Beefheart, Captain

Captain Beefheart: The Lost Tapes: 1966-1970

DVD Video / Blueline / 2013-06-18

Artists: Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart: An Ashtray Heart: Toronto Broadcast 1981

CD / Chrome Dreams (USA) / 2013-04-09

Tracks: Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man; Abba Zaba; Hot Head; Ashtray Heart; Dirty Blue Gene; Best Batch Yet; Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond, A; Doctor Dark; Bat Chain Puller; Sheriff of...
Artists: Captain Beefheart

Recording information: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada (01/15/1971); KWST FM Broadcast (01/15/1971); Saturday Night Live (01/15/1971); Tubeworks WABX TV Detroit (01/15/1971); Commodore Ballr...continue...

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Translucent Fresnel: The Nan Trues Hole Tape 72/73 Live

CD / Ozit / 2012-12-11

Tracks: Suction Prints; Crazy Little Thing; Electricity; Golden Birdies; I'm Gonna Booglarise You Baby; King Bee/Sugar Mama; Low Yo Yo Stuff; Mirrorman; Peon 2; Peon; Bass Solo; Suction Prints; Sugar'n'Spikes
Artists: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Personnel: Bill Harkleroad (guitar, slide guitar); Mark Boston (guitar, bass guitar); Alex Snouffer (slide guitar); Roy Estrada (bass guitar); Art Tripp (drums, percussion).

Recording informati...continue...

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Nan True's Hole: Beefheart Tapes, Vol. 3 *

CD / Ozit / 2012-03-06

Tracks: When It Blows It Stacks; Poofters From Wyoming; Alice In Blunderland; Big Eyed Beans From Venus; Natchez Burning; Moonlight On Vermont; Dali's Car; Electricity; Abba Zabba; Deserts of Time; Sax and D...
Artists: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Nan Trues Hole Tapes, Vol. 2

CD / Ozit / 2011-06-14

Tracks: Abba Zabba; Acapella Beefheart; Alice In Blunderland; Bass Solo - Hair Pie; Booglarise; Click Clack; Grow Fins; Hobo Chang Ba; Peon; When It Blows It Stacks; Golden Birdies; Spitball Scalped a Baby; ...
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Personnel: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harp); Don Van Vliet (vocals, harp); Bill Harkleroad, Winged-Eel Fingerling, Zoot Horn Rollo, Elliot Ingber (guitar); Ed Marimba, Art Tripp (drums).

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Captain Beefheart: The Document

1 CD / Chrome Dreams (USA) / 2011-05-03

Tracks: Documentary [DVD], The; [Untitled]; [Untitled]; [Untitled]; [Untitled]; [Untitled]
Artists: Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart: Jukebox

1 CD / Chrome Dreams (USA) / 2009-07-14

Tracks: I'm a King Bee (Moore); My Starter Won't Work (West); Louie Louie (Berry); Midnight Hour (Brown); Somebody In My Home (Burnett); Diddy Wah Diddy (Dixon, McDaniel); Eventually (Coleman); Terraplane Bl...
Artists: Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Safe as Milk

1 CD / Rev-Ola Records / 2009-01-27

Tracks: Sure Nuff 'N' Yes I Do; Zig Zag Wanderer; Call on Me; Dropout Boogie; I'm Glad; Electricity; Yellow Brick Road; Abba Zaba; Plastic Factory; Where There's a Woman; Grown So Ugly; Autumn's Child; Safe ...
Artists: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Digitally remastered reissue of this 1967 release, one of Rock's 'greatest albums of all time'! This really is an album that no collection is complete...continue...
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harmonica, bass marimba); Ry Cooder (guitar, bass); Alex St. Clair Snouffer, Jeff Cotton (guitar); Jerry Handley (bass); John French (dru...continue...

Captain Beefheart: CB & MB in GB

2 CD / Ozit / 2008-10-28

Tracks: Blows It Stacks; Orange Claw Hammer; Dali's Claw; Nowadays a Woman's; Hot Head; Abba Zabba; Woe Is Up Me Bop; Sax Duet/Drums; Sam with the Shining Scalp Flat Top; Improvisation; Drop out Boogie; One ...
Artists: Captain Beefheart

2008 two CD archive release containing tracks recorded live at various shows during the Captain's many trips to the UK between 1970 and 1980. Between...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Ice Cream for Crow

1 CD / MSI Music Distribution / 2006-10-03

Tracks: Ice Cream For Crow; Host the Ghost the Most Holy O; Semi Multicoloured Caucasian; Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat; Evening Bell; Cardboard Cut Out Sundown; Past Sure Is Tense; Ink Mathematics; Wit...
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

2006 digitally remastered reissue of this 1982 release. Recorded with the inevitable Magic Band line-up change as a result of personal and financial conflict, it...continue...
Personnel: Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, harmonica, soprano saxophone, prop horn); Jeff Moris Tepper, Gary Lucas (acoustic & electric guitars, slide guitars); Richard Midnight Hatsize Sny...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Doc at the Radar Station [Remaster]

1 CD / MSI Music Distribution / 2006-10-03

Tracks: Hot Head; Ashtray Heart; Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond; Run Paint Run Run; Sue Egypt; Brickbats; Dirty Blue Gene; Best Batch Yet; Telephone; Flavor Bud Living; Sheriff of Hong Kong...
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

2006 digitally remastered reissue of this 1980 album. This album was harder and more powerful than its predecessor, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), and was...continue...
Personnel: Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, bass clarinet, harmonica, soprano saxophone, Chinese gongs); John "Drumbo" French (guitar, slide guitar, marimba, bass, drums); Jeff Morris Tepper...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: The Mirror Man Sessions

CD / Buddha Records / 2006-08-22

Tracks: Tarotplane; 25th Century Quaker; Mirror Man; Kandy Korn; Trust Us (Take 6) - (Take 6); Safe as Milk (Take 12) - (Take 12); Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones; Moody Liz (Take 8) - (Take 8); Gimme Dat Ha...
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Full performer name: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harmonica); Alex St. Caire Snoufer, Antennae Jimmy Simmons (guitar); Jerr...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

1 CD / Virgin / 2006-08-08

Tracks: Floppy Boot Stomp, The; Tropical Hot Dog Night; Ice Rose; Harry Irene; You Know You're a Man; Bat Chain Puller; When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy; Owed T'alex; Candle Mambo; Love Lies; Suction Pri...
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

2006 digitally remastered reissue of this 1980 album. 12 tracks that featured a bigger and smoother sound, marking a return to classic Beefheart form with...continue...
Personnel: Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, whistling, harmonica, soprano saxophone); Richard Redus (guitar, accordion, bass); Jeff Moris Tepper (guitar); Bruce Lambourne Fowler (trombone); ...continue...

Captain Beefheart: Live: London 74

CD / Virgin / 2006-08-08

Tracks: Mirror Man; Upon the My-O-My; Full Moon Hot Sun; Sugar Bowl; Crazy Little Thing; Keep on Rubbin'; Sweet Georgia Brown; This Is the Day; New Electric Ride; Abba Zaba; Peaches; Radio Concert Advert
Artists: Captain Beefheart

First, total accountability: this is not "the" Magic Band. This is the group Don Van Vliet assembled with the help of his manager when the original Magic Band had literally walked out on him over fina...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Bluejeans & Moonbeams

1 CD / MSI Music Distribution / 2006-08-08

Tracks: Party of Special Things to Do; Same Old Blues; Observatory Crest; Pompadour Swamp; Captain's Holiday; Rock 'N' Roll's Evil Doll; Further Than We've Gone; Twist Ah Luck; BlueJeans & Moonbeams
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

2006 digitally remastered reissue of this 1974 album. Nine tracks including the gorgeous 'Observatory Crest', inspired by the Griffith Park Observatory where Beefheart often went...continue...
Personnel: Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, harmonica); Dean Smith (guitar); Michael Smotherman (keyboards, background vocals); Mark Gibbons, Jimmy Caravan (keyboards); Ira Ingber, Bob West ...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Unconditionally Guaranteed [Remaster]

1 CD / EMI Music Distribution / 2006-08-08

Tracks: Upon the My-O-My; Sugar Bowl; New Electric Ride; Magic Be; Happy Love Song; Full Moon, Hot Sun; I Got Love on My Mind; This Is the Day; Lazy Music; Peaches
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

2006 digitally remastered reissue of this 1974 album. This album is unquestionably one of their most accessible albums and the perfect introduction to this period...continue...
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, harmonica); Zoot Horn Rollo (guitar, slide guitar); Alex Saint Claire (guitar); Mark Marcellino (keyboards); Rockette Mor...continue...

Captain Beefheart: Amsterdam '80

1 CD / Phantom Import Distribution / 2006-04-11

Artists: Captain Beefheart

Recorded by Dutch radio at the legenday 'Paradiso club' 1st November 1980 whilst on a European tour for the Magic basnds studio album 'Doc at...continue...

Captain Beefheart: London 1974

1 CD / BCD / 2006-03-14

Tracks: Mirror Man; Upon the Me Oh My; Full Moon Hot Sun; Sugar Bowl; Crazy Little Thing; This Is the Day; New Electric Ride; Abba Zaba; Peaches
Artists: Captain Beefheart

First, total accountability: this is not "the" Magic Band. This is the group Don Van Vliet assembled with the help of his manager when the original Magic Band had literally walked out on him over fina...continue...

Captain Beefheart: The Buddah Years

CD / Sony BMG / 2006-02-21

Tracks: Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes, I Do; Zig Zag Wanderer; Dropout Boogie; Electricity; Yellow Brick Road; Abba Zaba; Plastic Factory; Big Black Baby Shoes; Safe as Milk; Gimme Dat Harp Boy; Trust Us; Kandy Korn
Artists: Captain Beefheart

Born Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was one of modern music's true innovators. The owner of a remarkable four-and-one-half octave vocal range, he employed idiosyncratic rhythms,...continue...
Liner Note Author: Brendon Griffin.

Recording information: 1967.

Released in 2006, this compressed sampler of early Captain Beefheart strata bundles seven of the twelve tunes originally ...continue...

Captain Beefheart: Magnetic Hands: Live In The UK

CD / Viper Records (UK) / 2002-07-16

Tracks: Click Clack; Old Black Snake; Grow Fins; Peon; Golden Birdies; Electricity; Sugar Mama; Orange Claw Hammer; Gimme Dat Harp Boy; Dali's Car; Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones; Flavor Bud Living; Nowaday...
Artists: Captain Beefheart

The compilation MAGNETIC HANDS: LIVE IN THE UK gathers Captain Beefheart material recorded throughout many periods of the band's career. The album contains 18 songs including "Safe As Milk," "Orange C...continue...

Captain Beefheart: Legendary A&M Sessions

1 CD / Kingston Export / 2002-07-05

Artists: Captain Beefheart

Before Safe As Milk and prior to the San Francisco Dance Concert boom of 1966, Beefheart and his early Magic Band recorded several sides for...continue...
Prior to signing with Buddah and recording SAFE AS MILK, Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band had a two single deal with A&M Records in 1965. THE LEGENDARY A&M SESSIONS assembles those two 45s along w...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Strictly Personal

CD / EMI Music Distribution / 2000-02-29

Tracks: Ah Feel Like Ahcid; Safe As Milk; Trust Us; Son of Mirror Man - Mere Man; On Tomorrow; Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones; Gimme Dat Harp Boy; Kandy Korn
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Full performer name: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band includes: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harmonica).

Personnel: Captain Beefheart (vocals, guitar,...continue...

Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: The Mirror Man Sessions

1 CD / Buddha Records / 1999-06-01

Tracks: Tarotplane; 25th Century Quaker; Mirror Man; Kandy Korn; Trust Us - (take 6); Safe as Milk - (take 12); Beatle Bones N' Smokin' Stones; Moody Liz - (take 8); Gimme Dat Harp Boy
Artists: Captain Beefheart/Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Full performer name: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harmonica); Alex St. Caire Snoufer, Antennae Jimmy Simmons (guitar); Jerr...continue...

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Safe as Milk

CD / BMG (distributor) / 1999-06-01

Artists: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harmonica, bass marimba); Ry Cooder (guitar, bass); Alex St. Clair Snouffer, Jeff Cotton (guitar); Jerry Handley (bass); John French (dru...continue...

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot

1 CD / Reprise / 1990-11-27

Tracks: I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby; White Jam; Blabber 'N Smoke; When It Blows Its Stacks; Alice in Blunderland; Spotlight Kid, The; Click Clack; Grow Fins; There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage...
Artists: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

2 LPs on 1 CD: THE SPOTLIGHT KID (1972)/CLEAR SPOT (1972).

Full performer name: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, harmoni...continue...