This was an amzing documentary, a true tribute to the man, good job. If you don't feel the magic band , and the art in music of Beefheart then you don't understand...
thank you ! I never saw this before. But I met Don and hung out with him at his home in Trinidad CA for about 4 hours in the summer of 1985 when I was 23. We talked and talked. He offered me a cigar and we smoked cigars together. He clipped it and lit it for me, and it was my very 1st cigar
i first saw don in concert almost 40yrs. ago. he played a small club off lincoln center. cooder opened but i was scarcely prepared for what i saw next and i've seen a lot since but nothing musically as extraordinary as that night. it will always remain one of my fondest memories. thanx don, RIP.
Great genius. I saw him win a battle of the bands in Northridge California in early 1965. There was something about him, I knew he was going to be great..and he was.
Great docu! So great to hear Cooder, Drumbo, Zappa, Fowler, Feldman, JC Black talking about CB. I wish they could have gotten some other members of the Magic Band that played on Trout Mask like the 2 guitarists. I'm so glad I saw CB at the Public Theater in NYC in 1980 w/ Blood Ulmer, who's also gone. What an unforgettable show. There will never be another like him. Makes me so so sad. But we do have the music.
I just thought this all needed a more recent comment ....... so there it is ....... Oh, I have a Beefheart story or 2 too -- here is 1: I was leaving a show at The Bayou I think it was in DC way back in mid/late 70s ..... I shook his hand and said "you guys are all geniuses" to which he replied, "But I don't have a yacht."
Thank you, Beefheart, BBC, Mr. smash9grab. The BBC people did us (OK, me) a great service by making this footage, and you by posting it. Good to hear these grounded words from Beefheart and people who know him in the living sound and paint and in the flesh. CBH has found a way to keep it together even making art way out there on the edge. Thanks!
i went to music school in london and this documentary came on bbc II around 9pm on a sunday... i wish america would show respect like that to their own geniuses... even though he'd been out of the public eye for so long, it's still a rough loss... trout mask replica changed my life... much love and many blessings to the captain
Truly wonderful stuff. Thanks a lot for posting it. Nice to hear Peely again too. He was the first to play Beefheart in the UK back in the 60s.... on pirate radio, then on the BBC. I was lucky enough to see Beefheart live in 1980. Wish I'd seen him in 74 at the Brighton Dome like a lot of my mates but I didn't go... i was a bit young. If youlike Beefheart then check out Drumbo's book - Through the Eyes of Magic'. 900+ pages... an incredible story.
To whomever blocked {5 of 6): Lighten up. You're not losing anything here. Please release it. The story needs to be told. If you played a part in it, let the world know about it.
My dad loved Captain Beefheart. I grew up hearing the band played a lot. To me the album Trout Mask Replica is like a portal to another dimension. a wonderful and strange auditory world that not everyone wants to, or is capable of, entering; but I would urge you to try.
When I meet someone who really seems to know their music I play them Trout Mask Replica. The range of reactions is brilliant. Some people can't handle it at all and just can't listen to it.
To Notecrusher: James Blood Ulmer is not "gone". He is still alive, still making music, still playing concerts. His most recent albums were released in 2010 and his most recent album appearances as a sideman were in 2012. I am jealous that you were at that show. I was just a kid then. Doc At The Radar Station is among my 4 favorite Beefheart albums with Trout Mask, Decals, and Ice Cream For Crow and Are You Glad To Be In America is probably my favorite Ulmer album although I highly recommend In and Out which came out in 2010.
Great upload. I think that in years to come the Captain will be recognized more and more as a major artist, both in painting and certainly as far as Rock'n'Roll is concerned. He was also very funny, I love listening to Safe As Milk, Clear Spot, The Spotlight Kid, Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off Baby, etc.. endless hours of enjoyment, but I think it might be too much for most people, who just don't get it. Anyway, you've done a great job, thanks for posting this
I watched this complete documentary without getting up. I understand Captain Beefheart better now. I think he is amazing. His songs attract me, and at the same time, push me away. I think that is his essence. I'm sure he took it hard when Frank Died. In Frank's book, he said Beefheart would open the back of his Dad's Helms Bakery Truck, pull out some trays, and have his sister climb in to steal change from his Dad's belt changer. To buy smokes. I laughed, I used to buy donuts from the Helms man
I came right to RUclips when I knew Beefheart made his transition...Excellent Documentary, Thank You... Focused... Aimed to get us out of the Catatonic State...unfortunately with MS he ended up in the most aware catatonic state...the split, the tension of the artist.
Thank you for posting this, I was in a deep hole when this was a BBC broadcast and missed it. Shame about 3/6, but there you go with the corporate head up its arse thing. I'm the same age as the Captain and still think his music has the 'wow' factor and pleased he is there.
Saw Don/Frank in Phx during the Bong Fury Tour(?) at the Celebrity Theater(stage spins 360). Sang Willie the Pimp and then promptly sat down with his bottle of whiskey. Saw him in Portland(OR) in 80-81 with his band and was fantastic. He's happier with his painting now. Very ill though. :(:(:(
The thing that Matt Groening said about Trout Mask Replica growing on you... that's my experience too. It sounds like a bunch of noise at first... but you know, there are a lot of parallel rythms, sounds, harmonies.. after about 10 or 20 times listening to it.. it becomes a lot more obvious
Ultimate test of people if they know their music. Only one friend will let me play the Captain. On a limited bases. Wish Don and the Magic Band got the lifestyle,money and respect they deserved. Tortured Artist Effect I guess.
well, seeing as i'm married with 2 children i think i might have completed my evoloutionary perogatives already, and i can assure you that primitive catatonic music was not required in the process. the fact that you see this as "abstract noodling" when a good deal of it is highly structured suggests that this may be lost on you. fair enough. you stick to what you know, i'll stick to what i know. and hopefully never the twain shall meet.
It's funny I was into Frank Zappa and liked We are only in it for the Money album when I was about 14. I did not know anyone that was into Captain Beefheart... in fact when I was standing in J. C. Penneys debating on buying the two album Trout Mask Recplica produced by Frank Zappa I thought... the only person I know that is into Captain Beefheart was the guy on the album cover. I bought Led Zepplin 2 instead.
Get your tickets NOW folks. The Captain and the Magic Band are hitting the road for a tour after the new album is released on 7/6/2010. The tour begins in Vancouver, BC, slides down the west coast, and then zig zags the rest of the country. YES!
@adderas I saw #3 on here... there's a full track on it that the record company has recorded a robotic voice over 'audio removed by...' or something. that must've been the problem, the record company wasn't getting their royalties when it was on youtube.
add 100 gecs to that list - taking the conventions of pop music and everything shoved off to the wayside, combining them together in a haphazard yet ultimately controlled and structured way. inb4 you listen to "money machine" and go "oh boy that's trash." we all thought that about Trout Mask at first - don't lie to yourself.
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The best played terrible music ever. Legendary.
R.I.P John Peel - my life would not have been the same without that guy.
I watched this doc straight thru. A perfect compliment to the world of imagination left for us by that man.
This was an amzing documentary, a true tribute to the man, good job. If you don't feel the magic band , and the art in music of Beefheart then you don't understand...
thank you ! I never saw this before. But I met Don and hung out with him at his home in Trinidad CA for about 4 hours in the summer of 1985 when I was 23. We talked and talked. He offered me a cigar and we smoked cigars together. He clipped it and lit it for me, and it was my very 1st cigar
a true genius, sorely missed.....his music will live beyond my generation....
this show is great..my past intertwined so many times...a sound track, for a kid now in his mid 60's.... THANK YOU !!!....bob
i first saw don in concert almost 40yrs. ago. he played a small club off lincoln center. cooder opened but i was scarcely prepared for what i saw next and i've seen a lot since but nothing musically as extraordinary as that night. it will always remain one of my fondest memories. thanx don, RIP.
Great genius. I saw him win a battle of the bands in Northridge California in early 1965. There was something about him, I knew he was going to be great..and he was.
Great docu! So great to hear Cooder, Drumbo, Zappa, Fowler, Feldman, JC Black talking about CB. I wish they could have gotten some other members of the Magic Band that played on Trout Mask like the 2 guitarists.
I'm so glad I saw CB at the Public Theater in NYC in 1980 w/ Blood Ulmer, who's also gone. What an unforgettable show.
There will never be another like him. Makes me so so sad. But we do have the music.
I just thought this all needed a more recent comment ....... so there it is ....... Oh, I have a Beefheart story or 2 too -- here is 1: I was leaving a show at The Bayou I think it was in DC way back in mid/late 70s ..... I shook his hand and said "you guys are all geniuses" to which he replied, "But I don't have a yacht."
ive definitely heard this story before, but i cant remember where.
@@InfiniteRhombus probably here.
Thank you, Beefheart, BBC, Mr. smash9grab. The BBC people did us (OK, me) a great service by making this footage, and you by posting it. Good to hear these grounded words from Beefheart and people who know him in the living sound and paint and in the flesh. CBH has found a way to keep it together even making art way out there on the edge. Thanks!
The greatest DJ (alas, no more!) on the greatest R&B musician. This is excellent. Seven stars!
i went to music school in london and this documentary came on bbc II around 9pm on a sunday... i wish america would show respect like that to their own geniuses... even though he'd been out of the public eye for so long, it's still a rough loss... trout mask replica changed my life... much love and many blessings to the captain
Love the line up on Ice Cream For Crow, especially Cliff Martinez, a punk drummer who later drummed for The Dickies.
Truly wonderful stuff. Thanks a lot for posting it. Nice to hear Peely again too. He was the first to play Beefheart in the UK back in the 60s.... on pirate radio, then on the BBC.
I was lucky enough to see Beefheart live in 1980. Wish I'd seen him in 74 at the Brighton Dome like a lot of my mates but I didn't go... i was a bit young.
If youlike Beefheart then check out Drumbo's book - Through the Eyes of Magic'. 900+ pages... an incredible story.
To whomever blocked {5 of 6): Lighten up. You're not losing anything here. Please release it. The story needs to be told. If you played a part in it, let the world know about it.
Thanks, Smash, for posting all six parts. I appreciate it.
I expected this to be interesting. I didn't expect to be touched. Can't help but love the man. Strange and deep experience.
as long as it's not boring it's awesome! thank you captain my captain and Rest In Peace
RIP Captain.... thank you for your music and others thinks...
My dad loved Captain Beefheart. I grew up hearing the band played a lot. To me the album Trout Mask Replica is like a portal to another dimension. a wonderful and strange auditory world that not everyone wants to, or is capable of, entering; but I would urge you to try.
When I meet someone who really seems to know their music I play them Trout Mask Replica. The range of reactions is brilliant. Some people can't handle it at all and just can't listen to it.
thanks for posting this as others have said... he truly was ahead of his time
Thanks for posting this documentary, I found it really moving. What an incredible man
this doc is just what i needed to watch on sunny morning! thank you for up loading it!
Thanks. Isn't it something how he (and the band, too) still matters? Love him.
Thanks so much for putting this out here for us to find. Just great!
To Notecrusher: James Blood Ulmer is not "gone". He is still alive, still making music, still playing concerts. His most recent albums were released in 2010 and his most recent album appearances as a sideman were in 2012. I am jealous that you were at that show. I was just a kid then. Doc At The Radar Station is among my 4 favorite Beefheart albums with Trout Mask, Decals, and Ice Cream For Crow and Are You Glad To Be In America is probably my favorite Ulmer album although I highly recommend In and Out which came out in 2010.
Great upload. I think that in years to come the Captain will be recognized more and more as a major artist, both in painting and certainly as far as Rock'n'Roll is concerned. He was also very funny, I love listening to Safe As Milk, Clear Spot, The Spotlight Kid, Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off Baby, etc.. endless hours of enjoyment, but I think it might be too much for most people, who just don't get it. Anyway, you've done a great job, thanks for posting this
I watched this complete documentary without getting up. I understand Captain Beefheart better now. I think he is amazing. His songs attract me, and at the same time, push me away. I think that is his essence.
I'm sure he took it hard when Frank Died. In Frank's book, he said Beefheart would open the back of his Dad's Helms Bakery Truck, pull out some trays, and have his sister climb in to steal change from his Dad's belt changer. To buy smokes. I laughed, I used to buy donuts from the Helms man
Great zoom in on that moustache. Great doc thanks a mil. Beefheart is great
Glider, my favorite beefheart song.
Thanks for the film, excellent!
thanks for the upload. nice to see he at least has an ocean view if he is wheelchair bound.
Great documentary from BBC and great post from smash9grab.
Thakns for sharing it with us.
I came right to RUclips when I knew Beefheart made his transition...Excellent Documentary, Thank You... Focused... Aimed to get us out of the Catatonic State...unfortunately with MS he ended up in the most aware catatonic state...the split, the tension of the artist.
Thank you for posting this, I was in a deep hole when this was a BBC broadcast and missed it. Shame about 3/6, but there you go with the corporate head up its arse thing. I'm the same age as the Captain and still think his music has the 'wow' factor and pleased he is there.
Saw Don/Frank in Phx during the Bong Fury Tour(?) at the Celebrity Theater(stage spins 360). Sang Willie the Pimp and then promptly sat down with his bottle of whiskey. Saw him in Portland(OR) in 80-81 with his band and was fantastic. He's happier with his painting now. Very ill though. :(:(:(
I became a big fan of Captain Beefheart after seeing this doco...
thanks for posting the entire beefheart documentary.
Dang. C'mon Google. Put part 5 back up. Whoever blocked it does not have honest intent and has made the world a worse place.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks for posting.
smash and grab - whoever you are, thanks so much for posting this documentary. i ate it up in one sitting .... and hoped for desert.
brilliant doco of an unfathomable creative spirit.
I hope he gets to draw up there too :-)
Thank you very much for uploading it!
definitely. what an interesting principle on which to base your compositions.
Brilliant, was so happy when i found this.
These are brilliant, thanks for posting 😎
what a lovely documentary!
beefheart is brilliant
smash9grab
Thank you muchly. I have been a fan of the Captain for years ans I really enjoyed seeing this.
well done for posting this.
thanks
RIP. "I'm doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state". 2:4. Sums it up. You will be more sorely missed than ever.
"Aging Beefheart" ? He was friggin' 41 years old! Although to be sure he did look closer to 60.
great man, great DOC
I thank the stars that I actually met Don once and was able to shake his hand and thank him for the music
The thing that Matt Groening said about Trout Mask Replica growing on you... that's my experience too. It sounds like a bunch of noise at first... but you know, there are a lot of parallel rythms, sounds, harmonies.. after about 10 or 20 times listening to it.. it becomes a lot more obvious
awesome !! thanks alott for the post!
Is this Matt Groening at beginning of clip? Man of taste!
Reunite Gondwanaland!
great documentary
Hello mike. Great minds think alike. I've just thoroughly enjoyed watching it all again too! What are the chances eh?
Thumbs up if you downloaded at least one Beefheart album while watching this. Long Live Beefheart!
Peel was a huge fan of Beefheart.
Ultimate test of people if they know their music. Only one friend will let me play the Captain. On a limited bases. Wish Don and the Magic Band got the lifestyle,money and respect they deserved. Tortured Artist Effect I guess.
thanks for upload!
well, seeing as i'm married with 2 children i think i might have completed my evoloutionary perogatives already, and i can assure you that primitive catatonic music was not required in the process.
the fact that you see this as "abstract noodling" when a good deal of it is highly structured suggests that this may be lost on you. fair enough.
you stick to what you know, i'll stick to what i know. and hopefully never the twain shall meet.
Give me a Claw- Haw.!!!!
Thanks 4 this , really.
Without there having been Beefheart, Tom Waits would not be what he is.
It's funny I was into Frank Zappa and liked We are only in it for the Money album when I was about 14. I did not know anyone that was into Captain Beefheart... in fact when I was standing in J. C. Penneys debating on buying the two album Trout Mask Recplica produced by Frank Zappa I thought... the only person I know that is into Captain Beefheart was the guy on the album cover. I bought Led Zepplin 2 instead.
"the factory rhythm, the rhythm we all march to"
"I don't like hypnotics"
that he lived once upon a time gives me strength
I loved it!!!!
Thanks smash9grab. Beefheart is beautiful.
this artist always reminded me of Salvador Dali on so many levels
when i listened to trout mask replica i would not have thougt that they had written down a single note before playing it...
Get your tickets NOW folks. The Captain and the Magic Band are hitting the road for a tour after the new album is released on 7/6/2010. The tour begins in Vancouver, BC, slides down the west coast, and then zig zags the rest of the country. YES!
Fucking amazing.
i put TMR on in my car once and one of the passengers screamed 'stop the car!', grabbed the tape and stomped it into little pieces.
Thank you
awesome!
He's better off now, we wouldn't want him to become a novelty.
Love the shirt "reunite gondawnaland"!!
He is a brave man, simply did it his way,
I'm sure that lifestyle has taken it's toll on him though.
We he got older he looks a bit like late Dražen Vrdoljak to me. I miss them both a lot
The stars are matter.
We're matter.
It doesn't matter.
- DVV
@adderas I saw #3 on here... there's a full track on it that the record company has recorded a robotic voice over 'audio removed by...' or something. that must've been the problem, the record company wasn't getting their royalties when it was on youtube.
Beefheart forever!
I remember in the early 70s, his music scared me.
RIP....peace
Anyone noticed dudes "Reunite Gonwanaland"shirt towards the end. I want that shirt.
One of only two post-1945 musical geniuses. (the other being Miles Davis)
add 100 gecs to that list - taking the conventions of pop music and everything shoved off to the wayside, combining them together in a haphazard yet ultimately controlled and structured way.
inb4 you listen to "money machine" and go "oh boy that's trash." we all thought that about Trout Mask at first - don't lie to yourself.
That last picture of him really makes him look like Igor Stravinsky!
Does any body agree?
@TaffyRaphie
closing credits : Glider : The Spotlight Kid: Reprise : 1972. Last track on side 2.
You can hear some T-heads, Television, King Crimson and other 80s bands in Beefheart's music. Not greatly successful but greatly influential.
yeah dude sick nice one thanks
most of his music WAS HYPNOTIC. his statement is oxymoronic. bat chain puller NOT hypnotic? what planet are you or he from?
luv beefheart, HUGE !! "Matt" Groening explains it well i think...as don does :))
why did his appearance change so drastically in the early 70s?
As an evolved woman, I am over the moon. Life on the edge is the only place to be. Granted, not many women are comfortable there.
Unfortunately I’ve not met enough good women on the edge.
The ones I have met on the edge are normally just demented.
Awesome
Well done Documentary about Captain Beefheart!!!!! WMG are simply greedy bastards though.
How does he still have a voice!