CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Trout Mask Replica

Item Description

2 x Vinyl, , Los Angeles Pressing
LP Album Reissue

One of the last 'Straight' original gatefold sleeved issues, containing the reissue '3300 Warner Blvd 'mini W logo' tan vinyl labels housed in Warner "Supergroup" promo liners.

Whether this was an effort to shift old TMR print stock before the new varnish-print covers, or simply to bring "Supergroup" to a prime market audience, who knows? But it happened - In 1976.

The sleeve is cat# STS 1053, the vinyl is cat# 2MS 2027.
The liner front has a black half-tone of the "Supergroup" release [PRO 630] and the header "At only $2 for a double album, 'Supergroup' is the best record bargain yet!"
Artists are then mentioned and a response coupon is at bottom-right.
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The liner back simply has the Warner shield motif [centered] and "©1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc" at bottom-right.

All selections copyrighted for the world by Beefheart Music BMI

(The texts for the [url=http://www.discogs.com/lists/Loss-Leaders-Series-amp-PRO/18612]PRO Series[/url] were often written by [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Barry+Hansen]Dr. Demento[/url])

Album catalog on sleeve does not have a "2" prefix.

No lyric sheet insert is included (which appeared only in early US releases).

D5 -"The Blimp"
(The intro voice is that of Zappa, recorded via a telephone link to Zappa's studio - with Antennae Jimmy Semens narrating from Vliet's script over the 'phone from the 'Magic Band house'. A field-to-studio recording on which members of 'The Mothers' are performing)

A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalised horn' effect.
B4: The wind instrument "Musette" credited on sleeve is a shortened version of an "Oboe Musette".
The expression 'steel appendage' guitar is another affectation for a steel finger-tube, used as a slide on the fret. A glass tube (or bottle-neck) is used for 'glass-finger' credit.

Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album.
(It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band members was fundamental in its production. See vast notes in 'Grow Fins' CD box set or vinyl album set).