I got to meet Don and Jan at one of his concerts and interview him in his hotel room. When I ask for his autograph he draw a sketch of Rockette Morton which I framed. I was so blessed.
I am so grateful that Dave was so fascinated by the Captain. He is a genius musician and quite a character. I can tell through my own interactions with similar folks that he is very high on the autistic spectrum...one of the keys is to watch when he asked a question...he seems puzzled and then offers an answer which may be germane but often he will find an "item" which in his mind is relevant but will not appear to be, to everyone else. I love that Dave is able to roll with him as that is something most interviewers would not be able to handle...even going along with his fanciful tale of his upbringing. He went to high school.
It's both an oversimplification and a misunderstanding to talk about levels of autism and many object to the term spectrum. Many creative folks are autistic it's true. It's way past time that non auts tried to listen and comprehend what autistic people say rather than continuing to force erroneous and harmful theories which are decades out of date.
The woman who laughs at 8:20 in this video....I love you. I think it's heartfelt for a genuinely nice person, Don Van Vliet. I love this clip and he's a unique guy, eccentric, and I'd have loved to have met him.
I would hope to see all the existing footage of this man Peter Jackson style, 9 hours of him doing his magic in great quality. This man is truly fascinating.
In my book, Beefheart was the most important musical figure in the United States in the 20th century. Trout Mask Replica is possibly the greatest rock album of all time, but Mirror Man is up there as well for me and it is very underrated. He had the blues in his bones but as a true artist he was able to transcend it even further. Mad, but genius.
mirror man is crazy underrated due to it being released 4 years later and being terribly mixed until 1999. but mirror man and tmr stand far above the rest of his work, which is all good
The only hall of fame that matters is yours. The "Hall" is just politics and who you know. That is why Mary J Blige is in and, l don't know...Styx isn't. It's a farce.
That's a heartfelt and respectful opinion. Everyone here loves the Captain. Its kind of good that he's not on the catwalk. I don't think he would have wanted that. He would have probably seen it as a pretentious stunt and his disconnection to it. I'm sure he enjoyed being the 'underground hero' and the attention that brought with it. You don't need to worry mate, he won't be forgotten. He is a legend.
I met mr Black in the Netherlands. He toured with the MuffinMan. Talked with him about a our and thats what he also told me with a big smile on his face😊
Poor old Don. Shafted by Frank. Shafted by Gail. His music was great. His paintings were great. His poetry/lyrics were great. In the UK he'd have been given a knighthood. Here, he rotted away in the Mojave. I'd like to see an interview with his wife, Jan. Whatever happened to her?
@@craigmurdock4740He was well rooted in the blues, and the great painters from the Netherlands and stuff, he was rooted in tradition and history, unlike all other post-modern artists who make just random garbage and think they are unique
Want to really know Beefheart's music? Check out tunes like: Odd Jobs Floppy Boot Stomp Owed T'Alex Dirty Blue Gene Harry Irene Golden Birdies Bat Chain Puller Ashtray Heart 1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole Big Eyed Beans From Venus Sun Zoom Spark Click Clack Grow Fins Love Lies Tropical Hot Dog Night Abba Zabba When Big Joan Sets Up Well China Pig When I See Mommy That's 20 great tunes that are pretty accessible, he's got another 20 that are in the same realm, then the more avant-garde and odd stuff which can take more time to appreciate (or not ;) ) Great artist who forged his own path and never strayed R.I.P. Don
You cant leave the BONGO FURY sessions out ...Beefheart and Zappa had a great groove ...And I didnt see ZIG ZAG WANDERER on yer list , but I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW ya wantedta...SUE EGYPT and ELLA GURU are lookin for you !
Don's artistic audience was in Europe, where he knew he would be taken seriously. 'This is a song from.... Doc at the Radar Station...' - he didn't always know. His paintings were about the inside coming out. And that's why he remains an inspiration.
I saw Captain Beefheart with Frank Zappa sometime in the mid 1970's. I saw him again around 1981 at a place called Center Stage in East Providence Rhode Island (where I'm origin]ally from). I think it was the tour for The Shiny Beast Album. The music was great. His music is very creative and a bit strange but very cool. The band played great and it was a different experience hearing them play his music live and also his voice was perfect.
I once had a opportunity to bid on Don Van Vliet's hat at a million-dollar Christie's auction! I lost. The guy who won bid "a slightly used hot dog bun" and of course none of us were going to go up agin that. It was a slam-dunk bid, that's for sure. Later that day, I realized I was not at an auction, but a suction, it was not Christie's rather "Christ's," and also it was for Ron Don Vloet's cat. Oh well, you win some, you lose some! RIP, Cap'n Beef
You know, I'd seen him on Letterman as a teenager, but didn't know who the hell he was. Then one day when I was about 22, I was out shoplifting at Kmart and saw Trout Mask among the CDs. I didn't know anything about it, but I saw "Produced by Frank Zappa" on the back and I knew I had to have it. I think most people would have recoiled on first hearing that album, but when I played it, I knew, I KNEW, this was exactly what I needed. And the cover! The front, the back, the pictures of the band inside. Reminded me of the pictures included in Hot Rats. That picture of Don holding the space age vacuum cleaner. Some have made the claim that Don was a bigger influence on Frank than the other way around and I think that's true. I think Frank had these artistic/aesthetic leanings, but he didn't know how far you could push it until he met Don. But Frank had a head for business and Don didn't.
His parents didn’t want Don to become an artist because they were afraid it would make him gay; his parents weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. I guess they never heard of Picasso.
Thanks Dave for being cool enough to get this particular art turtle out of his shell. This is great.
Dave showed total respect. A wonderful interview, with a multi level mind. Text book tough interview.
"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter." - Cpt. Beefheart
+@lorip. 1110: "Everybody's colored or else you wouldn't be able to see them."
"There are only forty people in the world, and five of them are hamburgers."
Except it does matter. Oh, well, still kinda clever and quirky.
I got to meet Don and Jan at one of his concerts and interview him in his hotel room. When I ask for his autograph he draw a sketch of Rockette Morton which I framed. I was so blessed.
Oh but it really does matter ….. me
A multi level mind. We should all be so free. Dave showed respect, great interview.
I am so grateful that Dave was so fascinated by the Captain. He is a genius musician and quite a character. I can tell through my own interactions with similar folks that he is very high on the autistic spectrum...one of the keys is to watch when he asked a question...he seems puzzled and then offers an answer which may be germane but often he will find an "item" which in his mind is relevant but will not appear to be, to everyone else. I love that Dave is able to roll with him as that is something most interviewers would not be able to handle...even going along with his fanciful tale of his upbringing. He went to high school.
It's both an oversimplification and a misunderstanding to talk about levels of autism and many object to the term spectrum. Many creative folks are autistic it's true. It's way past time that non auts tried to listen and comprehend what autistic people say rather than continuing to force erroneous and harmful theories which are decades out of date.
If he was autistic than he was of the savant-genius variety
The Captain was dyslexic and had MS for years, ultimately passing in 2010 from it.
He left us with SO MUCH to enjoy ...Music , Art , poetry etc ...I still feel I WANT MORE !!! Very cool guy
dave is still alive and well.
The woman who laughs at 8:20 in this video....I love you. I think it's heartfelt for a genuinely nice person, Don Van Vliet. I love this clip and he's a unique guy, eccentric, and I'd have loved to have met him.
1:36 "You want to be a different fish you have to jump out of the school" I get it, school of fish! Thank you again Captain for your words of wisdom.
Captain Beefheart is a Legend’s Legend
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I love how genuinely respectful Dave was.
I would hope to see all the existing footage of this man Peter Jackson style, 9 hours of him doing his magic in great quality. This man is truly fascinating.
Van Vliet! Awesome. I wish he hadn't retired from music in the early eighties.
In my book, Beefheart was the most important musical figure in the United States in the 20th century. Trout Mask Replica is possibly the greatest rock album of all time, but Mirror Man is up there as well for me and it is very underrated. He had the blues in his bones but as a true artist he was able to transcend it even further. Mad, but genius.
Ice Cream for Crow! And Bongo Fury 😏
I love Trout Mask Replica. Safe As Milk was also the first and only time I listened to an album 10 times within the first week of getting a copy.
Loved Safe As Milk. I really like the Shiny Beast album as well.@@jakechat2716
mirror man is crazy underrated due to it being released 4 years later and being terribly mixed until 1999. but mirror man and tmr stand far above the rest of his work, which is all good
Clear Spot
turn myself inside out! what a beutiful way of describing art. i love this guy!
This man deserves to be in the ROCK &ROLL HALL of FAME a.s.a.p!!!!
The only hall of fame that matters is yours. The "Hall" is just politics and who you know. That is why Mary J Blige is in and, l don't know...Styx isn't. It's a farce.
@@Rupert14 Absolutely! "The Hall" is not important. The best artists are the ones that you like.
That's a heartfelt and respectful opinion. Everyone here loves the Captain. Its kind of good that he's not on the catwalk. I don't think he would have wanted that. He would have probably seen it as a pretentious stunt and his disconnection to it. I'm sure he enjoyed being the 'underground hero' and the attention that brought with it. You don't need to worry mate, he won't be forgotten. He is a legend.
He’s always been way above the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
As Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention), Zappa was great but Captain Beefheart was the real deal.
I met mr Black in the Netherlands.
He toured with the MuffinMan.
Talked with him about a our and thats what he also told me with a big smile on his face😊
Poor old Don. Shafted by Frank. Shafted by Gail. His music was great. His paintings were great. His poetry/lyrics were great. In the UK he'd have been given a knighthood. Here, he rotted away in the Mojave. I'd like to see an interview with his wife, Jan. Whatever happened to her?
I heard she died.
Exactly
The most original human being in the history of mankind
can't get more dumb with this comment.
Great, great post! Thank you! ❤
Don was so ahead of his time, he’s like Andy Kauffman except he was 100% the real deal !!
The guy is in another f’cking planet. I love it.
Nobody slays the Captain. Even now, Captain Beefheart is well ahead of his time.
Hes the type of artist that doesnt take a time into account. Ever timeless.
@@craigmurdock4740He was well rooted in the blues, and the great painters from the Netherlands and stuff, he was rooted in tradition and history, unlike all other post-modern artists who make just random garbage and think they are unique
You got it.😻
"Tropical Hot dog night, like two flamingos in a fruit fight"
I've never seen him being interviewed before. I like him even more. He's as mercurial as I'd expect him to be, but cheerful and friendly.
never have you ever ACTUALLY looked up interviews. many out there. please dive deeper.
Want to really know Beefheart's music? Check out tunes like:
Odd Jobs
Floppy Boot Stomp
Owed T'Alex
Dirty Blue Gene
Harry Irene
Golden Birdies
Bat Chain Puller
Ashtray Heart
1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole
Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Sun Zoom Spark
Click Clack
Grow Fins
Love Lies
Tropical Hot Dog Night
Abba Zabba
When Big Joan Sets Up
Well
China Pig
When I See Mommy
That's 20 great tunes that are pretty accessible, he's got another 20 that are in the same realm, then the more avant-garde and odd stuff which can take more time to appreciate (or not ;) )
Great artist who forged his own path and never strayed
R.I.P. Don
If it's ok, I would like to add - "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" and "25th Century Quaker". Go Captain!
@@trevor991725’th Quaker for sure
Thanks for this list!
You cant leave the BONGO FURY sessions out ...Beefheart and Zappa had a great groove ...And I didnt see ZIG ZAG WANDERER on yer list , but I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW ya wantedta...SUE EGYPT and ELLA GURU are lookin for you !
ZIG ZAG WANDERER
Don's artistic audience was in Europe, where he knew he would be taken seriously. 'This is a song from.... Doc at the Radar Station...' - he didn't always know. His paintings were about the inside coming out. And that's why he remains an inspiration.
what does he say after "This a song from... Doc at the Radar Station?" I can't understand .
I saw Captain Beefheart with Frank Zappa sometime in the mid 1970's. I saw him again around 1981 at a place called Center Stage in East Providence Rhode Island (where I'm origin]ally from). I think it was the tour for The Shiny Beast Album. The music was great. His music is very creative and a bit strange but very cool. The band played great and it was a different experience hearing them play his music live and also his voice was perfect.
He was brilliant. Nowadays it’s the tyranny of the talentless
Chew mustache wetly, pound cane! Too bad that you lost interest for living.
I miss you Dave
Interesting fellow, thanks Dave!
0:27 - I recognize that hand!
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thanks for posting that.
He started out as an Howlin’ Wolf acolyte, then went avant garde when Ry Cooder quit The Magic Band.
THIS MAN COULD SING THE BIRDS FROM THE TREES !
It is still difficult to tell how much of Don's innocence was real or deliberate. I do suspect he was playing at this point.
Yeah it's an act at this stage, he knows the schtick
Look at that Beefheart.
Uncomplicated beauty
🎉❤
great! thanks!
Imagine living with this guy and he makes you play guitar for 13 hours a day.
Disnt he keep them from leaving the rehearsal room and threatened them from leaving if they didn't get the music right
That was my brother’s life with my dad. A regular joe Jackson he was…
You can't get stuff like this anywhere else anymore, can you?
Yes
wow thanks for the upload
He's quite sane. Artists are the true leaders.
-You went to Italy to study.... sculpting?
-Oh yeah, marble.
-Marble?? That's major league sculpting.
-*SLEDGEHAMMER MOTION*
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART'S GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BARDZO
I once had a opportunity to bid on Don Van Vliet's hat at a million-dollar Christie's auction!
I lost.
The guy who won bid "a slightly used hot dog bun" and of course none of us were going to go up agin that. It was a slam-dunk bid, that's for sure.
Later that day, I realized I was not at an auction, but a suction, it was not Christie's rather "Christ's," and also it was for Ron Don Vloet's cat.
Oh well, you win some, you lose some!
RIP, Cap'n Beef
Don is a genius... Trout Mask Replica
You know, I'd seen him on Letterman as a teenager, but didn't know who the hell he was. Then one day when I was about 22, I was out shoplifting at Kmart and saw Trout Mask among the CDs. I didn't know anything about it, but I saw "Produced by Frank Zappa" on the back and I knew I had to have it. I think most people would have recoiled on first hearing that album, but when I played it, I knew, I KNEW, this was exactly what I needed. And the cover! The front, the back, the pictures of the band inside. Reminded me of the pictures included in Hot Rats. That picture of Don holding the space age vacuum cleaner. Some have made the claim that Don was a bigger influence on Frank than the other way around and I think that's true. I think Frank had these artistic/aesthetic leanings, but he didn't know how far you could push it until he met Don. But Frank had a head for business and Don didn't.
If Daniel Plainview from There will be Blood was played by Norm McDonald, he would sound like this.
What a facsinating guy.
I am the biggest fan of the Late Show with Dave. Went twice. Greatest broadcaster of the last 30 years.
“Do you always have the hat on?”
“No, no… I take it off… ah, quite a bit…”
What does that mean exactly?
Don: exactly? I dont know, i had fun doing it though.
👌
They threw to commercial very quickly after the intro. I think this was a time out to asses the situation haha
"Assess".
@@Stratmanable phew! thanks!
Please give him back to us. We need The Captain back. 😢
Don lived for a time in Oakdale, in the San Joaquin Valley.
Beef❤ a true legend
bulbous…also tapered
Don Van Vliet in HQ
(Don Van Vliet caught in 4K)
Excellent. Captain Beefheart was a true original. We have Frank Zappa to thank for pulling him out of obscurity.
Only on Letterman !!!!!!!!!
Fast and bulbous.
That's right, The Mascara Snake
@@tylerrae2018 Bulbous also tapered?
@@BrettBorovic Also, a tin teardrop.
+@sayeager5559: Electric black shadow run cross the sun
What an interesting man.
Hey David
Seems like a very nice guy.
We used to put paintings on TV in this country… what happened………..
Well, I think that difference of today is that It's hard to keep paintings from falling over when you put them on flat-screen TV's! 😅
Those were the years!
Dave could never handle true eccentrics.
That musta been some good acid :D
He stopped doing acid around ‘74-‘75
It's wild this interview happened
I still don't know what the war is a pimple on the pope's pet dragon means
I’m still allergic to chapstick 😢
His parents didn’t want Don to become an artist because they were afraid it would make him gay; his parents weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. I guess they never heard of Picasso.
what's a matter, is he acoustic?
Captain Beefheart the man from the dessert hot sun full moon
"Desert."
Nitwit
Beefheart & Zappa is what inspired the band PHISH the most.
This is exactly why nobody understands PHISH.
---------------------- fully functional eccentricity .....thanks4sharing
A really strange guy his work is still an interesting mystery to me
Man Van.
Did he do a lot of acid?
Don van Vliet the best the Dutch has to offer to America.
she lives in Mojave in a winnebago
BEEF❤ > Zappa
The Parkinson's disease is already apparent.
I noticed that too. I think it's because we are looking for it, but if you are you can definitely see it.
Yes, at the time I wouldn't have thought of it, but in hindsight we can see it.
It was Multiple Sclerosis
He had multiple sclerosis, not Parkinson's.
Nope. Autism. MS has nothing to do with the mind.
certified nutcase! How can anyone else see anything different than that?
usual assinine questions and comments from letterman...
Neurodivergent. All. The. Way.
10th minute 😊
That guy was nuts.
Needs his medications.
What is the meaning of life? Ill tell you, that There is no meaning.
How could anyone have watched this late at night? 😴
I watched this show every night it was on.I even watched when he was on daytime TV. I love Dave so much.
I was implying that this particular guest/interview was exceedingly boring - although Dave was doing everything that he could.
Oh, my dear, you just don't understand...
Because it was awesome.
Alcohol is the Devil
Don was not drunk here. He was beginning to show the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. It was this illness that forced him to retire from music.
Awful.. Being extrinsic isn't art.
learn english before writing in english now get the funk out of my face
But being intrinsic is?
“Oriental Americans”? Canceled.
Captain Bee Fart was a pain in the ears.
Boo.
Why did you watch it? Are you embarrassed you don't get it?
He always comes across a quite a shy man - it's like he wants his performances to do all the talking so he doesn't have to.
Muffin Man