Beefheart/Zappa LIVE Avalon '66 BLUE Vinyl EP NM

	£		50
	$		66

BEEFHEART/MAGIC BAND

AVALON '66 

M-/M-

7" P/S "BLUE Vinyl"

from "Glass Finger's Big Bad But Beautiful Book of Beefheart Rarities - Volume #1" (Apocalypse) / 1993 :
"198? US Avalon '66 EP on Blue Desert Recordings NR 16805 - with PS - says Blue Desert EP 1 on the back but the matrix is NR 16805. Has four tracks from 1966 - Tupelo / Somebody In My Home / Old Folks Boogie / Evil in full radial stereo on blue vinyl with warp round sleeve - the front cover has a Clear Spot period picture of Beefheart lying on a couch in his glitter suit - the back has a paste up of a 1966 newspaper article that appeared in Beat Magazine comparing Beefheart's version of "Diddy Wah Diddy" to that of The Remains. Recording is pretty good if treetrunk stereo with Beefheart introducing the Evil cut saying "we got a request for a number by the Howlin' Wolf". This performance is supposed to come from a radio broadcast from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco - Beefheart performed at the Avalon in May, June an August of 1966 so I guess it is one of those gigs. The tracks include a close clone version of John Lee Hooker's Tupelo Mississippi, with the its chanted / "whispered mighty flood... mighty flood.."  two Howlin' Wolf numbers and the wonderful Old Folks Boogie. Another track, refered to as the fifth Avalon track and as the Blues Jam, has recently surfaced on The Avalon Tapes that circulate among collectors, but this is yet to appear on vinyl. Certainly it would be very interesting to know what other tracks were broadcast - they must have played their local hit Diddy Wah Diddy. Colin Webb informs me that a 1968 article also reckons the played Little Red Rooster at that time. John Peel, the UK DJ, saw them in California in May 1966 and said "when I saw them at... they were just doing you know just doing Howlin' Wolf numbers... really they were just an R&B band... you know... er... if they did... obviously they reconstructed them pretty dramatically... at the same time they did Little Red Rooster... which I'd love to have got a tape of...". "

captain beefheart and his magic band

side a

1. tupelo, mississippi
2. somebody in my home

side b

1. old folks boogie
2. evil

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Avalon '66

Blue Vinyl 7" EP released on Blue Desert Records. Comes in a wraparound picture sleeve. Live in San Francisco.

The labels credit The Soots - which was an early incarnation featuring Don Van Vliet and Frank Zappa. My digging on the net did turn up the following info about this record:

A 4 track EP of songs recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in 1966 (the exact date is unknown) for the radio station KSAN pressed on blue vinyl with luxury wrap round sleeve. Recording is very good stereo with Beefheart introducing "Evil" cut saying "We got a request for a Howlin' Wolf number".

A great cartoon label too although the group named is 'The Soots' - a pre-Magic Band collaboration between the young Zappa and Vliet.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Tupelo, Mississippi

Somebody In My Home

Side Two

Old Folks Boogie

Evil

Released on 'Blue Desert Records'

Catalogue No. NR 16805

Record is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX++ condition

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