7/4 Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Vanity Fair, '83. The old 'fheart was having a real cultural moment back then. Wasn't that around the same time he was on Saturday Night Live? The Radar Station says 22nd November 1980. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Vanity Fair, '83. The old 'fheart was having a real cultural moment back then. Wasn't that around the same time he was on Saturday Night Live? The Radar Station says 22nd November 1980. I remember seeing that "live" back when I was in college. Forgot it was 1980! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 I saw it the first time it ran too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 And now, through the magic of the internet, we can see it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 ...And we can also see Paris Hilton holding up a copy of Trout Mask Replica. What an amazing, wonderful modern age we live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 She's Too Much For My Mirror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjzee Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I just noticed that Amazon mp3 has added a number of Beefheart titles, including the long-unavailable "I'm Gonna Do What I Wanna Do:" Beefheart on Amazon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Happy Birthday Don Van Vliet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...ticle707093.ece Zep ace no fan of new music VETERAN LED ZEPPELIN rocker ROBERT PLANT doesn’t have a Whole Lotta Love for all this new music nonsense. And the grumpy singer made his feelings well known in a bar in Camden, North London, last week. Wrinkly Robert showed his age with the rant at two of the world’s biggest bands as they were played over the stereo at Fifty Five Bar. He rubbished RADIOHEAD and the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS — and then demanded to hear weirdo rocker CAPTAIN BEEFHEART instead. A source said: “He was drinking with a woman and didn’t like the choice of tunes playing. “Radiohead was on and he started complaining. He said, ‘What’s this rhyming c**p?’ “The staff were obviously keen to please him so they changed the music. They put on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who they thought might be more up his street. But he didn’t like their stuff either and said it was like a ‘nursery rhyme.’ “He then said he wanted to listen to Captain Beefheart.” Led Zep’s brilliant reunion at London O2 Arena last year won them a new generation of fans. I was gutted when I had to miss it to watch the SPICE GIRLS launch their tour in America. But it seems Robert doesn’t have much time for modern-day musical heroes. Okay, so he might not like po-faced Radiohead and I don’t think they and Led Zep have much in common. The 1970s rockers travelled the world in their fuel-guzzling jet — while THOM YORKE’s lot would probably prefer transport fuelled by recycled teabags. But comparing Chili tracks to nursery rhymes? Has old Percy finally lost the plot? You’re unlikely to hear Beefheart — AKA DON VAN VLIET — in your average bar. He wrote strange songs with odd timings and surreal lyrics. His best-known album was 1969’s Trout Mask Replica, considered a masterpiece by fans. He recorded with his Magic Band and also collaborated with fellow oddball FRANK ZAPPA. But if Radiohead and ANTHONY KIEDIS and the Chilis, are c**p, I would hate to hear what Robert has to say about most of the rest of the current chart. He obviously judges everyone by his own band’s high standards. My source added: “Radiohead and the Chilis are two of the biggest and best groups in the world. But it seems they don’t compare to Beefheart in Plant’s mind.” Edited January 21, 2008 by 7/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Thanks - the world feels a little more right today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 This is the oddest Beefheart mention I've seen in a while. In the current (Spring 2008) issue of Travel + Leisure Family, there's an article titled "The United States of Snacks." It says "Turn your next road trip into a nosh fest! Brake at farm stands and convenience stores for the quirky tastes that put each region on the food map. Here, a sweet-and-salty sampler of our nation's standout nibbles." Check out the entry for California: Also, does the border around the candy bar match the border around the back cover of Safe As Milk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 Also, does the border around the candy bar match the border around the back cover of Safe As Milk? I think so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spontooneous Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 The stuff isn't made from baby baboons, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AllenLowe Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 (edited) at the risk of unleashing the wrath of Clementine (and everybody else here), I gotta say that I find Beefheart a one-time-listen. Once you hear what he has/had to say, everything else appears to be a re-hash. He seems to me the epitome of what I have complained about ad-nauseum, something which I have called, in the past, formalism, but which is really an obsession with process that characterized a lot of "new" music - as though once you have solved the problem of form and basic technique, the rest is random - and not that Beefheart is random, but that he has a limited idea of what to do with his own innovations - and by the way he's a terrible graphic artist - Edited March 30, 2008 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 at the risk of unleashing the wrath of Clementine (and everybody else here), I gotta say that I find Beefheart a one-time-listen. Once you hear what he has/had to say, everything else appears to be a re-hash. He seems to me the epitome of what I have complained about ad-nauseum, something which I have called, in the past, formalism, but which is really an obsession with process that characterized a lot of "new" music - as though once you have solved the problem of form and basic technique, the rest is random - and not that Beefheart is random, but that he has a limited idea of what to do with his own innovations - and by the way he's a terrible graphic artist - bah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 sorry - I GOTTA BE ME WHAT ELSE CAN I BE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 THIS IS THE STRAIGHT TALK LOCAL - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Once you hear what he has/had to say, everything else appears to be a re-hash. ... not that Beefheart is random, but that he has a limited idea of what to do with his own innovations... Not necessarily to compare the two too deeply, but the same could be said about Monk, cumulatively, applying one type of "objective perspective". Trout Mask, Decals, and the later Virgin sides..."narrow", perhaps/probably, but also deep, if you have the inclination to go looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 A friend of mine picked this book up in England in the early '80's. It's a collection of articles from various sources (rock magazines, etc.). Front cover: Back cover: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 I have that book! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Maybe I should scan it and stick it in a pdf file. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartjewkes Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Beans... Lazer beans. Fast and bulbous! And genius, life changing to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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