Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band: 2 G+/VG- Aud Shows 1971 and '72

Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 1972-10-13

DISC 1 (48:35)
01 Low Yo Yo Stuff (CUT)....................(1:42)
02 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (CUT).(1:21)
03 Clear Spot (CUT).........................(3:02)
04 Old Black Snake (CUT)....................(2:47)
05 Sugar 'N Spikes (CUT)....................(1:04)
06 Too Much Time (CUT)......................(1:52)
07 Crazy Little Thing.......................(3:14)
08 One Red Rose That I Mean.................(2:04)
09 I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby...........(5:01)
10 Click Clack..............................(4:08)
11 Alice In Blunderland.....................(3:36)
12 Circumstances (CUT)......................(3:54)
13 Big Eyed Beans From Venus................(4:24)
14 Golden Birdies...........................(3:00)
ENCORE
15 Bass Solo................................(3:21)
16 Steal Softly Through Snow................(3:53)

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

Stereo AUD trade tape
Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8

The right channel was low on the source tape, and I tried to balance things out a bit.
Beyond that, the only thing I did on the computer was place track marks before each piece.
This FLAC fileset comes from WAVs from this dub, which only needed SBE corrections in TLH; no CD-Rs or EACs.

NOTES: It is stereo, but if you're looking for high fidelity, this ain't the one to pick.
The first 3-4mins are dodgy / heads misaligned (no adjustment to my tape would help), but improves a bit after that.
And as you see, the first 5 titles have cuts all over the place. There's a couple'a cuts early in track 6, and from then on it's largely uninterrupted save for between songs near the end.
Most of the gaps related to the cuts were left as is, because they left very small short gaps.
During the last 1/4th of the show, the gaps had long silence stretches & I cut out a total of 30sec of silence from them.
Part of Circumstances was overlapped over my source tape's sides, the sound was much less hissy on Side B.
Tho pace-wise it was a seamless edit, you can hear the hiss step down right at that edit point.
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If you can get by all the above issues, what's here is a fine show.
Alice In Blunderland is sweet, and you get a taste of Too Much Time / Clear Spot / Crazy Little Thing.
And who opens an encore with a bass solo? :) Just like, who opens a show with one, no one but El Capitan.

There's some debate as to the actual date of this performance.
Per Detlef's site, this is best dated as being 1972-10-13.
Some other references include a date of 1972-10-19 or (my tape) 1972-10-30.
Whatever the date, it's a nice capture from long long ago.
I dunno about you, but when I hear stuff this old, I am REALLY grateful that people went and recorded things like this. And I'm glad traders kept them going around long enough so I could get a copy many years later.

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1971-10-09
Tuft's University - Boston, MA
24Bit Transfer

Captain Beefheart: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica
John "Drumbo" French: drums
Zoot Horn Rollo: guitar
Art Tripp III: marimba
Rockette Morton: bass guitar, guitar
Elliot Ingber: guitar, slide guitar

Low Gen Maxell XLIIS cassette > Tascam Professional Cassette Deck Model 130 analog out > Apogee
Mini-Me @ 24/48 Hz spdif out > Digigram VX Pocket V2 (in data mode = no resampling of bits) > Samplitude
Professional 8 @ 24/48 Hz > resampled to 16/44.1 Hz w/ Samplitude > FLAC Frontend Encode level 6
No EQ or hiss reduction has been used. Only minor edits and fades to remove tape flip clicks and crowd noise.
Freely Traded - Never For Profit

1. Hair Pie Bass Solo
2. When It Blows It Stacks
3. Japan In A Dishpan
4. Click Clack
5. Grow Fins
6. I'm Gonna Booglarize you
7. Black Snake Blues
8. Peon
9. Abba Zabba
10. Frownland (bass solo/sax solo)
11. Woe Is Uh Me Bop (contains a small passage of noise from the master reel to reel)
12. Alice In Blunderland
13. Spitball Scalped Uh Baby

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