Singer: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Title: Trout Mask Replica
Label: Straight ‎– STS 1053, Reprise Records ‎– 2MS 2027
Type: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Date of released: 1976
Category: Rock, Blues, Non-Music
Style: Alternative Rock, Dialogue, Field Recording, Avantgarde, Electric Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental
Size MP3 zip: 1456 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1262 mb
Rating: 3.8✭
Format: MP3 VOX AUD VOC MP2 ASF DTS FLAC FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Frownland	1:39
A2	The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back	2:04
A3	Dachau Blues	2:21
A4	Ella Guru Effects [Flesh Horn] – Antennae Jimmy Semens	2:23
A5	Hair Pie: Bake 1	4:57
A6	Moonlight On Vermont Bass Guitar – Gary "Magic" Marker	3:55
B1	Pachuco Cadaver	4:37
B2	Bill's Corpse	1:47
B3	Sweet Sweet Bulbs	2:17
B4	Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish Instruments [Musette], Horns [Simran Horn] – Captain Beefheart	2:25
B5	China Pig Guitar – Doug Moon	3:56
B6	My Human Gets Me Blues	2:42
B7	Dali's Car	1:25
C1	Hair Pie: Bake 2	2:23
C2	Pena Lead Vocals – Antennae Jimmy Semens	2:31
C3	Well	2:05
C4	When Big Joan Sets Up	5:19
C5	Fallin' Ditch	2:03
C6	Sugar 'N Spikes	2:29
C7	Ant Man Bee Saxophone [Simultaneous Tenor & Soprano] – Captain Beefheart	3:55
D1	Orange Claw Hammer	3:35
D2	Wild Life	3:07
D3	She's Too Much For My Mirror	1:42
D4	Hobo Chang Ba	2:01
D5	The Blimp (Mousetrap Replica) Narrator – Antennae Jimmy SemensVoice [Intro] – Frank Zappa	2:04
D6	Steal Softly Thru Snow	2:13
D7	Old Fart At Play	1:54
D8	Veteran's Day Poppy Bass Guitar – Gary "Magic" Marker	4:30

Companies, etc.

• Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Published By – Beefheart Music
• Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles

Credits

• Bass Clarinet, Vocals – The Mascara Snake
• Bass Guitar, Narrator – Rockette Morton
• Design, Photography By [Cover] – Cal Schenkel
• Drums [Uncredited], Translated By [Music Score, Uncredited] – John French
• Engineer, Technician [Electronic Modification Of Equipment] – Dick Kunc
• Photography By [Inside & Back Cover] – Ed Caraeff
• Producer – Frank Zappa
• Slide Guitar [Glass Finger Guitar], Flute – Zoot Horn Rollo
• Slide Guitar [Steel Appendage Guitar] – Antennae Jimmy Semens
• Songwriter – Captain Beefheart
• Vocals, Saxophone [Tenor & Soprano] – Captain Beefheart

Notes

One of the last 'Straight' original gatefold sleeved issues, containing the reissue '3300 Warner Blvd 'mini W logo' tan vinyl labels housed in Warner "Supergroup" promo liners.

Whether this was an effort to shift old TMR print stock before the new varnish-print covers, or simply to bring "Supergroup" to a prime market audience, who knows? But it happened - In 1976.

The sleeve is Category STS 1053, the vinyl is Category 2MS 2027.
The liner front has a black half-tone of the "Supergroup" release [PRO 630] and the header "At only $2 for a double album, 'Supergroup' is the best record bargain yet!"
Artists are then mentioned and a response coupon is at bottom-right.
[see images]
The liner back simply has the Warner shield motif [centered] and "©1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc" at bottom-right.

All selections copyrighted for the world by Beefheart Music BMI

(The texts for the PRO Series were often written by Dr. Demento)

Album catalog on sleeve does not have a "2" prefix.

No lyric sheet insert is included (which appeared only in early US releases).

D5 -"The Blimp"
(The intro voice is that of Zappa, recorded via a telephone link to Zappa's studio - with Antennae Jimmy Semens narrating from Vliet's script over the 'phone from the 'Magic Band house'. A field-to-studio recording on which members of 'The Mothers' are performing)

A4: "Flesh Horn" is a Vliet affectation for the 'cupped hand'-to-the-mouth (hence flesh), used to create a 'vocalised horn' effect.
B4: The wind instrument "Musette" credited on sleeve is a shortened version of an "Oboe Musette".
The expression 'steel appendage' guitar is another affectation for a steel finger-tube, used as a slide on the fret. A glass tube (or bottle-neck) is used for 'glass-finger' credit.

Drummer, John 'Drumbo' French, was not credited on this album.
(It is now accepted that his transcription of Beefheart's concepts/score for other band members was fundamental in its production. See vast notes in 'Grow Fins' CD box set or vinyl album set).

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (A-Side run-out, hand-etched): 2 MS-1-2027    LW1.   1   ✳
• Matrix / Runout (B-Side run-out, hand-etched): 2 MS-2-2027    LW1.   1   ✳
• Matrix / Runout (C-Side run-out, hand-etched): 2 MS-3-2027    LW1:   1   ✳
• Matrix / Runout (D-Side run-out, hand-etched): 2 MS-4-2027    LW-1   1   ✳
• Matrix / Runout (A-Side label matrix): 31,041
• Matrix / Runout (B-Side label matrix): 31,042
• Matrix / Runout (C-Side label matrix): 31,043
• Matrix / Runout (D-Side label matrix): 31,044
• Rights Society: BMI

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
STS 1053, 2 STS 1053	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band*	Trout Mask Replica ‎(2xLP, Album, Aut)	Straight, Straight	STS 1053, 2 STS 1053	US	1969
STS 1053, 2MS 2027	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band*	Trout Mask Replica ‎(2xLP, Album, RE)	Straight, Reprise Records	STS 1053, 2MS 2027	US	1974
2MS 2027	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band*	Trout Mask Replica ‎(2xLP, Album, RE)	Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records	2MS 2027	US	1989
CRJ 2027	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band*	Trout Mask Replica ‎(Cass, Album)	Reprise Records	CRJ 2027	Canada	Unknown
2MS 2027, 2MS-2027	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band*	Trout Mask Replica ‎(2xLP, Album)	Reprise Records, Reprise Records	2MS 2027, 2MS-2027	Australia	1972

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