"""Mystery Disc"" (1996), ""I Was a Teen-Age Malt Shop"" and ""The Birth of Captain Beefheart"" also provide an insight to Zappa's ""teenage movie"" script titled ""Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People"", the first appearances of the Beefheart name. It has been suggested this name came from a term used by Vliet's Uncle Alan who had a habit of exposing himself to Don's girlfriend, Laurie Stone. He would urinate with the bathroom door open and, if she was walking by, would mumble about his penis, saying ""Ahh, what a beauty! It looks just like a big, fine beef heart"". In a"
"Rockette Morton Rockette Morton (born Mark Boston; July 14, 1949 in Salem, Illinois) is an American musician, best known as a bassist and guitarist for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1963, after moving to Lancaster, California, Boston joined up with future Magic Band member Bill Harkleroad (aka Zoot Horn Rollo) in a band named B.C. & the Cavemen. He was given the nickname ""Rockette Morton"" by Captain Beefheart after becoming a member of the Magic Band. Morton played on five of Beefheart's albums: ""Trout Mask Replica"" (produced by Frank Zappa in 1969), ""Lick"
"American rock musician Captain Beefheart and his group the Magic Band. The group was visiting London for their first United Kingdom performances. Because Meaden had not obtained the necessary work permits in advance, the musicians were detained at customs and denied entry to the country. After temporarily returning to Germany the group was able to work out their immigration status and return to Britain a few days later. By that time they had severed their relationship with Meaden. This incident is fully detailed in the 2002 book ""Captain Beefheart: The Biography"". After years of drug abuse and a nervous breakdown,"
"Captain Beefheart on band founder Don Van Vliet's 40th birthday. After the Beakers broke up in January 1981, the former members would continue to work together in other musical groups like 3 Swimmers (where Smith and Romansic would reunite) and Little Bears from Bangkok (with Anderson on lead vocals and Romansic on drums). Bassist Frankie Sundsten would venture into a career as a painter and later marry drummer Bill Rieflin (of The Blackouts, Ministry and others). George Romansic, who died in early 2015, was also essential in the process of building up a functioning distribution network in the northwestern independent"
"they shared this in common it was when Van Vliet learned Tepper knew guitar parts to ""Trout Mask Replica"" that he became interested in putting together a new band around Tepper's unique guitar sound. This was done later in Los Angeles after Van Vliet and Frank Zappa had reunited briefly for the ""Bongo Fury"" tour. The result of the new band led to arguably some of Captain Beefheart's most creative music efforts including albums ""Shiny Beast"" (1978), ""Ice Cream for Crow"" (1982) and ""Doc at the Radar Station"" (1980). Tepper joined The Magic Band in 1976 and stayed in the"
"they'd been to see a Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band gig and were unimpressed enough by the support band (Youngstown's Left End) that they decided they could do better themselves. ""Me and Davie, or me and Brian, or me, Brian and Davie went to see Captain Beefheart, and Left End were playing. And they were real bad. And I said that we could do better than that. We started practicing on the back porch. I played guitar and Brian played piano cause he didn't want to play guitar. We figured Davie could sing cause he didn't do anything else."
"multi-instrumentalist Phil Lithman, known as Snakefinger, began to participate with them. Around this time the group also made the acquaintance of the mysterious (and perhaps apocryphal) N. Senada, whom Lithman had picked up in Bavaria where the aged avant-gardist was recording birds singing. The two Europeans would become great influences and life-long collaborators with the group. In 1971 the group sent a reel-to-reel demo tape to Hal Halverstadt at Warner Brothers, as he had signed Captain Beefheart (one of the group's musical heroes) to the label. Halverstadt was not overly impressed with ""The Warner Bros. Album"" (he describes it as"
"to record on two Beefheart albums released by Virgin Records, on one of which he was full-time lead alongside Moris Tepper. Lucas performed over a period of five years with the last incarnation of Beefheart's Magic Band. His solo guitar pieces on ""Doc at the Radar Station"" (1980) and ""Ice Cream for Crow"" (1982) were his renditions of Beefheart's instrumental compositions, ""Flavor Bud Living"" and ""Evening Bell"". After Captain Beefheart retired in the 1980s, Lucas continued to be associated with the Magic Band's former members. Several of Beefheart's former band members reformed the group, touring as the Magic Band from"
"not played by Captain Beefheart (by his own admission). Bluejeans & Moonbeams Bluejeans & Moonbeams is the ninth LP by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, originally released in 1974. Despite its uncharacteristically mainstream sound the album failed to chart. Having no musical training or instrumental experience, throughout his career Van Vliet had relied on a musical director within the band who could translate his often unorthodox ideas into a form that was musically playable. This role had been successively filled by Alex St. Clair, John French, and Bill Harkleroad on his previous albums. With the entire Magic Band having"
"Granger were the main lighting crew at Middle Earth through 1967-69. Mike Capel and Ian Hill went on to design lighting for top live music acts of the 1960s and 1970s. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band come out wearing Spy vs Spy outfits, each a different color - but perfect. Hats Capes, Suits, Boots, Gumikeitars, all one solid color. Bright Red, Blue, Green and Yellow with Beefheart in Black wearing his Bowler. ""He finished with a 25 minute encore of ""Mirror Man"" Screaming. It was a mind-bender of a lightshow of classic proportions along with their music. After they"
"the time and was living in a mobile home, decorated with alien and rocket ship models. In 2003 Morton and other former members of the Magic Band regrouped and embarked on a world tour, performing Captain Beefheart's music. They have continued to tour regularly as the Magic Band since then. Rockette Morton Rockette Morton (born Mark Boston; July 14, 1949 in Salem, Illinois) is an American musician, best known as a bassist and guitarist for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1963, after moving to Lancaster, California, Boston joined up with future Magic Band"
"new Captain Beefheart tribute ensemble The World of Captain Beefheart, led by Lucas and Nona Hendryx, performed an album teaser performance at the Public Theater. The self-titled album was released in November 2017 on Knitting Factory Records. January 22, 2018 saw a special multimedia performance of The World of Captain Beefheart at City Winery NYC. Lucas first met Jeff Buckley in New York at the 1990 Tim Buckley tribute concert. Jeff Buckley stayed in New York and joined Lucas's band, Gods and Monsters. Lucas composed solo guitar instrumentals for ""Rise Up to Be"" and ""And You Will"", which later became"
"Frank Zappa started his own pair of record labels, Bizarre and Straight, and offered Captain Beefheart, a name Zappa had given him, the opportunity to record an album with complete artistic freedom. The result was ""Trout Mask Replica"". In preparation, the group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in a small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Van Vliet implemented his vision by asserting complete artistic and emotional domination of his musicians. At various times one or another of the group members was put ""in the barrel"", with Van Vliet berating him"
"Trout Mask Replica Trout Mask Replica is the third album by American rock band Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released as a double album on June 16, 1969 by Straight and Reprise Records, and produced by Beefheart's childhood friend Frank Zappa. Combining elements of R&B, garage rock, and blues with free jazz, avant-garde approaches, and other genres of American music, the album is regarded as an important work of experimental music and art rock. Most of the album was recorded in March 1969 at Whitney Studios in Glendale, California, following eight months of intense rehearsals at a small rented"
"As Milk"" on LP and CD. All songs written by Herb Bermann and Don Van Vliet except where noted. All CD bonus tracks written Don Van Vliet. Safe as Milk Safe as Milk is the debut album by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in 1967. A heavily blues-influenced work, the album featured a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who played guitar and wrote some of the arrangements. Before recording ""Safe as Milk"", the band had released a couple of singles through A&M Records, and it was to this company that the group first proposed their début album in 1966. They"
"devotee Tom Waits. Musicians Additional personnel Trout Mask Replica Trout Mask Replica is the third album by American rock band Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released as a double album on June 16, 1969 by Straight and Reprise Records, and produced by Beefheart's childhood friend Frank Zappa. Combining elements of R&B, garage rock, and blues with free jazz, avant-garde approaches, and other genres of American music, the album is regarded as an important work of experimental music and art rock. Most of the album was recorded in March 1969 at Whitney Studios in Glendale, California, following eight months of"
"Safe as Milk Safe as Milk is the debut album by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in 1967. A heavily blues-influenced work, the album featured a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who played guitar and wrote some of the arrangements. Before recording ""Safe as Milk"", the band had released a couple of singles through A&M Records, and it was to this company that the group first proposed their début album in 1966. They presented the label with a set of R&B-influenced demos, which the label felt were too unconventional and decided to drop the band. Beefheart later said the label"
"had unusual structures and were less than a minute long—even later, when Minutemen's music became slightly more conventional, their songs rarely passed the three-minute mark. Though Minutemen were members of the hardcore punk community and were somewhat influenced by the speed, brevity, and intensity of hardcore punk, they were known for hybridizing punk rock and hardcore with various forms of music (like jazz, funk, acid rock, and R&B), separating them from most hardcore bands of that era. Minutemen were fans of Captain Beefheart, and echoes of his distinctive, disjointed, avant-blues music can be heard in their songs, especially their early"
"Bluejeans & Moonbeams Bluejeans & Moonbeams is the ninth LP by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, originally released in 1974. Despite its uncharacteristically mainstream sound the album failed to chart. Having no musical training or instrumental experience, throughout his career Van Vliet had relied on a musical director within the band who could translate his often unorthodox ideas into a form that was musically playable. This role had been successively filled by Alex St. Clair, John French, and Bill Harkleroad on his previous albums. With the entire Magic Band having quit after the recording of his previous album he"
"Eric Drew Feldman Eric Drew Feldman (born April 16, 1955) is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, Charlotte Hatherley, Custard and PJ Harvey. He was already an experienced keyboard player when he joined Captain Beefheart's Magic Band in 1976, in which he also played bass. Like other members of the band, Feldman was expected to capture (on tape or notepad) Beefheart's musical ideas. Once instrumental parts had been created, the band members had to"
"acclaimed album there was no commercial success, and he retired from the music business in 1975 to study the Christian Ministry. In 1981, long after the group had split up, a second LP of unreleased MU material was issued to a rapturous cult response. Jeff Cotton Jeffrey Ralph Cotton (born May 31, 1949) is an American rock guitarist, known for his work as a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. Cotton first came to attention as guitarist with Merrell and the Exiles, who had a few local hits in 1964 in the Los Angeles area. He subsequently joined Blues in"
"and Mark Boston from scratch; in fact the pair were already accomplished musicians before joining the band. Van Vliet also took complete credit for composition and arranging, a claim that band members strongly disputed in later years. A subsequent ""overview"" of the work, during recording, can be found in the ""Grow Fins"" CD box set (CDs 3 & 4) and its vinyl 3-volume alternatives. ""Trout Mask Replica"" is considered to be Captain Beefheart's ""magnum opus"", and has appeared on many lists of the greatest albums ever made. BBC disc jockey John Peel said of the work, ""If there has been"
"Jeff Cotton Jeffrey Ralph Cotton (born May 31, 1949) is an American rock guitarist, known for his work as a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. Cotton first came to attention as guitarist with Merrell and the Exiles, who had a few local hits in 1964 in the Los Angeles area. He subsequently joined Blues in a Bottle, which also featured future Magic Band members Mark Boston, Bill Harkleroad and John French. He was recruited into the Magic Band in 1967 as a replacement for Ry Cooder. Cotton contributed unique and challenging slide guitar to live performances, ""Strictly Personal"", ""Mirror"
"about the album was the cover art by his cousin, Victor Hayden. The album cover is a painting by Van Vliet's friend and cousin Victor Hayden, who featured on ""Trout Mask Replica"" with the nickname Beefheart bestowed upon him, The Mascara Snake. The musicians in this version of the Magic Band appear on no other Beefheart album. Several of those who had played on ""Unconditionally Guaranteed"" and earlier albums had left to form Mallard. The personnel for ""Captain's Holiday"" is not known. The track was reportedly found on a discarded reel in the studio. The harmonica on the track is"
"play them exactly as composed: ""I never had a problem with that. I felt like I was getting parts dictated to me from one of the best, especially when they were designed for me. You just feel like a model in a fashion show wearing a really nice dress, I guess."" During his time in the Magic Band, he was also given a nickname by Don, Black Jew Kitabu. Feldman worked on the acclaimed trio of Beefheart albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s that turned out to be the last of the Captain's musical career, ""Shiny Beast (Bat"
"Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) is the tenth studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Released in 1978, the album was produced by Captain Beefheart and Pete Johnson and released by Warner Bros. Records. ""Shiny Beast"" emerged from the production difficulties surrounding ""Bat Chain Puller"", an album Captain Beefheart recorded for DiscReet and Virgin Records in 1976. DiscReet cofounders Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa feuded over the production of the album, because Cohen funded the production with Zappa's royalty checks. Captain Beefheart recorded a new album, ""Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)"", due to"
"on display for the rest of his life. At Antelope Valley High School, Zappa met Don Glen Vliet (who later changed his name to Don Van Vliet and adopted the stage name Captain Beefheart). Zappa and Vliet became close friends, sharing an interest in R&B records and influencing each other musically throughout their careers. Around the same time, Zappa started playing drums in a local band, the Blackouts. The band was racially diverse and included Euclid James ""Motorhead"" Sherwood who later became a member of the Mothers of Invention. Zappa's interest in the guitar grew, and in 1957 he was"
"film ""Braveheart"", at the moment he realizes that he was betrayed. Within the same scene, it is written that Cartman would fall down on the muddy lawn, and then use the mud to put war paint on his face. Previous seasons of ""South Park"" were animated with the software PowerAnimator. The studio started using Maya from the fifth season on. The pubic hairs in the episode were scanned-in hairs from the back of the neck of Adrien Beard, ""South Park""s lead storyboarder. The members of the band Radiohead — Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway"
"Beefheart and Frank Zappa. During this time he was voted 3rd best guitarist in the world (after Jimi Hendrix & Frank Zappa). After leaving Them in 1969 Armstrong again teamed up with vocalist Kenny McDowell (who had replaced Van Morrison) in Sk'Boo, alongside Ricky McCutcheon and Colm Connolly. Then he and McDowell (born Kenneth McDowell, 21 December 1944, in Belfast, Co Antrim) formed the band Truth (1969–71) in Chicago with bassist Curtis Bachman (ex The Buckinghams) and drummer Reno Smith (ex Baby Huey & the Babysitters). They also added ex-Them keyboards/vibes/flute/sax player Ray Elliott (born Raymond Elliott, 13 September 1943,"
"a painter and he divides his time between music and painting. Moris Tepper Moris Tepper, sometimes credited as Jeff Moris Tepper, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist. Tepper first came to prominence in the late 1970s with Captain Beefheart. He has also worked with singers Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Robyn Hitchcock and Frank Black. He has recorded several solo albums. His album ""Head Off"" (2004) includes a lyrical collaboration with the reclusive Beefheart with the song ""Ricochet Man"". Tepper met Beefheart (alias Don Van Vliet) by chance while studying as an art student in Northern California in the mid-1970s."
"Unconditionally Guaranteed Unconditionally Guaranteed is the eighth LP by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, originally released in 1974. It was recorded at Hollywood Sound, Los Angeles. Upon release it was criticised for being too commercial; even so, it failed to give Beefheart any real chart success, peaking at #192 on the ""Billboard"" Top 200. Immediately after recording of the album the entire Magic Band quit – as biographer Mike Barnes has stated, ""[Beefheart] was in effect sacked by his own group."" They had become increasingly disenchanted with the lack of financial success, having subsisted on food stamps and donations"
"Beefheart song ""Owed T'Alex"", which was written in the mid 1960s though it was unreleased until the 1978 album ""Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)"", was written about St. Clair's trips to Carson City to visit his mother. Alex St. Clair Alex St. Clair (born Alexis Clair Snouffer; September 14, 1941 – c. January 5, 2006) was an American musician. Twice guitarist for Captain Beefheart, St. Clair was a contemporary of Frank Zappa and Beefheart at Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California, where St. Clair played trumpet and Zappa played drums. They bought their first guitars within days of each"
"Moris Tepper Moris Tepper, sometimes credited as Jeff Moris Tepper, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist. Tepper first came to prominence in the late 1970s with Captain Beefheart. He has also worked with singers Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Robyn Hitchcock and Frank Black. He has recorded several solo albums. His album ""Head Off"" (2004) includes a lyrical collaboration with the reclusive Beefheart with the song ""Ricochet Man"". Tepper met Beefheart (alias Don Van Vliet) by chance while studying as an art student in Northern California in the mid-1970s. Van Vliet had already started to focus on painting and although"