CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
1980-11-15
Student Union Bar, Loughborough University.
Loughborough, England.
01. Hair Pie Bake III ( Bass Solo )
02. Nowaday's A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03. Abba Zaba
04. Hot Head
05. Ashtray Heart
06. Dirty Blue Gene
07. Best Batch Yet
08. Safe As Milk
09. Flavor Bud Living
10. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
11. One Red Rose That I Mean
12. Untitled
13. / / Doctor Dark
14. Bat Chain Puller
15. Band Introductions
16. Old Fart At Play
17. My Human Gets Me Blues
18. Sugar N' Spikes
19. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
20. Suction Prints
21. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
total time approx. 81 minutes
1st gen. aud. cassette.
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transfer by mcchocchoc. Another from the Archives here. Excellent sound.
The Band . . .
Captain Beefheart 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 [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles]
Jeff Moris Tepper guitar, slide-guitar
Live Guest: Gary Lucas national steel dualion [on: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, Flavor Bud Living]
The top of Doctor Dark is cut due to a tape flip. According to the old database, there were two shows on this date. This is the only recording I have in the collection. On my cassette it is not note if this is either a late or early show.
I also decided to add an extra to this torrent/share. Included is a text file of an email "interview" I did with Richard Snyder back during some point in 1997 or 1998. It has never been on posted any websites or anywhere else, only a few friends have read it. It is pretty neat. Enjoy !
Here are some quotes from the old database about this show . . . ( thanks D. for all of your hard work ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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Dave Lang: I have to agree that live was the best experience, if only because of the tremendous personalities of the various magic band members, the whole band oozed charisma and the cap'n especially. I also agree that the Jeff Morris Tepper band kicked ass, I thoroughly enjoyed the 1980 show I saw at Loughborough, tremendous playing.
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Geoff Geddes: By 1980 technology had moved on and the Loughborough tape is of excellent audience tape quality (B+?), the good atmosphere at this show is evident and the nature of the small Loughborough Student Union Bar make the music sound loud and effective. Audience noise is limited to people pushing through to the bar at the back of the room 'scuse me, scuse me' etc. You can also hear our discussions between numbers but these could easily be edited out.
The audience was split between Beefheart fans who had come from all over the East Midlands to see their man and the regular student union crowd who would turn up on any Saturday night to drink at the bar and 'listen' to who ever happened to be playing. Even in 1980 there must of been a ten to twenty year age gap between the two halves of the audience. Being students they have tendency to show off and offer scant regard to any act that happened to be on. However it is wonderful to hear how the Captain won over this audience, helped by the glowers and threatening looks of the true fans who did not want some nerdy young students wrecking the set. The Captain was treated with due respect and given a rousing greeting when he came on stage, you can here him remark "Better than London". The students were a bit bemused by the poetry, this was not exactly ZZ Top and they found it difficult to concentrate, note the shout of "Who shot JR?" during the reading, an interesting contemporary reference since the Dallas Series was the big TV talking point in the UK at this time.
The music is wonderful, full of energy and invention. Sugar 'n Spikes is outstanding, I think it is my favorite version of this number. At the time I thought it not as good as previous gigs I had been to but this was just the jaded view of a long time fan still missing Rocket Morton and the old Magic Band. With the passing of the years the tape now sounds just fine to me. ********************************************
( yep . . the tape sounds fine ! ). Enjoy.
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shared at dimeadozen on Feb. 21, 2011.