captain beefheart & his magic band

live at my father's place vol.I

from "Rollin Red's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Booglegs - Volume #2" (Apocalypse) / 1995:
"198? single French bootleg Live At My Father's Place Vol.I on Chameleon Records 0041. This is another one of those Beefheart bootlegs that seem to make little or no sense at all!! Taken from the 1978WLIR FM radio broadcast in NY Club of the same name - in the village of Roslyn, Long Island USA.
As I mentioned in SSTS#6 the show must surely be mastered way too slow!! (Her Eyes is a dead giveaway and just about shuffle along & the talking between tracks makes Don sound stoned out of his brains!). I once heard a source tape apparentley taken direct from the radio & apart from sounding correct the majority of the songs played seem in key with the LP  versions.
Saying that, the last few numbers on the tape were ridiculously slow! So my theory that the original broadcasts may have only been 60 minutes & the last few tracks on the tape possibly dubbed from another source tape?? Anyway, let's go back to the bootleg. The cover as you see is the same deluxe wrap-around glossy photo of Don as on Vol.II. excepts this is in B&W instead of black on red & it includes the 1st half of the show & Vol.II the 3rd and 2nd quarters!?! So even if you have both volumes you still lose the last quarter of the show!
Even though we now have both Hot Dog Night dbl CD & My Father's Place CDs thisis still possibly the most sought after btlg next to Booga Booga Music & I've only seen copies for trade once in 10 years."

don van vliet: vocal, harmonica, saxophone
bruce fowler: trombone, air bass
richard redus: slide guitar, slide bass, guitar, accordion
jeff moris tepper: slide guitar, guitar
robert williams: drums, percussion
eric drew feldman: bass, synth, keyboard