Captain Beefheart & Magic Band 'Doc at the Radar Station' Virgin UK 1st 1980
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Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band 'Doc At The Radar Station' Virgin V 2172 UK 1st press Vinyl, LP, housed in its original cover, released in September 1980.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in lovely condition. It played through beautifully on my stereo - no skip, stick or jump. It is housed in its original sleeve, which has some ring-wear, but is otherwise in good condition, with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout Side One : V 2172-A-4 Matrix / Runout Side Two : V 2172-B-5
'Doc at the Radar Station' is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, first released in 1980 by Virgin Records.
Although about half of the album's songs are based on old musical ideas. Captain Beefheart biographer Mike Barnes states that "most of the revamping work [was] built on skeletal ideas and fragments ... [that] would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material". "A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond", "Flavor Bud Living" and "Brickbats" were originally recorded for the unreleased album 'Bat Chain Puller'.
Original Magic Band drummer John French rejoined Beefheart for this album. He played guitar on all songs, plus bass guitar ("Sheriff of Hong Kong"), drums ("Ashtray Heart" and "Sheriff of Hong Kong"), and marimba ("Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee"). He also sings the second vocal on "Dirty Blue Gene".
The album cover was painted by Captain Beefheart. It was placed at number forty-nine on Rolling Stone's 1991 list of the "100 Greatest Album Covers".
AllMusic Review by Steve Huey "Generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica, Doc at the Radar Station had a tough, lean sound owing partly to the virtuosic new version of the Magic Band (featuring future Pixies sideman Eric Drew Feldman, New York downtown-scene guitarist Gary Lucas, and a returning John "Drumbo" French, among others) and partly to the clear, stripped-down production, which augmented the Captain's basic dual-guitar interplay and jumpy rhythms with extra percussion instruments and touches of Shiny Beast's synths and trombones. Many of the songs on Doc either reworked or fully developed unused material composed around the time of the creatively fertile Trout Mask sessions, which adds to the spirited performances. Even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present".
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