Captain Beefheart or ICP?
 

Okay, banters and banterettes. Who's the better artist?

ICP makes great free jazz but Beefheart was a lot earlier and so much more innovative and influential. Overall pretty incomparable even though there's a clear superior.



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Hopefully Batlord's response is thesis-caliber.

Texas Boy

Genesis.

I am currently drunk and watching a weird Japanese anime about a brother and sister who clearly want to get it on and that's about all I have to say about anything cause this thread is lame.

As Charles Dickens once wrote, my spirit is hovering at your elbow.

I always dig his Blues stuff, it was always groovy man.

Captain Beefheart & Magic Band - Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I do


Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band-Electricity (Cannes Live 1968)

Isn't there a misspelling there somewhere? :laughing:

If it makes you feel any better, it was Frownie's obsession that drove me to start the thread :laughing:

I'm always okay with people being obsessed with me. I just don't return the favor.

... unless you're

1. Ke$ha
2. Chocolate pudding
3. Comic book store
4. all of the above

Prezactly.

This is the saddest I’m in the gang too thread of all time.

Basically your entire participation of the member awards thread so slob properly on this knob before you talk ****.

You don’t have the knowledge. That’s your Achilles heel.

Knowledge is for the ignorant.

Cue in Chula Vista with a Led Zeppelin reference. :rolleyes:

Fail

Thanks for proving my point.

That's aaaaalmost sig worthy.

The less knowledge, the more money.

Zappa.

Just when it seemed this thread couldn’t get any more depressing.

You're welcome.

Dave Grohl
/thread

I think the real test is who sounds better when played backwards. Beefheart probably sounds about the same.

Fixed that for you. :laughing:
Have you seen my thread "Waaah! Why do you all hate Marillion? You're meanies?" :rofl:
I think I've reached my monthly quota of Batlord sigged quotes. But yes.
Totally unexpected. :rolleyes:
:clap:

I almost added Led Zeppelin but even Chula knows when to stop :laughing:

I haven't voted yet because in fairness it would oblige me to listen to at least one ICP track all the way through, and so far I've only lasted about one minute in one song I'm afraid. :(

^ I think this is about my all-time fave Captain Beefheart live clip. For 1968 it is such a powerful song and such a strange looking bunch of guys. What makes it especially good is the setting and the circumstance: not allowed to perform in an official music festival in Cannes, Cptn. Beefheart set up on the beach and played for free. Today his performance lives on, which cannot be said for any other act from the '68 Cannes Music Festival, afaik: the last laugh goes to Beefheart!

^ HaHa. This reminds me of what relucant schoolboys used to say in the '60s:
Why bother studying? The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know, so why bother studying?

More like Homer: "Marge, everytime I learn something new I forget something old! Remember when I drank all that beer and then forgot how to drive?" :laughing:

Batlord hasn't voted yet. Hey, how do you expect your posse to win if you don't even vote? :eek:

Bat's too lazy to vote. Unless it's for "Favourite Superhero" or something.

Didn't know that, very neat.

I, too, would like to express my admiration for such behaviour.

This thread is lame and I refuse to give it the satisfaction.

Theorem: The less you know, the more money you make.

Postulates:
Knowledge = Power
Time = Money

Since Power = Work / Time,
Knowledge = Work / Money
Money = Work / Knowledge

As Knowledge approaches zero, Money aproaches infinity, regardless of Work.

QED

But, just imagine him there (it was the MIDEM Festival in Cannes to be a bit more accurate)
with Tom Jones, Lulu, Moody Blues, P.J. Proby, and The Supremes.
It may have been interesting to see Procol Harum, Long John Baldry,
a pre-Spooky Tooth band that I can't remember the name of, and
Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger's Trinity.

OK, I checked the DVD of the concert and it was Spooky Tooth
and not their pre-SP band, Art, that played three tunes.

Here's Procol Harum doing Repent Walpurgis:

Flipper - Ha Ha Ha