Straight Records Albums - Trout Mask Replica, Farewell Aldebaran, Starsailor, Lick My Decals Off, Baby, Love It to Death, the Early Years (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Trout Mask Replica, Farewell Aldebaran, Starsailor, Lick My Decals Off, Baby, Love It to Death, the Early Years, Blue Afternoon, Easy Action, Pretties for You, Greetings From L.a., Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Trout Mask Replica - In the period leading up to Trout Mask Replica the band had a history of uncertain relationships with their recording labels. A&M released the group's first single, a cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy," but dropped the contract after their first two singles failed to produce hits. Then Buddah Records released the band's (and the label's) first album, 1967's Safe as Milk. Soon afterward Buddah began specializing in "bubblegum pop," a style in which Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band clearly had no place, and the group again found themselves without a record label. Around this time Van Vliet's high school friend Frank Zappa started his own pair of record labels, Bizarre and Straight, and offered Van Vliet, better known by the name of Captain Beefheart that Zappa gave him, the opportunity to record an album with complete artistic freedom. The result was Trout Mask Replica. Van Vliet wanted the whole band to "live" the Trout Mask Replica album. The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in a small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Van Vliet implemented his vision by asserting complete artistic and emotional domination of his musicians. At various times one or another of the group members was put "in the barrel," with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission to Van Vliet. Drummer John Fren...http: //booksllc.net/?id=769051