Mallard - 1) Back On The Pavement (Rockpalast 1976)

[GreenManalishiUSA]

This is cool. As a Beefheart fan, I've known about Mallard for years, but I've never actually heard them before. If I close my eyes and listen to the raspy vocals and the twangy guitar, I might think that I am listening to a slightly twisted version of Dire Straits. Thanks for posting!

[FrontierJazz]

This is great. But I think the problem was this music was basically 1967 in 1977. That's not a bad thing, but it is an impossible thing to sell after a decade. As it was prog and pre-punk garage rock was on its last hurrah in these years (as a popular music form) and Beefheart himself was more critically than popularly lauded.

[themitchies]

Mallard has some great songs. You can find their albums floating around the net somewhere. A band that deserves more success than they received.

[joesteeple]

Sounds cool to me. I think the band had the write to sound a bit Beefheart: they turned his piano banging and whistling into true musical form. 

[pedalla]

oh cmon, here too??? i know you all are proud that you can say beefheart is your favorite musician... but what if one day you actually start wanting to listen some other music... would you rather listen to some 3-chord bands, or at least the roots of the most legendary band ever... there isn't that many good music out there, to be a fucking music snob

[FyreTiger2K]

#62 greatest guitarist of all time

[Lewelltam]

Sound a lot like Little Feat, which is fine, but it just ain't magic.

[rottenhubert]

Aw, that bass line.

[FraterSoddi]

Maybe, just maybe - Beefheart was NOTHING without his kickass MAGIC Band.

[bazonics]

@FraterSoddi Yeh, and maybe the Magic band wern't Magic without Beefheart. To put it another way: any talented musician could play this music but no one else could play trout mask replica.

[brucebut1]

there's on one word for this!

kool! thus speaketh brother jbbutterfield.

[musads]

Yeah. Got Beefheart flavor. How could it be otherwise? And that's good!!!

[TheRhysewing666]

this band can eat a dick

[tchwiss]

@TheRhysewing666 Not as well as you can felch your own asshole.

[jarboe2]

Thanks for posting, it's nice to see & hear this great band, i thought they were lost forever out into the ether. in the same vein as little feat, but their own style.

[vollsticks]

Really does sound like "Clear Spot" era-Beefheart...sorry to make that comparison but to me, it does!

[mindcontrolsalsa]

Mark Boston,plays impossible chords + time changes

no body has touched his playing yet.he pumps it OUT !

except of course: Roy Estrada great voice ,great bass player,survived the Mothers, he is the pride of la raza

All of Beefhearts players were monster players except the

the "Unconditionally Guranteed" band...not my fave

thanks guys thanks for posting

[treebeard22]

Zootachu!

[gotears2listen]

Wow, Zoot and Rockette eh? Just too cool fer school! Awesome stuff - thanks so much for this. Incidentally, just looking at Rockette playing I hadn't realised how similar he and Roy Estrada are in phrasing and stage presence

[jhm795main]

FYI, Roy Estrada IS Rockette Morton (and vice versa)...

[janlier]

No, Rockette Morton is Mark Boston, and Roy Estrada is Orejon. In the early seventies they played live gigs together in a two-bass version of The Magic Band

[jhm795main]

Yes, sorry, I should of corrected that, the day after I posted it, it hit me that I was wrong! I hate disinformation on the net, so thanx again!!!

[SkopTeocratico]

Fantastic song, but I love the album version with acoustic guitar :D

[labofchange]

I love YouTube, I thought it could be impossible to watch anything from these guys.

Thank you so much for posting this!

[skinnynorris85]

very nice.. I onley knew zoot from captain beefheart..

[strawwoodclaw]

GO ON ROCKETTE MORTON !!!!!!!

[justlettersandnumber]

I thought the only footage of Mallard existed as a memory of seeing them at the Roundhouse in London. Thanks for uploading this. A much underrated band.

[aladaube]

All these Mallard cuts are stone classics in my book. Top notch playing/singing, and the sheer quality of the material is noteworthy 30+ years down the line.

[mebloke69]

thanx for posting this gem.THANX

[snottydyck]

great tune. too bad about the audio.

[5050jono]

Been waiting a long time to see if something would surface from these guys. Thanks for the videos. Sound quality isn't brilliant but hugely appreciated just the same. Check out their Albums