Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band- "When Big Joan Sets Up" Live 1972 (Reelin' In The Years Archive) 

A true gift from God

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Might be the best comment I’ve read all year 😂

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Is that a badminton birdie on top of it?

Singing the Smithsonian Institute Blues

It's the first time I've seen that hat from all angles. I've got it mapped in my brain now.

Most definitely

Add Safe as Milk to that list.......

So Stravinsky, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Lennon and McCartney, Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa for that matter, Bob Dylan (and there are others, no doubt) weren't geniuses? Certainly agree with those you cite as well as Beefheart.

@@TheSoundgarden01 The Spotlight Kid & Clear Spot are great also.

Beefheart played some great random shit on the piano and then the magic band made the greatest music ever recorded.

All CB&MB albums make off the best

I think I recall reading that Beefheart kept the band in rather restrictive conditions, something approaching deprivation.

@@hklinker for a year.

This band rehearsed religiously

Cool, a lot of bands don't rehearse and try to play like they did, I guess Beefheart being the band they are did the opposite.@@billyshakespeare488

That’s the thing- they were intensely tight, but it sounds chaotic. The parts are much more regimented than it seems at first. Seriously disciplined and excellent players.

@@billyshakespeare488 unfortunately not with each other.

they rehearsed so much it was insane. I vaguely remember that Beefheart had them locked in a cabin for almost a year practicing these songs every day. listen to the recording and then them live. It is the same! It sounds like they are falling over their instruments, but every note is carefully planned. Amazing

Good point. I don't think it lasted very long, though.

Everyone in the south had an uncle with that haircut

This was a meme before memes were a meme

Superbe de voir qu'un français écoute Beefheart ! (enfin peut-être ahah).

Can I name my kid that?

I fell in love with you

I aggreeee TOTALLYYyyyy🔨🎷❣️

Exactly, I guess...

I tried to explain Beefheart to my wife as Zappa's less talented and more serious younger brother. I'm surprised that his songs do not get more use in film. Great soundtrack s***.

It’s apt as hell. If ever there were music for our time, this is it.

its isn't something to figure out, just enjoy something completely spontaneous

​@@Fox1nDenLike completely spontaneous, but cemented in time, because the performance is not completely spontaneous, it's like the best rockband ever conducted by a psychotic poet, everybody laughs at her body, she is like a ball

@@aakkoin The band was very rehearsed. They had to be, with music that complicated. "Spontaneous" is is not, except for the saxophone bits, but that was because he couldn't have played the same thing twice if his life had depended on it. It may sound "spontaneous" at first listen, but it was all very carefully written out and arranged by John "Drumbo" French, the drummer in this video. Don van Vliet actually did not know what he was doing. That was sort of the point.

You’re absolutely right. Don Van Vliet’s music can sound random or chaotic at first listen, but it is anything but that. For his greatest album, Trout Mask Replica, Don made his band live together in a house and practice all day, every day for eight or nine months in order to perfect the contrapuntal complexities and crashing rhythms of his songs. Then they recorded.

Zappa was a clever guy who pretended to be weird. Beefheart was a clever guy who wasn't pretending.

@@blindlemon9 ...Recorded in SIX. FUCKING. HOURS. They knew this incredibly complex material SO WELL

Zappa is very conservative

@@blindlemon9 And after all that rehearsing and nailing the songs, Zappa produced the record...

She did. She swung by the Chinese buffet first.

I had a job selling vacuum cleaners when I was young. No wonder I like the Beef so much!

You know your Beefheart. You even called him by his real name, omitting the “Van” that Don added later to further his self-mythologizing. Impressive.

Apocryphal. Huxley never corroborated that this happened--and why would he? No witnesses to this piece of "Beefheart Lore". And this is one of my favourite three bands of all time...I;ve learned to take anything Don Van Vliet with more than a pinch of salt!

@@vollsticks It has almost become a sport now to dismiss any larger than life tale that Don Van Vliet told over the years. The story about Don calling at Aldous Huxley's door in the 1960s has been confirmed as true, whether he had that exact conversation with him or not. He was not alone when he did it - he was with a friend who was also a Huxley fan like Don. This man recounted the actual story on a facebook post in recent years although he did not recall the 'This thing sucks' line from Don. If i find the original post i will let you know.

@@castfatshadows2255 I generally tend to focus on DVV's tales about the composition of the music and claiming credit for this or that or the other...I take it you've seen the Samuel Andreyev videos with the TMR principal players (French, Harkleroad, Cotton--he must have done some work to track done Jeff Cotton, I'm pretty sure John French couldn't contact him for Through The Eyes Of Magic, could he?)? If not check them out, they're so interesting and unmissibal for any hardcore Beefheart head.... I'm also interested in the "weirder/paranormal" stories you hear about DVV--if you've read TTEOM do you recall the story of him "visiting" a friends' wife? That's very fucking strange. I'd say the Aldous Huxley story is probably one of the MOST believable anecdotes, it's cool that it has been corroborated. "Sir, I can assure you this thing sucks" just sounds TOO perfect, doesn't it, though?! So did Don and his accomplice know whose house it was? I expect it was probably common knowledge that a world-class literary genius was living in the area at that time, I wasn't aware of Van Vliet being a fan. In fact I think there's a quote from him in the Mike Barnes book that says "I only read one book in my whole life" (he might have said two, can't remember exactly--definitely no more than two books, though) but again that's probably hyperbole. I'm 80% sure Don had more than a passing familiarity with James Joyce and The Beat authors, particularly Kerouac...

Maybe more

@@aaarauz1 possibly: i’m jealous of the people who will live in the year 2172: they will finally understand What The Captain is all about…

godtier comment

And concussion.

Considering how poorly Don treated his bands, PTSD would not be a surprise.

​@@garyrasberryjr.552Ya gotta break some eggs

I’m fine with the grating process. We’d be listening to pop songs otherwise.

LSD is magic.

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@@vonjunzt4130 no LSD makes one SEE the Magic or lack there of 🕶️

Late reply but search Captain Beefheart Detroit Tv and you'll find the whole taped-for-tv performance. Complete with "wiggly toes" "interview. This version has much better sound, though, the complete performance is rubbish. Off the top of my head it's Got Big Joan, Mark Boston's Hair Pie bass solo, Bellerin Plain and Whoa-Is_A-Me_Bop. I might be missing something, it's easy to find though. The French Bataclan TV performance with the Ice Cream For Crow Band (except Robert Williams is on drums and Eric Drew Feldman is on bass/synths) is a FANTASTIC late-period performance and they sprinkle in some old classics with new Shiny Beast/Doc stuff. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Incredible performances of Dirty Blue Gene and Big Eyed Beans From Venus. It's about 9/10 tracks deep iirc. Also the Detroit TV performace this is taken from is on the Grow Fins CD set DVD--good luck getting a cheap copy if you don't already own it, though. I bought the set on vinyl which didn't include the DVD unfortunately :(

vollsticks this is from the master tape by the look of it, whereas all other copies on. RU-vid have one generation of VHS noise at least.

@@vollsticks Thanks.

@@erikheddergott5514 No problem! Enjoy! I can also recommend The Lost Broadcasts album which has the full set from the German TV performance with the Clear Spot band, y'know with the great versions of "Click Clack", "Booglerize", "Golden Birdies" etc--Mark Boston, Bill Harkelroad and Winged Eel Fingerling on guitar, Roy Estrada on bass and Art Tripp on drums (rocking the monocle and ladies panties on his head), the power of that performance is insane, they really pushed some fucking air out! I'll link you to it if you don't know what I mean--anyway it's available on DVD, vinyl and CD (iirc the CD comes with the DVD?) and is well worth it if you can get a copy for good money. The vinyl you can get for under 20 bux.

@@vollsticks Thank you very much. I'd love to be linked to these German Videos. What are your favorite Captain Beefheart Albums? Mine are Safe as Milk, Lick my Decals of and Doc at the Radar Station. Early, Middle and Late Phase: Quite a bit normal, but with such exceptional Music it might be allowed.

without doubt !

"She can't go to the beach they laugh at her bodyyy"

@@struttingbirdlofi Because her hands are too small @@@!!!! magic

late reply but there's a bad quality video from The Amouges (?) festival on here somewhere, the first and only time TMR was played more-or-less in it's entirety--only thing is there's no Jeff Cotton and John French is replaced by the "Fake Drumbo" Jeff Bruschele

@KoivuTheHab Sorry, I actually gave out some false info: TMR actually WAS played with the TMR band, but only once, The Amouges Festival has a Bill Harkelroad who has attempted, and succeeded in many cases, in learning Jeff Cottons guitar parts and playing them along with his own. Talk about dedication...according to Lunar Notes he worked out which track's it'd be feasible to approximate both parts at the same time, and he damn well did it! The actual first live performance with Zappa, the G.T.O's, Art Tripp and most of the rest of the Mothers watching from the side of the stage was at a legendary venue the Aquarius Theatre, March 31st 1969. And thanks for the grammar correction, btw

This had been around for many years on youtube with a worse resolution... but without that annoying watermark haha

I think the fall were very close in outlook to beefhear,not surprising as mark e Smith was a big fan.like the captain they were an acquired taste but very original ,if not always brilliant(70%)-pretty good ratio though.

@@colinwilkes8957 yes Mark E Smith's The Fall 🍺🚬🥴🍻and Pere Ubu💞

Black midi is making music like this

@@seanconnaughton8024 They were influenced, but it's not at the same level.

Rootless Cosmopolitans - there are lot of people playing with ideas. Then and now.

A MAN ON THE PORCUPINE FINS ! ! ! SOMEBODY'S HAD TOO MUCH TO THINK ! ! !👍

YOU USED ME LIKE AN ASHTRAY HEART ! ! !👍

Vliet's very poor take on Ornette Coleman

I think he may have played a wrong note at one point.

The best song on Trout Mask Replica IMO.

I wonder if it actually exists

@@pyrocus yep

@@31alking If only someone could compile a live version of all the TMR songs...

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I would fucking lose my shit if that came out. Immediate watch

Johnny Carson? This crew should have been on Pee Wee's Playhouse.

@@vonjunzt4130 How about Captain kangoroo?

They played on Jan.15, 1971 in Detroit according to French. Ingber left the band the following month in the middle of the tour.

@@josephtravers777 I saw this exact set-up on Jan. 30, 1971, in D.C.. Zoot was wearing the same pants, Tripp the same hat.

@@ronniechilds2002 probably the only clothes they owned from what I can gather

This is from the show Detroit Tubeworks - There are a lot of performances from that show that haven't been seen in years.

And 4:33 too

With 4" heels on.

too old now unfortunately :(