Transmission impossible
Subtitle: legendary broadcasts from the 1960s, 1970s & 1980s
By: Captain Beefheart
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 194
Other titles: Legendary broadcasts from the 1960s, 1970s & 1980s; Legendary broadcasts from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
Notes: Title from container.

All songs on disc 3 written by Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart; songs on discs 1-2 principally written by Van Vliet, in part with others.

Captain Beefheart ; with additional musicians.

recorded for live radio broadcast at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, June 17, 1966.

recorded at various radio sessions, 1967 & 1968.

recorded for live radio broadcast at the Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, Missouri, April 22, 1974.

recorded for live radio broadcast at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada, January 17, 1981.

recorded live for Tubeworks WABX TV, Detroit, Michigan, January 15, 1971.

recorded live for KWST FM Radio broadcast with Frank Zappa, November 1, 1975.

recorded live for Saturday Night Live, November 1980.
Table of contents: title: disc 1 (56 min.). Down in the bottom (2:39); title: Don't start me talkin' (2:16); title: The sun is shining (2:41); title: Tupelo (4:23); title: Somebody in my home (2:53); title: Old folks' boogie (3:22); title: St. James Infirmery (6:18); title: Evil (is going on) (2:36); title: Harp instrumental (3:15); title: Somebody in my home (2:40); title: Sure 'nuff 'n' yes I do (2:06); title: Call on me (3:04); title: Yellow brick road (1:33); title: Plastic factory (2:55); title: Sure 'nuff 'n' yes I do (2:47); title: Yellow brick road (2:54); title: Abba zaba (3:36); title: Kandy korn (4:24); title: disc 2 (65 min.). Mirror man (7:31); title: Upon the my-o-my (3:17); title: Crazy little things (5:08); title: Full moon hot sun (4:21); title: Sugar bowl (3:01); title: This is the day (7:58); title: Keep on rubbing (4:59); title: Be your dog (7:45); title: Sweet Georgia Brown (4:44); title: Abba zaba (3:26); title: Peaches (6:51); title: Peaches (encore) (5:48); title: disc 3 (76 min.). Nowdays a woman's gotta hit a man (4:03); title: Abba zaba (3:10); title: Hot head (4:14); title: Ashtray heart (3:16); title: Dirty blue jean (3:41); title: Best batch yet (5:13); title: A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond (2:14); title: Doctor Dark (2:58); title: Bat chain puller (5:45); title: Sheriff of Hong Kong (6:46); title: Kandy korn (4:51); title: Big eyed beans from Venus (5:34); title: When Big Joan sets up (6:18); title: Woe-is-uh-me-bop (2:23); title: Bellerin' plain (3:48); title: Orange claw hammer (4:19); title: Hot head (3:41); title: Ashtray heart (3:45).