His Magic Band* – Trout Mask Replica
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Straight – 2 STS 1053 |
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Genre: |
Blues |
Style: |
Experimental |
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.
- Recorded At – Sunset Sound Recorders
- Recorded At – Whitney Recording Studios
- Recorded At – The Magic Band House
- Mastered At – Customatrix
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
- Copyright © – Beefheart Music Co.
Credits
- Bass Clarinet, Vocals, Illustration [On Insert Sheet] – The Mascara Snake
- Bass Guitar, Narrator – Rockette Morton
- Design [Album Design], Photography By [Cover] – Cal Schenkel
- Drums [Uncredited], Translated By [Music Score, Uncredited] – John French
- Engineer, Technician [Electronic Modification Of Equipment] – Dick Kunc
- Liner Notes [Insert Sheet Poem] – Don Van Vliet
- Music By, Lyrics By, Written-By – Captain Beefheart
- Photography By [Inside & Back Cover] – Ed Caraeff
- Producer – Frank Zappa
- Slide Guitar [Glass Finger Guitar], Flute – Zoot Horn Rollo
- Slide Guitar [Steel Appendage Guitar] – Antennae Jimmy Semens
- Vocals, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone [Saxophones Played Simultaneously] – Captain Beefheart
Notes
Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman pressing variant denoted by a "P" stamp in runouts.
1st press USA issue, with auto-coupled discs,
'Straight' labels with a '2' prefix to STS 1053 cat# & the 'Straight'/'Bizarre' address on label radius text.
Vinyl in black 'Straight' liners with 'Bizarre' address.
6-page, 2-fold white paper insert printed single-color black (folds to 12"x12"), lyrics within. Front has half-tone photo of school-age Don Vliet inside a , with legend; "Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart". Back & inner spread has line illustrations by "The Mascara Snake" [Vliet's cousin]. Inside facing-page has handwritten 'Manta Ray' poem which is under-signed 'Don Van Vliet'.
Works all contained in unlaminated gatefold sleeve.
(Pasted, no internal glue-tabs)
Errata on labels vs sleeve:
"Moonlight On Vermont" is printed wrongly as "Moonlight In Vermont" on label.
"The Blimp" is printed "The Blimb" (wrongly) & has "(Mousetrapreplica)" suffix on label.
[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 was resident on a tape channel the of The Mothers performing the drum-age to "Charles Ives" aka "Didja Get Any Onya?"]
Track A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalized horn' effect.
Tracks A6 & D8 recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders
Remaining tracks later recorded at Whitney Recording Studios (and within 'The Magic Band House')
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 notes in 'Grow Fins' box set).
One known official single was released from this album in : Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver
1st press USA issue, with auto-coupled discs,
'Straight' labels with a '2' prefix to STS 1053 cat# & the 'Straight'/'Bizarre' address on label radius text.
Vinyl in black 'Straight' liners with 'Bizarre' address.
6-page, 2-fold white paper insert printed single-color black (folds to 12"x12"), lyrics within. Front has half-tone photo of school-age Don Vliet inside a , with legend; "Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart". Back & inner spread has line illustrations by "The Mascara Snake" [Vliet's cousin]. Inside facing-page has handwritten 'Manta Ray' poem which is under-signed 'Don Van Vliet'.
Works all contained in unlaminated gatefold sleeve.
(Pasted, no internal glue-tabs)
Errata on labels vs sleeve:
"Moonlight On Vermont" is printed wrongly as "Moonlight In Vermont" on label.
"The Blimp" is printed "The Blimb" (wrongly) & has "(Mousetrapreplica)" suffix on label.
[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 was resident on a tape channel the of The Mothers performing the drum-age to "Charles Ives" aka "Didja Get Any Onya?"]
Track A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalized horn' effect.
Tracks A6 & D8 recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders
Remaining tracks later recorded at Whitney Recording Studios (and within 'The Magic Band House')
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 notes in 'Grow Fins' box set).
One known official single was released from this album in : Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side runout, variant 1): 2-STS-1053-1 "P"
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side runout, variant 1): 2-STS-1053-2 "P"
- Matrix / Runout (C-Side runout, variant 1): 2-STS-1053-3 "P" ?
- Matrix / Runout (D-Side runout, variant 1): 2-STS-1053-4 P
- Matrix / Runout (A-Side runout, variant 2): o 2-STS-1053-1 "P" A 1
- Matrix / Runout (B-Side runout, variant 2): 2-STS-1053-2 o P A
- Matrix / Runout (C-Side runout, variant 2): o 2-STS-1053-3 "P" P A1
- Matrix / Runout (D-Side runout, variant 2): o 2-STS-1053-4 P A
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Edited 14 days agoI have to be in the 'mood' to listen fully to this double album. But I can't explain what that 'mood' is exactly.
Been listening to this since 1973. On & off. The 'mood' is the factor here. Have to be in the 'mood' got me?
One thing I do know, listening to it being 100% straight helps me get through it nicely. -
Edited 3 months agoWhen you're young, dumb, naive, or just straight up impressionable from a stranger influence (rock stars, pop mucicians corporate musical marketing) ..then this album would maybe be at top 10 of all albums of all time.
But over 'time' - and with your own journey of growth into a Man.. if you perhaps become wise and understanding to what's really going on in the world.. , you'll see and hear what's really contained on this 'album', you will know it's a piece of trash worthy of the melting into a small puck of pvc with paper in it .
It's embarrassing to be dumb and influenced by evil .. if you don't like that just don't look backwards. And hey.. on the bright side, if you own an original copy..you can always sell it to some other crashtestdummy for a spectacular sum. - would you trust a guy 15 years older than you feeding you acid, just to stay employed and housed? -
MYCOPIAL TRANSGRESSIONAL INOPTENOID SPINEGADGET REFUSAL INSECTER INOVULAR INOPERABLE FLUIDITY SPONCASEINAL ENTRAPMENT AGASP IN PLETHORACAL SINEW GNARL GNASH GASH THE EMPIRICAL WOUND EMMBEDDED ENTROPICALLY NOT ABOVE NOT BELOW AS NO. I THINK NOT. SPUNNER OF SPINE A NO ONE A BODY NO A CAPSULE A PATHWAY A LONGITUDINAL AXIOM OF AXCILLICAL POSTURE IN ROUGH TRANSMETER ICONOGRAPHAL WEEPING AS THE FLOOR SOAKS IT UP FOR WANT OF MORE. DO YOU HEAR ME ROAR!!! -
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Anyone have a fold out insert they'd like to sell, sing out.
(If you're reading this, I'm still looking - will remove the comment when I have one!) -
Edited 2 years agoStraight SMS-2222/3 1969 German Press.
Don Van Vliet and Magic Band's experimentation opera.
Pachuco Cadaver "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
Existentialism never sounded so in Time as in FUTURE.
Rock Surrealism pre Punk
Describe? Experimentalism in its purest form.
"My Human Gets Me Blues" has a satirical take on the idea of God and his attitude toward mankind." Dachau Blues" expresses worry for the fate of the Jewish people. "Wild Life" deals with ecological concerns Beefheart would further explore on later albums.
Listen in its entirety, Do not waste a drop! -
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Beefheart is not the easiest of albums to enjoy. It took me over 6 times of repeated listening; before I came to understand the genius behind the album. Interestingly, since that time (70's) it is now considered an influential album. I paid $12 for my vinyl version. A small price to pay for a very influential album for sure!
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