Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City
4/22/74
Soundboard
01 Mirror Man
02 Upon the My Oh My
03 Crazy Little Thing
04 Full Moon, Hot Sun
05 Sugar Bowl
06 This Is The Day
07 Keep On Rubbing/It's Mighty Crazy (Lightnin' Slim)
08 Be Your Dog
09 Sweet Georgia Brown
10 Abba Zaba
11 Peaches 1
12 Peaches 2
From Home Page Replica Website - www.shiningsilence.com
Cover says "Source: Recorded at Cowtown, Kansas City, April 22 1974 - A rare early FM broadcast" - this was a QUAD broadcast of the Missouri concert. Sound is pretty good stereo. Performance, like all the 1974 tour with the Buckwheat backing band, is not great but Beefheart's singing and apparent good mood compensate for that. Features a blues jam with "Keep On Rubbing" and "Be Your Dog". Over an hour long at 64:53.
From Captain Beefheart Timeline - http://www.beefheart.de/index.html
Magic Band #29: Tragic Live Band
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Don Van Vliet: Five days before the tour - a tour all over the world, starting in America - they just dropped me. It was terrible, awful; I learned them the music note by note at the time, and just before such a big tour they cut the collaboration because they think they are essential. I like this new band very much. these guys already could play from the start, that's important.
[Bert Jansen: THE CAPTAIN! Captain Beefheart: Magie Voor Eenzamen Of Voor Het Volk? OOR, June 19, 1974]
Barry Alfonso: Scrambling to put a group together in time for a tour only a few weeks away, DiMartino hired a lounge-circuit rock combo down in Hollywood to be an ersatz Magic Band. Among these musicians was keyboardist Michael Smotherman, who, like his bandmates, had little or no idea who Captain Beefheart was. "Talk about worlds colliding," he remembers. "We started practicing these songs of Don's, things like Big Eyed Beans From Venus, and they seemed totally alien, totally foreign to our ways of thinking. At the time, we were all guys in leather jackets and tight jeans, and we treated Don with this slightly patronizing attitude. He was, like, this old kook to us. We truly didn't know shit."
Somehow, Beefheart managed to teach these musicians his songs, and they toured together in Europe and the U.S. into the fall of '74.
[The Dust Blows Forward booklet]
Magic Band #29: "Tragic Live Band"
* Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet vocals, harmonica, saxophone, clarinet
* Fuzzy Fuscaldo guitar
* Ty Grimes drums
* Del Simmons tenor saxophone, flute
* Dean Smith guitar
* Michael Smotherman keyboards
* Paul Uhrig bass
Roger Ames: So there's a New Magic Band with a keyboard player from Buckwheat, a drummer from Ricky Nelson's band (Ty Grimes), a bass player from Bobbie Gentry's old band (Paul Uhrig), and a throwback sax player who led his own band in Dixieland days. Dean Smith is on lead, Fuzzy Fuscaldo on rhythm.
[Roger Ames: CaptainBeefheart. People Weekly. September 1974]
Steve Lake: These people being 54-year-old ex-Charlie Parker clarinet and-all-other-reeds-man Del Simmons, guitarist Dean Smith and Fuzzy Fuscaldo (the latter recently with Curtis Mayfield), keyboard player Michael Smotherman from the now defunct Buckweat, bassist Paul Uhrig from Bobbie Gentry's group (!), and drummer Ty Grimes, fresh from Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band. Impeccable enough credentials for the average Los Angeles session, one imagines, but hardly the boys to get to grips with Big Eyed Beans From Venus or Ah Feel Like Ahcid.
[Steve Lake: Music is A Poor Second Every Time. Melody Maker. June 1974]
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6 comments:
I originally requested pre-74 Beefheart in order to help insure that you wouldn't post a show with the 'Tragic Band' since I figured you would only post one show.
I'm glad you said if there was a big enough response you would post more.
Even tho the 'Tragic band' can't compare to the 'Magic band' in the end all Beefheart is worth having.
thanks again
Your other original Beefheart requester has pondered over this tour many times and concluded that the Captain's vocal performances win the day. I just think the recordings from this tour illustrate what a fab frontman he was, in addition to all the other stuff. Thanks once again
As this one feature my artwork I have to stick up for it. The vocals are brilliant the overall sound is very good and come on lets be fair, they may not be magic but they are not tragic. I'll tell you what's tragic Mallard the not so magic band without the good Captain. Sorry but this show has been slandered so often I feel it needs somebody to defend it
Sgt Weatherman
Thanks again Dave for more Captain Beefheart. All of these posts have been a most welcome addition to my ever growing collection. This one in particular is nice because it will replace the copy I have that was originally lossy mp3 source (shudder!) As always YOU ROCK!!!
How refreshing not to have the same old Beefheart '74 'debate' I seem to have had so many times in my life!
Just to backup the prrevious comment, all Beefheart is good,and every creative artist has the right to experiment with alternative rhythms and musical genres and this commercial period did produce some great songs too
Just discovered your marvelous site! Thank you so much for this concert. My first Captain Beefheart concert was in 1974 (Pinkpop Festival, Weert, Holland) and I was completely blown away! Especially Mirror Man and Full Moon, Hot Sun. I had never heard of him before. This is probably what I heard at age 15 at my first festival. There is a YouTube video from Pinkpop 1974 (Mirror Man). It's not tragic at all!!! More a young persons guide to...He opened my ears to great music. So tragic he passed away.
You really made my day! Thanks again1
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