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And Wyndham Lewis Captain Beefheart (1941–2010) and lives on” in the music of artists from Tom Waits to history of pop music, it’s Beefheart’; hearing Wyndham Lewis: A Relationship the White Stripes [the latter are due to re-release Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band live was David Stoker their 7 of Beefheart covers]’ – ‘He will always an epiphanic moment for him, as it was for be remembered for the visionary, cubistic avant many others – Matt Groening and Gary Lucas ‘Everybody’s coloured or else you wouldn’t be able garde rock he made’ – ‘son coeur pur […] son included. Peel, already a big fan, described that to see them.’ heroes. (Don’s advice to his guitarists: ‘Keep a hat oeuvre touffue […] virtuose, rebelle, précurseur, moment in the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Hollywood on. A hat is a pressure cooker.’) génie’ – ‘Rock’s one true maverick […] one of in 1966, Beefheart singing ‘with the voice of a [music’s] most unique, mischievous and singular desert Howlin’ Wolf, his musicians squalling Don Van Vliet, the poet, painter and composer For Don had been a big Lewis fan for voices’. away behind him, producing a disassembled best known as rock musician Captain Beefheart, more than 30 years. Why and how he was shall version of rhythm and blues, which although it died on 17 December last in a hospital in his be explained in due course; first it’s necessary to For a ‘cult musician’ (that is, non- owed something to the Rolling Stones and their native California from complications arising from give some idea of the scope of the achievement of mainstream and rarely heard on the airwaves), like, conjured up visions which had nothing multiple sclerosis, a month short of his 70th this veritable latter-day Enemy: and if it’s thought Don’s passing released an extraordinary quantity of Chicago’s South Side nor London’s King’s birthday. that that’s a fanciful or un-earnedRadical claim Philosophy for – and quality – of tributes from many quarters, in Road to them.’ Groening described how at the print and on the internet, including not just his A little story to start with. In the late him, support can be drawn from one particular many Beefheart gigs he attended in the 1970s hard-core fans, fellow-musicians (who number 1950s, Don was for a time a vacuum-cleaner obituary – Ben Watson’s in he was ‘floored by the intricacies of the songs everyone from Johnny Rotten and Mark E. Smith salesman in California. Doing his rounds near (no. 166, March-April 2011 – David Wragg and the almost hive-mind precision of the band, to Kate Bush, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Palmdale, he knocked on the door of a stone broughtLewisletter this to Alan Munton’s attention, who then who nailed the rhythms and changes with the Black Keys; Tom Waits and Talking Heads and The house and Aldous Huxley answered. Don forwarded it to me; it is discussed elsewhere in perfection of a classical chamber ensemble and Pixies to The Coral, Franz Ferdinand, Sonic Youth recognised him from a photo he’d seen. He takes this ) – that’s actually entitled: ‘Captain yet still rocked out,’ and declared that the first Beefheart, Vorticist artist’. Watson begins his and P.J. Harvey), as well as music journalists and up laughedthe story: ‘I said, “I assure you Sir, this thing time he heard Don and the band live, in 1970, it Againstfilm-makers, "the poets,catatonia" artists and environmentalists. sucks” – I was holding this vacuum cleaner. And Blasttribute by declaring: ‘Beefheart’s art was Vorticist was ‘the greatest concert I’ve ever witnessed […] in the manner demanded by Lewis in the pages of The Guardian The Observer he . He said “Bring everythingfunny you have Milton and it has ruined most of the rest of rock’n’roll in the car in this house, I’ll buy everything you , developing the passage in William Blake’s for me ever since.’ Tom Waits said that once you’d That weekend and have!” He was funny, was he ! I walked and where he inveighed against the banal heard Beefheart, it was difficult to wash him out P.S. devoted full-page coverage to the news (no-one talked with him many times after that. But that’s sense of time instilled by institutional Christianity of your clothes. ‘He was like the scout on a wagon in Hampstead now had an excuse to say they’d the last vacuum cleaner I ever sold’. ( 7, March– and exploited by the future-dreams of capital train. He was the one who goes ahead and shows never heard of him); nearly all the major rock April 1981) investment and speculation’ – and he develops the way.’ parallels between Lewis and Beefheart on the and avant-garde music magazines had his photo The Though I can’t say I was a close friend, basis of a shared fierce integrity and personal or name emblazoned on the covers of their ListenerBritish avant-garde composer Tim Souster, reviewing one of his albums in I was fortunate enough to meet and converse "Iconoclasticvision at odds American"with the market-place. next issue. All fulsomely honoured a man who, with Don several times over a period of thirteen whilst marginalised by the music establishment in 1973 – the same year Don wanted years (in addition to seeing him, and filming him, (scandalously, he was never inducted into the to have his medium-length hair cut because many times in concert), and even entered into Extracting some headlines and straplines from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – though perhaps of the oil paint that was always getting in it; negotiations to mount a UK-touring exhibition the obituaries and tributes to Don gives some idea that’s not a surprise, given his hostility to ‘the big he already had his sights fixed on a London of his paintings – which sadly came to nothing – of the esteem in which he was held: ‘Iconoclastic mama heartbeat’ of rock – ‘I like opaque music exhibition (but had to wait until 1986) – said it whilst working at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham American musician who enjoyed hero status that would bug most people. Music from the ‘re-inforcesClear my conviction Spot that Beefheart is the in the early 1980s. Because of this amicable among the 1970s avant garde’ – ‘Provocative, other side of the fence’ – and his crusade to create most original creator in rock music today.’ That personal relationship, it feels forced to me to unpredictable - but hugely influential’ – ‘Rock ‘music to dematerialise the catatonia’), and being album was – perhaps the best one think or write of him in an impersonal way as musician who was revered by the cognoscenti but too little known to the public (none of his music to recommend to anyone coming to Beefheart Van Vliet, or Captain Beefheart (the origin of failed to find commercial success’ – ‘Obsessive, charted in the USA), Thehad Simpsonsachieved god-like status Thefor the Spotlight first time, Kid and happily combined on the that stage-name is a matter of some controversy; reclusive: he was rock’s father of invention’ – in the eyes of many. No less a trinity than Matt single CD re-release with its 1972 predecessor, suffice it to say that when he abandoned it when ‘Captain Beefheart didn’t fit in anywhere–at Groening, creator of , David Lynch (theClear album Spot I probably return his touring days ended, he confessed to feeling school, in rock and roll or even, in the final and Tom Waits contributed their eulogies in Los to most often; legendary Roxy Music guitarist fraudulent: he’d never even owned a boat...), but analysis, in the human race’ – ‘Oddball musician Angeles at one of several Beefheart Symposia Phil Manzanera said knocked him the latter soubriquet is appropriate in certain John Peel hailed as pop’s only genius’ – ‘It organised by the highly regarded virtuoso sideways: ‘Beefheart’s completely out on his own circumstances – in the context of his musical sounded like clatter. But it’s surrealistic brilliance’ guitarist Gary Lucas, Don’s manager-cum-band in every way. His singing, the chords he uses, the career – and will therefore be used when ‘Don’ – ‘He made some of the most influential music member on the final tours in the early 1980s and musicians in The Magic Band – there’s nothing can’t be: and I’m sure he would be happy to of all time–then became one of rock’s great on the last two Captain Beefheart and The Magic like it anywhere’). But it was four years before think that fellow dedicated Lewisians are the recluses’ – ‘Acclaimed musician and painter who Band albums – and the Lewisian who is the hero this that Beefheart’s by now consummate blend constituency for this tribute, contemplating the pioneered an avant-garde fusion of rock, blues of this piece, as shall be revealed. of rock and roll, Delta and electric blues, free affinities he had (and in few important ways and jazz’ – ‘Enigmatic blues genius rejected jazz, Stravinsky (who invited him to visit, though didn’t have) – a liking for impressive headgear John Peel famously said that ‘if there he never made it), and other modern classical fame and wealth’ – ‘[He] inspired devotion and has ever been such a thing as a genius in the 6apart • Summer – 2011 with one of his select band of artist- bewilderment in equal measure. But his legacy and non-Western influences, together withSummer part- 2011 • 7 Trout Mask Replica Trout Mask Lick My Decals Off, Baby Replicaimprovised poems and studio banter made it on The successor to was bouts of paranoia.
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