RIP Cap'n Beefheart

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  • Karl2010
    Karl2010 Posts: 511
    Did this guy use this forum?

    Or is the one on this forum an imposter?
  • Karl2010
    Karl2010 Posts: 511
    Ahh just realised it FLASHHART who uses the forum.

    My bad...
  • Lucky Douglas
    Lucky Douglas Posts: 155
    Really stands out as fresh and different, even after all this time.
    Good for him.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Just spotted this by Robert Williams

    I sorry to say that Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart has died.
    He passed away early this morning due to complications related to MS.

    It was an honor to have played drums for him and the drum parts he wrote were absolutely amazing.
    I'll never have as much fun playing drums as I did for him.

    For those of you unfamiliar with his work, please do yourself a favor and find out more through Google and YouTube.

    His best record was "Clear Spot," It was before I joined the band and producer, Ted Templeman (Van Halen etc.) brought out the best in him.

    Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) and Doc at the Radar Station were the records I played on.

    Don Van Vliet RIP

    Robert WilliamsG5 iMac, OS10.4.11, 1.9GHz, 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM, 828mkII, DP 6.02.
    Former drummer for Capt. Beefheart, The Stranglers, Hugh Cornwell, George Sarah, John Lydon, Robbie Krieger, Johnny Guitar Watson, Peewee Crayton, Dr. John, Tex & the Horseheads, Parthenon Huxley, The Magic Band, Tomoyatsu Hotei, George Clinton, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, with 2 solo albums on A&M Records in 1980 and 1982, & in 1998 on Tonecasualties. Currently working on my next release.
  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    I remember John Peel raving on about Beefheart and Mark E (Fall) all the time - never heard much of his music though - R.I.P
  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    Saddened to hear of his passing. NP: Trout Mask Replica.
    Winner: PTP Vuelta 2007 :wink:
  • mozwyn69
    mozwyn69 Posts: 170
    R.I.P The Captain. Fast and Bulbous
    Sometimes you have to lose yourself
    before you can find anything.
  • Sleepycol
    Sleepycol Posts: 66
    Tom Waits, another musician who was influenced by Beefheart, said of him: "Once you've heard Beefheart, it's hard to wash him out of your clothes. It stains, like coffee or blood."
    Interviewer: ‘So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?’

    Frank Zappa: ‘You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
  • mercsport
    mercsport Posts: 664
    I saw Beefheart a couple of times in the seventies - both times at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. The first gig was identical to this vid of the Paris gig : http://goo.gl/qHTB3 - same suits, same mania, same precision of all those layers of conflicting tempos. To resurrect an overworked phrase of the time - Far-out!

    The second gig a year or so later, was full of bad vibes. After the band's intro and he entered from stage right, the mic' blew out and he was in a black mood from thereon. It took awhile before the roadies got him back in the frame, and you just knew he wanted out of here. A pity.

    I have all his albums up to Unconditionally Guaranteed, and always thought he hit the heights with The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot, contrary to what most of the obit's I read this morning, which majored on Trout Mask and Safe as Milk. They were good, but suffered from weak production I thought. Trout Mask though has one of the all time great album covers.

    A mystery that has baffled me ever since he jacked in music - as good as - and took up the paintbrush and abstract impressionism was the radical difference from the tightness of his music and the sloppy artlessness of his painting (but then I never did 'get' abstract art. Nobody I knew at art school could explain it either).

    But John Peel was right : he was a genius.
    "Lick My Decals Off, Baby"
  • IronHorse100
    IronHorse100 Posts: 302
    f*ck, f*ck, f*ck. Only just heard the news. Truly gutted. A bona fide genius and maverick. Gonna stick one of my favourite albums 'Clear Spot' on as a tribute if I can wrestle my daughter (and Lady Ga Ga) off the stereo!
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    I'm up in my glider
    'N I'm tellin' you boys there ain't no noise
    'N me 'n my baby ain't never gonna bring my glider down.

    The stars are matter
    We're matter
    But it doesn't matter

    RIP Don Van Vliet, The Captain.
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    mozwyn69 wrote:
    R.I.P The Captain. Fast and Bulbous

    check the signature; Beefheart was like a long lost (mad) uncle to me.

    When I heard he was gone, I heaved a octofish sigh and shed also a tin teardrop.

    :(

    Fast and Bulbous
    Peregrinations
    Eddingtons: 80 (Metric); 60 (Imperial)
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    From his Guardian obituary:

    "a short stint as a vacuum cleaner salesman followed in which he toted his wares around the desert communities of southern California. Once, legend has it, he knocked on the door of a mobile home and none other than Aldous Huxley answered. Beefheart pointed at a vacuum cleaner and shouted, "I assure you sir, this thing sucks." He made his sale."

    genius! :D

    Fast and Bulbous
    Peregrinations
    Eddingtons: 80 (Metric); 60 (Imperial)
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    Didn't he write the big break theme tune? Legend!
    What wheels...? Wheelsmith.co.uk!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    simonaspinall wrote:
    Didn't he write the big break theme tune? Legend!

    No, that was Coldplay.
  • stevewj
    stevewj Posts: 227
    I remember hearing 'oh where do the freaks go' on John Peel and not bothering to listen to anything ese by him.

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