Artist Profile: Captain Beefheart
The Captain thinking about how to make his music more appealing to the ladies
“I’d always thought music was too formal, and I thought ‘Well, I’ll get into this and fix it.’” – Captain Beefheart
This show is fully dedicated to a profile of one of rock’s strangest, most enigmatic and most divisive bands: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. Who was this guy, why did he make such strange sounds, did he really turn his band into a cult – and why should we care? Beefheart scholar Benjamin Griffin brings in his collection of some of the Captain’s greatest and rarest recordings.
The show starts about 2:40 into the file.
SET LIST
Diddy Wah Diddy
Abba Zaba
Yellow Brick Road
Somebody In My Home (live)
Tarot Plane (excerpt)
Safe As Milk
Frownland
“Fast and Bulbous”
China Pig
The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)
Steal Softly
Old Fart At Play
Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Have A Man
Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Golden Birdies
Bongo Fury
The Floppy Boot Stomp
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Ice Cream For Crow
Veteran’s Day Poppy
