Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica 1969

The compositions on Trout Mask Replica draw their inspiration primarily from blues and free jazz but also include elements of genres ranging from folk music to the current avant-garde of classical music to sea shanties and beyond.

Van Vliet's vocals range from growling blues singing to frenzied falsetto to laconic, casual ramblings. His lyrics contained all manner of references: music history, American and international politics, the Holocaust, love and sexuality, Steve Reich, gospel music, conformity, and man's impact on his surroundings.

Van Vliet used a piano—an instrument he had never played before—as his main compositional tool. Since he had no experience with the piano and no conventional musical knowledge at all, he was able to experiment with no preconceived ideas of musical form or structure. Beefheart sat at the piano until he found a rhythmic or melodic pattern that he liked.


 

Beefheart often showed signs of outlandish behaviour which split the band as much as his personality .
Trout Mask Replica was handed to Zappa , much to his surprise , after four and half hours  in the studio .

When released at the turn of decade , it was initially given the thumbs down by many critics and fans .

Still an avid sculptor and painter , with the help of fan Julian Schnabel  , he began exhibiting his primitive canvases which made him more money than his records ever did .

Since its release, Trout Mask Replica has been acknowledged not only as Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, but as one of the greatest albums of all time.

In 2003, the album was ranked fifty-eighth by Rolling Stone in their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 

 

TRACKS


01 Frownland     1:40    
02 The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back     1:53    
03 Dachau Blues     2:22    
04 Ella Guru        Horns [Flesh] – Antennae Jimmy Semens 2:26    
05 Hair Pie: Bake 1     4:58    
06 Moonlight On Vermont     3:59    
07 Pachuco Cadaver     4:40    
08 Bills Corpse     1:48    
09 Sweet Sweet Bulbs     2:21    
10 Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish     2:26    
11 China Pig         Guitar – Doug Moon 4:02    
12 My Human Gets Me Blues     2:46    
13 Dali's Car     1:26    
14 Hair Pie: Bake 2     2:23    
15 Pena        Lead Vocals – Antennae Jimmy Semens 2:34    
16 Well     2:07    
17 When Big Joan Sets Up     5:18    
18 Fallin' Ditch     2:08    
19 Sugar 'N Spikes     2:30    
20 Ant Man Bee    Horns [Simran], Oboe [Musette] – Captain Beefheart 3:57    
21 Orange Claw Hammer     3:34    
22 Wild Life     3:09    
23 She's Too Much For My Mirror     1:40    
24 Hobo Chang Ba     2:02    
25 The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)     2:04    
26 Steal Softly Thru Snow     2:18    
27 Old Fart At Play     1:51    
28 Veteran's Day Poppy     4:31


 

Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish : Lyrics


Lucid tentacles test 'n sleeved
'n joined 'n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish

Artifact on rose petals
'n flesh petals 'n pots
Fack 'n feast 'n tubes tubs bulbs
In jest incest injest injust in feast incest
'n specks 'n speckled speckled

Speckled speculation
Fedlocks waddlin' feast
Archaic faces frenzy

Ceramic fists artificial deceased
'n cists rancid buds burst
Dank drum 'n dung dust
Meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty dream wet meate

Limp damp rows
Peeled 'n felt fields 'n belts
Impaled on 'n daeman

Mucus mules
Twot trot tra la tra la
Tra la tra la tra la

Whale bone fields 'n belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite

Uh dipped amidst
Squirmin' serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen
'n serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish    

 

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Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band : The Mirror Man Sessions 1999

Don Vliet ( Captain Beefheart ) was born January 15, 1941 in Glendale, California .
During his teen years in Lancaster, California, Van Vliet acquired an eclectic musical taste and formed "a mutually useful but volatile" friendship with Frank Zappa, with whom he sporadically competed and collaborated.



In their original incarnation, the Magic Band were a blues-rock outfit who became staples of the teen-dance circuit; they quickly signed to A&M Records, where the success of the single "Diddy Wah Diddy" earned them the opportunity to record a full-length album.

Mirror Man is the fifth studio album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. It contains material which was recorded in 1967 for Buddah Records, and which was originally intended for release as part of an abandoned project entitled It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper.
The album is dominated by three long, blues-rooted jams featuring uncharacteristically sparse lyrical accompaniment from Beefheart. A fourth tune, the eight-minute "Kandy Korn", is an earlier version of a track that appears on Strictly Personal. In 1999, Buddha Records issued an expanded version of the album entitled The Mirror Man Sessions, which features five additional tracks taken from the abandoned tapes.



The Mirror Man Sessions

In 1999, Buddha Records (which had renamed itself to correct the earlier misspelling, 'Buddah') reissued the album under the title The Mirror Man Sessions, which was released with a newly expanded track list and a 12-page booklet explaining the history of the recordings. The additional tracks included on this release are also taken from the abandoned Brown Wrapper sessions, and thus yield a track listing which is somewhat closer to the original concept.
(Wiki)

Tracks

1. Tarotplane – 19:08
2. 25th Century Quaker – 9:50
3. Mirror Man – 15:46
4. Kandy Korn – 8:06
5. Trust Us (Take 6) – 7:14
6. Safe as Milk (Take 12) – 5:00
7. Beatle Bones n' Smokin' Stones – 3:11
8. Moody Liz (Take 8) – 4:32
9. Gimme Dat Harp Boy – 3:32

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Captain Beefheart: Safe as milk 1967

Born Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was one of modern music's true innovators.
His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between 1965 and 1982, Van Vliet also occasionally played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet, shehnai and keyboards. Often impossible to categorize,
Van Vliet's music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with free jazz, avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition


During his teen years in Lancaster, California, Van Vliet acquired an eclectic musical taste and formed "a mutually useful but volatile" friendship with Frank Zappa, with whom he sporadically competed and collaborated. He began performing with his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band in 1965. The group drew attention and acclaim with their first album in 1967 on Buddah Records, the blues-rock-rooted Safe as Milk.



Zappa as a producer granted Beefheart the unrestrained artistic freedom to compose 1969's Trout Mask Replica, ranked fifty-eighth in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Frustrated with a lack of commercial success after seven studio albums, and fed up with Van Vliet's abuse, paranoia and authoritarianism, The Magic Band disbanded in 1974.


Van Vliet is known for his enigmatic personality and relationship with the public

Van Vliet has also published works of poetry, and his critically respected paintings and drawings, variously described as abstract, neo-expressionist, modernist, figurative and primitivist, demand high prices and have been exhibited in several countries.

Safe as Milk is the debut album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, originally released in 1967. It is a heavily blues-influenced work, but also hints at many of the features—such as surreal lyrics and odd time signatures—that would later become trademarks of Beefheart's music.

The album is also notable for the involvement of a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who plays guitar and wrote some of the arrangements  Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than the efforts that followed in the late '60s which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his more avant-garde outings. "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Call on Me," and "Yellow Brick Road" are some of his most enduring and riff-driven songs, although there's plenty of weirdness on tracks like "Electricity" and "Abba Zaba."

Side one

1. Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" (Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann) – 2:15
2. Zig Zag Wanderer" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:40
3. Call On Me" (Van Vliet)[10] – 2:37
4. Dropout Boogie" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:32
5. I'm Glad" (Van Vliet) – 3:31
6. Electricity" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 3:07 ( Τhis Track is Great )

Side two

7. Yellow Brick Road" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:28
8. Abba Zaba" (Van Vliet) – 2:44
9. Plastic Factory" (Van Vliet, Bermann, Jerry Handley) – 3:08
10. Where There's Woman" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:09
11. Grown So Ugly" (Robert Pete Williams) – 2:27
12. Autumn's Child" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 4:02

BONUS TRAXS : AND DRUGS

13. Safe as Milk
14. On Tomorrow
15. Big black Body Shoes
16. Flower Pot
17. Dirty Blue Gene
18. Trust us
19. Korn Ring Finger

Musicians

Don Van Vliet – vocals, harmonica, bass marimba, arrangements

The Magic Band

Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar, bass, background vocals
Jerry Handley – bass, background vocals
John French – drums, background vocals

Additional musicians

Ry Cooder – guitar, slide guitar, bass, arrangements of "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" and "Grown So Ugly"
Samuel Hoffman - theremin on "Electricity" and "Autumn's Child"
Milt Holland – log drum, tambourine
Taj Mahal – tambourine

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