In celebration of his birthday, we delve into aspects of Captain Beefheart's music and how he changed the face of rock music.
Gail Zappa, viuda de Frank Zappa, es la propietaria de la marca Captain Beefheart, nombre artístico de Don Van Vliet, fallecido en 2010. No están
Bat chain Puller Bat chain puller Puller, puller A chain with yellow lights That glistens like oil beads On its slick smooth trunk That trails behind on tracks, and thumps A wing hangs limp and retrieves Bat chain puller Puller puller Bulbs shoot from its snoot And vanish into darkness It whistles like a root snatched from dry earth Sodbustin’ rakes with grey dust claws Announces its coming into morning This train with grey tubes That houses people’s very thoughts and belongings. Bat chain puller Puller puller This train with grey tubes that houses people’s thoughts, Their very remains and belongings. A grey cloth patch Caught with four threads In the hollow wind of its stacks Ripples felt fades and grey sparks clacks, Lunge into cushioned thickets. Pumpkins span the hills With orange Crayola patches. Green inflated trees Balloon up into marshmallow soot That walks away in faulty circles Caught in grey blisters With twinkling lights and green sashes Pulled by rubber dolphins with gold yawning mouths That blister and break in agony In zones of rust They guild gold sawdust into dust. Bat chain puller, Puller puller. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club Reseda, California USA 1.29.1981 01 Hair Pie 02 Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man 03 I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe 'Til I Have to Go 04 Hot Head 05 Ashtray Heart 06 Dirty Blue Gene 07 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or The Big Dig) 08 Best Batch Yet 09 Safe As Milk 10 One Red Rose That I Mean 11 China Pig 12 Sue Egypt 13 Doctor Dark 14 Bat Chain Puller 15 My Human Gets Me Blues 16 Sugar N' Spikes 17 Sheriff of Hong Kong 18 Kandy Korn 19 Veteran's Day Poppy 20 Big Eyed Beans from Venus Total time: 1:19:54 Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) - vocals, gongs, harmonica & soprano saxophone Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar & vocals Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - guitar, bass & vocals Eric Drew Feldman - bass, mandolin & keyboards Robert Arthur Williams - drums & percussion Denny Walley - guitar on "China Pig" master soundboard cassette 1st second of "Doctor Dark" patched from the JWB "Best Batch Yet" 30th Anniversary remaster of this set; edited for dead air throughout, start of Track 01 repaired, tape flip between Tracks 12 & 13 smoothed, and boosted +1.25 dB throughout by EN, January 2021 490 MB FLAC/January 2021 archive link There are different versions of this this ultra-definitive bootleg, and a contradictory history as to where each version was sourced. But I won't trouble you with all that. OK, maybe I will. This is the original soundboard dub, that goes all the way to 20 kHz. There's others that claim to descend from reels made from this master soundboard cassette, but those only go to 15 kHz, as an off-air FM tape would. All I did was cut out the dead air and tuning -- it fits on a single CDR now, not that the 20th Century matters much anymore -- and performed a couple of subtle repairs utilizing the existing materials already there. I also turnt it up a smidge. So in case you haven't figured it out yet, Don Van Vliet -- the madman musician and painter better known as Captain Beefheart -- would have been 80 today. There's nothing to say except that if he showed up at the record company offices today, they'd probably go right past calling security and just summarily execute him, right there at the reception desk. You better not miss out on this (holy shit it's brutal in its precision) tape or he will take you for a ride in his Tarotplane.--J. 1.15.1941 - 12.17.2010
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Ahmet Zappa announces that Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica' is coming to streaming services.
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Many rock fans are aware that Don van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart gave up making music many years ago to paint full-time, but have they seen the paintings? Van Vliet is one of the world’s finest abstract expressionists. This modern master of the off-kilter’s uniquely feral output is as powerful as Jean Michel Basquiat’s work and has been shown in many countries to great acclaim. There are several monographs about his artwork, most notably the highly coveted Stand Up to be Discontinued, which can sell for over $500 these days on ABE Books (I got mine for $75 back in the day). The above image, known as Fur On The Trellis and Just Up Into The Air (1985) is on the cover. In real life this painting is over nine feet tall. The Captain Beefheart Radar Station website, the best place for all things Beefheartian on the Internet has a very large gallery of Van Vliet’s visual work, from the 60s to today. It’s absolutely worth your time to click through it. The images are startling and memorable. One thing to keep in mind as you look at them is to consider that most of the paintings ...
His music holds up to this day. || Tom DiVenti
Captain Beefheart from Rock & Folk magazine, 1974
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Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, was an avant-garde rock musician of the 60s, 70s and early 80s. His significance as an artist was in how he influenced the music of decades following him.
