Advantages: Total Groundbreaking Art Disadvantages: It Should Have Six Stars
...Is Fast And Bulbous
Strictly speaking this should be credited to CaptainBeefheart and The MagicBand, I'll email Ciao about it. I was amazed to find this as I browsed the rock artists section of Ciao.
No I've not lost my marbles , but am about to educate you about one of the greatest albums by one of the greatest artists of all time. The title is an extract from the lyrics from the said album , so as you may guess, Hear'say it ain't. The cover features a guy in a stovepipe type hat wearing a trout mask. You know you're in for something out of the ordinary. This album is available from Amazon for a very reasonable 7.99 GBP, is available on the Warner Brothers label , catalogue number 7599271962 .
~~ Some Background
Don Van Vliet was a friend of Frank Zappa's and had made several groundbreaking albums before this, such as ...
Advantages: Awesome music Disadvantages: A mere 34 minutes long
coming. So much for doing a mate a favour. Beefheart, however is best remembered not only as one of John Peel’s heroes but for a clutch of critically acclaimed albums including 1969’s Trout Mask Replica 1982’s Ice Cream for Crow and Safe as Milk, recorded in 1967.
Although more popular in Europe than his native United States, he never really reached any great level of commercial popularity. Not through lack of talent or quality - after all, when has that ever been a benchmark for success in the fickle world of popular music? but largely through the inaccessibility of much of the material.
Safe as Milk, CaptainBeefheart’s first album release captures him on the cusp of his career, where he and "the MagicBand" have only just begun to successfully combine the avant garde experimentations that characterised later ...
The Captain, Captainbeefheart, CaptainBeefheart and hismagicband.
Let me just relive a few of my teen-age years.
You modern kids were not the first to play and listen to experimental music. I was listening dancing to the original in the early 70’s Captain Beef heart was a master of weird sounds he was a genius his voice so full of emotion and depth and wide octave range. He played the harmonica, saxophone and harp.
He played with the magicband whose members changed with regularity.
The magicband has recently toured England, but I did not get to see them.
His Lyrics well these are some of the blimp from trout mask replica
The blimp the blimp When I see you flo tin' down the gutter
I'll give you uh bottle uh wine
Put me on the white hook
Back in the fat rack
Shad rack ee shack
The sumptin' hoop ...
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