The Radar Station is pleased to present this fascinating article by Art Tripp, aka Ed Marimba, aka Ted Cactus, drummer and percussionist for both Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and Beefheart’s Magic Band. Here he gives his take on what it was like to work for both these very different musical geniuses. Thanks to Kitty Marimba for helping to make this happen. ————————————————————————————— Zappa vs. Beefheart: What Were They Really Like? by Art Tripp “Hi, Art, this is Dick Kunc here. I was telling Frank about you, and we’re wondering if you could come down to Apostolic Studios on Friday?” “Sure, Dick. What should I bring:阅读更多→

Kristine McKenna is an American music journalist who has written for Wet, NME, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other publications. Over the years she has often written about Don, having interviewed him a number of times she was trusted by him and became a friend of his. In 1987 she had Don take part in a phone-in programme with her on her late night KCRW show. Some of this show is included in ‘Electricity: Conversations With Captain Beefheart’ available as part of KCRW’s ‘Lost Tapes’ series. In this Kristine talks about her encounters with Don and also阅读更多→

A new book about Don’s work looking at his music, words and paintings. Currently only available in Italian. Published by Arcana Edizioni Price: € 25 Year: 2017 384 pages Contact: moderndance78@yahoo.it Publicity blurb: Captain Beefheart, born Don Vliet, is one of the most important and mythologized artists in the entire history of rock music. Starting from a solid blues basis and armed with a powerful voice worthy of Howlin ‘Wolf, in the Sixties he recorded, with his Magic Band, some of the most decisive works for the evolution of blues-rock, releasing in 1969, also thanks to the support of his friend Frank Zappa, the prodigious阅读更多→

Published by Verlag Gachnang & Springer ISBN 3-906127-15-X Price varies 1987 96 pages Contents: Paintings: It’s Like A White Onion-Fleshed Pumpkin, 1985 Copper Diver, 1985 Pig Erases Statue in Passing, 1985 Ghost Gait, Ghost Gait, 1985 Bromboline Frenzy, 1985 Night Nitrate, 1985 Red Cloud Monkey, 1985 Rolled Roots Gnarled Like Rakers, 1985/6 Whalebone Farmhouse, 1986 Check Bif, 1986 Carp Catcher, 1986 Garden Lion, 1986 With Twinkling Lights and Green Sashes, 1986 Crepe and Black Lamps, 1986 Sea Wig, 1986 Candle Powered Rodeo Ghosts, 1986 Poems: My Human Gets Me Blues Pachuco Cadaver Orange Claw Hammer The Dust Blows Forward ‘n The Dust Blows Back Old阅读更多→

唐R.阿尔德里奇,2011年11月那是一个星期二晚上,或者更准确地很早周三上午在1966年我刚下车在加州伯班克在我的洛克希德飞机移,在短短一个多小时做了回兰开斯特。好时机感恩节流量,这已经开始了渗漏的洛杉矶高速公路系统上,出城。我开过直通,在刚过凌晨1点我要来与Beefheart船长感恩节晚餐上Carolside大道的家门口拉起。雷竞技ios下载这是一个有点了不起,我认为这么几个人,阅读更多→

Author Recounts Friendship with Avant-garde Icon By Don R. Aldridge, December 2010 American pop music has lost an artist of enormous influence. Captain Beefheart, composer, singer, bandleader, and avant-garde musician who was perhaps one of rock’s greatest unheralded geniuses, died in a Northern California hospital, Friday. His death was attributed to complications due to multiple sclerosis. He was 69 years old. Born Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941, he became known to his worldwide fan base simply as Captain Beefheart. Of Dutch ancestry, the artist, who turned to painting after retiring from the stage in the 1980s, changed his surname to Van Vliet in the 1960s. I knew Don well阅读更多→

by Don R. Aldridge, December 2010 Before I go into the details of my visit to Captain Beefheart’s home in Woodland Hills, early in 1969, I want to spend some time laying the background for the circumstances that brought about the visit in the first place. I hadn’t seen Don Van Vliet in a few months but I knew he was working on a project and that the moment probably wasn’t ripe for a visit. My instincts proved to be on target; in all of the years of our friendship, my visit to the Trout Mask Replica house on Ensenada Drive was the only time that I did not阅读更多→

由唐·r·奥尔德里奇,2010年10月19日65, I walked into the world of Don Van Vliet, the man who would become renowned internationally as the avant-garde rock artist Captain Beefheart. What I did not realize at the time was that I would be a witness to the complete evolutionary process of both the man and the artist. My birth name is Don Aldridge and knew Don Van Vliet for twenty years. I still consider him my friend although we have not spoken in many years years. And I miss Don Van Vliet. I miss the esoteric banter and friendly discussions we had in the earliest days of Captain阅读更多→

The Man Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart by Don R. Aldridge, September 2010 Stepping into the world of Captain Beefheart in 1965, was like walking through a portal into the Twilight Zone – everything was normal, to the extent anything is ever normal, and everything was strangely disjointed. Television sets had a way of finding themselves twisted into Technicolor snow, conversations could turn from blasé exchanges on politics or music, to Dadaistic rants or wordplays, and the most mundane objects became puppets for Don Van Vliet’s life production. My birth name is Don Aldridge, and I met Don Van Vliet, who would become better known as阅读更多→

魔术队的唐R.阿尔德里奇,2010年8月在早期,我会打电话给Beefheart船长和他的魔术队​​的成长期,超越性,唐凡弗利特将反弹的想法过我。雷竞技ios下载我不相信一个时刻,甚至没有的话,那他正在寻求我的意见,但我仍然不知道他为什么选择与我分享其中的一些启示想法。我能说的最好的,通过类比的方式,是我与唐凡弗利特关系是像吉姆·莫里森与丹尼·休格曼友谊:由于某种原因,我仍然无法解释,那家伙了阅读更多→

Frownland获取由唐·R·阿尔德里奇,2010很多人都写了关于唐凡弗利特的,与父母的关系这些年八月整容,我仍然不明朗,以我们任何人究竟是谁目睹它是否理解我们见证。我很想标题这篇文章中,Beefheart队长:住在产房:烘一体。雷竞技ios下载因为很多东西,我看到的是经典的独生子女证,如果我可以套用一句话。(JAMA将挑选这件事,并把它放在奥普拉,我敢肯定)。面试我与谁目睹唐和他的母亲,苏之间的事件,两个人看,阅读更多→

唐R.阿尔德里奇,2010年8月唐凡弗利特,谁是超过二十年如Beefheart船长知道的人,总是小心守护自己的隐私。雷竞技ios下载许多已经取得了有关唐的隐退多年,但我不知道会 - 在魔术队时期至少 - 是一个贴切的描述。我不知道任何时候,我在唐的房子不欢迎或在何处,他碰巧。我不记得被邀请到任何会议,但他总是清楚地向别人说我是欢迎的。我是在所有会话的日落声音,当阅读更多→

什么球迷可能不知道唐R.阿尔德里奇,2010年8月1965年,唐·弗利特跟着他儿时的密友弗兰克泽帕到前卫摇滚“N”与他的小组上尉Beefheart和他的魔术带卷的世界。雷竞技ios下载我出生时的名字是唐纳德·阿尔德里奇,我在兰开斯特,加利福尼亚州,在那里我和唐在六十年代中期成了亲密的朋友长大。后来他改变了他的姓氏凡弗利特。唐的歌曲出现在好莱坞的电影和电视节目,多年来,包括大保龄离奇绑架的事,我们迷失在消防,和Entourage。一些经验旋转围绕我与Beefheart船长的关系可以用麦克·巴恩斯找到雷竞技ios下载阅读更多→

Looking Back at Captain Beefheart by Don R. Aldridge, July 2010 According to the half-dozen or so dedicated-to-the-point-of-delirium fan websites one surfs on the internet today, the bizarre 1960’s avant-garde rock icon Captain Beefheart is: a paranormal savant with a four-octave vocal range; a primitive artisan who didn’t attend a day of school after the age of five; a musical genius who slapped music on vinyl the way Jackson Pollock did paint to canvas. Captain Beefheart was born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo and Willie Sue Vliet in Glendale, California. He attended public schools in Glendale and Mojave, California and Antelope Valley阅读更多→

一看从香草Bermann,在安全牛奶唐的联合作家的新书。这不是很久以前,很多人认为中药Bermann只是唐凡弗利特创造了另一个神话。虽然他分享了八首歌曲的安全牛奶专辑,很久以后,一个在闪亮的野兽写学分,他似乎已经消失了雷达。但站一直在寻找他的雷达......你可以在这里阅读我和德里克Laskie的搜索。我们确定他是在那里和德里克最终设法与他固定的独家专访为雷达阅读更多→

Okay, so why am I reviewing a book about Jeff Buckley here on the Radar Station? Well, it’s written by Gary Lucas who had, and still continues to have, a big part to play in the music of Don Van Vliet, and I think, should interest a lot of Beefheart fans. Jawbone Press : London 2013 Paperback 318 pages 22 Illustrations Originally published in Italy in Italian this is an updated English version of Gary’s story of his “time with Jeff Buckley”, in which he wants to correct the many previously published errors about their relationship and to counter the attempts at airbrushing him out阅读更多→

平装:300页无发行商发行2012概览由史蒂夫Froy标题几乎说明了一切关于这本书。这是近40篇,评论以及与唐凡弗利特在近五十年的采访收集。从2001年的1966年的“大侏儒传”的新闻资料袋由德里克·泰勒波诺的聊天的手机上的文字与唐(不要让拖延你,尽管!)。最初发表于音乐杂志,一些知名的和其他人比较模糊,所有的作品都可以在这个网站上或周围的人网,但现在他们已经方便阅读更多→

月初/ 2000年中期约翰。法国呼吁雷达圣ation visitors for some help writing his book, Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic… From: John Mackenzie As a long-time Beefheart fan, I was fascinated to learn that YOU transcribed the ideas in Don Van Vliet’s head, and what he whistled or banged out on the piano or sung or whatever, into the music we hear on the records that were made. Please go into more and specific detail on this intimate musical relationship you had with the Captain. Since you were able to transpose his “conceptual” ideas into wonderful, beyond-compare music, have you found阅读更多→

在早/中2000约翰·法国呼吁一些帮助雷达站游客写他的书,Beefheart:通过眼睛魔法...来源:犹太日期的第5检察:星期五,2000 4月21日十点13分44秒-0400好的阴谋论… There’s this part in “Moonlight On Vermont” (Trout Mask Replica) where Beefheart intones “Come out to show dem” repeatedly. Then there’s this early piece of music by the “minimalist” composer Steve Reich called “Come Out” where Reich loops a quote from someone (about being beaten) and then gradually delays a second channel of it causing a very strange effect. The quote which is sampled and then阅读更多→

在早/中2000约翰·法国呼吁一些帮助雷达站游客写他的书,Beefheart:通过眼睛魔法...来自:保罗·刘易斯发送时间:周二,2000年4月11日4:55 PM感谢您抽出宝贵时间从雷达站的读者现场提问。我是你的作品的忠实粉丝,我希望你能提供一些线索上的一些问题,我有。您先前已经提到,您预计是一个布鲁斯乐队的一部分,当你在60年代中期加盟魔术队。是什么让你去当乐队开始发现阅读更多→