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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band- "When Big Joan Sets Up" Live 1972 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2018
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Captain Beefheart was the greatest of all time at doing whatever it was he was doing.
Can I name my kid that?
I fell in love with you
I aggreeee TOTALLYYyyyy🔨🎷❣️
Exactly, I guess...
I tried to explain Beefheart to my wife as Zappa's less talented and more serious younger brother. I'm surprised that his songs do not get more use in film. Great soundtrack s***.
Captain Beefheart knew exactly what he was doing. The rest of us are still trying to figure it out. Have faith.
its isn't something to figure out, just enjoy something completely spontaneous
@@Fox1nDenLike completely spontaneous, but cemented in time, because the performance is not completely spontaneous, it's like the best rockband ever conducted by a psychotic poet, everybody laughs at her body, she is like a ball
@@aakkoin The band was very rehearsed. They had to be, with music that complicated. "Spontaneous" is is not, except for the saxophone bits, but that was because he couldn't have played the same thing twice if his life had depended on it. It may sound "spontaneous" at first listen, but it was all very carefully written out and arranged by John "Drumbo" French, the drummer in this video. Don van Vliet actually did not know what he was doing. That was sort of the point.
This man is 200 years ahead of his time...
Note the vaccuum cleaner in front of the drum kit. Before he was the Captain young Don Vliet sold them door to door. He showed up at Aldous Huxley's house one day and made his pitch. Huxley asked "but does it work?" Vliet said "I can assure you, sir, these things really suck." Huxley bought one on the spot. True story. 😃
I had a job selling vacuum cleaners when I was young. No wonder I like the Beef so much!
You know your Beefheart. You even called him by his real name, omitting the “Van” that Don added later to further his self-mythologizing. Impressive.
Apocryphal. Huxley never corroborated that this happened--and why would he?
No witnesses to this piece of "Beefheart Lore". And this is one of my favourite three bands of all time...I;ve learned to take anything Don Van Vliet with more than a pinch of salt!
@@vollsticks It has almost become a sport now to dismiss any larger than life tale that Don Van Vliet told over the years. The story about Don calling at Aldous Huxley's door in the 1960s has been confirmed as true, whether he had that exact conversation with him or not. He was not alone when he did it - he was with a friend who was also a Huxley fan like Don. This man recounted the actual story on a facebook post in recent years although he did not recall the 'This thing sucks' line from Don. If i find the original post i will let you know.
@@castfatshadows2255 I generally tend to focus on DVV's tales about the composition of the music and claiming credit for this or that or the other...I take it you've seen the Samuel Andreyev videos with the TMR principal players (French, Harkleroad, Cotton--he must have done some work to track done Jeff Cotton, I'm pretty sure John French couldn't contact him for Through The Eyes Of Magic, could he?)? If not check them out, they're so interesting and unmissibal for any hardcore Beefheart head....
I'm also interested in the "weirder/paranormal" stories you hear about DVV--if you've read TTEOM do you recall the story of him "visiting" a friends' wife? That's very fucking strange.
I'd say the Aldous Huxley story is probably one of the MOST believable anecdotes, it's cool that it has been corroborated. "Sir, I can assure you this thing sucks" just sounds TOO perfect, doesn't it, though?! So did Don and his accomplice know whose house it was? I expect it was probably common knowledge that a world-class literary genius was living in the area at that time, I wasn't aware of Van Vliet being a fan. In fact I think there's a quote from him in the Mike Barnes book that says "I only read one book in my whole life" (he might have said two, can't remember exactly--definitely no more than two books, though) but again that's probably hyperbole. I'm 80% sure Don had more than a passing familiarity with James Joyce and The Beat authors, particularly Kerouac...
The magic band are still being treated for PTSD and nervous shock to this day. Incredible.
godtier comment
And concussion.
Considering how poorly Don treated his bands, PTSD would not be a surprise.
@@garyrasberryjr.552Ya gotta break some eggs
I’d like to hear the Eagles cover this.
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😅😅😅😅😅
Might be the best comment I’ve read all year 😂
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It’s really special that live performances of trout songs exist.
I started my morning with this video. A mistake that i came to love.
I hope Big Joan found some peace and finally got to go to the beach.
In the world we live in today, this is the therapy of sanity.
Oh man this brought a joyful feeling I havent ever felt before. My favorite TMR track. I had no idea this existed.
A true gift from God
These guys make Zappa sound very conservative.
You’re absolutely right. Don Van Vliet’s music can sound random or chaotic at first listen, but it is anything but that. For his greatest album, Trout Mask Replica, Don made his band live together in a house and practice all day, every day for eight or nine months in order to perfect the contrapuntal complexities and crashing rhythms of his songs. Then they recorded.
Zappa was a clever guy who pretended to be weird. Beefheart was a clever guy who wasn't pretending.
@@blindlemon9 ...Recorded in SIX. FUCKING. HOURS. They knew this incredibly complex material SO WELL
Zappa is very conservative
@@blindlemon9 And after all that rehearsing and nailing the songs, Zappa produced the record...
Art Tripp and John French together. The whole band is indeed Magic!
LSD is magic.
@@vonjunzt4130 ok
@@teethsjuice ok
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@@vonjunzt4130 no LSD makes one SEE the Magic or lack there of 🕶️
I saw this line up TMB, NYC, 1/71. The ferocity of their sets were a marvel. Best musical performance I have seen to date.
You're lucky. That must have been unreal.
oh lucky you !! incredibly for me, i only got into Capt AFTER his death, upon an incredibly good newspaper article. enough to make me want to explore. and hey presto in 2009/10 i 'found' the Capt !!. so happy i did !@
Thank god Beefheart returned to my feed. I had just a few days ago accidentally clicked on something called “teal swan” who pretends to be a font of wisdom… but here, with Vliet, is true wisdom.
I can't believe how much better this sounds and looks compared to what was available online before! Thank you so much! One of my favourite live recordings of anything ever.
Let there be madness openly ! This is your Captain speaking .
I like how the coda of this live version resolves to create a coherent musical narrative.
Howlin’ Wolf fronting Ornette Coleman’s Double Quartet 😉
I found this a lot funnier than I probably should have. 😂
It’s apt as hell. If ever there were music for our time, this is it.
Man finally a live performance of a TMR from back then! Gold
"She can't go to the beach they laugh at her bodyyy"
@@struttingbirdlofi Because her hands are too small @@@!!!! magic
late reply but there's a bad quality video from The Amouges (?) festival on here somewhere, the first and only time TMR was played more-or-less in it's entirety--only thing is there's no Jeff Cotton and John French is replaced by the "Fake Drumbo" Jeff Bruschele
@KoivuTheHab Sorry, I actually gave out some false info: TMR actually WAS played with the TMR band, but only once, The Amouges Festival has a Bill Harkelroad who has attempted, and succeeded in many cases, in learning Jeff Cottons guitar parts and playing them along with his own. Talk about dedication...according to Lunar Notes he worked out which track's it'd be feasible to approximate both parts at the same time, and he damn well did it! The actual first live performance with Zappa, the G.T.O's, Art Tripp and most of the rest of the Mothers watching from the side of the stage was at a legendary venue the Aquarius Theatre, March 31st 1969.
And thanks for the grammar correction, btw
This had been around for many years on youtube with a worse resolution... but without that annoying watermark haha
We desperately need to have the entire DVD from the concert.
Late reply but search Captain Beefheart Detroit Tv and you'll find the whole taped-for-tv performance. Complete with "wiggly toes" "interview. This version has much better sound, though, the complete performance is rubbish. Off the top of my head it's Got Big Joan, Mark Boston's Hair Pie bass solo, Bellerin Plain and Whoa-Is_A-Me_Bop. I might be missing something, it's easy to find though. The French Bataclan TV performance with the Ice Cream For Crow Band (except Robert Williams is on drums and Eric Drew Feldman is on bass/synths) is a FANTASTIC late-period performance and they sprinkle in some old classics with new Shiny Beast/Doc stuff. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Incredible performances of Dirty Blue Gene and Big Eyed Beans From Venus. It's about 9/10 tracks deep iirc.
Also the Detroit TV performace this is taken from is on the Grow Fins CD set DVD--good luck getting a cheap copy if you don't already own it, though. I bought the set on vinyl which didn't include the DVD unfortunately :(
vollsticks this is from the master tape by the look of it, whereas all other copies on. RUclips have one generation of VHS noise at least.
@@vollsticks Thanks.
@@erikheddergott5514 No problem! Enjoy!
I can also recommend The Lost Broadcasts album which has the full set from the German TV performance with the Clear Spot band, y'know with the great versions of "Click Clack", "Booglerize", "Golden Birdies" etc--Mark Boston, Bill Harkelroad and Winged Eel Fingerling on guitar, Roy Estrada on bass and Art Tripp on drums (rocking the monocle and ladies panties on his head), the power of that performance is insane, they really pushed some fucking air out! I'll link you to it if you don't know what I mean--anyway it's available on DVD, vinyl and CD (iirc the CD comes with the DVD?) and is well worth it if you can get a copy for good money. The vinyl you can get for under 20 bux.
@@vollsticks Thank you very much. I'd love to be linked to these German Videos.
What are your favorite Captain Beefheart Albums? Mine are Safe as Milk, Lick my Decals of and Doc at the Radar Station. Early, Middle and Late Phase: Quite a bit normal, but with such exceptional Music it might be allowed.
I love this so much. It brings me joy.
Whoaa! I've been a lifelong Beefheart fan, but this is really somethin' else! Thanks for posting!
When I first heard Captain Beefheart it changed The way that I listen To music I had a whole New appreciation for An unusual type of music With all kinds of intertwined weird and complex layers of sounds, rhythms , and of course lyrics delivered the way I had never heard before or since . Don Van Vilet was no doubt one of a kind
the greatest artist ever
without doubt !
The more I know the more I appreciate this.
This video is a dream come true. Never knew it existed.
All members are geniuses.
When I think of the amount of crap music out there today I really appreciate this era more than ever. Beefheart was so creative and raw. No bands today are making music like this.
I think the fall were very close in outlook to beefhear,not surprising as mark e Smith was a big fan.like the captain they were an acquired taste but very original ,if not always brilliant(70%)-pretty good ratio though.
@@colinwilkes8957 yes Mark E Smith's The Fall 🍺🚬🥴🍻and Pere Ubu💞
Black midi is making music like this
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They were influenced, but it's not at the same level.
Rootless Cosmopolitans - there are lot of people playing with ideas. Then and now.
One of the best live sessions in youtube
FUUUCKING HELL
I bought the Grow Fins set on vinyl so missed this...arrgh! What a ridiculously tight band. Fucking ridiculous. Incredible. INCREDIBLE
Pity Don was lost as fuck all the way through it but he had some genius-level musicians to rescue him!
Also this is the best sounding version of this performance I've heard.
The Best RUclips Video Ever. Hands Down. Best.
That hat needs to be in the smithsonian
Is that a badminton birdie on top of it?
Singing the Smithsonian Institute Blues
It's the first time I've seen that hat from all angles. I've got it mapped in my brain now.
Most definitely
THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN ON U - tube EVER!
My favorite live clip of Captain and company! Wonderful insanity :-) Great to see John French playing, and that hilarious idea of shoving congas next to the kit.
This precious, priceless, and something for the historical record. There are so few examples of the Magic Band playing live with such good sound. Yes we need to have this and the other Detroit Tubeworks tracks on DVD (I know these are already on Grow Fins but the quality there is poor grainy VHS). Love the vacuum cleaner!
What I would give to see a live pachuco Cadaver. None the less, thank you. Amazing upload
The best song on Trout Mask Replica IMO.
I wonder if it actually exists
@@pyrocus yep
@@31alking If only someone could compile a live version of all the TMR songs...
That was insane...... the captain is certainly unique.... I love the involved expression on the band...
I think this is true progressive music, its rythm is so chaotic and Iike it. I appreciate you Captain, RIP.
Mr. Zappa and Don had the greatest back up band members. i was lucky to see them all as a kid. i am an old fart at play !!! THANK YOU !!! ........rockettebob in reno.
With extra thanks for the quality!
Unbelievable!!!..best band ever
Rock meets jazz meets punk/garage,luv the capt.
I was humming this just the other day
Thanks 😻
Captain Beefheart (Don Vliet) was one of the very few true musical geniuses of 20th Century popular music, along with Brian Wilson, George Gershwin, and just a few others. He left us at least four masterpiece LPs (Trout Mask Replica; Lick My Decals Off, Baby; Bat Chain Puller; and Doc At The Radar Station), along with a bunch of other superb music on nine more albums. He was also a brilliant abstract painter and sculptor and a very evocative poet. He was an iconoclast in the best possible way.
Add Safe as Milk to that list.......
So Stravinsky, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Lennon and McCartney, Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa for that matter, Bob Dylan (and there are others, no doubt) weren't geniuses? Certainly agree with those you cite as well as Beefheart.
@@TheSoundgarden01 The Spotlight Kid & Clear Spot are great also.
Beefheart played some great random shit on the piano and then the magic band made the greatest music ever recorded.
All CB&MB albums make off the best
Was amazed when I heard this first on the TMR album long ago. Now I am still astounded by the Magic of this Band.
I have to admit it does grow on you. I'm 67 but haven't heard much of Beefheart.
Phenomenal. I saw him live twice in 72 and 74 but this footage is beyond anything I expected. What a band, what a performance. Has anyone, ever, played with anything like this intensity? All praise Big Joan. What else was in this set?
I was fortunate to see him in 1975 with Frank Zappa in Phoenix Az.
He never had to worry if his reed was going bad
Vliet's very poor take on Ornette Coleman
I think he may have played a wrong note at one point.
Magic. True genius. Thanks for putting this on. My favourite Beefheart track. I never dreamed I would see it. Thanks again.
You might be legally retarded. This isn't music. It's what schizophrenics hear in their head 24/7.
I bet whoever was involved in this production that didn't know anything about Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band thought "welp, we're all fired" by the end of this recording. 😂
Not true by any stretch. We were fans, excited to have them (and Ry Cooder) in the studio. I directed this shoot. Not Fired.
That’s friggin’ amazing. Lucky you.
@@crvideo2409 So you made this video? GREAT JOB! Most studio shoots of Beefheart are really sterile and mannered. This captures the inspired madness and intensity. Do you have any anecdotes about the shoot you'd care to share?
Oh Dear God 🙏 I miss Mr Beef van Vlietheart 🐨🐕🌊🎶🏵️🎶🌹❤️
Ah all hail the Great Captain. A true American original
The hat with the shuttlecock (badminton "birdie" for the uninitiated) pretty much says it all for how awesome, different, and out there the Captain was. He was one of the best ever at staying off center, being too predictable and dumb, and completely preventing people from pigeon-holing him.
I bought Trout Mask Replica when it first came out, and around that time I was listening to avant-garde jazz like Steve Lacy, a soprano sax player who, unlike Beefheart, knew how to play the instrument.
1972 was an amazing year.
Dear God, I needed this. Big Joan, I salute you.
Saw him 3 or 4 times in his early years.
"Great art will be found where the simple becomes profound, where compromise and pretense are not allowed, allowing greatness to resonate either by sight or by sound." td
"her hands are too small"....one of the funniest CB lines ever.....i feel sorry for people who have never heard Beefheart, and even sorrier for those who have but missed the point......
There’s the Trout Mask Replica hat!
CASE OF THE PUNKS, RIGHT FROM THE START
A MAN ON THE PORCUPINE FINS ! ! ! SOMEBODY'S HAD TOO MUCH TO THINK ! ! !👍
YOU USED ME LIKE AN ASHTRAY HEART ! ! !👍
I'd love to see the sheet music for this song. It would be like reading hieroglyphics.
This is how I'm starting my Thursday morning at 6am.
Totally Beefy. How great to see this fine performance. Saw them twice in London. I see nothing to match this in the archive!
Saw him live in ‘74!
My soul squirms to listen to this horrible racket, but at the same time I am soaking up the chaos and obscurity of it all. I am torn at my core.
Who said, “drugs are bad for you?
Other than the seizures I had from the editing, this was great!
Thank you!
What are the chords?
Guitarist: yes
They called it magic, when i got the double vinyl in the 80s it bewitched me. Just part of a pre-internet music trip that permanently dislocated my jaw you awful musicians you.
Fuck. This cannot be duplicated.
The man was a proverbial Platypus of expression and creativity
Incredible band and music. The good Captain was a visionary artist.
There should be a biopic about him starting Jack Black.
🎶'Beautiful Dreamer'☝🏻🙄💞
I would fucking lose my shit if that came out. Immediate watch
Had Captain Beefheart’s management booked them into the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson the people would be shell shocked and never look back. The band was far too powerful at that time.
Johnny Carson? This crew should have been on Pee Wee's Playhouse.
@@vonjunzt4130 How about Captain kangoroo?
Trout Mask Replica, music aside, still has the best album cover of all time after all these decades.
This was my wedding song.
Don was the Marcel DuChamp of music. A true Dadist of sound.
A Danelectro double neck 6 string and bass!
Fawking amazing
That’s a fucking crazy drum kit. Toms/ double bass drums made from Bongos shells.1:18
There’s two kits so hopefully one day we all can see drumbo and art trip playing drums together. Doctor Dark would of been cool to see live for once.
IMHO, Mr. van Vliet had the greatest (bar none) rock/blues voice of his era. This is borne out by the fact that Frank Zappa (from what I understand, a high school classmate) chose him to fill in as vocalist on tour, knowing full well his penchant for idiosyncratic behavior; if the demanding Mr. Zappa was willing to tolerate the occasional quirk, then we can all rest assured that the ends justified the means. RIP to both.
"Turn it down!
Turn it DOWN!
I have children sleeping here...
Don't you boys know any nice songs??"😉 🤣😂🤣😂
Just Wonderful!! THANKS!!
Wrong artist 😉
jazz in 72? who knew? I just listened to whatever was on the radio, WKAR, WJR, Motown, NPR....
Good dance music ......
Geoffrey Osgood : you’ll throw your back out.
😂🤣😂🤣
Revealed! Cpt. Beefheart and Bill Hicks are one and the same!
Unbelievably butifull and wtf🥃🥃
Listening 🎧 to this while seeing the Dentist
Thank You Capt for 🪶💨❤️🔥keeping me calm
Yo! My all time yo!!
It took me a long time to figure out the mechanics of how the Magic Band played. It's sort of just a set of loops which they turn on head every so often. They're basically playing the same thing and then it will modulate slightly or they'll turn the beat around. But it's the same loop through the song. Interesting. The Captain was doing something else all together. He was out of the loop.
That song is a work of art
THE MAGIC BAND:
DON VAN VLIET (CAPTAIN BEEF HEART): Vocals & Soprano Saxophone
BILL HARKLEROAD (ZOOT HORN ROLLO): Lead & Slide Guitar
MARK BOSTON (ROCKETTE MORTON): Bass Guitar
JOHN FRENCH (DRUMBO): Drums
ART TRIPP III (ED MARIMBA): Marimba
ELLIOT INGBER (WINGED EEL FINGERLING): Guitar
just woow. now thats a performance
This is what music should be...no rehearsal, just go on stage and make music. It's a sound wave, a force, a feeling.
This band rehearsed religiously
Cool, a lot of bands don't rehearse and try to play like they did, I guess Beefheart being the band they are did the opposite.@@billyshakespeare488
That’s the thing- they were intensely tight, but it sounds chaotic. The parts are much more regimented than it seems at first. Seriously disciplined and excellent players.
@@billyshakespeare488 unfortunately not with each other.
they rehearsed so much it was insane. I vaguely remember that Beefheart had them locked in a cabin for almost a year practicing these songs every day. listen to the recording and then them live. It is the same! It sounds like they are falling over their instruments, but every note is carefully planned. Amazing
just remember there are multiple big joan,s in every country so give big joan her dues even though her hands are too small beefy lyrics are great great post peace...
01:34 - What a voice!
I listened till my head shrunk
the 70's ! great testimony. l'escroc génial.