TERM: 'Captain Beefheart'
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Captain Beefheart music journal
Band from:
United States
Band founded:
1965
Band disbanded:
1982 Band's members:
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) - vocals, harmonica, soprano sax, bass clarinet, mus
Eric Drew Feldman - mellotron, synthesizer, bass, piano, rhodes
Jeff Morris Tepper - slide guitar, guitar, nerve guitar
Gary Lucas - guitar, national steel duolian
Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - bass, marimba, viola
Cliff R. Martinez - drums, glass washboard, metal drums
Art Tripp - marimba, broom (in past)
John French (Drumbo) - drums, marimba, slide guitar, guitar, bass (in past)
Zoot Horn Rollo - glass finger guitar, flute (in past)
Antennae Jimmy Simmons - steel-appendage guitar, flesh horn (in past)
Rockette Morton - bass, narration (in past)
Doug Moon - slide guitar (in past)
Alex St. Claire Snoufer - guitar (in past)
Jerry Handsley - bass (in past)
Bruce Lambourne Fowler - trombone (in past)
Richard Redus - slide guitar, bottleneck guitar, accordion, fretle (in past)
Robert Arthur Williams - drums, percussion (in past)
The Mascara Snake - bass clarinet, vocal (in past)
Band description:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band is one of the most influential rock and blues bands that never had a chart-topping single. Listed by music critic David Toop as one of the top 100 rock bands of all time, the band has been on the radar of musicians worldwide, spawning dozens of clones (including a Czech Captain Beefheart cover band). Their most known album, the 2 LP "Trout Mask Replica" from 1969, contains 28 short tracks with a surreal, psychadellic abstract blues/rock intensity. 108 reads
