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Record Details

Artists: Frank Zappa / Captain Beefheart / The Mothers
Title: Bongo Fury
Format: 12"
Label: DiscReet
Cat No: DS 2234
Released: 2 Oct 1975
Country:
Genres: Blues RockAvantgarde
Status Have
Added To List 12th April 2014
Disc 1 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
DS 2234 - 31936-1B Ⓑ    SX    A  
B Matrix:
DS 2234 - 31937-1B Ⓑ    SX    D  

Additional Information

Comments © 1975 DiscReet Records, Inc.
Manufactured by Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made in U.S.A.
Tracks A1 to A4, B2 to B4: "Recorded live at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin Texas, May 20th and 21st, 1975. Plus Selected Studio Wonderment."
A5, B1 & B4 intros recorded Jan & Feb 1974, remote recording, overdubs & mixing at The Record Plant, L.A.

Special thanks to the kitchen staff at The Armadillo, especially Jan Beeman

On labels: ℗ 1975 Warner Brothers Records Inc. [sic]
Tracks A1, A2, A4 to B2, B4: © 1975 Munchkin Music - ASCAP
Tracks A3, B3 © 1973 Beefheart Music - BMI

Beefheart was renowned for his "shopping bags", stuffed with notebooks, harmonicas & bric-a-brac.
(Vliet's constant 'sketching' of FZ in his notebooks led to some acrimony between the two during the "Bongo Fury" tour)
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