Captain Beefheart vs Steely Dan - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Satoshi48 wrote:

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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

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Beefheart, no contest. Never liked Steely Dan, I think those two are really different animals.

Love both bands immensely..but I’d give the slight edge to the Captain.
Anyways these two are perhaps the perfect opposites. Sort of like Nivea handcreme vs the sandpaper ashtray.

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moshkito wrote:

I don't dislike SD ... it was a band for the hip, the cool, and the stony girls that thought they were growing up enough to spend their time with a man! And the little pipe that went around was a lot of fun, for the girls of course. It was, by then, just a commercial enterprise ... and not anything else ... yeah, yeah ...

You can have your SD ... and go smoke it, of course ... no sense wasting some good fun deals from the band

Your stereotype is wrong and disturbing. Would you say Captain is for those youth who drop acid on a daily basis?

SD for me and I was neither hip, cool, or female.

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

moshkito wrote:

I don't dislike SD ... it was a band for the hip, the cool, and the stony girls that thought they were growing up enough to spend their time with a man! And the little pipe that went around was a lot of fun, for the girls of course. It was, by then, just a commercial enterprise ... and not anything else ... yeah, yeah ...

You can have your SD ... and go smoke it, of course ... no sense wasting some good fun deals from the band

Your stereotype is wrong and disturbing. Would you say Captain is for those youth who drop acid on a daily basis?
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The time that SD was there, specially in Southern California was more "bent" and "weird" and "odd" than you probably can imagine ... I thought it was fine, and certainly better than the crap that the Strip was playing in so many places that was really boring and poor ... at least SD was a great band!

And catching one show in Santa Barbara, made you want to say ... never again ... with the band also taking tokes from the various items that the "guests" in the first row were offering. It's a wonder that they all didn't get busted but in those days it was hip'r to go after Pink Floyd fans, than SD fans!

Please remember that all times, and places, have their "disturbing" this and that ... and I think that you are looking at the band, and placing them on a small pedestal, and I'm not sure that is wise.

When I saw the Captain btw, almost no one in the audience was stoned, and outside, you could smell the clean air ... so your comment is rather off in my experience. I never really thought that the Captain was about drugs ... and it is strange that he is thought of as such, when he was known to talk bad about a lot of drugs ... specially when he came from an area that had so many drugs around ... and him and FZ were probably the first ones to make sure they didn't bother with it and had a better reason to avoid it.

Even stranger that a man would have to resort to "drugs" when he knew he was an artist, and then quit music altogether to continue his life as a painter ... and a successful one at that! I'm not sure that you need to be ripped up in drugs to do what he did in song, or canvas ... it was the same person!

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Captain Beefheart all the way for me. Trout Mask Replica is a pinnacle of human abstract artistic presentation. Absolutely transcendental and timeless; I have an imported version in the mail on the way as we speak!

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Squonk19 wrote:

Steely Dan - superb catalogue. Never got into Captain Beefheart (and I have tried to see what the fuss was all about)

Ditto for me......

For those who don't get Beefheart....put Clear Spot on...and crank up the volume.

I do think some of his albums are too esoteric....those who rave about Trout Mask must have been a bit wasted when they first heard it.

ps...please don't throw any trout masks at me...

Edited by dr wu23 - February 12 2020 at 10:10

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