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The original bat chain puller 1976 captain beefheart. The original tape was never mixed and released, but alternative versions of some of the tracks appeared on beefheart s shiny beast bat chain puller, and as bootlegs. Bat chain puller is the th studio album and first official posthumous album by captain beefheart, released on february 22, 2012. The albums tracks were cut under the auspices of frank zappa and then shelved due to legal entanglements. Here it is the last one there is from the french chorus tv show 1980. Frank and herbs relationship fell on hard times and subsequently ended during 1976 with lawsuits that held up the master tapes for bcp in zappas vault for roughly 35 years. The album emerged from production difficulties surrounding bat chain puller, an album captain beefheart recorded for discreet and virgin records in 1976. December 30, 2011 a report in the arts, briefly column last friday about plans to release the captain beefheart album bat chain puller more than 36 years after it was recorded misstated the given name of the biographer of don van vliet, who performed as captain beefheart. Bat chain puller 1976 bat chain puller seam crooked sam harry irene 81 poop hatch flavor bud living brick bats floppy boot stomp a carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond owed talex odd jobs the 1010th day of the human totem pole apes ma safe as milk mono mix 1967 sure nuff n yes i do zig zag wanderer call on me dropout boogie im glad electricity yellow brick. Lost captain beefheart album bat chain puller finally due. Bat chain puller bat chain puller puller, puller a chain with yellow lights that glistens like oil beads on its slick smooth trunk that trails behind on tracks, and thumps a wing hangs limp and retreats bat chain puller puller puller bulbs shoot from its snoot and vanish into darkness it whistles like a root snatched from dry earth sodbustin rakes with grey dust claws announces its coming. Captain beefheart s music at its best is a form of art, that is maybe best compared to an abstract painting.
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Best to think of bat chain puller as an album in its own right as it was and that the songs were later redone on his last three albums. But i have a different opinion on the original 1976 version. Recorded in 1976 but unreleased until 2012, bat chain puller restores a missing chapter in the legendary career of captain beefheart a. Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of beefheart s vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics.
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Alas it was probably my favorite release by the captain. See the special notes at the end of this transcription. Editors notes recorded in 1976 but unreleased until 2012, bat chain puller restores a missing chapter in the legendary career of captain beefheart a. Here you can buy and download music mp3 captain beefheart. But after cohen allegedly funded the bat chain puller sessions with zappas royalty checks, zappa was furious and withheld the master recordings. Like the belowmentioned roky erickson, the crazy ol capn might have been a bit too far out for my taste. I have every album by the captain, and am now buying all the same music on cd, plus several that add previously unheard music such as the bat chain puller disc of the original recordings of what later came out on this album under the title shiny beast bat chain puller. But his death last friday also my 42nd birthday, as it happens seems as good an occasion as any to post my first and most likely last beef boot. Bat chain puller original by beefheart music cd music. Shiny beast bat chain puller is the tenth studio album by american rock band captain beefheart and the magic band, released in october 1978 by warner. I heard these tweety things beefheart project toronto. Bat chain puller is the th studio album by captain beefheart, released on february 22, 2012.
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