Captain Beefheart The Biography

Author : Mike Barnes
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127284
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Beefheart: The Biography written by Mike Barnes and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Author : Michel Delville
Publisher : Salt Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781844710997
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism written by Michel Delville and published by Salt Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956121257
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beefheart written by John French and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Bill Harkleroad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar Notes written by Bill Harkleroad and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Kevin Courrier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441192697
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica written by Kevin Courrier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Herb Bermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982014011
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery Man from the Magic Band written by Herb Bermann and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb Bermann was credited as co-writing eight of the songs on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND's debut album Safe As Milk (1967); it would have been a completely different record without him. According to one observer:"[Captain Beefheart] called the guy 'The Poet.' For a while he was positively gagging us all out with it! 'The Poet said...' or 'The Poet is HEAVY, man!' I mean none of us could believe it.... You'd have thought Salvador Dali had walked in!"Yet Bermann kept silent about Captain Beefheart for almost 50 years -- so silent that some people said that Captain Beefheart had invented him. Now Bermann shares his story! Fans will be charmed by Bermann's descriptions of how his songs came to be written. They may also be surprised to learn just which songs he says he wrote. Included is a facsimile reproduction of his original lyric sheets, with dozens more songs that were never produced. Bermann's story reveals previously unpublished information about the early work of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Neil Young and Steven Spielberg. It also introduces us to an artist whose work and influence have been generally overlooked.

Author : Pauline Butcher
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0859657159
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freak Out written by Pauline Butcher and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mike Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844494125
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Beefheart written by Mike Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Beefheart written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John French
Publisher : Last Music Company
ISBN 13 : 9780992806231
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beefheart written by John French and published by Last Music Company. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no-holds barred account of working with Beefheart featuring interviews with all key players inside and around The Magic Band and the Mothers Of Invention. As drummer and musical director for the iconoclastic Captain Beefheart, John "Drumbo" French was a key contributor to the band's many groundbreaking albums including Trout Mask Replica.