Dropping the name Beefheart
My inbox most days contains links to newspaper and magazine articles referencing Beefheart. New bands love to drop the Beefheart name. Music journalists likewise. I send about 99% of this stuff to trash.
What remains is some fun stuff, such as Liverpool band The Zutons who claimed to have named themselves after a Beefheart song. For the mp3 generation, who don't read sleeve notes, that long lunar note was played by a Mr Zuton Rollo.
So when a musician with no need of fame by association places 'Lick My Decals Off, Baby' at the top of his list of favourite albums - as David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven did last week in his local newspaper - I think it is worth reporting here.
And when Buck 65 and Tortoise go into a recording studio together with "almost no plan" about how to make a new album - and Buck tells one of his local papers, "About the only thing we did beforehand was listen to a bunch of Captain Beefheart records" - then I listen to 5 tracks from this album at Buck 65's website. And I find myself doing so again and again. The CD, 'Secret House Against The World' was released this week and I bought it. I've a feeling that if you're still reading this, you might like it too.
What remains is some fun stuff, such as Liverpool band The Zutons who claimed to have named themselves after a Beefheart song. For the mp3 generation, who don't read sleeve notes, that long lunar note was played by a Mr Zuton Rollo.
So when a musician with no need of fame by association places 'Lick My Decals Off, Baby' at the top of his list of favourite albums - as David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven did last week in his local newspaper - I think it is worth reporting here.
And when Buck 65 and Tortoise go into a recording studio together with "almost no plan" about how to make a new album - and Buck tells one of his local papers, "About the only thing we did beforehand was listen to a bunch of Captain Beefheart records" - then I listen to 5 tracks from this album at Buck 65's website. And I find myself doing so again and again. The CD, 'Secret House Against The World' was released this week and I bought it. I've a feeling that if you're still reading this, you might like it too.
Posted by derek@beefheart.com at 8:17 AM - post a comment
