[krastian]

That one commandment of his for guitar players that says that you should play like a drowning man struggling to reach shore is just about the best advice you could give anyone for how to play their instrument.

Let that shit ride.

[verme (prevaricator)]

RIP

[Mortte Jousimo]

I have now listened almost all of his official albums (only Spoltlight Kid and Trout mask left, I leave Trout mask to be last). In my shame I have to admit that I have very much underrated "Mirror Man". When I listened it a few days ago, it was just great!!! Of course it´s no trout mask, lick my, Doc or Icecream, but it is at least as good as Spotlight Kid, Clear Spot and Shiny Beast. Maybe the reason why I had underrated it is that in this album there isn´t that great dicipline that is all the other Beefhaert albums. It sounds to me, that that band has had a will to do anything they want inside the songs. I like many improvisation albums, so why can´t I like also Beefheart improvisation album? I understand now also, how great band Beefheart had!

When I listened Safe as Milk a few hours ago, it came to my mind a funny memory. Before I hadn´t hear this album, one friend told me that it is just a ordinary blues album! And sure it isn´t!!! Also when I listened Unconditionally and Bluejeams nonstop, I felt now that Bluejeans is better although I have always thought backwards. Well, how the music sounds it depends also your feelings at the moment.

[EvdWee]

before don passing i had safe as milk and clear spot on vinyl. the very next day i bought trout mask replica and lick my decalls off, baby.
yesterday my friends bought me spotlight kid, mirror man and shiny beast for my birthday.

i am digging my collection now...

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by EvdWee

before don passing i had safe as milk and clear spot on vinyl. the very next day i bought trout mask replica and lick my decalls off, baby.
yesterday my friends bought me spotlight kid, mirror man and shiny beast for my birthday.

i am digging my collection now...

Great!

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by EvdWee

before don passing i had safe as milk and clear spot on vinyl. the very next day i bought trout mask replica and lick my decalls off, baby.
yesterday my friends bought me spotlight kid, mirror man and shiny beast for my birthday.

i am digging my collection now...

I recommend that you try to catch Doc at the radar station, Ice cream for crow and Strictly personal somewhere. They are very very great albums!

[atsonicpark]

DOC is so good. What an astounding album to come out so late in his career. It's really the absolute best of everything hed ever done, but mean as hell, and sounds great. I think it's his best album, really.

[akprodr]

Some sort of something or other on WNYC's soundcheck--only caught the end.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck...ain-beefheart/

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

DOC is so good. What an astounding album to come out so late in his career. It's really the absolute best of everything hed ever done, but mean as hell, and sounds great. I think it's his best album, really.

I think Trout mask and Lick my decals is little better, but Doc and Ice Cream come right after them. I think everybody who loves Captain should have those four albums at least. I agree that both albums were great end for his music career, I think there is anybody else whose last albums are so great!

[EvdWee]

Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

I recommend that you try to catch Doc at the radar station, Ice cream for crow and Strictly personal somewhere. They are very very great albums!

oh yeah, i forgot Doc at the radar station.

hm still 3 to go...

[Diesel]

Eh I thought he was already dead !! I read up on him and everything a couple years back. Fucks gan on here like?

[Torn Curtain]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/...-appreciation/

[atsonicpark]

just bought BEEFHEART: THROUGH THE EYES OF MAGIC. 880 pages!!

[krastian]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

just bought BEEFHEART: THROUGH THE EYES OF MAGIC. 880 pages!!

How is it? I've read some mixed reviews about it and it's pretty expensive for a book. I bid $25 on it on Ebay a while back, but didn't win. Either way, 800+ pages of Beefheart can't be bad, right?

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

 

1. Listen to the birds
That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

2. Your guitar is not really a guitar. Your guitar is a divining rod
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.

3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn't shake, eat another piece of bread.

4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.

5. If you're guilty of thinking, you're out
If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.

6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.

7. Always carry a church key
That's your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He's one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song "I Need a Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he's doing it.

8. Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.

9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.

10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.














Taken from:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/0...r-playing.html

[EvdWee]

http://twfps.com/

[Pelle]

I would say that was the day when music REALLY died.

R.I.P.

[atsonicpark]

Originally Posted by krastian

How is it? I've read some mixed reviews about it and it's pretty expensive for a book. I bid $25 on it on Ebay a while back, but didn't win. Either way, 800+ pages of Beefheart can't be bad, right?

well the idiots from amazon.com never sent it to me. i paid $25 for it, outright. ridiculous.

no one will ever replace beefheart.

[Mortte Jousimo]

I have been thinking today that many artists appreciate captain Beefheart but it is quite rare that his influences are heard in other artists music. In Finland there are/were some bands (Kauko Röyhkä & Narttu, Sweetheart, Radiopuhelimet, Keuhkot) that have said they admire Beefheart and it is also heard in their music at least some albums. Outside Finland only Tom Waits and Birthday party come into my mind. And in first decade of 21st century in addition with Tom Waits only John Parish has made some songs there are clear Beefheart influences (the Chair, a Woman a Man walked by/the Crow knows where all the little children go, Pig Will Not, Bernadette). I hope there will come more artist who made Beefheart influental music. I just like his wicked style!

[batreleaser]

the Minutemen/Mike Watt

Pitchfork got this article right: http://pitchfork.com/features/articl...ain-beefheart/