The Official Captain Beefheart Thread

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Hey, that's fascinating!! I'm now checking up on the other transcriptions on that YouTube page. Thanks

It is pretty neat, and something I always just assumed was too difficult for anyone to try to pull off.

Found this wishlist item today

[Frownland]

TIL that Beefheart played harmonica on Zappa's San Ber'dino.

[Akai]

Originally Posted by Frownland

TIL that Beefheart played harmonica on Zappa's San Ber'dino.

Bloodshot Rollin' Red

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I still haven't checked out another Beefheart album on a scale of 1-10 How important is it

You tell me. I think you've made note of being a Pere Ubu fan though, so yes you'd be doing yourself a disservice if kept ignoring the prime beef.

I'd usually recommend Ice Cream for Crow or Shiny Beast, but you should check out his heaviest and punkiest album.

[Frownland]

"Dear Bongo, No."

-a letter from Captain Beefheart to Bono when he suggested that Vliet collaborate with U2.

[Zhanteimi]

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[GD]

Originally Posted by Mord

lmao

x2

[Frownland]

Trout Mask Replica: Our 8 Step Guide to appreciating an “unlistenable” masterpiece | Shoot Farken

I would now like to speak to those of you who have not yet embraced the calamitous beauty that is Trout Mask Replica.

Hi. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Selfish bastards!

Get your heads together. Show some class and for once in your self-centred lives.

Show some goddamn respect.

You owe these musicians your lives. They fought for your musical freedom. They blazed trails for you. They cried, starved and bled for you. For god’s sake, they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into; they were young and naive, but by god they showed some grit and discipline by sticking out the eight month ordeal so you didn’t have to.

This album is the Gideon’s Bible of experimental music. If, in the space-time continuum, The Bible was replaced by Trout Mask Replica in every hotel room bedside drawer, then perhaps us humans might be able to spread our wings and fly. It would rain black label whisky, men would be able to fellate themselves and Donald Trump would be every single birthday pinata in Mexico.

Look at the album’s cover. It’s Captain Beefheart waving at you with a fish for a head. He’s waving at you, man! He’s being friendly, sociable. He wants to hang with you and you jocks refuse to because he’s a little bit weird and doesn’t play sport. This ain’t high school, man.

[Mondo Bungle]

Sun City Girls have crazier albums

[Frownland]

Samuel Andreyev is awesome. It'd be cool to pick his brain about Beefheart and other experimental music. His Beefheart videos are a must if you're a fan and they're really interesting even if they're not. The Frownland analysis gets a little into the weeds on the music theory level if you don't know much of the rudiments that he's referencing, but the John French interview is really insightful on the creation process of TMR despite the kind of fumbling beginning.


Analysis of Frownland


John French Interview