Word: beefheart
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...CAPTAIN Beefheart, Dan Van Vliet, twelve-year-old-genius-gone-wrong, had a scholarship to go to Europe to study sculpture. But his parents were worried he'd become a beatnik, so they moved next door to these nice folks in a nice residential town. The Zappas had a boy a little older than Don and they became good friends, listening to rock 'n' roll and driving around weekends together picking up peanutbutter...
...matter of Zappa getting famous, then giving his buddy a lift. Their first albums came out simuhaneously in late '66. If the Mothers became popular and Beefheart didn't it wasn't because Freak Out! is better music. Those who've listened to Safe As Milk know that Captain Beefheart has the best, most ignored record ever made (maybe). Alex St. Claire's guitar on his first two albums is superlative, as is Captain Beefheart's amazing voice and harp. The bumper sticker that comes with Safe As Milk is alone worth the price of that album...
...concert last month, Beefheart played "Abba Zaba," one of the lesser cuts and it brought the audience to its feet. From the 2nd album, Strictly Personal, they played "Gimme dat Harp Boy." similar to but better than Spoonful and with Beefheart's excellent blues harp. From the third album, Trout Mask Replica (with a catfish on the cover), produced by Zappa (after Bob Krasnow and Blue Thumb records overproduced and cheated Beefheart) famous for Doug Moon's delta blues pickin' and Beefheart's singin' on "China Pig," they played "Big Joan Sets Up," a new version, "My Human...
...clue that has just occurred to him. The most promising clue that has occurred to Dr. Kahn's wakeful brain during 25 years of serum tests is that any human blood, healthy or diseased, will produce its own distinctive pattern of reactions when mixed with particular concentrations of beefheart extract. (Syphilitic serum happens to produce a strong reaction with a concentration chosen for the purpose...
...lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked eye, no microscope is needed...