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| | SF Bay Guardian noise - First Wednesday Every Month! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Captain Beefheart, is one of these mythical characters, and the story behind his 1969 album, Trout Mask Replica, is one of rock's grand legends. |
 | | Beefheart supposedly wrote the entire double LP by himself in an eight-hour stretch at the piano and subsequently taught it to the Magic Band, a group of untrained musicians who somehow latched onto and perfected a bunch of songs that continue to baffle most musicians today. |
 | | True, they don't pull any radical reinterpretations, but at this stage, my feeling is that if it sounds good, feels good, and is fun to listen to, then there doesn't need to be any more of a point than that. |
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