TORRENT TITLE

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - 1977-11-12 Childe Harold, Washington, DC

ARTIST NAME

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

BOOTLEG TITLE

N/A

VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE

Childe Harold, Washington, DC 1977-11-12

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 (33:36)

01 Low Yo Yo Stuff..........................(3:56)
02 Electricity..............................(5:47)
03 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A
Diamond.............................(2:04)
04 China Pig................................(6:05)
05 On Tomorrow (CUT)........................(3:49)
06 POEM Deserts Of Time.....................(0:55)
07 Click Clack..............................(5:46)
08 Grow Fins (CUT)..........................(5:11)

LINE UP

Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet - vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Black Jew Kitabo/Eric Drew Feldman - bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
Wait For Me/Robert Williams - drums, percussion
Jeff Tapir/White Jew/Jeff Morris Tepper - guitar, slide-guitar
Feeler's Reedo/Walla Walla/Denny Walley - guitar, slide-guitar
+ Harry Duncan - harmonica

FLAC FINGERPRINTS or MD5 checksum for the musical content only (*)

01 Low Yo Yo Stuff-356.flac:6c2fcde481fad3597ab5b3a6a54281ad
02 Electricity-547.flac:6a466cfbc9ff2b2a6daf136085a05bec
03 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond-204.flac:936c0813b05112485e1ca23da1ec4069
04 China Pig-605.flac:11b2dbb2cb8d45059bf44ae4630d8219
05 On Tomorrow (CUT)-349.flac:bd94fd6c6b623e70b5c9fa8d58de126f
06 POEM Deserts Of Time-055.flac:4b864c6f6f632a0f01a7a50dbff8b0cc
07 Click Clack-546.flac:13c0576be2b8b90c7a093b5e431b8c20
08 Grow Fins (CUT)-511.flac:2051e84560d2831c981eb36330c0e329

ARTWORK

N/A

SOURCE / LINEAGE

Stereo AUD trade tape

Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit 2000 > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
Big thanks to the original taper, and to the trader (jbk) who hooked me up with a copy.
I originally mastered this 2010-07-11.

The levels were exteremely low on the source, and the right channel was a bit lower still.
I dubbed it at max to the computer, boosted the whole thing 4dB, and gave 1.5dB more to the right channel.
Now you can see that it's really a stereo source (by ear, I'd always listed it as mono), & the needles cross.

There was 11sec of silence between tracks 1 & 2, and I cut that out.
And there was 7sec of "overlap + silence" before the last song (as if someone got this on a 30min-per-side tape at some point), & I seamlessly edited this together.

Beyond that, the only thing I did on the computer was place track marks before each piece.
This FLAC fileset comes from WAVs from this dub, which only needed SBE corrections in TLH; no CD-Rs or EACs.

NOTES

Tho stereo, it's limited separation, & it's a bit hissy / there's not a lotta highs.
And there's cuts between many of the songs, tho it's way less irritating than some shows with that junk.
(I used those points as tape marks, where present.)
The 2 tracks I note as being CUT are real subtle, a smidge of the intro to On Tomorrow, & the end of Fins; not much is missing.

If you can get over that, it's a nice performance & the band's tight.

There's a couple of band member intros after Electricity, but a full set is not present here.

Includes a nice version of On Tomorrow, and a smokin' China Pig.

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I dunno about you, but when I hear stuff this old, I am REALLY grateful that people went and recorded things like this.
And I'm glad traders kept them going around long enough so I could get a copy many years later.

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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).

I mark the start of tracks when the music or count-in begins, not the talking about it before it starts.

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The usual schmack applies here:

Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.