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| Disc One |
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Bake III - Hair Pie
This instrumental jam is bass heavy, noisy and almost metal. |
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Suction Prints
Another instrumental, this is proggy, jazz like and a lot more. It works through several shifts and changes in a fast paced and dynamic arrangement. |
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Low Yo Yo Stuff
This noisy rocker is a bit raw, but has a lot of cool built into it, too. I love the almost funky vibe to this. It’s a lot of fun. |
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Bat Chain Puller
There is a lot of blues on the table here. Harmonica adds to that. This is a quirky little beast. That’s for sure. Some things here even make me think of Hawkwind a bit. The weird jam at the end is quite cool. It’s part prog and part blues and all bizarre yet effective. |
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I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
Crazed stuff that’s one part Frank Zappa and one part King Crimson opens this. It works to more of a straightforward song from there. Still, this is Captain Beefheart, so it’s only going to be so straightforward. |
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Abba Zaba
Jazz, progressive rock and more merge on this powerhouse rocker. It’s one of the coolest pieces of the set and has a killer instrumental section mid-track. |
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Dali's Car
A crazed guitar solo piece, this has a real free-form prog vibe. There are definitely nods to King Crimson and Robert Fripp. It’s a noisy one. |
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One Nest Rolls after Another
This is just a short poetry bit. |
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The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back
Part acapella song, part poetry reading, this is art rock for sure. Well, the rock part could be in question. |
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Nowadays a Woman's Got To Hit a Man
A bit of a soulful rock and roll vibe permeates this bouncy rocker. It’s still got enough weirdness to get into prog territory. |
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Click Clack
This high energy hard rocker is quite a cool tune. It’s one of my favorites of the set for sure. |
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Grow Fins
Here we’ve got more of a bluesy number. This is good stuff. I like the bass and the harmonica on this one. |
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Golden Birdies
Spoken bits punctuated by sections of seemingly freeform music is the concept here. This is art rock, for sure. It’s also oddly effective. |
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| Disc Two |
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Electricity
This song is really electrified. It’s a screaming hot tune with a lot of classy prog elements and more built into it. |
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A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets To a Diamond
This jam is definitely progressive rock. There is a lot of old world melody built into it. It’s a fairly short instrumental. |
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China Pig
A standard blues grind brings this thing into being. That mode holds the cut all the way through. |
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Sun Zoom Spark
This is a cool hard rocker. It’s pretty typical Beefheart – assuming there is such a thing. |
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My Human Gets Me Blues
Weaving this way and that, this is crazed and quite free form. It’s part jazz, part prog and all cool. |
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Floppy Boot Stomp
Another dynamic cut, this has a lot in common with Zappa. |
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Moonlight on Vermont
This feels somewhat similar to the previous cut. It’s a screaming hot number that lands among the highlights here, though. It has quite a few shifts and turns. The closing section is particularly strong. |
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Carson City
This hard rocker is more mainstream. It’s an effective piece, too. It has some great bits of guitar throughout. |
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Old Black Snake
Just an acapella blues tune, this is short. |
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Pachuco Cadaver
There is a lot of blues in this. It has a lot of jazz in the mix, too. The drums really get to show off on this. |
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Band Intro - Veteran's Day Poppy
The band introductions happen during the jamming on this thing. It’s aa bit off kilter and quite a great combo between rock, jazz and more. |
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The Blimp
This jam is a fun one. It’s not a big surprise, but it’s good stuff. |
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Big Eyed Beans from Venus
This little rocker is not something unexpected, but it’s effective. |
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