RIP Captain Beefheart

[line6man]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-20101217
:sad:

 

[line6man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaCCKrpCQDM
:rock-on:

 

[Velcro]

I am genuinley saddened by this, he was a great influence on me musically - for the better or for worse I don't know.

 

[Hbom]

Another influence we seldom recognize gone!
Seems like the list gets longer faster now.
What a shame.

 

[GoDrex]

I just heard about this now. I'm sad. Probably the last 6 or so years I've gotten into his music and I appreciate it more and more all the time. It's not easy music to understand, but it's worth the effort if you like the unusual. I learned about him from listening and learning about Frank Zappa, whom he was friends with and worked with numerous times.

The dust blows forward and the dust blows back....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AagWK9004

 

[GoDrex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M5YE_a4B1U

My smile is stuck
I cannot go back to your Frownland
My spirit's made up of the ocean
And the sky 'n' the sun 'n' the moon
'n' all my eyes can see
I cannot go back to your land of gloom
Where black jagged shadows
Remind me of the coming of your doom
I want my own land
Take my hand and come with me
It's not too late for you
It's not too late for me
To find my homeland
Where a man can stand by another man
Without an ego flying
With no man lying
'n' no one dying by an earthly hand
Let the devils burn and the beggar learn
'n' the little girls that live in those old worlds
Take my kind hand
My smile is stuck
I cannot go back to your Frownland
I cannot go back to your Frownland

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

Its strange, last night I put some Captain Beefheart on during dinner.  Don't know what made me do it, as its one of the selections on my ipod I've never played before.  Synchronicity.  RIP.

 

[jackthehack]

"Ya wanna be a different fish, ya gotta jump outta the school."


Made it to 69, who'd a thunk back in the day??? Unfortunately this apparently the only vid of "I'm gonna Booglerize you" preserved on the net:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwEKene6ha0

 

[line6man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gME17FsrG4A
Lucid tentacles test 'n sleeved
'n joined 'n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish
Artifact on rose petals
'n flesh petals 'n pots
Fack 'n feast 'n tubes tubs bulbs
In jest incest injest injust in feast incest
'n specks 'n speckled speckled
Speckled speculation
Fedlocks waddlin' feast
Archaic faces frenzy
Ceramic fists artificial deceased
'n cists rancid buds burst
Dank drum 'n dung dust
Meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty dream wet meate
Limp damp rows
Peeled 'n felt fields 'n belts
Impaled on 'n daeman
Mucus mules
Twot trot tra la tra la
Tra la tra la tra la
Whale bone fields 'n belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Uh dipped amidst
Squirmin' serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen
'n serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish