Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982 [5 CD, 1999/FLAC]

 

Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982 is a 5-CD box set compiled from previously unreleased recordings by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. The featured material spans the band's entire career, but focuses mainly on their work up to the late-1960s and the sessions for Beefheart's best-known album, Trout Mask Replica (1969).



Disc one: "Just Got Back From the City (1965-67)"

  1. "Obeah Man" (1966 demo) – 2:46
  2. "Just Got Back from the City" (1966 demo) – 1:55
  3. "I'm Glad" (1966 demo) – 3:43
  4. "Triple Combination" (1966 demo) – 2:50
  5. "Here I Am I Always Am" (early 1966 demo) – 3:17
  6. "Here I Am I Always Am" (later 1966 demo) – 2:33
  7. "Somebody in My Home" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) – 3:03
  8. "Tupelo" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) – 4:15
  9. "Evil" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) – 2:33
  10. "Old Folks Boogie" (live Avalon Ballroom '67) – 3:15
  11. "Call On Me" (1965 demo) – 3:04
  12. "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" (1967 demo) – 2:11
  13. "Yellow Brick Road" (1967 demo) – 1:45
  14. "Plastic Factory" (1967 demo) – 2:57

Disc two: "Electricity, 1968"

  1. "Electricity" (live at Cannes 1968) – 3:42
  2. "Sure Nuff" (live at Cannes 1968) – 3:00
  3. "Rollin n Tumblin" (Kidderminster 1968) – 11:10
  4. "Electricity" (Kidderminster 1968) – 3:42
  5. "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (Kidderminster 1968) – 6:28
  6. "Kandy Korn" (Kidderminster 1968) – 4:23
  7. "Korn Ring Finger" (1967 demo) – 7:23

Disc three: "Trout Mask House Sessions, 1969"

  1. "Hobo Chang Ba" and "Dachau Blues" tuning up – 4:59
  2. 'bush recording' – 8:18
  3. "Hair Pie: Bake 1" – 5:04
  4. "Hair Pie: Bake 2" – 2:44
  5. 'noodling' – 1:05
  6. "Hobo Chang Ba" – 2:02
  7. "Hobo" practice – 1:58
  8. "Hobo Chang Ba" take 2 – 3:08
  9. "Dachau Blues" – 2:06
  10. "Old Fart at Play" – 1:23
  11. 'noodling' – 1:01
  12. "Pachuco Cadaver" – 4:08
  13. "Sugar 'n Spikes" – 2:40
  14. 'noodling' – 1:01
  15. "Sweet Sweet Bulbs" – 2:31
  16. "Frownland" (take 1) – 2:51
  17. "Frownland" – 1:52
  18. 'noodling' – 1:11
  19. "Ella Guru – 2:33
  20. 'silence' – 0:09
  21. "She's Too Much for My Mirror" – 1:30
  22. 'noodling' – 0:36
  23. "Steal Softly thru Snow" – 2:22
  24. 'noodling' – 1:52
  25. "My Human Gets Me Blues" – 2:54
  26. 'noodling' – 1:06
  27. "When Big Joan Sets Up" – 4:32
  28. 'silence' – 0:05
  29. "Candy Man" – 0:57
  30. "China Pig" – 4:15

Disc four: "Trout Mask House Sessions Pt. 2"

  1. "Blimp" playback – 5:09
  2. 'Herb Alpert' – 1:07
  3. 'Septic tank' – 0:51
  4. 'We'll overdub it 3 times' – 5:26


Disc five: "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-81)"

  1. "My Human Gets Me Blues" (live Amougies '69) – 3:56
  2. "When Big Joan Sets Up" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) – 6:13
  3. "Woe Is Uh Me Bop" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) – 2:46
  4. "Bellerin Plain" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) – 3:26
  5. "Black Snake Moan I" (KHSU '72) – 1:04
  6. "Grow Fins" (live Bickershaw '72) – 5:12
  7. "Black Snake Moan II" (WBCN '72) – 1:52
  8. "Spitball Scalped Uh Baby" (live, Bickershaw '72) – 9:15
  9. "Harp Boogie I" (WBCN '72) – 1:35
  10. "One Red Rose That I Mean" (Town Hall '72) – 1:48
  11. "Harp Boogie II" (WBCN '72) – 0:56
  12. "Natchez Burning" (WBCN '72) – 0:46
  13. "Harp Boogie III" (1972 radio phone in) – 0:53
  14. "Click Clack" (Paris, '73) – 2:53
  15. "Orange Claw Hammer" ('75 from radio with Zappa on acoustic guitar) – 4:39
  16. "Odd Jobs" (Don piano demo, '76) – 5:13
  17. "Odd Jobs" (full band demo '76) – 5:12
  18. "Vampire Suite" (1980 worktapes / live) – 3:49
  19. "Mellotron Improv" (live '78) – 1:25
  20. "Evening Bell" (Don piano demo '81) – 0:57
  21. "Evening Bell" (Lucas worktape '81) – 2:18
  22. "Mellotron Improv" (live '80) – 2:23
  23. "Flavor Bud Living" (live '81) – 1:17