ORIG 72 CAPTAIN BEEFHEART MAGIC BAND CLEAR SPOT Psych
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CLEAN 1972 Original ~ HEAVY MENTAL FLASH!
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
AND
THE MAGIC BAND
CLEAR SPOT
...USA - REPRISE - MS 2115
Original 1972 first pressing vinyl housed in PVC thick transparent flipback cover...
The continuing evolution of Beefheart’s music has always been one of the most fascinating developments of contemporary rock. The Captain is an introverted, almost schizophrenic figure, mirroring in his work the apparent dichotomy between the rigorous ensemble playing of the Chicago-out-of-Mississippi bluesmen and the anarchic-sounding sprung rhythms of modernists like Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman.
Clear Spot is sizzling 1972 heavy metal flash. Up until '72 it was without a doubt Beefheart's most accessible album. While other albums stayed close to the avant-garde blues idiom, Clear Spot ventures into areas that were new for Beefheart. Its unqualified successes "Low Yo Yo Stuff", "Nowadays a Woman's Got to Hit a Man", "Crazy Little Thing", "Long Neck Bottles" are tough, tight bursts of energy. None of them are blues, but they are valid extensions of the blues tradition, with high, whining slide guitar leads; harmonica breaks and gravelly, shouting vocals. The Captain and guitarist Zoot Horn Rollo (ex-"MU") are in front most of the way, but the meat of these tunes is their extraordinarily succinct, kinetic underpinnings. Rockette Morton's slashing second guitar, Orejon's bass (which often functions as a booming bass drum) and Ed Marimba's light but precise drumming merge into a push-pull of contrasting rhythms that is similar in effect to the percussion orchestras of Africa and Latin-Amenca. Each player has a definite rhythmic part and the way these parts fit together is the secret of Beefheart's art.
One of the other tunes don’t measure up to the glow of these masterpieces. "Too Much Time" attempts, perhaps too literally, to recreate the Stax/Volt sound of the mid Sixties. It would have sounded fine on anyone else’s album but here it is a let-down. Beefheart long ago absorbed the Delta sound into his approach, but "Time" doesn’t absorb the Memphis sound, it merely copies it. Two love ballads offer a lyrical contrast that is new in the Captain’s cosmology. "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" is a tour de force. The arrangement is stunning. It begins with a Bo Diddley-inspired beat which soon develops into snarling slide guitar interchanges over thundering, pummeling rhythms. The words are some of the most superficial Beefheart has written, but the music, which sounds as if it might be a reaction to things like Ornette's "Science Fiction" and perhaps Sun Ra, is brilliantly realised.
Throughout the album, the lyrics introduce a Beefheart persona that was essentially new. The dada-dabbling surrealist has become the teasing, tantalising back door man who entices crazy little things with almost drooling gusto. But the good Captain's women aren't the meek domestic mates of contemporary pastoral rock. One of them "got to drinking one night and shot up the town / I'll be damned if she didn't bring an airplane down." And how did "Crazy Little Thing" get so doggone crazy? And how did she get a name like Crazy Little Thing? "Must be the name that drove you crazy all along."
The Captain's CLEAR SPOT album is dynamic, sizzling, tightly controlled explosions. Full of powerful playing from the band. And the stronger songs are clean out of sight.
- Side one
- "Low Yo Yo Stuff" – 3:41
- "Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man" – 3:46
- "Too Much Time" – 2:50
- "Circumstances" – 3:14
- "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" – 2:55
- "Sun Zoom Spark" – 2:13
- Side Two
- "Clear Spot" – 3:40
- "Crazy Little Thing" – 2:38
- "Long Neck Bottles" – 3:18
- "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" – 2:57
- "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" – 4:23
- "Golden Birdies" – 1:36
CONDITION: The cover: transparent flip over PVC cover is prone to tears and abrasion (scuffing) over time, like 38 years...this one near "EX" (excellent) with careful prior handling visible, nicely collectible. The flip over piece is not torn per usual...
The vinyl: highly shiny both sides "EX" (excellent) to M-, plays beautiful and stunning...
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A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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