Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

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Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Studio album by Captain Beefheart
Released	1978
Recorded	The Automatt, San Francisco 1978
Genre	Rock
Length	47:20
Label	Warner Bros
Producer(s)	Don Van Vliet & Pete Johnson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (4.5/5) link Wax (Favorable) October 1978 Down Beat (Favorable) January 1979 Feature {Favorable} January 1979
Captain Beefheart chronology
Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974)	Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978)	Doc at the Radar Station (1980)

Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) is the tenth album by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. Originally released in 1978, it is considered to be Beefheart's comeback album following 1974's poorly received efforts, Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams, and is the first of his three critically acclaimed final albums.

Contents 1 Bat Chain Puller 2 Track listing 2.1 Side one 2.2 Side two 3 Personnel 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Bat Chain Puller

Many of the tracks were originally recorded for Frank Zappa's Discreet Records in 1976 for an album that was to be titled simply Bat Chain Puller - namely the title track, "Harry Irene", "The Floppy Boot Stomp", "Owed t'Alex" and the poem "Apes-Ma". This album, however, was never commercially released, owing to legal complications among the Discreet bosses, which meant that the tracks that appear on Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) had eventually to be re-recorded in 1978. (The lost tracks have subsequently been bootlegged on the questionable Ozit Records in a collection entitled Dust Sucker (2002).)

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Don Van Vliet except where noted

[edit] Side one

1. "The Floppy Boot Stomp" – 3:51
2. "Tropical Hot Dog Night" – 4:48
3. "Ice Rose" – 3:37
4. "Harry Irene" – 3:42
5. "You Know You're a Man" – 3:14
6. "Bat Chain Puller" – 5:27

[edit] Side two

1. "When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy" – 5:03
2. "Owed t'Alex" (Van Vliet, Herb Bermann) – 4:06
3. "Candle Mambo" – 3:24
4. "Love Lies" – 5:03
5. "Suction Prints" – 4:25
6. "Apes-Ma" – 0:40

[edit] Personnel

• Captain Beefheart - vocals, harmonica, soprano sax, whistling
• Jeff Moris Tepper - slide guitar, guitar
• Bruce Lambourne Fowler - trombone, bass
• Eric Drew Feldman - synthesizer, Rhodes piano, grand piano, bass
• Richard Redus - slide guitar, bottleneck guitar, guitar, accordion, fretless bass
• Robert Arthur Williams - drums, percussion
• Art Tripp III - Marimba, additional percussion

[edit] References

• Tieman, Theo. Bat Chain Puller. [1]. Retrieved June 8, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Jeff Moris Tepper's candlebone.com

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Safe As Milk | Strictly Personal | Trout Mask Replica | Lick My Decals Off, Baby | Mirror Man | The Spotlight Kid | Clear Spot | Unconditionally Guaranteed | Bluejeans & Moonbeams | Bongo Fury | Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) | Doc at the Radar Station | Ice Cream for Crow