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Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (CD)

By: Captain Beefheart (Artist)

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Captain Beefheart Artist Snapshot:

From the 1960s through the early '80s, Captain Beeheart (Don Van Vliet) fused free jazz, the avant-garde, blues, and rock in a highly original, unclassifiable style. He's had few peers, but his angular, uncompromising sound has influenced countless younger artists, from Robyn Hitchcock to Tom Waits. Beefheart started out in a relatively straight ahead bluesy rock mode, but his music (courtesy of the Magic Band) grew progressively stranger and more complex with each album, culminating in his masterpiece, 1969's TROUT MASK REPLICA. After 1982's ICE CREAM FOR CROW, the ever-inscrutable Captain retired from music, concentrating instead on his painting.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (CD) Album By Captain Beefheart (Artist)
1   Floppy Boot Stomp, The  
2   Tropical Hot Dog Night  
3   Ice Rose  
4   Harry Irene  
5   You Know You're A Man  
6   Bat Chain Puller  
7   When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy  
8   Owed T'Alex  
9   Candle Mambo  
10   Love Lies  
11   Suction Prints  
12   Apes-Ma  
 

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Review

Uncut (p.78) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] blend of poetry, skeins of intertwining guitar lines, galloping rhythms and bawdy, surreal sex imagery."
Mojo (Publisher) (8/00, p.116) - "...The great man...surrounded by empathetic musicians...When [the album] blows its stacks...the band make great martian mariachi music....SHINY BEAST more than hints at the Beefheart renaissance...lurking around the corner."

Title Note

Personnel: Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (vocals, whistling, harmonica, soprano saxophone); Richard Redus (guitar, accordion, bass); Jeff Moris Tepper (guitar); Bruce Lambourne Fowler (trombone); Eric Drew Feldman (piano, keyboards, bass); Robert Arthur Williams (drums, percussion); Art Tripp III (percussion).

Recorded at The Automatt, San Francisco, California.

After a brief retirement from the mid- to late-'70s (during which time Van Vliet devoted himself to painting), Captain Beefheart (a.k.a. Don Van Vliet) brought together a solid new Magic Band to record SHINY BEAST. The original tapes were recorded by Frank Zappa, but have never been released (the parenthetical part of the album's name was its original title). SHINY BEAST is the re-recorded 1979 release.

It marked the beginning of a solid three-album return for the Captain. DOC AT THE RADAR STATION and ICE CREAM FOR CROW followed before Beefheart finally stopped music for good, concentrating solely on his visual art (and ultimately finding a measure of financial success that eluded him in music). This may be one of the easier entry points for anyone daunted by the gorgeously dense complexities of his early classics. It's all here: the bluesiness, the verbal wordplay, the ecological concerns, the whole shimmeringly rhythmic onslaught that is the Magic Band.

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