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