#CAPTAIN BEEFHEART 1967

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

CLEAN-CUT FREAKS ALL COOPED UP.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 859x1100 -- Spotlight on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and THE MAGIC BAND inside a wooden chicken coop, a close-up shot of the original "Safe As Milk" cover artwork/fisheye lens photo of the band, c. mid 1967. 📸: Guy Webster.

"From skewed blues opener "Sure ’Nuff ’N’ Yes I Do" to the menacing psychedelia of closer "Autumn’s Child," "Safe as Milk" still ranks among the most ambitious debuts in rock. Issued on Buddah in late summer ’67, it had the trappings of the psychedelic age, from the fisheye lens photograph to inventive studio trickery. If America enjoyed the summer of love, however, Beefheart ushered in a winter of discontent, presaging the death of hippie ideals."

-- RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

Source: https://upvhq.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-beefheart-his-magic-band-safe.html.

#CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART #THE MAGIC BAND #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART 1967 #Fisheye Lens #Psychedelic blues #Heavy blues #Blues #Don Van Vliet #Debut Album #1960s #Guy Webster #Photography #Fisheye #60s rock #American Style #60s fashion #Sixties #Safe as Milk 1967 #Acid rock #Garage rock #Experimental rock #1967 #60s #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Safe as Milk #Fisheye photography #Sleeve Art #🥛

[affiches-concerts]

Blue Cheer, Captain Beefheart, 1967.

#Blue Cheer #Captain Beefheart #1967

[mudwerks]

(via Captain Beefheart - Big Black Baby Shoes (1967)

#youtube #Captain Beefheart #Big Black Baby Shoes #1967 #music #vintage

[musicandotherdelights]

Daily Listening, Day #992 - September 18th, 2022

Album: Safe As Milk (Buddah, 1967)

Artist: Captain Beefheart [As Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band]

Genre: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Track Listing: 

"Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do"

"Zig Zag Wanderer"

"Call On Me"

"Dropout Boogie"

"I'm Glad"

"Electricity"

"Yellow Brick Road"

"Abba Zaba"

"Plastic Factory"

"Where There's Woman"

"Grown So Ugly"

"Autumn's Child"

Favorite Song: "Zig Zag Wanderer"

#Safe As Milk #Captain Beefheart #Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band #Buddah #Blues Rock #Psychedelic Rock #1967 #Late 1960s #1960s

[spilladabalia]

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Call On Me -

#captain beefheart and his magic band #call on me #don van vliet #alex st clair #ry cooder #jerry handley #john french #blues rock #art blues #garage rock #safe as milk #1967 #Youtube

[calicirro]

#spotify #captain beefheart #soy #soul #blues rock #year: 1967

[longliverockback]

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe as Milk 1967 Buddah ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Sure ‘Nuff ‘n Yes, I Do 02. Zig Zag Wanderer 03. Call on Me 04. Dropout Boogie 05. I’m Glad 06. Electricity 07. Yellow Brick Road 08. Abba Zaba 09. Plastic Factory 10. Where There’s Woman 11. Grown So Ugly 12. Autumn’s Child —————————————————

Ry Cooder

John French

Jerry Handley

Alex St. Claire

Don van Vliet “Captain Beefheart”

* Long Live Rock Archive

#CaptainBeefheart #Captain Beefheart #Ry Cooder #John French #Jerry Handley #Alex St Claire #Safe as Milk #LP #Blues #1967 #Debut

[thenevvcreatures]

The California League of Sexual Freedom Annual Dance, 1967.

The Doors, Captain Beefheart & 13th Floor Elevators.

#the doors #captain beefheart #13th floor elevators #60s #psychedelic rock #rock n roll #acid rock

[disease]

SAFE AS MILK (TAKE 5) CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND [SAFE AS MILK, 1967]

#audio #captain beefheart and his magic band #captain beefheart #psychedelic rock #garage rock #safe as milk #60s #music #u

[mogwai-movie-house]

The Best Album Per Year for Sixty Years

No-one asked for it, of course, but I do like making lists, so here's me pondering what have been the best Long Players in the album artform the past 60 years. I originally tried to keep it to just one per year, but many years that proved impossible: when listing multiple albums I have tried ranking them with the one I feel narrowly edges out the others first, and I use lower case to indicate an album that is not at the same level as others on the list but was the best I've heard from that time.

Feel free to have fun with the list and make up your own.

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1962 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan 1963 The Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan 1964 another side of - bob dylan 1965 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan 1966 Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys / Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan / Revolver - The Beatles 1967 Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles / The Velvet Underground & Nico / Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel / Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart 1968 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison / The White Album - The Beatles / Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel / We're Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa 1969 Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones / Abbey Road - The Beatles / In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel / Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 1971 Imagine - John Lennon / Blue - Joni Mitchell / What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye/ 2 - Moondog 1972 Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones / Discover America - Van Dyke Parks / Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart / Ege Bam Yasi - Can 1973 Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges 1974 Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan 1975 Horses - Patti Smith / Discreet Music - Brian Eno / Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd / Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler 1976 The Ramones - The Ramones 1977 Low - David Bowie / New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury / Marquee Moon - Television / 77 - Talking Heads 1978 Music For Airports - Brian Eno / This Year's Model - Elvis Costello / Third (Sister Lovers) - Big Star / More Songs About Music & Food - Talking Heads 1979 Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division/ Fear of Music - Talking Heads / Into The Music - Van Morrison / Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa / Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young 1980 Remain In Light - Talking Heads / Closer - Joy Division / One Trick Pony - Paul Simon / Common One - Van Morrison 1981 Faith - The Cure 1982 Thriller - Michael Jackson / 1999 - Prince / 4 - Peter Gabriel / Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners / Big Science - Laurie Anderson / Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 1983 Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits / Murmur - R.E.M. / Hearts & Bones - Paul Simon / Off The Bone - The Cramps 1984 Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution / Hatful Of Hollow - The Smiths / Various Positions - Leonard Cohen / Reckoning - R.E.M. / The Unforgettable Fire - U2 1985 Don't Stand Me Down - Dexys Midnight Runners / Rain Dogs - Tom Waits / Around The World In A Day - Prince & The Revolution / Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega / Hounds of Love - Kate Bush / Hunting High & Low - A-ha 1986 Parade - Prince & The Revolution / So - Peter Gabriel / The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths / Graceland - Paul Simon / Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout / Blood & Chocolate/King of America - Elvis Costello 1987 Sign O The Times - Prince / Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths / The Joshua Tree - U2 / Actually - Pet Shop Boys / Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac 1988 Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains / Green - R.E.M. / Viva Hate - Morrissey / The Serpent's Egg - Dead Can Dance / Surfer Rosa - Pixies / Naked - Talking Heads / Introspective - Pet Shop Boys / I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen / Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 1989 Disintegration - The Cure / Technique - New Order / Doolittle - The Pixies / Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan / Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison / Rei Momo - David Byrne / Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys / Candleland - Ian McCulloch 1990 Extricate - The Fall / The Good Son - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & John Cale / Jonathan Goes Country - Jonathan Richman 1991 Screamadelica - Primal Scream / Achtung Baby - U2 / The Bootleg Boxset - Bob Dylan/ Having a Party with - Jonathan Richman 1992 It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads / Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Automatic For The People - R.E.M. / Good As I Been To You - Bob Dylan / The Future - Leonard Cohen 1993 Debut - Bjork / Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld / Neroli - Brian Eno / Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair / Come On Feel - The Lemonheads / Zooropa - U2 / Vena Cava - Diamanda Galas

1994 Selected Ambient Works Vol. II - Aphex Twin / Toward The Within - Dead Can Dance / Let Love In - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dummy - Portishead / Autogeddon - Julian Cope / Vauxhall & I - Morrissey 1995 Anthology - The Beatles / The Ugly One With The Jewels - Laurie Anderson 1996 Boys For Pele - Tori Amos / Gone Again - Patti Smith 1997 Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized / The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan / Vanishing Point - Primal Scream 1998 Up - R.E.M. / I'm So Confused - Jonathan Richman 1999 Play - Moby / I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy 2000 XTRMNTR - Primal Scream / All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 / The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem / Kid A - Radiohead / KY - Lemon Jelly 2001 Vespertine - Bjork / Love & Theft - Bob Dylan / No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2002 The Eminem Show - Eminem 2003 Room On Fire - The Strokes / The Man Comes Around/Unearthed - Johnny Cash / The Wind - Warren Zevon 2004 Has Been - William Shatner / How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb - U2 / You Are The Quarry - Morrissey / The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom / Smile - Brian Wilson 2005 Another Day On Earth - Brian Eno / Le Fil - Camille 2006 Modern Times - Bob Dylan / Surprise - Paul Simon / Love - The Beatles 2007 for emma, forever ago - bon iver 2008 vampire weekend - vampire weekend 2009 No Line On The Horizon - U2 / The XX - The XX 2010 show me the face - michelle gurevich 2011 Angles - The Strokes / So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon 2012 Life Is People - Bill Fay / Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen 2013 Comedown Machine - The Strokes / Crimson Red - Prefab Sprout 2014 Ghost Stories - Coldplay / 1989 - Taylor Swift 2015 ★ - David Bowie 2016 Lover, Beloved - Suzanne Vega / Stranger To Stranger - Paul Simon 2017 American Dream - LCD Soundsystem / antisocialites - alvvays 2018 music for installations - Brian Eno 2019 weezer (teal album) - weezer 2020 rough & rowdy ways - bob dylan 2021 happier than ever - billie eilish / lindsey buckingham - lindsay buckingham 2022 dragon new warm mountain i believe in you - big thief

#music #pop #rock n roll

[joecial-distancing]

Albums of the new year

MGMT Oracular Spectacular (2007): There’s a review of Spring Breakers that I really like, where the reviewer points out that it’s a movie that makes more sense now, in hindsight, because instead of getting Harmony Korine’s hot takes on America’s youth, you get a dead-on time capsule of a very specific time & place--a zeitgest, over now, that at the time didn’t seem aware of its own mortality.

I was thinking a lot about that when listening to Oracular Spectacular; I was actually pretty shocked to see it’s as old as 2007, because the era I vividly remember it from was 2011-2013 aka my college years aka a time when the hits from this were ubiquitous instead of showing their age. It’s another one of those where exactly half the songs on here got way too much exposure, while the other half you’ve never heard in your fucking life. Most of the unknowns were actually pretty fun, with the exception of “Youth” which was so awful it single-handedly knocks the whole thing down a rung of my esteem. Fun trip down memory lane!

UB40 Signing Off (1980): I’m slowly triangulating my reggae taste, for the most part this was pretty good, didn’t stand out very much, but a couple of the songs (”Signing Off”, “Reefer Madness”) are long instrumental pieces that I thought were really cool and engaging

John Lee Hooker The Healer (1989): I’ve learned through this project and after seeing Kingfish Ingram live that I really like blues, and this is tremendous stuff

Talking Heads Talking Heads 77 (1977): This was an interesting one for me; I consider myself a huge Talking Heads fan, but also their big deal albums for me all come from their middle/later years, like Remain in Light onward. So even having grown up with their stuff around, I never really checked out their earliest offerings.

All of which is to say I’m having a tough time with this one, I think I don’t like it as much as what came later, but I still like it a lot, but I struggle to get into the headspace of what I might think if I were coming to this completely cold

Madonna Ray of Light (1998): Outstanding side A existing in tension with kind of a dull side B. I dunno, this one really excited me at the start, but I didn’t end it with the same enthusiasm

Giving it another listen, am I crazy, of am I hearing shades of Moon Safari in this?

Oasis Definitely Maybe (1994): Knowing them only from “Wonderwall”, this was pretty good. At its best made me think about underwater cities, which is a winner for me.

iirc there’s like a fan feud between them and Blur? going off this, I think I’m probably Team Blur

Coldplay Parachutes (2000): Dire stuff, I was correct to give them a miss back in the day

Julian Cope Peggy Suicide (1991): I have no idea about who this guy is or his deal in general, but this was really interesting. Album length kind of uncalled for, but on the other hand a normal length wouldn’t have been enough to get lost in, which was very fun with this

Screaming Trees Dust (1996): Grungy, forgettable

The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (1993): Kind of mixed for me, fundamentally compelling, vocals have a weird quality that I’m kind of on board with, but also often the thing got boring

Nancy Griffith The Last Of The True Believers (1986): Spotify reactivated autoplay without permission, and it took me a solid hour to notice the album was done with.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Safe As Milk (1967): Had to dig up a mono release because the stereo mixing was way too aggressive for headphones, but overall pretty fun weird folky mishmash thing

Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981): “Tainted Love” is the thing they’re known for, but the actual highlight of this was “Sex Dwarf”. Otherwise forgettable Brit Synth Pop.

Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967): First time listening to a non-Dark Side Of The Moon or -greatest hits Pink Floyd album; since the last time either of them came up on the list, I head something about how Pink Floyd in general was kind of a predecessor to Radiohead; like even though the tone is different, both groups’ appeal lies in the sound mixing, and there’s audience overlap of people drawn to that.

Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid (2010): This was fantastic! I feel like concept albums haven’t been in vogue for a good long while, so I really really appreciated how big she went with it here.

a-ha Hunting High And Low (1985): “Take On Me” is correctly the well-known song from them, but there were a few other gems in this

Pet Shop Boys Very (1993): Pet Shop Boys grates on me in general, and this one was done no favors by coming right on the heels of a-ha like that. I feel like by 1993 it was long past time to evolve past this kind of sound

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (1975): Album went a bit too long. The number of songs was correct, lots to get lost in, and they go a lot of different places, but the songs mostly overstayed their welcome.

c. 2012 I was using Pandora a lot, and for some reason it was absolutely obsessed with serving me up instrumental covers of “Kashmir”. Which I guess was fine, just confusing.

Johnny Cash At San Quentin (1969): Johnny Cash is great and I like how much this benefits from being a live album, really shows off how charismatic of a performer he was

Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (1978): Foundational album of a low-key influential band, but not one of my preferred releases from them

Echo And The Bunnymen Ocean Rain (1984): More of a stereotypical ‘80s sound compared to Crocodiles, by which I mean less along the lines of synth pop, and more grandiose, lots of orchestral stings, etc. A Bigger sound that I think benefits them

Muse Black Holes and Revelations (2006): I expected to have a bunch of thoughts on Muse and whether their stuff has aged very well since my high school days when I was super into them, maybe some ideas on the distinctly Nolan-movie-style bombast, evaluating whether I still like it etc. What I thought about instead is how I never really listened very much to this as a full album, usually I just skipped between the singles. The big fuckoff Cosmic Arena Rock pieces show their age, but actually still land alright, but in between them are a whole lot of bad filler pieces that really drag the whole thing down

Orbital Snivilisation (1994): The type of techno that Strong Bad was making fun of

Arcade Fire Neon Bible (2007): Band continues to be mids

Dolly Parton Coat Of Many Colors (1971): I’m a tough sell on most post-50s/60s country music, and I liked this quite a bit

Tom Waits Heartattack And Vine (1980): Think I liked Rain Dogs better, he was sleazier for that

Tortoise Millions Now living Will Never Die (1996): I got excited when I realized it was going to be all instrumental, but it never really rose above passing the time alright

Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... (1992): This is the most dated-90s shit I’ve heard in my life

#1001 Albums

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FRESH-FLY FREAKDOM FOR '67 -- THE CAP'N AND HIS MAGIC BAND.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 2048x1712 -- Spotlight on a group portrait of CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND, from their "Safe as Milk" photo session, c. early 1967. 📸: Guy Webster (✝).

Rest in bluesy weirdness, Alex St. Clair Snouffer (✝) & Don Van Vliet (✝), and only the rhythm section of TMB remains.

Source: https://upvhq.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-beefheart-his-magic-band-safe.html.

#CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART 1967 #Blues rock #Garage rock #Acid rock #Photography #Guy Webster #1960s #Debut Album #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Safe as Milk #Safe as Milk #Blues #Alex St. Clair #American Style #Psychedelic blues #60s rock #Photosession #Photoshoot #60s #Sixties #CAPTAIN BEEFHEART #Safe as Milk 1967 #Experimental rock #60s fashion #Heavy blues #Jerry Handley #John French

[affiches-concerts]

Buddy Guy, Captain Beefheart, 1967.

#1967

[mudwerks]

(via CAPTAIN BEEFHEART -- 25th CENTURY QUAKER (1971)

#youtube #25th CENTURY QUAKER #music #vintage #1971 #recorded in 1967 #Captain Beefheart

[odk-2]

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer (1967) Don Van Vliet / Herb Bermann from: "Zig Zag Wanderer" / "Abba Zaba" (Single) "Safe As Milk" (LP)

Acid Rock | Psychedelic | Garage | Proto-Punk | Experimental Rock

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Album Personnel: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Don Van Vliet: Lead Vocals / Harmonica / Marimba / Arrangements Alex St. Clair Snouffer: Guitar / Backing Vocals / Bass / Percussion Ry Cooder: Guitar / Bass / Slide Guitar / Percussion / Arrangements Jerry Handley: Bass / Backing Vocals John French: Drums / Backing Vocals

Samuel Hoffman: Theremin

Produced by Bob Krasnow / Richard Perry

Recorded: @ The RCA Studios in Los Angeles, California USA during the spring of 1967

Album Released: in June of 1967

Single Released: in August of 1968

Buddah Records

#Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band #Captain Beefheart #Don Van Vliet #Buddah Records #Safe As Milk #Zig Zag Wanderer #Ry Cooder #Experimental Rock #Proto-Punk #1960's #Garage Rock

[i-love-guitars]

Fender Stratocaster owned and played by Ry Cooder Solid Body Electric Guitar, c. 1967, ser. #144953, road case.

Fender Stratocaster owned and played by Ry Cooder Model Solid Body Electric Guitar, c. 1967, made in Fullerton, California, serial # 144953, blue lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, road case. "Coodercaster" has become an entire sub-genre of Stratocasters over the last couple of decades, meaning a guitar built or modified to emulate the eccentricities of Ry Cooder's personal instruments. This is THE original Coodercaster, the guitar that was the first Strat the man himself owned, modified, and subsequently played for decades. Here in Ry's own words is his history with the instrument:"Captain Beefheart got a record deal with Buddha Records and a Fender endorsement; modern youth target marketing had just been invented, you see. I was told, you go down to the Fender factory in Fullerton, and speak to so-and-so, and he'll set you up. I saw the production machines and met some workers, and then the fellow took me in a show room where they had their new things and prototypes. The guy pulled this baby blue Stratocaster off the shelf and said, 'here'. I drove home and sat there trying to figure what it might be good for, having never owned an electric solid body guitar."Soon after, I realized Beefheart and I werent going to succeed as co-workers, and went in to the record company and said so. The head of A&R, Bob Krasnow, was lying on the couch in his office and he waived his arms at me and shouted, 'You'll never work in Los Angeles again! And give me back that guitar!' I left the office and the job, such as it was, but I kept the instrument. The next thing was, I got invited to go to London and stand idly by while the Rolling Stones messed around in the studio with Jack Nitzsche, who was a friend of mine from session work. I took the Strat with me, and one evening, the ONE evening, I actually played it. The tape machine was running, if you're interested. The rest is a kind of history we needn't go back into here."Soon after, I stumbled into a record deal of my own at Warner Bros, and started up making my own personal records. The Blue Strat was, at that time, still my only electric. I used it on all the early albums. Since I used mostly open tunings, I had a repair guy take out the wang bar springs and put a wood block in there to hold down the intonation every time I changed tunings. Now, years later, I wouldn't have done that, but what did I know. "Then I started experimenting with electronics, trying for a thicker sound. P90s came and went. I had the bright idea to install an Oahu lap steel bridge pick up. It was the thing to do to help the bottle neck sound relax and it stopped the headaches."That's the short story. I still think the neck is one of the best I've ever played, and the Bigsby trailer brake really makes a sweet combination. That's an original Bigsby PU in there, and yes it's somewhat microphonic like early Bigsbys are sometimes, and it takes a little getting used to, like when you put that '53 Cad motor in the Model A, but you can learn to handle it. Or try some idea of your own."That "short story" only begins to describe the mojo of this guitar.