CAPT. BEEFHEART
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Topic: CAPT. BEEFHEART
Posted By: DallasBryan
Subject: CAPT. BEEFHEART
Date Posted: January 17 2005 at 22:13
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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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Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: January 17 2005 at 22:18
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I'd also call him original, daring, and plain amazing along with challenging intriguing awesome artistic and abstract
------------- "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 |
Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: January 17 2005 at 22:18
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Now, is this just a poll out of curiousity? ------------- "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 |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 06:35
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He's so progressive that the rest of the music world still hasn't caught up with where he was nearly 40 years ago. ------------- '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 |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 07:42
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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/ - http://www.garylucas.com/ |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 08:05
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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. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 10:58
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^ Agreed, the man is beyond classification IMO. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 11:37
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I had a boa constrictor that went nutz when I played "Ex-centrifgul forz" from Zappa. I think it was the killer bass line. |
DallasBryan wrote:
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 18:29
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Fast n Bulbous! i think he is all of those things on the poll and more, a true innovator of genre ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 19:41
 ^ YAY!------------- "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 |
Posted By: zappa123
Date Posted: January 20 2005 at 10:51
| He is like good old Frankie boy somehow. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 20 2005 at 12:00
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They went to the same school.......... |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: January 20 2005 at 12:09
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a friend of mine saw him on concert recently and it was pathetic
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 20 2005 at 13:17
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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. |
Posted By: Nizzy
Date 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. |
Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: January 21 2005 at 03:11
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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. |
