Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - The Grow Fins Box Set

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - The Grow Fins Box Set
Rarities 1965–1982 (1999) 5CD's

CD 1 Just Got Back From the City (1965-67)

1. Obeah Man (1966 demo) (2:46)
2. Just Got Back From the City (1966demo) (1:55)
3. I'm Glad (1966 demo) (3:43)
4. Triple Combination (1966 demo) (2:50)
5. Here I Am I Always Am (early 1966 demo) (3:17)
6. Here I Am I Always Am (later 1966 demo) (2:33)
7. Somebody In My Home (live Avalon '66) (3:03)
8. Tupelo (live Avalon Ballroom '66) (4:15)
9. Evil (live Avalon Ballroom '66) (2:33)
10. Old Folks Boogie (live Avalon Ballroom '67) (3:15)
11. Call On Me (1965 demo) (3:04)
12. Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do (1967 demo) (2:11)
13. Yellow Brick Road (1967 demo) (1:45)
14. Plastic Factory (1967 demo) (2:57)

CD 2 Electricity, 1968

1. Electricity (live at Cannes 1968)
2. Sure Nuff (live at Cannes 1968)
3. Rollin n Tumblin (Kidderminster 1968)
4. Electricity (Kidderminster 1968)
5. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (Kidderminster 1968)
6. Kandy Korn (Kidderminster 1968)
7. Korn Ring Finger (1967 demo)

CD 3 Trout Mask House Sessions, 1969

1. hobo chang ba and dachau blues tuning up
2. "bush recording"
3. HAIR PIE (BAKE 1)
4. HAIR PIE (BAKE 2)
5. noodling
6. HOBO CHANG BA
7. hobo practice
8. Hobo Chang Ba take 2
9. DACHAU BLUES
10. OLD FART AT PLAY
11. noodling
12. PACHUCO CADAVER
13. SUGAR N SPIKES
14. noodling
15. SWEET SWEET BULBS
16. Frownland take 1
17. FROWNLAND
18. noodling
19. ELLA GURU
20. silence
21. SHE'S TOO MUCH FOR MY MIRROR
22. noodling
23. STEAL SOFTLY THROUGH SNOW
24. noodling
25. MY HUMAN GETS ME BLUES
26. noodling
27. WHEN BIG JOAN SETS UP
28. silence
29. Candy Man
30. CHINA PIG

total = 72:57 [If you want to hear just the album tracks, then program just the tracks in all caps. If you want to hear them in the order they appeared on the album, program as follows: 17, 9, 19, 3, 12, 15, 30, 25, 4, 27, 13, 21, 6, 23, 10.] CD 4 Trout Mask House Sessions Pt. 2, plus Enhanced CD

CD 4 (audio tracks only - no video)

1. Blimp playback
2. "Herb Alpert"
3. "Septic tank"
4. "We'll overdub it 3 times"

total = 12:33

CD 5: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-81)

1. My Human Gets Me Blues (live Amougies '69) (4:02)
2. When Big Joan Sets Up (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) (6:30)
3. Woe Is Uh Me Bop (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) (2:26)
4. Bellerin Plain (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) (3:24)
5. Black Snake Moan I (KHSU '72) (approx 1:00)
6. Grow Fins (live Bickershaw '72) (5:11)
7. Black Snake Moan II (WBCN '72) (approx 1:24)
8. Spitball Scalped Uh Baby (live, Bickershaw '72) (9:30)
9. Harp Boogie I (WBCN '72) (approx 1:20)
10. One Red Rose That I Mean (Town Hall '72) (2:12)
11. Harp Boogie II (WBCN '72) (approx :40)
12. Natchez Burning (WBCN '72 (approx :42)
13. Harp Boogie III (1972 radio phone in) (approx :52)
14. Click Clack (Paris, '73) (2:50)
15. Orange Claw Hammer ('75 from radio with Zappa on accoustic guitar) (4:25)
16. Odd Jobs (Don piano demo, '76) (5:05)
17. Odd Jobs (full band demo '76) (5:10 )
18. Vampire Suite (1980 worktapes / live) (3:48)
19. Mellotron Improv (live '78) (approx 1:25)
20. Evening Bell (Don piano demo '81) (1:00)
21. Evening Bell (Lucas worktape '81) (2:15)
22. Mellotron Improv (live '80) (approx 4:00)
23. Flavor Bud Living (live '81) (1:10)

total = approx 78:00

GROW FINS