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Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band
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Album US 1981 on God's Golfball Records label
Rock and Blues (Blues Rock, Alternative Rock, Avant-garde)

This is a quality part-official* release, packaged in a regular card-weight gloss-print sleeve, with a photo of Vliet and one of his sketches on the cover - printed 3 color. The back cover has a further waist-up pic of Vliet, with the label's logo & track-list. *This is possibly an actual God's Golfball project, a concept/company belonging to Vliet for a short period. The apparently random cat# is actually the recording date. The quality of the package is also higher than for a regular 'bootleg'. The 2 vinyls have blue & white labels, headed with "Don Van Vliet" rather than the band name. Apart from the addition of the last 2 tracks, from difficult to acquire singles, this album is simply a live recording of the band's performance at The Country Club, Reseda, California on 29th January 1981. The credits give the recording source as those of Wally Heider Sound's remote facility, which explains the sound quality. Country of release is very likely USA. The singles tracks D4 & D5 can also be found as track 10 & 21 respectively on CD2 of "The Dust Blows Forward" anthology. Both are studio recordings.

Musicians

	Captain Beefheart voc, h, 1941-2010 US album by
	The Magic Band , album by
	Tim Drummond b, cb, 1940-2015 US bass
	Richard Snyder mar, vl, bass, guitar, slide guitar
	Jim Keltner dr, perc, *1942 US drums
	Cliff Martinez dr, *1954 US drums, percussion
	Robert Arthur Williams dr, perc, *1955 US drums, percussion
	Denny Walley s-g, voc, g, *1940 guitar
	Jesse Ed Davis g, voc, key, 1944-1988 US guitar
	Ry Cooder g, voc, *1947 US guitar, written by
	Jeff Moris Tepper g, s-g, guitar, slide guitar
	Eric Drew Feldman ep, syn, *1955 US keyboards, synthesizer, bass, mandolin
	Milt Holland perc, dr, 1917-2005 US percussion
	Stan Szelest p, ep, 1943-1991 US piano
	Gary Lucas g, *1952 US resonator guitar, national steel dualion
	Michael Boddicker syn, *1953 US tape, machine sound
	Don Van Vliet voc, h, *1941 US vocals, harmonica, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, written by

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