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Captain Beefheart
What's All This Booga Booga Music?
Live at the Troubadour 5 January 1973
Los Angeles, CA

Rockette Morton - bass & guitar
Alex St. Clair - guitar
Ed Marimba (Art Trip) - drums
Orejon (Roy Estrada) - bass
Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkelroad) - guitar

links to more info:
http://www.shiningsilence.com/hpr/albums/booga.php
http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/reviews/boogajim.htm

Review by Jim Morse

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Live At The Troubador, LA, CA 1-5-73

Midway through the Clear Spot tour, Alex St. Claire rejoined the Magic ranks after a five year hiatus, and this was the second show following his return. Bill Harkleroad, Roy Estrada, Mark Boston, and Art Tripp round out the Magic line-up.

My particular copy sounds ok, however, the drums and bass are pretty muddy, and the dual bass attack is sadly sonically indistinguishable. St. Claire and Harkleroad, though lacking the usual Magic Band syncopation, provide really straight forward, down-home, butt kickin’ blues (listen to I’m A King Bee and Jimmy Bill’s Back In Town). Art Tripp, who was extremely well received during the introductions, was an adequate alternative to Drumbo (check out Suction Prints and Golden Birdies). The Captain was in top form, exercising his four and a half octave range and does a superb a cappella rendition of Old Black Snake. Although this line-up did nothing special on the standards (Big Eyed Beans, Abba Zaba, I’m Gonna Booglarize You), the appeal here is the sludgy blues tunes. In fact, if one didn’t know their Beefheart, this easily sounds somewhere between A&M and Mirror Man.

One last point of interest: for some reason, Golden Birdies is listed from the 1-3 Troubador set although its sound is consistent with the rest of the show. Methinks the Suction Prints may have been from another show because the drums and cymbals are more audible.

-Jim Morse