CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND Mirror Man LP BUDDAH 1971 UK orig+die cut+foc

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 JERRY HANDLEY, ALEX ST. CLAIRE SNOUFFER, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART,

ANTENNAE JIMMY SIMMONS, DRUMBO, JERRY HANDSLEY

Influential figure who fused disparate forms (free jazz, the avant-garde, blues, rock) into a highly original and nearly unclassifiable style.

Born Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was one of modern music's true innovators. 

The owner of a remarkable four-and-a-half-octave vocal range, he employed idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist lyrics, 

and an unholy alliance of free jazz, Delta blues, latter-day classical music, and rock & roll to create a singular 

body of work virtually unrivaled in its daring and fluid creativity. While he never came even remotely 

close to mainstream success, Beefheart's impact was incalculable, 

and his fingerprints were all over punk, new wave, and post-rock

"MIRROR MAN"

1971     LP     BUDDAH RECORDS      2365 002   STEREO

MADE IN ENGLAND      ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING 

About the 1ST UK pressing: 1st issue in UK. 

The back cover states: 

"These performances were recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965" 

This is incorrect. The content is part of various material recorded over weeks in 1967

for an aborted double-album follow-up to "Safe As Milk" (known broadly as 'Brown Wrapper'). 

This 'Mirror Man' recording is the first time some of the work officially surfaced, 

4 years later as the 5th album - and why the band is "His Magic Band". 

[This, together with "Strictly Personal" & "It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper" are inter-connected). 

Further errors are perpetrated in the credits: 

Alex St. Clair has had 'Snouffer' added to his alias, Handley is shown as Handsley & Semens as Simmons. 

DIE-CUT GATEFOLD COVER (Unipak Style)

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LABEL: BUDDAH -  BLACK LABEL - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) Buddah Select 2365 002       (rear) 2365 002 

Catalog on labels: 2365 002 A / 2365 002 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A): 2365002 A//1?420   11 3

Matrix / Runout (Side B): 2365002 B//1?420   11 4

On labels: Produced by Bob Krasnow for Kama-Sutra Productions

Flamingo Music

STEREO

?1971

rim text reads "Original American.......Manufactured by Polydor Records Limited"

On Back Cover: All selections written by Don Van Vliet

These performances were recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965......

Original Recording, Buddah Records N.Y.

Manufactured by Polydor Records Ltd., London

 Printed and made by the E.J. Day Group, London and Bedford

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: TAROTPLANE - KANDY KORN

Side B: 25TH CENTURY QUAKER - MIRROR MAN

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RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Recorded in November 1967 (an odd misprint on the sleeve claims it was recorded in 1965, 

when the band barely existed), the four lengthy tracks on Mirror Man are even more 

simplistic and primal than those on Strictly Personal. All four are worthwhile, but the key tracks 

are "Tarotplane Blues," a free-form jam in which Beefheart jumbles together the lyrics 

of at least half a dozen blues standards into a stream-of-consciousness ramble 

(adding musette and harmonica for good measure) as the Magic Band vamps on a 

slide guitar-based, two-chord groove for over 19 minutes, and the similarly expansive "Mirror Man," 

one of the key tracks of Beefheart's entire career. Probably the catchiest tune 

Beefheart ever wrote, "Mirror Man" has an almost funky, hip-swaying groove, 

and there's a playful lightness to the way Beefheart chants the simplistic lyrics...(AllMusic)