captain beefheart

best batch yet

?? 2lp-bootleg ?? god's golfball records con-12981

from "Glass Finger's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs - Volume #1" (Apocalypse) / 1993 :
"Best Batch Yet on God's Golfball Records Don-12981. Recorded live on January 29, 1981 at the Country Club (which is in Receda, Calif according to the information I have - weren't the Bush Recording couple on "Trout" from Receda?) - Remote Recording Facilities: Wally Heider Sound. US(?) bootleg with deluxe color cover with "Clear Spot" period "Top Hat" photo and the Van Vliet drawing that appeared on the 1977 punk compilation album Blorp Esette Vol.1 from the Los Angeles Free Music Society on the front. Back cover has the photo that came with the Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) press kit. Nice blue / whit labels have God's Golfball Records in black - I think this is reference to the label that Beefheart was going to set up in the early '70s but didn't. This is a excellent performance by what was to be the final line-up of the touring Magic Band. There is a splendid Kandy Korn and a Veteran's Day Poppy executed with almost military precision. The recording is strange in that there is hardly any audience sound at all - I guess it was recorded directly from themixing desk and so only picks up the louder clapping from the microphones - and so it does lack a bit of the atmospere of a live show. One amazing thing to me about these shows is the range of albums represented by the tracks - apart from Safe As Milk cuts (which are just missing) and Ice Cream For Crow cuts (which hadn't been recorded yet) this has tracks from all the other periods. The other great point of interest about this is that it is nearly the last performance he did and as far as I know the very last to appear on vinyl. The information I have from Colin Webb is that the last known show was at Huntingdon Beach, Calif on January 31, 1981 - ie just two days later than this one. There was an FM broadcast in Vancouver on Saturday February 28th 1981 but this was recorded earlier."

 

[1]  1981/01/29 concert 'country club'
[2]  studio recordings

side one

  1. nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man  [1]
  2. i wanna find a woman that'll hold my big toe till I have to go  [1]
  3. hot head  [1]
  4. ashtray heart  [1]
  5. dirty blue gene  [1]
  6. the smithsonian institute blues (of the big dip)  [1]
  7. sue egypt  [1]

side two

  1. best batch yet  [1]
  2. safe as milk  [1]
  3. one red rose that I mean  [1]
  4. china pig  [1]
  5. spitball scalped the baby  [1]

side three

  1. doctor dark  [1]
  2. bat chain puller  [1]
  3. my human gets me blues  [1]
  4. sugar 'n' spikes  [1]
  5. sheriff of hong kong  [1]

side four

  1. kandy korn  [1]
  2. veteran's day poppy  [1]
  3. big eyed beans from venus  [1]
  4. hard workin' man  [2]
  5. light reflected off teh oceans of the moon  [2]