CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Dirty Blue Gene (early blues version)

RIP Don Van Vliet 1941-2010
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, "Dirty Blue Gene" (early blues version),
The Spotlight Kid recording sessions ca. 1971-72
Titled "Dirty Blue Gene I" on the Brown Star Sessions bootleg

With pictures of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers.

Captain Beefheart/Don van Vliet - composition, vocals, harmonica
Zoot Horn Rollo(Bill Harkleroad)/Winged Eel Fingerling(Elliot Ingber) - guitar (?)
Drumbo/John French - interpretation

Uh while turned into a while 'n' then into a mile
A shirt to work, a back to ache
And someday we'll smile,
Oh, I will 'n' you will
But that ain't gonna bend you down 'n' tie your workin' shoe

Don't you wish you never met her
Dirty Blue Gene

A mile after mile
Stand there bubblin' like a open cola in the sun
Troublin' n fizzlin' in the noonday sun
Wonderin' if you got the time to get clean
Empty headed handed pockets 'n' shoes

A Dirty Blue Gene, boys, is achin' hard to lose

Don't you wish you never met her
Oh yeah, Dirty Blue Gene

Stand there bubblin' like an open cola in the sun
Your back is achin', man
'n' your work is never done 'n'

Don't you wish you never met her
Oh Dirty Blue Gene
Dirty Blue Gene
Dirty Blue Gene

Ah Dirty Blue Gene

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[terser]

Beefheart's voice is great here. It always is though.

Never heard this, thanks for uploading it.

[Brock2097]

Yeah, he can play a mean harmonica too. Hopefully he'll consider going back to making music in one form or another someday.

[SkopTeocratico]

Great song!

[Brock2097]

Thanks, I want to get the other pre-Radar Station versions of this too, especially the instrumental one on the Safe as Milk re-release. (although I think the only thing it has in common with the other Dirty Blue Genes is the name)

[alargedog]

good idea posting the lyrics u get em from the radar staion? #####

[Brock2097]

Yeah man, I think I got the wrong lyrics though, there are a couple different versions of this song and the words here don't quite match up.

[KingOfWhiteTrash1]

@spicymeatsandwich He was married to the same (adult) woman for over 40 years. You, sir, are crazy as a shithouse rat. Talking compulsive retard smack about the dead is a fool's game. I hope you get hit by a truck.

[KingOfWhiteTrash1]

@spicymeatsandwich Look! It's that ass clown spicymeatsandwich. Like a flasher "sharing" his genitals with unsuspecting passersby, he stops to share his shameless rudeboi opinion with a crowd that doesn't really care to see it.

[vollsticks]

@spicymeatsandwich Which interviews are these? Who're the writers and when and where did they appear? I know there's no reference to liking under-age kids in the big Rolling Stone Langdon Winner piece from 1969, undoubtedly the "height" of Beefheart's career....anyway, please let us all know about these interviews, there's a lot of Beefheart fans depending on you for this information!

[spicymeatsandwich]

I do not support Westboro Baptist, but I do support calling out blatant shams like Captain Beeftart. From his so called musical talent to his unabashed love of underage girls and boys (15 yo girls and a 16 year old boy may not be children, BUT it was still illegal) as proclaimed in not 1 but 2 different interviews during the height of his career. The only ass clown was the desert loving crow chomo himself.

[HumanBornFree]

@spicymeatsandwich YouTube is getting clogged up with pretentious D-Bags that believe their opinions are facts.

[KingOfWhiteTrash1]

You'll have to excuse Spiceymeathead. He gets a sick thrill out of speaking ill of the newly deceased. Someday, he hopes to march at funerals with Westboro Baptist Church's traveling band of self-righteous and judgmental prigs.

[CK2890]

@spicymeatsandwich and even still he was far more entertaining than youll ever be

[HelenusMaximusIII]

@spicymeatsandwich what exactly are you trying to achieve by posting this? If you don't like it, leave it alone. Why would you want to spoil it for other people? It's not doing you any harm, is it...

[spicymeatsandwich]

YouTube is getting clogged up with this garbage that pretentious D-Bags have agreed to call genius or even entertaining (which it certainly isn't.) Captain Beefheart is objectively bad and an entire generation who did not grow up listening to him has now convinced themselves that they did in fact listen to him before he showed up on some self congratulating "Top_____" list.

Mr. BeefHard is one of many to pull the oblivious genius shtick on Letterman and clearly the least entertaining.