His Magic Band* – Trout Mask Replica
Label: |
Straight – 2 STS 1053 |
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Format: |
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Country: |
UK |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Blues |
Style: |
Spoken Word |
Tracklist
| A1 | Frownland | 1:39 | |
| A2 | The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back | 2:04 | |
| A3 | Dachau Blues | 2:21 | |
| A4 | Ella Guru | 2:23 | |
| A5 | Hair Pie: Bake 1 | 4:57 | |
| A6 | Moonlight On Vermont | 3:55 | |
| B1 | Pachuco Cadaver | 4:37 | |
| B2 | Bills Corpse | 1:47 | |
| B3 | Sweet Sweet Bulbs | 2:17 | |
| B4 | Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish | 2:25 | |
| B5 | China Pig | 3:56 | |
| B6 | My Human Gets Me Blues | 2:42 | |
| B7 | Dali's Car | 1:25 | |
| C1 | Hair Pie: Bake 2 | 2:23 | |
| C2 | Pena | 2:31 | |
| C3 | Well | 2:05 | |
| C4 | When Big Joan Sets Up | 5:19 | |
| C5 | Fallin' Ditch | 2:03 | |
| C6 | Sugar 'N Spikes | 2:29 | |
| C7 | Ant Man Bee | 3:55 | |
| D1 | Orange Claw Hammer | 3:35 | |
| D2 | Wild Life | 3:07 | |
| D3 | She's Too Much For My Mirror | 1:42 | |
| D4 | Hobo Chang Ba | 2:01 | |
| D5 | The Blimp (Mousetrap Replica) | 2:04 | |
| D6 | Steal Softly Thru Snow | 2:13 | |
| D7 | Old Fart At Play | 1:54 | |
| D8 | Veteran's Day Poppy | 4:30 |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Copyright Control
- Manufactured By – CBS
- Pressed By – CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
- Distributed By – CBS
- Printed By – E.J. Day Group
- Made By – E.J. Day Group
Credits
- Bass Clarinet, Vocals – The Mascara Snake
- Bass Guitar, Narrator – Rockette Morton
- Design, Photography By [Cover] – Cal Schenkel
- Drums [Uncredited], Translated By [Music Score, Uncredited] – John French
- Engineer, Technician [Electronic Modification Of Equipment] – Dick Kunc
- Guitar [Glass Finger Guitar], Flute – Zoot Horn Rollo
- Guitar [Steel Appendage Guitar] – Antennae Jimmy Semens
- Photography By [Inside & Back Cover] – Ed Caraeff
- Producer – Frank Zappa
- Songwriter – Captain Beefheart
- Vocals, Saxophone [Tenor & Soprano Played Simultaneously] – Captain Beefheart
Notes
1st UK issue.
Manufactured & distributed in UK by CBS.
℗1969
All tracks; Cop. Con.
Album catalog on sleeve does not have the "2" prefix.
No lyric sheet insert is included (which appeared only in early US releases). Both liners punch-hole & poly-lined with "R.S. 9.69" cyan print ref. Discs are not auto-coupled, like US issue.
"The Blimp" is listed on the vinyl as "The Blimb".
(The intro voice is that of Zappa, recorded via a telephone link to Zappa's studio - with Antennae Jimmy Semens narrating from Vliet's script over the 'phone from the 'Magic Band house'. A field-to-studio recording on which of The Mothers are performing)
A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalised horn' effect.
B4: The wind instrument "Musette" credited on sleeve is a shortened version of an "Oboe Musette".
The expression 'steel appendage' guitar is another affectation for a steel finger-tube, used as a slide on the fret. A glass tube (or bottle-neck) is used for 'glass-finger' credit.
Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album.
(It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band was fundamental in its production. See vast notes in 'Grow Fins' box set).
The runouts listed are all stamped on each side. Those for the variant 2 side A also include a four dotted rhombus-like symbol instead of a number.
Manufactured & distributed in UK by CBS.
℗1969
All tracks; Cop. Con.
Album catalog on sleeve does not have the "2" prefix.
No lyric sheet insert is included (which appeared only in early US releases). Both liners punch-hole & poly-lined with "R.S. 9.69" cyan print ref. Discs are not auto-coupled, like US issue.
"The Blimp" is listed on the vinyl as "The Blimb".
(The intro voice is that of Zappa, recorded via a telephone link to Zappa's studio - with Antennae Jimmy Semens narrating from Vliet's script over the 'phone from the 'Magic Band house'. A field-to-studio recording on which of The Mothers are performing)
A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalised horn' effect.
B4: The wind instrument "Musette" credited on sleeve is a shortened version of an "Oboe Musette".
The expression 'steel appendage' guitar is another affectation for a steel finger-tube, used as a slide on the fret. A glass tube (or bottle-neck) is used for 'glass-finger' credit.
Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album.
(It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band was fundamental in its production. See vast notes in 'Grow Fins' box set).
The runouts listed are all stamped on each side. Those for the variant 2 side A also include a four dotted rhombus-like symbol instead of a number.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side, On Label): 2 STS 1053 A
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side, On Label): 2 STS 1053 B
- Matrix / Runout (C-Side, On Label): 2 STS 1053 C
- Matrix / Runout (D-Side, On Label): 2 STS 1053 D
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): 2 STS 1053 A1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): 2 STS 1053 B1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, variant 1): 2 STS 1053 C1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, variant 1): 2 STS 1053 D1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): STS 1053 A1 A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): STS 1053 B1 A 0
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, variant 2): STS 1053 C1 A 3
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, variant 2): STS 1053 D1 A 4
- Other (Cyan date-print ref on liners): R.S. 9.69
Other Versions (5 of 96)
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Trout Mask Replica (2×LP, Album, Gatefold) | Straight | STS 1053, 2 STS 1053 | US | 1969 | ||
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Trout Mask Replica (2×LP, Album) | Straight | SMS 2222/3 | 1969 | |||
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Trout Mask Replica (2×LP, Album, Auto-coupled) | Straight | STS 1053 | Canada | 1969 | ||
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Trout Mask Replica (Cassette, Album) | Straight | CST 10532 | US | 1969 | ||
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Trout Mask Replica (8-Track Cartridge, Album) | Straight | 8ST 10532 | US | 1969 |
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This is the pressing to get, sounds fantastic, deep warm dynamic open effortlessly flows out of your speakers.
Get it if you love this weirdly fantastic album. -
Just picked this UK 1st press up today in the states, sounds great, noticeably better than my US Reprise press 1977 and the standard cd issue from the 1980s
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Edited 4 years agoThis press sounds fantastic! and my copy comes with the lyric insert. I bought this in canada from a fellow canadian so i guess it couldve been taken from a north american copy and paired with this. i have a trashed canadian press with the insert and that insert is stamped with "MADE IN U.S.A." and the one paired with my UK press does not have the stamp. so maybe they did make it in other pressings? who knows
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