An Evening With Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart
Recorded from an FM radio broadcast in 1975
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GENERAL INFO
In order to promote the only album they ever made together – the live recording BONGO FURY – Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa put together an amazing promotional documentary on the musical lives and times of both of them. Frank went through all the reel-to-reels he ever recorded – and they contained a lot of stunning discoveries. Most of the obscure material dated from the time before and when Beefheart was just part of ‘the mothers of invention’, but – ranging from their collaboration in the 1963/4 band ‘the soots’ to some live acts on the spot – there was blasting stuff for the beefheart fan-tribe too…
This instant ‘talkshow’ was broadcasted by several radio stations in the states, like kwst fm radio on 1 October (the day before the official release of their album). Of course this unique promo – which also was aired by the Australian radio station ‘jjj’ a bit later – was leaked, so no wonder a bunch of those ‘debuting tunes’ have been (and will be) brought out on bootlegs. Some of the songs later even gained an official status – like ‘metal man has won his wings’ – but a few very interesting works by with the captain have never been released elsewhere.