INTRODUCTION

if you know how bad - to beefheart standards - the official cd london 1974 (or the first elpee of the 'hot dog night' double boot) is, nobody needs another live performance from that black-out year. not even when the sound quality is perfect like the radio broadcast which is the source of the collected 'crazy little things' bootlegs - because it makes your experience the more painful. don't éver listen to anything like this, for you will get an irresistible feeling of pity with the steerless captain, and your despair to help poor don will keep you away from sleeping for weeks!...

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[quick notes: picture is from 1980 press photo / credits say 'made in europe' but italy is more likely / more notes to come]

[quick notes: the same concert as 'crazy little things' released a few months earlier / but omits the second performance of 'peaches' (the only kind of encores beefheart could come up with at the time) / has two live bonus tracks taken from vinyl: 'sam with the showing scalp flat top' from the '75 zappa & beefheart 'bongo fury' tour, and 'grow fins' from a 1977 show / 'knebworth festival' picture on inside / more notes to come]

who could have imagined that ten years after the appearance of the bootcd, anyone with a computer could start his own illegal record company? 'home burned' discs totally outnumbered the factory made products, although 95% of it is just 'digitally remastered' vinyl and tape, or - even worse - a copy of previously released silver plastic.

so it's no wonder that the original 'crazy little things' plate reincarnated into a burnleg with a subtitle and a 'trout mask replica' front. as far as i remember - i can't afford évery piece of beefheart, you know - this remake doesn't have any bonus tracks.

(provisory note:)
06.06.2005: ADVANCE WARNING: the notorious 'ozit / morpheus' mafia is about to release another semi-official ceedee they have burned: PRIME QUALITY BEEF. the track listing reveals that this time they stole the complete but shuffled content of the bootleg cd CRAZY LITTLE THINGS with one of beefheart's tragic LIVE PERFORMANCES from 1974: COWTOWN, KANSAS, TEXAS....  the bonus tracks are four 1967 studio outtakes from the 'i may be hungry but i sure ain't weird' / 'rare beefheart - vintage zappa' ceedees. bugger off, again!