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Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica

Album US 1969 on Straight label
Rock and Blues (Dialogue, Field Recording, Avant-garde, Electric Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental)

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'. Works all contained in unlaminated gatefold sleeve. (Pasted, no internal glue-tabs) 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. [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. (It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band members was fundamental in its production. See notes in 'Grow Fins' box set). One known official single was released from this album in France: Pachuco Cadaver

Musicians

	Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band , 1965-1982 US album by
	The Mascara Snake b, 1948-2018 US bass clarinet, vocals, illustration, on insert sheet
	Rockette Morton g, b, voc, *1949 US bass guitar, narrator
	John French dr, *1948 US translated by, music score, uncredited, drums, uncredited
	Dick Kunc , engineer, technician, electronic modification of equipment
	Don Van Vliet voc, h, *1941 US liner notes, insert sheet poem
	Zoot Horn Rollo g, *1949 US flute, slide guitar, glass finger guitar
	Antennae Jimmy Semens g, *1949 US slide guitar, steel appendage guitar, effects, flesh horn, lead vocals, narrator
	Captain Beefheart voc, h, 1941-2010 US songwriter, vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, saxophones played simultaneously, musette, horn, simran horn, saxophone, simultaneous tenor & soprano
	Gary "Magic" Marker b, eb, 1943-2015 US bass guitar
	Doug Moon g, US guitar
	Frank Zappa voc, g, 1940-1993 US voice, intro

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