CAPTAIN BEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND TROUT MASK REPLICA

$

218

CAPTAIN BEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND ~TROUT MASK REPLICA Description   Details Review by Steve Huey

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 and notated by the Captain, 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.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL AND HARD TO FIND STRAIGHT LABEL PRESSING FROM 1969 WITH MATCHING 1053 CATALOG NUMBERS ON BOTH COVER AND LABELS. PROMO STICKER ON FRONT COVER INDICATES MATCHING JACKET TO PROMO DISCS INSIDE. ORIGINAL STRAIGHT INNER SLEEVES AND BOOKLET ARE INTACT AND INCLUDED. THE WHOLE PACKAGE IS IN TOP CONDITION.
BOTH DISCS ARE IN WHAT LOOKS TO BE ALMOST UNPLAYED CONDITION WITH NO NEEDLE SCRATCHES AND FULL ORIGINAL GLOSS. LABELS ARE BRIGHT WHITE AND SHOW NO SIGNS OF WARE OR WRITING. SPINDLE HOLES ARE PERFECT-NO SIGNS OF SPINDLE TRAILS AROUND CENTER HOLE. I PICKED A RANDOM LABEL TO SHOW, ALL ARE IN THIS SAME MINT CONDITION.
THE FAMOUS BRIGHT ORANGE GATEFOLD COVER IS  CLEAN AND FREE OF RINGWARE ON BOTH SIDES , WHICH IS VERY RARE -THIS ALBUM (ESPECIALLY FIRST PRESINGS) IS NOTORIOUS FOR RINGWARE, AND NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND WITHOUT IT. VERY LIGHT WARE AT THE BOTTOM SEAM AND CORNERS, BUT NO SEAM SPLITS ANYWHERE. THICK SPINE IS CLEAN AND WITHOUT WARE. DESCRIPTION IS CENTERED AND CLEARLY READABLE.
THE BLACK AND WHITE STRAIGHT INNER- SLEEVES MATCH THE CONDITION OF THE DISCS AND LYRIC BOOKLET, WHICH IS NEARLY ALWAYS GONE.

PLEASE, NO ZERO FEEDBACK BIDDERS OR USERS WITH NON-PAY RELATED FEEDBACK

Get Andale Auction Tools. Save Time. Multiply Sales.