Guest book » Guestbook part 05: October 1999 to January 2000

Great view from the banana bin. I can eat tons of kandy korn. I like your red circle. This place that houses all knowledge.

A nice site. This is my favorite.

la la la captain beefheart is ye wife nyeahh

This site is the best I have found on the web. I have loved the Captain since I first heard him while tripping back in 1970. I saw him live twice; his concert at Brighton’s Dome in 1971 (or was it ’72) still ranks as the best live performance I have ever seen. He truly is the only authentic genius pop music has produced.

The Captian has shown me diamonds and lice.

Wish he hadn’t retired! favorites… clear spot,grow fins,lick my decals off,old fart, smithsonian institute,making love to a vampire

One f*@k of a stunning site. Long may it reign!!

nice work fellows and thank you for the web mr gates

Very glad I found this site. Thank you for giving Don the credits he deserves.

This is a very great site. I hope that there are more lyrics coming. But in one thing I disagree. Unconditionally Guaranteed is in my opinion a very good album!! The rest also of course. I’ve seen the Captain twice in the Netherlands, very good. Greetz to the Captain.

This site is simply incredible. The information is very interesting and extrememly accurate. I hope the good work is maintained.

Hail to the captain of the universe

Surfed in for a quote, stayed to download my ass off on your choice videos! Without question the best Beefheart resource site I’ve ever seen, even if less visually flashy than Home Page Replica.

I just wanted everyone to know that I follow the yellow brick road and it definetly lifts my load.

Bill, you may not remember me very well. I’m one of your students from North Bend when you were in that area (Bandon, I think). Though I’ve not talked to you in many years, I sort of keep up with you through a good friend – Bill Dietz. I currently reside in Lincoln City, OR, and I work at Bi-Mart as a manager. I’m married now and have two kids, a 10 year girl and a 7 year old boy. I’m glad things are going well for you, so I hear. I read your book and liked it. I now know who Zoot is and the impact he had on so many people’s lives, including mine. I still play. I can’t really say what kind of style because it changes so much, depending on where my heart is at any given moment. I’ll always remember what you did for me musically. So, thank you. Have a great life and I hope we cross paths at some point.

I’ve written to the Radar Station Guestbook several times, and I’d like to wish the best to The Good Captain & Jan, with wishes for a better year for Don. Happy New Millenium-Century-Year, whatever, you fill in the blank… Sincerely, One Third of The Trinity.

I once got reprimanded working at RECORDTOWN for ordering Trout Mask Replica, they were more concerned w/ how many WHITNEY HOUSTON cd’s they sold which is LUDICRIS to quote an ear biting boxer. I always loved the music and It had its own style.

Keep warm, old friend

In my almost fifty years, there have only been two pieces of music that have touched me so deeply with their beauty and their depth of both structure and feeling that I’ve actually had an orgasm listening to them – Bach’s Brandenberg Concertos and Trout Mask Replica. I think I’ll just leave it at that.

whenever there’s a hick-up in my life i turn to beefhearts art and your site: it blows the bugs away and makes the dust never to settle down!

Outstanding site. The world would be a better place if every site was like this.

Congratulations on an informative and entertaining website.

At 40 yrs of age (nearly), I have just discovered the Cap’s music, WOW!. Looks like i gotta few albums to buy. Great site,lots of real interesting stuff. Keep up the good work.

CAPTAIN, SEND HELP; AM MAKING LOVE TO AN UMPIRE WITH A MONKEY ON MY BACK!

it’s night now and the moon looks like a dandelion…thanks captain

The blimp, the blimp….

thirty years away can make a seaman’s eyes, a roundhouse man’s eyes flow out water, salt water

Great site! Never imagined His Captainness was so much alive today!

I gotta say thanks for putting up this site. You got me into Beefheart. Since heisting the MP3s you’ve posted I’m addicted to the captain. I’m 16. I only wish I could have been ’round at the time of his, uh, fruition .. most of new music now sucks… ‘cept for Pere Ubu and Fugazi, DJ Shadow et al. Your site rules.

In 35 years of buying music the ONE artist I never tire of STILL talks loud and clear.

There are only 40 Websites in the world and 5 of them are hamburgers

Got to be the best site on the net! I’ve been looking for Ice Cream For Crow for years. Saw the Captain in Liverpool in the seventies.

this is one of the greatest web sites — period! Thank you for the excellent content, great pictures, and gratuitious information

Outstanding site! I really appreciate all the work that has been invested here. Thank you!

Don rls! I’m gonna be just like him! Who whould’ve guessed how easy it is to be a genius!

I have been a fan of Beefhart since I heard “Her Eyes are a Blue Million Mile” on the radio when it came out. I saw the Captain live once in the late 70’s. I have all the vinyl LP’s and I am looking forward to listening to the new anthology. Thanks for all the great info on the Web Site. Also, there is a good article on TMR in the Spin issue 12/99.

Captain Beefheart is an iconoclasic genius…of sorts. His work is reflected well in this super-duper website. Is Beefheart dead, or simply sleeping behind his media – media such as this wonderful website. Oh, he isn’t dead? What’s he doing then: can we visit him?

Even compared to today’s music Beefhart is an innovator

Love your stuff… An old fan Monday, November 22, 1999 7:24 PM I am a great fan of Beefheart, but know little about him. This web site is better than any literature I would have purchased. It is one of the best web sites I have ever come across. I hope you are able to keep expanding. The MP3’s and videos are excellent.

Captain beefheart is an absolute genius in every medium he dabbles in. I’ve just finished compiling a tape of his songs for a friend, and i had to add a warning about ‘Trout mask replica’ to the effect that yuo have to bear in mind that the captainmeant the tracks to sound that way and that they weren’t just made up as they went along. I haven’t yet got ‘Decals’ ‘Bat Chain puller’ or the two commercial albums yet but i look forward to finding a copy of them.

hmmm… what can one say except white elephant… …escaped from zoo love the man, love his music, love this site peace

Not very often can a band or an artist be consistently good, let alone amazing, and I believe Van Vliet achieves this. The only other band I can think of that is good/great every single album is Sonic Youth. But hey, different strokes for different folks. p.s-Awesome site!

relative newcomer to the captain and to the web. this site is a refreshing oasis in a desert of commercial trash – the man deserves nothing less. keep up the great work.

viva el kapetano!

I’m glad to see other people remember the captain

An excellant website about one of the world’s original talents. We’ll “tune in” more often!

In 1975 as I was 14 years old Trout Mask and Safe as Milk changed my life. For me it was the beginning of a whole new world. It expanded my brain my humanity and my musical tastes, more so than anything before or since. For me, it was the beginning. Thank you.

Jerry Handley from Captain Beefheart is my dad.

From Safe AS Milk till dawn, I could always count on you. thank you so much.

I must tell again!!! Thanks for this great site. It is the discovery of the year. Thank you Graham, you are great and very kind. ¡Larga vida a Captain Beefheart and his fans! I voted for you.

If you see Captian Beefheart tell him thanks for Entertaining me

No B.O. for this boy… it’s just a winged EEEEEEEEEEL Fingerling, crawlin’ through lime jello. Excellent website indeed!

Been a fan for years, saw the Captain once, which I’ll never forget. Love the paintings, jump around to Dirty Blue Gene. Read just now the NPR piece. So sorry to hear that Don has MS–my heart bleeds for him and Jan. He is a national treasure.

still cant believe I found it. thank you Ian from Winamp

Fascinating and informative site.

I go to the station every time I plug in & never tire of it. Any muso characters should get on the fire piano list to get involved in the tribute, if you’re in the Sydney metropolitan area I’ll gladly be of assistance with it. If you get the time please click on the link to my Chunky Yet Funky zine.

Slooghenorg is the easy way to get your mind moving toward the kitchen with a smelly idea of french fries sulking and drowning in love with a boneless apple pie rosmarino flavoured . Ciao da Ghiop Salt

a great site,have always loved Don’s take on this silly world. Met him a few times in LA, a very nice man.

Captian Beefheart and his Magic band were very inspirational to me. I purchased Trout Mask Repilca at the age of 15 and has inspired much of what I am today. I love you guys!:) Kiss kiss, Geena

I appreciate that somebody takes care about Don. For me he´s one of the most exciting man of the 20th century.

Beefheart is a part of my history. Thirty years on I’m still dumstruck by the creativity.

a monkey amoung keys, a count’s account, a farter after hind bees behind, when or winter? win to her winter, hind bee yawned beyond beyond, clank

This man’s music and views have had an enormous impact on me and my music since I first heard him whilst living in a squat while attending University in Aberdeen, Scotland. I’ve been looking for stuff for a while, hehe, who’d have guessed it www.BEEFHEART.com – rofl. Nice one :)

Any friend of Captain Beefheart is my friend too.

Great site. Makes waiting for ‘Lick my..’ much easier. Anyone has a spare copy ? I voted for you.

Hey now, it does get better than this,,,I’m here to say this is it! If you’re not a head, you’re behind. Keep up the good work Capitan Beefheart, I hope to see ya soon in the future! Thanks again, General Beefheart!

Listened to this old child since 1971….Don is the child in us all………dont lose sight of yours!

Along with the Work in Progress site, Radar Station is the internet at it’s best. A wonderful site for a wondeful man.

It’s about time I told you how much I love this site. Since that fateful day in 1970 when I happened upon a Warner Bros. record sampler that featured tracks from TMR The Captain has always been my favorite. A`relative newcomer to the internet I still have alot of exploring to do at your wonderful site. Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes, I Do.

If the Captain ever gets to see this, I just want to say that I think he was and still is one of the most creative, intelligent artists ever. I have loved his music and the poetry since day one. I’m 52 this year and I was a hippie type in the old days. His music was fresh and I always took great pleasure in knowing a new album was coming out. I didn’t get all his albums from the sixties, but he has stood the test of time (can’t say that for too many artists) and I’m in the process of acquiring everything he has recorded. I hope the best of he’s still active and would love to see something new come out.

humour transcends death…maintain love over gold…creeds divide God’s children…keep taking the Captain’s tablets of wisdom… It was the Summer of 64. I was already aware of The Captain’s music- along with that of Roland Kirk, Elmore James, Blind-boy Grunt (aka Bob Dylan?), FZ, etc., etc. That night a few of my friends from a garage band called Pig Iron collected together on a jetty under a full-moon at high tide and started up an acoustic set…after a touch of ‘I feel like a’said’ I noticed white unicorns heading in on the wavetops and decided to check out the displacement of my body weight in the sea. As I was relaxing and viewing the moon’s paralax at 180 degrees (whilst the unicorns snorted past me) a number of Don’s tunes began to wash through my inner conciousness. Now, 35 years later, the rest is history. I’m pleased to note that I still have 90% of what the Captain has done on vinyl, that a new generation is enjoying a lot of it on CD, that (even at 51) I find bands like Portishead, Leftfield and PJ Harvey still pull my bat chain as much as the Captain ever did. The man’s drawings and paintings were always in tune and inseperable from his music- the way he’s going is fine with me- if anyone’s not getting the same vibes from those images that they got from his music then they’ve gotta get their eye-sockets quickly connected back to their chestbone meadows…