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Captain Beefheart, The Magic Band The Spotlight Kid Outtakes 1971-1972
2009 3x CD
Blues Rock
Delta Blues
Speech
Experimental

Main image
Dime
tracks 3.3 to 3.6 acoustic guitar Bill Harkleroad
bass guitar Mark Boston
drums, percussion John French
guitar Bill Harkleroad
liner notes Colin David Webb
liner notes David Lynch
liner notes Don Van Vliet
liner notes Gary Lucas
liner notes Henry Kaiser
liner notes Mike Barnes
liner notes Pete Mulvey
liner notes Roy Carr
liner notes Steve Froy
marimba, piano, maracas Art Tripp
vocals, harmonica Don Van Vliet
Revision 3 3xCD set (red text cover), from newly acquired tapes & circulated via DIME- a source of Recordings Of Independent Origin) as a further sound-quality improvement on the similarly titled (yellow text) issues in 2005 & 2006 (3xCD, 4xCD & 5xCD sets by Hiwatt).

CD 1: Tracks 1.1 to 1.17 replace the previous issue in sound quality. In addition: 1.4 is 4.5% slower, 1.6 is 2% slower & includes the 0:50 coda, 1.7 is the 'jazzy guitar' version, 1.9 is 5% faster, 1.10 is a new version guitar outro and 1.13 is a new version of the marimba & harmonica.

CD 2: Tracks 2.1 to 2.18 replace tracks 3.1 to 3.18 on previous issue, with better sound quality.

CD 3: Acoustic Session (3.3 to 3.6) has less bass & is 2.1% faster than previous 4.01 to 4.04 issue. The Pompadour Session is 3.8% slower than previous 2.01 & 2.02 issue. 3.3 to 3.6 are mono. (Pompadour eventually became Suction Prints).
Track 3.5.1 is also known as Going To The Bottom or Going To The Border.

The Spotlight Kid & Pompadour Sessions: October to early November, 1971.
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA.

The Acoustic Session: Amigo Studios, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, CA., early 1972.
(Not the Brown Star Sessions mid '72).

1.1 became Run Paint Run Run.
1.2 also known as I Can't Do This Unless I Do That.
1.5 also known as Two Rips [or Lips] In A Haystack.
1.6 also known as Don't Get Chicken Blues or Flat OnThe Back
1.11 also known as Ballerino & an early version of A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond.
1.14 also known as Booglarize Jam.
1.17 & 2.4 also known as Natural Charm & an early version of The Past Sure Is Tense.
2.12 is an outtake from Lick My Decals Off, Baby.



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