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Captain Beefheart CD Albums

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
An Ashtray Heart

Tracks: 1. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 2. Abba Zaba 3. Hot Head 4. Ashtray Heart 5. Dirty Blue Gene 6. Best Batch Yet 7. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 8. Doctor Dark 9. Bat Chain Puller 10. Sheriff Of Hong Kong 11. Kandy Korn 12. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
13. When Big Joan Sets Up 14. Woe Is Uh Me Bop 15. Bellerin Plain 16. Orange Claw Hammer 17. Hot Head 18. Ashtray Heart

Musicians: Don Van Vliet - Vocals, Harmonica, Chinese Gongs, Saxophone. Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - Guitar, Slide Guitar. Jeff Moris Tepper - Guitar, Slide Guitar. Eric Drew Feldman - Bass, Keyboards. Robert Arthur Williams - Drums, Percussion.

 UK £9.50 . . Europe £10.50 . . Rest £9.50

The first 12 tracks on this album were recorded at The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, Canada on 17 January 1981 for an FM broadcast. Tracks 13-15 come from a 1971 TV show. Track 16 is taken from a 1975 TV show with Frank Zappa and tracks 17 & 18 come from Saturday Night Live November 1980.

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
The Document

Contributors: John French . Gary Lucas . Ira Ingber . Gary Marker . Jerry Handley . Moris Tepper . Mark Boston . Eric Drew Feldman . Elliot Ingber . Doug Moon . Art Tripp . Mike Barnes . Nigel Williamson . Clinton Heylin . Alan Clayson

NTSC All Regions
Running Time 115 minutes

 UK £12.00 . . Europe £13.00 . . Rest £12.50

Documentary DVD tracing the roots and history of the good Captain. It features video clips of live and studio performances interspersed with contributions from various Magic Band members and others. Included in the package is a copy of The Classic Interviews (see below).

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Amsterdam '80
Tracks: Abba Zaba . Hot Head . Ashtray Heart . Dirty Blue Gene . Best Batch Yet . Safe As Milk . Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles . One Red Rose That I Mean . Doctor Dark . Bat Chain Puller . My Human Gets Me Blues . Sugar 'n' Spikes . Veteran's Day Poppy . Dropout Boogie . Sheriff Of Hong Kong . Kandy Korn . Suction Prints . Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Musicians: Don Van Vliet - Vocals, Harmonica, Chinese Gongs, Saxophone. Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - Guitar, Slide Guitar. Jeff Moris Tepper - Guitar, Slide Guitar. Eric Drew Feldman - Bass, Keyboards. Robert Arthur Williams - Drums, Percussion.

 UK £13.50 . . Europe £14.50 . . Rest £13.75

Recorded at The Paradiso in Amsterdam on November 1 1980. This was recorded by a Dutch radio station so the sound quality is very good.

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
The Classic Interviews
Sometime in the mid-Seventies, Captain Beefheart was interviewed by journalist Steven Rosen (who also interviewed Frank Zappa a few years later). This CD is taken from the tape of that interview.

Running time: 62 minutes

 UK £9.50 . . Europe £10.50 . . Rest £10.25

18 rare tracks live, comes with a 12-page booklet containing previously unpublished photos

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
AND HIS MAGIC BANDS
Railroadism
LIVE in the USA 1972 - 1981

Venue/Date/Band:
Fenway Theatre Boston 22/1/72 - Cpt. Beefheart, Zoot Horn Rollo, Rockette Morton, Elliot Ingber, Art Tripp, Roy Estrada-
Town Hall NYC 24/2/73 - Cpt. Beefheart, Zoot Horn Rollo, Rockette Morton, Alex St Claire, Art Tripp, Roy Estrada-
The Roxy LA 14/7/75 - Cpt. Beefheart, Elliot Ingber, Greg Davidson, Bruce Fowler, John French, Jimmy Carl Black
The Red Creek Inn Rochester NY 3/11/77 - Cpt. Beefheart, Jeff Moris Tepper, Eric Drew Feldman, Denny Walley, Robert Williams-
Bottom Line NY 25/11/77 - Cpt. Beefheart, Jeff Moris Tepper, Eric Drew Feldman, Denny Walley, Robert Williams-
Texas Opry House Houston 1/12/78 - Cpt. Beefheart, Jeff Moris Tepper, Richard Redus, Eric Drew Feldman, Bruce Fowler, Robert Williams-
The Country Club Reseda CA 29/1/81 - Cpt. Beefheart, Jeff Moris Tepper, Eric Drew Feldman, Rick Snyder, Robert Williams- (Denny Walley made a guest appearance to play 'China Pig' with DVV)


 UK £10.00 . . Europe £11.00 . . Rest £10.75

Tracks: Old Black Snake (72) . I'm A King Bee (73) . The Blimp/Air Bass - Soft Shoe (Sax Improv) (75) . I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (75) . A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond (77) . China Pig/Railroadism (77) . I Love You, You Big Dummy (Spoken) (77) . Grow Fins (77) . Floppy Boot Stomp (77) . One Nest Rolls After Another/Harry Irene (78) . The Dust Blows Forward 'N' The Dust Blows Back (78) . Ashtray Heart (81) . Dirty Blue Gene (81) . Smithsonian Institute Blues (81) . One Red Rose That I Mean (81) . Veteran's Day Poppy (81) . Big Eyed Beans From Venus (81) . Avalon Blues (listed as '66 in booklet)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
and his Magic Band
Magnetic Hands
LIVE in the UK 1972 - 1980
Tracks: Click, Clack . Old Black Snake . Grow Fins (Bickershaw Festival 7/5/72) Peon . Golden Birdies (Free Trade Hall Manchester 1/4/72) Electricity . Sugar Mama (Leicester University 1/5/73) . Orange Claw Hammer . Gimme Dat Harp Boy (Knebworth 5/7/75) . Dali's Car . Beatle Bones n Smokin Stones (Guildhall Portsmouth 1/12/75) . Flavour Bud Living (The Venue, London 12/11/80) . Nowadays a Woman Gotta Hit a Man . Aba Zaba . Hothead . Safe As Milk . Drop Out
Boogie . Kandy Korn (Rotters, Liverpool 29/10/80)

UK £10.00 . . Europe £11.00 . . Rest £10.75

Captain Beefheart and his various Magic Bands visited these shores a number of times and it is from these dates that the Viper label has culled this collection.

 
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