Nibs2lou, thanks for that great description of the gig you saw. Even in an era of exotic and intense groups, there really was something especially weird and possessed about Beefheart. By the way, was Middle Earth one of the venues that Pink Floyd regularly appeared?
A beef in my heart ...( 4 weeks ago by Heintz0)
A beef in my heart againsts this society.
so true.
Han escuchado el ...( 3 weeks ago by SonicAttacks)
Han escuchado el cover de Sonic Youth de "Electricity" de esta genial banda???... honor a quien honor merece!!!
best voogin vurzhon ...( 3 weeks ago by billyshitcheese)
best voogin vurzhon. furnominal.
I wish i was there. ...( 3 weeks ago by JesustheLizard)
I wish i was there...
JesustheLizard; You ...( 3 weeks ago by rabbits78)
JesustheLizard; You have a fucking cool username
Step into the ...( 3 weeks ago by komakot)
Step into the triangle baby
Thanks. Floyd were ...( 3 weeks ago by nibs2lou)
Thanks. Floyd were more at UFO Club. At Middle Earth in 1968 I saw Byrds (adored, eight encores, badly wrecked Gram Parsons, Jagger and McCartney in audience); Doors (patchy, drunken Jimbo laughed at by hip Londoners); Airplane (magnificent Grace, every syllable audible over band's scary roar); first London gig by 4th on bill Led Zep (nobody listened). Dangerously gifted artistes on the edge, bad acid, redneck attacks, fear all around. But Beefheart's Electricity took them ALL off at the knees.
This is awesome! ...( 2 weeks ago by suntzufoo08)
This is awesome! You can hear the influence Don and the magic band had on the likes of Jesus Lizard and the White Stripes! True genius...and 30 years ahead of it's time...
there ain't anybody ...( 2 weeks ago by skinnynorris85)
there ain't anybody who is able to hold a candle to the captain.. merry christmas, but don't forget, ther ain't no santa claus on the evenin' stage..
I Sing the Body ...( 2 weeks ago by Sandbag209)
I Sing the Body Electric
I love how the ...( 2 weeks ago by RonoShowMusic)
I love how the second camera comes in right after the introduction, then does a walking pan behind the amplifiers to show the crowd.
Son of a gun, it ...( 2 weeks ago by RonoShowMusic)
Son of a gun, it seems to be all one shot.
I feel the ...( 2 weeks ago by coolclint88)
I feel the Electricity
When this song was ...( 1 week ago by victor170769)
When this song was recorded in studio, the membrane of the Telefunken microphone has crashed, because of his vocal power !
only recently ' ...( 1 week ago by dapc59)
only recently 'found' CB.
Can now play nothing else. Is there a cure?
There is no cure ...( 1 week ago by submit13)
There is no cure that I know of. Once Beefheart gets into you, just accept it. You won't forget it. You'll never regret it.
Were you at the ...( 1 week ago by skankspankr)
Were you at the Zappa show where the guy threw him offstage in '71?
Can you imagine ...( 1 week ago by skankspankr)
Can you imagine what was going thru the minds of some of the crowd members?? LOL
No. Wasn't a Zappa ...( 1 week ago by nibs2lou)
No. Wasn't a Zappa fan. Saw him once only at the posh London Festival Hall, a few weeks before I saw the Captain in '68. Felt Zappa was putting on a self-regarding act for the art set. Beefheart was deep underground with the freaks. There was a scary vibe about The Magic Band - the same feeling you got with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie - that everybody involved were pushing their art into dangerously unknown territory. Very, very few people had that sort of balls, even then.
Love Beefheart, but ...( 1 week ago by skankspankr)
Love Beefheart, but personally, I prefer some of his later bands to the Magic Band. Still, way ahead of it's time. There used to ba a great club here in Knoxville, Tennessee called Ella Gurus, named for the Beefheart song. Saw some great acts there, including Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Hot Tuna, and Doc Watson!
Array( 4 days ago by lunkhead57)
This is great
can't believe ive never heard it
bloody mainstream
im a zappa fan too
but i know what nibs is saying about this being a lot darker, freakier and experimental
I was listening to the music of charles manson the other day
and it's not far off :P
Can now play nothing else. Is there a cure?
can't believe ive never heard it
bloody mainstream
im a zappa fan too but i know what nibs is saying about this being a lot darker, freakier and experimental I was listening to the music of charles manson the other day and it's not far off :P