Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band New Victoria Theatre, London, England November 14, 1975 Part 1: Moonlight On Vermont Band Introduction Abba Zaba Orange Claw Hammer Part 2: Dali's Car When It Blows Its Stacks My Human Gets Me Blues Alice In Blunderland Part 3: Natchez Burning Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones Part 4: Improvisation including Drumbo's Tap Dance Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead Electricity Golden Birdies Part 5: Big Eyed Beans From Venus Chas De Whalley: Quiet, mild mannered, and sensitive he may be, but Don Van Vliet is also the Spotlight Kid and with Drumbo and Winged Eel Fingerling he beamed down to London to save us. ... Clad in white, confident to the point of arrogance, the Captain stalked, growled and purred across the stage in his finest voice, laying down that old time, Vermont Moonlight religion like we haven't heard it in years - waving, gesticulating and haranguing the crowd, foot up on the monitor speakers, eyes gleaming like an astral politic! ian's. The audience of a couple of thousand mere earthlings were transfixed, mesmerized by the envoys from a distant galaxy, with Beefheart in complete and absolute control. With a real magic band behind him Beefheart put paid to the ugly rumours that he'd gone soft and sentimental, as Winged Eel Fingerling and slide guitar man Denny Wally put real iron back into the Beefheart stage show. Goodbye to the anaemic touring outfit of 1974, and farewell to the hotchpotch band of gypsies we saw at Knebworth ...
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