ZOOT HORN ROLLO
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"LUNAR NOTES: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience"
by BILL HARKLEROAD (Zoot Horn Rollo) SAF Books 1998 ISBN 09467 19217
MALLARD was formed by BILL HARKLEROAD (Zoot Horn Rollo) and MARK BOSTON
(Rockette Morton) who were vital MAGIC BAND musicians playing with CAPTAIN
BEEFHEART from 1968 through 1974, along with master percussionist ARTIE TRIPP
(Ed Marimba). In 1974, that trio departed from Don Van Vliet to record an
eponymous album in
MALLARD: Males have green head, white neck ring, and cinnamon chest. Female is brown-streaked, Both sexes have purple-iridescent wing patch bordered by white. The best known duck. Has a resounding, classical "quack". Many barnyard ducks are domesticated versions of Mallard. Can take off almost vertically from water. Lays 10 to 15 eggs in down-lined nest on ground, usually concealed by vegetation. The ducks feed on submerged vegetation by paddling with their webbed feet to keep head down and tail up. This is called dabbling.
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The following CREDITS were left off the 1994 MALLARD CD
CREDITS from
L: = lyrics and M: = music and Inst. = Instrumental
MALLARD (P) 1975 Virgin Records Ltd. [V 2045]
Produced by Bill Harkleroad & Robin Black
Bill Harkleroad: Acoustic & Electric Guitars
Mark Boston: Bass Guitar (vocals "Winged Tuskadero")
Art Tripp III: Drums, Percussion & Marimba
Sam Galpin: Vocals (piano "Desperadoes...")
John "Rabbit" Bundrick: Fender Rhodes Piano ("One Day..."
"A Piece..." "Reign...")
Barry Morgan: Latin Percussion "Reign..."
Side One
Back On The Pavement (
She's Long And She's Lean (
Road
One Day Once (
Yellow (
Desperadoes Waiting For A Train (
Side Two
A Piece Of Me (
Reign Of Pain (
South Of The Valley (
Winged Tuskadero (
Peon (
IN A DIFFERENT CLIMATE (P) 1976 Virgin Records Ltd. [V 2077]
Produced by Robert John Lange [Released 1977 in
Bill Harkleroad: Guitars
John Thomas: Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Sam Galpin: Vocals
Mark Boston: Bass Guitar; Dobro (vocals "Old Man Grey")
George Draggota: drums;
John McFee pedal steel guitar "Harvest"
Side One
Green Coyote (
Your Face On Someone Else (
Harvest (
Mama Squeeze (
Side Two
Heartstrings (
Old Man Grey LM:
Texas Weather (
Big Foot (
[end of credits]
Virgin Records Ltd. has released a 72 Minute CD by the group MALLARD, with former musicians from Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. Their debut 1975 album "Mallard" and their second and final album from 1976 "In A Different Climate" are on one CD.
Beginning in 1968, both guitarist Bill Harkleroad (a.k.a. Zoot Horn Rollo) and bassist Mark Boston (a.k.a. Rockette Morton) played with Captain Beefheart from 1969's "Trout Mask Replica" album through 1974's disastrous "Unconditionally Guaranteed" album that caused the Magic Band to quit, after Don Van Vliet (a.k.a. Captain Beefheart) hired outside producers who ruined the exciting basic tracks with lame overdubs. Drummer Art Tripp, who only appears on the first Mallard album, played with Frank Zappa and was known as Ed Marimba while he was a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band.
On "In A Different Climate", George Draggota takes over on drums and John Thomas plays keyboards. The vocalist on both albums is Sam Galpin. Mallard features great guitar playing (especially incredible slide guitar) by Bill Harkleroad, who arranged most of the music and who wrote a good portion of both albums. Another Magic Band member, John French (a.k.a. Drumbo), wrote some of the first Mallard album.
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, a Magic Band fan, financed their first album
which resulted in their signing with Virgin Records UK. The first Mallard album
was only available in
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