Captain Beefheart & Magic Band - Electricity

[TomGunnHill]

@sting00 "Beefheart was the Hitler of Rock" That was a very foolish and irresponsible statement. How old are you ? Did you experience The Holocaust, The Hitler Youth, The SS, The Gestapo???

[TomGunnHill]

That dudes not Ry Cooder, thas Wyatt Earp bottlenecking!

Tom aka Billy The Kid

[jeansoudre]

This is fuckin madness, these guys are genious

[31alking]

Yeah shut up and listen! This music is awesome its like its been put through a blender... its backwards its at a tangent to normal music...mindblowing! The Captain lives on!

[soundvisionary13]

Amazing performance but was the camera man stoned? He concentrates on the bassist too much and doesn't hardly show the contrast where it is being filmed to the point that the Capt. looks at him a couple of times as if to say, "Do you know what you're doing?"

[Gorrrz]

shut up and listen!

[mlong1954]

Excellent song, Capt's singing voice sounds like sandpaper scraping across his vocals chords, love his music!

[Browncoat1138]

Am I the only one who thinks the main riff sounds a lot like Peace Frog? Interesting music. Not my usual cup of tea, but I can definitely appreciate the innovation. I'll have to listen to more before I form a proper opinion.

[MachinegunApe]

I would give everything I own to sit in the sand in front with a cold beer and watch to this gig...Beefheart at his absolute best!

[stingd00]

Beefheart was the Hitler of Rock... brilliant and flawed....yet awe inspiring to the end...someone you would hate to live next to, but someone you would defend against the world for their intelligence

[DIEversity401]

@stingd00, brilliant analogy!!! They were both Germanic too lol

[Gregorypeckory]

@DIEversity401 Not an analogy, and, like Hitler, but unlike Beefheart, not the least bit brilliant. It was an unintentional insult to Beefheart, who I am sure would prefer not to have his intelligence compared to a mass murderer whose IQ would probably have been below average among mass murderers. If not for a twist of fate, he'd have been just another long forgotten loser. Beefheart was the Beefheart of rock, and that is all.

[DIEversity401]

@Gregorypeckory, uh, that's like, just your opinion man.....

[cottageorgan]

@DIEversity401 Hitler was from Austria, Don's heritage was Dutch. If you've ever been to Europe and visited these two countries you would realise they are worlds apart both socially and culturally. To describe Captain Beefheart as 'Germanic', is a bit far fetched considering he was born in the USA. Brilliant analogy? Since when did Don over see the mass murder of millions of innocent people? Moronic...

[DIEversity401]

@cottageorgan, well if you knew anything about dna haplogroups and CULTURE you would see that the Dutch and Austrians are both Germanic peoples. So if a person of Germanic ancestry is born in the USA his dna changes? Lay off the 'cid, fella.

I know the word "Hitler" or "racist" sets off a repulsive reaction in your lsd soaked noggin due to your indoctrination but you have to shake it off man. You don't have to be a lemming the rest of your days....Be a zig-zag wanderer...

[cottageorgan]

@DIEversity401 Who mentioned LSD? Haplogroups...big word, I'm impressed. We all share the same DNA, tracing right back to the first people to step out of Africa, and as you've obviously never been to The Netherlands, you would find it hard to see the differences culturally speaking with Austria. What indoctrination? What on Earth are you talking about? It's called having an opinion.

[DIEversity401]

@cottageorgan, all non-Congoids/Australoids have at least 2% Neanderthal dna; so technically sub-Saharan Africans and Australian aboriginies are a different species than Asians and Caucasians. "Race" predates humanity. All life on this earth goes back to one molecule, so what's your point?

Your world view, if it could be called that, has been convienently shoved down your throat at school, thru hollywood and television etc. The fact that you listen to Beefheart doesn't change that

[cottageorgan]

@stingd00 How so? You're saying Hitler was brilliant and flawed? Sociopathic, misanthropic, anti semitic, deluded mass murderer. Captain Beefheart was brilliant, and yes we are all flawed, it's what makes us unique. You would defend Hitler against the world? You need to read a bit of history. I doubt Don would have been chuffed with being compared with Hitler. It's not big and it definitely isn't clever. Back to the music...

[DIEversity401]

WooooooooooooOOOooooooooo!

[dragpackdale]

thank you Thomas Edison.

[dramvids]

Unsurpassed brilliance

[ClaydenLee]

there's a weird energy in the air when he hits the falsetto, gave me goosebumps, you can see the band getting spooked by it, in a good way

[bluesborn]

I was 10 years old in '68 and I can't even begin to convey to you how weird these cats seemed back then.They may as well have arrived on that beach from another Planet as far as most of that no doubt utterly baffled audience was concerned.

[CarlSagan0101]

@semiLivedj

I've seen quite a few interviews that he did, and I would say that he was just really weird. I wouldn't call him dumb at all.

[semiLivedj]

@CarlSagan0101 Your right.He is just different.But that makes for original music.Usually the weird is what it takes.

[little69111]

WOW! xxxxx

[ipleasenothing]

Every single one of them looks like El Topo.

[TheMaggotBat]

@ipleasenothing Yeah they are perfect for El Topo. They also could have played in Dead Man :D

[deewilki]

IM SURE COODER LEFT A FEW WEEKS BEFORE THIS SHOW AND THUS ITS ST CLAIR

[gromada1]

@deewilki St Clair was there to begin with and Jeff Cotton came in his place for this.

[DukeHendrix]

Mudhoney!!

[mountainhigh88]

RHCP FESTVENICEBEACHOUI

[navek1]

GREAT MR BEEFHEART

[Mr26Nottingham]

Had the pleasure of seeing them at Nottingham University early 1970's. One of the most memorable live performances I have ever seen. One member of the Magic Band that day was Rockette Morton. Fast forward to a couple of years ago and The Magic Band were on in Nottingham and were brilliant with the vocalist recreating that amazing Beefheart voice.  Who should be appearing, although carrying a little more weight, none other than Rockette Morton. Please come back to the UK and tour again.

[beefheart1949]

@Mr26Nottingham Yup. I was there in the 'whatever' [Portland?] Hall where live band performances were held. Amazing voice live, and the band was tight ~ remember most of the audience dancing away [even one of the Central Committee of the |SWP [IS as it was in those days] ~ step forward Roger Kline [google him!].

[mikrosom]

damn, cannes even before trout mask replica... DAMN YOU, you were to good :'(

[halfmonk]

this is awesome. 1968 in cannes. i can't even imagine what the audience must have been thinking. ha ha ha. that looks like ry cooder playing slide to the right of beefheart. i know he played with the captain early on. 1968. could be him.

[filthyrich77]

@halfmonk

yes, that's him

[NinetiesYouth]

@filthyrich77 not Ry Cooder, it's Alex Snouffer (St. Clair)

[filthyrich77]

@NinetiesYouth yes I think you're right

[filthyrich77]

@NinetiesYouth yes I think you're right



[mbrias]

@filthyrich77 From left to right, its Antennae Jimmy Semens (Jeff Cotton), Jerry Handley, Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), Drumbo (John French) and Snouffer (Alex St. Clair)

[alanmullery]

unreal