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Category: Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart :: Observatory Crest
If there is indeed a season for every song, Beefheart’s “Observatory Crest” is unequivocally late summer. Particularly late summer in Los Angeles. A bright spot via the Captain’s oft-maligned lp, Bluejeans & Moonbeams, “Crest” hangs in a liminal space somewhere between revisiting a journal entry and bittersweet nostalgia.
The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart: A Documentary
“This the story of one of rock’s great mavericks, and it began in the quiet Los Angeles suburb of Glendale in 1941.” And so it began… Courtesy of the BBC, […]
Captain Beefheart :: I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (German TV, 1972)
And speaking of Beefheart …here we find the Captain with his Magic Band performing “I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby”, on German television in 1972. While the studio version that kicks off the Spotlight Kid is great […]
Jack Nitzsche / Captain Beefheart :: Hard Workin’ Man (1978)
I recently re-watched the underrated/half-forgotten Blue Collar — Paul Schrader’s 1978 directorial debut starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel. Filmed on location at the Checker Motors plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, […]