tracks

Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Doctor Dark
I Love You, You Big Dummy
Peon
Bellerin' Plain
Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
Japan In A Dishpan
I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
Petrified Forest
One Red Rose That I Mean
The Buggy Boogie Woogie
The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig)
Space-Age Couple
The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye)
Flash Gordon's Ape
I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
White Jam
Blabber 'N Smoke
When It Blows It Stacks
Alice In Blunderland
The Spotlight Kid
Click Clack
Grow Fins
There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage
Glider
Low Yo Yo Stuff
Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
Too Much Time
Circumstances
My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
Sun Zoom Spark
Clear Spot
Crazy Little Thing
Long Neck Bottles
Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Golden Birdies
Alice In Blunderland (Alternate Version)
Harry Irene
I Can't Do This Unless I Can Do This / Seam Crooked Sam
Pompadour Swamp / Suction Prints
The Witch Doctor Life
Two Rips In A Haystack / Kiss Me My Love
Best Batch Yet (Track) Version 1
Your Love Brought Me To Life (Instrumental)
Dirty Blue Gene (Alternate Version 1)
Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (Early Mix)
Kiss Where I Kain't
Circumstances (Alternate Version 2)
Little Scratch
Dirty Blue Gene (Alternate Version 3)

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Sticker On The Plastic Wrap:
"Limited Edition, 180g 4-LP Box Set
Features The Studio Albums 'Lick My Decals Off, Baby', 'The Spotlight Kid', 'Clear Spot'
Cut From The Original Analog Masters
Plus An LP Of Previously Unreleased Outtakes & Rarities, Liner Notes By Rip Rense & Artwork By Don Van Vliet"

Here Are Some More Details:
LP 1: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band), Comes With Black Inner Sleeve, Orange Label, Reprise Records R1 6420 / 8122786846
LP 2: The Spotlight Kid (Captain Beefheart), Comes With White Inner Sleeve & Lyric Sheet, Orange Label, Reprise Records R1-2050 / 0348781110
LP 3: Clear Spot (Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band), Comes With White Inner Sleeve & Cover Sheet, Housed In A Plastic Cover (no regular cover), Backside Of Cover Sheet Has Tracklist And Credits Written On It, Orange Label, Reprise Records R1-2115 / 8122786845
LP 4: Out-Takes "Art Is Rearranging And Grouping Mistakes" (Captain Beefheart), Comes With Black Inner Sleeve, Black Label, White Letters, R1 541728 / 8122795862 Manufactured in EU.

Box set:
October 1970: Lick My Decals Off, Baby
February 1972: The Spotlight Kid
November 1972: Clear Spot
1970 to 1972: Out-Takes
(p) & (c) 2014 Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company.

Lick My Decals Off, Baby:
Produced for God's Golfball Productions
(c) 1970 by Beefheart Music Co. - BMI
(p) & (c) 1970 - Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Manufactured in EU.
Recorded in summer 1970 at United Recording Corporation, Hollywood
First cat.# on the sleeve, spine and labels; second cat.# on the front cover; third cat.# on the labels.
Published by Sony / ATV / EMI Music except "Japan in a Dishpan" copyright control
No insert included

The Spotlight Kid:
Produced for God's Golf Ball Productions
(p) & (c) 1972 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Manufactured in EU.
First cat.# on the sleeve, spine and labels; second cat.# on the labels.
Published by Sony / ATV / EMI Music
Lyrics insert included

Clear Spot:
A God's Golf Ball Production
Published by Green Bump Music, Inc. (BMI)
(p) & (c) 1972 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Manufactured in EU.
First cat.# on the sleeve and labels; second cat.# on the labels.
Published by Sony / ATV / EMI Music.
Housed in a clear plastic wallet without the 'Clear Spot' logo embossed on the flap. Within this is a 2-sided white card insert with black & white print - photo on front, credits on reverse.

Out-Takes:
All previously unissued
(p) and (c) 2014 Rhino Entertainment Company
Published and (c) by Singin Ink Music (BMI) except: "Alice in Blunderland", "Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man" and "Circumstances" by Sony / ATV / EMI Music.
G1 to G5: from the Kid sessions, July 1971
G5 to H1: from the Kid sessions, August 25, 1971
H2: from the Kid sessions, September 6, 1971
H3: from the Clear Spot sessions, September 10, 1971
H4: from the Clear Spot sessions, July 13, 1972
H5: from the Clear Spot sessions, September 10, 1972
H6, H7: August 1972

Includes 20 page booklet.

credits

Artwork By, Cover [Box, Out-Takes] – Don Van Vliet
Backing Vocals – Blackberries, The, (tracks: E1 to F6)
Bass – Oréjon (tracks: E1 to F6)
Bass Guitar [Bassus Ophelius] – Rockette Morton (tracks: C1 to D5)
Bells [Jingle] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: C1 to D5)
Drums – Drumbo (tracks: C1 to D5), Ed Marimba (tracks: C1 to F6), Rhys Clark (tracks: C1 to D5), Ted Cactus (tracks: C1 to D5)
Guitar – Winged Eel Fingerling (tracks: C1 to D5)
Guitar [Solo], Mandolin – Zoot Horn Rollo (tracks: E1 to F6)
Lacquer Cut By – Chris Bellman
Liner Notes – Rip Rense
Maracas, Piano, Harpsichord – Ed Marimba (tracks: C1 to D5)
Mixed By – Brian Kehew (tracks: G1 to H7)
Other [Wings On Singabus] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: E1 to F6)
Percussion – Ed Marimba (tracks: E1 to F6)
Percussion [Additional] – Milt Holland (tracks: E1 to F6)
Producer [For Release] – Bill Inglot, Steve Woolard
Remastered By – Dan Hersch
Rhythm Guitar – Rockette Morton (tracks: E1 to F6)
Slide Guitar [Glass Finger And Steel Appendage Guitar] – Zoot Horn Rollo (tracks: C1 to F6)
Vocals, Harmonica – Captain Beefheart (tracks: C1 to F6)
Written-By, Arranged By – Don Van Vliet
Arranged By [Horns] – Don Van Vliet (tracks: E2, F3), Jerry Jumonville (tracks: E3), Ted Templeman (tracks: E2, F3)
Art Direction, Design [Box Set] – Lisa Glines
Artwork [Art Production] – Patrick Tempest
Artwork [Cover Drawing: Out-takes / Liner Illustrations: Spotlight Kid] – Don Van Vliet
Backing Vocals – The Blackberries, (tracks: E1 to F6)
Bass – Mark "Rockette Morton" Boston, (tracks: A1 to B8), Oréjon (tracks: E1 to F6), Rockette Morton (tracks: F6)
Bass [Bassus Ophelius] – Rockette Morton (tracks: C1 to D5)
Co-producer, Engineer – Phil Schier (tracks: C1 to D5)
Compilation Producer [Produced For Release] – Bill Inglot, Steve Woolard
Design [Clear Spot] – John And Barbara Casado
Drums – Drumbo (tracks: C1 to D5), John "Drumbo" French, (tracks: A1 to B8), Rhys Clark (tracks: C1 to D5), Ted Cactus (tracks: C1 to D5)
Drums, Other [Tattoos], Percussion – Ed Marimba (tracks: E1 to F6)
Engineer – Donn Landee (tracks: E1 to F6)
Guitar – Russ Titelman (tracks: E3), Winged Eel Fingerling (tracks: C1 to D5)
Guitar [Glass Finger Guitar], Lap Steel Guitar [Steel Appendage Guitar] – Zoot Horn Rollo (tracks: C1 to F6)
Guitar, Music Consultant [Music Assistant] – Bill "Zoot Horn Rollo" Harkleroad, (tracks: A1 to B8)
Lacquer Cut By – ᶜB,
Lead Guitar [Solo], Mandolin – Zoot Horn Rollo (tracks: E1 to F6)
Liner Notes – Rip Rense
Liner Notes [Poem] – Tom Waits
Management [Product Management & Marketing] – Doran Tyson, Jason Elzy, Kate Haffenden
Management [Project Assistance] – Chris Bagarozzi, Donna DeChristopher, Fatima Budica, Mike Johnson,
Marimba, Piano, Harpsichord, Drums – Ed Marimba (tracks: C1 to D5)
Mixed By – Brian Kehew (tracks: G1 to H7)
Other [Project Inspired By] – Tim Fraser-Harding
Painting [Box Cover & Lick My Decals Off, Baby Back Cover] – Don Van Vliet
Percussion [Additional] – Milt Holland (tracks: E1 to F6)
Percussion, Marimba – Arthur Dyer Tripp III, (tracks: A1 to B8)
Photography [Book Back Cover & p. 13] – Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives
Photography By [Artwork] – Douglas M. Parker,
Photography By [Book Cover & Back Cover] – Ginny Winn
Photography By [Clear Spot] – Jim McCrary
Photography By [Lick My Decals Off, Baby; The Spotlight Kid; Clear Spot], Art Direction [Lick My Decals Off, Baby; The Spotlight Kid; Clear Spot] – Ed Thrasher
Producer – Captain Beefheart (tracks: A1 to D6), Ted Templeman (tracks: E1 to F6)
Producer, Arranged By – Don Van Vliet (tracks: C1 to D5)
Production Manager [Production Supervision] – Grant Gibbs (tracks: A1 to B8)
Remastered By – Dan Hersch
Rhythm Guitar – Rockette Morton (tracks: E1 to F6)
Supervised By [Editorial Supervision] – Reggie Collins
Supervised By [Package Supervision] – Kate Dear
Vocals, Harmonica, Bells [Jingle Bells] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: C1 to D5)
Vocals, Harmonica, Other [Wings On Singabus] – Don Van Vliet (tracks: E1 to F6)
Written-By, Arranged By – Don Van Vliet

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rhino Entertainment Company
Copyright (c) – Rhino Entertainment Company
Pressed By – Record Industry – 99737
Remastered At – D2 Mastering
Mixed At – Timeless Recording Studio
Manufactured By – Rhino Entertainment Company
Marketed By – Rhino Entertainment Company
Record Company – Warner Music Group
Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Marketed By – Rhino Entertainment Company
Produced For – God's Golfball Productions
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rhino Entertainment Company
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Rhino Entertainment Company
Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Beefheart Music
Pressed By – Record Industry – 99737
Published By – Sony / ATV Music Publishing
Published By – Copyright Control
Published By – Singing Ink Music
Published By – EMI Music
Published By – Green Bump Music, Inc
Recorded At – United Recording Studios
Mixed At – Timeless Recording Studio
Remastered At – D2 Mastering

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