NB.  "Are you fed up of the crappy sound and the mish-mash of tracks taken (with no ryhme or reason?) From "Captain Beefheart's Magic Band" Shows, that sound like they were recorded 'inside a cement-mixer?? "  Well, if you are.. Here is just one of 4 'Amazing Quality" RARE/VINTAGE 2LP Captain Beefheart Live Album Sets some 35 YEARS OLD NOW of Live Shows captured in amazing 'Soundboard' Quality just 2 days from The Magic Band's very last Live Show!!!

Two 'delicious' slabs of vinyl in a Deluxe Glossy Sleeve from one of the 'tightest' Magic Bands you will hear - By the time The Magic Band returned from the long November/December '80/'81 European Tour, they had these tracks well honed in!!!  You could be forgiven for thinking this is a LIVE 'Studio' Recording!

Also;  You can enjoy the 'WHOLE' Concert from beginning to end' with tracks from almost every album from 'SAFE AS MILK' to 'ICE CREAM FOR CROW' with even the rare "Light Reflected" and "Hard Working Man" non LP tracks tagged on the end of Side 4 for good measure..  GREAT value for money!!!

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eefheart Bootlegs - Volume #1" (Apocalypse) / 1993 :
"Best Batch Yet" on God's Golfball Records Don-12981. Recorded live on January 29, 1981 at the Country Club , Receda, California NB:  (Weren't the Bush Recording couple on "Trout Mask" from Receda?)

This is a excellent performance by what was to be the final line-up of the touring Magic Band. There is a splendid version of 'Kandy Korn' and 'Veteran's Day Poppy' executed with almost military precision.  The recording is strange in that there is hardly any audience sound at all - I guess it was recorded directly from the mixing desk and so only picks up the louder clapping from the microphones - and so it does lack a bit of the atmospere of a live show but makes up for it in the excellent quality of the Recording!

One amazing thing to me about these shows is the range of albums represented by the tracks - Apart from the "Safe As Milk" cuts (which are few) and Ice Cream For Crow cuts (which hadn't been recorded yet!)  This has tracks from all the other periods. The other great point of interest about this is, is that it is nearly the last performance they did and as far as I know the very last to appear on vinyl. The information I have from Colin Webb is that the last known show was at Huntingdon Beach, Calif on January 31, 1981 ( ie  Just two days later than this one.)

[1]  1981/01/29 concert 'country club'
[2]  studio recordings

side one

1. nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man  [1]
2. i wanna find a woman that'll hold my big toe till I have to go  [1]
3. hot head  [1]
4. ashtray heart  [1]
5. dirty blue gene  [1]
6. the smithsonian institute blues (of the big dip)  [1]
7. sue egypt  [1]

side two

1. best batch yet  [1]
2. safe as milk  [1]
3. one red rose that I mean  [1]
4. china pig  [1]
5. spitball scalped the baby  [1]

side three

1. doctor dark  [1]
2. bat chain puller  [1]
3. my human gets me blues  [1]
4. sugar 'n' spikes  [1]
5. sheriff of hong kong  [1]

side four

1. kandy korn  [1]
2. veteran's day poppy  [1]
3. big eyed beans from venus  [1]
4. hard workin' man  [2]
5. light reflected off the oceans of the moon  [2]

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