Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band Live in Cannes (1968). + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band WABX TV Studio 'Detroit Tube Works' January 15, 1971 1. When Big Joan Sets Up (0:00) 2. Hair Pie Bass Solo (6:23) 3. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (6:42) 4. Flash Gordon's Ape Marimba Solo (8:48) 5. Bellerin Plain (9:11) 6. Instrumental for Foot and Fingers (13:00) Mike: I just met the man who directed many of the video shoots for WABX Tube Works, a TV program in the early '70's which featured both touring and local bands playing live. The video in question was, in fact, shot after the Magic Band's show in Detroit with Alice Cooper and Ry Cooder. They drove out to the studio (now WXON TV 20), set up, and played what you hear. The guy I met, Chuck, apparently has the master in his basement. Why, you may ask, is this important? Well, it's important to me ;) It happened in my backyard. That footage changed my life. Nifty trivia: the vacuum cleaner visible in the shot (to the right of John French's drum kit) was not Beefheart's, but was placed there by the crew, who had seen photos of Don with a vacuum (which was in fact Chunga, immmortalized on Zappa's Chunga's Revenge). Chuck Reti: I was director of most of the music segments ... The Beefheart session was memorable (a lot because their behavior drove Betsy, our exec producer, literally to tears). The same taping session that night/morning we also shot Ry Cooder, who earlier that night had been on a concert bill with Beefheart. I don't think the Cooder tape survived. While no 'original' material was .... + Informações

No correlation between the music and the footage used from the 1956's "Pork People Like" except I like Beefheart and I like pork. It works I guess.. + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Beat Club TV Program Radio Bremen, Funkhaus, Bremen, Germany April 12, 1972 A. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Bill Harkleroad: I'm Gonna Booglarize You got played an awful lot and was definitely part of our live show. Like Click Clack and Alice In Blunderland, Booglarize you was a staple part of the set on three basic tours - 1971, 1972 and 1973. I can specifically remember the band performing it on a German TV show called Beat Club. Like all TV shows at that time, they weren't ready for loudly performed music. Our type of music was designed to be played loud, it didn't have to be earsplitting, but it had to be played with a certain amount of volume just to push enough air to feel the excitement level of it - because we did have energy, no question about it! I remember how difficult it was, beating the crap out of the instrument and jumping around, when you could hear people whispering over the low volume. ... Back then live TV shows were only one step better than lip-synching. It always felt funny playing to 30-odd people who were clapping politely while the TV producer was trying to make it look like a crowd 500. It was a very sterile environment and of course the Magic Band came over as being totally 'over-the-top' with our look - I remember stumbling around on my high heeled green shoes. Heiko Hasenbein: They played I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby. The presenter called the song burlesque and pointed out that Captain Beefheart is .... + Informações

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band; directed by Don Van Vliet (with much uncredited assistance from producer Ken Schreiber), cinematography by Daniel Pearl (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre); Don Van Vliet (vocals, harp), Gary Lucas (guitar), Jeff Tepper (guitar), Rick Snyder (bass), Cliff Martinez (drums); filmed on location in the High Mojave Desert near Lancaster, California; clip rejected by MTV USA as "too weird" upon release, now in the Permanent Film and Video Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; track taken from the 1982 Virgin album "Ice Cream for Crow". + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Easy Teeth Bootleg Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, CA February 18, 1978 Part 1: Hair Pie: Bake 3 (mistitled as Flavor Bud Living) Suction Prints (unlisted) Electricity Part 2: Click Clack A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Floppy Boot Stomp Part 3: Bat Chain Puller Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Crazy Little Thing Part 4: When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy Owed T'Alex I Love You, You Big Dummy (poem reading by Don Van Vliet) Low Yo Yo Stuff Part 5: Pachuco Cadaver Abba Zaba Grow Fins Part 6: Dali's Car China Pig "Denny Walley on guitar" Part 7: Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do Sun Zoom Spark When You Smile (vocals: Paul 'Easy Teeth' Young) Big Eyed Beans From Venus Golden Birdies Whitney Quinn: One time (late '70's?) I got a chance to meet him backstage at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, California, and Don and I spent about two hours in a wonderful one-on-one conversation, where we talked about everything BUT music. Being a professional musician myself, I'm not usually an awe-struck fan, but, punk kid that I was, I asked Don if he might autograph an LP for me. He said sure, so I went back to my car, came back with an armful and said, "Which one?" His eyes lit up, and Don signed every one, inscribed, "To Whitney - love over gold. Love, Don" and the date. The things I remember most about seeing him and his band were the consistently tight ensemble playing, the roaringly powerful performances by Don himself, his gentle .... + Informações

A little holiday gift to my 200+ subscribers. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Paramount Theater, Oakland, California December 26, 1975 Part 1: Moonlight On Vermont Abba Zaba Band Introduction Orange Claw Hammer Dali's Car Part 2: When It Blows Its Stacks My Human Gets Me Blues Alice In Blunderland Improvisation including Drumbo's Tap Dance Part 3: Electricity Golden Birdies Big Eyed Beans From Venus William 'Greenlion': He was opening for Zappa at both shows and contrary to popular opinion Zappa and Beefheart fans are not one and the same. It was so bad at the Paramount (Oakland) show that I thought Zappa was going to come out and say something, but he didn't ... The Captain was ready for em at Winterland as you can hear on the tape. In fact I believe he was provoking the crowd at Winterland. I do recall the Roland Kirk dedication. After Beefheart finished and before Zappa came on about 20% of the crowd, including yours truly, left. In fact that was the last time I would go see Zappa. Jay Soule: I'm pretty sure I was at the Oakland show mentioned here. An interesting Magic Band in that there was no bass guitar. All the bass came from Bruce Fowler's trombone, which Beefheart called "air bass," and it had an enormous, deep sound. John French was on drums, tap danced a little, and did background vocals on Electricity. And do I remember right that Elliot Ingber was back on guitar? The last we had heard from Beefheart outside of Bongo Fury was the Mercury material, so we .... + Informações

A little holiday gift to my 200+ subscribers. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Paramount Theater, Oakland, California December 26, 1975 Part 1: Moonlight On Vermont Abba Zaba Band Introduction Orange Claw Hammer Dali's Car Part 2: When It Blows Its Stacks My Human Gets Me Blues Alice In Blunderland Improvisation including Drumbo's Tap Dance Part 3: Electricity Golden Birdies Big Eyed Beans From Venus William 'Greenlion': He was opening for Zappa at both shows and contrary to popular opinion Zappa and Beefheart fans are not one and the same. It was so bad at the Paramount (Oakland) show that I thought Zappa was going to come out and say something, but he didn't ... The Captain was ready for em at Winterland as you can hear on the tape. In fact I believe he was provoking the crowd at Winterland. I do recall the Roland Kirk dedication. After Beefheart finished and before Zappa came on about 20% of the crowd, including yours truly, left. In fact that was the last time I would go see Zappa. Jay Soule: I'm pretty sure I was at the Oakland show mentioned here. An interesting Magic Band in that there was no bass guitar. All the bass came from Bruce Fowler's trombone, which Beefheart called "air bass," and it had an enormous, deep sound. John French was on drums, tap danced a little, and did background vocals on Electricity. And do I remember right that Elliot Ingber was back on guitar? The last we had heard from Beefheart outside of Bongo Fury was the Mercury material, so we .... + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland November 1, 1980 FULL CONCERT No Edits Part 1: Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Abba Zaba Hot Head Part 2: Ashtray Heart Dirty Blue Gene Best Batch Yet Part 3: Safe As Milk Flavor Bud Living Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles One Red Rose That I Mean One Man Sentence Part 4: Doctor Dark Bat Chain Puller My Human Gets Me Blues Part 5: Sugar 'n Spikes Veteran's Day Poppy Dropout Boogie Part 6: Sheriff Of Hong Kong Kandy Korn Part 7: Suction Prints Big Eyed Beans From Venus Rick Snyder: I remember that this show was being taped for a radio broadcast, so I imagine that the recordings for this show were of a better quality than the attendant performance! Seriously, I had a wonderful time at this show -- and I recall being concerned about the precarious architecture of the place (eg, the stage felt unusually 'flexible', and it seemed as though some of the railings that circumvented the seating area were in grave danger of being broken away at any time). Holland was beautiful at that time, and I remember that we were all quite enamored with the area, especially the nearby art museum that the entire band took a 'field trip' (for a lack of a better term) to. In the same vicinity, there was a wonderful restaurant that Eric and I visited that kept an aquarium of live fish in the wall -- from which you were able to select and be served what was probably the very best, freshest fish that I have ever tasted -- before or .... + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band 1980 European Tour Rehearsals 'Low Rent Studio Behind A Bike Shop', Los Angeles, California NBC Profile 'Eyewitness', California TV Rehearsal Footage and Interview w/Tom Moyer Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man partial The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) partial A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond partial Kurt Loder: Bolstered by the clamorous reception accorded Doc At The Radar Station, Van Vliet is now itching to get out on the road. "Our sets will probably be an hour and thirty minutes, I think. That's too long, but after the Grateful Dead and Zappa, what can you do? I mean, if you don't have it, man, you have to play longer. It makes me feel funny. It's an insult to people to stay up there that long." Long sets also mean more lyrics to be recommitted to memory - not an appealing prospect with a repertoire as complex and lengthy as Van Vliet's. "I have to learn all of that vomit, you know? It's like reaching back in a toilet, bringing it back up. God, that stuff is so far back to me at this point I mean, Jesus Christ, I can't even remember where my keys are in my pocket." Van Vliet and the Magic Band (with new guitarist Richard Snyder replacing the recently departed Drumbo) will kick off a major US tour on the East Coast in late November, then head west after a brief holiday break. First, though, the group will embark on a two-week tour of Europe. Don likes visiting Europe.. + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band New Victoria Theatre, London, England November 14, 1975 Part 1: Moonlight On Vermont Band Introduction Abba Zaba Orange Claw Hammer Part 2: Dali's Car When It Blows Its Stacks My Human Gets Me Blues Alice In Blunderland Part 3: Natchez Burning Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones Part 4: Improvisation including Drumbo's Tap Dance Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead Electricity Golden Birdies Part 5: Big Eyed Beans From Venus Chas De Whalley: Quiet, mild mannered, and sensitive he may be, but Don Van Vliet is also the Spotlight Kid and with Drumbo and Winged Eel Fingerling he beamed down to London to save us. ... Clad in white, confident to the point of arrogance, the Captain stalked, growled and purred across the stage in his finest voice, laying down that old time, Vermont Moonlight religion like we haven't heard it in years - waving, gesticulating and haranguing the crowd, foot up on the monitor speakers, eyes gleaming like an astral politician's. The audience of a couple of thousand mere earthlings were transfixed, mesmerized by the envoys from a distant galaxy, with Beefheart in complete and absolute control. With a real magic band behind him Beefheart put paid to the ugly rumours that he'd gone soft and sentimental, as Winged Eel Fingerling and slide guitar man Denny Wally put real iron back into the Beefheart stage show. Goodbye to the anaemic touring outfit of 1974, and farewell to the hotchpotch band of gypsies we saw at Knebworth .... + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Shiny Beast Outtakes The Automatt, San Francisco, CA August 28 1978 01. Suction Prints (4:20) marimba!, less horns 02. When I See Mummy I Feel Like A Mummy (4:29) shorter, missing background vocals 03. Candle Mambo (Version 1) (3:18) marimba low.... + Informações

A present from me to my 100+ subs. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, California January 31, 1981 Part 1: Hair Pie Bake 3/ Hair Pie Bake 2 (1981 Version) Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go Hot Head Part 2: Ashtray Heart Dirty Blue Gene The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) Best Batch Yet Part 3: Band Introduction Safe As Milk One Red Rose That I Mean Sue Egypt Doctor Dark Part 4: Bat Chain Puller My Human Gets Me Blues Sheriff Of Hong Kong Part 5: Kandy Korn Suction Prints Big Eyed Beans From Venus Voot Zombo: Having seen the original band once and the later "Best Batch Yet" Williams, Tepper, Feldman, etc. a half dozen times, I can tell you THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A LIVE BEEFHEART SHOW!!! From the first note until the finale it was pure fun. I couldn't stop smiling. My face would hurt from grinning. Everybody in the band was grinning too. They all seemed to really be having a good time. Don would make comments between songs such as after Tepper would crank out One Red Rose That I Mean. Don would look over the crowd and proclaim, "He plays that REALLLLLY good!" And everybody would cheer like crazy. During songs Don would walk around to various band members and say something in their ear that would make them laugh or he would walk up to Eric "Black Jew Kitiboo" Feldman (who would be wearing his fireman's helmet playing Hot Head) and scratch him under his goateed chin the .... + Informações

Dust Sucker. + Informações

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (Mousetrapreplica). + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Easy Teeth Bootleg Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, CA February 18, 1978 Part 1: Hair Pie: Bake 3 (mistitled as Flavor Bud Living) Suction Prints (unlisted) Electricity Part 2: Click Clack A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Floppy Boot Stomp Part 3: Bat Chain Puller Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Crazy Little Thing Part 4: When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy Owed T'Alex I Love You, You Big Dummy (poem reading by Don Van Vliet) Low Yo Yo Stuff Part 5: Pachuco Cadaver Abba Zaba Grow Fins Part 6: Dali's Car China Pig "Denny Walley on guitar" Part 7: Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do Sun Zoom Spark When You Smile (vocals: Paul 'Easy Teeth' Young) Big Eyed Beans From Venus Golden Birdies Whitney Quinn: One time (late '70's?) I got a chance to meet him backstage at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, California, and Don and I spent about two hours in a wonderful one-on-one conversation, where we talked about everything BUT music. Being a professional musician myself, I'm not usually an awe-struck fan, but, punk kid that I was, I asked Don if he might autograph an LP for me. He said sure, so I went back to my car, came back with an armful and said, "Which one?" His eyes lit up, and Don signed every one, inscribed, "To Whitney - love over gold. Love, Don" and the date. The things I remember most about seeing him and his band were the consistently tight ensemble playing, the roaringly powerful performances by Don himself, his gentle .... + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Mudd Club, New York City December 10, 1980 Setlist: Hair Pie Best Batch Yet Dirty Blue Gene beginning only Sugar 'n Spikes Ashtray Heart Doctor Dark Sheriff Of Hong Kong beginning only Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee Suction Prints cuts 20 seconds before end Big Eyed Beans From Venus Peter Warner: Soon after the band returned to NYCity and played Irving Plaza. I got drunk and passed out on the monitors. I only missed one song (I think). Beefheart took to staring me in the eyes and howling. Oh yeah, this was the day after John Lennon's death. Beefheart muttered something about exploitation when someone handed him a Lennon memorial T-shirt. After the gig, Feldman approached me and I pulled on his beard. He told me they were playing the Mudd Club after (but didn't ask for directions). Anyone ever come across a video of Captain Beefheart's Mudd Club performance (the day after John Lennon's death)? I was one of the handful of fans there and know it exists (Gary Lucas told me he confiscated the master: it was standard practice by the club for all performance to be taped). It was a wild night. Some girl in a big red sweater (good looking and drunk as all hell) was hangin' all over me. She kept throwing change at the Captain telling him to shut up. I told the Cap I didn't know who this chick was. (in hindsight, I shoulda gone for the chick.) The Cap and I got into a stareing match -- he singing away inches from my face as I .... + Informações

captain beefheart with the tragic band. + Informações

A sampler of the time that Gary had onstage during the 1980-81 tour concerts. Gary Lucas: [Don] invited me to go on tour with the band. I would come out during the set and do Flavor Bud Living solo while Don and the band left the stage. It was nerve-rackingly fun. I was sitting in with them on Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, played bass on Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee, and read some of his poetry. This was about one fourth of the show. It was fun to tour, a lot of fun. I played Europe and the East and West Coast dates. 1. Flavour Bud Living - Live in Paris, November 7, 1980 2. One Man Sentence - Live in Amsterdam, November 1, 1980 3. You Should Know By The Kindness Of Uh Dog The Way Uh Human Should Be - Live in San Francisco, January 24, 1981 Early Show 4. Untitled - Live In San Francisco - January 24, 1981 Late Show 5. Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat (acapella) - Live in Petaluma, January 25, 1981. + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland November 1, 1980 FULL CONCERT No Edits Part 1: Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Abba Zaba Hot Head Part 2: Ashtray Heart Dirty Blue Gene Best Batch Yet Part 3: Safe As Milk Flavor Bud Living Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles One Red Rose That I Mean One Man Sentence Part 4: Doctor Dark Bat Chain Puller My Human Gets Me Blues Part 5: Sugar 'n Spikes Veteran's Day Poppy Dropout Boogie Part 6: Sheriff Of Hong Kong Kandy Korn Part 7: Suction Prints Big Eyed Beans From Venus Rick Snyder: I remember that this show was being taped for a radio broadcast, so I imagine that the recordings for this show were of a better quality than the attendant performance! Seriously, I had a wonderful time at this show -- and I recall being concerned about the precarious architecture of the place (eg, the stage felt unusually 'flexible', and it seemed as though some of the railings that circumvented the seating area were in grave danger of being broken away at any time). Holland was beautiful at that time, and I remember that we were all quite enamored with the area, especially the nearby art museum that the entire band took a 'field trip' (for a lack of a better term) to. In the same vicinity, there was a wonderful restaurant that Eric and I visited that kept an aquarium of live fish in the wall -- from which you were able to select and be served what was probably the very best, freshest fish that I have ever tasted -- before or .... + Informações

from safe as milk album. + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band TV Program Chorus, Paris Free Private Gig at Théatre De L'Empire, Paris, France November 7, 1980 Part 1: Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Best Batch Yet Dirty Blue Gene Part 2: Safe As Milk Flavor Bud Living Bat Chain Puller Big Eyed Beans From Venus An upgrade from Hewish's tracks uploaded some years ago. Highest quality on the net; retrived directly from French National Television Archives on www.ina.fr. Scott McFarland: How physically difficult was it to play some of those parts? (Watching the 1980 Paris TV footage, it looks pretty draining, especially Best Batch Yet and Dirty Blue Gene). Were any songs especially difficult? Robert Williams: I never felt any stress during those performances. If you're referring to my facial expressions, Don choreographed me to scowl like a cat because one of the drum parts on Best Batch Yet was described to me by Don as "... a cat trying to get out of a cardboard box." Every song of every show was played with such conviction that the only pain felt was the pain of hearing a mistake within one of the compositions. At the same time it was exhilarating to hear ourselves play them correctly. Scott McFarland: What are you and Don saying to each other in the Paris 1980 concert when he goes over and shakes your hand after playing Best Batch Yet? Robert Williams: Something like ... "Oh man, if I were a woman I'd suck your dick for how well you played that!" or maybe it was "I think you may have some .... + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band The Rotter's Club, Liverpool, England October 29, 1980 Part 1: Japan In A Dishpan Bass Solo "Toaster" Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Abba Zaba Hot Head Part 2: Dirty Blue Gene Best Batch Yet One Man Sentence Safe As Milk Flavour Bud Living Part 3: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles One Red Rose That I Mean Doctor Dark Bat Chain Puller My Human Gets Me Blues Sugar 'n Spikes Part 4: Veterans Day Poppy Dropout Boogie Sheriff Of Hong Kong Part 5: Kandy Korn Suction Prints Big Eyed Beans From Venus Theo Tieman: In between the jingling of crockery, and the unrest of the audience - which rather is nervous and enthusiast than frightening - DISC ONE starts with the bass solo Toaster, the traditional (sic) opening with some Hair Pie variations here in the version with Eric Feldman wearing a toaster (just what I say). After a false start with Don forgetting to blow his harmonica on time, the full band makes a good start with the concert by means of Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man. They continue with Beefheart's long-time live favourite on almost every gig Abba Zaba and present a triptych of songs from their newest release Doc At The Radar Station - material they're more familiar with. So no wonder that Hot Head really cools the audience down, and when Beefheart announces "one from Trout Mask Replica" and instead performs Dirty Blue Gene the public is definitely turned on. And after that Best Batch Yet is their best song yet. Then comes the .... + Informações

Track #1 from the album Clear Spot (1972). + Informações

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band TV Program Chorus, Paris Free Private Gig at Théatre De L'Empire, Paris, France November 7, 1980 Part 1: Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man Best Batch Yet Dirty Blue Gene Part 2: Safe As Milk Flavor Bud Living Bat Chain Puller Big Eyed Beans From Venus An upgrade from Hewish's tracks uploaded some years ago. Highest quality on the net; retrived directly from French National Television Archives on www.ina.fr. Scott McFarland: How physically difficult was it to play some of those parts? (Watching the 1980 Paris TV footage, it looks pretty draining, especially Best Batch Yet and Dirty Blue Gene). Were any songs especially difficult? Robert Williams: I never felt any stress during those performances. If you're referring to my facial expressions, Don choreographed me to scowl like a cat because one of the drum parts on Best Batch Yet was described to me by Don as "... a cat trying to get out of a cardboard box." Every song of every show was played with such conviction that the only pain felt was the pain of hearing a mistake within one of the compositions. At the same time it was exhilarating to hear ourselves play them correctly. Scott McFarland: What are you and Don saying to each other in the Paris 1980 concert when he goes over and shakes your hand after playing Best Batch Yet? Robert Williams: Something like ... "Oh man, if I were a woman I'd suck your dick for how well you played that!" or maybe it was "I think you may have some .... + Informações