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DallasBryan
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Topic: CAPT. BEEFHEART Posted: January 17 2005 at 22:13 |
how would you categorize him?
my cockatoo likes him! Tweety bobs his head up and
down erractically every time I turn him on. The
Spotlight Kid, is the CD I keep it along with a few
others for Tweety's performances.
If Beefhearts prog then I aint got no problem with
Radiohead!
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aqualung28
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 22:18 |
I'd also call him original, daring, and plain amazing along with challenging intriguing awesome artistic and abstract
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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aqualung28
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 22:18 |
Now, is this just a poll out of curiousity?
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 06:35 |
He's so progressive that the rest of the music world still hasn't caught up with where he was nearly 40 years ago.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Dick Heath
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 07:42 |
Beefheart's former roadie and (sometime) last lead guitarist Gary Lucas's latest Beefheart project is released by Cuneiform on 25th January: Fast'n'Bulbous. This is the follow up to the greatly acclaimed, Van Vliet approved and reformed Magic Band's Back To The Front album, released about 18 months ago.
http://www.garylucas.com/
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Man Erg
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 08:05 |
There's Captain Beefheart and then there's everything else.
Music? He played the gaps inbetween the notes
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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sigod
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 10:58 |
^ Agreed, the man is beyond classification IMO.
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 11:37 |
DallasBryan wrote:
my cockatoo likes him! Tweety bobs his head up and down erractically every time I turn him on. |
I had a boa constrictor that went nutz when I played "Ex-centrifgul forz" from Zappa. I think it was the killer bass line.
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frenchie
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 18:29 |
Fast n Bulbous! i think he is all of those things on the poll and more, a true innovator of genre
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The Worthless Recluse
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aqualung28
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Posted: January 18 2005 at 19:41 |
^ YAY!
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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zappa123
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 10:51 |
He is like good old Frankie boy somehow.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 12:00 |
zappa123 wrote:
He is like good old Frankie boy somehow. |
They went to the same school..........
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oliverstoned
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 12:09 |
a friend of mine saw him on concert recently and it was pathetic
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Dick Heath
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 13:17 |
oliverstoned wrote:
a friend of mine saw him on concert recently and it was pathetic
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Bemusing statement.
As far as I know Capt Beefheart hasn't performed since approx 1983 when he retired to the Mojave Desert to become a full time painter. If you want to hear the real Beefheart live, check a couple of tracks on Gary Lucas's Improving the Shining Hour (Knitting Factory Records) and the strangely put together Mersey Trout (recorded in Liverpool on his last UK tour) - or many of the boots floating about.
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Nizzy
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 16:33 |
All I know is that I've never heard anything like Trout Mask. When you're in the mood it's fantastic, if not I've seen it last 10 minutes on the stereo before being replaced by something else. As a result I've heard Frownland about 60 times and Veterans Day Poppy about 10! The Dust Blows Forwards 2-CD compilation from a few years ago is highly recommended for virgins. RIP John Peel, who got me into Don by playing Lick My Decals Off, Baby very late one night about 20 years ago.
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Paco Fox
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 03:11 |
I recently listened 'Trout Mask Replica' and the previous record, and saw this is the kind of prog I just can't take. I can appreciate his work for being daring, but it is just annoying. I came to prog looking for emotion, but this only can be described as 'interesting', 'funny' or as good as a bad joke told while drunk. Wich I guess was part of the state of this guy when he recorded that thing.
No, let the attacks begin.
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