CAPTIAN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND – LIVE FROM LE NOUVEL HIPPODROME PARIS
Band : Captain Beefheart
Genre : Classic Rock
Label : Gonzo Multimedia
Link : http://www.beefheart.com/
Genre : Classic Rock
Label : Gonzo Multimedia
Link : http://www.beefheart.com/
There is no shortage of insanity at a Captain Beefheart show, from Bongo Fury to
numerous bootlegs and visual footage that has been dug up, the Zappa
protégé knew how to work the audience and raise hell too the point where
you didn’t know if he was preaching a death sermon or simply throwing a
fit. Now as more material is surfacing from Don Van Vliet and Company,
this concert, having taken place in late 1977, two years after …Fury and over a year before Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller),
shows that the Captain just can’t disappoint. But as the story goes,
The Magic Band at this point was beyond being The Tragic Band, but
they still went beyond kicking ass with their punkish and post-avant
garde stage act.
The material preached includes early goodies from the Buddah years (“Abba Zabba” & “Electricity”) to a lot of Warner/Replica-era
ditties (“The Dust Blows Forward…” & “Big Eyed Beans from Venus”)
to even giving us a taste of what was to come on future releases (“Owed
t’Alex/Carson City” & “Bat Chain Puller”), so those fans who bought
the later records could sing, or in this case howl along while dropping
the needle on the wax. This two-disc collective of mutant blues is a
bootleg quality, on a scale of 1-10, mainly a five, stick right down the
middle, not really being able to decipher if it was either a soundboard
recording or something that was captured through a decent mic/tape
recorder in the midst of a good sound system; lots of tape hiss and
slightly muddy. Yet that’s the only way to capture the man whom no one
sounded like before and no one sounded like after; through the slide
guitars, wailing sax, and vocal antics of this performance, what other
way is there than to enjoy the raw lunacy.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO:
 | Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver 1973 CD - £9.99 |
 | Le Nouvel Hippodrome, Paris 1977 2CD - £11.99 |
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