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Captain Beefheart: Under Review DVD (Triton)

...doco comes this chronological account of Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) and his Magic Band. Van...

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The Nudge: Big Nudge Pie (Keen)

...Clear has some of that primal spirit which Captain Beefheart and Jim Morrison in roadhouse-blues mode...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4355/the-nudge-big-nudge-pie-keen/

TOM WAITS. BONE MACHINE, CONSIDERED (1992): Skeleton-rattling sounds and buried beauty

...corner usually only occupied by the likes of Captain Beefheart. But where Beefheart jumped in deep in the...

Tagged with: bob dylan | captain beefheart | tom waits |

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PERE UBU'S DAVID THOMAS INTERVIEWED (1999). Fools rush out

...what we do. People always ask me about Captain Beefheart. Well there's nothing of Captain Beefheart in...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/371/pere-ubus-david-thomas-interviewed-1999-fools-rush-out/

This Heat: This Heat (1979)

...innovations of Hendrix, Cream and Pink Floyd; Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa; the influence of jazz,...

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Little Feat: Dixie Chicken (1973)

...blues, (some likened it to a more approachable Captain Beefheart) but people stayed away from record shops. By...

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Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica (1969)

...I fled. It was all very well being told that Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) sounded like Howlin' Wolf, but... ...a rare moment in rock culture. For more on Captain Beefheart's career see . . . Captain Beefheart and the...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Darryn Harkness of New Telepathics

...or Nirvana, Madonna or Gaga, Jacko or Jay-Z? Captain Beefheart. If music was denied you, your other career...

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Various Artists: Son of Rogue's Gallery (Anti)

...in The Mermaid; Ed Pastorini speak-sings Captain Beefheart's Orange Claw Hammer; Gavin Friday and Shannon...

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HAL WILLNER INTERVIEWED (2013): More rum, sodomy and the lash

...pulled in pieces from other places too like Captain Beefheart's Orange Claw Hammer. You would have known...

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BOB DYLAN: HIS THEME TIME RADIO HOUR (2011): What's the frequency, Bobby?

...Armstrong, Loretta Lynn, Mose Allison, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart) and those never-weres or forgotten figures...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: David Donaldson of Thrashing Marlin

...songs, the smallest I can do is 3 albums. Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid, Hendrix - Band Of... ...to be bass player in. Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Captain Beefheart, Hendrix, and I would probably have a good...

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THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST DVD REVIEWED (2007)

...the New York Dolls and a seriously disturbing Captain Beefheart. There is southern soul funk (Little Feat)...

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Big Walter and the Thunderbirds: Watusie Freeze Part 1 (1959)

.... all get airplay around our way. As do early Captain Beefheart, spoken word albums, soundtracks from...

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Red Red Meat: Bunny Gets Paid (SubPop/Rhythmethod)

...like a bad trip, like a heavily sedated Captain Beefheart if he'd been seduced by pop rather than...

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THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: University of Auckland songwriter finalist Jamie Moana

...hear because they are well crafted are . . . Captain Beefheart - So Glad , Daft Punk - Rollin n Scratchin,... ...recent downloads include . . .) Last vinyl was Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow, most recent download was...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . VIRGIN RECORDS: From prog to punk, Bells to Bodies

...eccentric spoken word/songs (Velvet Donkey), Captain Beefheart's Unconditionally Guaranteed and the lesser...

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John Mayall: Blues From Laurel Canyon (1968)

...musical context of LA: the Byrds, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Canned Heat, clubs on Sunset Strips . . ....

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Joan Osborne: Little Wild One (Plum)

...one of her co-writes as owing a debt to Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet who was given a co-credit) and...

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PJ HARVEY CONSIDERED (2016): All killer and no Polly filler

...was even more complex lyrically, owed debts to Captain Beefheart and Patti Smith, again turning the microscope...

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Endless Boogie: Long Island (No Quarter)

...while singer-guitarist Top Dollar yelps like Captain Beefheart or growls like John Lee Hooker and twists out...

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CAN, THE LOST TAPES 1968-1975: On the way to mother sky, again

...thematic lines and nod towards everything from Captain Beefheart (Midnight Sky) to moody sonic landscapes...

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Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation (1988)

...Me I'm Sick, Neil Young's Computer Age and Captain Beefheart's Electricity. The set comes with two good...

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THIS HEAT REISSUED (2016): An uncommon collusion

...slightly tame. It's possible to hear a little Captain Beefheart, PiL, early Cure, the soundtracks of Pink...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic (Warners)

...German electronica bands, a little slice of Captain Beefheart mixed with early post-Barrett Pink Floyd,...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . WILD MAN FISCHER: Psycho street singer and shouter

...oddball performers and different musicians -- Captain Beefheart, the GTOs, the Shaggs -- it's hardly...

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Hobotalk: Alone Again Or (Glitterhouse)

...and deconstructed Hobo Chang Ha which with its Captain Beefheart noise-merchant quality is a long way from...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2261/hobotalk-alone-again-or-glitterhouse/

RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Frank Black: Teenager of the Year (digital outlets/vinyl)

...player Eric Drew Feldham (formerly in Captain Beefheart's idiosyncratic Magic Band and who played with...

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DAVID GATES INTERVIEWED (2003): Not in it for the Bread

...challenging eccentrics, Frank Zappa protege Captain Beefheart. The gentle-voiced Gates - now 63 - also... ...80s - but he remembers those early days with Captain Beefheart well. "They were just new to the studio... ...The man who once worked with the eccentric Captain Beefheart, crazy Phil Spector and slightly off-beam...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Darryn Paterson-Harkness

...I was also moved that same year when I heard Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’. Your... ...by the time I was 12, (reflecting on Can and Captain Beefheart!) I rated Lee Scratch Perry, Hendrix, The...

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RY COODER INTERVIEWED (2009): Dry, wry and moving right along

...you barely know where to start. He played with Captain Beefheart and was guest guitarist playing slide on the...

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Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance (1978)

...other album before it -- some have referenced Captain Beefheart but that is a stretch, although Thomas had a...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Little Feat; Original Album Series (Rhino)

...to less strident and long haul truck drivin' Captain Beefheart or the Stones around their Exile in Main...

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GUEST ARTIST STEVEN ATHANAS from Toledo, Ohio shares his outsider work

...are not abstract (you should see my tribute to Captain Beefheart - another one o' my heroes) The Lunatic Quads...

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COLIN LINWOOD INTERVIEWED (2014): Keeping the records straight

...was actually bad. "I could never get into Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, that had five stars, but...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . ZOOGZ RIFT: Speaking more than Frankly

...tired of the comparisons with Frank and Captain Beefheart. "I guess my main complaint is that I've...

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PJ Harvey and John Parish: A Woman A Man Walked By (Universal)

...which has had other reviewers pointing to Captain Beefheart or Grinderman, Nick Cave's noisy and...

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Black Keys: Ohio Players (digital outlets)

...Missy Elliott among them), covers (Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart), numerous awards and Auerbach established...

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Foxygen: . . . and Star Power (Jagjaguwar)

...Wilson bits, allusions to mid-period Captain Beefheart, industrial noise of no fixed product, hippie...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE SHAGGS: Sisters doing it for themselves

...his all-time favourite records: "Beyond Captain Beefheart." Perverse, or what? Okay it is, as Irwin...

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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE by JIM DeROGATIS: When the whip comes down

...and were on bills with the Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, the Blacksnake Blues Band and other unlikely...

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IN THE TIME OF STOPPED CLOCKS: A year after the flood

...sent a screenshot showing my original copy of Captain Beefheart's classic double album Trout Mask Replica...

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RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Corben Simpson; Get Up With the Sun

...this album could be as out there as early Captain Beefheart or some fellow traveller like Wild Man...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Toy Love: Cuts (Flying Nun)

...Hits No 1. Pop? Sure, but they also name-check Captain Beefheart, the Saints, Velvet Underground and Bowie. Toy...

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CC Adcock: Castin' My Spell (1999)

...and Crazy Horse, with Graham Parker, with Captain Beefheart or the Turtles, co-writing Up Where We Belong...

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JOHN COLTRANE. FIRST MEDITATIONS (FOR QUARTET), CONSIDERED (1965): Supreme love . . . and its consequences

...outsider work: That's akin to giving someone Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica because they expressed a...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . JANDEK: Stranger in an even stranger land

...prepared guitars) and the music of Barrett, Captain Beefheart and Skip Spence's Oar album, they collectively...

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GUEST RADIO HOST GRAHAM DONLON offers his 101 classic albums

...31. Bunny Wailer – Blackheart Man 32. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Trout Mask...

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Jerkagram and Martin Escalante: Parkour (577 Records/digital outlets)

...guitars, drums, loops and so on: Captain Beefheart, Boredoms and Keiji Haino. You might, after...

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The Soft Boys: A Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight (both Yep Roc/Southbound)

...rock'n'roll, novelty songs, offered hints of Captain Beefheart (within a pop context), spacey guitar pop . ....

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Wagons: Acid Rain and Sugar Cane (Spunk)

...debt. As he does to rockabilly, mid-period Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Tex Perkins, Lee Hazlewood,...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 St Vincent:Actor (4AD)

..."It simultaneously recalls Tori Amos and Captain Beefheart. Brilliantly bonkers"; "a brilliant...

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BLACK KEYS, TURN BLUE (2014): What a long strange trip it's being

...songs on tribute albums (Dylan, Buddy Holly, Captain Beefheart). They've done solo albums and side projects,...

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NUGGETS; ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS FROM THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC ERA 1965-1968: Diamonds and rough in a box

...early Zappa and a one-amp Walk this Way; early Captain Beefheart is here, Farmer John was covered by Neil Young...

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KARL WALLINGER OF WORLD PARTY INTERVIEWED (1993): Couldn't care less, couldn't care more

...and Britfunk bands (his listening encompassing Captain Beefheart and the Average White Band along the way),...

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10 MORE SHAMEFUL RECORD COVERS I'M PROUD TO OWN

...funky Polar Bear Stomp where he sings like Captain Beefheart and makes strange growling sounds. Worth the...

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Beck: One Foot in the Grave (XL)

...and challenging album. It was closer to Captain Beefheart than anything else around at the time. But...

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LAUREL CANYON directed by ALLISON ELLWOOD (2020): California dreamin' and tension

...and moody. And whatever the Zappa/Mothers, Captain Beefheart and Alice Cooper freaks chose to do. The...

Film at Elsewhere: film/9483/laurel-canyon-directed-by-allison-ellwood-2020-california-dreamin-and-tension/

The Raincoats: The Raincoats (We Three/Southbound)

I'm pretty sure I shared an elevator with some of the Raincoats at a hotel in New York in the mid Nineties, but I may be wrong. And that's the end of my anecdote. This is a reissue (The second? Third?

Music at Elsewhere: music/2949/the-raincoats-the-raincoats-we-three-southbound/

Frank Zappa: The Talking Asshole (1978)

Here's a rare and odd one, taken from the vinyl album You're A Hook: The 15th Anniversary of Dial-A-Poem (1968-1983), a record which came through the label Giorno Poetry Systems. The idea behind Dial-

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The J Geils Band: No Anchovies, Please (1980)

The J Geils Band out of Massachusetts is best known for their terrific single Angel in a Centrefold (aw, c'mon, it's great, in a rock'n'roll Benny Hill way . . . see clip below) and Freeze Frame -- an

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THE OUTER LIMITS OF THE HUMAN VOICE: That sound, it haunts me still!

Blame punk’s redrawing of the map - or Yoko Ono, or the much more irritating Celine Dion if you will -- but the limits of our tolerance to the human voice have certainly shifted over the past fe

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BRYAN FERRY INTERVIEWED (2004): Something he just threw on?

Let's be honest, this is how we think Bryan Ferry spends his days: he rises just before noon after having tea, toast, marmalade and the daily papers delivered to his bedroom. His manservant lays out h

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FRANK ZAPPA. AGAIN (2011): Just one more time . . .

The irritation, pleasure and difficulty with Frank Zappa was that he was always part of rock culture - but not exactly a rock musician. Well, not when it suits him. “Being a rock star is nothing

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/3874/frank-zappa-again-2011-just-one-more-time/

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