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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Crazy Little Things [Triangle PYCD080, 1CD]
Live at the Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO; April 22, 1974. Excellent FM broadcast.
Don Van Vliet: Five days before the tour - a tour all over the world, starting in America - they just dropped me. It was terrible, awful; I learned them the music note by note at the time, and just before such a big tour they cut the collaboration because they think they are essential. I like this new band very much. these guys already could play from the start, that’s important.
[Bert Jansen: THE CAPTAIN! Captain Beefheart: Magie Voor Eenzamen Of Voor Het Volk? OOR, June 19, 1974]
Barry Alfonso: Scrambling to put a group together in time for a tour only a few weeks away, DiMartino hired a lounge-circuit rock combo down in Hollywood to be an ersatz Magic Band. Among these musicians was keyboardist Michael Smotherman, who, like his bandmates, had little or no idea who Captain Beefheart was. “Talk about worlds colliding,” he remembers. “We started practicing these songs of Don’s, things like Big Eyed Beans From Venus, and they seemed totally alien, totally foreign to our ways of thinking. At the time, we were all guys in leather jackets and tight jeans, and we treated Don with this slightly patronizing attitude. He was, like, this old kook to us. We truly didn’t know shit.”
Somehow, Beefheart managed to teach these musicians his songs, and they toured together in Europe and the US into the fall of ‘74.
[The Dust Blows Forward booklet]
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Track 01. Mirror Man 7:31 (12.6MB)
Track 02. Upon The My-O-My 3:17 (5.5MB)
Track 03. Crazy Little Things 5:08 (8.6MB)
Track 04. Full Moon Hot Sun 4:21 (7.3MB)
Track 05. Sugar Bowl/One Nest Rolls After Another [poem] 3:01 (5.1MB)
Track 06. This Is The Day 7:58 (13.4MB)
Track 07. Keep On Rubbing 4:59 (8.4MB)
Track 08. Be Your Dog 7:45 (13.0MB)
Track 09. Sweet Georgia Brown 4:44 (8.0MB)
Track 10. Abba Zaba 3:26 (5.8MB)
Track 11. Peaches 6:51 (11.5MB)
Track 12. Peaches 2 5:48 (9.7MB)
65 mins
Magic Band #29: “Tragic Live Band”
Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet - vocals, harmonica, saxophone, clarinet
Fuzzy Fuscaldo - guitar
Ty Grimes - drums
Del Simmons - tenor saxophone, flute
Dean Smith - guitar
Michael Smotherman - keyboards
Paul Uhrig - bass
Roger Ames: So there’s a New Magic Band with a keyboard player from Buckwheat, a drummer from Ricky Nelson’s band (Ty Grimes), a bass player from Bobbie Gentry’s old band (Paul Uhrig), and a throwback sax player who led his own band in Dixieland days. Dean Smith is on lead, Fuzzy Fuscaldo on rhythm.
[Roger Ames: CaptainBeefheart. People Weekly. September 1974]
Steve Lake: These people being 54-year-old ex-Charlie Parker clarinet and-all-other-reeds-man Del Simmons, guitarist Dean Smith and Fuzzy Fuscaldo (the latter recently with Curtis Mayfield), keyboard player Michael Smotherman from the now defunct Buckweat, bassist Paul Uhrig from Bobbie Gentry’s group (!), and drummer Ty Grimes, fresh from Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band. Impeccable enough credentials for the average Los Angeles session, one imagines, but hardly the boys to get to grips with Big Eyed Beans From Venus or Ah Feel Like Ahcid.
[Steve Lake: Music is A Poor Second Every Time. Melody Maker. June 1974]
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