........and we're down to the dozens, and this is why.
Big-Eyed beans from Venus, oh my, oh my.....
Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note, and let it float......
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band:
Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note, and let it float......
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band:
Super selection Rich, hadn't heard of Harkleroad for years, except for a really good interview in Mojo, until 2009 when a mate gave me a copy of Drumbo's [French's] then recently released solo album 'City of Refuge' and there was old Zoot Horn slinging the axe. Interview was a good read, particularly his very honest insight into the significance of Ry's role in being the only sober, together one at the time of 'the' album, apparently Van Vliet relied almost entirely on Cooder's talent to pull the whole shitfight out of the fire, both in recording and in a live context, eventually poor old Ry just couldn't stand the lunacy and beat a hasty retreat to Sanity City . . . I'd love to see a monthly Irishman's musical selection, it would be too good methinks. Cheers mate.
ReplyDeleteGreat call, great album although it's dismissed as the start of the commercial downfall.
ReplyDeleteThere's a really good, fairly complete UK documentary in 6 parts, narrated by David Peel, on YouTube, I think it was done in '98(?) on Beefheart and the band. Well worth the view.
ReplyDeleteJimmy Carl Black says in the docu that Beefheart, at the time of making Clear Spot, thought he'd gone too far out on the music, and was reigning it back in. Black said before, Beefheart thought the music wasn't far out enough, now it was over the edge. I tend to agree with Black's view.