mask House Sessions (1969)
3.01 (Untitled 1) 4:59
3.02 (Untitled 2) 8:18
3.03 Hair Pie: Bake 1 5:04
3.04 Hair Pie: Bake 2 2:44
3.05 (Untitled 5) 1:04
3.06 Hobo Chang Ba 2:02
3.07 (Untitled 7) 1:57
3.08 Hobo Chang Ba (Take 2) 3:08
3.09 Dachau Blues 2:06
3.10 Old Fart At Play 1:23
3.11 (Untitled 11) 1:01
3.12 Pachuco Cadaver 4:08
3.13 Sugar N Spikes 2:40
3.14 (Untitled 14) 1:00
3.15 Sweet Sweet Bulbs 2:30
3.16 Frownland (Take 1) 2:51
3.17 Frownland 1:52
3.18 (Untitled 18) 1:10
3.19 Ella Guru 2:33
3.20 (Untitled 20) 0:08
3.21 She's Too Much For My Mirror 1:30
3.22 (Untitled 22) 0:35
3.23 Steal Softly Through Snow 2:22
3.24 (Untitled 24) 1:51
3.25 My Human Gets Me Blues 2:53
3.26 (Untitled 26) 1:05
3.27 When Big Joan Sets Up 4:32
3.28 (Untitled 28) 0:04
3.29 (Untitled 29) 0:56
3.30 China Pig 4:14
CD 4. Trout Mask House Sessions (Storytime Portion) (1969) (Plus Enhanced CD)
4.01 Blimp 5:09
4.02 Herb 1:06
4.03 Septic Tank 0:51
4.04 Overdub 5:26
4.Video.01 Cannes Beach, France, 1968 6:58
4.Video.01a Electricity
4.Video.01b Sure Nuff N Yes I Do
4.Video.02 Amougies, Belgium, 1969 5:31
4.Video.02a She's Too Much For My Mirror
4.Video.02b My Human Gets Me Blues
4.Video.03 Detroit, Michigan, 1971 12:51
4.Video.03a When Big Joan Sets Up
4.Video.03b Woe Is Uh Me Bop
4.Video.03c Bellerin Plain
4.Video.04 Paris, France, 1972 2:55
4.Video.04a Click Clack
CD 5. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-82)
5.01 My Human Gets Me Blues (1969 Live) 3:56
5.02 When Big Joan Sets Up (1971 Live) 6:13
5.03 Woe Is Uh Me Bop (1971 Live) 2:46
5.04 Bellerin Plain (1971 Live) 3:26
5.05 Black Snake Moan (1972 Radio Phone-In) 1:04
5.06 Grow Fins (1972 Live) 5:12
5.07 Black Snake Moan II (1972 Radio) 1:52
5.08 Spitball Scalped Uh Baby (1972 Live) 9:16
5.09 Harp Boogie I (1972 Radio) 1:34
5.10 One Red Rose Than I Mean (1972 Live) 1:48
5.11 Harp Boogie II (1972 Radio) 0:55
5.12 Natchez Burning (1972 Radio) 0:45
5.13 Harp Boogie III (1972 Radio Phone-In) 0:52
5.14 Click Clack (1973 Live) 2:53
5.15 Orange Claw Hammer (1975 Radio)4:39
5.16 Odd Jobs (1975 Piano Demo) 5:13
5.17 Odd Jobs (1976 Band Demo) 5:12
5.18 Vampire Suite (1980, work tapes,live) 3:48
5.19 Mellotron Improv (1978 Live) 1:25
5.20 Evening Bell (1980 Piano Worktape) 0:56
5.21 Evening Bell (1982 Guitar Worktape) 2:18
5.22 Mellotron Improv (1980 Live) 2:22
5.23 Flavor Bud Living (1980 Live) 1:16
Line-up/Musicians
Drums – Vic Mortensen (track 1.11)
Tin Whistle – Don Van Vliet (tracks 2.01,2.02)
Voice [At End] – Frank Zappa (track 4.04)
Drums – Jeff Bruchell (track 5.01)
Marimba – Art Tripp (tracks 5.02,5.03,5.04)
Bass – Roy Estrada (track 5.14)
Acoustic Guitar – Frank Zappa (track 5.15)
Piano – Don Van Vliet (tracks 5.16,5.20)
Guitar – Denny Walley, John French (track 5.17)
Synthesizer – John Thomas (track 5.17) Drums – Robert Williams (track 5.18)
Guitar – Jeff Moris Tepper, John French,Richard Snyder (track 5.18)
Keyboards, Mellotron – Eric Drew Feldman (track 5.18)
Whistle – Don Van Vliet (track 5.18)
Keyboards, Synthesizer, Mellotron – Don Van Vliet (track 5.19)
Guitar – Gary Lucas (tracks 5.21,5.23)
Keyboards, Synthesizer, Mellotron – Don Van Vliet (track 5.22)
Bass – Jerry Handley (tracks: 1.01 to 1.12, 2.01 to 2.07), Mark Boston (tracks: 3.01 to 3.30, 5.01 to 5.04, 5.06, 5.14)
Bass Clarinet – Victor Hayden (tracks: 3.01 to 3.30, 5.01)
Drums – Alex Snouffer (tracks: 1.01 to 1.03, 1.05), Art Tripp (tracks: 5.02 to 5.04, 5.06, 5.08, 5.14), John French (tracks: 1.10, 1.12, 2.01 to 4.04, 5.02 to 5.04, 5.17), PG Blakely (tracks: 1.04, 1.06 to 1.09)
Guitar – Alex Snouffer (tracks: 1.04, 1.06 to 1.12, 2.01 to 2.07), Bill Harkleroad (tracks: 3.01 to 4.04, 5.01 to 5.04, 5.06, 5.10, 5.14), Doug Moon (tracks: 1.01 to 1.09, 1.11, 1.12, 3.30), Elliot Ingber (tracks: 5.02 to 5.04, 5.06, 5.14), Jeff Cotton (tracks: 1.10, 2.01 to 4.04), Rich Hepner (tracks: 1.01 to 1.03, 1.05)
Harmonica – Don Van Vliet (tracks: 1.01 to 1.10, 1.12, 2.01 to 2.07, 5.05 to 5.07, 5.11 to 5.14)
Shenai [Shehnai] – Don Van Vliet (tracks: 2.03 to 2.06)
Soprano Saxophone – Don Van Vliet (tracks: 2.03 to 2.06, 3.01 to 4.04, 5.02 to 5.04, 5.08, 5.18)
Vocals – Don Van Vliet (tracks: 1.01 to 1.12, 2.01 to 4.04, 5.01 to 5.07, 5.09, 5.11 to 5.15, 5.17, 5.18)
About this release
Revenant – Revenant 210 (US)
Tracks 1.01 to 1.03 recorded at Original Sound, Hollywood, C.A.
Track 1.04 recorded at Vliet's mother's house, Carolside, Lancaster, CA. (One channel uses an 'Electrovoice 664' microphone for Vliet).
Tracks 1.05, 1.06, recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Tracks 1.07 to 1-10 recorded live at Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA. (Aug/Sep '67).
Track 1.11 recorded at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Tracks 1.12 to 1.14 recorded at Original Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Tracks 2.01, 2.02 recorded live at MIDEM Pop Festival, Cannes beach, France.
Tracks 2.03 to 2.06 recorded live at Frank Freeman's Dance Studio, Kidderminster, UK.
Track 2.07 recorded at T.T.G Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Tracks 3.01 to 4.04 recorded at the Magic Band house, Ensenada Drive, Woodhills, CA.
(3.02 voices are Amway delivery driver & his wife.
3.03 - 3.04 are outtakes and NOT the identically titled tracks on TMR. This is true of other similarly titled tracks to TMR on CD3- all outtakes)
Track 4.02 is reference to Herb Alpert (A&M), not Herb Bermann.
Track 5.01 recorded live at Amougies, Belgium 1969.
Tracks 5.02 to 5.04 recorded live at Detroit Tubeworks. (Jan 1971).
Tracks 5.05 and 5.13 recorded live via phone-in radio KHSU, CA.
Tracks 5.06, 5.08 & 5.12 recorded live at Bickershaw Festival, Lancashire, UK.
Tracks 5.07, 5.09, 5.11 and 5.12 recorded live at radio WBCN, Boston, MA.
Track 5.10 recorded live at Town Hall, NYC.
Track 5.14 recorded live at Bataclan, Paris.
Track 5.15 recorded live at radio KWST.
Track 5.18 recorded live at The Venue, London, UK.
Track 5.19 recorded live at Paradise, Boston, MA.
Track 5.21 recorded at home, NYC.
Track 5.22 recorded live at Stanhope, NJ. (1980).
Track 5.23 recorded live at Beacon Theater, NYC. (1980).
Thanks to snobb for the addition