Jeff DeMark: After hanging out at the club somehow we made it over to a Howard Johnson Hotel across the street. The photo on the cover was taken by Hank Grebe, an artist friend from Madison who had come down with my brother Mike and I. I'm the one in the middle writing something down and my brother Mike is sitting next to the soda machine. A English roadie and Beefheart sat with us all night on the floor near the soda machines talking all night long, until maybe 6am. Captain Beefheart was continually sketching in a large sketchbook, smoking cigarettes, and simply conversing. My brother Mike had a tape recorder and was playing various tapes, some by New Orleans artists I think.
Mike DeMark: Later, Beefheart invited us back to his hotel, and we spent most of the night sitting on the floor in the hallway, talking. I remember playing him a tape of the great, crazy New Orleans pianist, James Booker, who he had never heard before. He was pretty blown away by Booker's playing, but at one point he said, "Aha, he tipped his hand there." We asked what he meant by that, but he just repeated that he showed his hand. Thereafter, he seemed a little less impressed with James Booker.