FRANK FREEMAN'S DANCE CLUB

Repress of the long sold out Record store Day LP. Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl LP on purple wax with gatefold sleeve. One of the highlights of Captain Beefhearts 1968 tour of the UK was the concert at Frank Freemans Dance Club in Kidderminster. Fortunately legendary DJ John Peel brought his tape recorder and recorded four brilliant numbers from the show which appear on this album along with four other tracks from that era. Pride of place on the front cover of the LP goes to one of the recently discovered 1968 screen printed posters for the Frank Freemans Beefheart show. With Beefheart coming from a country where band names like Quicksilver Messenger Service and Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen were de rigeur, when Peel told Captain Beefheart he was driving him to a concert venue in Kidderminster called Frank Freemans Dance Club, Beefheart said quot;What a groovy namequot; thinking it was in the same hippy west coast vibe as the aforementioned bands. Peel explained it wasnt a groovy name but simply a Dance Club run by Frank Freeman.