Captain Beefheart has died.

[liquidmetal]

always thought he was much better than Frank Zappa.

RIP.

[Lithium]

Oh, man, bummer. Trout Mask Replica was the first album that truly mindfucked me. Safe as Milk is fucking brilliant as well.

RIP

[inthisriver]

RIP

[LCG]

Very sad news.

RIP Captain Beefheart

[dalsh327]

Thankfully there's a lot of You Tube clips of him and the Magic Band.

With Tom Waits being inducted in the RRHOF, I'm sure some people are going to start calling Waits a "rip off" because Van Vliet was overlooked for years, even though Rolling Stone had usually put "Trout Mask Replica" in their all time favorite lists.

It's all Howlin' Wolf style when it comes down to it. I think the only artist Don had contacted was PJ Harvey, because one of Beefheart's former bandmates passed one of her CDs on to him. And later era guitarist Gary Lucas wound up working with Jeff Buckley, and Gary was planning on doing a Beefheart tribute next month.

"Diddy Wah Diddy" has been covered a bunch of times.

"Dust Blows Forward" gives a great career overview, and if you can find "Grow Fins", it's a pretty good rarities and demo collection.

I'll go with a Xmas theme one - "There Aint No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kho3_uXr4

[SpUd_Jr]

Damn, awesome people keep dying. RIP Captain.

[Powerage5]

RIP

[Lithium]

Thankfully there's a lot of You Tube clips of him and the Magic Band.

With Tom Waits being inducted in the RRHOF, I'm sure some people are going to start calling Waits a "rip off" because Van Vliet was overlooked for years, even though Rolling Stone had usually put "Trout Mask Replica" in their all time favorite lists.

It's all Howlin' Wolf style when it comes down to it. I think the only artist Don had contacted was PJ Harvey, because one of Beefheart's former bandmates passed one of her CDs on to him. And later era guitarist Gary Lucas wound up working with Jeff Buckley, and Gary was planning on doing a Beefheart tribute next month.

"Diddy Wah Diddy" has been covered a bunch of times.

"Dust Blows Forward" gives a great career overview, and if you can find "Grow Fins", it's a pretty good rarities and demo collection.

I'll go with a Xmas theme one - "There Aint No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kho3_uXr4

Couldn't you have just said "RIP"? Nobody cares how much fun trivia or how many parallels with other artists you can dig out of that nerdy brain of yours.

[dalsh327]

Thankfully there's a lot of You Tube clips of him and the Magic Band.

With Tom Waits being inducted in the RRHOF, I'm sure some people are going to start calling Waits a "rip off" because Van Vliet was overlooked for years, even though Rolling Stone had usually put "Trout Mask Replica" in their all time favorite lists.

It's all Howlin' Wolf style when it comes down to it. I think the only artist Don had contacted was PJ Harvey, because one of Beefheart's former bandmates passed one of her CDs on to him. And later era guitarist Gary Lucas wound up working with Jeff Buckley, and Gary was planning on doing a Beefheart tribute next month.

"Diddy Wah Diddy" has been covered a bunch of times.

"Dust Blows Forward" gives a great career overview, and if you can find "Grow Fins", it's a pretty good rarities and demo collection.

I'll go with a Xmas theme one - "There Aint No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kho3_uXr4

Couldn't you have just said "RIP"? Nobody cares how much fun trivia or how many parallels with other artists you can dig out of that nerdy brain of yours.

Thanks for speaking on behalf of "everybody". No response would've been a better response if you didn't give a shit what I had to say. Thanks.

[Lithium]

Thanks for speaking on behalf of "everybody". No response would've been a better response if you didn't give a shit what I had to say. Thanks.

You're welcome. Now take this little nugget of helpful information with you along the way: quality, not quantity, bro.

[inthisriver]

Thankfully there's a lot of You Tube clips of him and the Magic Band.

With Tom Waits being inducted in the RRHOF, I'm sure some people are going to start calling Waits a "rip off" because Van Vliet was overlooked for years, even though Rolling Stone had usually put "Trout Mask Replica" in their all time favorite lists.

It's all Howlin' Wolf style when it comes down to it. I think the only artist Don had contacted was PJ Harvey, because one of Beefheart's former bandmates passed one of her CDs on to him. And later era guitarist Gary Lucas wound up working with Jeff Buckley, and Gary was planning on doing a Beefheart tribute next month.

"Diddy Wah Diddy" has been covered a bunch of times.

"Dust Blows Forward" gives a great career overview, and if you can find "Grow Fins", it's a pretty good rarities and demo collection.

I'll go with a Xmas theme one - "There Aint No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kho3_uXr4

Couldn't you have just said "RIP"? Nobody cares how much fun trivia or how many parallels with other artists you can dig out of that nerdy brain of yours.

By nerdy brain, you mean wikipedia and google right. This dude seriously has more nuggets of useless info than my marine biology teacher in high school.

[Jumpin' Jack Flash]

You guys are just hatin', Dalsh is pretty cool

[Lithium]

You guys are just hatin', Dalsh is pretty cool

If you enjoy the presence of someone who spew out mostly barely relevant info every chance he gets in order to seem intelligent, I can understand why you think he's cool.

[Lithium]

Ooooh. He's been writing a reply for a while now. I bet he's got some nice info about Tom Waits, Andy Warhol and Woodstock for me.

[dalsh327]

You guys are just hatin', Dalsh is pretty cool

If you enjoy the presence of someone who spew out mostly barely relevant info every chance he gets in order to seem intelligent, I can understand why you think he's cool.

All I did was mention a couple of CDs, threw up a video, and mentioned the fact that Tom Waits was bashed by Beefheart himself as being a clone. Then Don went into retirement from music and pretty much disappeared. With Tom Waits being inducted into the RRHOF just days ago, I'm just saying that there will prob. be some people who are far more music geek than me who are going to bring the comparisons up.

But have I gone off on tangents? Sure. That's what happens in the forums, and I know I'm not unique when it comes to rants and rambles.

But when you're a fan of someone, esp. if they're kind of obscure, you're going to geek out. And there's more to like about him than "Trout Mask Replica". Not sure how that has anything to do with intelligence. I just like listening to it every now and then.

Henry Rollins played about 5 songs of his on his show last night as a tribute to him (it should be on the KCRW archives).

And here's the LA Times reasons why he mattered:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/12/captain_beefheart_facts.php