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    Bat Chain Puller is the 13th studio album (and first official posthumous album) by Captain Beefheart, released on February 22, 2012. It was recorded in...
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  • new album titled Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) after Zappa withheld the master tapes of the original Bat Chain Puller album. After recording Bongo Fury...
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    them to "take copies back for a refund". "Bat Chain Puller" "Bat Chain Puller" from the original Bat Chain Puller, the album that was supposed to mark Van...
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  • Magic Band. In support of the US release of his album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), Beefheart and the band undertook a promotional club tour. On Saturday...
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  • Beefheart's unreleased Bat Chain Puller album. As a cost-saving measure, Don Van Vliet proposed that three recordings from Bat Chain Puller – "Human Totem Pole"...
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  • "Brickbats" were originally intended and recorded for the unreleased album Bat Chain Puller. John French (the original drummer in the Magic Band) rejoined Beefheart...
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    music director. 1976 saw the recording of the original version of Bat Chain Puller, which due to legal ownership problems remained unreleased until 2012...
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  • "A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond" "Doctor Dark" "Bat Chain Puller" "Sheriff Of Hong Kong" "Kandy Korn" "Big Eyed Beans From Venus" "When...
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  • Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews, p. 142. Loder, Kurt (2002). Bat Chain Puller: Rock & Roll in the Age of Celebrity. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 113–114...
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    Loder authored a 1990 collection of his Rolling Stone work called Bat Chain Puller. Loder has guest-starred as himself on Kenan & Kel, the "That '90s...
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    "The Loved One", both recorded 1966 (Edsel, 1993) Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller, producer only, recorded 1976 (Vaulternative, 2012) Jean-Luc Ponty...
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    from taped fragments or impressionistic directions such as "Play it like a bat being dragged out of oil and it's trying to survive, but it's dying from...
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  • albums include: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Doc At The Radar Station Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams: Nosferatu...
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    Bluejeans & Moonbeams Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Doc at the Radar Station Ice Cream for Crow Bat Chain Puller EPs The Legendary A&M Sessions Live...
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    the Wind Blows At The Circus Halloween Trance-Fusion On the original Bat Chain Puller album (recorded in 1976, but released only in 2012 due to legal ownership...
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  • (East Wind) 1985: Hunter 1988: Breakfast for Dinosaurs Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) – 1978 Doc at the Radar Station – 1980 I'm Going to Do What I Wanna...
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    Smotherman Jimmy Caravan Ty Grimes Dean Smith — — 1978 Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Released in October 1978 Label: Warner (US), Virgin (UK) Jeff Moris...
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  • 1960s, though it was unreleased until the 1978 album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), was written about St. Clair's trips to Carson City to visit his mother...
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  • fireflies" a lyric which was reused almost word for word on shiny beast bat chain puller in the track Love lies . Also on side one is an eight-minute "Kandy...
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  • Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974) Bongo Fury (1975) Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978)...
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  • Beefheart albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978), Doc at the Radar Station (1980), and Ice Cream for Crow (1982)...
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  • "Tropical Hot Dog Night", the second track of his 1978 album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), an album which Harvey has said had a particular impact on her. A...
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  • between 2008 and 2009) on January 23, 2020. Captain Beefheart's album Bat Chain Puller was released on February 22, 2012. It was recorded in 1976. Also Sun...
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    Reprise) Unconditionally Guaranteed (1974, LP, Mercury) Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978, LP, Warner) Grow Fins (1999, 5CD, Revenant Records) Grow Fins...
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    Prehistoric Sounds The Saints Private Practice Dr. Feelgood Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Captain Beefheart Trouble Whitesnake Two for the Show Kansas Live...
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  • Beast (1978) Doc at the Radar Station (1980) Ice Cream for Crow (1982) Bat Chain Puller (2012) I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978...
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  • June 23, 2011. "Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band – Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)". Discogs. Retrieved June 24, 2011. "Tony Williams – The Joy of Flying"...
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    Soon Over Babaluma 1974 Simon Reynolds Captain Beefheart Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) 1978 Jeff Salamon Cheap Trick Cheap Trick 1977 Jim Greer Chic Dance...
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  • came from a song by Captain Beefheart from his album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). Dominique: "It's you, Jack. You think I'm skinny because you have...
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  • Zappa Lumpy Money 2010 Frank Zappa Congress Shall Make No Law... 2011 Frank Zappa Feeding the Monkies At Ma Maison 2012 Captain Beefheart Bat Chain Puller...
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