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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag... (RIP Captain Beefheart)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by vicd, Dec 17, 2010.

  1. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    Owned Trout Mask album. Couldn't get into it. I remember Joe Strummer loved the guy. That's about it.
     
  2. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Great thread title. I have to be in just the right mood to listen to Captain Beefheart, but he was definitely unique. RIP.
     
  3. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    Once he ordered two dozen sets of sleighbells for a recording session with zappa. When it was pointed out to him that there were only seven people at the session, and with each one holding a set of sleighbells in each hand, that still only accounted for 14 of them. When asked what they would do with the extra bells, Beefheart replied, ``We'll overdub them!''
    God bless the eccentrics!
     
  4. Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell

    Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell Active Member

    Safe as Milk is a really great album, everything else is kind of an acquired taste. Trout Mask Replica took at least four or five listens before it grew on me. Anyway, here's the guy in action. RIP.

     
  5. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Oddly compelling to watch a man with no singing talent and little artistic ability become a pop icon. Quite an interesting BBC documentary.
     
  6. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    The Leonard Cohen phenomenon: get a few hip fans, and others will follow, pretending hard that they "get it"
     
  7. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    Yeah, it took a few listens for me too. I'd latch on to the catchy riff parts here and there. Then it hit me like a collection of pop nuggets.
    Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) is also a really good record from the later years.

    It's nice to hear the Cap'n embrace synths. (sort of)
     
  8. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    Here's a really great tribute to the Captain from the day after he died.
    http://www.eastvillageradio.com/news/items.aspx?id=18756
    The DJ credits one of my old Gainesville bands as turning him on to Beefheart. I guess that makes me "hip"? Who knew?
     
  9. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    I guess I'm voting for Huntsman...
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/09/06/jon_huntsman_passes_the_captain_beefheart_test.html

    Slate: Do you have a particular favorite era of Beefheart?

    Huntsman: I'd have to say that I like Trout Mask Replica, which came out in '68, all the way through Bat Chain Puller -- I mean, they represent the diversity of Beefheart. I'm a fan of the really innovative spirit of Beefheart came with the Magic Band, and they really hit it off in '68.
     
  10. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member


    Do you know how this came up? I was a political reporter at one time...and never asked specifically about capt. beefheart....I am slightly in awe.
     
  11. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    So you're the one!
     
  12. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    Apparently Huntsman has tweeted about Beefheart before. He's just won the circa-1993 college record store clerk vote!
     
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