CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and his MAGIC BAND-TROUT MASK REPLICA-STRAIGHT STS.1053 1969
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. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and his MAGIC BAND-TROUT MASK REPLICA TYPE DOUBLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
STRAIGHT 1ST PRESS WITH MATRIX NUMBERS: STS 1052 A1/B1/C1/D1
CATALOGUE NUMBER STS 1053 YEAR OF RELEASE 1969 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD - E.J. DAY UNLAMINATED INSERTS/EXTRAS NONE GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s) TOP EXCELLENT+( A NICE PAIR OF RECORDS with MINIMAL playwear and just a few VERY LIGHT handling marks .PLAYS GREAT THROUGHOUT,and yes I did play all of it,would never miss the opportunity to listen to any Captain.) LABELSEXCELLENT+ ( NICE AND CLEAN with NO writing rips tears stickers with MINIMAL spindleusage and VERY LIGHT handling and play wear)
SLEEVEFront board.Inner gatefold EX- Th front board is in reasonable condition with NO rips tears writing stickers or remains but has a general air of tiredness about it and a quite prominent ringmark.THE INNER GATEFOLD is clean and unmarked with light wear ageing and handling. Rear board EX- REAR board is much like the front.clean but with various small but incovinient defects Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine VG Quite heavily worn with bits of the outer surface missing Top & bottom edge VG top and bottom edges have heavy rubbing wear along their lengths Opening EX THE openings have light wear and very light usage Corners VG In keeping with the overall ambience of the sleeve the corners are pretty knackered too. INNER /EXTRAS
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DETAILSTrout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism.
Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl.
The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional -- reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks -- but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted by the Captain (aided by John "Drumbo" French), which makes the results even more remarkable
. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era,most notably the mid 80's ensemble Stump.
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