Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Alternate Decals
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are the basic instrumental tracks from the recording sessions, placed in the same running order as the finished album. Fleshed out with introductory remarks by the good captain, rehearsal versions of ”Decals” and ”Big Toe”, live versions of ”Peon” and ”One Red Rose”, and finally an unreleased track with vocal by Rockette Morton (he runs on big-eyed laser beans).
Special appreciation to the channel Idiotska's Live Corner which provided some of the material - be sure to check out their treasure chest of Beefheartiana.
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1) 00:00:00 Van Vliet intro - phone interview with Co De Kloet, July 23, 1993)
2) 00:02:11 Intro 2: Fred May (from the TV ad)
3) 00:02 18 Lick My Decals Off, Baby
4) 00:05:02 Doctor Dark
5) 00:07: 53 I Love You, You Big Dummy (rehearsal)
6) 00:11:16 I Love You, You Big Dummy
7) 00:14:16 Peon (live in Frankfurt, April 14, 1972)
8) 00:17:03 Bellerin’ Plain
9) 00:20:36 Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
10) 00:22:55 Japan in a Dishpan (bass & drums)
11) 00:25:48 Japan in a Dishpan (Take 4)
12) 00:28:53 Japan in a Dishpan (Take 2) (sax)
13) 00:31:46 Japan in a Dishpan (sax)
14) 00:34:50 Big Toe (rehearsal)
15) 00:36:52 Big Toe #25
16) 00:39:08 Petrified Forest
17) 00:40:43 One Red Rose That I Mean (live at Ungaro’s, NYC, January 26, 1971)
18) 00:43:00 The Buggy Boogie Woogie
19) 00:45:14 The Big Dig
20) 00:47:26 Space-Age Couple
21) 00:50:00 Clouds Are Full of Wine
22) 00:52:52 Flash Gordon’s Ape
23) 00:57:01 Flash Gordon’s Ape #2 (vocal)
24) 01:00:53 Flash Gordon’s Ape #1 (vocal & sax)
25) 01:04:52 Well Well Well (vocal by Rockette Morton)
I grew up with them and bought them as they came out and Decals was always my favorite as well, telepathy.
This is such a unique sound done by no other group - with the exception of Rustic Hinge (an Arthur Brown offshoot) and Kenny Process Team (recently reformed after the sad death of one of their guitarists a while back). Both are/were English; I wonder if any American band has tried to emulate such virtuosity.
Was friends with Don in Lancaster CA. Went to see him play at the Roxy and he gave me a shout out before "whoa is uh me bop" cuz he knew i liked it. A great album. And Don was a one of a kind super cool guy and a creative genius.
Hey, I was in that Roxy band. Was it a good show?
My favourite Beefheart album, great to hear this, thanks. To me it's the one where he somehow really worked through all his complexity so that it sounds like a very simple album.
I'm a vet of numerous Fillmore shows, Woodstock '69, CBGB;s etc. I saw this band play in NYC 1/'1971, but with 2 drum kits and Elliot Ingmer on 2nd axe. The ferocity of their appearance and playing, to my mind is still unmatched against all shows I've attended.
Wow! If that is true, that is fascinating, bruh. I cannot imagine.
I also saw the magic band 72 and walked Don to a taxi on Broadway subsequent shows in 80 and meeting him at a Zappa rehearsal in LA was special they were cordial to each other FZ lit both our cigarettes no cameras back then....
A busy workshop of ideas . Makes you realize that every 4 minute song by Beefheart could have been 8 minutes without any of it being boring .
Uncompromisingly cool and unique ....no commercial sell out for these fella
Wow, I wonder when the phone interview with Don was done, the MS was certainly, sadly quite evident - GREAT music and words by the Captain and Band! Oh Don, I Love you you big genius, I love you you big genius
The phone interview was conducted in July, 1993.
Phone interview was in 1993 & he still had 17 years dealing with that horrible disease after passing in 2010. It only gets worse. How fucked is that?
I thought that too. Sounded much different when i knew him.
Very hard to listen to..the speaking that is.. RIP to the legend.
I'd been looking for a copy of this album for years, then one day I FOUND it in a used record store down the street from where I used to live. Decent copy, too! I remember being so overjoyed that I had to silence myself and pay the 5.00 or whatever so I wouldn't arouse suspicion over the buried treasure I had unearthed. I've still got it.
great story, I'm jealous
Thanks very much for sharing. I like hearing the instrumentals. However, I will listen to the album, without Mr. Beefhearts vocals it's like eating pancakes without syrup. Thank you.
Four separate takes of Japan in a Dishpan? I'm in heaven. Thanks for the upload!
Love that track With Rockette Morton
I go to see a bit of music now and again but often when I get home I put some Beefheart on and I feel purified somehow. Don't know what my life would have been like without him.
Hope Magic Band do one more tour
This is a great collection here, definitely my favorite era of the band. I've got some low-gen Decals instrumentals I'll be uploading to compliment this.
Where the hell are you getting all this awesome stuff, man?! It sounds nearly as great as the finished album! You're a fucking mensch!
the beefheart stan appears once again
Love your channel Lynn!
What a fantastic dream this Upload...I love this album more than trout Mask and now i can sing this like a karaoke.Sad but true.Thanks In loop!
This is so cool, you can hear how intricate the music was. OK I love Zappa but this is totally different from The Mothers.
Philip Cucinella Miles ahead of Zappa by any rational measure. Better by miles, too. Frank, yeah, he was cool, but his weirdness was contrived. The Captain struggled to be accepted by the mainstream, but he would never pull that off, not in a thousand years.
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So, Beefheart was "miles ahead of Zappa" was he?
Aye, RIGHT! I think not.
Van Vliet was his own animal, and he was good at being Captain Beefheart...but he was nowhere near Zappa! Zappa could've done what Beefheart did, but Beefheart could never have done what Zappa did!
I was in the Mpls. audience for this albums tour stop! Stellar!
they played this in Minneapolis!? wow, born a little late to join the part
Zoot rules here, but imagine what this could have been if Jeff Cotton had still been around to provide a second guitar.
It's all two much !
wow thanks for this!!! big beefheart fan, first glance at these recordings!
Wonderful collection, thanks for the upload! Nicely assembled, packed with substance.
"Wouldn't hurt to do lick my decals off baby." So funny the way he said that.
Los amo a todos.
Should be titled "Lick My Vocals Off, Baby"
Because of the lack of voices?
NOWtheband That would be my guess!
thankyou
Unsurprisingly I didn't "get" this album. But I will try again Don..
wish I could see "peon" live...
btw, me thinks he had studio money to practice in the studio which is why therre is some discussion when I bought this that it was too manicured and perfect. I know from recording my live shows I made greater progress listening to the stuff on the way home again from the gig.
He sounds cute during the start interview.
I Love You Big Dummy, hahahaha!
his best album. grossly unrecognized even by his fans because of the unfair "masterwork" status given to TMR that causes people to ignore the rest of his albums.
These things come and go. When I got into Beefheart in the mid 80's, you couldn't find the LP. Then in 1989, it was on an Enigma CD and you could buy it anywhere.
Deep Frigid Winter
I listened and have almost all of his albums. I always skipped Unconditionaly and Blue Jeans. Man, those were completely Beefheart unworthy!
+in 3D This album, "Clear Spot" and the original recording of "Bat Chain Puller" are the three best Beefheart albums imho.
Bram25 . bullshit ! Beefheart never produced a bad album
completely disagree , and im sure my opinion is controversial among fans but..... . all of his best work was done up to and including TMR for me . not that the work after that was bad but i just get a feeling that he lost something of his vitality after TMR , whether it was himself or the recording techniques or the other musicians i dont know , and if youre skeptical you can listen yourself to the incredible power , self assuredness and insouciant brilliance of SAFE AS MILK , STRICTLY PERSONAL , MIRROR MAN , TROUT MASK REPLICA and then the rest of his ouevre and see if you understand what im talking about .
wow
Listening @24 min there is a drum solo by Drumbo... never heard him play like that before...
that's because it's Artie Tripp drummin on that track
Definitely CB and the MB at their peak, but what the hell was the engineer thinking? The mix is just god-awful. Even so, “One Red Rose”, “Bellerin’ Plain”, and “Decals” are three of Don’s greatest compositions