Captain Beefheart, The Magic Band

Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

1980 · Blues Rock · Virgin

Germany · 201 425-320

Tracklist

Credits

Producer
Don Van Vliet, Pete Johnson
Arranged by
Don Van Vliet
Engineer
Glen Kolotkin, Jeffrey Norman
Mastered by
Phil Brown
Blues RockAvantgarde52 pressings →

Where it leads

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.

San Francisco Psychedelia

Ballroom bands who stretched blues and folk into twenty-minute jams, pressed before anyone edited them down.

Where to find it

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