Word: beefheart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked as a session man around Los Angeles and with the Rolling Stones in England. His dexterous rhythm work on guitar and mandolin had won him a reputation as a good musician who could juice up anyone's record, and he played behind everyone from Captain Beefheart and the Everly Brothers to Paul Anka. His work on the sound track of 1970's Performance, a movie of scattershot brilliance about a gangster and a rock star, further keyed up interest in Cooder's own album debut. "I think the people at the record company expected some kind...
RICHARD PERRY, independent producer for Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Harry Nilsson and Carly Simon, among others. At 30, hottest freelance in business. Discovered both Tiny Tim and Captain Beefheart. Conceives albums in manner of Hollywood director. Added drum crescendos that give Simon's You're So Vain special contemporary sound. Has loved pop music ever since he attended one of Alan Freed's rock-'n'-roll shows as a kid in Brooklyn in 1954. Earnings from sales and royalty percentages are well into six figures a year (last year: about $250,000). Sometimes agrees...
...thing that is incredibly irritating about this album is that there is so little music on it. There is no one side with as much as 19 minutes of music, and two sides don't even top 18 minutes. When Captain Beefheart can squeeze 28 minutes of music onto a side of a live album, there is no reason for the Dead to be content with...
...could write about Captain Beefheart forever. I could quote him: "There are only 40 people in the world and five of them are hamburgers," or "I may be hungry but I sure ain't here...
SUNDAY after the concert, I was discussing it with some friends who missed it, and I said that Beefheart should play on the steps of Widener Library, or even be the President of Harvard (he could raise lots of money). Last year we suggested he play at Freshman Spring Weekend, but the planner told the CRIMSON that nobody had been interested, a filthy lie. In response to my comment, a nonbeliever said, "Yeah, and Wild Man Fischer can be a Dean of Something." See what I mean? Beefheart is a much-maligned genius: an advertisement he filmed...