I saw Beefheart three times in all, this was the first, and best. Some ungodly wee small hours of early Saturday morning camped somewhere amongst the Bickershaw mud, barely awake until the Captain got going. The gig was amazing. This awful bootleg ruins the memory - the quality is so poor. So it gets two stars for trying, but really, that was a 5-star gig.
i recall it was friday or saturday night beefhart was cloaked behatted and amazing it was cold n wet n definitely a great set..it was a strange location a small mining village and the local shop lady said she had never seen anything like it - finally the rain stopped on sunday during the switch from riders of the purple sage and the dead it was sunset and the locals all came in with their kids..Ray Davies did a great set as well..
This sounds like crap.
I was there when this gig played and yes I remember it, so it's a real pity about the sound quality. this should be a heavily discounted download. The whole festival was ace bty, apart from the mud!!!!
...you will hear it in here somewhere(harp solos, Twilight Zone; remember?). From the samples it sounds like the playing is top notch, but can one really tell? This has to be about the worst bootleg sound quality of anything I've heard on eMusic, for sure worse than the other CB selections available here.
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