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Track 5 - Hair Pie: Bake 1.

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (1969) - Page 3 Bunnyd10

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The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Nightjar wrote:: Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately. sad yes

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid. scared

Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

This was produced by him.

And he was a bit dodgy with the control over the master tapes.

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Hair Pie: Bake 1

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Nightjar wrote:

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Nightjar wrote:: Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately. sad yes

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid. scared

Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

Er...

SRSLY, is this some kind of joke?

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The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Nightjar wrote:: Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately. sad yes

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid. scared

Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

I always think Frank Zappa had something to do with this.

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Only another 4 minutes to go.

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Butterfield wrote:

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Nightjar wrote:: Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately. sad yes

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid. scared

Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

I always think Frank Zappa had something to do with this.

Oh, then I'd be right. bowtie

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Is this a flesh ~~oboe?~~ Horn?

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SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:: This was produced by him.

And he was a bit dodgy with the control over the master tapes.

I wonder how Bongo Fury would go down here?

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The best tracks on that are "Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy" and "Man With the Woman Head".

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This does sound like how I'd record a song if you gave me some random instruments.

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Nightjar wrote:: The best tracks on that are "Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy" and "Man With the Woman Head".

No, I meant "Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top". doh

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Talking bit.

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Beefheart actually meeting some lost hippie souls who've wandered out into the desert?

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Track 6 - Moonlight on Vermont.

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (1969) - Page 3 Bunnyd10

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The 'hit'.

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This album is better than I remember. yes

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Moonlight on Vermont

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When I bought my ~~first~~ CD player back in about 1994 this was the first CD I bought. box

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