Six months previously, the band had been living in a shared house in Woodland Hills, California subsisting on a diet of welfare cheese amd soya beans, sustained mainly by the Captain’s aggressively disciplinarian ideas about group composition. ![]() While it culminated in the sleek blues architecture of Clear Spot it, the period covered by Sun Zoom Spark is certainly not untouched by freakdom. It is an indication of the singularity of Beefheart’s vision that this was not only the version of his group he felt would bring him some mainstream success, but the one he put together while opposing himself to “freak” culture. Collectively, this was the latest incarnation of Beefheart’s storied Magic Band, essentially the one anthologized on this four disc box set: covering 1970’s Lick My Decals Off, Baby, through 1972’s The Spotlight Kid and the band’s third masterpiece, Clear Spot (also 1972). Individually, these were Mark Boston, Bill Harkleroad, Elliot Ingber, and Art Tripp. ![]() A third guitarist stays nearly still, camouflaged (were his long beard and hair insufficiently doing so) behind dark glasses, the previous generation’s fears about the counterculture in a single human entity. Another, hugely tall and thin, wails on slide guitar with the animal grace of a giraffe on a bouncy castle. ![]() ![]() Behind him, one guitarist duckwalks in and out of shot wearing a silver suit.
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