Merseytrout: Live in Liverpool 1980

by Captain Beefheart

Merseytrout: Live in Liverpool 1980 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:42
  • Community rating: 3.44/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Don Van Vliet, Eric Drew Feldman, Richard Snyder, Gary Lucas, Jeff Moris Tepper, The Magic Band, Owith Sahmet

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An archival live recording of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in Liverpool in 1980, from the 'Doc at the Radar Station' period. Don Van Vliet's band performs the album's fractured blues structures with drilled precision beneath his Howlin' Wolf-derived vocal.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, male-vocals, dissonant, bluesy, live, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Toaster (Bass Solo Live In Liverpool 1980) (2:50)
  2. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:40)
  3. Abba Zabba (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:07)
  4. Hothead (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:42)
  5. Dirty Blue Jean (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:56)
  6. Best Batch Yet (Live In Liverpool 1980) (4:37)
  7. One Man Sentence (Poem Live In Liverpool 1980) (1:14)
  8. Safe As Milk (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:29)
  9. Flavour Bud Living (Live In Liverpool 1980) (1:09)
  10. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:49)
  11. One Red Rose That I Mean (Live In Liverpool 1980) (2:05)
  12. Doctor Dark (Live In Liverpool 1980) (3:10)
  13. Bat Chain Puller (Live In Liverpool 1980) (4:26)
  14. My Human Gets Me Blues (Live In Liverpool 1980) (2:42)
  15. Sugar 'N' Spikes (Live In Liverpool 1980) (2:23)
  16. Veterans' Day Poppy (Live In Liverpool 1980) (4:19)
  17. Dropout Boogie (Live In Liverpool 1980) (2:21)
  18. Sherriff Of Hong Kong (Live In Liverpool 1980) (6:20)
  19. Kandy Korn (Live In Liverpool 1980) (4:27)
  20. Suction Prints (Live In Liverpool 1980) (4:45)
  21. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (4:11)

Credits

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