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RIP Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart


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I had the good fortune of seeing the Captain live at Buff State on Halloween, 1977. I still have the ticket stub. I have never heard such organized chaos in my life, and I've seen Pere Ubu. Too bad I was too young to catch Spike Jones, as Beefheart didn't fire guns as part of the song. Frank Zappa seems lullaby-like in comparison.

 

Even though there were several different band members, their rendition of Big Eyed Beans From Venus just nailed it.

 

This is the original:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9rZoN_-DU

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RIP to a great artist and musician. Someone posted about Lou Reed the other day and it got me to thinking about musicians that I used to listen to and haven't heard from in a long time. Captain Beefheart was the first one that popped into my head. I went onto youtube and have been watching some of the videos there the last couple of days. Now to find out he passed away. Sad.

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