MORE BEEF!
The extraordinary 'Floppy Boot Stomp' blog has posted this morning a gem for fans of the good Captain Beefheart and his early incarnations. The Avalon Ball room set from the mid sixties is a real treat and shows the captain and his then pals in a glorious blues standard band of great accomplishment. It first cropped up on 'Grow Fins' I think and then as first half of a bootleg coupled with early Safe As Milk stuff. Here it is just the live Avalon Ballroom set and clean as a whistle it is too!
Really enjoyable for fans of the blues and early Beefheartiana! [it's a word!]Don really plays straight blues harp worthy of any master blues harp player and the band whilst playing blues standards are tight as a gnat's chuff. I have this in other formats and someone has cleaned it up a treat from my old vinyl boot
Magic Band early incarnation line up & notes:
01 Down In The Bottom
02 Don't Start Me Talkin'
03 The Sun Is Shining
04 Tupelo
05 Somebody In My Home
06 Old Folks' Boogie
07 St. James Infirmary
08 Evil (Is Going On)
09 Harp Instrumental
Captain Beefheart - vocals and blues harp
Doug Moon - guitar
Alex St. Clair - guitar
Jerry Handley - bass
Paul Blakely - drums.
“The Avalon Ballroom, 1966”. Most fans will probably be familiar with five of these tracks as they’ve appeared on the “Grow Fins” box set as well as a number of bootlegs over the years. But added to this are FOUR new tracks – “Down In The Bottom”, “Don’t Start Me To Talkin'”, “The Sun Is Shining” and “St James Infirmary” – that have never been released before. So, what we have now appears to be the entire KSAN radio broadcast … at long last!
BBC ' Where The Action Is' 1966 yes really!
Diddy Wah Diddy on American Bandstand and a phone in with Dick! Brilliant!
Final word from The Magic Band and John French on what appears to be Swedish Breakfast TV!!
They're like that in Sweden! Why it's like the Captain being on Ann and Nick! . . . . . . .
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