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Edit 2009-03-08: line-up corrected 4) Don's only contribution to 'Well Well Well' Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - 2 new tracks: Circumstances and a new 1) All the line-ups are not confirmed. Maybe are the concluding words "It doesn't taste The Spotlight Kid Outtakes version of Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian John French's book will give us some so well...", no harmonica, saxophone as - 2 tracks uncut: Funeral Hill (Version 1), Low missing details about this era. mentioned before. 3rd Revision Yo Yo Stuff (Instrumental) 2) Following Henry Kaiser John French is the - 1 stereo upgrade: Dirty Blue Gene (Version drummer on all tracks. Any drummer who The Spotlight Kid & Pompadour Sessions 1) before only available in mono can distinguish the style of Art Tripp and October-early November 1971 John French? Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA Lineage: 3) Following Henry Kaiser again the Spotlight Acoustic Blues Session, early 1972 (1) studio->tape 2nd gen->stand alone CD Kid sessions were finished in early probably Amigo Studios, Sherman Oaks, burner->CDR->flac->TLH->wav->Wavelab November 1971, no Brown Star sessions North Hollywood, CA 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac happened in summer 1972. Roy Estrada (2) studio->tape 3rd gen?->Spotlight Kid DVD joined the Magic Band in March 1972. That A friendly DIME fellow who wants to stay (from puzzleoyster)->wav->Wavelab 5.0: means: no involvement of Roy Estrada anonymous sent his collection of Spotlight sound editing->TLH->flac (2nd revision)- here. Kid outtakes. >TLH->wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing- Every Beefheart fan has its own version, but >TLH->flac this time we are talking about a known 2nd (3) studio->tape 3rd gen?->The Spotlight Kid gen! Outtakes CDR (from perebeef)->wav- A former band member received the tapes >Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac on getting the gig, they were made for him in (2nd revision)->TLH->wav-> Wavelab: order to learn the tunes. Our guy got them sound editing->TLH->flac directly from him, he transferred the tapes to (4) studio->tape 3rd gen?->Beefheart Studio CDR using a stand alone CD burner, no Sessions 1970-72 (flac torrented on DIME)- editing or master ing in this step. >TLH: wav->Wavelab 5.0: sound editing- What I got are FLAC files directly ripped >TLH->flac (2nd revision)->TLH->wav- from the CDR. The sound quality of the >Wavelab 5.0: sound editing->TLH->flac tracks is astonishing. You have to hear them! Tracklist: Some statistics: 1-01 Drink Paint Run Run (7:28:977) (1) - 41 tracks overall. Length: 198:33 excellent sound quality - 33 tracks from the 2nd gen in excellent 1-02 Seam Crooked Sam (Version 2) (2:18:290) sound quality (1) (1) excellent sound quality - 8 tracks from 3rd gen with improved sound 1-03 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 1) (2:54:642) (1) quality (2), (3), (4) stereo, excellent sound quality 24 1 1-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 3)(4:12:283) (1) Pompadour Session (1) excellent sound excellent sound quality, 4,5% slower quality, 3,8% slower 1-05 Kiss Me My Love (2:38:779) (1) excellent 2-01 Pompadour I (13:54:520) 2 takes sound quality 2-02 Pompadour II (12:41:308) 5 takes 1-06 Funeral Hill (Version 1) (6:46:236) (1) 3-01 Suzy Murder Wrist (3:47:285) (1) excellent sound quality, 2% slower, 0:50 excellent sound quality longer (coda uncut) 3-02 U Bean So Cinquo (2:51:291) (1) excellent 1-07 Harry Irene (2:51:164) jazzy guitar sound quality version, (1) excellent sound quality 3-03 The Witch Doctor Life (3:51:869) (1) 1-08 Open Pins (5:41:854) (3) improved sound excellent sound quality 1-09 Dual & Abdul (2:44:970) (1) excellent 3-04 Little Scratch (Version 1)(4:48:648) (1) sound quality, 5% faster excellent sound quality 1-10 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (Version 3-05 Flaming Autograph (4:44:098) (1) 2)(3:05:670) (1) new version, excellent excellent sound quality sound quality (different guitar outro) 3-06 Love Grip (4:48:176) (1) excellent sound 1-11 Balladino (2:27:607) (1) excellent sound quality quality 3-07 No Flower Shall Grow (5:44:902) (1) 1-12 Clear Spot (Instrumental) (4:46:150) (2) excellent sound quality 3-08 Best Batch Yet (Version 1)(3:40:819) 3 improved sound takes (1) excellent sound quality 1-13 Circumstances (9:09:407) (1) new track, 3-09 Your Love Brought Me To Life (4:10:338) excellent sound quality (marimba, 2 takes (1) excellent sound quality harmonica, different to Clear Spot o/t) 3-10 That Little Girl (5:18:342) (1) excellent 1-14 I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby sound quality (Instrumental)(5:54:142)(1) excellent 3-11 Campfires (5:47:664) (1) excellent sound blues versions of 'Funeral Hill'; and a medley Harkleroad's guitar lines. sound quality quality of non-originals featuring 'Scratch My (Captain Beefheart, 2000) 1-15 Low Yo Yo Stuff (Instrumental) (6:08:188) 3-12 Well Well Well (1:57:587) (1) excellent Back', 'Going To The Bottom (Border or Henry Kaiser: The above is just a blues jam (1) uncut, excellent sound quality sound quality (Lick My Decals Off Baby Brazos)', 'Keys To The Highway' and for fun with El and Don. Maybe they thought 1-16 Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (Version o/t) 'Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No More'. to get a blues duo jam tune out of 'Sun Zoom 1) (4:11:118) (1) excellent sound quality, 3-13 Funeral Hill (Version 3) (3:55:744) (1) (Captain Beefheart. Spark' to us as they played it - but they got 4,5% faster excellent sound quality The Man And His Music. 1989) nothing finished... 1-17 Little Scratch (Version 2) (2:53:510) (4) 3-14 Seam Crooked Sam (Version 1) (2:15:360) Mike Barnes: 'Sun Zoom Spark' first came improved sound (2) improved sound into being on a rambling rehearsal demo, 3-15 Alice In Blunderland (3:55:727) (2) with Van Vliet improvising the words over 2 23 3-16 Funeral Hill (Version 2) (3:17:453) faded lyrics in 1971 and then a version close to this improved sound from this era: "We had a blocked amount of Line-up: one (released on Doc At The Radar Station) 3-16 Funeral Hill (Version 2) (3:17:453) (2) time (for The Spotlight Kid) and we had an Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica from the 1972 Clear Spot sessions. With a improved sound cache of tunes. We just went in there in the Bill Harkleroad: guitar few minor changes it became the 3-17 Best Batch Yet (Version 2) (2:14:814) (2) typical way that we worked. Just take it, John French: drums, percussion thunderous song on Doc At The Radar improved sound keep it, move on. Don was trying to use the Mark Boston: bass guitar Station. 3-18 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 2) (3:14:470) (2) studio more. (He thought) here we are, Art Tripp: piano (?) (Captain Beefheart, 2000) improved sound they're paying for it, let's get the most out of it and put some things down - unfinished 3-17 Best Batch Yet (Version 2) (2:14:814) The Acoustic Blues Session: Don and Bill The Acoustic Blues Session (mono) (1) licks and riffs that he thought were songs. It different version released on Doc At The doing 'Sun Zoom Spark' probably Amigo excellent sound quality, less bass, 2,1% was a very incomplete, uncontrolled Radar Station, begins with, "that is three" Studios, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, faster situation, like "What the hell's going on, what Line-up: CA., early 1972 (mono) 4-01 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 1) (8:03:536) are we playing and where does this go?" Bill Harkleroad: guitar 4-02 Scratch My Back (1:51:574) Even with tunes that were "done", and that Mark Boston: bass guitar 4-01 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 1) (8:03:536) 4-03 Blues Medley (7:16:838) people think are great, a lot of them were John French: drums 4-02 Scratch My Back (1:51:574) 4-03a Down In The Bottom (Howlin' Wolf, unfinished ideas with a part missing here Art Tripp: marimba 4-03 Blues Medley (7:16:838) AKA Pork Chops 1961) and there." Comments: Sounds like take #1 of 'Best 'n Beans 4-03b Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy, (Captain Beefheart, 2000) Batch Yet (Version 1)' with marimba a. Down In The Bottom (Howlin' Wolf, 1961) 1941) overdubbed. AKA Going Down To The Border AKA 4-03c Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No Dave Lynch: An incredible quantity of various Going To The Bottom More takes in semi-annotated form, many given 3-18 Dirty Blue Gene (Version 2) (3:14:470) b. Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy, 4-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 2) (8:28:741) different titles; everybody seems to have a Line-up: 1941) different set of these. All in all, they're Don Van Vliet: vocals, harmonica c. Grandpa Don't Love Grandma No More Don Van Vliet: I was thinking warm and nice interesting demos, but not particularly Bill Harkleroad: guitar 4-04 Sun Zoom Spark (Version 2) (8:28:741) when I did that one (The Spotlight Kid) and I cohesive, with lots of loose jamming and Mark Boston: bass guitar Line-up: feel that it has all come through.