The original Bat Chain Puller

Infobox Album
Name = The original Bat Chain Puller
Type = compilation
Longtype = (Bootleg)
Artist = Captain Beefheart

Released = Unreleased
Recorded = 1976
Genre = Rock
Avant-garde

Length = 59:09
Label =
Producer =
Last album = "Bongo Fury"
(1975)
This album = "The original Bat Chain Puller"
(1976)
Next album = "Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)" (1978)

"The original Bat Chain Puller" is a non-official album by Captain Beefheart, from material recorded during the years 1975-76. The album appears in various versions under different titles, such as "The Original Bat Chain Puller + Paris 1972", "Original 1976 Shiny Beast Version", "Bat Chain Puller - The 1976 Sessions", "Dust Sucker", and more.

Track listing of the version "Bat Chain Puller - The 1976 Sessions"

#"Bat Chain Puller" - 4:57
#"Seam Crooked Sam" - 3:05
#"Harry Irene" - 3:15
#"A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond" - 1:38
#"Brick Bats" - 4:20
#"Floppy Boot Stomp" - 3:58
#"Flavor Bud Living" - 1:45
#"Carson City (aka Owed T'Alex)" - 3:12
#"Odd Jobs" - 5:07
#"The 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole" - 5:44
#"The Witch Doctor Life" - 2:00
#"Candle Mambo #1" - 3:30
#"Candle Mambo #2" - 3:26
#"Run Paint Run Run" - 4:01
#"Suction Prints" - 4:34
#"When I See A Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy" - 4:44

Personnel

*Captain Beefheart - vocals
*Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar
*Denny Walley - guitar
*John Thomas - keyboards
*John French - drums

External links

* [http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/albums/boots/bcp.htm Discography] at the Captain Beefheart Radar Station