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avalon '66
| 1987 | 7"-bootleg | ?? | blue desert / blue vinyl |
from
"Glass Finger's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs - Volume
#1" (Apocalypse) / 1993 :
"198? US Avalon '66 EP on Blue Desert Recordings NR 16805 - with PS -
says Blue Desert EP 1 on the back but the matrix is NR 16805. Has four tracks
from 1966 - Tupelo / Somebody In My Home / Old Folks Boogie / Evil in full
radial stereo on blue vinyl with warp round sleeve - the front cover has a Clear
Spot period picture of Beefheart lying on a couch in his glitter suit - the back
has a paste up of a 1966 newspaper article that appeared in Beat Magazine
comparing Beefheart's version of Diddy Wah Diddy to that of The Remains.
Recording is pretty good if treetrunk stereo with Beefheart introducing the Evil
cut saying "we got a request for a number by the Howlin' Wolf". This
performance is supposed to come from a radio broadcast from the Avalon Ballroom
in San Francisco - Beefheart performed at the Avalon in May, June an August of
1966 so I guess it is one of those gigs. The tracks include a close clone
version of John Lee Hooker's Tupelo with the its chanted / whispered mighty
flood... mighty flood, two Howlin' Wolf numbers and the wonderful Old Folks
Boogie. Another track, refered to as the fifth Avalon track and as the Blues
Jam, has recently surfaced on The Avalon Tapes that circulate among collectors,
but this is yet to appear on vinyl. Certainly it would be very interesting to
know what other tracks were broadcast - they must have played their local hit
Diddy Wah Diddy. Colin Webb informs me that a 1968 article also reckons the
played Little Red Rooster at that time. John Peel, the UK DJ, saw them in
California in May 1966 and said "when I saw them at... they were just doing
you know just doing Howlin' Wolf numbers... really they were just an R&B
band... you know... er... if they did... obviously they reconstructed them
pretty dramatically... at the same time they did Little Red Rooster... which I'd
love to have got a tape of...". "
captain beefheart and his magic band
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