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Anyone else see them live? I saw them at the Van Dike 1970. Unforgettable!

Thanks for the info, sounds correct to what I remember when recording from the radio. shame it was only MW quality instead of FM.

Agree. He’s a whacked out weirdo who should have been in jail not making horrible ‘music’

Funny how you say all of these critical things about his way of doing things and yet somehow real people still worked with him willingly! It's almost like you weren't there and maybe don't know as much as you think you do about the "abusive" Captain Beefheart, who was so dreadful that instead of working at the Lumber Yard all these rockin' Drummers and Guitar Players had to keep making records and playing shows with him! And he didn't even let them play onstage, he'd take the instruments out of their hands and play their parts himself he was so lazy and demanding! Plus, I don't like the way all the music he made with other people sounds because of the way he acts! The drums are fine, but you can tell the drummer is afraid of the singer and that just puts me off!

Zappa was great. Don, however, was a genius.

@@thepuppethead1188 You clearly haven't read any of the memoirs written by John French or Bill Harkleroad. They stuck around because they were A) really really young and naive B) lived in the middle of nowhere with no employment opportunities C) didn't understand the music business or adult relationships D) were actively being pressured by people in their lives including Don to stay involved E) stockholm syndrome. This also isn't true: the band lineup was constantly changing and everyone who knew Don said this about him. Jeff Cotton, Alex Snouffer, Winged Eel Fingerling, the producers and engineers.. Don didn't know music theory and couldn't play any instruments. He would improvise on saxophone / simran horn / harp but it was just random notes. The way Trout Mask Replica was actually made was that Don would play random notes on the piano until he got a rhythm he liked, then John would transcribe it and stitch it together with other fragments until it was a song. He didn't know anything -- at all In fact, Evening Bell is literally just Don pounding randomly on the piano. He gave the recording to one of the band members and had him painstakingly learn it on guitar

@@threblog is that the same John French who continued to make atonal, rhythm based improvisation with Henry Kaiser and Fred Frith and subsequently toured with a reformed version of the Magic Band to capitalize on an album of live material he helped to compile??? How deeply scarring his time with "Don" must've been that he didn't want anything to do with the tyrannically oppressive Beefheart. But hey I get it, he made some mistakes when he was young and could never learn a skil other than playing the drums in a highly irregular manner, it's not like James Williamson (you know the fellow who wrote all the riffs on Raw Power by the Stooges) didn't go on to become a distinguished digital audio engineer after working with the most drugged out, shambollic band who ever barely toured. You have a lot of misguided sympathy for the stage theatrics of rock music personalities that really ought be reserved for issues that seem to matter more than a dude who pretends to sing like Howlin' Wolf and locked his band in a house to rehearse nonsense forever...Charles Manson was a soulful folky and his gang of starved crazed brainwashed followers killed people! They didn't escape go on a european tour including TV appearances! And the ones who regretted it the most helped put out his records. The end.

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Yes, interesting to learn how Don formulates his reasoning.

Your welcome and glad you were able to actually see them live!

Many years ago I showed a friend of mine who was ten years older then me my then-recent acquisition of their album Retribution - I'd bought it at a second-hand shop because the cover looked interesting, and loved it. It turned out how knew Andy Clark and Mick Hutchinson from his hippie days when his eyes opened wide and he said "I used to know them! They lived long enough to make an album?!" 😄

Thanks, home reel to reel recording from my Philips FM tuner

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Agree! Micks solo is one of the most beutiful piece of sound ever to be heard. Still warms my heart after all those years

Yes its a mono home recording on my Philips reel to reel from a stereo broadcast on Radio one Pete Drummond show in 1972. Twink had left the band prior to this session. Many thanks for subscribing hope you find other uploads of interest.

Yes. Wow.

Original member Russell Hunter on Percussion, far right in the first picture. ("Twink" had left the band by this time)

The DJ says someone called Orseau is on percussion.

Who was that tho? Orseau The 'Orse?

He a rather , posh accent , he says Russell , the drummers name

@@MultiMickyblue He mentions Russell Hunter next after "Orseau" though. He says "Paul Rudolph on lead guitar and vocals, Duncan Sanderson on bass guitar and also vocals, Orseau - perscussion and Russell Hunter on drums and percussion." I did think Orseau might be "also" but he pronounces "also" normally just two words earlier.

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Yes agreed, thought I better share it before its lost forever.

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Thanks for the comment and glad you enjoyed, will be uploading more rare sessions soon.

Thanks for listening, yes When Paul Rudolph left they lost their edge I think. Their 72 album when they were a trio was a true reflection of them live.