CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Trout Mask Replica

Item Description

2 x Vinyl, , Terre Haute Press, Auto-Coupled, Gatefold
LP Album

Early US issue on Straight label.
[l403953] pressing variant as indicated by T1 etching in run-outs.

The discs are auto-coupled for sequential playback on automatic record changers:
Record 1 = sides 1 & 4, record 2 = sides 2 & 3.

Includes a six page fold out lyrics insert with original illustrations by the artist.

Issued with a gatefold sleeve.

Errata on labels vs sleeve:
"Moonlight On Vermont" is printed wrongly as "Moonlight In Vermont" on label.
"The Blimp" is printed "The Blimb" (wrongly) & has "(Mousetrapreplica)" suffix on label.
[The intro voice is that of Zappa, recorded via a telephone link to Zappa's studio - with Antennae Jimmy Semens narrating from Vliet's script over the 'phone from the 'Magic Band house'. A field-to-studio recording, on which was resident on a tape channel the members of The Mothers performing the drum-passage to "Charles Ives" aka "Didja Get Any Onya?"]

Track A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalized horn' effect.
Tracks A6 & D8 recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders
Remaining tracks later recorded at Whitney Recording Studios (and within 'The Magic Band House')

Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album. (It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band members was fundamental in its production. See notes in 'Grow Fins' box set).

One known official single was released from this album in France: [r2653807]