This is a amazing set of covers by Built to Spill playing a secret show at this Cafe in San Jose California. I think bands who have a certain unique sound should entertain their roots and songs that inspired them because chances are the experience will be completely natural for them. Maybe not at first when you are looking for that sound but for fun. It's a way to help connect the fans to real music once again with the ultimate cover band who you know will make you feel it. Enjoy! Built [...]
SPOT Festival 2013 - Day 1 - countless shows and a great time! You know that feeling when you're confronted with a delicious and overflowing buffet of food and you stuff yourself? SPOT festival is like that, but with music. There are over 120 official acts to choose from and countless off-SPOT showcases, bands play The post SPOT Festival 2013 - A Look Back appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
One of the weirdest sounding records ever made, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 's Trout Mask Replica , is due for the reissue treatment this May. The album led the legendary DJ John Peel to gush, "If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work." [...]
I recently read a biography about Captain Beefheart (aptly titled Captain Beefheart: The Biography) ... twice. I'll admit the second time partly stemmed from airplane boredom - the best kind of boredom known to man - but if it wasn't ... Continue reading
The Magic Band Celebrating The Music Of Captain Beefheart Live at Under the Bridge March 16th 2013 Sharing a vision to celebrate the music of the late Don Van Vliet , aka Captain Beefheart , longstanding Magic Band members Denny "Feelers Rebo" Walley, Mark "Rockette Morton" Boston , and John "Drumbo" French will join forces with guitarist Eric Klerks and drummer Craig Bunch at Under the Bridge on March 16, 2013 for a night of [...]
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The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend who hangs out on the CBGB's scene a lot. She was regaling me with examples of the delights available to females in the New York subway system. "So the train came to a sudden halt and I fell on my ass in [...]
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Captain Beefheart : Too Much Time [ Purchase with Spotlight Kid ] What does Don Van Vliet , The Doobie Brothers and David Lee Roth have in common? The answer is producer Ted Templeman. For Captain Beefheart's second album of 1972, Templeman somehow talked the avant-garde dictator into trying something accessible. The result is not only my favorite Captain Beefheart album, Clear Spot , but probably the easiest way to turn the casual rock fan onto the Captain. [...]
Photo by Philippe Gras Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Radio Bremen, Funkhaus, Bremen, Germany TV Program 'Beat Club' April 12, 1972 1. Hair Pie Bass Solo (The Mascara Snake) ( 0:00 ) 2. Click Clack Take 1 ( 3:08 ) 3. Click Clack Take 2 ( 6:51 ) 4. Golden Birdies and Band Intro ( 8:18 ) 5. I'm Gonna Booglaraize You Baby [...]
The Demagogues post up with Pinback's Rob Crow to take our cultural icons to task over a wide array of craft beers and a manly handle of boxed wine. 01-The Cargo Culte Audio Field Report // Negative Approach %s1 / %s2 Subscribe through iTunes Tracklist Neil Norman-Day The Earth Stood Still Make Believe-Political Mysticism Osmonds-Gotta [...]
The Doctor meets the Captain: Ralph Stanley's 85 year-old voice is unmistakable; sung a capella, it's undeniable. "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" is the catcall blues opener to Captain Beefheart's debut LP, Safe As Milk. Stanley's interpretation skews far from his typically reverent, trad-bluegrass. His wizened delivery of "Hey hey young girls/ Where you at?" throws [...]
hey, howdy, hi! hope everyone had a loverly weeks end. mine was super swell, thanks for asking. dont got much in the way of chit-chat today. so, ill leave with ya with this captain beefheart bootleg, enjoy... 1-4 studio outtakes 1970 5-6 studio rehearsal 1972 7-8 saturday night live 1980 9-14 live at the country club, reseda, ca 1.28.80 1. little scratch 2. dirty blue gene 3. funeral hill 4. flash gordons ape 5. sun zoom [...]
Captain Beefheart :Click Clack [Purchase] In the March 20, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone , legendary music critic Lester Bangs gave the new Captain Beefheart album, The Spotlight Kid , a rave review. Bangs said Beefheart had finally found that sweet spot where great artistry and mass appeal intersected. He has been called everything in the past from a man wasting the clear ability to be the world's greatest white blues singer, to an impossibly complex musician who may or [...]
As usual, Sundazed has some interesting releases lined up for Record Store Day this year. Gene Clark fans should be particularly pleased to see a trio of 7" single releases featuring the late Byrd. Recorded under Gene Clark's name, "One In A Hundred"/"She's The Kind Of Girl" is actually something of a long-lost Byrds reunion. Recorded in 1970, the other four founding members of the Byrds backed up their former leader for these recordings. This single features the songs in their "unsweetened" form, sourced from the surviving, original rough-mix mono reels. "Why Not Your Baby"/"Lyin' [...]
Since Maraqopa came out yesterday, I thought this would be a good opportunity to plug the interviews I did with Damien Jurado and Richard Swift for my "day job." (That's in quotes because it's actually a nighttime gig...irony, right?) During the FPK After Dark conversations , a number of topics were discussed. We talked about everything from Swift's time in Starflyer 59 to Jurado's love for the Grateful Dead . And [...]
What began as Happy Dance ended as Fiery Inferno Dance. Today on Cover Friday we have obscure band covering cult artist - The Balancing Act, a great but little-known late '80s band hailing from Los Angeles, covering Captain Beefheart, that legendarily bizarre blues-jazz-skronk-rock musician, so great but so difficult to get a grasp on. "Zig Zag Wanderer" is about as close as Beefheart generally came to a straightforward pop song. It appeared on his 1967 debut album, Safe as [...]
Going back to the first time I ever heard Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica , I remember wondering, “What is going on here?” The second thought immediately following this was “Who on Earth would release this?” Even today, Trout Mask Replica stands out as a left-field landmark, an impressive opus that may not sound like a masterpiece upon first listen, but its creative seeds begin to plant themselves immediately afterwards causing each subsequent listen to reveal an additional layer of complete brilliance. So it goes without saying [...]
The ZAPPA FAMILY TRUST is for the first time ever making the legendary CAPTAIN BEEFHEART album BAT CHAIN PULLER available in its original format. Recording for the album began in 1976 and was completed but was never released on Frank Zappa 's label that Beefheart was signed to at the time, due to "all the usual financial difficulties in the proverbial record business, including breach of contract with the artist, lawsuits with artist management and distribution for the label," according to sources. [...]
You have no idea how many times I've read about people referencing Captain Beefheart when describing the music I love, but for some inexplicable reason I have never really explored his music. The other day someone shared the video above on their Facebook timeline thingy and for the first time I actually listened to some Beefheart. And you know what, pretty fucking good don't you think. After that I happened across this phenomenal video for The Blues Are Still Blue by Belle & Sebastian. I am not convinced they gave permission for this directly, [...]
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