The most stunning thing about this album was that none of this was improvised or free-form. Van Vliet wrote every single note of every instrument and carefully arranged each measure of each song. He and the band spent months locked in an empty house rehearsing these songs, according to the sheet music he'd written. Not one note could be out of place. By the time they got into the recording studio, they had the songs down so tight that they were able to cut the entire album in a few short days.
Thanks dad he has the best taste music. trout mask replica was the first album I heard from beefheart. I'm forty now. I found him in my freshman year highschool. While uppity up tigh jocks were blasting some pop rap or what gross boy bands were popular at the time. I was listening to the weirdest music I could find.
That nasty-ass guitar lick that starts at about 1:46, just after the little break, is just the bomb! It says more in 15 seconds than most blues solos combined.
In my opinion Jimi’s lyrics weren’t always ‘top en’, but, boy, he was a supreme guitarist- nobody can touch him from ‘60’s - todays! RIP, Jimi (guitar maestro), you’ve spellbound me with your guitar ability, since I was 14 and now I’m 69 the sentiment hasn’t changed. I just live & loved your workk, Jane Russell
I love Don and this version of DWD but after listening to the Sonics, who must have covered it first before the MB?? This sounds like a cover of the Sonics, who I'm a fan of, being from a cave in the PNW.
