Frank Zappa - Metal Man Has Hornet´s Wings (Side A , Part 1/2)

[weinerbongo]

What's the song that starts playing around 8:30

[bookheaven1000]

@weinerbongo The song is the Big Eyed Beans From Venus Jam from Captain Beefheart's July 1974 concert at the Whiskey A Go Go played by the infamous Tragic Band. The full concert is available on my Beefheart-ridden channel.

[robchalfen]

re Lightning Rod Man

well there are several rather different voices - if Zappa's producing, Van Vliet may well have been in the studio & contributed that chorus. George is prob the one that sounds like a Mick Jagger take-off. The 'b-baby's near the end is prob Zappa.

[bwanna23]

As you know, this was an important time in American culture.

[JerryGawronski]

I believe the song lightning rod man is actually lowel george singing. I discovered when Lowell let Frank produce the song Lowell was the leader of a band called the factory. Most of my life I thought it was captain beefheart. Oh well we live and learn.

[vinzer72frie]

Most of this record is from a radio show on KWST radio, 01-Nov-1975, where Zappa and Beefheart played oldies and oddities. The bootleggers have added a few tracks (the ones that seem out of place). (There is a completely unsubstantiated rumour that this radio show was actually a broadcast of a Warner Brothers promo record with these songs on it, which has never been found and never been confirmed to have existed.)

[GreggaryPeccary]

May I ask where you get these LPs? are they bootlegs?

[vinzer72frie]

I discovered this collection long time ago on a forum, I was 13 ....