His Magic Band* – Grow Fins Vol. II: Trout Mask House Sessions

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Label:	Table Of The Elements – Sb 51
Format:	2 x Vinyl , LP, Album
Country:	US
Released:	Sep 1999
Genre:	Blues
Style:	Experimental

Tracklist

	Side 5
A1	Untitled 1	4:59
A2	Untitled 2	8:18
A3	Hair Pie: Bake 1	5:04
A4	Hair Pie: Bake 2	2:44
A5	Untitled 5	1:04
	Side 6
B1	Hobo Chang Ba	2:02
B2	Untitled 7	1:57
B3	Hobo Chang Ba (Take 2)	3:08
B4	Dachau Blues	2:06
B5	Old Fart At Play	1:23
B6	Untitled 11	1:01
B7	Pachuco Cadaver	4:08
B8	Sugar N Spikes	2:40
B9	Untitled 14	1:00
	Side 7
C1	Sweet Sweet Bulbs	2:30
C2	Frownland (Take 1)	2:51
C3	Frownland	1:52
C4	Untitled 18	1:10
C5	Ella Guru	2:33
C6	Untitled 20	0:08
C7	She’s Too Much For My Mirror	1:30
C8	Untitled 22	0:35
C9	Steal Softly Through Snow	2:22
C10	Untitled 24	1:51
C11	My Human Gets Me Blues	2:53
C12	Untitled 26	1:05
	Side 8
D1	When Big Joan Sets Up	4:32
D2	Untitled 28	0:04
D3	Untitled 29	0:56
D4	China Pig Guitar – Doug Moon	4:14
D5	Blimp (Storytime)	5:09
D6	Herb (Storytime)	1:06
D7	Septic Tank (Storytime)	0:51
D8	Overdub (Storytime)	5:26

Companies, etc.

Copyright © – Don Van Vliet
Copyright © – Revenant
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Revenant
Copyright © – Xeric
Recorded At – The Magic Band House
Engineered At – Gravelvoice Studios
Edited At – Airshow Mastering, Boulder, CO
Mastered At – Airshow Mastering, Boulder, CO
Engineered At – Griffin Mastering
Designed At – Chunklet Graphic Control
Designed At – World Of anArchie

Credits

Art Direction – Jeff Hunt
Bass – Mark Boston (tracks: A1 to D3)
Bass Clarinet – Victor Hayden (tracks: A1 to D8)
Composed By [All Compositions] – Don Van Vliet
Design, Layout – Susan Archie
Drums – John French (tracks: A1 to D3)
Engineer – Scott Colburn
Graphics [Photo Magic] – Sue Pie
Guitar – Jeff Cotton (tracks: A1 to D3)
Layout [Additional] – Henry H. Owings
Liner Notes – John French
Mastered By, Edited By – Dave Glasser*
Photography By, Cover [Front And Back] – Ed Caraeff
Photography By, Illustration [Inside Spread] – Cal Schenkel
Vocals, Soprano Saxophone – Don Van Vliet (tracks: A1 to D8)

Notes

A limited pressing (possibly 3,000) of audiophile vinyl, Vol II of a three volume roll-out release with 2 discs numbered accordingly as 5 to 8. Ivory labels with sepia text/images, sides 6 and 8 have only numbers and graphics, sides 5 and 7 have track lists for respective sides.
Discs in plain white liners with large radius corners and center punch-holes.

Gatefold sleeve in full-color with gold text title print, inserted with 24-page libretto [printed bronze] and poster [printed gold].
Back logo, gold on white: "51 121.757 Sb Antimony"

All tracks appear on the earlier CD set & are previously unreleased officially on vinyl.

All compositions
© Don Van Vliet
©℗ 1999 John Fahey's Revenant, under license from various owners.
This release © 1999 Xeric.

Xeric and Table Of The Elements
P.O. Box 8172 Atlanta, Georgia 31106 USA

Back cover (with artist credits):
All tracks recorded on 5" reel Uher stereo tape recorder at the Magic Band house on Ensenada Drive in Woodland Hills, CA.
(To eliminate extras and approximate Trout Mask Replica as released, listen as follows:
C3, B4, C5, A3, B7, C1, D4, C11, A4, D1, B8, C7, B1, C9 and B5).
[Tracks D5 to D8 includes the "voice of 'The Lady Next Door', et al"].
[The back cover credits also include D4 for all musicians, although only Moon and Vliet perform it]

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Scanned): 600401097014
Barcode (Text): 6 00401 09701 4
Matrix / Runout (Side 5 runout, hand-etched): XER - LP-97 SIDE 5 3202 . 5 (3) SRM
Matrix / Runout (Side 6 runout, hand-etched): XER- LP- 97 SIDE - 6 3202 . 6 (3) SRM
Matrix / Runout (Side 7 runout, hand-etched): XER-LP- 97 SIDE 7 SRM 3202 . 7 (3)
Matrix / Runout (Side 8 runout, hand-etched): XER - LP - 97 SIDE 8 3202 . 8 (3)

Other Versions (5 of 8)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Grow Fins Vol. I: Just Got Back From The City / Electricity (2×LP, Album)	Table Of The Elements	XER-LP-98, Sn 50	US	1999
	Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982) (4×CD, , CD, Enhanced, Box Set, Album)	Revenant	Revenant 210	US	1999
Recently Edited	Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-82) (CD, Promo, Sampler)	Revenant	none	US	1999
Recently Edited	Grow Fins Vol. II: Trout Mask House Sessions (2×LP, Album, Promo, White Label)	Table Of The Elements	XER-LP- 97, Sb 51	US	1999
New Submission	Grow Fins Vol. II: Trout Mask House Sessions (LP, Album, Test Pressing)	Xeric	XER-LP 97 5/6	US	1999