Trout Mask Replica - Personnel

Personnel

Musicians

• Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) – vocals, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, musette, simran horn, hunting horn, jingle bells

The Magic Band

• Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo) – "Glass Finger Guitar" (slide guitar using a glass slide), flute
• Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens) – "Steel Appendage Guitar" (slide guitar using a metal slide), vocals on "Pena" and "The Blimp"
• Victor Hayden (The Mascara Snake) – bass clarinet, additional vocals
• Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) – bass guitar, narration on "Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish" and "Old Fart At Play"
• John French (Drumbo) – drums, percussion (uncredited on the original release)

Additional personnel

• Doug Moon – guitar on "China Pig"
• Dick Kunc - speaking voice on "She's Too Much for My Mirror"(uncredited); engineer
• Gary "Magic" Marker – bass guitar on "Moonlight on Vermont", "Veteran's Day Poppy" (uncredited)
• Frank Zappa – speaking voice on "Ella Guru", "The Blimp", and "Pena"; credited as album producer
• Roy Estrada – bass guitar on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Arthur Tripp III – drums & percussion on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Don Preston – piano on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Ian Underwood and Bunk Gardner – alto and tenor saxophones on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Buzzed Gardner – trumpet on "The Blimp" (uncredited)