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Category Archives: Captain Beefheart
Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #17
Of all the live concerts in my music collection, today’s particular show had proved to be one of the most difficult to find because of it’s uniqueness and it’s rarity among live show collectors. It had been on my most … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Captain Beefheart, Music, Sunday Big Note
Tagged 1976, mallard, rockpalast, streaming audio, WDR Studio
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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #7
I had a completely different artist in mind for this week’s listening session before the sad, untimely passing of poet, painter, musician and all round iconoclast, Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart).
Beautiful & Heartbreaking – Vliet Recites Poetry, 1993
Both beautiful and heartbreaking, Don Van Vliet recites his offbeat poetic lyrics:
RIP The Captain
Captain Beefheart, dead at 69.
Posted in Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, In The News
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Captain Beefheart Symposium
Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas will conduct a Beefheart Symposium at The Magic Room, Brighton, MA, on Friday Sept. 10th: Gary Lucas, who has been called “a modern guitar miracle” (Rolling Stone), “The Thinking Man’s Guitar Hero” (The New Yorker) … Continue reading
Beefheart Cover from Hamamatsu, Japan
Just when I thought I couldn’t be pleasantly surprised by anything posted on YouTube lately, I came across the following two Japanese Indie Bands, Blood Pees with their cover of Don Van Vliet’s “I’m Glad” and New Roman Chitose‘s “PV … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Captain Beefheart
Tagged beefheart covers, Blood Pees, don van vliet, Japanese Indie Bands, New Roman Chitose, pole dancers
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An Interview With Lorraine Belcher
Andrew just published an interview he did with Lorraine Belcher, full of wonderful little nuggets such as this one: He told me that his wife never made a sound during sex. This made him feel bad. One day, after he’d … Continue reading
The Muffin Men @ Fairport & Elsewhere
In 2008, The Muffin Men – a British band, based in Liverpool, England which primarily plays the music of Frank Zappa – performed at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, performing such Zappa classics as “Zoot Allures”, “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow” and … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Interview, Miscellany, Music, Personal, YouTubery
Tagged 2001, 2002, 2008, beefheart covers, Co de Kloet, crossfire publications, Fairport's Cropredy Convention, Interview, jimmy carl black, live, the muffin men, Where’s The $%&§#@’ Beer?, zappa covers
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The Magic Band – Peel Sessions, July 2004
Besides being an avid collector of Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention bootlegs and field recordings – as well as a collector of Captain Beefheart‘s various and sundry recordings (and a collector of all the related recordings of the various … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Captain Beefheart, Miscellany, Music
Tagged 2004, bbc, Captain Beefheart, collecting, john peel, Maida Vale Studios, the magic band
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The Jack and Jim Show
Eugene Chadbourne and Jimmy Carl Black – the principle members of the Jack and Jim Show – perform a cover of Captain Beefheart‘s “Dropout Boogie” (first clip, below) at The Pit Inn, Shinjuku on June 6th, 2008 (available on their CD, … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Bizarre, Captain Beefheart, Interview, Music, Pop Cult, YouTubery
Tagged avant garde, covers, eugene chadbourne, jimmy carl black, pachuco cadaver, the jack and jim show
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