Record Details

Artists:	Captain Beefheart / The Magic Band
Title:	Trout Mask Replica
Format:	12"
Label:	Straight / Straight
Cat No:	STS 1053 / 2 STS 1053
Released:	Nov 1969
Country:
Genres:	DialogueField RecordingAvantgardeElectric BluesPsychedelic RockExperimentalSpoken Word
Status	Have
Added To List	28th March 2021

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Comments

1st UK issue. Manufactured & distributed in UK by CBS. ℗1969 All tracks; Cop. Con. Album catalog on sleeve does not have the "2" prefix. No lyric sheet insert is included (which appeared only in early US releases). Both liners punch-hole & poly-lined with "R.S. 9.69" cyan print ref. Discs are not auto-coupled, like US issue. "The Blimp" is listed on the vinyl as "The Blimb". (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' box set).

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