FRANK ZAPPA/CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - BONGO FURY LP - ORIGINAL UK WHITE LABEL TEST PRESSING WITH ORIGINAL (UK) PICTURE SLEEVE (K 59209). Virtually non-existent original UK white label test pressing of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart's famous May 1975 concerts in Austin, Texas. This copy is amazingly complete with the original UK printing picture sleeve; it is thought that very few copies of this were ever produced. The record (blank white labels, machine stamped matrix: K59209 A1 & B1) is in exceptional Ex+ condition showing only a couple of extremely fine, faint and wispy paper marks. The sleeve (with printed UK catalogue number K 59209) is in VG condition showing some creasing though no rips, tears or seam splits. In his article Great Concerts Revisited: Captain Beefheart, London 1975, Stuart Penney stated:
"Never the shrewdest businessman, in 1974 Beefheart had somehow managed to sign contracts with more than one record label at the same time, causing all kinds of legal problems. Consequently, Virgin records blocked the British release of Bongo Fury which appeared in America and elsewhere on Zappa's own DiscReet label through Warner Bros.
"The album was allocated a UK Warner Bros catalogue number (K59209) and was even pictured with this number on music press tour ads, before Virgin called the lawyers in and the British release was cancelled. UK white label test pressings do exist, but that's as far as it got. US copies were easily found in the London import stores, but Bongo Fury was not officially released in the UK until the CD era many years later."
More information on the release can be found via these links: https://andnowitsallthis.blogspot.com/2023/11/great-concerts-revisited-captain.html#:~:text=The%20first%20time%20I%20heard,presented%20an%20imposing%2C%20shamanistic%20figure.
https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Bongo_Fury.html
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