Least good anthology boxset thingy

but the bonus CD is good as its got the long version of

on it and they played that on a loop at the Saville exhibition and now it will always remind me of those sleeves.

HS

The beefheart revenant one, I waited for a cheap one on e=bay for a long time, now I have it and it was fine for the price of it. It's a companion/fanfixated version of the "dust blows forward" one.

It never made any claim to be in any way representative and was only ever intended for sad Beefheart obesssives; hence it was never going to sell in significant numbers and hence it was always going to have to be expensive by definition (especially since they also released it on vinyl).

Not producing the video footage in DVD format frankly was a bit of a dumb decision and it's a shame Gail Zappa didn't let them have any of the original Bat Chain Puller recordings or outtakes that they were after (especially Don and Denny Walley jamming "Hobosim" in the studio!).

Apart from that 'though, it doesn't duplicate anything that was - or was then expected to become - legitimately available (hence none of the Decals outtakes that Rhino were supposed to be including with the re-released 2CD version of the album which the cocksuckers STILL haven't done anything about completing) so I think your verdict's a bit harsh.

Personally I already had pretty much all of it's contents on tapes etc. but I thought it was worth the price just to have it on CD and for the bits I didn't already have (which was basically "Obeah Man", "Just Got Back From The City" and "Triple Combination"); but then, of course, I am one of those sad Beefheart obsessives at whom it was targeted!