Captain Beefheart - Upon The My-O-My
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Old Grey Whistle Test '74
The decks were stacked
The wind blew low, the wind blew high
The stakes were low, the stakes were high
Upon the My-O-My
Hands low, hands high,
Ho-ho-ho, hi-hi-hi
Hands low, hands high
Upon the My-O-My
How was I to know she was so shy?
Upon the My-O-My
Across the light, across the night
You can hear the Captain's cry
Hands low, hands high
Upon the My-O-My
Got to make her roll, got to make her fly
Upon the My-O-My
Now tell me, good Captain,
How does it feel
To be driven away from your own steering wheel
Upon the My-O-My . . .
It's only now, decades later, that many of us are realizing the genius of Capt. Beefheart.
Can you explain it?
Jack White acknowledged it already decades ago with a superbe cover
he wasn't the genius, it was the whole situation and the people in it. i understood that when i saw samuel andreyev's interviews with the magic band
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The Captain" may not be for everyone's tastes, but if you have ears to hear, he is magic!
And his Magic Band !!
If you got ears to hear.. YOU GOTTA LISTEN!!
I listen since his beginning
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There's a thin line between genius and madness. Don always managed to stay on the right side...but it was often a close run thing. What he brought back from the edge was often magical.
sums him up perfectly
A close run, run thing ❤
Perfectly stated.
"How does it feel? ...to be driven away...from your own steering wheel?!" Indeed, Cap'n B...Indeed!
How does it feel to be driven away from your own steering wheel-not good, not good at all... Thnx-Don
I love that line. I have been driven away, and it is mind if scary.
Beefheart and Zappa; two genius masters of prog-jazz rock.
Oh Captain, My Captain! This is Gold!! The captain at his best!
This man's music was once in a lifetime if you don't own the albums you really missed out on something special.
Thank god i missed out
I couldn’t agree more. I discovered Don through Zappa & his obvious blues roots I’m such a fan of. I’ve collected every piece of his music I could & am a fan for life. A genuinely original & unique artist ahead of his time & possibly forever.
@@diavolos2939 you know nothing
@@gcangur1 i know garbage when i hear it !!!!! clown
That voice is so unique. He could have been anyone but he chose to be the Captain.
Well said
The Captain of the Magic Band. Hocus Pocus? Hey Presto!
Back in the days , 1968, in Paris, listening to Captain Beefheart...
His voice is amazing
BIG FAN OF CATAIN BEEFHEART FOR MANY YEARS....
I am so stunned at how good no, how great this band is and I'm almost ashamed to say that I am just getting into the good Captain. I have always been aware of him and his reputation as kinda being how you say: eccentric.It has taken me about fifty years or so to start listening to him on the regular but Jeebus Almighty am I so happy that I finally discovered the Captain and his band.
Welcome aboard friend......I'm fifty but was introduced to the good captain in teens.......where has the time gone?
William - You are like me. The good Captain passed me by for about 30 years & then ping, I suddenly got it & have been appreciating his genius ever since. No other musical artist has ever had that effect on me.
Trout Mask Replica
Yeah I got into him when I saw his obituary in the New York Times and it included a link to Ice cream for Crow and I clicked on it and have been a huge fan ever since. This song is one of my favorites, I know how it feels to be driven away from my own steering wheel
I'm 68 and have been listening to him for the last 20 years or so. Beefheart; an acquired taste.
This is Captain criticizing himself for being commercial on the album ‘Unconditionally Guaranteed’ he is still great even though it perhaps feels bad being driven away from his own steering wheel:( at least he overcame this phase and made albums such as ‘Doc at the Radar Station’ ‘Bat Chain Puller’ and ‘Ice Cream for Crow’ He will always remain my favorite for his unique complex sound and bizzare dada-esque lyrics. Rip Don Van Vliet “Captain Beefheart” you’re always missed and remembered as a great musician and a painter!
Class
Agreed!! I was lucky enough to hear stories about Beefheart where I lived right before he passed. The dude was wild and badass from what I heard.
Woah
He doesn’t need to criticize himself. Guaranteed is his best, “commercial” or not. BTW:All R&R eventually is commercial. It’s the nature of the beast. Peace.
@@bobterwilliger1310 what? i don't agree at all. TMR is very artistic imo, same with Decals, Shiny Beast and Crow, these all have a very artistic feel to them, musically and lyrically, very avant garde, Blue Jeans and Guaranteed are jokes compared to them, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions.. He disowned them for a good reason if you ask me, in this song i can hear him crying i don't wanna do this..
He's crazy that's why i like him.
A crazy genius.
@@stevegibbons5777 My husband was a great fan i wasn't until he took me to see him in concert in the sixties changed my mind then.
The music industry would stagnate without people like the captain to shake them out of their complacancy
this man was a complete genius
Great Vocals. Mighty fine Music!
No band today can ever match this delivery
This is my favorite Beefheart tune.
Old Grey Whistle Test.
So many memories.
❤❤❤
I love this song, this performance.
The great Alex St Claire on lead guitar R.I.P.
...this is dean smith...
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Yeah, I realised my mistake shortly afterwards
Bad ass tune Captain!
....excellent band...excellent....
He never fails to amuse.
This is incredible!
Looks like he's just been dressed by the Sally Army and he's got that unhinged look in his eyes.... I aspire to be like him so much
Salvation Armani! ;)
You need to take more drugs, so many more drugs
The most memorable set I ever saw performed on OGWT.
OGWT was a great show. My parents had no idea I was watching stuff like this on my tiny portable black and white TV when I should have been asleep.
Wired and wonderful. What a tight band.
I remember taping this as part of a program called. ‘Sound of the70s’. My (school age) kids loved Captain Beefheart and still do. I’ve got ‘safe as milk’ Trout Mask Replica was a bit too much for me. 😁
I'll never forget Captain Beefheart saying he thought Frank Zappa had sold out. I love them both.
I was lucky enough to see the remaining magic band play in Dublin a few years ago.
AMAZING.
Superb....and nice to see the clip without adverts, decent quality footage and sound too, many thanks..
Oh Captain you were a riot in your own way you still make me dance 🕺🎶 sing and most importantly you made me laugh a hearty love thank you for all of this ❤
I salute the captain brilliance doesn't come often!!
The elevation of an art form through pure genius.
Simply a radiant rarity to have a crazy little thing posted by a distaff formed name commenting clear spot on on Captain Beefheart.
Further Than We've Gone, Crazy Little Thing
No one like him and the Magic Band, totally unique. Never too late to discover the Captain.
Such a good song. Great artist!!
It's the only worthwhile US band I've heard since it was founded in 1776
You may want to look up a little group called “13th Floor Elevators” and amend your statement😉
Capt Beefheart and Frank Zappa ❤❤❤
Good music. I liked Don on Bongo Fury and Willie the Pimp.
Don evolved from the extraordinary creative and eclectic group of people in Frank Zappa's orbit during the early to mid 60s in the suburbs of greater LA. He established his own distinctive brand of sound with the song Electricity that was way ahead of its time. In fact, the Captain's music never left the cutting edge. Even when watching his performances today, you'll have a hard time finding a pigeonhole for them, including his relatively commercial period of the mid 1970s. Now we can safely say, there will never be another Captain like Beefheart.
This is as perfect as it gets, what a fantastic performance . Thanks for all the weird music Captain RIP.
I adore this man. I'm ALWAYS singing his songs
I always thought Captain Beefheart and his band were blues men. Dissenters? Eccentric blues man.
Surprising that they didn't break down the commercial wall and make a million with tunes like this. The Captain, God rest his soul, never wanted commercial success. But I submit that this track rocks harder, and is more original than any by more popular 70's groups like Led Zeppelin.
Witness the beauty
The My-O-Mys is the name of my next band
The ultimate front man.
I almost felt the camera flinch at the end. It looked like he did too.
The stars are matter, we're matter, it doesn't matter ...Don Van Vleit
i have to listen to this at least 3 times a week, its like a drug!
..Ooooh...golly gishma(✨️😳💥📞💀)..and, ferdy felchwhistle 😢 ..(I'm to pee at least 5 X a week, on thee carpet ov thee evening asbestos..
My all time favourite song of his. Oh too be inside his mind.
Thanks a bunch for posting this. Wonderful!
love this tune
Genius
Modern day Howling Wolf, that voice is incredible!
this is my wedding song
The neighborhood skunks are going to great lengths to avoid me here in the Mojave desert. They think my mom is cool though. I'm the one to usually feed them.
Brilliant! Love his antics!🤣
I saw the parody called "o postman o mine" first and was so happy to hear the original was so great!
As we write.I miss him and thankfully got to meet him and FZ. Saw them together somehow I still stand.and deliver.
proper stuff
The lead player sure gets a sweet tone out of that LP w the mini humbuckers.
An unusually normal guitar solo for a Captain Beefheart song
On sent que le Captain n'était plus maître de son navire mais qu'il voguait déjà au delà des étoiles...Ciao Capitaine...
Bien dit.
Love beefhart one of a kind
total conviction total focus.....sunset protocol
Wonderful !
Those are some killer silver/turquoise cuffs the Captain's wearing
I played some beefheart in the car on a first date once...didn't go over well.
He is my captain,,,, good stuff
he is gorgeous. absolutely gorgeous.
Ho ho ho. Hi hi hi.
Pure lyrical genius.
Wow. This version is amazing ! Better than the funny lip sync in the Netherlands tv show.
Excellent!
A surreal music moment-- ranks with Bowie and Bing's Drummer boy, or the Residents on stage with Conway Twitty
the only music from the future!
Extremely under-rated!
What a legend
Ill be damned if this odd shit hasn't grown on me.
The Captain and the organist wearing matching rings.
Das war oder ist Super !
This is magic.
have it good authority the Captain was a little soused on this recording
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Thank You Captain!!!!
I like it . In todays world this would be considered selling out though . Just by the other tracks I've heard by these guys .
Stop talking nonsense numb nuts
This was his most conventional album, that's for sure.
Yeah the original magic band who recorded this album got disenchanted by the way album turned out and left the band. He had to put together a new band in a very little time.
it was considered selling out in the world back then too. still pretty good stuff, though
Stop making sense ( quoting talking heads )
The goat
the sound of schophrenia i have listened to it all my life, smiey emoji
Jestem podporucznikiem i chciałbym mieć takiego kapitana.
Heh. Jedyny w swoim rodzaju, kapitan wszystkich kapitanów. Boss
Niby fajny kapitan i w ogóle, ale jak zacznie naparzać w klawiaturę i kazać Ci zagrać to samo na gitarze to będzie przesrane
Incredibly Mojo Indeed
This is my favorite song of his. Because no record company would release the album for being too weird, Frank Zappa released it on his own label.
How a 16th Century Explorer's Sailing Ship Works
Even Beefheart's rubbish spell is twice as good as anyone else can do
The diehards called this the “Tragic Band” phase…this song is still a banger tho
I´ve been there when it was released .. Sugar Bowl :) I was reaching my fingers there.. I was 14 :))
Now.. some folks didnt deserve to be there at all.. like Art Tripp - "When the band finally got our album copies, we were horrified. As we listened, it was as though each song was worse than the one which preceded it."
Well, maybe he could play tympani with an orchestra.. but as a drummer for Don, he was lost..
too bad he didnt keep his mouth shut
Good band,no doubt.
From the 2 commercial albums. Bluejeans & Moonbeams + Unconditionnaly Guaranteed. Masterpieces TOO
My absolute favourite performance of his ever.
Huge Beefheart fan but best live performance for me is I'm Gonna Booglarise You on Beat Club.
@@michelletonks2270 I will go and look that up! ☺️
@@michelletonks2270 found it! I had seen it before but yup that's a cool performance for sure. Germany had some seriously good music shows back then!!
Guess you've also seen live performance of Big Eyed Beans From Venus & not forgetting Ice Cream For Crow promo vid.
@@michelletonks2270 I wouldn't pretend to be a massive Beefheart fan tbh. But I always enjoy the live stuff!!👍🏼👍🏼 and if you can find the version of Upon The My Oh My (which is OG Whistle Test as you probably know) with the story preceding it that David Hepworth tells (from the OGWT dvd) I think it sums up Don! Here >>>> ruclips.net/video/pjdzhO9IV9A/видео.htmlsi=9LHLeuqhKUUexaye
dear god
Beefheart was definitely a character. Frank Zappa formed a tight bond with this man, he was willing to tolerate CB's erratic and often drugged behavior.
Drugged, he didn't work with drug users because they are unreliabe I would know because I am one