Captain Beefheart is gone

[kohodog]

Brilliant musician and artist. A sad day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/arts/music/18beefheart.html?hp

[GReedDiamond]

1. NOOOO!!!!!!!!! Not the Captain!!.....

...I am devastated, I love Don Van Vliet, and have since the 60s.

God damn it...

[immoderate]

2. Sorrow!

--imm

[Cal Carpenter]

3. Stream him live till around 10pm here:

wcbn.org

Univ. of Mich student-run radio, the DJ said 'Well, I'm gonna be the guy who plays Captain Beefheart for 2 solid hours...'

And he really is!

It's awesome.

RIP Captain..

[GReedDiamond]

4. Thanks for the tip...

...streaming now. Beefheart was/is incredible.

[Cal Carpenter]

7. You're welcome

It's a great station overall -some of the shows give me a headache but a lot of it is great stuff. The PSAs are hilarious and there are great station breaks with the likes of Noam Chomsky, Allen Ginsberg, Iggy Pop...it's worth a listen if you make a habit of streaming music. No commercials, no NPR-style donor ads...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Aw, HELL.

I remember a Junior High music class in which we had to get up and read the lyrics to a song. I chose "Orange Claw Hammer" but I didn't READ it...I PERFORMED it just like Don did on "Trout Mask Replica." The class thought I was insane. I was in hog heaven.

Saw him LIVE with Zappa on the Bongo Fury tour. They didn't play a single note together, unfortunately...Beefheart was the opening act. But he DID perform "Orange Claw Hammer." I had that ear-to-ear grin through the whole damn song.

Fast and bulbous, Don...fast and bulbous. I know that you and Frank are together in Rock & Roll Heaven, stealing pineapple buns out of the back of your dad's bakery truck and listening to doo-wop and R&B records...just like you did when you were teenagers.

:toast:

[Gabi Hayes]

10. very very sad.....just played this in the car yesterday (not this version, which is better)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-HWKhnI-s

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. I have that on a Zappa mix CD that I always keep in the car...

...called "Poot Face Boogie." I was with friends in Berkeley and we walked by a record store and there was a Zappa bootleg called "Poot Face Boogie" onb display, and I don;t know why that title grabbed me, but it did. That one covers Freak Out through The Grand Wazoo. A couple of months ago I put together "Poot Face Boogie II" which includes the Beefheart stuff from "Bongo Fury," and I have a third mix CD that's 100% Beefheart, culled from all of the Reprise albums (Trout Mask through Clear Spot).

:toast:

[Gabi Hayes]

12. can I have it?

seriously

can I?

or some salvia?

seriously

[Matariki]

6. sad day :-[

[Withywindle]

8. It's a sadder, grimmer world today.

:cry:

[Vickers]

9. The first time I heard "Trout Mask Replica" was in a bar in Germany

and I swear, there was almost a riot, half the people wanted it to stop, and half wanted it to go on.

Crazy times.

My fave album from him is "Safe As Milk" which is like some kind of LSD/Robert Johnson thing. Amazing.

[Kalyke]

13. Shit...

There's our Third.

Was wondering when the middle shoe would drop.

Elizabeth, Richard and Captain.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. slightly OT, but it's interesting in its own way....rooting around for stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQTC-GaqJVM

Between the late '70s and early '80s, Federico Sighieri (organ and piano), Roberto Pampuri (bass and guitar), Nino Schena (guitar and bass) and me (only drums), we have formed a small band in order to be together again.

The new band was named "Punto Critico" and, we not having a singer able to perform live concerts, we decided to play only instrumental music, as classical music arranged as pop, rock and jazz.

For our repertoire we had chose music of fabulous bands and artists, as the Ekseption, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, Jimmy Smith, Brian Auger, and music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and so on.
One day, in a store of Genoa, I was intrigued by the cover of the album "Hot Rats" by Frank Zappa (1969), so I bought it.

We liked "Peaches en Regalia", a song that turns out to be very difficult to learn. However, with perseverance, stubbornness, and especially thanks to the skill of my friends, and then managed to run it satisfactorily. Our version of "Peache en regalia" was always much appreciated by the public of our live concerts in several places of Liguria.

Now, after more than 30 years, I have recover my old vinyl to make it MP3s and enjoy to listen to it again.......

So here is yet another result of my "effort". It is not a professional and valuable work, but I think that at least Frank, from heaven, can appreciate this as a sincere tribute to his rare musical talent and his unique personality and sympathy. I hope that you, "Youtubians people", appreciate this too.

Maurizio "Poppy" Parodi - january 2010 - Genoa (Italy)