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Captain Beefheart & Magic Band

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Trout Mask Replica - 3rd

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & MAGIC BAND Trout Mask Replica (Rare 1970 US third issue of the classic 28-track stereo double LP on the blue Bizarre label, the Captain's masterpiece, pasted gatefold picture sleeve with original Straight catalogue number of STS1053, although the labels carry the reference 2MS2027. The sleeve shows just light shelfwear & the vinyl remains excellent with few signs of play)
See 'More Info' for further details of what makes this pressing so unusual ...

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1970 - 54 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Bizarre
Complete Stock List Go to Captain Beefheart & Magic Band
Product Catalogue No 2MS2027
Music Genre Psychedelic, 60s Rock, 70s Rock, 70s Artists
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
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Tracklisting & More Information

The recording of Trout Mask Replica and the near starvation conditions of the musicians kept almost under house arrest as John French desperately tried to make sense of and transcribe the Captain's ideas into something that the band could work with, have passed into legend.
What emerged was one of the most original and challenging albums in history.
A masterpiece.

The first release of this album in 1969 was on the pink Straight label. The catalogue number is STS1053 & the matrix number etched into the run off area reflected this. The second release was still on Straight, but now with the 2MS2027 catalogue number on the label.
The fourth release of this album was on Reprise, with the catalogue number of 2MS2027 & the matrix number etched into the run off area reflected this.

This curious & legitimate third pressing, somehow fell between the Straight label and the Reprise release. The demand wasn't exactly huge at the time, but they had obviously shifted all of the Straight label copies before switching officially to Reprise, so this puppy came out on Bizarre.
Not only is it on the blue Bizarre label, but it also carries the matrix numbers for both the Straight release AND the Reprise release in the run off area. The mad idea comes to mind here that it could possibly have fallen BETWEEN the two pink Straight label releases. Did some pressing plant use the wrong labels ?
After all this time we'll probably never know, so I've called this a third press, although it could really be a 1½ or 2½ depending on the circumstances !

How many of this curiosity were pressed, I don't know. I've seen plenty on Straight, plenty on Reprise, but we've never had one on Bizarre before.

Condition:

The sleeve shows the usual shelfwear associated with US sleeves of this type & period and there is a degree of the classic ringwear present. That said, with the exception of a little scuffing at the edges it is still holding up very well with a clearly readable spine and bright vivid colours inside the gatefold.
They had obviously had more than sufficient sleeves printed as this 1969 Straight sleeve was still to be found on releases sent out in the mid Seventies!

The vinyl remains in excellent condition with very little sign of play. Upon very close inspection, a couple of light surface scuffs are all that can be seen. This, and a few faint spindle marks around the centre hole, is it.

The sleeve can easily be replaced, should you want it to look more new than period, but the Bizarre labelled vinyl might prove a little more tricky.
Luckily, with the vinyl looking like this, you'll probably never want to.

A very nice copy of this extremely hard to find third pressing !

Tracklisting:

01. Frownland
02. The Dust Blows Forward N The Dust Blows Back
03. Dachau Blues
04. Ella Guru
05. Hair Pie Bake 1
06. Moonlight On Vermont
07. Pachuco Cadaver
08. Bills Corpse
09. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
11. China Pig
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. Dalis Car
14. Hair Pie Bake 2
15. Pena
16. Well
17. When Big Joan Sets Up
18. Fallin Ditch
19. Sugar N Spikes
20. Ant Man Bee
21. Orange Claw Hammer
22. Wild Life
23. Shes Too Much For My Mirror
24. Hobo Chang Ba
25. The Blimp
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow
27. Old Fart At Play
28. Veterans Day Poppy

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Recording Artist Captain Beefheart & Magic Band
Product Title Trout Mask Replica - 3rd
Product Information Captain Beefheart & Magic Band Trout Mask Replica - 3rd USA 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
Artists Related To Bandera, Drumbo, Fraternity Of Man, Mallard, Mu, The Magic Band
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