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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - City Hall, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 1972-04-05 (1972)

Track listing:
  1. Hair Pie: Bake Iii 1:17
  2. Smoking Rio 6 0:22
  3. Hair Pie: Bake Iii 0:47
  4. The Mascara Snake 0:33
  5. The Mascara Fake 0:31
  6. The Mascara For God's Sake 0:25
  7. When It Blows Its Stacks 4:20
  8. Click Clack 4:02
  9. Grow Fins 5:16
  10. Band Intro 1:35
  11. Hobo Chang Ba (Instrumental) 2:40
  12. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 5:43
  13. Old Black Snake 2:00
  14. Alice In Blunderland 4:31
  15. Spitball Scalped A Baby 9:08
  16. More 1:57

Notes

Audience
Quality: 6/10

Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, sax, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Oréjon/Audi Hon/Roy Estrada: bass guitar
Zoot Horn/Rollo Bill Harkleroad: guitar, slide guitar
Winged Eel Fingerling/Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar
Ed Marimba/Art Tripp: drums, percussion

Comments:
PeterHarding: I only ever saw the great man and his band twice. Once at Newcastle City Hall, where he come on stage with a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale which immediately endeared him to the Geordie audience, not that he needed that anyway. Personally he could have come on and done nothing, just being in his presence and I was happy. I can't quite remember exactly when this concert was but I think it was the some tour as when I saw him the second time, which was at Bickershaw pop festival, which I think was in Lancashire.
(Blimp Over Europe #1)

John Peel: My favourite band in the world is the Faces. I curl up when I read things like that because they mean nothing much but the Faces get down into dark parts of me and dig out all the shit that's in there and get rid of it. They're an amazing release of tension.
Not even the Faces could have done to the City Hall in Newcastle what Beefheart and the Magic Band did last year. You know that riff in Click Clack that almost made it a hit last year? Well, when the band dug into that the whole building seemed to beat with the pulse of it. Passers-by must have been surprised to see the roof and walls moving rhythmically like a human chest. The moment only lasted for a minute at the most - but it was a good minute to have experienced.
(John Peel: The New Captain Beefheart Album Clear Spot. Creem February 1, 1973)

Dean L. Dinnetz: Had the pleasure to see the good Captain in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K. in 1972 at the City Hall. Mr. Zoot Horn Rollo was on guitar, and Mr. Rocket Morton was on bass. Many years ago that was and i still smile when i think about. My favorite tune? Of course, Big Eyed Beans From Venus John Peal on Radio One use to howl when he played that! Do hope Don is still doing well.
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Richard Kelly: Famously the Captain started this show with an ear splitting 20 minute clarinet solo.
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Toby Celery: Went to the concert at Newcastle City Hall - taped the show but loaned the tape out many years ago.....never got it back, oh well!!!!
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