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	Captain Beefheart Interview 1971
		Captain Beefheart is an extraordinarily perceptive, gentle person with a soft, smooth voice, a quick mind, and a compulsion to act seriously when he's really holding back great laughs and great lines.
		Beefheart: I didn't mind doing it it, but he turned my voice down so far it was almost corny.
		Beefheart: When English is used for pleasure I think that's fine, but when its used to tell people to make their eyes as small as the person who wrote the book, then I don't like it.
	www.rickmcgrath.com /beef1.html (2343 words)

	Captain Beefheart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their early output was rooted in blues and rock music, but Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band gradually adopted a more experimental approach.
		Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band signed to AandM Records and released two 1966 singles, a version of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy" followed by "Moonchild" written by David Gates.
		Punk rockers The Minutemen (1980-1985) were great fans of Beefheart's music, and were arguably among the few to effectively synthesize his music with their own, especially in their early output, which featured disjointed guitar and irregular, galloping rhythms--Mike Watt's baselines with the group were often very reminiscent of the bass guitar work in Beefheart's bands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Captain_Beefheart (3099 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Captain Beefheart: biography, discography, reviews, links
		The distance between Captain Beefheart and the rest of rock music is the same distance that there was between Beethoven and the symphonists of his time.
		Often Beefheart's singing, in its bizarre cosmography, has the function of declarative verse, while guitar improvisations and cocksure rhythms act as primitive background, as is the case in Pachuco Cadaver, a piece that comes in thick and fast and spirited, and in the voodoo exorcism Hobo Chang Ba, performed with bells and moronic singing.
		Beefheart uses the Delta blues as a pretext, but dismembers its structure, rhythm, harmony, tonality and melody, and then reassembles the pieces randomly, injecting it with free-jazz and casual improvisation.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol1/beefhear.html (9281 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Captain fantastic
		Don Van Vliet, also known as Captain Beefheart, created an entirely original music by grafting the unsentimental blues growling of Howlin' Wolf and Son House to the stringent performing demands of Igor Stravinsky, Ornette Coleman and Van Vliet's high-school pal and collaborator, Frank Zappa.
		I saw Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band perform in assorted line-ups over the following decade, and each time was floored by the intricacies of the songs and the almost hive-mind precision of the band, who nailed the rhythms and changes with the perfection of a classical chamber ensemble and yet still rocked out.
		The record bins are full of Beefheart reissues, outtake collections and bootlegs, and the internet is alive with fans trading tapes and speculating on rumours about their beloved Captain.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,931097,00.html (641 words)

	Captain Beefheart at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beefheart had previously worked with local groups such as The Omens and The Blackouts and formed the Magic Band in 1964 with guitarists Alex St. Clair and Doug Moon, bass guitarist Jerry Handley and drummer Paul Blakely.
		Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band signed to A&M Records and released a successful single, a version of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy".
		Beefheart formed a new Magic Band and released Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams; neither album was critically well received.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Captain_Beefheart.html (890 words)

	Captain Beefheart
		Beefheart's 'Magic Band' might seem worthless punks not knowing how to play until one realizes that they are, in fact, quite dextrous and are creating that cacophony according to the notation marked out by Captain Beefheart himself.
		Beefheart the Lunatic then gives way to Beefheart the Complaining Blighter on 'Blabber 'N' Smoke', a wonderful xylophone led slab of melancholy and unsatisfiedness, before giving way to Beefheart the Self-Proclaimed Prophet on the ominous 'When It Blows Its Stacks', one of the most solid heavy rockers on the entire record with some immaculate riffage.
		While Beefheart's rambling deliveries are just as surreal, often humorous and witty as ever, not to mention that he's in good voice throughout, it's the thoroughly inoffensive, yet intelligent and thought-provoking character of the melodies that attracts me the most.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/captain.htm (8181 words)

	The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - Beefheart Music and Video Downloads
		I've included it here partly because it is so good, but also due to the high quota of Beefheart collaborators featured in it.
		Appeared on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973 - the music is merely dubbed over the top of an impressive live sequence featuring a cloaked Beefheart stalking the stage at The Rainbow.
		Sound and picture quality are good, though it is a shame that the original audio from the performance hasn't survived.
	www.beefheart.com /filtered (448 words)

	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (AND THE MAGIC BAND) discography, MP3 and reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (real name: DON VAN VLIET) is a true genius and definitely one of the most original and innovative musicians of the twentieth century.
		Captain Beefheart’s music at its best is a form of art, that is maybe best compared to an abstract painting.
		Captain Beefheart was born January 15, 1941 in Glendale, California.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=1471 (1128 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
		Beefheart's awesome yet idiosyncratic (as well as groundbreaking) talent has deeply influenced bands like Devo, Pere Ubu, the Residents, Public Image and others, each in a different way.
		Beefheart may have felt like his third strike had been thrown while he wasn't looking, but along came childhood friend and former (albeit briefly) bandmate Frank Zappa, who'd wangled a custom label deal that allowed him to offer Beefheart complete creative control.
		Beefheart went still further with Ice Cream for Crow, the height of his musical career's most sustained upward creative swing, despite (because of?) a near-total lineup turnover right after the recording of Doc.
	trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=captain_beefheart_and_the_magic_band (985 words)

	Captain Beefheart Project
		That may not be true for rock concerts concerning the sound quality of the two tapes from the Captain Beefheart gig in 1972.
		Beefheart was very friendly and was quite taken with the 1970 French Super Group Safe As Milk album cover, showing Beefheart performing on the beach at Cannes in 1968, that my brother stuck in front of him to sign.
		Beefheart had never seen this French album and showed it to his wife Jan, who was sitting next to him on the tour bus telling her "this is us at Cannes in 1968" - then he asked my brother if he could have it.
	captain-beefheart.blogspot.com (2758 words)

	Browse by Artist: CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND
		Working without another songwriter or arranger for the first time, Captain Beefheart strips his idiosyncratic blues down to the bone, with several of the songs (especially 'Son of Mirror Man/Mere Man') having little in the way of lyrics or chords beyond the most primeval stomp.
		Leaving in the dust both post-Dylan 'poetic' pretensions and the primitive approach which too often mistakes simplemindedness for simplicity, Cap's lines are magic flashfloods of free-association that somehow never get murky, strange jewel-like clusters of images, hilarious little vignettes from the lives of raffish louts and juicy mamas, half-muddled mamma's in coveralls and zoot suits.
		Captain Beefheart is making the most meaningful, adventurous, and delightful music of his career.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/captain.beefheart.and.his.magic.band.html (1489 words)

	Captain Beefheart MP3 Downloads - Captain Beefheart Music Downloads - Captain Beefheart Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was one of modern music's true innovators.
		While he never came even remotely close to mainstream success, Beefheart's impact was incalculable, and his fingerprints were all over punk, new wave and post-rock.
		In their original incarnation, the Magic Band were a blues-rock outfit who became staples of the teen-dance circuit; they quickly signed to A&M Records, where the success of the single "Diddy Wah Diddy" earned them the opportunity to record a full-length album.
	www.mp3.com /captain-beefheart/artists/41019/biography.html (591 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Captain Beefheart
		Well, Captain Beefheart hooked up with his old chum Frank Zappa again, and although would later complain of being marketed as 'a freak', the process of writing, recording and releasing 'Trout Mask Replica' was, if nothing else, hugely artistically successful.
		Producer Ted Templeman was drafted into the Beefheart camp, a guy with a firmly mainstream feel, arriving to Beefheart fresh from producing the rock boogie of The Doobie Brothers debut, the clear sounding 'Tupelo Honey' by Van Morrison and assisting Warners producer Lenny Waronker with a whole host of album releases.
		Beefheart sounds engaged and gives his all, the guitar does fine Beefheart things and the lolloping rhythm is most attractive.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /beefheart.html (8529 words)

	Media Spin Photography & Audio: Captain Beefheart, Tufts University Concert, p. 3
		The first Captain Beefheart concert I saw was at a small club in Ithaca, NY, late 1970 or early 1971, with former Magic Band member, Ry Cooder, as the show opener.
		Beefheart asked the audience, "Did ya dig The Dolls?" This was a bigger band, a louder show, with Roy Estrada on bass and Rockette Morton moving up to rhythm guitar.
		The last concert I saw Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band was on Dec. 13, 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	www.mediaspin.com /moredvv2.html (454 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Safe As Milk: Remastered: Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Captain Beefheart, famously intones on this bright-sounding re-mastered version of the 1967 debut by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
		The genesis of the first Captain Beefheart album SAFE AS MILK is suitably shrouded in mystery, but the result is a collection of performances that meld blues, R&B, avant garde rock, and West Coast pop in a unique and heady mix that's like nothing else in the Captain's oeuvre.
		If you are new to Beefheart though where could be better to start than at the begining (his first albumn), this could be a good way to ease yourself in to his further out stuff.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002DF8F (1876 words)

	revenant records: releases
		Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band set rock on its ear from 1965 until 1982, when leader Don Van Vliet retired from music.
		Engineering a mutant strain of musical DNA (tuff-ass garage punk R-n-B, extraterrestrial field hollers, austere "classical" miniatures, loping sea shanties, scorched-earth delta blues, free-blowing skronk, fat-bottom groove and post-everything clangor all found their way into the soup) CBandHMB are now regarded as one of the most original and consistently compelling bands ever waxed.
		"Captain Beefheart is the most important musician to rise in the Sixties, far more significant and far-reaching than the Beatles; as important for all music as Ornette Coleman was for jazz, as Leadbelly was for the blues." - Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone
	www.revenantrecords.com /index.php?section=releases&cd_ident=9 (272 words)

	Captain Beefheart : Mirror Man - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Originally, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band's second album was intended to be a double-album set called "It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper." Although 1968's Strictly Personal has the same artwork that was mooted for the double album, it's a single disc.
		As part of the same post-Trout Mask Replica closet-cleaning that led to Buddah (the parent company of Blue Thumb Records, which released Strictly Personal) reissuing Safe As Milk as Dropout Boogie in the U.K. in 1970, the label released Mirror Man, the second disc that was intended for the Plain Brown Wrapper release.
		Probably the catchiest tune Beefheart ever wrote, "Mirror Man" has an almost funky, hip-swaying groove, and there's a playful lightness to the way Beefheart chants the simplistic lyrics that prefigures the flights of fancy on Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals off, Baby.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,61130,00.html (332 words)

	Amazon.com: Captain Beefheart: The Biography: Books: Mike Barnes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Captain Beefheart), one of the few truly original figures in pop music history.
		Given such a situation, those interested in the life of Van Vliet must embrace the appearance of a new biography (or at least a reissue; this book was originally published in 2000, and, according to the title page, was republished in 2002 with "textual emendations").
		Beefheart's love-hate relationships with Frank Zappa and Ian Anderson are discussed in some detail.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815411901?v=glance (3115 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: People: C: Captain Beefheart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Captain Beefheart Electricity - News, future items, interviews, articles, photos, band lineups, discography, bibliography, books, media shows and gig reviews.
		Captain Beefheart Is Speaking - Sound files from a 1993 radio interview with Captain Beefheart.
		Moonlight on Van Vliet - The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - Focuses on the art, poetry and music of Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart.
	dmoz.org /Arts/People/C/Captain_Beefheart (239 words)

	Captain Beefheart books from The Bomp Bookshelf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He isn't fooled by the Captain's more transparent attempts to impress the masses with his strangeness - which often, nevertheless, seemed to fool journalists into believing that this was the be-all and end-all of Beefheart.
		"Bamberger is to Beefheart as Sandberg is to Lincoln.
		Bill Harkleroad joined Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, was renamed Zoot Horn Rollo, and embarked on recording one of the classic rock albums of all time Trout Mask Replica.
	www.bomp.com /BompbooksBeef.html (2024 words)

	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the first time also, Beefheart was able to demonstrate the power and range of his voice.
		The formlessness and intensity of Beefheart's music have often led people to conclude that he is merely another product of the drug culture.
		The reason for this is not only that he believes that drugs have harmful and irreversible effects, but also that each person has the power to get "there" all by himself.
	members.aol.com /tedalvy/cbq.htm (2220 words)

	YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
		captain beefheart and the magic band - this is the day
		Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Zappa Weird Music Strange Eccentric
		Captain Beefheart - She's Too Much For My mirror...
	www.youtube.com /results?search=beefheart (387 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dust Sucker: the Captain's Own Tapes of the Legendary 'bat Chain Puller' Studio Sessions + Rare Bonus ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bat Chain Puller, the backbone of this CD "compilation" is certainly one of Captain Beefheart's best recordings.
		Beefheart was at his most lucid and beautiful when he created these songs and they have NEVER sounded so good.
		If you are not a Beefheart fan then this CD will convert you.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000630WZ (577 words)

	Fast 'N' Bulbous
		Phillip Johnston statement: In about 1970 I heard my first Captain Beefheart tune, Ella Guru; it was one of the things that changed my life and made me want to do music.
		Led by saxophonist Phillip Johnston and featuring ex-Magic Band guitarist Gary Lucas, Fast 'n Bulbous proved that Beefheart's songs deserve to be played in his absence and are, for all their knotty logic, quite PLAYABLE.
		Beefheart never became the star he felt he should be.
	www.phillipjohnston.com /fnbfrontpage.htm (1230 words)

	Amazon.com: Trout Mask Replica: Music: Captain Beefheart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A colleague of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) and his Magic Band produced some of the most eccentric music of the late 1960s--or, for that matter, ever.
		To say that Captain Beefheart's 1969 double-album _Trout Mask Replica_ was/is one of the most daring things to ever be released is probably a severe understatement; especially given the fact that this album was released during a time when many artistic darings and risks were taken.
		To be more specific, Captain Beefheart delivers his vocals in a rough, raspy, gravel-soaked tone to slightly match those of legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf, and twisted poet/storyteller/rocker Tom Waits.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005JA8?v=glance (2014 words)

	Book Review: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience
		While Beefheart’s colleague and mentor, Frank Zappa, could joke that his own band had no commercial potential, for The Magic Band, it was no joke.
		There were also the various time signatures and keys within the same tune, the unusual voice of Captain Beefheart and songs with titles such as "I Love You, You Big Dummy", "Flash Gordon’s Ape" and "Woe is-a-Me-Bop," all of which could make the average listener hesitate to buy their albums.
		Don Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart (CB), the leader of this most curious of bands, also has a distinctive place in rock history.
	www.ru.org /92bookrev2.html (730 words)

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