Winter Storage Question

[StephenLee]

I have just read my original post and remembered the topic.

Here is a photo of my Carbon Dioxide generators. From left to right we have Doris, Colin, Peppy, Martin, Hercule .............

Stephen

[StephenLee]

that has a blue plaque for Captain Beefheart.

http://www.beefheart.com/blog/2008/01/b ... reams.html

Thats the one. Story is that John Peel drove the great man to Frank Freeman's in his mini. Frank and his wife, Wynn, greeted the with a pot of tea and cucumber sandwiches which the Captain thought was weird !!

I went to the unveiling ceremony and Percy, Sorry Mr Plant was definitely there.

Robert Plant used to drink in one of my haunts and I remember him once saying that if there was a better songwriter in England and a better guitarist in England then why did they not get together and make albums as good as Richard Thompson. During the same conversation he revealed that his favourite song was 'Naked if I want to' by Moby Grape which was odd because my favourite song was 'Motorcycle Irene' by Moby Grape.

Stephen

[itsybitsy]

I know I'm a bit late to the party...but who the f**k is Captain Beefheart??????

[preppingsu]

I know I'm a bit late to the party...but who the f**k is Captain Beefheart??????

google him

[itsybitsy]

I know I'm a bit late to the party...but who the f**k is Captain Beefheart??????

google him

Just youtubed him. Dearie me...

[StephenLee]

Oh Itsybitsy.......................

Jonathan Swift said "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU

Not the Great Man's best work but possibly his most accessible

Also, unrelated but I have just found this :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1Sw5EU ... re=related

My parents were unreconstructed hippies, a 10 year old Stephen Lee was tapping his love beads in the audience to this.

Stephen

[hobo]

...but who the f**k is Captain Beefheart??????

I was tied down at the age of 14 and forced to listen to his album 'Trout Mask Replica'.... More than anything else, this album has informed my practice as a musician and painter.
This from amazon:

Probably the strangest album to regularly make critics' Top 100 Records of All Time, Trout Mask Replica is a landmark of idiosyncratic and visionary music-making. (Beefheart).... and The Magic Band rehearsed this record for over a year, translating Beefheart's ideas into fully fleshed-out pieces: although the record on first listen appears spontaneous and improvised, it is in fact carefully constructed.... Trout Mask Replica fuses blues, freeform jazz, rock, and Beefheart's surreal lyrics into an initially perplexing and daunting blend, in which the two guitars, drums and bass seem to be playing four different songs at once--but over time, the music's angular, discordant shapes and rhythms not only begin to make sense, but take on an eccentric beauty. ...

No.58 on Rolling Stone Top 500 albums: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists ... d-19691231

[hobo]

But...we are off topic again.....

[bulldogeagle]

My parents were unreconstructed hippies, a 10 year old Stephen Lee was tapping his love beads in the audience to this.

Stephen

mine were both straights which is why we are "alternative"

[StephenLee]

...but who the f**k is Captain Beefheart??????

I was tied down at the age of 14 and forced to listen to his album 'Trout Mask Replica'.... More than anything else, this album has informed my practice as a musician and painter.
This from amazon:

Probably the strangest album to regularly make critics' Top 100 Records of All Time, Trout Mask Replica is a landmark of idiosyncratic and visionary music-making. (Beefheart).... and The Magic Band rehearsed this record for over a year, translating Beefheart's ideas into fully fleshed-out pieces: although the record on first listen appears spontaneous and improvised, it is in fact carefully constructed.... Trout Mask Replica fuses blues, freeform jazz, rock, and Beefheart's surreal lyrics into an initially perplexing and daunting blend, in which the two guitars, drums and bass seem to be playing four different songs at once--but over time, the music's angular, discordant shapes and rhythms not only begin to make sense, but take on an eccentric beauty. ...

No.58 on Rolling Stone Top 500 albums: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists ... d-19691231

Hi Hobo, You are so right. I remember waiting for this album to be released. I had pre-ordered it and on the appointed day went to my local record shop, bought it and took it home. I had even brought a new stylus for the turntable......... I can still remember my disappointment, what was this sh*t ? I put the album back in its sleeve, put it on the shelf with the other records and did not go near it for nearly 2 months.

Then a little voice inside said 'If it sounds like that, the Captain meant it to sound like that' so off the shelf it came and I listened and listened, over and over again and slowly I began to understand. Now, some 42 years later, I don't think that a single week has gone by without listening to it. In fact, its on the CD as I am typing, specifically "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish"

Stephen