Andy Kershaw

[George Forsyth]

   From George Forsyth:

I would have thought someone might have already said so,
   but....according to today's Guardian, Kershaw will be on Radio
   3 sometime soon. He'll be a roving DJ, reporting back from
   wherever his travels take him. So here's hoping he gets
   to Nashville and stays there for three years. WIth maybe a few trips
   to Chicago. There's just not enough proper country music on the
   radio.
    and for Beefheart diehards here's something posted to the Mekons
   list....

For the beefheart contingent...

mr.hand@... wrote:

> Greetings Earthling!
>
> This Monday, 17 July 2000, at Noon Pacific Daylight Savings Time [1900
> UTC], The Archivists at The Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicology
> will begin taking orders for a 2-CD set of PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED live
> performances by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND titled 'I'm Going To
> Do What I Wanna Do: Live At My Father's Place 1978'
>
> >From March 1966 to September 1982, Don Van Vliet, operating as CAPTAIN
> BEEFHEART, and various incarnations of THE MAGIC BAND released Twelve
> Albums and Several Assorted Singles of Some Of The Most Remarkable Music
> Ever Performed By Any Gathering Of Human Beings With Opposable Thumbs.
>
> In 1978, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND were signed to Warner Bros.
> Records in the USA. With a previously recorded album (called 'Bat Chain
> Puller' and recorded with Frank Zappa) caught up in legal proceedings and
> the disposition of those unissued masters still up in the air, Don Van
> Vliet began the recording process anew. This Warner Bros. album would be
> a collection of new recordings of some of the compositions from the
> missing-in-action 'Bat Chain Puller' combined with many
> never-before-recorded compositions.
> This new album was then accordingly and hybridically christened 'Shiny
> Beast (Bat Chain Puller)'.
>
> In support of the US release of this album, Don and the Band undertook a
> promotional club tour. On Saturday 18 November 1978 CAPTAIN BEEFHEART &
> THE MAGIC BAND performed at My Father's Place in New York City. The
> members of The Magic Band were the same as had been on the 'Shiny Beast
> (Bat Chain Puller)' album: Jeff Moris Tepper on Guitars, Richard Redus on
> Guitars and Accordion, Eric Drew Feldman On Bass Guitar and Keyboards,
> Bruce Fowler on Trombone and Air Bass and Robert Williams on Drums and
> Percussion.
> My Father's Place was located under a motorway bridge, held about 200
> people and the patrons sat at long tables and could dine whilst listening
> if they wished. This astounding show was recorded and mixed directly to
> two-track tape. And this two-track tape was then later broadcast on
> WLIR-FM in early December.
>
> CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND 'I'm Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live
> At My Father's Place 1978' presents this mixed-on-the-spot-to-two-track
> performance in its entirety. And, if we say so ourselves, what An
> Outstanding Entirety it truly is.
> This is the complete performance. Every splendid Magic Band note. Every
> stunning Beefheart syllable. 19 tracks on 2 compact discs. And, by the
> way, it needed to be on two compact discs because the gig runs about four
> minutes longer than the capacity of any single audio CD and The
> Archivists would not consider editing out any of the performance or any
> of the between-song interactions.
>
> As Mr Van Vliet has exclusively devoted himself to painting for almost
> the last two decades, there will -most regretfully- almost assuredly
> never be another chance to again see CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
> in concert. So for fans -both old and new- 'I'm Going To Do What I Wanna
> Do: Live At My Father's Place 1978' presents a singular celebratory
> opportunity to experience the sheer awe and uncompromising astonishment
> of The Captain full strength and front and center.
>
> CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND 'I'm Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live
> At My Father's Place 1978' is available in an individually-numbered
> limited edition of 5,000 (five thousand) copies.
> It is not distributed to any store on the planet.
> It is distributed directly from us to you.
> It is available only from The Archivists at the Rhino Handmade Website at:
> http://www.rhinohandmade.com
>
> The complete track listing for CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND 'I'm
> Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live At My Father's Place 1978' is at the
> bottom of this e-mail.
> And sound samples for every track will be available on the Rhino Handmade
> Website this coming Monday at Noon Pacific.
>
> Up next from The Archivists is Yet Again Something Else which is Yet
> Again Absolutely Wonderful from Yet Again Another True American Original.
> So Many True American Originals. So Little Time.
> I'll tell you all about it in two weeks.
>
> Always Quadraphonically Yours,
> R W Hand
> Curator
> Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicology
>
> e-mail: mr.hand@...
> [Mr Hand does indeed read each and every e-mail you send but,
> regretfully, cannot always personally answer each one.]
>
> ----------
>
> CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
> 'I'm Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live At My Father's Place 1978'
> Catalogue Number:
> RHM2 7741
>
> DISC ONE
> [Approximately 73:50 Total Time]
>
> 1. Tropical Hot Dog Night 4:36
>
> 2. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 5:07
>
> 3. Owed T' Alex 5:20
>
> 4. Dropout Boogie 3:13
>
> 5. Harry Irene 3:46
>
> 6. Abba Zaba 3:44
>
> 7. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles 4:12
>
> 8. Old Fart At Play 2:26
>
> 9. Well 3:55
>
> 10. Ice Rose 3:56
>
> 11. Moonlight On Vermont 3:52
>
> 12. The Floppy Boot Stomp 4:18
>
> 13. You Know You're A Man 3:26
>
> 14. Bat Chain Puller 5:55
>
> 15. Apes-Ma 0:46
>
> 16. When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy 6:04
>
> 17. Veteran's Day Poppy 9:11
>
> DISC TWO
> [Approximately 10:00 Total Time]
>
> 18. Safe As Milk 5:19
>
> 19. Suction Prints 4:41
>
> ALL TRACKS PREVIOUS UNRELEASED
>
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