R.I.P. Captain Beefheart
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog News, Press Releases
Forum Description: Submit press releases, news , new releases, prog music news and other interesting things happening in the world of progressive music (featured in home and artist page)
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=74189
Printed Date: February 01 2025 at 21:56
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: R.I.P. Captain Beefheart
Posted By: bucka001
Subject: R.I.P. Captain Beefheart
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:10
|
You sure will be missed, Don. ------------- jc |
Replies:
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:16
Noooooooooooooooooo! 
Sigh...just saw the news myself. Terrible Terrible news. What a character...definitely a prog man to the bone.
He'll be missed for sure. Will have to have a marathon of his works sometime soon to commemorate.
RIP Capt. May you sail on forever. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:18
|
I just read the http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-20101217" rel="nofollow - news . Terrible loss. RIP Captain. You'll be sorely missed. ------------- Property of Queen Productions... 
|
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:18
BRB hanging myself 
|
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:21
|
I'm stunned and saddened to learn of this. There will never be another like Captain Beefheart. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:21
 ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:22
|
Sad news indeed RIP ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:24
|
WHAT? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! -------------   
|
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:31
|
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
You will be missed, Beefy. I finally understand why Trout Mask Replica is such a masterpiece. So long. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:41
|
R.I.P. May you be Fast and Bulbous in heaven. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:41
|
Aw, man! ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:41
|
He will be missed. RIP ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
|
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:42
That's right, the Mascara Snake, fast 'n' bulbous! RIP |
JJLehto wrote:Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:46
|
A sad loss indeed - the world has become a slightly more boring place. ------------- '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: snobb
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:52
| What a sad news! R.I.P. |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:56
|
I hate this f**king piece of sh*t planet. RIP - Captain ------------- 
|
Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:56
|
****, that's so sad. ------------- 
|
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 16:58
|
Sad. Like Frank he was a visionary. |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:02
|
The world lost a musical mastermind. R.I.P. Let's spin Trout Mask now on this sad midnight hour. ------------- 
|
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:03
|
Bloody hell, what's the world coming to?
In honor of a great man I'm going to play it FAST 'N' BULBOUS tonight! |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:24
|
R.I.P. - he will be missed. This has been such a bad year... so many great minds have passed away. ------------- 
Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Mushroom Sword
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:30
? Who? |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:38
|
At the very least, him and Leslie Nielsen.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
|
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:44
^ and Dio. 
-------------
Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:55
|
This is horrible news. A true artist in music and in painting.
R.I.P.
|
Posted By: Mushroom Sword
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:55
Good enough. Also, I think this might be a little offensive (and done very poorly and quickly) but:  |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:56
|
Oh sh*t. :( Unlike many of my avant colleagues I was never much of a fan, but he was a rare creative force. I wish he hadn't abandoned music for painting in the '80s.
------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Run Home Slow
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:58
|
Thank you Don, have a nice party with Frank... yeah, rock the sky!
------------- If you got ears, you gotta listen — Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 17:59
This. -------------  |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:04
| The blues will never be so worth listening to again |
Posted By: Xanatos
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:06
|
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:19
|
RIP. Trout Mask Replica will forever remain one of my favorite albums.
------------- 
|
Posted By: Xanatos
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:42
 In great memory |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:43
|
I only hope he went out making love to a vampire with a monkey on his knee. My first encounter was Bongo Fury, which also happened to be my first Zappa album. He added a really nice weird element to the album. I really like Doc At The Radar Station the best. I've had a copy of Trout Mask, but still can't get into that one. I got the debut Safe As Milk most recently and really liked it, too. I put this one on:
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
|
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:49
| I feel kinda guilty for saying this, but sometimes its an artist's death that will remind me to investigate that person's body of work. I've known about the Captain most of my life, but never bothered to listen. Now I'm curious to hear what I've been missing. |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:50
Another loss of an important musician.
|
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 18:59
| My sincere condolences to his family, friends, fans and everyone who knew him. A great loss to the music world. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:14
|
Don Van Vliet
1941-2010
only days before what would have been Zappa's 70th birthday -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:15
|
RIP!
|
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:24
|
Hi,
Yeah ... it is sad indeed.
In this day and age of nothing but commerciality, folks like him and Frank ... are so needed ...
I really can't blame him for telling music where to stuff it ... and show that one lives for the art of it all ... not anything else! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:43
|
Wasn't his biggest fan, but can't deny his originality and his influence on many avant prog artists then and now. RIP
|
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:49
|
I wonder if the Telephone got to him.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:55
Lmao -------------
|
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 19:57
|
I'm so drunk, I can't be sure if I imagined the last few posts or not, but lol anyway. -------------
|
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 20:20
| RIP. I never got into him for some reason. It's not really that I don't like his music as much as I've never really heard much of him. I need to explore him more I guess. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 20:28
This a very sad day indeed -------------  |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 20:33
|
Old fart no longer at play. /moment of silence ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 20:33
|
Now that my jaw is off the floor, I like to imagine that the Captain finally has grown fins, and taken up with a mermaid. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 21:03
|
Oh, didnt know this. Have nothing from him except for Zappa projects. He was a pioneer for sure! ------------- 
|
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 22:03
|
R.I.P
------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 17 2010 at 22:20
|
Wow that sucks. I'll honor him tomorrow with my listening. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Heathcliffe
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 03:02
|
Didn't hear that anywhere on the news - guess he wasn't mainstream enough.
R.I.P. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 03:08
|
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me? |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 03:12
|
I've already posted in the other thread, but I've decided to celebrate his work today by flooding all my internet haunts with choice morsels of his genius. Thus: |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 04:28
|
Very sad news. RIP.
------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Mladen_Serbia
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 08:13
|
R.I.P. A true genius... |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 08:14
|
RIP Don. On the up side, you'll be jamming with Zappa again now.
------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 08:36
|
bye bye Donald liked his tricky vocals and arrangements ...
------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 09:46
|
sad loss indeed, 'trout mask replica' is quite unique in the history of music. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 09:53
|
I will have ot get hold of Trout mask replica in honour of the man -------------
|
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 09:59
|
...as if god is putting some band together..
A very important musician, a cornerstone for the avant-garde scene. |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 11:06
|
Captain! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooeeessssss Those guys should be immortal! -------------  Pentagram Pizza YumYum Bloody 
|
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 11:17
|
so i guess Bongo Fury 2 is in the works? and will be released by Zappa Family Trust sometimes in the next couple of years? RIP ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
|
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 11:22
|
A huge RIP to an experimental musical genius. -------------  |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 15:18
| RIP Captain |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 20:38
| Don's last album was released in 1982, yet people still regularly mention and discuss him. Don't worry guys, his legacy isn't going anywhere. He'll rightly be remembered for decades to come. RIP Don. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 21:04
|
I forget just how unfathomably creative this man was until I listen sometimes. It's just hard to believe. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 22:32
Ain't that the case. I've listened to much of his music last night that I haven't heard in a while (particularly some more obscure Trout Mask tracks) and I'm still in awe, 40 years down the road. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 22:50
|
First Dio, now Don
------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: December 18 2010 at 23:41
|
This is horrible to hear. You will be missed, Don. ------------- 
Would you like some Bailey's? |
Posted By: JethroZappa
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 04:29
|
Sleep well, captain
------------- "I hope they all get an indigestion, I hope, hope, hope, hope, hope!" |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 05:48
|
My spirit's made up of the ocean And the sky 'n' the sun 'n' the moon 'n' all my eyes can see I cannot go back to your land of gloom Where black jagged shadows Remind me of the coming of your doom I want my own land Take my hand and come with me ------------- |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 06:09
Chris, I couldn't have put it better myself RIP Cap'n ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 07:03
He had a heart of beef. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
Posted By: sorcerer kermes
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 13:50
|
rip |
Posted By: Languagegeek
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:28
| I was left shocked and numb when I heard. I had just listened to Mirror Man, Clear Spot, and Safe as Milk the day before. We were all fortunate to walk the earth at the same time as an eternal artist such as he. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:55
|
Hi,
Warning: Headitorial/Soapbox Moment!
A lot of us here, have said some nice things about this ... and even from an outsider this is massively appreciated.
However, it is really strange to me to see some people say nice things, and I am not sure everyone knows, sees or understands, what it takes to be an original, and one that stood up for his music and eventually quit the music business because ...
The late 60's and then the 70's had a massive number of folks that were highly expressive, original, and ... sometimes the best description was ... off the wall!
It was a time that allowed people to experiment, to learn, and look for new things, unlike today, when even in a board like this one, there are so many that love to trash threads with trolling comments, and making comments that are NOT on par with the "experimenting" of that time, not to mention critical analysis of the work at hand today, and dismiss the good work, and good intent, of many of those people in the arts and some revellers that also appreciate the work.
So, if I may ask, when you take your hat off, for a Frank Zappa, or a Captain Beefheart ... please ... remember what the art and the artist's work stood for ... and how that is so missed today -- and not appreciated in this board ... by folks that continuously compare everything done today to how it was done yesterday ... 40 years ago or so ... and remember one very important thing ... music can't expand and go further, without those kind of people ... in the end it's not just about the notes, or another screaming voice, or screaming guitar ... it's about the artist ... that left an indelible stamp on us all ... because it was art ... not just music.
It's hard, at this moment, not to agree with Walter when he says music died in 1989 ... it doesn't give a Djam Karet and many other bands the dues they deserve, even today, but ... he has a massively important point to make and show ... that this commercially minded thing today needs to get broken apart, or this generation will go down in history as boring and non-existant.
I can tell you that my generation is well represented and remembered! You talk about them all the time in this board ... and though I feel, sometimes, that you are not totally correct, in the end, that's not a criticism ... you will know about this when you become an artist, and are fighting like heck for your work ... and hopefully never reach that day where you quit ... you don't need it anymore ... and we lose another voice! Yours!
Just remember that when you take your hat of to Don, one more time!
That kind of indomitable spirt is needed really bad these days in all the arts! And it would be nice to see it more in a place like this one.
/Soapbox Moment Over
RIP Don, and yes, you will be missed. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 21:36
|
R.I.P Capt.
Another hero down.
Will be looking for you at Observatory Crest.
Vaya con Dios, mi amigo.
 ------------- "...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..." |
Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 09:01
|
Captain and Frank are probably having a great jam session right now..........
RIP
|
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 09:42
| People like the great Captain simply don't exist in music anymore. A true, genuine artist. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 09:53
|
The Day Captain Beefheart Outsold the Beatles, the Stones and Pink Floyd
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/12/the_day_captain_beefheart_outs.php" rel="nofollow - http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/12/the_day_captain_beefheart_outs.php
|
Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 16:27
|
I am deeply ashamed to admit that I never got around to exploring his output during his life. That being typed, I just picked up Safe As Milk today. I think a very long and verrrrrry intense love affair is blooming. RIP. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 16:49
|
RIP Mon Capitan
didn't understand your music, but appreciated the impact. -------------
|
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 19:05
|
The Captain is still dead? Dammit!!!
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 19:14
They do ... and are out there ... but a board like this one has to be open to it, and appreciate it ... and we have to do more to make sure the new artists can get respect and some credit.
But it can't happen when we are stuck on the oldies and defining the oldies ... instead of turning our ears more towards the newbies! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |