"STEAL SOFTLY THRU SNOW"--THE MAGIC BAND LIVE ON SWEDISH NATIONAL TV 4 5/16/06

[Honeysucklebommie]

Don stands alone in all he has left to us, why do they mention Frank? FZ stands alone for the exactly the same reasons.

[exadverso]

Collossal>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>­>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>:)

[WinClassAcigarettes]

Wildman!! Very very cool

[SedanChair]

Captain Beefheart sat down at a fucking piano and WROTE this with his mind.

[sbilts]

Great tune even without the vocals...

[rigmarole55]

I wonder what the squares in tv-land thought of this!

I happen to really love the Trout House recordings (from Grow Fins) where we hear the instrumentals unaccompanied by Beefheart vox. To hear this, one of my favourites, played with a rich full sound is different, but great. This song, one of the mostly segmental songs on TMR, has a strange logic to it that, to me, leads to the climax at 1.46, followed by reflective afterthoughts.

And it annoys me that the first name we hear is Zappa's!

[vollsticks]

Fucking amazing.

[adamalmoni]

@yoursaxman, no, Rockette Morton is not on Safe as Milk, neither on Strictly Personnal. Rockette Morton comes in with Trout Mask replica. Check Mark Boston on wikipedia.

John French transcribed the musical ideas Beefheart played for him on piano for the rest of the band.

on wikipedia's Beefheart scroll down to the Magic band Chapter and read John French metaphore.

[adamalmoni]

The way I see it they are not playing Captain Beefheart's music and never did, it's the other way around, John French is the only musician present in all 5 first albums, Beefheart had pressed this music out of him. When John French left, the Old Fart lost his music and recorded his 2 worst albums (1974). check John French's metaphore over composing and arranging credits on wikipedia.

[yoursaxman]

@adamalmoni Bassist Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) was there the whole time, too, jack.

[shitdog1234]

best thing on youtube???????????

[tuffymannen]

The Magic Band kicks swedish TV.

[thekwaze]

@tuffymannen - Lots of it, but you probably know by now?

Don't forget to get John French's book - it's er...magic

[godfreyhowatchin]

drumbo wants so bad to be don van vliet

[arifreeman]

@godfreyhowatchin

Drumbo IS Don Van Vliet now.

[docstevil]

drumbo is always the best

[ssurzorb]

Near perfect performance of a classic! Amazing and intense stuff. Is there more of the Captain's material performed by this version of The Magic Band out there? Brilliant!

[mindcontrolsalsa]

Mark Boston- bass monster extraordinaire

he;s great +so is the Magic band

thanks guys

[senator200]

Coolness !!

[steviewguitar]

I only wish I had the courage to do the music that is in my heart . Beefheart had it and this band does too !! Never stop .

[squareeyedgit]

A little bit sloppy in places (ain't i a bitch!), but still amazing - just a superb composition.

You wouldn't get this on British breakfast TV, that's for sure! They appreciate good stuff on the continent. Mind you, i bet the presenters still talk the same kind of inane blabber...

[unumsedleonum]

Mark Boston's beard is epic!

[cosmicrider287]

the magic band nails it.

[totemaaaaa]

breaks my heart to see the highway across the hill

[aakkoin]

@totemaaaaa where?

[yoursaxman]

Happy birthday, Don!!!

[thekidwiththefa]

Although this sounds a bit cleaned up (I can't quite place it), it's just made me realize how there's nothing akin to what Beefheart was doing around now. I mean, there's some great stuff (Fantômas, Xiu Xiu), but nothing like this.

[mriseborough]

Beautiful.

[431516020205]

i think they said it all!!! thanx!

[yoursaxman]

Finally i get to do karaoke to my favorite Beefheart songs! This shit is note-for-note perfect, too!

[herzogsbuick]

that gets better everytime I watch it

[Namrehtulip]

Nice upload, thanks.

By the way, Gary, do you happen to know the whereabouts of the captain. Is he alive or did he die in 2002? Why all this mist around Beefheart. Also thanks to Bill Harkleroad for all the good work he has done without being paid by Donald Vliet.

[TheTralfaz]

I,ll be whistling this one on the way to work tomorrow, thanx lads

[cosmicrider287]

i hum this track under the shower.

[RollingFilmMusicVids]

Thanks Gary.

[NYLifer]

KILLER! The world needs more of this!

[tomswift46]

Simply wonderful and so much fun!

[fornebu]

Fantastic!

[wannyyydilliamsss]

Are these not the three coolest blokes that ever did live?

Mark Boston is the bollocks!

[finallychrome]

This is great.

[strawwoodclaw]

wow amaizing - that's wot's lifes all about - wotta track

[strav12]

SIMPLY JUST AWESOME!