CAPTAIN BEEFHEART TROUT MASK REPLICA VERY RARE ORIG LP w/INSERT FIRST PRESS
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART~TROUT MASK REPLICA~VERY RARE ORIG LP w/INSERT~FIRST PRESS!! CAPTAIN BEEFHEART~TROUT MASK REPLICA~VERY RARE ORIG LP w/INSERT~FIRST PRESS!!
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
"TROUT MASK REPLICA"
STRAIGHT RECORDS STS-1053
ULTRA-RARE TRUE FIRST PRESSING ON WHICH CATALOG NUMBER ON THE COVER (STS-1053) MATCHES THE CATALOG NUMBER ON THE RECORD LABELS!
THIS IS NOT A SECOND PRESSING WHICH HAS A CATALOG NUMBER ON THE COVER NOT MATCHING THE ONE ON THE RECORD (STS-1053 ON THE COVER, BUT 2MS-2027 ON THE LABELS).
ORIGINAL PINK, ORANGE AND YELLOW ‘STRAIGHT’ LABEL
ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD.
GATEFOLD COVER IS IN VG+ CONDITION WITH GENERAL WEAR.
THERE ARE NO SPLITS BUT THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNERS ARE STARTING TO SEPARATE.
HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL IS IN VG++ CONDITION WITH LIGHT SURFACE SCRATCHES.
INCLUDES THE TRI-FOLD ILLUSTRATED INSERT / BOOKLET WHICH IS IN VG+ CONDITION!
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.
Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl. The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional -- reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks -- but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted by the Captain (aided by John "Drumbo" French), which makes the results even more remarkable. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era.
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