Captain Beefheart RIP

[wurzel]

Has this already been done? I Just heard the news:

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Never really got my head around Trout Mask replica but Safe as Milk and Clear Spot were cracking albums. In fact, I'm going to slip that one into the CD changer for tomorrow's drive to work. Nothing like a good blast of Sun Zoom Spark to clear the cobwebs first thing.

[bogeyman]

Never really 'got' his music but agree it's a shame to see another original bite the dust.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Damn. Been a fan since I bought Safe As Milk in the 1960s, on the recommendation of the Perfumed Gardener.



I saw Beefheart interviewed on David Letterman in the 1980s. It was amazing. He seemed straight and spoke in connected sentences, expressing throughtful content in educated grammatical speech. I understood every word, but I got no sense out of it at all, and I couldn't work out why.

I think that one of us just had his brain wired up differently, and I don't think it was me.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Amazing the range of people influenced by Beefheart:

[Jubber]

I used to listen to some of his stuff on the tube. Quietly mind, I'm not one of these twunts who likes to share their music with every poor sod rammed on the train.

Bat Chain Puller - superb. I even liked (dare I say) Blue Jeans and Moonbeams.... great tune for the tube to get a bit of serenity before work.

[Doggy Styles]

He was one of those legendary names I'd heard but I never knew exactly what he did.

Can someone enlighten me?

[v8gaz]

He was one of those legendary names I'd heard but I never knew exactly what he did.

Can someone enlighten me?

Top tunesmith, blues based, but completely ignored the rulebook.

As mentioned earlier - Clear Spot and Safe as Milk are two must-have albums.

[minestrone]

Load of unlistenable pish.

"Dachau blues, those poor jews"

Jazz Rock Fusion at its worst. Pretentious mince.