captain beefheart

easy teeth

?? 2lp-bootleg ?? imp 2-27

from "Glass Finger's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Bootlegs - Volume #1" (Apocalypse) / 1994 :
"Easy Teeth on Impossible Recordworks 2-27 (of Légerdemain, usa!). Recorded February 18th 1978 at the Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, California, USA - "A two-records set". Stereo - US(?) bootleg with deluxe b+w cover with Don Vliet sitting on a sofa in sunglasses on the front cover. Nice black on yellow labels with spiral pattern. Has band line up. The sound of this is not particularly good, muffled and bass-y, so I guess it is a poor "audience recording". It does feature a great amount of "audience participation" which Beefheart appears to enjoy in a sort of "might go out of control any minute" kind of way. He attempts to calm them down by reciting short sections of song lyrics between tracks - giving them a bit of "Big Dummy" and "China Pig". Then he tries to elicit some sympathy from them with "they put these damned lights on me and give me no water!" and tells them about once meeting Roland Kirk in the middle of the night out looking for "ribs" and advising him to try "the bible". Before Owed T'Alex he tells them, in a good-natured way, how it is about Alex Snouffer and his tendency to "blame everything on his motorbike" while after Electricity he says "that sont is twenty years old... it's a square dance... that's right... it's a dance for squares". At the end of one song he suddenly finds that Bruce Fowler is in the audience! - he then introduces him to the crowd who, being american of course, start ot woop excessively, and then Beefheart tries to convince Bruce to join them on stage and play, vaguely asking someone in the audience or off-stage "do you have a trombone?". The show as per usual ends with Big Eyed Beans From Venus but they return for an encore of Golden Birdies to more wild wooping."

 

1978/02/18 concert 'golden bear', huntington beach, california, usa

captain beefheart * denny walley * jeff moris tepper * eric drew feldman * robert williams * harry duncan

side one

  1. flavor bud livin'
  2. electricity
  3. click clack
  4. a carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond
  5. floppy boot stomp

side two

  1. bat chain puller
  2. nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man
  3. crazy little thing
  4. when I see mommy I feel like a mummy
  5. owed t'alex

side three

  1. low yoyo stuff
  2. pachuca cadaver
  3. abba zaba
  4. grow fins
  5. dali's car

side four

  1. china pig
  2. sure 'nuff 'n yes, I do
  3. sun zoom spark
  4. gib eyed beans from venus
  5. golden birdies