RIP Captain Beefheart

[david correia]

In case you haven't heard:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-2
0101217



David Correia
www.Celebrationsound.com

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

david correia wrote:

> In case you haven't heard:

> http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-2
> 0101217

Listening to the video's with him people have linked to elsewhere is like
listening to late Beethoven - from when he couldn't hear what the other guys
were writing, ie. still fresh and timeless.

Strange, as I can remember people claiming that it was "it" back when it was
and to me it just wasn't.

I seriously think he as an other misplaced classical musician lost by lack
of education options.

> David Correia
> www.Celebrationsound.com


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[polymod]

"david correia" > wrote in message
...
> In case you haven't heard:
>
> http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-2
> 0101217

Yea, I saw this yesterday. Bummer.
I hope he's upstairs playing with FZ.
RIP

Poly

[Patrick James]

On 2010-12-19 06:34:59 +0000, david correia said:

> In case you haven't heard:
>
> http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-20101217

Throughout
>
my teens and twenties Beefheart was god. He worked rather well as a
deity and for me substantially preferable to the one on offer in
mainstream western culture.

In 1974 I listened to Trout Mask Replica for the first time and that
was my moment of conversion. So much is so right about TMR. The
apparent madness of the music is all meticulously planned and played,
which brings a unique sincerity to the sound. The lyrics demonstate an
understanding on behalf of the author of what actually is going on in
rock and roll. The words are used like paint, but always seem to mean
something powerful and to which you can relate. On the other hand the
words very rarely actually really mean something in a literal sense,
but, so often you feel a great empathy for the lyric line, you know
exactly what he means, but you can't say what it is.

His vocal was a montage of blues voices. He would be always picking
from a palette of blues vocal expression I think he had learned from
listening to so many blues and jazz records as a child.

The organised madness of the music works as a backdrop to this amazing
vocal lyrical performance. The music mood swings continuously as it
wrestles to understand the world.

That incomprehension of the world and fear of the consequences of
comprehending the world, of then becoming part of the world, lies at
the heart, I think of all the rebellion in popular youth music.

For me Trout Mask Replica is the greatest creation in popular music. It
is unparalled, unprecedented and yet totally authentic.

--
Patrick
<http://www.patrickjames.co.uk>

[hank alrich]

Patrick James > wrote:

> On 2010-12-19 06:34:59 +0000, david correia said:
>
> > In case you haven't heard:
> >
> > http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-
> > 20101217
>
> Throughout > my teens and twenties Beefheart was god. He worked rather
> well as a deity and for me substantially preferable to the one on offer in
> mainstream western culture.
>
> In 1974 I listened to Trout Mask Replica for the first time and that was
> my moment of conversion. So much is so right about TMR. The apparent
> madness of the music is all meticulously planned and played, which brings
> a unique sincerity to the sound. The lyrics demonstate an understanding on
> behalf of the author of what actually is going on in rock and roll. The
> words are used like paint, but always seem to mean something powerful and
> to which you can relate. On the other hand the words very rarely actually
> really mean something in a literal sense, but, so often you feel a great
> empathy for the lyric line, you know exactly what he means, but you can't
> say what it is.
>
> His vocal was a montage of blues voices. He would be always picking from a
> palette of blues vocal expression I think he had learned from listening to
> so many blues and jazz records as a child.
>
> The organised madness of the music works as a backdrop to this amazing
> vocal lyrical performance. The music mood swings continuously as it
> wrestles to understand the world.
>
> That incomprehension of the world and fear of the consequences of
> comprehending the world, of then becoming part of the world, lies at the
> heart, I think of all the rebellion in popular youth music.
>
> For me Trout Mask Replica is the greatest creation in popular music. It is
> unparalled, unprecedented and yet totally authentic.

Yeah, man, I dig it too.

(Beefheart painted on the bandroom wall at AWHQ.)

--
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