Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band: Frankfurt 1972 (VG- Aud) FLAC

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Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany - 1972-04-14

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Tracklist:
01. Hair Pie: Bake III (1:35)
02. The Mascara Snake (0:39)
03. The Mascara Fake (0:26)
04. The Mascara For God's Sake (1:09)
05. When It Blows Its Stacks (3:54)
06. Click Clack (3:48)
07. Band Intro (0:47)
08. Hobo Chang Ba (2:35) instrumental
09. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (5:06)
10. Old Black Snake (2:45)
11. Peon (3:50)
12. Abba Zaba (2:48)
13. Spitball Scalped A Baby (12:21)
14. My Human Gets Me Blues (3:40)
15. Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:40) instrumental
16. Golden Birdies (1:44)
Total time: 48:49

Quality: 7.5/10

Line-Up:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Rockette Morton/Mark Boston: bass guitar, guitar
Orejon-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

Werner Neumann: Fun For Fans - Captain Beefheart at the Hoechst Century Hall.
When someone should ask about the strangest rock concert of the season: it took place in the 'Hoechster Jahrhunderthalle'. Only a handful of insiders had lost its way into the hall, and a kind of familiar atmosphere reigned as 'Captain Beefheart' and his 'Magic Band' started with their work.
'Captain Beefheart' alias Don Van Vliet (a Zappa comrade from the land of the unlimited chances), on the outside a bear, an unicum with a voice of four-and-a-half octaves, makes rock theatre in an unusual way. His vocal cord acrobatics begin somewhere low down in the basement, roar impassioned from the stereo walls, practice as pneumatic crackling and shrieking drag - and finally end at circular saw pitch, a sort of torture rack for harmony loving ears, a thing like a synthesizer.
The 'Magic Band' works against the atonal, un-melodic anarchy of his voice: drums, two basses, two guitars that tear up rock devices in a wild mix - but skilled - and create an unheard tensile, polymetric music out of the remaining fragments. As solo players the musicians are accomplished: they know their manual between blues and free jazz.
All together: a total anti-music, a bombastic hubbub. The lyrics Van Vliet produces and recites (complete unintelligible - but you can't have all) range - eye-blinking like the man himself - between mystic twaddle, much kitsch and beautiful nonsense.
Whether Beefheart takes himself serious or not - it's funny anyway. Thus - as also known from Zappa's Mothers - his show makes a clear distance to the hectic of the commercial pop music through irony and satire.
(Werner Neumann: Darmstädter Echo. April 18, 1972. A reprint of this review appears in 'Garantiert Ungewöhnlich', the German translation of Colin David Webb's 'Captain Beefheart'. Thanks to Theo Tieman for providing the gorillacrow translation from 1995)
more here: http://bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=cb19720414§ion=242

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Bonus included: March 1972 Interview Radio London, England by Andy Hall (FM).