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from "Glass Finger's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs - Volume #1" (Apocalypse) / 1993 :
"1980 European double bootleg from Haro Records CB 1180. A very professional looking job this with nice royal blue labels and white lettering. This is the November 1st 1980 concert at the famous Paradiso in Amsterdam. That cover, which is the most over-the-top I've seen, must have been inspired ty the Gutbucket sampler. The sound is treetrunk stereo which has an unpleasant hollow sound that appears to have been mastered at the wrong speed so Beefheart sings too high. The concert itself is tense with Beefheart telling the audience "not to throw things" and really freaking out when they boo him after a splendid Veteran's Day Poppy - it sounds like Beefheart is not responding to their repeated calls for Big Eyed Beans From Venus! It does feature Gary Lucas, manager and band member, reciting Beefheart's poem One Man Sentence. Suction Prints, the instrumental that started many shows, is the penultimate track with Beefheart giving it plenty of horn and the final track, to wild audience appreciation, is Big Eyed Beans From Venus with Beefheart imploring "mister midnite hatsize snyder and mister jeff morris tepper... hit that long lunar note... and let it float...".  "