CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Trout Mask Replica 2 LP Original w/ Insert STRAIGHT 1969 ZAPPA

Captain Beefheart

& His Magic Band

Trout Mask Replica

• Vinyl GradeVG+
• Cover GradeVG+
• Format2 LPs
• LabelStraight
• Catalog NumberSTS 1053
• Year1969
• AudioStereo

Note: Bottom corner of spine shows wear. Insert has some marks on back cover (see photos for reference).

1st press USA issue, with auto-coupled discs, 'Straight' labels with a '2' prefix to STS 1053 cat# & the 'Straight'/'Bizarre' address on label radius text. 
Vinyl in black 'Straight' liners with 'Bizarre' address. 
6-page, 2-fold white paper insert printed single-color black (folds to 12"x12"), lyrics within. Front has half-tone photo of school-age Don Vliet inside a panel, with legend; "Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart". Back & inner spread has line illustrations by "The Mascara Snake" [Vliet's cousin]. Inside facing-page has handwritten 'Manta Ray' poem which is under-signed 'Don Van Vliet'. 

Label print vs. sleeve print: 
"Moonlight On Vermont" is printed wrongly as "Moonlight In Vermont" on label. 
"The Blimp" is printed "The Blimb" (wrongly) & has "(Mousetrapreplica)" suffix on label. 
[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 was resident on a tape channel the members of The Mothers performing the drum-passage to "Charles Ives" aka "Didja Get Any Onya?"] 

Track A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalized horn' effect. 
Tracks A6 & D8 recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders 
Remaining tracks later recorded at Whitney Recording Studios (and within 'The Magic Band House') 

Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album.

Works all contained in unlaminated gatefold sleeve. 

Side one

1. Frownland
2. The Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back
3. Dachau Blues
4. Ella Guru
5. Hair Pie: Bake 1
6. Moonlight On VermontSide TWO
   
7. Pachuco Cadaver
8. Bills Corpse
9. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. Neon Meate Dream of A Octafish
11. China Pig
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. Dali's CarSide Three
    
14. Hair Pie: Bake 2
15. Pena
16. Well
17. When Big Joan Sets Up
18. Fallin' Ditch
19. Sugar 'N Spikes
20. Ant Man BeeSide four
    
21. Orange Claw Hammer
22. Wild Life
23. She's Too Much For My Mirror
24. Hobo Chang Ba
25. The Blimp
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow
27. Old Fart At Play
28. Veteran's Day Poppy

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