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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band* ?– Trout Mask Replica

Label: Straight ?– STS 1053, Straight ?– 2 STS 1053 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country: UK Released: Nov 1969 Genre: Rock, Blues Style: Dialogue, Field Recording, Avantgarde, Electric Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Spoken Word

Tracklist Show Credits

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 Bill's 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 Records Ltd.
• Pressed By – CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
• Printed By – E.J. Day Group
• Distributed By – CBS Records Ltd.

Credits

• Bass Guitar, Narrator – Rockette Morton
• Clarinet [Bass], Vocals – The Mascara Snake
• 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 members 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 members was fundamental in its production. See vast notes in 'Grow Fins' box set).

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