Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
December 1980?
Texas Soundcheck

- comes with the 1981-01-17 Vancouver tape.
- no Texas gigs in 1980.
- no chinese gongs in December 1978 when Beefheart toured Texas the last time.
- Don asking "Do you love Ronald Reagan?, who was elected president of the United States on November 4th, 1980.
- probably part of the souncheck from the Vancouver 1981 gig.
What do you experts think?

Tracklist:
01-Soundcheck (4:44)
02-My Human Gets Me Blues (3:03)
03-Suction Prints (4:53)
04-My Human Gets Me Blues (0:59)
05-My Human Gets Me Blues (1:11)
06-My Human Gets Me Blues (1:33)

Total length: 16:23

Personnel:
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet: vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, chinese gongs
Eric 'Black Jew Kitabo' Drew Feldman: bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert 'Wait For Me' Williams: drums, percussion
Richard 'Midnight Hatsize' Snyder: guitar, slide guitar, some bass guitar
Jeff 'Tapir/White Jew' Moris Tepper: guitar, slide-guitar

Linage:
AUD>tape 3rd gen (regarding the tape hiss)>Wavelab 5>WAV>Noise reduction by Steinberg DeNoiser>FLAC frontend>FLAC (level 8)

Quality: 7/10

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