Captain Beefheart

Author: Mike Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) is one of the most enduring and important artists to have emerged from the 1960s counter culture. "Barnes' thoughtful and discriminating overview supplies the most complete picture to date of the relationship between Captain Beefheart's music, his art, and his day-to-day life."--"Daily Telegraph." 15 illustrations.

Beefheart

Author: John French
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956121257
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 864

Book Description
A no-holds barred account of working with Beefheart drawing on new reminiscences and interviews with all the key players from inside and around the Magic Band and the cross pollinated Mothers of Invention (masterminded by Frank Zappa).

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism

Author: Michel Delville
Publisher: Salt Pub
ISBN: 9781844710997
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa's art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping out the pleasures of imaginative excess.

Captain Beefheart: The Biography

Author: Mike Barnes
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857127284
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
“Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” – The Times Through new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the star’s legacy – putting the last two decades into context with the revelation of Van Vliet’s battle with MS.

Lunar Notes

Author: Bill Harkleroad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
"At last, the inside story of the best rock band of the 20th century. Zoot Horn Rollo tells all and opens the doorto the secret history of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band."-Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.Rechristened as Zoot Horn Rollo, guitarist Harkleroad recalls what it was like to live, record and play with a temperamental genius such as Captain Beefheart on landmark albums such as Trout Mask Replica.

Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica

Author: Kevin Courrier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441192697
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn from the past. This book examines how Beefheart's incomparable opus, an album that divided (rather than) united a pop audience, is informed by a variety of diverse sources. Trout Mask Replica is a hybrid of poetic declarations inspired by both Walt Whitman and the beat poets, the field hollers of the Delta Blues, the urban blues of Howlin' Wolf, the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson, and the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. This book illustrates how Trout Mask Replica was not so much an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, but rather a defiantly original declaration of the American imagination.

Real Frank Zappa Book

Author: Frank Zappa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671705725
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Recounts the career of the rock music performer.

Freak Out

Author: Pauline Butcher
Publisher: Plexus Publishing
ISBN: 0859657159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551

Book Description
This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.

Original Rockers

Author: Richard King
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571311814
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing. We live in an age when the most beautiful of recording formats, vinyl, is back in vogue and thriving. In the early 90s, with the march of the cd and record company disinterest oin the format, vinyl was looking like an anachronism. And with its demise came the gradual erosion of a once beautiful and unique landscape known as the independent record shop. Richard King, author of How Soon is Now, blends memoir and elegiac music writing on the likes of Captain Beefheart, CAN and Julian Cope, to create a book that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop. Chaotic, amateurish and extravagantly dysfunctional, this is a book full of rare personalities and rum stories. It is a book about landscape, place and the personal; the first piece of writing to treat the environment of the record shop as a natural resource with its own peculiar rhythms and anecdotal histories.

Songs in the Key of Z

Author: Irwin Chusid
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556523726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Irwin Chusid profiles a number of "outsider" musicians - those who started as "outside" and eventually came "in" when the listening public caught up with their radical ideas. Included are The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Wilis, and others.