Don Van Vliet, better known to music lovers as Captain Beefheart, is also a visual artist. His latest exhibit of paintings and drawings is titled "1985 - 1995." It's the first showing of Van Vliet's work in NYC in six years, and will run through July 6 at the Anton Kern Gallery.Don Van Vliet using the name Captain Beefeart, was frontman/ leader of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Beefheart...
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can't believe i'm the first to post on this. so, somehow i got some beefheart on my ipod (no clue how) and i never got that into the guy before. this song comes on and i'm like godarn, i'm about to go into a full beefheart obsession like it did with nick cave a few years back, aren't i?i head over to amoeba and with allmusic.com (AMG) handy via in store kiosks, i buy up all the 4star records h...
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As I started writing this review I wanted to get in the mood so I put on the legendary Nuggets box set which is packed with some incredibly timeless garage rock from the 1960s. One of the bands featured in this compilation is Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. The song "Diddy Wah Diddy" is Track 27 on Disc 2 of the 4 disc set. 'Diddy' was actually the first song that brought their sound to t...
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ROOTS OF THE CAPTAINGimme Dat Harp BoyCD AlbumSixty minutes plus of roots/blues material and the rest of the album devoted to rare unreleased material from the Captain himself. Tracks by Victoria Spivey and Lonnie Johnson, Lord Buckley, Howlin Wolf, Tommy McLennan, Minnie Wallace and The Memphis Jug Band, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Noah Lewis' Jug Band, The Bosstones, Robert Pete Williams, ...
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Captain Beefheart has to be one of my all time favorite artists. Maybe it's the fact that I think of him as such an icon that this video strikes me as so funny but I can't watch this without thinking that the amazing Don Van Vliet looks like somebody's dad. With his big glasses and comfy shirt he seems like he would just be Mr. Beefheart and you got sorta scared going up to his house to sell ma...
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reasons MOG rocks #13« historythe MOG-O-Sphere is an assemblage less group-think, more marketplace of minds, most unfeignedly training towards casteless to-each-his-own.the antisocial are at home here, and social animals, too. better yet: those wanting of skill to be occupied as what hip Mogger Kate has christened as 'Mog Community Ambassador' might rely on their MOG pages to extend goodwill. w..
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can't believe i'm the first to post on this. so, somehow i got some beefheart on my ipod (no clue how) and i never got that into the guy before. this song comes on and i'm like godarn, i'm about to go into a full beefheart obsession like it did with nick cave a few years back, aren't i?i head over to amoeba and with allmusic.com (AMG) handy via in store kiosks, i buy up all the 4star records h...
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Don Van Vliet, better known to music lovers as Captain Beefheart, is also a visual artist. His latest exhibit of paintings and drawings is titled "1985 - 1995." It's the first showing of Van Vliet's work in NYC in six years, and will run through July 6 at the Anton Kern Gallery.Don Van Vliet using the name Captain Beefeart, was frontman/ leader of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Beefheart...
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circa: 1972 (oops, time machine stripped a gear)Rick and I were rifling through one of the cut-out vinyl bins that were always in the middle aisle.Me, "Hey, this looks interesting..."Rick grabs the album,"Captain Beefheart? Who the hell is that? He looks insane, and that cover looks like they clipped it from the Sunday paper."Me, "Yeah, but he's got this...uhh...glint in his eye, you know?"Rick...
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for Funky Friday we have Rock 'N Roll's Evil Doll with the captain
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.I'd been lying in this den for 4 days and nights, camouflaged and trying to blend in with the local wildlife. I hadn't taken my eye off the targets front door in all that time and then the message came in from Control. The target had gone on vacation. Vacation! What size balls did you have to have, to know you where being hunted down, fellow Moggers where falling left, right and centre and you...
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