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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Roxy January 28, 1978 (1978)

Track listing:
  1. Hair Pie: Bake III 2:24
  2. Suction Prints 5:20
  3. Safe As Milk 4:11
  4. I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go 2:28
  5. Bat Chain Puller 6:12
  6. Electricity 4:23
  7. Harry Irene 5:18
  8. Click Clack 6:03
  9. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 3:21
  10. The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back 2:55
  11. Floppy Boot Stomp 4:35
  12. My Human Gets Me Blues 3:00
  13. Veteran's Day Poppy 2:24
  14. Band Intro 3:29
  15. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy 5:12

Notes

Los Angeles

The first 1978 live document of Beefheart, very good sound quality, some new tracks from the forthcoming album. You can hear the taper and his friends talk between the tracks.

Audience
Quality: 8/10


Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Eric Drew 'Black Jew/Kitabo' Feldman: bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
Robert 'Wait For Me' Williams: drums, percussion
Jeff 'Tapir/White Jew' Moris Tepper: guitar, slide-guitar
Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla/Denny Walley: guitar, slide guitar


Jim Calderwood: I only saw the Captain live once back in the late 70's or probably early 80's at the Roxy (I think) on Sunset strip. While waiting outside you could hear the thunderous beat to a looong version of Bat Chain Puller. What a wonderful trance beat. I wish a techno or drone band would borrow it for some extended version psychedelic song. Once inside the concert began with a real cacaphonious solo by Eric Feldman (I think), then the Captain brought a huge cue card to read of the lyrics of My Mama Is A Mummy, which was hilarious because ALL the lyrics consisted of was "my mama is a mummy" over and over. At least that's the way it seemed.

He has that quality of attention (like Stockhausen) so that when he looks at you the eyes show a direct looking. He's not day dreaming. I had brought a friend who had never heard anything like Beefheart. I had to give him a few aspirin after the first song cause his head was beginning to ache. Haha. What a wonderful evening it was!
(alt.fan.capt-beefheart)