- Audio CD (2 Oct 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: ADA Global
- ASIN: B0000009SO
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 38,460 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Debra Kadabra (Lp Version) |
| 2. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy (Lp Version) |
| 3. Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (Lp Version) |
| 4. Poofter'S Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead (Lp Version) |
| 5. 200 Years Old (Lp Version) |
| 6. Cucamonga (Lp Version) |
| 7. Advance Romance (Lp Version) |
| 8. Man With The Woman Head (Lp Version) |
| 9. Muffin Man (Lp Version) |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
That this album should be so good belies the trouble that went into it's production.
Beefheart had hogtied himself with contractual problems and so Frank invited him out onto the road to perform and to earn some much needed cash.
The resulting tour became a nightmare, Beefheart baiting Frank onstage and arguing with him offstage. Just look at the cover. Frank glowers unhappily at the camera as the Captain hides his face beneath his hat.
In one of Frank's last television interviews you could see that he was still fairly upset by the affair. After all, he and the Captain had grown up together in Lancaster.
But out of such seeds of discontent grew an album of fine quality. Frank's exceptional production skills made this a thrilling and inventive live document that still sounds polished but raw, inventive and yet controlled.
Captain Beefheart's contributions are truly excellent, his prose and singing effortlessly meld with the wondrous performances of the band.
And this album contains what is arguably Frank's best live guitar performance.
The legendary 'Muffin Man'.
Buy it now.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is both one of Zappa's AND one of Capt. Beefheart's greatest albums. They both seem to inspire and discipline each other, and the resulting tension brings out the best in both of them. Beefheart's voice is kept within a kind of Tom Waits range, though the lyrics are of a dementia only psychoanalysts can be familiar with. The music is in Zappa's most restrained rock style, including the psychopathic country ballad "Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead", a vitriolic attack on the commercial loin-girding and main chance-eyeing going on in the USA prior to the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. The few songs without the Captain are disappointing in his absence, but don't let that stop you buying this seventies masterpiece, still just as thrilling today.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Rock's mad scientist and Dadaist extraordinaire team up for the first time since 1969's "Hot Rats" and deliver a totally manic, freeform, and above all, entertaining live record. The opening track "Debra Kedabra" hurls round so many musical hairpin bends it's hard to keep track of what's goin on. Every track on here sounds so fiendishly difficult to play one can only listen in awe of the skill of this incarnation of Zappa's band. It's mostly led by Zappa's overdriven guitar and the Captain's demonic growling, but with various flashes of horns and keyboards clashing with insane time signatures. It isn't without the humour which often comes with Zappa, such as in "200 Years Old" (a "celebration" of the USA's 200th birthday), or the gloriously bonkers Beefheart psycho-rant "Man with the Woman Head".
It's a shame then that such a great collaboration should have ended in an acrimonious split, leaving these two childhood friends barely speaking to each other. However, it is still a great record, despite the tensions, and contains the moment in which Zappa sealed his reputation as a guitar-wizard to equal Hendrix, in the sublime "Muffin Man".
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