Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band- Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) [45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]Label: Rhino WarnerReleased 11 24 2023 BLACK FRIDAY RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE LIMIT TO 1 PER CUSTOMER 45th anniversary deluxe edition of the classic 1978 album from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. This limited edition 2LP vinyl set features the original album recut from the original master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering plus an additional LP with twelve previously unreleased demos, rough mixes and alternate versions from the Shiny Beast era .

as well as a major influence on rock and funk musicians

Give Thanks & Praises

rare tracks and compilation tracks from across their career

will be out on October 29

The record was pressed at Austin

and followed The Band's backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as the Hawks) and time spent together in upstate New York recording material that was officially released in 1975 as The Basement Tapes

Following a full-scale tour in support of it's previous album

Last year I created an instrumental that eventually went on to be the title track of this project

Steve Biko (Stir It Up)

Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in what was then West Berlin

Satellites

1990 of a heroin overdose