Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band

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Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band

MUSIC

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Captain Beefheart Singer 15-Jan-1941 17-Dec-2010 and His Magic Band

Ry Cooder Guitarist 15-Mar-1947 Blues guitarist

Arthur Dyer Tripp III Musician 10-Sep-1944 Percussionist for Zappa and Beefheart

DISCOGRAPHY

Safe As Milk (1967, Buddah Records)

1 Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do

2 Zig Zag Wanderer

3 Call On Me

4 Dropout Boogie

5 I'm Glad

6 Electricity

7 Yellow Brick Road

8 Abba Zaba

9 Plastic Factory

10 Where There's Woman

11 Grown So Ugly

12 Autumn's Child

Strictly Personal (1968, Blue Thumb)

1 Ah Feel Like Ahcid

2 Safe As Milk

3 Trust Us

4 Son of Mirror Man - Mere Man

5 On Tomorrow

6 Beatle Bones and Smokin Stones

7 Gimme Dat Harp Boy

8 Kandy Korn

Trout Mask Replica (1969, Straight)

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 Vermont

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 Car

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 Bee

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

Produced by Frank Zappa.

Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970, Straight)

1 Lick My Decals Off, Baby

2 Doctor Dark

3 I Love You, You Big Dummy

4 Peon

5 Bellerin' Plain

6 Woe-is-uh-Me-Bop

7 Japan in a Dishpan

8 I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go

9 Petrified Forest

10 One Red Rose That I Mean

11 The Buggy Boogie Woogie

12 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig)

13 Space-age Couple

14 The Clouds Are Full of Wine (not Whiskey or Rye)

15 Flash Gordon's Ape

The Spotlight Kid (1972, Reprise)

1 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby

2 White Jam

3 Blabber 'N Smoke

4 When It Blows Its Stacks

5 Alice in Blunderland (instrumental)

6 The Spotlight Kid

7 Click Clack

8 Grow Fins

9 There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage

10 Glider

Mirror Man (1971, Buddah)

1 Tarotplane

2 Kandy Korn

3 25th Century Quaker

4 Mirror Man

Recorded 1967.

Clear Spot (1972, Reprise)

1 Low Yo Yo Stuff

2 Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man

3 Too Much Time

4 Circumstances

5 My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains

6 Sun Zoom Spark

7 Clear Spot

8 Crazy Little Thing

9 Long Neck Bottles

10 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles

11 Big Eyed Beans from Venus

12 Golden Birdies

Unconditionally Guaranteed (1974, Mercury)

1 Upon The My O My

2 Sugar Bowl

3 New Electric Ride

4 Magic Be

5 Happy Love Song

6 Full Moon Hot Sun

7 I Got Love On My Mind

8 This is the Day

9 Lazy Music

10 Peaches

Bluejeans and Moonbeams (1974, Virgin)

1 Party Of Special Things To Do

2 Same Old Blues

3 Observatory Crest

4 Pompadour Swamp

5 Captains Holiday

6 Rock and Roll's Evil Doll

7 Further Than We've Gone

8 Twist Ah Luck

9 Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978, Warner Bros.)

1 The Floppy Boot Stomp

2 Tropical Hot Dog Night

3 Ice Rose

4 Harry Irene

5 You Know You're A Man

6 Bat Chain Puller

7 When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy

8 Owed T' Alex

9 Candle Mambo

10 Love Lies

11 Suction Prints

12 Apes-Ma

Doc at the Radar Station (1980, Virgin)

1 Hot Head

2 Ashtray Heart

3 A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets To A Diamond

4 Run Paint Run Run

5 Sue Egypt

6 Brickbats

7 Dirty Blue Gene

8 Best Batch Yet

9 Telephone

10 Flavor Bud Living

11 Sheriff of Hong Kong

12 Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on my Knee

Ice Cream For Crow (1982, Virgin)

1 Ice Cream For Crow

2 The Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O

3 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian

4 Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat

5 Evening Bell

6 Cardboard Cutout Sundown

7 The Past Sure Is Tense

8 Ink Mathematics

9 The Witch Doctor Life

10 81 Poop Hatch

11 The Thousandth and Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole

12 Skeleton Makes Good

The Legendary A&M Sessions (1984, A&M)

1 Diddy Wah Diddy

2 Who Do You Think You're Fooling

3 Moonchild

4 Frying Pan

5 Here I Am I Always Am

Originally recorded 1965.

Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-82) (1999, Revenant)

Disc 1 - Just Got Back From the City, 1965-67

1 Obeah Man (1966 demo)

2 Just Got Back From the City (1966 demo)

3 I'm Glad (1966 demo)

4 Triple Combination (1966 demo)

5 Here I Am I Always Am (early 1966 demo)

6 Here I Am I Always Am (later 1966 demo)

7 Somebody In My Home (live Avalon Ballroom '66)

8 Tupelo (live Avalon Ballroom '66)

9 Evil (live Avalon Ballroom '66)

10 Old Folks Boogie (live Avalon Ballroom '67)

11 Call On Me (1965 demo)

12 Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do (1967 demo)

13 Yellow Brick Road (1967 demo)

14 Plastic Factory (1967 demo)

Disc 2 - Electricity, 1968

1 Electricity (live at Cannes 1968)

2 Sure Nuff (live at Cannes 1968)

3 Rollin n' Tumblin (Kidderminster 1968)

4 Electricity (Kidderminster 1968)

5 You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (Kidderminster 1968)

6 Kandy Korn (Kidderminster 1968)

7 Korn Ring Finger (1967 demo)

Disc 3 - Trout Mask House Sessions, 1969

1 Hobo Chang Ba and Dachau Blues Tuning Up

2 "Bush Recording"

3 Hair Pie (Bake 1)

4 Hair Pie (Bake 2)

5 Noodling

6 Hobo Chang Ba

7 Hobo Practice

8 Hobo Chang Ba Take 2

9 Dachau Blues

10 Old Fart At Play

11 Noodling

12 Pachuco Cadaver

13 Sugar N Spikes

14 Noodling

15 Sweet Sweet Bulbs

16 Frownland Take 1

17 Frownland

18 Noodling

19 Ella Guru

20 Silence

21 She's Too Much For My Mirror

22 Noodling

23 Steal Softly Through Snow

24 Noodling

25 My Human Gets Me Blues

26 Noodling

27 When Big Joan Sets Up

28 Silence

29 Candy Man

30 China Pig

Disc 4 - Trout Mask House Sessions Pt. 2

1 Blimp playback

2 "Herb Alpert"

3 "Septic tank"

4 "We'll overdub it 3 times"

Disc 5 - Grow Fins, 1969-81

1 My Human Gets Me Blues (live Amougies '69)

2 When Big Joan Sets Up (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971)

3 Woe Is Uh Me Bop (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971)

4 Bellerin Plain (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971)

5 Black Snake Moan I (KHSU '72)

6 Grow Fins (live Bickershaw '72)

7 Black Snake Moan II (WBCN '72)

8 Spitball Scalped Uh Baby (live, Bickershaw '72)

9 Harp Boogie I (WBCN '72)

10 One Red Rose That I Mean (Town Hall '72)

11 Harp Boogie II (WBCN '72)

12 Natchez Burning (WBCN '72)

13 Harp Boogie III (1972 radio phone in)

14 Click Clack (Paris, '73)

15 Orange Claw Hammer ('75 from radio with Zappa on accoustic guitar)

16 Odd Jobs (Don piano demo, '76)

17 Odd Jobs (full band demo '76)

18 Vampire Suite (1980 worktapes/live)

19 Mellotron Improv (live '78)

20 Evening Bell (Don piano demo '81)

21 Evening Bell (Lucas worktape '81)

22 Mellotron Improv (live '80)

23 Flavor Bud Living (live '81)

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