CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & MAGIC BAND Diddy Wah Diddy (MEGA RARE 1971 UK 4-track ADVANCED PROMOTIONAL 7" vinyl EP featuring the original Mono recordings from the bands legendary David Gates [Bread] produced A&M sessions, and, wait for it...The band's superb guitar crunching, bass slugging, howlin' blues rendition of the late, great Gunslinger's DIDDY WAH DIDDY! The holy grail for Beefheart collectors; this EP has survived 38 years of resisted temptation to spin a true piece of raw Van Vliet genius. Backed with the earlier non-LP recordings Frying Pan, Who Do You Think You're Fooling and the Gates-penned Moonchild. Clearly mis-credited, John French is listed as the drummer on these tracks where infact he hadn't joined til after the recording session and Alex Snouffer takes the drumming credit around this time! It's not just about the great [I mean REALLY GREAT] music on this hard-to-find record, it comes complete with an oddity in itself, the original picture sleeve! In stunning condition it depicts a pattern of baggy clothed men with arms in the air and a rainbow shaped Diddy Wah Diddy over their heads. This piece of rock history has a machine-stamped matrix on the run off groove of the MINT vinyl, so this is THE real deal AME600)