RARE 1968 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band "Strictly Personal" Blue Thumb BTS1
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Up for grabs we have Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band ... "Strictly Personal" Blue Thumb Records 1968 LP in REALLY GOOD CONDITION. Minor storage wear to the cover, but virtually flawless vinyl ... only played once (long story, don't ask).
‘If we thought it was great, we put it out’: The story of Blue Thumb Records
Blue Thumb’s first artist signed was Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. (Beefheart, in fact, coined the name Blue Thumb; according to Blue Thumb founder Bob Krasnow, it was to be the name of a new Beefheart blues band, but Krasnow “borrowed” it for his label.) Beefheart’s Strictly Personal appeared on Blue Thumb in 1968; it was their first stereo release.
Beefheart, said Krasnow, “was like an inspiration to me. His brain, his liberated ideas, his multi-talents. To me it wasn’t even about rock ‘n’ roll. It was about where rock ‘n’ roll came from and about the linear concept of music, you know, and how it evolved. I don’t think you can make a rock record without making a blues record, and I don’t think you can make a blues record without making this other kind of record, and it all had to make sense to me, you know? I don’t care if it made sense to anybody else, but I had to understand it. So it was kind of like this complex puzzle in my mind that was simplistic in its reality.”
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