CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Original SEALED Trout Mask Replica LP

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Original SEALED Trout Mask Replica

STRAIGHT RECORDS Frank Zappa

ARTIST:  CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND

TITLE:  TROUT MASK REPLICA

LABEL:  STRAIGHT RECORDS (ORIGINAL PRESSING)

CATALOG #:  STS 1053

FORMAT:  2 x 12” 33 1/3 RPM VINYL RECORD LPS

GRADING: Still FACTORY SEALED!!! AMAZING!!

ITEM DESCRIPTION:   ATTENTION CAPTAIN BEEFHEART FANS AND FRANK ZAPPA VINYL COLLECTORS!!

HERE IS AN AMAZING ORIGINAL PRESSING OF “TROUT MASK REPLICA” THAT IS STILL FACTORY SEALED!

THIS 2LP SET IS IN PERFECT CONDITION WITH JUST 2 MINOR FLAWS-THERE SEEMS TO BE A SLIGHT FADING OF THE RED COLOR ON THE TOP OF THE RIGHT SIDE, I’M NOT SURE IF THAT’S HOW IT WAS ORIGINALLY BUT THE TOP RIGHT SIDE OF THE FRONT COVER SEEMS TO BE A SMIDGEON LIGHTER THAN THE LEFT BUT AGAIN IT ISN’T THAT NOTICEABLE.

ALSO, THERE IS ONE SMALL TEAR ON THE PLASTIC SHRINKWRAP ON THE SPINE BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DAMAGE TO THE COVER (SEE 2ND PHOTO).

OTHERWISE, THIS BABY SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE AND IT’S LOOKING FOR A GOOD HOME WITH YOUR BEEFHEART VINYL COLLECTION.

I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH ONLINE ABOUT THE PRESSINGS OF THIS LP ON STRAIGHT RECORDS AND I SEE THAT THERE ARE A FEW LABEL VARIATIONS WITH THE SAME CATALOG # ON THE COVER AND OBVIOUSLY THIS COPY IS SEALED SO I CAN’T CHECK THE LABELS. I DID READ THAT THE FIRST PRESSING HAS BLACK INNER SLEEVES AND I CAN SEE A BIT OF ONE OF THE INNER SLEEVES AT THE BOTTOM AND IT IS BLACK IF THAT HELPS.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, JUST ASK AND I’LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER.

IT REALLY IS A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF “TROUT MASK REPLICA” AND IS VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND LIKE THIS.

Personnel

Musicians

·         Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) – vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, musette, simran horn, hunting horn, jingle bells

The Magic Band

·         Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo) – "Glass Finger Guitar" (slide guitar using a glass slide), flute

·         Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens) – "Steel Appendage Guitar" (slide guitar using a metal slide), vocals on "Pena" and "The Blimp"

·         Victor Hayden (The Mascara Snake) – bass clarinet, additional vocals

·         Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) – bass guitar

·         John French (Drumbo) – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

·         Doug Moon – guitar on " China Pig"

·         Gary "Magic" Marker – bass guitar on "Moonlight on Vermont", "Veteran's Day Poppy"

·         Frank Zappa – voice (not vocals) on "Pena", "The Blimp"

·         Roy Estrada – bass guitar on "The Blimp" (uncredited)

·         Arthur Tripp III – drums & percussion on "The Blimp" (uncredited)

·         Don Preston – piano on "The Blimp" (uncredited)

·         Ian Underwood and Bunk Gardner – alto and tenor saxophones on "The Blimp" (uncredited)

·         Buzz Gardner – trumpet on "The Blimp" (uncredited)

Track listing

All songs written by Van Vliet.

Side one

1. "Frownland" – 1:41
2. "The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back" – 1:53
3. "Dachau Blues" – 2:21
4. "Ella Guru" – 2:26
5. "Hair Pie: Bake 1" – 4:58
6. "Moonlight on Vermont" – 3:59

Side two

7. "Pachuco Cadaver" – 4:40
8. "Bills Corpse" – 1:48
9. "Sweet Sweet Bulbs" – 2:21
10. "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" – 2:25
11. "China Pig" – 4:02
12. "My Human Gets Me Blues" – 2:46
13. "Dali's Car" – 1:26

Side three

14. "Hair Pie: Bake 2" – 2:23
15. "Pena" – 2:33
16. "Well" – 2:07
17. "When Big Joan Sets Up" – 5:18
18. "Fallin' Ditch" – 2:08
19. "Sugar 'n Spikes" – 2:30
20. "Ant Man Bee" – 3:57

Side four

21. "Orange Claw Hammer" – 3:34
22. "Wild Life" – 3:09
23. "She's Too Much for My Mirror" – 1:40
24. "Hobo Chang Ba" – 2:02
25. "The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)" – 2:04
26. "Steal Softly thru Snow" – 2:18
27. "Old Fart at Play" – 1:51
28. "Veteran's Day Poppy" – 4:31

Trout Mask Replica is the third studio album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, released in June, 1969. The album was produced by Frank Zappa, a friend and former schoolmate of Beefheart, and was originally released on Zappa's Straight Records imprint. Combining blues, avant-garde, free jazz and other disparate genres of American music, Trout Mask Replica is regarded as an important work of experimental music and a major influence in alternative rock. A widely recognized and acclaimed composition, Trout Mask Replica appears at number fifty-eight on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

The first two tracks to be recorded, "Moonlight on Vermont" and "Veterans Day Poppy", were recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in August 1968 with a lineup of Van Vliet, Bill Harkleroad and Jeff Cotton on guitar, John French on drums, and Van Vliet's friend Gary Marker serving temporarily on bass. These tracks were originally intended for a re-recorded version of Strictly Personal, which had gone unreleased for some months leading the group to assume the record company did not plan to release it.

About a month later Mark Boston joined the band as full-time bassist. The lineup of Van Vliet, Harkleroad, Cotton, French and Boston recorded the rest of the tracks, with Van Vliet's cousin Victor Hayden occasionally guesting on bass clarinet. Van Vliet had begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad was credited as "Zoot Horn Rollo," John French as "Drumbo," Jeff Cotton as "Antennae Jimmy Semens," Boston as "Rockette Morton," and Hayden "The Mascara Snake."

Van Vliet wanted the whole band to "live" the Trout Mask Replica album. The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in a small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Van Vliet's approach for implementing his musical vision was to establish complete artistic and emotional domination of his musicians. At various times one or another of the group members was put "in the barrel," with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission to Van Vliet.[1] Drummer John French described the situation as "cultlike"[2] and a visiting friend said "the environment in that house was positively Manson-esque."[3] Their material circumstances also were dire. With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives the group survived on a bare subsistence diet, and were even arrested for shoplifting food (with Zappa bailing them out). A friend of Van Vliet's who visited the house described their appearance as "cadaverous" and that "they all looked in poor health." Band members were restricted from leaving the house and practiced for 14 or more hours a day.

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