Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Click Clack (Live at the Bataclan 04/15/72, HIGH QUALITY)
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- Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band play Click Clack live at Bataclan in Paris, France on April 15th, 1972. This version is higher quality than all other versions on RUclips. Thanks to the Zappateers for finding this!
Howlin' wolf meets punk rock
Saw Beefheart in January '71. Gotta be the best show I've ever seen. When it ended (kinda suddenly), the audience just sat there stunned for a minute. "What just happened?..." I got to meet and talk with him, one-on-one, at a sound check in '73 or '74---completely different band. He said the earlier band "went back to California" cause they wanted to play rock and roll. I asked him if Trout Mask was rock and roll. He sorta pulled me aside with a stage whisper and said, "No, that was rockin' HOLE." Unforgettable. He was oddly fond of puns.
very cool 😎
nice! thanks for sharing
Great story! Theo Tielman has a website with every CBATMB gig catalogued--do you recall there being a bassist or trombonist? Did the band have two drummers? Because I THINK that may have been the iteration of the band that played Knebworth (but never recorded an album), I may be wrong. Oh, sorry--I'm referring to the '73/'74 gig you mentioned!
I think he was a mad genius who happened to be self aware
Maybe he meant it was "Rock, in whole"
Pure chaos in an eyedropper. Nothing today even gets close
this is a gift to all humans
wind fire earth water beefheart
And all Venusians.
Venu sian twooo
The rhythms on this track are awesome. It's a Beefheart song that you could almost dance to, but not quite. I know that Art Tripp is a conservatory-trained percussionist who has played with symphony orchestras, but I showed this clip to a Beefheart-naive friend of mine who is also a drummer, and he said, "That's not the way that you play drums. That's the way that you beat people" 😀.
Tripp was conservatory trained ..TYMPANISTA - but as a drummer, let alone in good old Magic Band he was lackluster at best , as witnessed here and on Beat Club videos from the same year. No funny outfit could save it.
Truth is, his marimba on SK and LMDOB was sublime.. that was what he was trained for.. But his drumming was only good for such mainstream production as Clear Spot. John French wiped floor with Ed Marimba any day, no contest. Heck, even Rhys Clark was so much better on Glider than Tripp anywhere..
This is the lineup I saw in February 1973 at the Orpheum Theater in Boston.
Opening acts were NY Dolls and Larry Coryell.
Holy Cow what a night
Same, but in Tower theater in Philadelphia. Lives were affected.
Incredible! Love it
To think I didn't appreciate the good Captain & The Magic Band when I was younger. It wasn't until years later I had an epiphany & saw the light. I kick myself everyday on what I missed out on. Aren't they great.
Yes they are great.
I've found that the best music takes a few listening sessions, but then you're hooked and you never get tired of it.
My favorite bands, well a couple of them, were influenced by Captain Beefheart.
Meat Puppets and Butthole Surfers.
And yes Captain Beefheart is among my favorite bands as well.
Saw them open for Jethro Tull during the "Thick as a Brick " tour - fantastic performance.
That is a dream line up 😢
Man, Rockette Morton could have been a rockstar in his own right. Look at him go! GOD DAMN what a band this was. All of them so brilliant and energetic. Damn shame they didn't get paid enough.
I have hung out with Rockette a few times. Real nice guy.
He runs on lazer beans!
He was only 23 here also!
Oh man, this was the best line-up. Beef fantastic, the band fantastic, this track fantastic. What an outfit this was. I'm 70 now & not seen or heard a better band. Just fantastic.
Made me smile with that closing. A really great reference.
Holy shit...this is really good. Captain Beefheart and the magic band really rock. The Captain sounds like Wolfman Jack but way better.
mmm those drums sound so good
I think this was the tour which included (amongst others, obviously), Newcastle and Nottingham. The Nottingham gig, at the University, was possibly the best, of any band, I've ever heard. Glorious memory.
god I wish I could have been there.lucky you.
They also played Bristol Colston Hall. Never seen anything like Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band before or since - quite stunning.
They played in Leicester. I probably didn't understand and thought it was terrible. Many people walked out. Never heard anything as remotely coherent as that, which I did enjoy. Perhaps it was an off night. Dunno
Perhaps this is too good
Harmonica is very good. Overlooked.
A voice like thunder, like no other, ever
Mojave
Astounding! As good as anything ever recorded, and way superior to the majority of current music.
A fair estimation. But that's true of most all modern music ever made (not just today's).
When I think of those fucking albums he had to do in '74/'75 I could weep for the man. He was the genuine article.
I agree. I saw the Captain in interviews praising those latter records to the skies, saying they were the closest he's ever gotten to what he wanted. Of course he had to try to sell the damn things. Personally his records lost me after Clear Spot and Spotlight Kid. That's just me, others love "Ice Cream" and those others.
Likewise I think they were the perfect combination of his different sounds.
They have such a particular vibe that's amazing.
I heard them around this time, at the Troubador Club in L.A. Best band and show I have ever seen. Only other band in that league, (that I have seen to this day), was the original Who at Winterland, S.F.
Magic Band at the Troubadour!? I can’t even fathom that sound …probably lifted the place off the floor
@@mikefelix6338 Yes! :) Blew the roof off the place. They were playing right in front of us. We were seated eight feet from the stage, between Don van Vliet and Bill Harkleroad. The sound was fantastic.
So grateful to Mike Watt for turning me on to Cap'n Beefheart. Plus my mom went to high school with Frank Zappa. So I'm also from out the desert way (Antelope Valley represent).
The Captain of psychedelic blues
Damn. Wha ta beautiful hall to play. Everybody lucky that night. The crowd and the group. Kind regards all.
Thank you for sharing this footage.
what a sound!
Thanks again for the trove of beefy goodness
Far out never see like again!
i wonder when they going to bring the rest of this show up.i can't believe they recorded and filmed only this song!
the best live recording of beefheart and magic band!specialy with some mothers of invention people in it.
For thé TV program Pop 2. The whole show was filmed.
Just to think that 3 years before this, we had trout mask replica. Now, here we have something we can groove along to!
hypnotic. i really love this
Believe it or not, I saw the Captain in the Spring of '68 at Middle Earth in London. Place opened at midnight and closed at dawn. No alcohol, but we were flying on that amazing Blonde Lebanese shit I used to get in England. (I'm uh Murikan, was there as a student). Still astonished by what I saw and heard. Stage was small so they just kind of stood in a line. Antennae Jimmy Semens wore a cotton dress over his regular clothes, his pants being Levis. This was pre-Trout Mask. They were so fucking tight as a band, with The Captain just wailing into the microphone. At one point, The Captain bad-mouthed Zappa, saying they were supposed to get a band together called The Mothers, but it didn't work out. Frank went on to start his famous band, of course. He also produced Trout Mask the next year, so maybe they made up a little bit.
I had Blonde Lebanese in the mid '90's. Best Hash ever.
Un-fucking- believable...the swamped-out magic boogaloo.🙈🙉🙊
Now this is magic
I REALLY miss the harmonica adding that extra crispy oomph that the studio version has. So much so I might buy a harmonica to recreate it... No idea why that particular sound gives me the best eargasm
fucking brilliant. wowza thanks
WOWOWOWOWOWOW! Thank you! Merci boucoup! XOXO
One of Roger Eagles, favourite bands.
It sounds well recorded. Decent energy and the band it right.
this charred the inside of my skull
Sure thing. I got caught up in the spokes and ended up near Portland, Oregon.
may the cosmic giggle bestow its blessings upon you and your family good sir.
'Tis the season for giggles and summer ales.
I love this video. But… whilst it’s a great performance, a fab band, it’s not the best Beefheart track out there. Are there any other tracks with video from this performance? The filming - on stage amongst the group - is uniquely brilliant. Surely they didn’t film only this one song?
Maybe Batchain Puller from German television? I am astonished that a live version of such screwy music can sound like the studio recording. He will always be my "Spotlight Kid".
Yeah for sure, God they really are MAGIC!???!
Genius.
tak mouwen to gromper keermrristically Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band !,
Genius
Amazing drum sound... is this the only recording of that show?
Very Ginger Baker style syncopation.
No the beat club recording
The full set is on "The Lost Broadcast" LP/DVD. The LP is amazing, there's a bass solo not on this video and a couple of takes of Click Clack and...I'm Gonna Booglarize You, also a take of Steal Softly Through Snow instrumental. The vinyl is well worth your money.
Art Tripp is amazing as a replacement drummer to John French.
@@Bram25 He's great but they were even better playing together on LMDOB. But Tripp fucking kills it on the Clear Spot LP. Kills it I tell you!
It's all torturous, in the best way possible.
This is definitely hardcore. Look at them go!
This is more like it!
A little known must-hear beefheart classic, holy shit they could rock good, find the album version though.
album version doesn't hit as hard. the keys playing the main riff don't have the stank of the guitar to me
That's Roy Estrada on bass formerly with Zappa, soon to be the original bassist with Little Feat
yeah, we don't want to talk about him.
They fucking mean it, man!
Don van Vliet (vocals)
Bill Harkleroad (guitar)
Rockette Morton (guitar)
Elliot Ingber (guitar)
Roy Estrada (bass)
Art Tripp (Drums)
Never knew Roy Estrada played in the Magic Band.
Correct me if i'm wrong.
John Fauxhemians Hillman I think it's Mark Boston aka Rockette Morton playing the red Telecaster, rather than Drumbo.
Rockette Morton. Drumbo was already out at that time.
Roy played on the "Clear Spot" LP. Short run. Also included a performance on Beat Club in Germany
click clack is so good ...love me some beefheart ....norlens.....
Poly - rhythms Love 'em
Judging by the clothing, it looks like this concert was done the same day they did their performance on the Beat Club
Justin Ditty I was thinking the same thing. Nice catch
I was wondering what that show was called after I saw the guitar player in the same suit. Beat Club. That's it.
Only bad thing about this video is they have a cho mo bass player. Also hopefully they washed their clothes because all but the Captain are wearing the same ones as Beat Club performance
Couldnt afford clothes
Yeah he spoils all the footage from around this time...
ブルージーな祭りが開催中。
やけに音が良い。
Is the reason why Vliet can be seen here swaying and swinging on the beat, then a few years later (for instance, Paris 1980) - although still great and into it - he would be playing stiff as a rod, like an old man... Was this related to his physical condition perhaps? I believe he developped sclerosis at some point, right?
drumbo , Rory Estrada , mascara snake winged eel fingerling no such genius these days !
Art Tripp
@@bob733333 w/ the green mustache
oh man I can almost feel the amphetamines, awesome performance non the less.
maybe you had a girl like this...always threatnin to go down to norlens get herself lost n found....
Roy Estrada bass!!!art Tripp drumsrockette Morton - guitar whose that other guitar player
Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) and Winged Eel Fingerling (Elliot Ingber) are the other guitar players for this lineup.
Zoot on the Strat, Elliot on the Les Paul Jr.
Did Can ever cover this? Woulda been fitting
A shame none of the audience are dancing. The band certainly get it.
repeating some of the other posts, where is the recording of the rest of the show?
i hate that we cant see the whole show..
boy howdy did bobby dylan suddenly get good at that ole mouth harp
Whatever happened to that cape Don is wearing?
Rockette Morton influenced Blue Tundra😂
чем дальше , тем больше хочется в подобном ритме и тональности , с народом контактировать ( рассейским )
howlin' wolf anybody?
That voice sounds like Morrison half cooked
Gave Beefheart one more chance, & this is worse than the other one.
...'Upon the My O My' ...OGWT. 74'...
npr brought me here
Shame about the paedo on bass
Watching this really brings home just how horribly uncreative,
untalented and soul-less music is today. Frickin depressing man.