flavor bud living
1980 | 2lp-bootleg | ?? | haro records cb 1180 |
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...". "