I love most all classic blues, like Wolf, Leadbelly, Tampa Red, John Lee,etc. But this is crap. Just because you are weird doesn't make you good. Crap is crap.
Howlin Wolf was a big influence on both VanVliet and Zappa, and it has been said by both of them. However there is a lot more to Beefheart than a mere Howlin Wolf copyist.
I just found out he died in December (2010). That's sad. So many musicans I like have died. OH well, at least they leave music behind. Mostly people leave almost nothing behind when they go. Food for though save as Milk. :)
@Jethrofinger Now this is the great news. Now, even Zappa fans' could say that Don really created something on his own: something that only Don could create.
The series of heavy earthquakes are not NATURAL. These are all ARTIFICIAL EARTHQUAKES. By now many of Japanese have realized the whole story. This is the real war!
●911 Inside Job and Hereafter.
●9-11 AND STEALTH JEWISH.
●3-11 perpetrator's volcano eruption program.
●CAUTION! 3-11 SEISMIC TERRORISTS ARE STILL AROUND.
●Hydrogen Bomb Underground Test Detonation - Project Cannikin
●Israeli firm which secured Japan nuclear plant says workers ther...
@ArizonaDelRio I'm just pointing out your error there bud. Tom Wait's music resembles Beefheart's. Simple correction. Don't get all butthurt about it there bud.
@jjay115 Just so you genius' know, to 'resemble' something doesnt mean that one or the other came first. It doesnt address the chronology. Beefheart sounds like Waits sounds like Beefheart. Arizona says they sound like the other without making a distinction of who came first. Bud.
On Friday 15th January , Cecil Taylor was at Knitting Factory checking out Gary Lucas playing . He invited Gary to play with him!. Astonishingly, Gary Lucas has refused the project provoking a fairy rhetoric on the maestros end. WHO refuses to play with Cecil Taylor?!. Gary Lucas is just recovering from an accident on which he had broken his elbow? Still, Taylor settled the project with the band mates of Lucas and Lucas special guest Mike Edison and Amiri Baraka!!!! where is the genius???
He's another *real* BIG DEAL and, if anybody bothers to notice, he's like all the other *real* BIG DEALS in that he didn't come out of any GREAT INSTITUTION for his craft -- they never do get spawned by GREAT INSTITUTIONS for what they do, they just do it!
I like how Van doesn't try to act cool by being a douche like Dylan and Lou Reed...although when he starts talking weird in Beefheartesque style, well, that's just the man.
"i dont know - either i'm too smart or i'm too dumb"
genius.
this man has an innocence (or should that be purity?), truth and depth that goes way beyond other artists. i cant think of too many others that are in the same league as the don.
Whats the name of the song they start playing at 2.20?
the Smithsonian Institute blues or ...THE BIG DIG
The way it's goin' La Brea tar pits I know you just can't lose
This may be premature but if I'm wrong You can just say it's the first time I was happy t' be confused It sure looks funny for a new dinosaurT' be in an old dinosaur's shoes Dina Shore's shoes Dinosaur shoes Singin' the Smithsonian Institute blues
I read some of the comments regarding TMR with interest as I used to feel the same as some of the posters on here. However, I have to say that the more you listen to it the more 'sense' it makes. What sound like a collection of disparate noises at first starts to fall into place and become 'whole'. I'ts a bit like one of those pictures that you have to stare at for a while before you can see the 'hidden' picture within. Having said that, the album takes too much effort to listen to often.
You know...sometimes I think buying his music isn't enuff sometimes...I wish there was another way I could pay him back for all the joy he has given me ; )
Ceramic fangs humbugging pushed up the daisies 'n cists pongy haemorrhoids effervesce Dribbling butt 'n shit nit Meate stood erect 'n shags leggy bimbo burbling meate Flaccid hose sheaths Boned 'n poked doggers 'n wallops Probed on 'n daeman Crap old fogies Twat spank tra la tra la Tra la tra la tra la Wombat corset crop circles 'n thongs Hippopotamus flavour farmhouse Charlestons body stockinged 'n posteriors uh lite
Gay feelers snoop 'n armholed 'n tumbled 'n porked screw tongued Stiffness harden specimens Neon meate hallucination of a octafish Creature on the back of Miss Universe ovaries 'n haggis heads 'n Mexican muds Fack 'n ecstasy 'n catheters catslicks carbuncles In peccadillo buggery injest injust in orgy sodomy 'n squirts 'n spreckled spreckled Splodged yogic flying Fedlocks oozin' sensual pleasure Moth-eaten slugs orgasm
I like Captain Beefheart. I think part of his appeal is that besides his music hes just very interesting. Even his voice is interesting. At times he sounds like that kid with the blonde ponytail from bobbys school in king of the hill:D
Doc At the Radar Station - Blew my mind when I first heard it; continues to blow my mind. I would want to be buried with that album, if I weren't planning on being cremated when I go.
i think clear spot is my fav followed by doc at the radar station..i don't count the first one as thats in another league altogether...that was almost a legitamate blues album and don sang!! like really well when he wanted to...but really, hats off to this freakin nut job for being the nut job we love..MY ADVICE TO YOU ALL...IF YOU FIND A WOMAN WHO DIGS BEEFHEART, PROPOSE MARRIAGE ASAP, IT'LL NEVER GET ANY BETTER FOR YOU THAN A CHICK WHO WILL WILLINGLY LISTEN TO CAPT BEEFHEART. believe me!
I'm a girl and I LOVE Captain Beefheart! He is seriously amazing! The only person I can think of who reminds me of him remotely is Billy Childish- but I personally like the Captain better.
hmmmm , i was in Mr. Held's speech class with Don in '59 , A.V High School, Lancaster,Ca. I believe he wore suits at that time. Zappa was around there someplace. Later---maybe 63-- Don did a lil concert looking and maybe sounding like The Dave Clark 5.
I love Beefheart but i totally agree with some of the people here i dont like TMR simply because its un-listenable, i can't sit there and listen to TMR and enjoy it as i can with safe as milk etc, i do agree it is avant-garde but i'm not a fan of it at all. I still think beefheart was soo talented though
het, sry all u beefheart fans. I cant get in too most of beefhearts albums, i really like clearspot and safe as milk. but, fuking hell i realy dont get trountface repucla - maybe ill get it when i am older. to me beefheart just seems like one of them artists who doesnt really know why he is good, like mark E smith. Because in troutmask replica it seems to me that the Idea has became more important than the music, in my opinion that is no longer music - maybe art. correct me if i am wrong cheers
I own every official Beefheart record and quite a few (commercialized) bootlegs. I listened many times to all of them and I can only agree with you. TMR is so inaccessible that even for a big fan of his music it is difficult to honestly like it. You can be bewildered by the raw power and musical extravagance of the album, but sincerely being fulfilled with it, I doubt.
To me there are four masterpieces: Safe as milk, Clear spot, Shiny beast and the original tapes of Strictly Personal.
trout mask replica is not for fans of traditional music, maybe if you're a fan of paintings, then maybe you'll like it. i like it because of its vast differences between tones
Zappa was pretty affected himself. Certainly innovative, though. He tended to patronize Beefheart. When he produced a promo record called "Zapped" in the late 60's (?), he lumped the Magic Band with the GTOs and Wild Man Fischer while including the lamest cuts from Trout Mask Replica. The fact is, The Magic Band would have blown The Mothers of the stage. Why do you think Roy Estrada joined the Magic Band after the Mothers, tubemeokay? It was a step up for him.
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come on...its all crap and this clown is fucking stoned out big time..Hasnt a clue, ask Zappa, he has interview on you-tube telling it the way it was. Vlient was a drugged out wacko that some of you got high, locked in and lost your shit on acid.
I can understand why you'd say that, tubemeokay. The Captain's schtick doesn't age well. I always thought he had gotten it into his head that "geniuses were misunderstood", so, he worked very hard at being misunderstood. Unintelligible, in fact. It was part act and part real. Still, like vliet2, I've loved the band's music for 40 years.
For someone who pretends to know all about this scene, it's quite strange you constantly referring to him as Vlient, while it's Van Vliet (or Vliet really). And are you on anti-psychotics? If not, you should.
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A american fruad is more like it...come on . this guy did go to school and just did to much acid and lost it. He lies like a fish , at the bottom of the lake like a bottom feeder. Goofy, drugged mind gone, is what this prick is and you people worship this idiot.
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I concede that point and sorry. But Im his age and remember all this crap of his back in the day. He is a phoeny AND did too much acid. TRUTH! I was there and lived it. Born in 1954, California, I remeber these guys, Zappa was the only true musician. Beefheart was always crap, ive seen him in person, before the drugs fucked him up. TRUTH!!Again!!
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Fine then, im aprick who is telling the truth. Your punishment is to listen to this crap of Beefheart the rest of your life. You might need some of Van Vlient lsd to survive listening to this crap. Have at it stud!! LOL!! And crap it is!!
ive listened 2 it for 40 years and i just luv it and have not the slightest intention of changing,so ur wasting ur time ,in fact it sounds better as the years go by
I know what you mean, vliet2. I've loved the Magic Band for the same amount of time. Did you get the Grow Fins boxed set of CDs? In it there's a disc of rehearsal tapes for Trout Mask Replica. No Captain, just the band playing. Great, Great stuff. I've played side 2 of Trout Mask (Pachuco Cadaver) a zillion times.
Yes. I saw them live, too. It was in an old movie theater in Staten Island. At the time, it reinforced the perception that they were totally unappreciated. I knew few Beefheart fans. People would say "how can you listen to that?". I couldn't understand why they couldn't. Then a band like the Talkin' Heads would come along, they'd go orgasmic, and I'd wonder what's the big freakin' deal? Their shit was boring after the fifth listening.
i always remember from that nite Big Eyed Beans, Ed Marimba was awesome on drums,hope u enjoyed it as much as i did,saw the tragic band a year later ,what a letdown by comparision
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All you guys thinking beefheart was some sort of artist, should just listen to this catanonic state, that being beefheart. Geez H Christ, good stuff huh?? Everybody? The captain wants to make money, with tennille!! This guy is a lying perve and is a wacko!!
Youtube IS THE MAINSTREAM NOW, ASSHOLE. With this soulless laptop culture, there will never be another artist as wonderful as Captain Beefheart. Even he's expressed disdain for youtube. Think a little harder and you'll see why that is. Read the "The Cult of the Amateur. How today's internet is killing our Culture." by Andrew Keen.
So true but the internet is just too delicious! It's a temptation even to the most hard core cynics! Who can reject this force? It's vile and pernicious. It's the be(A)st!
the internet is the most powerful and unpredictable force of raw, undiluted humanity that has ever been acheived. it scares the shit out of it's own creators with the power they accidentally gave the average joe to mass communicate. it's pandora's box, unstoppable.
the tragedy is, most people are too stupid to do anything lasting or meaningful with it.
it's just a good way to watch porn or talk shit about britney's alcohol problem for the masses of half-wits that use it. fortunately there are enough intelligent people making use of the internet to be a force for change and a bug up the man's ass for a long time to come.
a bush filled tin teardrop nasty crash meets daddy uh ma sulky momma heart attack. a piano and a tape piano and tape. beefheart is one of those musicians that simply did something, if you know what i mean. he's so timeless
the school now is the internet, and youtube, if you really want to be different and reassert the universe of magic, you have to rebuke our soulless laptop way of life.
Met him the night this was aired at a local watering hole in Lancaster Ca.
pieword 4 weeks ago
I love most all classic blues, like Wolf, Leadbelly, Tampa Red, John Lee,etc. But this is crap. Just because you are weird doesn't make you good. Crap is crap.
Gepetto48 1 month ago in playlist Captain Beefheart
Howlin Wolf was a big influence on both VanVliet and Zappa, and it has been said by both of them. However there is a lot more to Beefheart than a mere Howlin Wolf copyist.
alanpitfall 1 month ago
Everyone says how original he was, he just makes me think of Howlin Wolf straight away. How come this is never mentioned?
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High quality version on my channel.
bookheaven1000 3 months ago
Well isn't he just wonderful.
AskMeArse1966 4 months ago
My clothes is so worn that my flesh bleeds through them.
sawdust5 6 months ago
'its hard to talk', - this dude is so great
'sorry girls' indeed.
chuckamok12 7 months ago
I Love that, Dino-saur Dinah Shore. *LOL*
I just found out he died in December (2010). That's sad. So many musicans I like have died. OH well, at least they leave music behind. Mostly people leave almost nothing behind when they go. Food for though save as Milk. :)
SuzySuziko 8 months ago
Cool news people: Library of Congress added Trout Mask Replica to their Recording Registry just a week or two ago. Beefheart lives!
Jethrofinger 9 months ago 2
@Jethrofinger And about time too! Beefheart must live....otherwise America dies! Greetings from the Welsh bit of North London
gezunder 7 months ago
@Jethrofinger Now this is the great news. Now, even Zappa fans' could say that Don really created something on his own: something that only Don could create.
RIP Don Van Vilet forever in my mind...
sharmaomatic90 7 months ago
"I don't like hypnotics". This man could not be mind controled.
OrisLover 10 months ago
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The series of heavy earthquakes are not NATURAL. These are all ARTIFICIAL EARTHQUAKES. By now many of Japanese have realized the whole story. This is the real war!
●911 Inside Job and Hereafter.
●9-11 AND STEALTH JEWISH.
●3-11 perpetrator's volcano eruption program.
●CAUTION! 3-11 SEISMIC TERRORISTS ARE STILL AROUND.
●Hydrogen Bomb Underground Test Detonation - Project Cannikin
●Israeli firm which secured Japan nuclear plant says workers ther...
sunrise58176 10 months ago
"Captain, why don't you go commercial?"
"I don't know - either I'm too smart or I'm too dumb."
Shall we take a poll?
lleenn111 11 months ago 2
whats the song with the harmonica at the start
dysfac 11 months ago
@dysfac
"Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man" from the album "Clear Spot" (1972)
pit2ryan3 9 months ago
1:10 "i'm still a kid"
Ziplock74 1 year ago
primitive genius, sophisticated genius, we can give him all the names we want...this man is beyond words!!
RIP Captain, thanks for visiting us here on planet earth!!!
stonesfcr 1 year ago
"I don't like hypnotics".
"The Smithsonian Institute Blues" would like to have a word with you, Don.
JohnFordDanceTroupe 1 year ago
RIP Captain BeefHeart... One of the greatest musicians of all Time !!!
peterproctology 1 year ago
Tom Waits should be giving him money.
guywalker29 1 year ago 2
3:24- Hilarious! Rest in peace, Don.
Jethrofinger 1 year ago
SAIL ON, CAPTAIN
MrRdub7162 1 year ago
SAIL ON, CAPTION
MrRdub7162 1 year ago
RIP BUDDY
phlood69 1 year ago
Thanks for licking our decals off, Don. R.I.P.
superfuzzymomma 1 year ago
Father of New Wave?
Father of modern Contemporary music.
RIP
h3dg3h0g 1 year ago 2
RIP my brother
granniemir 1 year ago
RIP Captain!
iowafilmdude22 1 year ago
music is just black ants crawling across white paper...
cosmicrider287 1 year ago 3
dedicates his music to children and animals.i dig that.
cosmicrider287 1 year ago
what song is that at 2:18?
SonicDig 1 year ago
@SonicDig smithsonian institute blues or the big dig . be well
cbjgdicad1 1 year ago
@SonicDig
"The Big Dig or The Smithsonian Institute Blues" from "Lick My Decals Off, Baby."
Mrvictorfernandes 1 year ago
56!!!!
UrbanGuerilla88 1 year ago
Wille the pimp
dopeurwhatuuse 1 year ago
His music has an odd resemblence to Tom Waits.
ArizonaDelRio 1 year ago
@ArizonaDelRio You have that backwards there bud. Beefheart was way before Waits.....
3rdcoastnyucka 1 year ago
@3rdcoastnyucka And your point is? It still sounds similar there Bud.
ArizonaDelRio 1 year ago
@ArizonaDelRio I'm just pointing out your error there bud. Tom Wait's music resembles Beefheart's. Simple correction. Don't get all butthurt about it there bud.
3rdcoastnyucka 1 year ago
@3rdcoastnyucka And your point is?
ArizonaDelRio 1 year ago
@ArizonaDelRio his point is that don't say Beefheart resembles Waits it should be vice versa. Student can't teach the teacher.
jjay115 1 year ago
@jjay115 Just so you genius' know, to 'resemble' something doesnt mean that one or the other came first. It doesnt address the chronology. Beefheart sounds like Waits sounds like Beefheart. Arizona says they sound like the other without making a distinction of who came first. Bud.
Straichen 1 year ago
@Straichen No one needed your simple minded input, shithead. Thanks though!
3rdcoastnyucka 1 year ago
@Straichen
to be honest I love both and I dont think they sound like each other at all
lalalalala5151 1 year ago
6:50 - is that julia-louis dreyfus?!
rdnzl7878 1 year ago
oh sorry it wasnt saucy anuf
TheMaxlow 1 year ago
Bromo seltzer
boris yeltzer belts melt in carpet lines
felts intwine
binding
riding like light snatch
catched back
TheMaxlow 1 year ago
Beefheart is truly awesome.
TheThepillows 1 year ago
never let a lie get in the way of a good story - shake up the boredom
strawwoodclaw 2 years ago 2
@strawwoodclaw
haha thats good man
MarlaisO 1 year ago
'56!
HamburgerMartyr 2 years ago
'57 you meant?...kidding I guess? Beefheart was NOT Gary.
jazznewsbrooklyn 2 years ago
Sure and I assume you're talking about Gary Lucas?
HamburgerMartyr 2 years ago
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On Friday 15th January , Cecil Taylor was at Knitting Factory checking out Gary Lucas playing . He invited Gary to play with him!. Astonishingly, Gary Lucas has refused the project provoking a fairy rhetoric on the maestros end. WHO refuses to play with Cecil Taylor?!. Gary Lucas is just recovering from an accident on which he had broken his elbow? Still, Taylor settled the project with the band mates of Lucas and Lucas special guest Mike Edison and Amiri Baraka!!!! where is the genius???
jazznewsbrooklyn 2 years ago
Captain Beefheart is greatest thing to happen to music period
HamburgerMartyr 2 years ago 11
FUc666 Genius !.
noz911life 2 years ago
Thanks for some transcription, I find it difficult to understand. Wish I could
RedKhandro 2 years ago
Beefheart wouldn't fit into todays society. Most people would think he's crazy, drunk, or on drugs etc.. Like his music though.
mja2035 2 years ago 3
He's another *real* BIG DEAL and, if anybody bothers to notice, he's like all the other *real* BIG DEALS in that he didn't come out of any GREAT INSTITUTION for his craft -- they never do get spawned by GREAT INSTITUTIONS for what they do, they just do it!
Sausahga 2 years ago 2
Really interesting guy. Awesome drawing at 1:49. Reminds me a lot of his music.
NinetiesYouth 2 years ago
I like how Van doesn't try to act cool by being a douche like Dylan and Lou Reed...although when he starts talking weird in Beefheartesque style, well, that's just the man.
crlxc 2 years ago 6
"captian, why dont you go commercial?"
"i dont know - either i'm too smart or i'm too dumb"
genius.
this man has an innocence (or should that be purity?), truth and depth that goes way beyond other artists. i cant think of too many others that are in the same league as the don.
brianwilson49 2 years ago 3
why interview Van. no one interviewed Mozart nor Beethoven. Let the great music speak.
Islwynpaul 2 years ago
stop.
kwakky 2 years ago
@Islwynpaul
everything that comes from this man is part of his art, being drawings, songs or interview answers.
RedKhandro 2 years ago
'spells' si probably also another pun...
buntingfordboy 2 years ago
'I don't like music, I like (to do?) spells, because music is just black ants... etc.'
I'm sure he says 'spells' but what precedes it is unclear...
buntingfordboy 2 years ago
'Music is just black ants crawling across white paper'
buntingfordboy 2 years ago 2
b4 that...where he says i dont like music i like ???
dreamforfreedom 2 years ago
What does he say at the end about music..and the rest after that?
dreamforfreedom 2 years ago
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buntingfordboy 2 years ago
56!
HamburgerMartyr 2 years ago
Gotta luv him....... if ya know of him ya gotta chance.
wonderingy4once 2 years ago 3
When I first heard "Safe as Milk" I thought "Oh no! This isn't safe at all!"
JazzyJonas 2 years ago
For Beefheart, it's about as safe as it gets.
SpaceRitual 2 years ago
Time to listen to 'Trout' again...
spotdogg48 2 years ago 30
"get rid of the labels, coming children!!!"
makes me laugh every time!
MikeAdupont 2 years ago
I love that he said the most important thing to him is his wife! What a cool dude.
drsloan 2 years ago 4
for a guy that never went to school he's a pretty smart guy.
Wheel83 2 years ago 5
that's why, I guess
RedKhandro 2 years ago
if you wanna be a different fiiish.. you gotta jump outta the school.
methogonzo 2 years ago 5
I always return to the Captin.
webechatin 2 years ago
Whats the name of the song they start playing at 2.20?
clodgemaster 2 years ago
Smithsonian Institute Blues (The Big Dig)
The order of the words/parentheses might be wrong... but it's something along those lines.
Anfernee3000 2 years ago
Whats the name of the song they start playing at 2.20?
the Smithsonian Institute blues or ...THE BIG DIG
The way it's goin' La Brea tar pits I know you just can't lose
This may be premature but if I'm wrong You can just say it's the first time I was happy t' be confused It sure looks funny for a new dinosaurT' be in an old dinosaur's shoes Dina Shore's shoes Dinosaur shoes Singin' the Smithsonian Institute blues
RAINRIEN 2 years ago
Man, I've never seen him in person before. I didn't know he was so funny, and, well... lively. It's refreshing to see that.
hinneinisannidanni 2 years ago
I read some of the comments regarding TMR with interest as I used to feel the same as some of the posters on here. However, I have to say that the more you listen to it the more 'sense' it makes. What sound like a collection of disparate noises at first starts to fall into place and become 'whole'. I'ts a bit like one of those pictures that you have to stare at for a while before you can see the 'hidden' picture within. Having said that, the album takes too much effort to listen to often.
cyberhiker1 2 years ago 4
You know...sometimes I think buying his music isn't enuff sometimes...I wish there was another way I could pay him back for all the joy he has given me ; )
MikeAdupont 2 years ago 3
I AGREE AT 100%
corronco 2 years ago
The Captain was a true genius if there ever was one.
Ognamus 2 years ago 3
i relate to him
slartibartfast68 2 years ago
Charlestons body stockinged 'n posteriors uh lite
Uh pickled twixt
Vibratin' excrements 'n clitoris 'n Perrier 'n quim
'n pus
Jockstrapped in sherbet
Neon meate hallucination of a octafish
IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago 14
@IrmaCerrutti No! Don't do it! Sorry it's embarrassing...
vollsticks 10 months ago
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IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago 6
When she gibbers nuts besiege her
Let their lollipop orgasm deep down abutting the pompous ass around Women's Lib
She fondles her fish for knobsticks fleshy slobber over stunt women
Her lusting pricks up like humdingers
IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago
Buxom gorgeous beavers bang 'er smelly tampon cock pumps
When she elongates womanhood ditch pachucos copulated the nudge-nudge wink-wink
Her nibblin' shags me so rhythmic
If I spasmed I'd rupture m' pecker
Her vaginas so juicy conceives gorgeousness' climax petticoat trim
Her excrement is squelchy as the bladderwracks
In the navel where the hot flush hoovers hep
Harvey Smith salutes as alluring as flypaper
Her mandibles green as the poopscoop where dung beetles crap in full dress
IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago
Got her screw out of uh B-29 Slapper brodey knob tree-hugger
Spanish bottom 'n talcum tazzles FOREVER BILIOUS
She spasms like an ossified lesbian carrot-top
She's 99 she won't shit downstairs
Greenish sick 'n alfalfa lacking smeddum encrust her to the skirting board
Piston movements 'n debauched utenzles uh Viagra spumy poke o' passages
Rapes uh cartune around broma seltzer sexy sanitary precaution
Keeps gynaecology on the rooftops slimy the landlubber
IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago
When she putrefies her hornpipe then she begin t' judder
All the pachucos spank clench 'n tentacles
When she bangs her Chevy Namby-Pamby's don't dare t' stuck-out-tongue
Spunkless buckrams 'n indigestible debbles spittin' round 'er antenna
piggery ho
She rots her withered laurels like a largesse
Blows up her petkins in days of yore
Her sedan experiences turbulence along the quarry tile
Her Darby and Joan butts skewbald fartin' slag cum
IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago
Captain Beefart... I'm not worthy! Your un-definable.
Rock On!
ian4goats 2 years ago
Why not even the rustler, would have anything to do with this branded bumsteard world!
ian4goats 2 years ago
A crustacean gobbling Plasticine in a polytetrafluoroethylene sleeping bag is naughty and tumescent, got me?
IrmaCerrutti 2 years ago
I like Captain Beefheart. I think part of his appeal is that besides his music hes just very interesting. Even his voice is interesting. At times he sounds like that kid with the blonde ponytail from bobbys school in king of the hill:D
lunchboxattacks1 2 years ago
Great! Thanks for uploading.
BaalAsera 3 years ago
"Music is just black ants crawling across white paper", profound, I wonder if that's an origional Van Vleet or someone else's.
vasp99 3 years ago 4
the magic band sound right on well rehearsed in these clips. super on form!
captnkwame 3 years ago
This man is an absolute genius or a total nut case or both .
I love beefheart my favorite album is lick my decal's off baby.
jbuckleymad 3 years ago 2
I like Batchain Puller myself.
vasp99 3 years ago
Doc At the Radar Station - Blew my mind when I first heard it; continues to blow my mind. I would want to be buried with that album, if I weren't planning on being cremated when I go.
drsloan 2 years ago 3
i think clear spot is my fav followed by doc at the radar station..i don't count the first one as thats in another league altogether...that was almost a legitamate blues album and don sang!! like really well when he wanted to...but really, hats off to this freakin nut job for being the nut job we love..MY ADVICE TO YOU ALL...IF YOU FIND A WOMAN WHO DIGS BEEFHEART, PROPOSE MARRIAGE ASAP, IT'LL NEVER GET ANY BETTER FOR YOU THAN A CHICK WHO WILL WILLINGLY LISTEN TO CAPT BEEFHEART. believe me!
chazblitz 3 years ago 3
har har, well I suppose that if ladies were carrots, then such a relationship would be as close as a rabbit would get to a diamond, then? :-)
pantsmatants 3 years ago
I'm a girl and I LOVE Captain Beefheart! He is seriously amazing! The only person I can think of who reminds me of him remotely is Billy Childish- but I personally like the Captain better.
omgitsdeb 2 years ago 3
This is Tom Snyder!
gamoonbat 3 years ago
hmmmm , i was in Mr. Held's speech class with Don in '59 , A.V High School, Lancaster,Ca. I believe he wore suits at that time. Zappa was around there someplace. Later---maybe 63-- Don did a lil concert looking and maybe sounding like The Dave Clark 5.
yardta 3 years ago 3
It's hard to talk! (That says it all, Captain!)
Dionysos37 3 years ago 3
Il Capitano è una delle menti più geniali del '900, è un genio, e non solo musicalmente!
Gurzociurlo 3 years ago
spotlight kid album is great too.
SUN ZOOM SPARK
SUN ZOOM SPARK
! ! !
emrldz 3 years ago
I love the guy he's nuts!! A true original!
wildCOMMONSENSE 3 years ago 3
Honestly I dont like Trout Mask Replica as much as I like the others...
kafcin 3 years ago
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Right on!!! trout mask is probably the weakest album
Rockapebates 3 years ago
Trout Mask embodies Beefheart. Respect.
crlxc 2 years ago
Many comments seem to imply that folk just claim to like it TMR.
Well I'm not shitting or trying anything on when I say I truly enjoy TRM.
In fact I love it.
I like a lot of Beefheart, but TRM is the real deal - the rest doesn't measure up.
I'm a big Zappa fan too but that's a different thing entirely.
I also agree with an earlier comment - at this stage I can't even tell what's supposed to be so weird/inaccessible about TRM.
One of the greatest fucking Rock N' Roll albums in existence.
Blookbugbeeker 3 years ago 8
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I like watching his interviews more than his music. Don't really like his music at all actually.
comfycommando 3 years ago
"If you want to be a different fish, you gotta jump out of the school". I like that one.
swans1997 3 years ago 8
I've listened to TMR so much sometimes I forget what's so weird about it.
Ramentastic 3 years ago
you don't. one of the best albums ever made (produced by Frank Zappa)
balnsoesn 3 years ago
i love beefheart and TMR is my favorite record... i feel alone
quaznXII 3 years ago
your certainly not alone
vliet2 3 years ago
I love Beefheart but i totally agree with some of the people here i dont like TMR simply because its un-listenable, i can't sit there and listen to TMR and enjoy it as i can with safe as milk etc, i do agree it is avant-garde but i'm not a fan of it at all. I still think beefheart was soo talented though
Songwriter66 3 years ago
love beefheart great interview i agree
christopye3666 3 years ago
great interview..
greydynwolfcow 3 years ago
het, sry all u beefheart fans. I cant get in too most of beefhearts albums, i really like clearspot and safe as milk. but, fuking hell i realy dont get trountface repucla - maybe ill get it when i am older. to me beefheart just seems like one of them artists who doesnt really know why he is good, like mark E smith. Because in troutmask replica it seems to me that the Idea has became more important than the music, in my opinion that is no longer music - maybe art. correct me if i am wrong cheers
JackattackMF 3 years ago 4
Hi Jack
I own every official Beefheart record and quite a few (commercialized) bootlegs. I listened many times to all of them and I can only agree with you. TMR is so inaccessible that even for a big fan of his music it is difficult to honestly like it. You can be bewildered by the raw power and musical extravagance of the album, but sincerely being fulfilled with it, I doubt.
To me there are four masterpieces: Safe as milk, Clear spot, Shiny beast and the original tapes of Strictly Personal.
MondayMeadows 3 years ago
trout mask replica is not for fans of traditional music, maybe if you're a fan of paintings, then maybe you'll like it. i like it because of its vast differences between tones
TaylorConrad8098 3 years ago
It reminds me sort of Joanna Newsom's voice.
FrozenSilence 3 years ago
i bet captain beefheart listened to a lot of jazz growing up
sadisticdelusionYOU 3 years ago
Blues actually...
YHAVR 3 years ago
R&B
LemonDavis 3 years ago
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
electriclucifer 3 years ago
excellent
helgab1985 3 years ago
I always wanted to see Cpn B live and now I have. The most original rock musician of my time. Come back Don PLEASE!
mozgreen 3 years ago
Zappa was pretty affected himself. Certainly innovative, though. He tended to patronize Beefheart. When he produced a promo record called "Zapped" in the late 60's (?), he lumped the Magic Band with the GTOs and Wild Man Fischer while including the lamest cuts from Trout Mask Replica. The fact is, The Magic Band would have blown The Mothers of the stage. Why do you think Roy Estrada joined the Magic Band after the Mothers, tubemeokay? It was a step up for him.
pariahpete 3 years ago 2
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come on...its all crap and this clown is fucking stoned out big time..Hasnt a clue, ask Zappa, he has interview on you-tube telling it the way it was. Vlient was a drugged out wacko that some of you got high, locked in and lost your shit on acid.
tubemeokay 3 years ago
I can understand why you'd say that, tubemeokay. The Captain's schtick doesn't age well. I always thought he had gotten it into his head that "geniuses were misunderstood", so, he worked very hard at being misunderstood. Unintelligible, in fact. It was part act and part real. Still, like vliet2, I've loved the band's music for 40 years.
pariahpete 3 years ago
For someone who pretends to know all about this scene, it's quite strange you constantly referring to him as Vlient, while it's Van Vliet (or Vliet really). And are you on anti-psychotics? If not, you should.
YHAVR 3 years ago
DAMN, that guitar playing at 5:20 was NICE, what was that?
hellmuth26 3 years ago
One of the greatest artists to ever hit the
scene.The voice,songs & the band par excellence.The Trout Mask Replica era show
at Rochester Institute Of Technology I attended is a highlight of the 100's of shows
I saw as a teenager through 20's year old.
boxthejesuit 3 years ago
There's an American genius.
turntapzap 4 years ago 5
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A american fruad is more like it...come on . this guy did go to school and just did to much acid and lost it. He lies like a fish , at the bottom of the lake like a bottom feeder. Goofy, drugged mind gone, is what this prick is and you people worship this idiot.
tubemeokay 3 years ago
the point your missing is the music. the man might be nuts but that's an aside.
LarsYenin 3 years ago 2
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I concede that point and sorry. But Im his age and remember all this crap of his back in the day. He is a phoeny AND did too much acid. TRUTH! I was there and lived it. Born in 1954, California, I remeber these guys, Zappa was the only true musician. Beefheart was always crap, ive seen him in person, before the drugs fucked him up. TRUTH!!Again!!
tubemeokay 3 years ago
who cares? i don't see you having a go at yoko ono.
satanicsquirrel01 3 years ago
theres only one prick=YOU
vliet2 3 years ago
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Fine then, im aprick who is telling the truth. Your punishment is to listen to this crap of Beefheart the rest of your life. You might need some of Van Vlient lsd to survive listening to this crap. Have at it stud!! LOL!! And crap it is!!
tubemeokay 3 years ago
ive listened 2 it for 40 years and i just luv it and have not the slightest intention of changing,so ur wasting ur time ,in fact it sounds better as the years go by
vliet2 3 years ago 3
I know what you mean, vliet2. I've loved the Magic Band for the same amount of time. Did you get the Grow Fins boxed set of CDs? In it there's a disc of rehearsal tapes for Trout Mask Replica. No Captain, just the band playing. Great, Great stuff. I've played side 2 of Trout Mask (Pachuco Cadaver) a zillion times.
pariahpete 3 years ago
hi yes got the Boxed set,Magic band were just as impressive as Don himself seeing Ed,Rockette,Zoot,Winged live was one of the high points of my life
vliet2 3 years ago
Yes. I saw them live, too. It was in an old movie theater in Staten Island. At the time, it reinforced the perception that they were totally unappreciated. I knew few Beefheart fans. People would say "how can you listen to that?". I couldn't understand why they couldn't. Then a band like the Talkin' Heads would come along, they'd go orgasmic, and I'd wonder what's the big freakin' deal? Their shit was boring after the fifth listening.
pariahpete 3 years ago
i took some friends to see him live in bristol in 73 ,they were sceptical beforehand but his live performance left them amazed
vliet2 3 years ago
i met don in the foyer of the colston hall in bristol 73 during the first act we chatted for 1/2 hr and he drew me some sketches on scraps of paper
stuartink 3 years ago
i always remember from that nite Big Eyed Beans, Ed Marimba was awesome on drums,hope u enjoyed it as much as i did,saw the tragic band a year later ,what a letdown by comparision
vliet2 3 years ago
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All you guys thinking beefheart was some sort of artist, should just listen to this catanonic state, that being beefheart. Geez H Christ, good stuff huh?? Everybody? The captain wants to make money, with tennille!! This guy is a lying perve and is a wacko!!
tubemeokay 3 years ago
Don makes trailer living acceptable.
funkspiel 4 years ago 10
there will never be a lack of culture
go to any city and it's there
jsc86 4 years ago
Mainstream news stations don't report on *anything* for 7 minutes these days, let alone someone like DVV. Thank Heaven for YouTube.
lumopix 4 years ago
Youtube IS THE MAINSTREAM NOW, ASSHOLE. With this soulless laptop culture, there will never be another artist as wonderful as Captain Beefheart. Even he's expressed disdain for youtube. Think a little harder and you'll see why that is. Read the "The Cult of the Amateur. How today's internet is killing our Culture." by Andrew Keen.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago
If YouTube makes you so angry, stay off.
mistereid13 4 years ago 4
So true but the internet is just too delicious! It's a temptation even to the most hard core cynics! Who can reject this force? It's vile and pernicious. It's the be(A)st!
shetalkscrazytalk84 4 years ago 2
the internet is the most powerful and unpredictable force of raw, undiluted humanity that has ever been acheived. it scares the shit out of it's own creators with the power they accidentally gave the average joe to mass communicate. it's pandora's box, unstoppable.
jwallbanger 4 years ago 5
the tragedy is, most people are too stupid to do anything lasting or meaningful with it.
it's just a good way to watch porn or talk shit about britney's alcohol problem for the masses of half-wits that use it. fortunately there are enough intelligent people making use of the internet to be a force for change and a bug up the man's ass for a long time to come.
jwallbanger 4 years ago 3
This man's art could be synonymous with Jessica Simpson's legs!
brlovesdee 4 years ago
.....sorry but you've got to be kidding,
Jessica's legs -how off could this comparison be.....
....don't get it at all!
premierfan 4 years ago
a bush filled tin teardrop nasty crash meets daddy uh ma sulky momma heart attack. a piano and a tape piano and tape. beefheart is one of those musicians that simply did something, if you know what i mean. he's so timeless
icantstandmyself 4 years ago
"If you want to be a different fish you gotta jump out of the school."
brenda721 4 years ago 4
the school now is the internet, and youtube, if you really want to be different and reassert the universe of magic, you have to rebuke our soulless laptop way of life.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago