Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers: Bongo Fury (1975) LP

Frank Zappa ja Captain Beefheart yhdessä. Mothers-yhtyeessä mm. George Duke, Terry Bozzio ja Chester Thompson. US-painos. Kannessa Ringwearia.

Never the shrewdest businessman, in 1974 Beefheart had somehow managed to sign contracts with more than one record label at the same time, causing all kinds of legal problems. Consequently, Virgin records blocked the British release of Bongo Fury which appeared in America and elsewhere on Zappa's own DiscReet label through Warner Bros.

The album was allocated a UK Warner Bros catalogue number (K59209) and was even pictured with this number on music press tour ads, before Virgin called the lawyers in and the British release was cancelled. UK white label test pressings do exist, but that's as far as it got. US copies were easily found in the London import stores, but Bongo Fury was not officially released in the UK until the CD era many years later.

The cover image of this issue is flipped left to right, as can be seen in the sign above Frank Zappa's head on covers with more background visible. See Bongo Fury or Bongo Fury for examples - note the words 'Chocolate Sundae'. The cover photo was shot at Sandy's Hamburgers on Barton Springs Road in Austin, Texas (a block away from where the record was recorded) in May 1975.


Zappa* / Beefheart* / Mothers* – Bongo Fury
Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury album cover
Label:
DiscReet – DS 2234
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Santa Maria Pressing
Country:
US
Released:
Oct 2, 1975
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Blues Rock, Avantgarde
Tracklist
A1 Debra Kadabra 3:54
A2 Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy 6:02
A3 Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top 2:50
A4 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead 3:06
A5 200 Years Old 4:34
B1 Cucamonga 2:24
B2 Advance Romance 11:20
B3 Man With The Woman Head 1:29
B4 Muffin Man 5:37
Companies, etc.
Record Company – Warner Communications
Phonographic Copyright ? – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright © – DiscReet Records, Inc.
Published By – Munchkin Music
Copyright © – Munchkin Music
Published By – Beefheart Music
Copyright © – Beefheart Music
Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Recorded At – Armadillo World Headquarters
Recorded By – Record Plant Mobile, Los Angeles
Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
Overdubbed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
Mixed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
Lacquer Cut At – Kendun Recorders
Plated At – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Credits
Bass, Other [Also Dancing] – Tom Fowler
Design – Cal Schenkel
Drums – Chester Thompson (tracks: A5, B1)
Drums, Other [Moisture] – Terry Bozzio (tracks: A1 to A5, B2 to B4)
Engineer – Davey Moire, Frank Hubach, Kelly Kotera, Kerry McNab*, Mike Braunstein*, Mike Stone*
Harmonica [Harp], Vocals, Other [Shopping Bags] – Captain Beefheart
Keyboards, Vocals – George Duke
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Frank Zappa
Management [In DiscReetion] – Herb Cohen
Photography By – John Williams (30)
Producer – Frank Zappa
Saxophone, Vocals – Napoleon Murphy Brock*
Slide Guitar, Vocals – Denny Walley
Trombone, Other [Fantastic Dancing] – Bruce Fowler (3)
Written-By – Don Van Vliet (tracks: A3, B3), Frank Zappa (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B2, B4)
Notes
This version is mastered by and pressed by Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria and identifiable with S1 or S2 (try reading it upside-down), usually together with faint SX in runout writings. Stamped Kendun Mastering credits also present in runouts.

Some copies might have a transparent sticker, with the album title, affixed to the top or bottom on the front cover.

Tracks A1 to A4, B2 to B4: "Recorded live at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin Texas, May 20th & 21st, 1975".
"Plus Selected Studio Wonderment"
A5, B1 & B4 intros were recorded in January & February 1974, at The Record Plant, L.A.

Special thanks to the kitchen staff at The Armadillo, especially Jan Beeman

Made in U.S.A.
© 1975 DiscReet Records, Inc.

On labels: ? 1975 Warner Brothers Records Inc. [sic]
Tracks A1, A2, A4 to B2, B4: © 1975 Munchkin Music - ASCAP
Tracks A3, B3 © 1973 Beefheart Music - BMI

Spine reads: DS 2234 ZAPPA / BEEFHEART / MOTHERS BONGO FURY 0698-? 1975 WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC.-PRINTED IN U.S.A.