The Official Captain Beefheart Thread

Lisnaholic · 10-03-2018, 10:21 AM

@ Micshazam: What Spotify is telling you is, "Why don't you buy the cd, you cheapskate, and let the long-suffering Magic Band enjoy a few cents in royalties !"

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-03-2018, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Gigantic Debaser

^you can add a custom cover image to any playlist, so I reckon that's what he did. Also, that playlist is full of unplayable songs for me for which the album is actually listed as TMR, but those won't show for you unless you activate the "show unplayable tracks in playlists" setting or w/e

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Ja you can use files from your computer that aren't on Spotify on your playlists.

Now that's news to me! And potentially useful.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

@ Micshazam: What Spotify is telling you is, "Why don't you buy the cd, you cheapskate, and let the long-suffering Magic Band enjoy a few cents in royalties !"

I buy lots of CDs, but the Captain admittedly isn't the one most likely to get me to take my wallet out.

**Frownland** · 10-03-2018, 12:54 PM

Not even his glitzy adult contemporary phase?

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-03-2018, 01:01 PM

Yikes! Not sure I wanna hear him of all people do something like that.

**Frownland** · 10-03-2018, 01:04 PM

No worries, that phase doesn't actually exist, though he did border on some schmaltzy material in the mid 70s.

Have you heard Shiny Beast? I feel like you might dig that one.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-03-2018, 01:07 PM

I think I've mostly heard parts of some albums from just around TMR - probably Safs As Milk and The Spotlight Kid. I don't remember titles, but I think I generally found his more bluesy tracks to be pretty likeable.

**Frownland** · 10-13-2018, 12:49 PM

By Jad Fair

**Frownland** · 01-21-2019, 02:28 PM

Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People - Zappa Wiki Jawaka

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Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People! This is a feature-length film, presently in script form, written by Zappa in 1964. Zappa said that thanks in part to Easy Rider and the Woodstock Music & Art Fair - "two of several things finally showing the youth market really means business" - three major studios have made offers to back the flick. Zappa also said that if anyone had shown interest in the film five years ago, he would never have played rock and roll. His "ideal cast" includes parts for, among others, Don Van Vliet, who is better known as Captain Beefheart, an old high school chum of Zappa's; Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, several of the Mothers of Invention, and Grace Slick.

Can't seem to find this script, does anyone have a PDF?

10-03-2018, 10:21 AM	#301 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	@ Micshazam: What Spotify is telling you is, "Why don't you buy the cd, you cheapskate, and let the long-suffering Magic Band enjoy a few cents in royalties !" __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

10-03-2018, 12:54 PM	#303 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Not even his glitzy adult contemporary phase? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

10-03-2018, 01:04 PM	#305 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	No worries, that phase doesn't actually exist, though he did border on some schmaltzy material in the mid 70s. Have you heard Shiny Beast? I feel like you might dig that one. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

10-13-2018, 12:49 PM	#307 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	By Jad Fair __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

10-03-2018, 01:01 PM	#304 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Yikes! Not sure I wanna hear him of all people do something like that.

10-03-2018, 01:07 PM	#306 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I think I've mostly heard parts of some albums from just around TMR - probably Safs As Milk and The Spotlight Kid. I don't remember titles, but I think I generally found his more bluesy tracks to be pretty likeable.