Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid

Label:
Catalog#:
K 44162
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country:
UK
Released:
Jan 1972
Genre:
Blues, Rock
Style:
Alternative Rock, Blues Rock, Avantgarde, Experimental

Tracklist

A1   I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 4:34
A2   White Jam 2:57
A3   Blabber 'N Smoke 2:48
A4   When It Blows Its Stacks 3:41
A5   Alice In Blunderland 3:55
B1   The Spotlight Kid 3:21
B2   Click Clack 3:31
B3   Grow Fins 3:31
B4   There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage 3:13
B5   Glider 4:37

Credits

Artwork By [Art Direction], Photography - Ed Thrasher
Artwork By [Back Cover Illustrations] - Don Van Vliet
Bass Guitar [Bassus Ophelius] - Rockette Morton
Drums - Drumbo , Rhys Clark , Ted Cactus
Engineer, Co-producer - Phil Schier
Guitar - Winged Eel Fingerling (tracks: A5)
Guitar [Glass Finger], Guitar [Steel Appendage] - Zoot Horn Rollo
Lyrics By - Jan Van Vliet (tracks: A3)
Marimba, Piano, Harpsichord, Drums - Ed Marimba
Producer, Arranged By, Lyrics By, Written-By - Don Van Vliet
Vocals, Harmonica, Bells [Jingle Bells] - Captain Beefheart

Notes

Recorded at Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, USA, during May-September 1971.
Released prior to the band's 1972 Spring Tour.

Produced for God's Golf Ball Productions
A Warner Bros. Records USA Recording

A Reprise Record distributed by Kinney Record Group Ltd

Run-outs: K 44162 A1 & K 44162 B1

SHOREPAK by Shorewood Packaging Co Ltd., ENGLAND

Lyrics/Beefheart image in black on single-sided white card insert.
Back cover color illustrations and enigmatic text descriptions by Vliet of, clockwise, Morton, Fingerling, Rollo and Marimba.
(Art Tripp is mischievously credited as the fourth non-existent drummer Ted Cactus).
Credits sign-off:
The stars are matter
We're matter
But it doesn't matter
- Don Van Vliet

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