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Unravelling the Knit
Beefheart Night at New York’s Knitting Factory on April 9th has prompted many eye-witness accounts, photographs, and audio and video files from the event. Here areRead More
Even more treats at The Knit
Beefheart Night at The Knit, the April 9th tribute to Captain Beefheart in New York, promises to have even more treats and surprises than we listedRead More
Beefheart Night at the Knit
This item has been updated with a new post, Even more treats at The Knit, 2 April 2008. Update – 9 March 2008 Wednesday 9th AprilRead More
Like bluegrass only weirder
During the filming of The Magic Band DVD Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) remarked that the music of Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band was, “like bluegrassRead More
Dancing to Captain Beefheart
In June of 2007 I read a plug for “I Wanna Find Me A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go” inRead More
Bickershaw Boot
If you went to the 1972 Bickershaw festival you probably have great memories of it. There were some excellent bands playing and the Beefheart set wasRead More
Do try this at home
Several home-made versions of Captain Beefheart numbers have been posted at nearby websites in the past few days. EvilFactman’s work in progress, Big Dummy, is atRead More
Some more cover versions and another misheard lyric
Lewis Taylor’s slightly sought-after version of Trout Mask Replica has hitherto been available on the web only in dribs and drabs . This weekend it isRead More
Getting these Decals licks off, baby
Lick My Decals Off, Baby is simply not a composition which readily lends itself to being performed. So when I found Puttanesca’s video of one ofRead More
Herb Bermann in poetry video at YouTube
Herb Bermann, the legendary poet who wrote most of Captain Beefheart’s Safe As Milk lyrics (and some more) appears on a new DVD recently recorded atRead More
Captain Beefheart’s first TV broadcasts
Film of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band performing Diddy Wah Diddy and Who Do You Think You’re Fooling was broadcast on Dick Clark’s television showRead More
Twist Ah Luck
Our competition to win the 5 sets of EMI/Virgin’s remastered Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band CDs attracted hundreds of entries from around the planet. It’sRead More
Captain Beefheart Relaunched
Virgin/EMI are to rerelease their entire Captain Beefheart back catalogue on CD on Monday 7th August. The albums have all been remastered and Captain Beefheart biographerRead More
Win the six new Captain Beefheart CDs
Virgin Records have kindly offered to send complete sets of their six newly remastered Captain Beefheart albums to five lucky visitors to this website. All youRead More
New film of Beefheart in concert found
Virgin Records has found in its vaults a previously undocumented film of Captain Beefheart in concert. A digital copy of the film has been produced toRead More
Download Beefheart at E-Music
Anyone into downloading music legally but without the annoying restrictions that come with most online music services may be interested to know that several Beefheart andRead More
Don’s last show gets bootlegged
Ozit have released another Beefheart 2CD set. This time it’s a recording of the last live show ever played by Don and the band – theRead More
Paradiso show gets legit release
Yes, the perennial Beefheart bootleg – the 1980 show at Amsterdam’s famous Paradiso is finally released in a legit form. More information here
Herb Bermann interview part two
The second part of Derek Laskie’s interview with Herb Bermann, legendary writing partner of Don Van Vliet in the early days of the Magic Band isRead More
The Captain Compiled
A compilation CD, called The Buddah Years, has just been released based on the remastered Safe As Milk and Mirror Man Sessions albums. The good CaptainRead More