Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album) (Near Mint (NM or M-))

Media Condition:  Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)
Country:    UK  
Released:  Jan 1972
Genre:       Rock, Blues
Style:         Blues Rock, Avantgarde

Comments:
Play tested in full, Nice glossy vinyl, clean spindle, From well looked after private collection, looks barely played. Cover has clean readable spine, lightest of corner and edge wear, slight residual label damage front cover, original inner card Beefheart insert, top end VG, a solid copy, posted/tracked worldwide in a professional mailer, buy with confidence from a trusted UK seller
 

Notes:

Recorded at Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, USA, during May-September 1971.
Released prior to the band's 1972 Spring Tour.
(See Tour Prog in images)

A Warner Bros. Records USA Recording
℗1971

Lyrics/Beefheart image in black on single-sided white card insert.

Back cover color illustrations of, clockwise, Morton, Fingerling, Rollo and Marimba.
(Art Tripp is mischievously credited as the fourth non-existent drummer Ted Cactus).

Credits sign-off: 
"The stars are matter
We're matter
But it doesn't matter"
- Don Van Vliet

A1. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 4:34
A2. White Jam 2:57
A3. Blabber 'N Smoke 2:48
A4. When It Blows Its Stacks 3:41
A5. Alice In Blunderland 3:55
B1. The Spotlight Kid 3:21
B2. Click Clack 3:31
B3. Grow Fins 3:31
B4. There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage 3:13
B5. Glider 4:37

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode none
Matrix / Runout K 44162 A1
Matrix / Runout K 44162 B1
Matrix / Runout K 44162 A1 A 20
Matrix / Runout K 44162 B1 B 01

Recorded At Record Plant, Los Angeles
Produced At God's Golfball Productions
Published By Green Bump Music, Inc
Printed By Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.
Distributed By Kinney Record Group Ltd.

Rock, Blues Rock

DMI REB