Magic Band new CD next month

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Here is a news item concerning the forthcoming Magic Band CD of new material (sans the captain.)

Note the title of track 6.


tom r


Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Alums Reunite For New Drumbo Solo Project
	
10/21/2008
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(Glass Onion) John "Drumbo" French has reunited fellow Magic Band alumni Bill Harkelroad (aka "Zoot Horn Rollo"), Mark Boston (aka "Rockette Morton"), Greg Davidson (aka "Ella Guru"), and John Thomas for a solo recording of all new compositions entitled 'City of Refuge'. The self-produced album was recorded in London and at various locations in the U.S., and lands stateside November 18th on Proper Records.

"I think 'City of Refuge' is important because it re-visits a style of music that was founded by Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) and developed by various Magic Bands over the years. The music on this album came to me as total inspiration from being involved in The Magic Band reunion project. Listening to the music of Don Van Vliet and singing with the band, I realized that I was re-visiting my musical roots and wondered about how I had strayed so far away," French says.

As the drummer and music director for revered iconoclasts Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Drumbo made central contributions to a handful of LPs – notably 1969's mind-altering, revered masterpiece 'Trout Mask Replica', on which French first acquired the antic stage-name "Drumbo" – that vastly expanded the parameters of contemporary music. French's influential contributions can also be found on projects with Frank Zappa, Mallard, Crazy Backwards Alphabet, Henry Kaiser and Richard Thompson, among others.

French plans a U.S. tour in conjunction with his upcoming book, 'Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic, Vol.1', to be released early next year.

Basic Release Information: Drumbo/City of Refuge Catalog: PRPCD024 Release Date: November 18, 2008 Track Listing: 1. Bogeyman 2. Bus Ticket Outta Town 3. Blood on a Porcupine Quill 4. City of Refuge 5. Abandon 6. Get So Mean 7. Maybe That'll Teach Ya 8. To The Loft of Ravenscroft 9. The Shirt Off My Back 10. The Wicked Witch of War 11. Whose Side Ya On 12. The Withered Hand of Time 

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http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/oct/21Captain_Beefheart_and_The_Magic_Band_Alums_Reunite_For_New_Drumbo_Solo_Project.shtml


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>1. best of peel vol 11[with introductions]    
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>2. Re: <Wiki> Editing other peoples work / FF79 & 80 questions    
>    From: bill.spiby@...
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>3a. 500 Box: last show of first batch (10 November 1995)    
>    From: Steve
>3b. Re: 500 Box: last show of first batch (10 November 1995)    
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>1. best of peel vol 11[with introductions]
>    Posted by: "parkermike81" parkermike81@... parkermike81
>    Date: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:10 am ((PDT))
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>all records comp featuring pasca the swedish elvis. 
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>2. Re: <Wiki> Editing other peoples work / FF79 & 80 questions
>    Posted by: "bill.spiby@..." bill.spiby@... spib2003
>    Date: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:20 am ((PDT))
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>Hi Mic,
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>These pages are absolutely brill. Well done. Just a couple of comments:
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>1978
>37 Elvis Costello - Alison (JP plays it from Stiff BUY 14, therefore it's the single)
>34 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Helter Skelter (it was from The Scream but obviously pre-edited to remove the swearing)
>20 The Rezillos - I Can't Stand My Baby (I think it's the Sensible single version rather than the Sire LP)
>10 The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (played from the EP (you can hear the start of Smarter than You coming in)
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>1979
>22 The Damned - Love Song (sound like it's played from the single)
>16 Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (John sorta infers it's the single)
>02 The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (I reckon it would be the EP really)
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>1980
>42 The Damned - Smash it Up (sounds like the single to me)
>29 The Damned - Love Song (again I think it's the single)
>08 The Damned - New Rose (ditto)
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>I'm really looking forward to future installments. Will be posting some observations myself this week on the 1977 Forgotten Fifty.
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>Kind regards
>Bill
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>> From: "Mic" <hotmissile_lives@...>
>> Date: 2008/10/16 Thu AM 12:51:15 BST
>> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [peel] <Wiki> Editing other peoples work / FF79 & 80 questions
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm new here and I've joined up pretty much to get hold of & listen 
>> to Festive Fifties. Well, to start with anyway; I'm sure there are 
>> many, many great John Peel shows out there, it's just going to take 
>> me some time to get there...
>> 
>> Anyway, while I'm here, I thought I'd try and help out so as 
>> to `repay' those people who've been cataloguing and digitising those 
>> shows. Unfortunately, I don't really have the skills or technology to 
>> assist with recording or anything, but I thought I might do something 
>> I was going to do anyway: listen to the Festive Fifties. Oh, and 
>> while I'm doing that, I can make notes for the Peel Wiki.
>> 
>> So I've done a few pages of that, for the 78  80 Festive Fifties, 
>> and the associated shows:
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/1979_Festive_fifty
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/1979_Festive_fifty
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/1980_Festive_Fifty
>> However, other people have been working on those too, so I thought 
>> I'd draw attention to what I've been doing here. Rather than just 
>> editing their work and running away. Does anyone have any comments? 
>> I've tried not to actually delete anything that's been previously 
>> added, but my stuff's easily revertible if you want.
>> 
>> Has anyone any thoughts on what I've said, either? Too much 
>> information? Too little? Since I'm not an expert on John Peel, or 
>> music of the period or anything, I've tended to stick to `facts'; 
>> that is, I haven't really commented on mood or feel, I've just quoted 
>> what John actually said in places. And rather than sticking all his 
>> comments at the top of the page, I've tended to list them in the 
>> tracklisting, so that people can find them easily if they so wish. I 
>> also haven't really said anything about the details of Peel 
>> sessions... the shows I've been listening to have all been "best of 
>> the year" shows, so it makes sense to me to just link to the original 
>> show... however, many of the shows aren't on the Wiki yet, but I 
>> don't really feel right writing about shows I haven't heard anything 
>> from. If that makes sense.
>> 
>> If anyone's still reading after that rather lengthy preamble, I've 
>> also got a few questions about the 79 & 80 Festive Fifties. Starting 
>> from the top, I was wondering about the various 1979 recordings 
>> available. For a start, I'm rather confused about the top 10 mp3 
>> mentioned on the 1979 page itself. Now, as I said, I'm new here, so 
>> I've probably missed lots of talk about this already, but it doesn't 
>> sound like a top 10 mp3 at all to me. Once again, I don't have any 
>> fancy technology, I've just been listening to it on my PC with run-of-
>> the-mill headphones, so I may be wrong, but I reckon I can hear 15 
>> separate edits in it. And the between-song links don't match those on 
>> the other compilations mentioned on the page. And the other big clue 
>> is that "White Riot" wasn't actually in the 1979 top 10. So this 
>> actually sounds to me like a reconstruction of the top 10 from other 
>> Peel shows and John's countdown towards the end of the Festive Fifty 
>> (between #2 & 3 and skipped in the other recording). Or have I got 
>> the wrong end of the stick here?
>> 
>> Next, a question about the 24th December show from 1979. I've got 
>> this from torrent compilation 8 where it's labelled (three times) as 
>> being the 24/12 show. However, it struck me that there's nothing to 
>> confirm this on the recording  can this be verified in any way?
>> 
>> Finally, we have the 1980 shows, and what I'm most interested in here 
>> is the provenance of the various recordings. I've come across three 
>> sets of recordings, all of them only of the countdown part of the 
>> shows. Firstly there are the 30242b recordings. As I say on the Wiki, 
>> these are mistagged, but that's not a problem. Also, one of them's 
>> missing from the website, and this seems as good a place as any to 
>> bring it to someone's attention  I can't see any contact info on the 
>> site.
>> 
>> Next there's the set on torrent compilation 1. I think these have a 
>> better sound quality, but I'm not entirely sure. The first two have 
>> identical content to the first two from 30242b, but I think there's a 
>> bit less noise  perhaps these are earlier generation tapes, or do 
>> people think they've just been digitised differently? Or am I just 
>> hearing things?
>> 
>> Confusingly, the third mp3 from the torrent seems to be made up of 
>> the third & fourth from 30242b, thus suggesting that that is an equal 
>> or later generation tape. Or perhaps the same tape, digitised in 
>> different ways? Could anyone throw any light on that for me?
>> 
>> And after all that, there's yet another set on torrent compilation 2. 
>> These are individual mp3s, they only start from #40, and for some 
>> reason #7 is missing (the replacement is tagged with "a stretch 
>> mark"), but they sound to me like the best set of recordings. No 
>> offense to whoever took the effort split them into individual tracks 
>>  it's very well done, and quite handy to have them in that form  but 
>> does anyone know if this recording is available as whole segments 
>> from the shows?
>> 
>> That's it for now. Thanks for reading my huge spiel, and thanks in 
>> advance for any answers you may have. And, of course, thanks everyone 
>> who's been recording and keeping records of these shows.
>> 
>> Mic.
>> 
>> 
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>3a. 500 Box: last show of first batch (10 November 1995)
>    Posted by: "Steve" so_it_goes_2512@... so_it_goes_2512
>    Date: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:40 pm ((PDT))
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>Fellow Peelites
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>Show: Friday 10 November 1995
>Session artists: Heads, Distorted Waves Of Ohm (repeat)
>Download links:
>Part 1 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NGMQWHI
>Part 2 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=293I3QGC
>Part 3 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9WIBU1K6
>Part 4 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OVFUS6DG
>Tracklisting: http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/10_November_1995
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>Part Three starts very wobbly indeed but picks up quickly, and I have
>spared you the Bon Jovi track that originally started Part 4, from a
>show called 'Power Hour'. God help us.
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>There will be no more shows from the 500 Box until I have returned
>these to Colin. I hope you have all enjoyed the rips so far.
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>Best wishes
>Steve [Teenage Kicks]
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>3b. Re: 500 Box: last show of first batch (10 November 1995)
>    Posted by: "saipanda" saipanda@... saipanda
>    Date: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:45 pm ((PDT))
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>Many thanks for this and the other shows from Colin's box, Steve. Great stuff.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Steve W
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>--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
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>> Fellow Peelites
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>> Show: Friday 10 November 1995
>> Session artists: Heads, Distorted Waves Of Ohm (repeat)
>> Download links:
>> Part 1 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NGMQWHI
>> Part 2 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=293I3QGC
>> Part 3 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9WIBU1K6
>> Part 4 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OVFUS6DG
>> Tracklisting: http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/10_November_1995
>> 
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