Captain Beefheart
January 24, 1981 early & late shows
The Old Waldorf
San Francisco, CA

Audience cassette masters - decent sound quality, though the early show sounds somewhat better than the late show - check the samples to judge the sound for yourself.

Disc 1 - Early show 65:49
01 [04:03] Bass Solo (with sax)
02 [04:06] Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03 [04:15] Hot Head
04 [04:01] Ashtray Heart
05 [03:54] Dirty Blue Gene
06 [05:23] Best Batch Yet
07 [01:32] band intros
08 [03:54] Safe As Milk
09 [02:11] Flavor Bud Living
10 [03:45] Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
11 [02:15] One Red Rose That I Mean
12 [01:46] You Should Know By The Kindness of a Dog How A Human Should Be [poem]
13 [05:54] Bat Chain Puller
14 [03:36] Sugar 'N' Spikes
15 [05:05] Kandy Korn
16 [04:56] Suction Prints [instrumental]
17 [05:13] Big-Eyed Beans From Venus

Disc 2 - Late Show 58:34
01 [03:58] Bass Solo (with sax)
02 [04:06] Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
03 [01:53] I Want To Find A Woman Who'll Hold My Big Toe Until I Have To Go
04 [03:39] Hot Head
05 [03:47] Ashtray Heart
06 [04:13] Dirty Blue Gene
07 [02:35] Smithsonian Institute Blues
08 [03:58] Safe As Milk
09 [01:15] Flavor Bud Living
10 [03:47] Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
11 [03:07] Sue Egypt
12 [02:44] Untitled [poem]
13 [03:13] Doctor Dark
14 [03:12] My Human Gets Me Blues
15 [07:24] Sheriff of Hong Kong
16 [04:25] Suction Prints [instrumental]
17 [01:18] band intros & crowd

Lineage: ElectroVoice RE10 microphones > Dolby B encoded Maxell UDXL-I cassettes > Sony TCD5.

Transfer: Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking) > AIFF. FLAC files (level 8) created with xACT (sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

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