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Captain Beefheart / Don Van Vliet (1971).
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Captain Beefheart
January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010
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Don Van Vliet (1941-2010)
“Cholla”, 1989-90
Oil on canvas, 32 ½” x 37”
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Don Van Vliet - "A Bride for Wallah"
1988
oil on canvas
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QUITE POSSIBLY THE HEAVIEST BLUES TRACK OF 1967 -- PURE, STRAIGHT-OUT-THE-SWAMP HEAVY BLUES.
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the ultra rare Buddah "Plastic Factory" (b/w "Where There's Woman") single by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND, taken from the recently unearthed mono masters to the Captain's 1967 debut LP "Safe as Milk," released on Sundazed Music as part of Record Store Day Black Friday in 2012.
But, yeah, this track boasts just the murkiest, dirtiest, most menacing blues sound you've ever heard, and with the bass guitar being totally up front in the mix as well, hence the track's power, ferocity, and overall depth.
This ain't the Summer of Love at all, people, and it's just a really super-HEAVY and scary-sounding, no frills, blues cut. The Captain's harp is absolutely masterful as well, and it remains my all-time favorite track on his "Safe As Milk" (1967) debut LP until my inevitable doom. Check that shit out if ya haven't already!
Source: www.45cat.com/record/s255.
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PJ Harvey Reads Beefhart
- “It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words,” singer says of Captain’s poems
Captain Beefhart loved cats.
And PJ Harvey loved Beefhart, aka Don Van Vliet. And Van Vliet loved Harvey and her cat, Garden.
And so he, in 2001, wrote the poem “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat” for Harvey. And she read said poem for the late Beefhart at the London art exhibition “Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand” in 2024.
Check it out in the video above.
“Thank you to the Michael Werner Gallery for inviting me to read Don’s poems,” Harvey said in a statement. “It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words whilst standing amongst his paintings.”
2/13/24
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Andy on Don!
When the album came out, he more or less immediately disowned it, saying it’s covered in—what was the phrase—“psychedelic Bromo-Seltzer”! Hey, to me, that’s more of a fishing lure! I’m going to bite that line if people are calling it “too psychedelic.” I’m going to check that out.
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untitled drawing by Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) from his album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
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Captain Beefheart *January 15, 1941
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DON VAN VLIET
“White Floating Man”, 1986 Oil on canvas 214 x 153 cm
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What this world needs is...
a good 2 dollar room and a good two dollar broom
a burlesque club and bar that plays Captain Beefheart!
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Captain Beefheart outside Discreet rehearsal hall in Hollywood, CA 1975.
Photo: Mark Sullivan
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CLEAN-CUT FREAKS ALL COOPED UP.
PIC INFO: Resolution at 859x1100 -- Spotlight on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and THE MAGIC BAND inside a wooden chicken coop, a close-up shot of the original "Safe As Milk" cover artwork/fisheye lens photo of the band, c. mid 1967. 📸: Guy Webster.
"From skewed blues opener "Sure ’Nuff ’N’ Yes I Do" to the menacing psychedelia of closer "Autumn’s Child," "Safe as Milk" still ranks among the most ambitious debuts in rock. Issued on Buddah in late summer ’67, it had the trappings of the psychedelic age, from the fisheye lens photograph to inventive studio trickery. If America enjoyed the summer of love, however, Beefheart ushered in a winter of discontent, presaging the death of hippie ideals."
-- RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
Source: https://upvhq.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-beefheart-his-magic-band-safe.html.
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