captain beefheart

don's birthday party

?? cd-bootleg ?? tuff bites tb.94.1008

from "Rollin Red's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs - Volume #2" (Apocalypse) / 1995 :
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1994 bootleg CD Don's Birthday Party on Tuff Bites Cat no.TB94 1008 - fabrique en luxembourg. allegedly wa a race against time with an italian pressing that in fact surfaced a month or two after this copy! This CD is by far the better choice with its glosse sleeve design illustrated by a J.Saurer & is what I guess you call a gatefold & surely the most sensibly way to present CDs?? (If only they came with plastic covers to keep them looking as new!) Great to be able to hear the show in its entirety, instead of having to get each disc carefully out of the slg cover and play 4 sides in succession!
Pretty sure the show is mastered from the LP, although there islittle or no hiss / crackles to speak of & at 70 mins plus I guess good value for money at around £15!!
I've often wondered if there were plans for this show to be officially released. I heard it was also filmed & I would love to get my hands on that! I guess this was just done privately, but the excellent sound quality must surely have originated from the mixing desk? (There is a tape in circulation that includes all the show & the audience singing Happy Birthday & more talking between the songs."

 

1981/01/15 concert 'showbox', seattle, usa

 

  1. suction prints (intro version)
  2. my human gets me blues
  3. howadays a woman's gotta hit a man
  4. hot head
  5. ashtray heart
  6. dirty blue gene
  7. best batch yet
  8. safe as milk
  9. a carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond
  10. one red rose that i mean
  11. doctor dark
  12. bat chain puller
  13. sugar 'n spikes
  14. veteran's day poppy
  15. sheriff of hong kong
  16. suction prints (full band version)
  17. big eyed beans from venus