Cover of Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982)

1999 Avantgarde Blues Rock
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Tracklist

  1. Just Got Back From The City (1965-67)
  2. 1-1 Obeah Man (1966 Demo) 2:47
  3. 1-2 Just Got Back From The City (1966 Demo) 1:53
  4. 1-3 I’m Glad (1966 Demo) 3:44
  5. 1-4 Triple Combination (1966 Demo) 2:48
  6. 1-5 Here I Am I Always Am (Early 1966 Demo) 3:15
  7. 1-6 Here I Am I Always Am (Later 1966 Demo) 2:32
  8. 1-7 Somebody In My Home (1966 Live)Burnett 3:03
  9. 1-8 Tupelo (1966 Live)Hooker 4:15
  10. 1-9 Evil Is Going On (1966 Live)Dixon 2:33
  11. 1-10 Old Folks Boogie (1967 Live)Green 3:15
  12. 1-11 Call On Me (1965 Demo) 3:04
  13. 1-12 Sure Nuff N Yes I Do (1967 Demo) 2:11
  14. 1-13 Yellow Brick Road (1967 Demo) 1:45
  15. 1-14 Plastic Factory (1967 Demo) 2:57
  16. Electricity (1967-68)
  17. 2-1 Electricity (1968 Live) 3:42
  18. 2-2 Sure Nuff N Yes I Do (1968 Live) 2:57
  19. 2-3 Rollin N Tumblin (1968 Live) 11:08
  20. 2-4 Electricity (1968 Live) 3:54
  21. 2-5 Yer Gonna Need Somebody On Yer Bond (1968 Live) 6:25
  22. 2-6 Kandy Korn (1968 Live) 4:21
  23. 2-7 Korn Ring Finger (1967 Demo) 7:23
  24. Trout Mask House Sessions (1969)
  25. 3-1 (Untitled 1) 4:59
  26. 3-2 (Untitled 2) 8:18
  27. 3-3 Hair Pie: Bake 1 5:04
  28. 3-4 Hair Pie: Bake 2 2:44
  29. 3-5 (Untitled 5) 1:04
  30. 3-6 Hobo Chang Ba 2:02
  31. 3-7 (Untitled 7) 1:57
  32. 3-8 Hobo Chang Ba (Take 2) 3:08
  33. 3-9 Dachau Blues 2:06
  34. 3-10 Old Fart At Play 1:23
  35. 3-11 (Untitled 11) 1:01
  36. 3-12 Pachuco Cadaver 4:08
  37. 3-13 Sugar N Spikes 2:40
  38. 3-14 (Untitled 14) 1:00
  39. 3-15 Sweet Sweet Bulbs 2:30
  40. 3-16 Frownland (Take 1) 2:51
  41. 3-17 Frownland 1:52
  42. 3-18 (Untitled 18) 1:10
  43. 3-19 Ella Guru 2:33
  44. 3-20 (Untitled 20) 0:08
  45. 3-21 She’s Too Much For My Mirror 1:30
  46. 3-22 (Untitled 22) 0:35
  47. 3-23 Steal Softly Through Snow 2:22
  48. 3-24 (Untitled 24) 1:51
  49. 3-25 My Human Gets Me Blues 2:53
  50. 3-26 (Untitled 26) 1:05
  51. 3-27 When Big Joan Sets Up 4:32
  52. 3-28 (Untitled 28) 0:04
  53. 3-29 (Untitled 29) 0:56
  54. 3-30 China Pig 4:14
  55. Trout Mask House Sessions (Storytime Portion) (1969)
  56. 4-1 Blimp 5:09
  57. 4-2 Herb 1:06
  58. 4-3 Septic Tank 0:51
  59. 4-4 Overdub 5:26
  60. Cannes Beach, France, 1968
  61. 4-Video1a Electricity
  62. 4-Video1b Sure Nuff N Yes I Do
  63. Amougies, Belgium, 1969
  64. 4-Video2a She’s Too Much For My Mirror
  65. 4-Video2b My Human Gets Me Blues
  66. Detroit, Michigan, 1971
  67. 4-Video3a When Big Joan Sets Up
  68. 4-Video3b Woe Is Uh Me Bop
  69. 4-Video3c Bellerin Plain
  70. Paris, France, 1972
  71. 4-Video4a Click Clack
  72. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-82)
  73. 5-1 My Human Gets Me Blues (1969 Live) 3:56
  74. 5-2 When Big Joan Sets Up (1971 Live) 6:13
  75. 5-3 Woe Is Uh Me Bop (1971 Live) 2:46
  76. 5-4 Bellerin Plain (1971 Live) 3:26
  77. 5-5 Black Snake Moan (1972 Radio Phone-In) 1:04
  78. 5-6 Grow Fins (1972 Live) 5:12
  79. 5-7 Black Snake Moan II (1972 Radio) 1:52
  80. 5-8 Spitball Scalped Uh Baby (1972 Live) 9:16
  81. 5-9 Harp Boogie I (1972 Radio) 1:34
  82. 5-10 One Red Rose That I Mean (1972 Live) 1:48
  83. 5-11 Harp Boogie II (1972 Radio) 0:55
  84. 5-12 Natchez Burning (1972 Radio)Burnett 0:45
  85. 5-13 Harp Boogie III (1972 Radio Phone-In) 0:52
  86. 5-14 Click Clack (1973 Live) 2:53
  87. 5-15 Orange Claw Hammer (1975 Radio) 4:39
  88. 5-16 Odd Jobs (1975 Piano Demo) 5:13
  89. 5-17 Odd Jobs (1976 Band Demo) 5:12
  90. 5-18 Vampire Suite (1980 Worktapes/Live) 3:48
  91. 5-19 Mellotron Improv (1978 Live) 1:25
  92. 5-20 Evening Bell (1980 Piano Worktape) 0:56
  93. 5-21 Evening Bell (1982 Guitar Worktape) 2:18
  94. 5-22 Mellotron Improv (1980 Live) 2:22
  95. 5-23 Flavor Bud Living (1980 Live) 1:16

Musicians

Production

Also credited

Also credited. Written-By: Chester Burnett, John Lee Hooker, Slim Green. Written-By (Uncredited): Willie Dixon. Art Direction: Jeff Hunt. Design: Susan Archie. Layout: Susan Archie. Edited By (Final CD Editing): David Glasser. Mastered By: David Glasser. Liner Notes (Booklet Notes): David Fricke, John Corbett. Photography By (Photo Magic): Potsy Duncan, Sue Pie. Remastered By: Bill Schnee. Supervised By (Enhanced CD Direction): Jeff Economy. Technician (Audio Wizardry): Scott Colburn.

Release notes

This box set consists of heavy card photo-laminated outer box, containing heavy card photo-laminated wallet book that has a 112-page booklet & 5 CDs (in 5 natural card jackets) bound into the wallet spine. Booklet contains interviews, essays and rare photos, as well as track info.

Disc 4 is a partially-enhanced CD [Macromedia / Quicktime] containing tracks of live footage from 1968-72 performances.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-3 recorded at Original Sound, Hollywood, C.A.
Track 1-4 recorded at Vliet’s mother’s house, Carolside, Lancaster, CA. (One channel uses an ‘Electrovoice 664’ microphone for Vliet).
Tracks 1-5, 1-6, recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Tracks 1-7 to 1-10 recorded live at Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA. (Aug/Sep ‘67).
Track 1-11 recorded at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Tracks 1-12 to 1-14 recorded at Original Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Tracks 2-1, 2-2 recorded live at MIDEM Pop Festival, Cannes beach, France.
Tracks 2-3 to 2-6 recorded live at Frank Freeman’s Dance Studio, Kidderminster, UK.
Track 2-7 recorded at T.T.G Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Tracks 3-1 to 4-4 recorded at the Magic Band house, Ensenada Drive, Woodhills, CA.
(3-2 voices are Amway delivery driver & his wife.
3-3 - 3-4 are outtakes and NOT the identically titled tracks on TMR. This is true of other similarly titled tracks to TMR on CD3- all outtakes)
Track 4-2 is reference to Herb Alpert (A&M), not Herb Bermann.
Track 5-1 recorded live at Amougies, Belgium 1969.
Tracks 5-2 to 5-4 recorded live at Detroit Tubeworks. (Jan 1971).
Tracks 5-5 and 5-13 recorded live via phone-in radio KHSU, CA.
Tracks 5-6 and 5-8 recorded live at Bickershaw Festival, Lancashire, UK.
Tracks 5-7, 5-9, 5-11 and 5-12 recorded live at radio WBCN, Boston, MA.
Track 5-10 recorded live at Town Hall, NYC.
Track 5-14 recorded live at Bataclan, Paris.
Track 5-15 recorded live at radio KWST.
Track 5-18 recorded live at The Venue, London, UK.
Track 5-19 recorded live at Paradise, Boston, MA.
Track 5-21 recorded at home, NYC.
Track 5-22 recorded live at Stanhope, NJ..
Track 5-23 recorded live at Beacon Theater, NYC..

Track 1-5 voice references to “her” & “she” being Dorothy Heard - relating to the demo gaining an A&M signing for the band via Heard and Grant.

Track 1-8 also known as “Tupelo, Mississippi”.
©Hooker

Track 1-9 Credited incorrectly in booklet to Chester Burnett (Howlin’ Wolf), who recorded it. It was written for him by Willie Dixon.
Also known as “Evil (Is Going On)”.
©Burnett (Evil Is Going On; Natchez Burning; Somebody In My Home)

Track 2-3 is a traditional blues song, recently attributable to McKinley Morganfield in its most popular form.
Tracks 5-5 & 5-7 is a traditional blues song, most recently attributable to Blind Lemon Jefferson in its most popular form.

Art Direction at “world of anArchie, Atlanta, Georgia”
Audio at “Gravelvoice, Seattle, Wshington”.
Mastering at “Airshow Mastering, Boulder, Colorado”
Remastering at “Bill Schnee Studios, California”

℗©1999 John Fahey’s ‘Revenant’
Under license from various owners.

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