Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Town Hall
New York City, NY
October 28, 1972
Audience recording by TheGrape.
SONY TC126 -> FCM99S mic -> cassette master -> HD -> cdr -> shn
01-Hair Pie: Bake III/Suction Prints
02-Low Yo Yo Stuff
03-Nowadays A Woman�s Gotta Hit A Man
04-Clear Spot
05-Old Black Snake
06-Sugar 'n Spikes
07-Too Much Time
08-Steal Softly Thru Snow
09-Crazy Little Thing
10-I�m Gonna Booglarize You Baby
11-One Red Rose That I Mean
12-Click Clack
13-Bandintros
14-Alice In Blunderland
15-Circumstances
16-Abba Zabba
17-Big Eyed Beans From Venus
18-Golden Birdies
encore
19-Bass Solo/Mirror Man
Total time approx. 64:44
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John Vetebey:
The Town Hall is crowded while Rockette Morton, rhythm guitarist with the head of a musketeer, walks about the stage, the Captain unfolds his bat cape ("that so much gifted animal"), Zoot Horn Rollo - the guitar player - balances in his interrogations, Art Tripp beats like a galley's kettle-drummer. And Roy Estrada stays as cool as all good bassists do. The music displays itself in its surprising twists and ruptures in the scansion - chaos organizing itself, simplifying and getting closer to the blues, and fascinates more and more, which worries the Captain a little - "they are taking me serious..." - but doesn't displease him.
Gary Lucas:
The next year, he came back with a scaled-down band when they had that record The Spotlight Kid out. They had really toned down the Psychedelia. They were doing guitar solos -- it was more conventional Blues Rock -- but I still loved it. That's when I interviewed him. I phoned him and my voice was trembling. I was quite intimidated by him and then he came the following week for the concert and he was very affable and we hit it off.
James Diesel:
Look at 1972 ...... Beefheart with a Blues/Punk Band ..... yes ... PUNK ..... just listen to New York City, Town Hall, 10/28/72.
Roger Dowd:
I saw the band in Staten Island just before the release of Clear Spot. Rockette Morton's solo intro was ferocious. He played, I don't know how long, before the Captain walked on stage very non-chalantly, screwed his horn together, and ripped into a howling rendition of Hair Pie. It was a great night.
[Graham's guest book]
Raymond D. Ricker:
This was the first tour I saw the Magic Band (Town Hall - NYC) and I was in absolute awe - IMO this was not one of Don's better tours - the band was just transitioning to a more blues oriented music and the rustiness showed, in addition, Ingber was forever messing up the more complex Trout Mask Replica material, when it was performed.