Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Easy Teeth - 1978-2-18

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

February 18, 1978

Easy Teeth

IMP 2-27

Golden Beach - Huntington Bear – California

Vinyl Bootleg 

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Full Album Mp3:

http://www.mediafire.com/?6zcc560887fdxcu

Setlist:

a1. Hair Pie: Bake III (2:27) mistitled Flavor Bud Living

a2. Suction Prints (5.12)

a3. Electricity (4:54)

a4. Click Clack (8:21)

a5. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond (2:07)

a6. Floppy Boot Stomp (4:23)

b1. Bat Chain Puller (6:16)

b2. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (4:52)

b3. Crazy Little Thing (3:12)

b4. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy (5:22)

b5. Owed T'Alex (4:53)

c1. I Love You, You Big Dummy (0:16) poem

c2. Low Yo Yo Stuff (4:06)

c3. Pachuco Cadaver (5:02)

c4. Abba Zaba (4:57)

c5. Grow Fins (7:43)

c6. Dali's Car (1:35)

d1. China Pig (8:34)

d2. Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I Do (3:22)

d3. Sun Zoom Spark (2:30)

d4. When You Smile (0:46)

d5. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (6:11)

d6. Golden Birdies (2:37)

Total lenght: 1:39:38

Line-Up:

Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet

Eric Drew 'Black Jew/Kitabo' Feldman: bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer

Robert 'Wait For Me' Williams: drums, percussion

Jeff 'Tapir/White Jew' Moris Tepper: guitar, slide-guitar

Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla/Denny Walley: guitar, slide guitar

Harry Duncan: harmonica

Paul 'Eazy Teeth' Young: vocals (on: When You Smile)

Whitney Quinn: One time (late '70's?) I got a chance to meet him backstage at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, California, and Don and I spent about two hours in a wonderful one-on-one conversation, where we talked about everything BUT music. Being a professional musician myself, I'm not usually an awe-struck fan, but, punk kid that I was, I asked Don if he might autograph an LP for me. He said sure, so I went back to my car, came back with an armful and said, "Which one?" His eyes lit up, and Don signed every one, inscribed, "To Whitney - love over gold. Love, Don" and the date.

The things I remember most about seeing him and his band were the consistently tight ensemble playing, the roaringly powerful performances by Don himself, his gentle and playful interaction with his audiences and his beautiful soprano sax improvisation. That such creative energy can be physically contained in one body is astonishing.

(Whitney Quinn: Love Over Gold, http://www.beefheart.com/index.html)

Richard Snyder: Side note: 'Easy Teeth' was Don's nickname for our ready-and-able road manager, Paul Young -- a man with a perpetual smile and a great organizational sense.

(Justin C. Sherill: Interview With Rick Snyder)

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/hatsizejustin.html

Steve Froy: This is a 2 record US bootleg with a heavy card cover featuring a black and white photograph on the front of Don wearing sunglasses and looking uncomfortable on a sofa. The labels are black spirals on a yellow background.

A reasonable quality but a bit bass-y recording of an excellent show which includes a rare (but not very successful!) outing for 'Sure Nuff'.

The crowd sound pretty stoked and Don attempts to calm them down between songs by reciting various lyrics, including 'Big Dummy' and 'China Pig'. He tries to gain their sympathy with "they put these damned lights on me and give me no water!". He also tells the Roland Kirk and ribs story.

Before 'Owed T'Alex' he explains the song's about Alex St Claire and his tendency to always blame things on his motorbike and then after 'Electricity' he says "that song is 25 years old ... it's a square dance .. that's right ... it's a dance for squares".

At one point he realises Bruce Fowler is in the audience and, amid much whooping from the audience, tries to get him to join the band on stage, vaguely asking someone "do you have a trombone?".

(Bootleg discography, http://www.beefheart.com/index.html)