Complete genius, Big Eyed Beans and Nowadays A Woman celebrate the neurologically damaged, the hobo, the meths drinker - because ‘we’re people too’. Play also Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (visceral) and Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso (preferably original piano version) - romanticised. Big Eyed Beans is the Primal Scream, the true existential Gestalt. Art Tripp is truly great but John French deserves better
Phil Daly check out beans barton and the bi peds. Outta houston. They opened a beefheart zappa show in early 70 s. He was bruiser barton and the dry heaves then. Now retired i saw 100 s of shows. Check out cd s
When I saw them play the long lunar note in the Tower Theater a fuse must have blown out cause everything on stage went dead-for about 15 minutes. When they got the electric back on and began again, they picked it up precisely at the long lunar note. And the whole place went wild.
Ties up with the story I heard ..... the night after the 'Stone the Crows' Lesley Harvey guitarist died onstage of electric shock ... the good Captain came onstage and recited the words to 'Electricity' without any backing music. The guy is/was a legend.
you know what I want, I want Alexa or Siri to have Captain Beefheart's voice and when I ask them to find and play me so and so, he just goes and puts on one of his random tunes. Then tells you you are a hamburger ~Trooper
The best tune ever in my book. The moment the lunar note floats out and the band kick back in is my rock and roll going to heaven moment. impossible to play it loud enough. Great to see so many like minded souls. The Captain simply rules.
Totally agree that this is THE greatest song ever recorded ! No matter what way you hear it! You still get attacked by another unexpected element in the track : musically or rhythmically, you become undone again! and start anew ! Analysing it wouldn’t do you any good . Because it is simply NOT of this world !
When I read Beefheart's biography some years back, there was a passage that told of a visit he made to Emergency Receiving, wigged out on acid. Seems one of his band members made sweet potato pie, but there was an overabundance of sweet potatoes. He put them in an upper cabinet in the kitchen and forgot about them. Some time later the Captain opened up the cabinet. By this time the sweet potatoes had done their thing, sprouted long leafy tendrils, which all came spilling out when the cabinet door was opened. The Captain freaked. Arriving at ER in the middle of the night, the orderly said, "Let me guess. Creatures from outer space?" The Captain: "Yes! How did you know?" Turns out it wasn't his first visit there for such things.
I get what the Captain was freaked out about, 1971 sat in a mucky squat with only a tin of sardines to eat between 4 of us, it was hard to see through the hallucination of live tinned sardines but yer knew it wasn't really happening and yer was hungry so yer cracked on!
Clear Spot still the greatest American rock album ever made. I first heard this when I was 15 years old I'm now 59 it still wipes me out. Big Eyed Beans From Venus is the killer cut. RIP Captain Beefheart never to be forgotten.
punkpoetry this is beefheart's best "accessible" album, decals is his best experimental album. i agree that decals is one of the best albums ever made, but you cant compare it to this album at all, its so different and has completely different qualities
Good call handymandan. But I am still beholden to Clear Spot an album that left an indelible impression on this sheltered 15 year old all those decades ago. I recently picked up a copy of Trout Mask Replica, not sure what to do with it?
I was a schoolboy in the UK doing my 'A' levels when this came out. I used to try and get my homework done by ten so that I could listen to John Peel. Imagine my emotions when he first put this on!
I think Peel chose that track for his '40 tracks I would like to play at my 40th birthday party', which was in 1978, I think. I was a uni student at the time, and managed to record the top 33 of the 40 off the radio on a C120 cassette. Still got it, and it still plays - just!
I dare say he had a stronger constituency in UK than anywhere else. I was privileged to be present on all his visits to 1970s Britain. Shame I was too young to have witnessed his 1968 visit. I read that he was a stern taskmaster to his musicians - but hear the result ! - They should all be proud.
What can I say that hasn't already be said...I need a girlfriend who likes the Captain. To quote from the song Clear Spot...."Just can't seem to find my kinda folks havin' fun"
You're lucky she stayed. I heard of one guy whose girlfriend left him because he repeatedly played the song Bat Chain Puller until she lost her shit. If you're lucky enough to find a girlfriend that digs Beefheart, hang onto her with both hands.
BEBFV,.... from Clear Spot ...this was a life changing moment for me, as a 16 year old kid, and STILL to this date.....NOTHING has ever came close to this, it was like getting the keys to the SONIC UNIVERSE,it was that STARK, i've never recovered from this , and frankly .... I dont want to !
I’m always totally spellbound by the drumming and the guitar work. Oh and the voice and the bass. Luckily I saw them in Stevenage UK. Live they were superb.
It was/will be, recorded in 2067! The Captain was/will be, one of the first Time Ship Captains from the Mojave Desert to record 2040s style Retro Music! Fast and Bulbous.
allegory: "a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or POLITICAL meaning." but why mince words. After what i've just been thru with agents of a "government": detained, searched, no "rights" read to me, no 'charges'--I was listening to this and it suddenly hit me in a new way. i was trying to 'compliment' you, actually. I used to think this song was "funny". it was a prediction!
Wonderful guitar work on this song and the entire Clear Spot album. The Magic Band long suffered under the Captain and should be recognized equally for his great music.
Bought the vinyl 40 yrs ago but haven't listened to it at least 35 yrs. My 20 yr old daughter recently played some John Frusciante tunes for me. Tried to find some info about him and read that one of his main influences was Zoot Horn Rollo. This song came back to my mind immediately, so I played it for her and she was quite amazed. She had never heard of the Captain. These days I'm letting that long lunar note float on my CBG...
I saw the Capt. and the Magic Band do this live in Chicago in 1972--front row seats. There are no words--one of the greatest concerts I've ever been to. Together, Zoot Horn Rollo and Rockette Morton could've clawed their way to the center of the earth with their perfectly in-sync guitar work. (ZHR's gold lame cutoffs were pretty cool, too.) At times, Van Vliet's voice was rumbling lower than Roy Estrada's bass. He did an acappella version of a John Lee Hooker blues that brought the house down.
I love this piece so much I bought it for my prison MP3 player. Is there a name for this genre, even if it be sui generis? I feel it should contain the word bayou.
The best rock n roll band in the world, Don with 4 and a half octave of range and a total maniacal genius, with THE Magic band Harkelroad with ridiculously long fingers pulling chords not many can replicate, and with the captain insisting that the same riff was shared by the 2 guitarists. And French on drums, whom transcribeb al Van Vliets ideas into musical script then hopped on to the drum stool to do things that, today they usually need 2 drummers to replicate. They had new ideas, they were geniuses. Normal people still don't begin to understand them.
"these guys from the doors wrote a song about being strage..." Let's give them an education about STRANGE", the captain said, got his band assembled with notes on gray paper written in blood.
Distant cousins, there's a limited supply. And we're down to the dozens, and this is why, Big Eyed Beans from Venus! Oh my, oh my. Boys and girls, Earth people around the circle, Mixtures of man alive. Big eyed beans from Venus, Don't let anything get in between us. Beam in on me baby, And we'll beam together I know we always been together, But there's more. Mister Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note, And let it float. Men let your wallets flop out, And women open your purses, Cause a man or a woman without a big eyed bean from Venus Is suffering with the worstest of curses Yeah, you're suffering, with the worstest of curses. Put 'em out in the sun, and when the night come You don't have to go out and get 'em They'll glow with you They'll go with you They'll show with you Ain't no losers Cause they're on the right track Cause they're on the right track You can be on the right track, woman, Of course, of course Ain't no SNAFU, no fol-de-rol Check these out, Big eyed beans from Venus Oh, let a few out, let 'em pass in between us Distant cousins, there's a limited supply. And we're down to the dozens, and this is why Don't let anything get in between us! Big eyed beans from Venus Big eyed beans from Venus. Übersetzen in: Deutsch Source: LyricFind Songwriter: Don Van Vliet Songtext von Big Eyed Beans
I saw him at the Starewood or was it The Wiskey in 84 or was it 85? I forget but his music dide’nt disappoint. It was perhaps the best performance I ‘ve ever witnessed..
Dieter brother man they do not make them like the good Captain anymore. From your name I presume you are German? Here's wishing you and your fellow countryman all the very best in the World Cup final against those Argentinians. After the kicking you gave Brazil I felt a surge of pride. Bring it on.
This is what a feminist looks like - at least in 1972 - and I certainly prefer it to Nick Clegg in a t-shirt. Fantastic lyrics which are full of wisdom and kindness. Brilliant brilliant record.
I used to sneak my mother's transistor radio - it was the only one in the house - into my bed, hide it under my pillow and fall asleep listening to John Peel's radio show, with the volume set to 'zero' - headphones were the stuff of fantasy... Clear Spot had just been released, Peel played some tracjs. I heard Mr Zoot Horn Rollo playing that long lunar note... and to this day, it's still my all time favourite LP.
I love Bluejeans and Moonbeams. It's not your traditional edgy Captain. It's the romantic Captain. I believe the guitar player is...........not Zoot Horn.....but maybe Dean Smith. Ira Ingber on bass....brother of the great Elliot......The Captain can do whatever he wants brother.
Around 500 B.C. A Greek Lyric Poet named Pindar designed a complex metrical structure of intertwining verse. Try it sometime, it's not exactly easy but the Cap' had it down... You got that down. "Distant Cousins, there's a limited supply. And we're down to the dozens, and this is why." Interesting stuff!
1:49 heard it first in my teens AND HAD TO _CRY_ OF JOY AND REVELATION ! (PUBERTY! something one remembers, right? *The GREAT licks left/right* , quite a _liberating_ feeling, even though I's just _starting out_ on guitar myself and could make noise, yet. Oops; grandpa talks, right? A-well .... Gonna click _Comment_ anyway.
I recommend playing this song as loud as you have ever played a song. There is no way anyone who heard this band live can describe the dynamics presented by these extraordinary musicians on stage. But the "long lunar note" was the first legitimate artistic guitar sound, post Jimi's use of feedback. Just my opinion, of course, but I did witness both personally. Let it float......
I was doing my A level homework and listening to John Peel when I first heard this. It was a bugger trying not to scratch the LP as you took it out of the cover.
The insanity that was / is big eyed beans from Venus : arguably the definition of Don Van Vliets genius : coming this bands history is still sending out shockwaves 51 years later !
He was talking about vibrators -- vibrators so effective that humans no longer had sex with each other anymore and humanity's population has dwindled. "Distant cousins, there's a limited supply. We're down to the dozens and this is why: Big eyed beans from Venus."
You don't have to go out and get 'em... they'll flow with you... made me go out and get a few for myself, and I was so happy! what else could I do in '72?
I loved the sheer insanity of the Capt. on every album and I have them all,and multiple copies.The chances you take with 12 bar blues is endless ,if you're willing to step out of line.
I wish there where bands like this to day but no and there never will first herd captain beefheart 1970 no band can do that and never will R I P Captain
For me it's this and Sue Egypt, but Kandy Korn & Veterans Day Poppy are perfect, then there is Autumns Child, too many perfect songs in his catalog. Orange Claw Hammer w. frank on guitar gets me too.
Where'd we be without this band - the guitar on this track is fucking primal, total essence of bluesicality and the drum attack is mesmerising as for Don well he is the Don of all he commands which at this point was pretty much the magical universe.
Reminds me of Arthur Eddington's response in the early 20'th century when asked the question" "Is it true that there are only 3 people in the world who understand Einstein's theory of relativity?" After a long pause, he said: "'I'm trying to think of the third"....
@TheRaamaa you ARE RIGHT SIR. I would call it an "allegory", but whatever, I KNOW you know. Great frickin music from a man who "predicted the future". And of course the band kicks ass. On a better, long, lunar note, I had a friend that got to gig with him cuz he learned all the Rollo parts.... damn lucky bastard! I think we both know the "invasion" will come from within. Is that what you mean? It did for ME.
Best song on Clear Spot and one of his all time greatest compositions. Masterpiece
I now vote My Head is my only house, but for years I agreed with you.
That moment you realize one of the best songs of all time is called big eyed beans from venus
For me “Long Neck Bottles” is the best track on Clear Spot.
😎👍 Low Yo Yo
....and I still have the original album enclosed in the plastic cover.
That "long lunar note" is the most powerful event in all of music!!!!!
A Day In The Life by The Beatles beats it. Twice.
+Lucas O'heyze Beatle bones and smoking stones...
I got Zoot to let it float! We were college pals and it just seemed right.
The Beatles wore 14 shoes on 3 feet
In my humble opinion one of the greatest tracks ever recorded.
It's a fact as far as I'm concerned.
it's the best album ever recorded.
Complete genius, Big Eyed Beans and Nowadays A Woman celebrate the neurologically damaged, the hobo, the meths drinker - because ‘we’re people too’. Play also Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (visceral) and Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso (preferably original piano version) - romanticised. Big Eyed Beans is the Primal Scream, the true existential Gestalt. Art Tripp is truly great but John French deserves better
@@tallswede80 Agreed! 😁
That & Bat Chain Puller. Beefheart was real, Zappa a pale imitation.
"Mr Zoothorn Rolo, hit that long lunar note and let it float" Gives me chills.
U sure got that right .of course. Of course
Phil Daly check out beans barton and the bi peds. Outta houston. They opened a beefheart zappa show in early 70 s. He was bruiser barton and the dry heaves then. Now retired i saw 100 s of shows. Check out cd s
I think he says " Hit that long leaning note and let it float, cause hes leaning on the guitar note and letting it float i.e. sustain
The Captain. Rules. Zoot is a very good guitar player. Awesome.
#metoo
When I saw them play the long lunar note in the Tower Theater a fuse must have blown out cause everything on stage went dead-for about 15 minutes. When they got the electric back on and began again, they picked it up precisely at the long lunar note. And the whole place went wild.
That is the best fucking story I've ever read on youtube. I love this!!!!
excellent!
Ties up with the story I heard ..... the night after the 'Stone the Crows' Lesley Harvey guitarist died onstage of electric shock ... the good Captain came onstage and recited the words to 'Electricity' without any backing music. The guy is/was a legend.
long LUMEN note is correct!
and I thought it was looming note..
Beefheart was interviewed by Rolling Stone years ago. Had a great quote,"There are only 40 people in the world and 38 of them are hamburgers"
Michael Smith : wonderful, I couldn’t have said it better myself!
And this comment has 38 likes...
Ah yeah ah yeah WHAAT??
And was he WRONG?
you know what I want, I want Alexa or Siri to have Captain Beefheart's voice and when I ask them to find and play me so and so, he just goes and puts on one of his random tunes. Then tells you you are a hamburger ~Trooper
Beefheart, Dolphy, Mingus ...
Best music for all times...
Absolutely love this track pure gold and timeless
This song is just soooo good, it makes me wanna cry
Yeah this fucker thumps!
I ordered the album from Amazon after hearing the song.
I'm crying
The guitar riff that kicks in at 1:44 is pure genius
Meraviglioso
The best tune ever in my book. The moment the lunar note floats out and the band kick back in is my rock and roll going to heaven moment. impossible to play it loud enough. Great to see so many like minded souls. The Captain simply rules.
I'm with you on this. Long Necked bottles for the ewarm-up.
Totally agree that this is THE greatest song ever recorded !
No matter what way you hear it! You still get attacked by another unexpected element in the track : musically or rhythmically, you become undone again!
and start anew !
Analysing it wouldn’t do you any good . Because it is simply NOT of this world !
Let s All Beam Together ✌️
When I read Beefheart's biography some years back, there was a passage that told of a visit he made to Emergency Receiving, wigged out on acid. Seems one of his band members made sweet potato pie, but there was an overabundance of sweet potatoes. He put them in an upper cabinet in the kitchen and forgot about them. Some time later the Captain opened up the cabinet. By this time the sweet potatoes had done their thing, sprouted long leafy tendrils, which all came spilling out when the cabinet door was opened. The Captain freaked. Arriving at ER in the middle of the night, the orderly said, "Let me guess. Creatures from outer space?" The Captain: "Yes! How did you know?" Turns out it wasn't his first visit there for such things.
what is the book called
love it!
I had a slice of toast that I had forgotten I started pop up and do it to me.
That's fucking brilliant!
I get what the Captain was freaked out about, 1971 sat in a mucky squat with only a tin of sardines to eat between 4 of us, it was hard to see through the hallucination of live tinned sardines but yer knew it wasn't really happening and yer was hungry so yer cracked on!
The Salvador Dali of songwriters!
the don van vliet of painters
Dali is normal shit - Beefheart a genius forever !
@@ProfJazz, it's just like that 👍
the captain beefheart of music
Still the leanest, meanest, lewdest, crudest, tightest, most goose-pimplest track I have ever heard.
Clear Spot still the greatest American rock album ever made. I first heard this when I was 15 years old I'm now 59 it still wipes me out. Big Eyed Beans From Venus is the killer cut. RIP Captain Beefheart never to be forgotten.
Decals is the far greater album
punkpoetry this is beefheart's best "accessible" album, decals is his best experimental album. i agree that decals is one of the best albums ever made, but you cant compare it to this album at all, its so different and has completely different qualities
one vote for "Safe as Milk". most soulful, bluesy, and coherent
Good call handymandan. But I am still beholden to Clear Spot an album that left an indelible impression on this sheltered 15 year old all those decades ago. I recently picked up a copy of Trout Mask Replica, not sure what to do with it?
You must play it Saint George - REALLY!!
I was a schoolboy in the UK doing my 'A' levels when this came out. I used to try and get my homework done by ten so that I could listen to John Peel. Imagine my emotions when he first put this on!
I'm jealous that you got to live that moment.
I think Peel chose that track for his '40 tracks I would like to play at my 40th birthday party', which was in 1978, I think. I was a uni student at the time, and managed to record the top 33 of the 40 off the radio on a C120 cassette. Still got it, and it still plays - just!
Pure insane joy!if this don't get u going nothing will.every instrument and vocals are in perfect sync. Tight band
I remember when John Peel first played this on 'Top Gear'. I couldn't concentrate on my homework.
I know what you mean... The first I heard Baba O'Riley was when John Peel played it. The "Margrave of the Marshes" knew his music... And then some!
Saw him in Providence in 72' and never saw a crowd respond like they did that night. The show was magical.
I dare say he had a stronger constituency in UK than anywhere else. I was privileged to be present on all his visits to 1970s Britain. Shame I was too young to have witnessed his 1968 visit. I read that he was a stern taskmaster to his musicians - but hear the result ! - They should all be proud.
What can I say that hasn't already be said...I need a girlfriend who likes the Captain. To quote from the song Clear Spot...."Just can't seem to find my kinda folks havin' fun"
When I used to listen to Beefheart, my girlfriend used to walk out of the room. After about 3 years together, it clicked with her.
You're lucky she stayed. I heard of one guy whose girlfriend left him because he repeatedly played the song Bat Chain Puller until she lost her shit.
If you're lucky enough to find a girlfriend that digs Beefheart, hang onto her with both hands.
bluesviolin I wanna find me a woman to hold my big toe ‘til I have to go
BEBFV,.... from Clear Spot ...this was a life changing moment for me, as a 16 year old kid, and STILL to this date.....NOTHING has ever came close to this, it was like getting the keys to the SONIC UNIVERSE,it was that STARK, i've never recovered from this , and frankly .... I dont want to !
Mr Zoot Horn Rollo's Long Lunar Note starts exactly a minute into the track and lasts for 15 seconds.
How can a song so lyrically ridiculous end up so strangely moving? Amazing track. Of course, of course...
Raw energy, married to pure musical Intensity what else ?
said mr .ed
You're on the right track...
I’m always totally spellbound by the drumming and the guitar work. Oh and the voice and the bass. Luckily I saw them in Stevenage UK. Live they were superb.
I love you, people... Reading these comments makes me happy...
This song is just stunning.
I'm quite surprised this is from 1972. This sounds like it could've been made in the 90s. A man ahead of his time...
It was/will be, recorded in 2067! The Captain was/will be, one of the first Time Ship Captains from the Mojave Desert to record 2040s style Retro Music! Fast and Bulbous.
The second half of the song sounds like a Radiohead B-Side
I hear a lot of them in primus
allegory: "a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or POLITICAL meaning." but why mince words. After what i've just been thru with agents of a "government": detained, searched, no "rights" read to me, no 'charges'--I was listening to this and it suddenly hit me in a new way. i was trying to 'compliment' you, actually. I used to think this song was "funny". it was a prediction!
Wonderful guitar work on this song and the entire Clear Spot album. The Magic Band long suffered under the Captain and should be recognized equally for his great music.
Bought the vinyl 40 yrs ago but haven't listened to it at least 35 yrs. My 20 yr old daughter recently played some John Frusciante tunes for me. Tried to find some info about him and read that one of his main influences was Zoot Horn Rollo. This song came back to my mind immediately, so I played it for her and she was quite amazed. She had never heard of the Captain. These days I'm letting that long lunar note float on my CBG...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AN OFF THE WALL ONE OFF ! ! !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I think this is the best beefheart's song... and one of the best psychedelic songs of all time. (thus I Like "Ice cream for crow" a lot, too)
I saw the Capt. and the Magic Band do this live in Chicago in 1972--front row seats. There are no words--one of the greatest concerts I've ever been to. Together, Zoot Horn Rollo and Rockette Morton could've clawed their way to the center of the earth with their perfectly in-sync guitar work. (ZHR's gold lame cutoffs were pretty cool, too.) At times, Van Vliet's voice was rumbling lower than Roy Estrada's bass. He did an acappella version of a John Lee Hooker blues that brought the house down.
Guitar should be more in the mix, this riff is insane
I'm going to dance to this song at my wedding.
Love this album and I especially love this poetry.
My favorite is Golden Birdies - I love that poem. I used to recite it to my kids.
In every time period, this album is timeless. The album is from 1972, it blows my mind.
I love this piece so much I bought it for my prison MP3 player. Is there a name for this genre, even if it be sui generis? I feel it should contain the word bayou.
no me canso de escuchar esta maravilla sonika
musically ahead of its time, sounds like post punk in many ways
Or...select blues (Howling Wolf) on Panorama music and you'll hear Beefheart music mixed in. An interesting tradeoff.
I saw,Beefheart perform live in Nov 1980 in Paradiso,Amsterdam,.Unforgettable, and fantastic concert.A memory ,so dear to my heart
The best rock n roll band in the world, Don with 4 and a half octave of range and a total maniacal genius, with THE Magic band Harkelroad with ridiculously long fingers pulling chords not many can replicate, and with the captain insisting that the same riff was shared by the 2 guitarists. And French on drums, whom transcribeb al Van Vliets ideas into musical script then hopped on to the drum stool to do things that, today they usually need 2 drummers to replicate. They had new ideas, they were geniuses. Normal people still don't begin to understand them.
This song rocks. I am a huge beef fan. One of his top five songs. He was the best at putting it out there.
MAN, THIS IS THE SHIT ! ! !👍👍👍
Irony? Or not enough drugs?
"these guys from the doors wrote a song about being strage..." Let's give them an education about STRANGE", the captain said, got his band assembled with notes on gray paper written in blood.
Reminds me of Einstein's comment on Dirac. "This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness...."
Distant cousins, there's a limited supply.
And we're down to the dozens, and this is why,
Big Eyed Beans from Venus!
Oh my, oh my.
Boys and girls,
Earth people around the circle,
Mixtures of man alive.
Big eyed beans from Venus,
Don't let anything get in between us.
Beam in on me baby,
And we'll beam together
I know we always been together,
But there's more.
Mister Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note,
And let it float.
Men let your wallets flop out,
And women open your purses,
Cause a man or a woman without a big eyed bean from Venus
Is suffering with the worstest of curses
Yeah, you're suffering, with the worstest of curses.
Put 'em out in the sun, and when the night come
You don't have to go out and get 'em
They'll glow with you
They'll go with you
They'll show with you
Ain't no losers
Cause they're on the right track
Cause they're on the right track
You can be on the right track, woman,
Of course, of course
Ain't no SNAFU, no fol-de-rol
Check these out, Big eyed beans from Venus
Oh, let a few out, let 'em pass in between us
Distant cousins, there's a limited supply.
And we're down to the dozens, and this is why
Don't let anything get in between us!
Big eyed beans from Venus
Big eyed beans from Venus.
Übersetzen in: Deutsch
Source: LyricFind
Songwriter: Don Van Vliet
Songtext von Big Eyed Beans
So many italians like me, who' s english is so poor, are grateful for the lyrics. 👍🏼
amazing musicians, still holds up beautifully.
I saw him at the Starewood or was it The Wiskey in 84 or was it 85? I forget but his music dide’nt disappoint. It was perhaps the best performance I ‘ve ever witnessed..
Dieter brother man they do not make them like the good Captain anymore. From your name I presume you are German? Here's wishing you and your fellow countryman all the very best in the World Cup final against those Argentinians. After the kicking you gave Brazil I felt a surge of pride. Bring it on.
This is what a feminist looks like - at least in 1972 - and I certainly prefer it to Nick Clegg in a t-shirt. Fantastic lyrics which are full of wisdom and kindness. Brilliant brilliant record.
Bill Harkleroad is totally amazing, all of his work is outstanding.
I literally ran into Zoot at a grocery store in Eugene Oregon. He worked at a record store there and did guitar lessons. He's really tall- like 6'5''.
Beefheart was a genius. Brilliant dirty poet...
I quote this song frequently. For me, it goes back a long way. " men let your wallets flop out...
Zoot Horn Rollo puts more emotion into one note than what most guitarists put into a hundred.
I used to sneak my mother's transistor radio - it was the only one in the house - into my bed, hide it under my pillow and fall asleep listening to John Peel's radio show, with the volume set to 'zero' - headphones were the stuff of fantasy... Clear Spot had just been released, Peel played some tracjs. I heard Mr Zoot Horn Rollo playing that long lunar note... and to this day, it's still my all time favourite LP.
Ol beefhhearr shows goin insane dont make you a bad person
I love Bluejeans and Moonbeams. It's not your traditional edgy Captain. It's the romantic Captain. I believe the guitar player is...........not Zoot Horn.....but maybe Dean Smith. Ira Ingber on bass....brother of the great Elliot......The Captain can do whatever he wants brother.
The woistest of coises …
LOL ! ! ! THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS PERFORMED ON VENUS ! ! !👍👍👍
SNAFU = *Situation Normal. All Fucked Up.* Stay free. R 🍻 😎 🌵
At the end of this song it sounds like a space ship has landed. Go look out your window now
The drums played just after "lunar note" couldnt be better played by Bonzo.
Clear Spot, and Trout Mask Replica part of MY staple music fare when I lived on stuff that was antithetical to Alkaline
Play it Loud!! A superb track. The best!!
Wonderful number ,
Long necked bottles , is also a must listen
Around 500 B.C. A Greek Lyric Poet named Pindar designed a complex metrical structure of intertwining verse. Try it sometime, it's not exactly easy but the Cap' had it down... You got that down. "Distant Cousins, there's a limited supply. And we're down to the dozens, and this is why."
Interesting stuff!
Mindblowing thanks
Wow, that comma really does some work for this verse doesn't it?
The Captain Rules.
I saw them perform this at the Rainbow Theatre in London 1972. One of the best rock concerts I've been to. Click Clack was another highlight.
Captain Beefheart knocks it out of the park here for anyone who would dare to doubt his credibility.
Not wrong there. Band are so tight, they sound super loose.
@@nodiggity9472 Lol you just articulated something I've been trying to put into words for so long--they're so tight that they're loose
There’s a limited supply. 👍
Tom Waits, but weirder. It seems an unlikely description, but here we are. And it’s epic.
This Lyric is meant to be taken LITERALLY.....so git out there square!
The Muffin Man loves his daily Big Eyed Beans From Venus with an oversized chrome spoon....
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1:49 heard it first in my teens AND HAD TO _CRY_ OF JOY AND REVELATION ! (PUBERTY! something one remembers, right? *The GREAT licks left/right* , quite a _liberating_ feeling, even though I's just _starting out_ on guitar myself and could make noise, yet.
Oops; grandpa talks, right? A-well .... Gonna click _Comment_ anyway.
I recommend playing this song as loud as you have ever played a song. There is no way anyone who heard this band live can describe the dynamics presented by these extraordinary musicians on stage. But the "long lunar note" was the first legitimate artistic guitar sound, post Jimi's use of feedback. Just my opinion, of course, but I did witness both personally. Let it float......
I was doing my A level homework and listening to John Peel when I first heard this. It was a bugger trying not to scratch the LP as you took it out of the cover.
The insanity that was / is big eyed beans from Venus : arguably the definition of Don Van Vliets genius : coming this bands history is still sending out shockwaves 51 years later !
best euphemism for breasts EVER!!!!
+Ian Crawford I HAD NO IDEA
......Men let your wallets flop out and women open your purses....
I always thought he was talking about farts.
He was talking about vibrators -- vibrators so effective that humans no longer had sex with each other anymore and humanity's population has dwindled. "Distant cousins, there's a limited supply. We're down to the dozens and this is why: Big eyed beans from Venus."
allencrider WHAT! How did you get vibrators out of that?
You don't have to go out and get 'em... they'll flow with you...
made me go out and get a few for myself, and I was so happy!
what else could I do in '72?
I loved the sheer insanity of the Capt. on every album and I have them all,and multiple copies.The chances you take with 12 bar blues is endless ,if you're willing to step out of line.
Heh. First time I heard this album was ON my first trip.
captain beefheart is a true individual..love it , love it, love it !!
absolutamente uma extraordinária música..
big-eyed beans from Venus!
Don't let anything get in between us.
oh yeah
I wish there where bands like this to day but no and there never will first herd captain beefheart 1970 no band can do that and never will R I P Captain
This, and Owe'd To Alex are my favourites. Played loud of course
For me it's this and Sue Egypt, but Kandy Korn & Veterans Day Poppy are perfect, then there is Autumns Child, too many perfect songs in his catalog. Orange Claw Hammer w. frank on guitar gets me too.
The guitar on Owe'd to Alex is phenomenal
Roger Miller from Mission of Burma's comments on my facebook wall about a Shellac concert sent me here.
Sublime.
woah! ,,,,just ... woah!!!! Gonna have to play it again - but LOUDER!
"mr zoot horn rollo, hit that long lunar note and let it float...."
They killed....Keys unknow except for the chosen..you can be chosen......come on up and show us you are chosen...Just feed them well....
Where'd we be without this band - the guitar on this track is fucking primal, total essence of bluesicality and the drum attack is mesmerising as for Don well he is the Don of all he commands which at this point was pretty much the magical universe.
What about the sun ? aint no losers .. check these out!
No such thing as too much of this.
Reminds me of Arthur Eddington's response in the early 20'th century when asked the question" "Is it true that there are only 3 people in the world who understand Einstein's theory of relativity?"
After a long pause, he said: "'I'm trying to think of the third"....
@TheRaamaa you ARE RIGHT SIR. I would call it an "allegory", but whatever, I KNOW you know. Great frickin music from a man who "predicted the future". And of course the band kicks ass. On a better, long, lunar note, I had a friend that got to gig with him cuz he learned all the Rollo parts.... damn lucky bastard! I think we both know the "invasion" will come from within. Is that what you mean? It did for ME.