Friday, April 20, 2012

Captain Beefheart - The Early Years 1959 - 1969

Captain Beefheart - The Early Years 1959 - 1969

Captain Beefheart Discography Bootlegs The Early Years 1959 - 1969 Song list: 1. Lost In A Whirlpool 2. Teenage Maltshop 3. Metal Man Has Lost His Wings 4. Tupelo Mississippi 5. Somebody's Walking 6. Old Folks Boogie 7. Evil 8. Blues Jam 9. Out Of The Frying Pan - alt version 10. Almost Grown 11. Call On Me - slow version 12. Sure Nuff and Yes I Do 13. Moody Liz - rare acetate version 14. Korn Ring Finger 15. Frownland 16. Ella Guru 17. Hair Pie - Bake 1 / Hair Pie Bake 2 18. Pachuco Cadaver 19. Sugar 'N Spikes 20. Neon Meat Dream Of A Octofish 21. The Blimp - edit / Candy Man / China Pig 22. Well Well Well (sung by Rockette Morton) Tracks 5 - 8: Avalon Ballroom 1966 (incorrectly says 1968 on cover) Track 12: John Peel show 1968 Radar Station Overview A nicely packaged European bootleg bringing together a whole bunch of rare and unavailable Magic Band goodies. Much of the content has since been included on the Grow Fins box set and Zappa's Mystery Disc CD but there are a cou! ple of items here that are still not available commercially. Overall the sound is pretty good although the Avalon tracks are not as good as they could have been (still great to get the very rare 'Blues Jam' track included though). For a change this is a boot that has been compiled by a real fan and this shows in the sleeve notes which I'll include here:- "The first track in this collection is probably the earliest recording of Don Van Vliet, recorded in a classroom at Antelope Valley College/High with ...





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