Captain Beefheart - Paul Moyer KABC-TV Eyewitness Interview (HQ)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Don van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, is interviewed by Paul Moyer for KABC-TV's Channel 7 Eyewitness News in 1980. Features a video of a rehearsal for the Doc at the Radar Station tour featuring Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man, The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig,) A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond.
Completely changed my life in a very positive way!
"I'm either too smart or too dumb...I don't know which"
+xellossify such an embarrassing interview. dude obviously did not get beefheart at all
“What’s the most important thing to you?”
“My Wife”
❤️
Non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state. If he thought it was bad then, he should see it now.
amen to that!
Cannot imagine him living to today's world.
"you can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be." Cpt. Beefheart
Domesticated people is not good.
Though ironically, he could be very unkind (to his band mates) Just hear what his main collaborators say of him, especially John French. I'm taking nothing away from his music, which I love. Very unique.
@@brianorakpohit
Yeah during the TMR period he was a very bad person imo, but I also think he had mental issues such as schizophrenia
@@Tomversal anxiety to the point of extreme delusions fueled his psychotic rage during that time, his later bandmates tragic band and forward didnt say he was bad to them so he became better I guess
if you wanna be a different fish you gotta jump outta the school!
Special thanks to Don's parents for not having their son medicated as today's parents would. Don, you crazy!
But super functional. That’s what makes a genius
Don lied about his childhood
Don van vliet had a good sense of humour
Carlene Boulden Agreed & if i may... His was the most healing expression of the beef within his heart against society... and within a way of which exposed it to all who thirsted to confirm 'Societies Masked & Anonymous Madness.'
Psychiatrist agree that the first sign of a patient's recovery, is their use of humor. The Capt. was immersed in the humor of the human Psyche, as evidenced in his contrastive lyrics & quotes. -"Be kind man, don't be mankind."
"There are Artists who wrest us up & place us into Themselves. These, These are The Ones Who continue to wrest us up... even Beyond Their Rests In Peace."-gilpin 52617
William Gilpin you speaka tha truth sho nuff 😊
i think that is the main driving force behind his expression, simple as that. a good sense of humour.
Don trolling with those impossibly outlandish stories as always
As an American, I’m acutely aware of the many problems we’ve had, and continue to have. However, I’m absolutely filled with pride when I think about all the indescribably amazing music that has been made here. It doesn’t even seem fair that so much good art comes out of a single country like this.
RIP Capt. Beefheart ✌🏻🇺🇸
Don played a mean harp. A true original. A great great artist.
Right? His harp playing gets overlooked
"I don't like music, I like to do spells. Because music is just black ants crawling across white paper."
He was a visionary in Avant Garde music & Art.
Rest in peace good captain 💜
From one Artist to another🖌️🎨
Well Don you did break the catatonic state whilst here and your music continues to do so .
True visionary .
hmm, he never went to school, but he was zappa's friend in high school and has a graduation picture around in google images, intriguing.. hehe
+Christian Zahn
Zoot Rollo lol
In Drumbo's book he says Beefheart managed about half a term, by which he had already met Zappa by then.
He also didn’t write everything himself. His band did a lot of writing along with him
With a whip... a kind whip.... a kind quip
I say this all the time
he was and is a great human being...unique as all get out....love him
Absolutely a musical genius and the Magic Band was hands down the best band I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen them all
A true maverick. What a musical and artistic legacy he left behind!
This is the most normal acting I've ever seen him
He’s a life changer and a breath of fresh air
🍋🍋
Even 50 years later
Bull ,Beefheart was way ahead of his time.Not a child.A friggin genius
I’ve been coming back to watch him say “me” for a couple of days now. I just love how enthused he is about it. Reminds me of Bilbo when he goes crazy for a second and made a grab for the ring from Frodo 🤣
the stories about beefheart as an autocrat are borne out here by his own words...he uses a "whip".
After finally "getting" Captain Beefheart, I definitely hear his influence in many great bands that I love.
This is an excellent interview and they ask all of the questions that I had about this man and his music.
I like how they describe his genius at the beginning because before I "got" his style, I thought it was a joke.
Who else has referred to the LaBrea Tar Pits in a song? The "Big Dig" of the Tar Pits was my favorite natural landmark in Los Angeles growing up.
The Stranglers!
In their song Dead Loss Angeles
"Pico and Sepulveda"..whoever did that
I knew and loved him and saw him many times
I wish
opaque melodies that would bug most people
yep, so true!
Some bugged me then suddenly I could not live without them.
DAa dAa ,SOULJAH ROCKERZ MARANATHA KYMRY
thany you big lebowski for the introduction
1:30 - I guess you could call him an Old Fart At Play
5:26 superb
The more interviews I watch the more I think he sounds and looks like norm Macdonald, but REALLY sounds like him
I was watching this and thought the exact same thing. Then I scrolled down and saw your comment.
‘Whip!’ is the way he treated musicians who tried to contribute to the creative process. Result: John French spends hours transcribing Don’s piano parts for the other members to learn Trout Mask , then gets his credit removed from the sleeve. Ungenerous and wrong!
Even his speaking voice was hypnotic , lou reed/andy warhol..... the cap and Dali may have been a fusion of similar minds
Love him!
Let's just say that the Captain used to ' embroider the truth ' I love him and his music since 1968, but he was a bit of a rogue
A total rogue!
This world needs the captain. He lived above the bullshit.
He reminds me of Norm MacDonald.. the way he talks is very similar - the gestures, the expressions.. the rhythm.
He owed a doghouse just incase you were wondering.
He lied his ass off in this lmfao
"i dont like hypnotics"....yeah right.
“His music is for children and animals...” idk what that says about me, a 25 year old young man.
It says you have good taste! Lol I'm almost 28 and found out about beef heart a few years ago! Still listen and enjoy finding out more about him! Love to get high and enjoy the sounds!!
Fantastic clip
Truly an original
He just said "he quit school in Kindergarten" to sell records. There is a high school yearbook picture of him. But he is definitely fun...
Can’t trust anything he says. Just enjoy it…
"If you want to be a different fish you have to jump out of the pool."
+Doug QUIDAM School!
Doug QUIDAM skool! ! Dumbass lol
correction.....school,phool!!
@@solsunson262 yes as in a group of fish..a school... Dont follow the crowd!
That guy looked like Tom Snyder.
"What groups like the B-52s, Blondie, Public Image Limited and others have taken from Captain Beefheart is a very specific way of playing the guitars, playing drums, and structuring melodies." Since the dude spouting this is a rock critic, he is unable to demonstrate any of the specifics of what he is talking about. When asked to demonstrate a one-to-one correspondence between Beefheart's music and the bands he cites, he would be utterly lost. The fact is that many of the bands critics regularly cite as having been influenced by Beefheart - Sonic Youth and Pere Ubu also come up a lot - display almost no traces of the ingredients Beefheart and the Magic band employed in their music. Stacked meter, polytonality - forget it. None of these bands employ any of it, and it's beyond pop/rock critics' understanding. For that, you need to look to conservatory-trained composers like Samuel Andreyev, who will show you how a few measures of the song "Frownland" works in his RUclips video. But be forewarned: it's not for posers who want to just groove along on rock 'n roll autopilot.
Mad props to those who came here because of Langdon Winner.
His goal "to break up the catatonic state"----
The Captains' music was uncommon. By that I mean commonly overlooked.
he didnt , he was a sculpter, until what age? Dont know. Anyway...but this is great.
"It's hard to talk!"
Funny, as he was known to talk for hours and hours.
his like will never be with us again.
One of the…or should I say.. the great Captain Beefheart ohh yeah
I'm doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state. I think Beefheart may have read Debord and Situationist Philosophy.
I really enjoyed learning that he never attended school because his lyrics sound to me like a young child singing their own original songs, making it up as they go. He composes outside of the box.
But I thought that school (or maybe just hometown) was his supposed connection to Zappa. Weren't they classmates? Or was Zappa his handler?
If the lack of school is a true story, then the weird behavior and the connection to Zappa make me wonder if he was MK Ultra. Seems to be a recurring theme with the Laurel Canyon groups and it would explain his schizophrenia later in life.
If he never went to kindergarten, then how did he learn to read? And I realize that schooling doesn't make one a genius, but then, by what standard is he considered a genius? MK Ultra, along with the trauma, also educates and trains victims in the special talents and skills that the handler wants to ingrain. Like song-writing, or golf, or espionage.
He’s been known to lie about his history.
Don and Zappa went to the same High School right?
high school?
Suchapill!! Yes
In order to be a different fish you gotta jump out of the school
Don’t take this interview seriously
Don was a story teller
Don reminds me of Floyd the Barber.
he sounds a bit like Billy Bob Thornton when he speaks
I can hear it.
sounds like beefheart to me
Billy Bob and Captain Beefheart were regularly chatting on the phone until Don's death. Truth.
That explains it
Sorry girls!
lol
Music to break up the collective catatonic state. Guy was a Shaman
Daughter don’t yuh dare
Oh momma who cares
It’s the blimp it’s the blimp.
Primal harp, pretty heart.
Will not conform
bingo
conform to what ?...
A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
One of my favorites as well.
The ONE and only!!!
I'm just releasing this for the first time but Captain Beefheart sounds like a more tuneful Steve O
Or is it that Steve O is a tone-deaf Captain Beefheart🤔
5:26 - what song is this?
Sounds like "Flavor Bud Living"
when paul moyer was still "valid" news reporter...lol!!
i'm a gone bee
He should have moved to Europe like Hendrix. No genius ever made it in the US. Too much of a homebody was his problem.
No desert in europe
...no genius ?..ok..😂😂😂🤏
@@billyshakespeare488 exactly... Europe can never produce it
Was he always this way?
I hear every word he says and still have no idea what he's talking about.
Matthew Schilling Jr. Really because this is one of his more intelligible interviews
Says more about you than him TBH
" a child at play "
:-)
can anyone tell me what he says in 6.46?, spells? spills?--tnx
sells????. can anyone give me the phrase?, english is not my language, tnx
"i dont like music I like what...."....... might be 2 words there, maybe
thanks!. english is not my language. but ive replayed that part many times, just now. i think he says "i dont like music, i like to do spells"... haha. tnx man.
Anyone know the first song?
Contradusk 'nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man'
Isn't the interviewer the great Tom Snyder?
It's Paul Moyer. He was a L.A. newscaster.
no payaypaypapya
fast and bulbous
Webcore
Tom Waits comes close to "getting it"
Pere Ubu does as well.
Early Tom Snyder
we ruin kids by sending them to school, turn 'em into little cynics..
He was lying
Mk-ultra?
if so, that program AIN'T FUCKIN' WORKIN'!
Michael Jackson's alma mater?
Nah, it’s Captain Beefheart
Why would this be mk ultra? Lol using beef heart 's sound to torture people? Oh wait zappa was intelligence too
Literal opposite, a deprogrammed mind in action
They all sound like they're talking inside of a cave
egaliseur They’re actually in a polyethylene bag.
Chris Serpicø it’s fast and bulbous, got me?
"Father of the New Wave"? Never heard that.
...Is he constantly on 7 grams of mushrooms?
I rather like C.B., but he should lose that hokey Dwight Yokum hiccup thing end of each phrase.
That’s my favorite thing that he does
Dwight Yoakam is awesome and so is Captain B
Been Listening to Don since 1974. I love you, you big dummy.
Bubbles pop big!
Physically & mentally tortured the Magic Band.
ok .. like all humanity... tortured..
You used me for an ashtray heart
And they hated it so much they did extensive tours in recent years promoting his music and praise him to the heavens....