Captain beefheart wife
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Captain Beefheart: The Biography
24th March 1969.
JOHN FRENCH'S DIARY
I woke to hear the sound of padlocks and strong chains being removed from the front door of the Trout House. It crashed open to reveal a burly man. Don was back. The Magic Band cowered in fear.
“So, boys, what have you got for me today?”
“Please master, food, food” we cried, “or at least drugs and new guitar strings”
“You know the rules! No food and absolutely no drugs until you give me more songs! Now! Cmon! French – what have you got for me hmmm?” Don unlocked my handcuffs.
“We made up lots of songs, boss – all based on those telepathic thoughts you’ve been sending us!” I moaned. “We got one called about a tourist in Italy called “It’s too much for my lire”
“What baloney!” shouts Beefheart – “change it to..hnnn ‘She's too much for my mirror’”
“Genius idea!” bleated Rockette Morton.
"and we got one called ‘The 1010th day of the Magic Band’s Cruel Incarceration’ – you wanna hear that one?”
“Naw , save that one for late
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Captain Beefheart
American musician (1941–2010)
Musical artist
Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet;[2] January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.[3] Conducting a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, and Vliet’s gravelly singing voice with a wide vocal range.[4] Renowned as an enigmatic persona, Beefheart frequently constructed myths about his life and was known to exercise extreme, dictatorial control over his supporting musicians.[6] Although he achieved little commercial success,[7] he sustained a cult following as an influence on an array of experimental rock and punk-era artists.
A sculpting prodigy in his childhood,[4][9] Van Vliet developed an interest in blues, R&B, and jazz during his
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Captain Beefheart – the biography by Mike Barnes
UK second edition
- Publisher: Omnibus / Music Sales Limited
- Date of publication: November 2004
- ISBN: 1844494128
- Dimensions: 210 x 135mm soft back
- Extent: 400 pages
- Price: £16.95
- Order:Amazon.co.uk
Mike Barnes has made considerable updates to this new edition but confusingly the book has been published with the same cover as the first edition (apart from the addition of a John Peel quote) and no obvious indication that changes have been made.
This second edition was reprinted in 2009 with a different quote, this time from ‘Mojo’ magzine, on the front cover.
A competition was run to win copies of the UK second edition – see the fiendish questions and the detailed answers for a full Beefheart trivia fix.
UK first edition
- Publisher: Quartet Books
- Date of publication: 10th July 2000
- ISBN: 0 7043 8073 0
- Dimensions: 210 x 135mm softback
- Extent: 400 pages
- Price: £14
- Order:Amazon.co.uk
US first edition
- Publisher: Cooper Square Press
- Date of publication: March
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