cover of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

1969, United States
01:18:54; 109M; 192JS; 340;
  1. Frownland - 1:40
  2. The dust blows forward 'n the - 1:53
  3. Dachau blues - 2:22
  4. Ella gura - 2:26
  5. Hair pie: bake 1 - 4:58
  6. Moonlight in Vermont - 3:59
  7. Pachuco cadaver - 4:40
  8. Bills corpse - 1:49
  9. Sweet sweet bulbs - 2:21
  10. Neon meate dream of an - 2:26
  11. China pig - 4:02
  12. My human gets me blues - 2:46
  13. Dali's car - 1:26
  14. Hair pie: bake 2 - 2:23
  15. Pena - 2:34
  16. Well - 2:07
  17. When Big Joan sets up - 5:18
  18. Fallin' ditch - 2:08
  19. Sugar 'n spikes - 2:30
  20. Ant man bee - 3:57
  21. Orange claw hammer - 3:34
  22. Wild life - 3:09
  23. She's too much for my mirror - 1:40
  24. Hobo chang ba - 2:02
  25. The blimp (mousetrapreplica) - 2:04
  26. Steal softly thru snow - 2:18
  27. Old fart at play - 1:51
  28. Veteran's day poppy - 4:31

Captain Beefheart - songwriter, vocals, saxophone [tenor & soprano], instruments [musette], horns [simran horn] [B4], saxophone [simultaneous tenor & soprano] [C7]
Ed Caraeff - photography [inside & back cover]
John French - drums [uncredited], translated by [music score, uncredited]
Dick Kunc - engineer, technician [electronic modification of equipment]
Gary "Magic" Marker - bass guitar [A6, D8]
Doug Moon - guitar [B5]
Rockette Morton - bass guitar, narrator
Zoot Horn Rollo - slide guitar [glass finger guitar], flute
Cal Schenkel - design, photography [cover]
Antennae Jimmy Semens - slide guitar [steel appendage guitar], effects [flesh horn] [A4], lead vocals [C2], narrator [D5]
Mascara Snake, The - bass clarinet, vocals
Frank Zappa - producer, voice [intro] [D5]

One of the last 'Straight' original gatefold sleeved issues, containing the reissue '3300 Warner Blvd 'mini W logo' tan vinyl labels housed in Warner "Supergroup" promo liners.

Whether this was an effort to shift old TMR print stock before the new varnish-print covers, or simply to bring "Supergroup" to a prime market audience, who knows? But it happened - In 1976.

The sleeve is cat# STS 1053, the vinyl is cat# 2MS 2027.
The liner front has a black half-tone of the "Supergroup" release [PRO 630] and the header "At only $2 for a double album, 'Supergroup' is the best record bargain yet!"
Artists are then mentioned and a response coupon is at bottom-right.
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The liner back simply has the Warner shield motif [centered] and "©1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc" at bottom-right.

(The texts for the PRO Series were often written by Dr. Demento)

Album catalog on sleeve does not have a "2" prefix.

No lyric sheet insert is included (which appeared only in early US releases).

D5 -"The Blimp"
(The intro voice is that of Zappa, recorded via a telephone link to Zappa's studio - with Antennae Jimmy Semens narrating from Vliet's script over the 'phone from the 'Magic Band house'. A field-to-studio recording on which members of 'The Mothers' are performing)

A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalised horn' effect.
B4: The wind instrument "Musette" credited on sleeve is a shortened version of an "Oboe Musette".
The expression 'steel appendage' guitar is another affectation for a steel finger-tube, used as a slide on the fret. A glass tube (or bottle-neck) is used for 'glass-finger' credit.

Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album.
(It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band members was fundamental in its production. See vast notes in 'Grow Fins' CD box set or vinyl album set).

Straight, STS 1053
Reprise Records, 2MS 2027
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