Captain Beefheart [Archive]

Louis Pio

3rd July 2004, 03:11

I was just wondering if anybody was into the old hippie Captain Beefheart.
I know his music can be weird but in my oppinion he has made some fucking great songs.

DaCuBaN

3rd July 2004, 03:19

Sure nuff n yes I do, Zig zag wanderer :D

elijahcraig

3rd July 2004, 03:43

He's not a hippie.

He's one of my favorites. Check ou the site "Radar Station."

DaCuBaN

3rd July 2004, 03:50

"I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away, because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it."

I love this shit.

EC: sorry to break it bud, but he was a no-good dirty-stinky hippy ;)

refuse_resist

3rd July 2004, 08:12

I've heard of him, but I'm not too sure if I've heard any of his music. If I were to hear some of his well known songs, then I might recall.

Floyd.

3rd July 2004, 08:57

Captain Beefheart is pretty good.

elijahcraig

3rd July 2004, 18:51

EC: sorry to break it bud, but he was a no-good dirty-stinky hippy

NO. Frank Zappa and him both were disgusted by the conformity of hippies. You may remember the Zappa album "Freak Out!" which sparked a nation wide "freak" hippie trend. Zappa made the next album, "We're Only In It For the Money", condemning hippies for this nonsense.

Beefheart felt much the same, if you read his interviews. He was an artist, not a fad-loving hippie.

He was an experimentalist in the same way the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Miles Davis, Zappa, or the Red Crayola were. NOT a hippie.

BTW, anyone listen to the Red Crayola?

bobby

5th July 2004, 00:33

Zappa and Vliet also were anti-drug and anti-peace movements, so they weren't hippies.

Ian

5th July 2004, 22:47

I like the fact that they were yanks that used the word 'root'

Louis Pio

6th July 2004, 13:19

He was an experimentalist in the same way the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Miles Davis, Zappa, or the Red Crayola were. NOT a hippie.

Quite true.
He's more of a beatnik so to speak.

DaCuBaN

6th July 2004, 14:32

*heaving a sigh*

Considering the definition of hippie now in comparison to the definition back in the 70's, I'll have to submit. 'Beatnik' is an excellent description however.

Happy? :rolleyes:

Frank Zappa and him both were disgusted by the conformity of hippies

Note emphasis :)

Louis Pio

6th July 2004, 14:36

I heard he totally dropped music and only paints now.
Has anyone seen his pictures?