Goons To Play Beefheart Party
Rediscovered avant-garde rockers the Memphis Goons are scheduled
to play the record-release party for the Captain Beefheart five-CD box
set, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Grow Fins, Rarities 1965-
1982 (Revenant, May 18). The May 8 show, at the 33 Degrees record store
in Austin, Texas, will be only the third time the Goons, whose mid-'70s home
recordings were unreleased until three years ago, have ever played live.
"They're the logical choice," Revenant co-owner Dean Blackwood said. "They're
not trying to be like the Magic Band; they're a garage band with odd accents."