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Options December 20, 2010: R.I.P. Captain Beefheart

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
+Dog+  The Effing Blues   Options Bliss     
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  I Love You You Big Dummy   Options Lick My Decals Off Baby    0:02:13 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes I Do (1968 live)   Options Grow Fins    0:04:48 ()
Edgar Broughton Band  Apache Drop Out   Options A Bunch of 45s  cover: Captain Beefheart  0:07:07 ()
Weasel Walter  Flash Gordon's Ape   Options V/a, Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish:Tribute to Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band  cover: Captain Beefheart  0:09:50 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  I'm Glad   Options Safe as Milk    0:13:40 ()
Big Blood  Beatle Bones 'n Smokin' Stones   Options Already Gone II  cover: Captain Beefheart  0:17:09 ()
Azalia Snail  Abba Zabba   Options V/a, Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish:Tribute to Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band  cover: Captain Beefheart  0:21:06 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  The Dust Blows Foward and the Dust Blows Back   Options Trout Mask Replica    0:23:34 ()
Matt Groening  on "Trout Mask Replica"   Options   great BBC doc  0:25:21 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Ella Guru   Options Trout Mask Replica    0:26:16 ()
Jimmy Carl Black  on the making of "Trout Mask Replica"   Options     0:29:04 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Hair Pie: Bake 2   Options Trout Mask Replica    0:29:19 ()
Captain Beefheart  I'm a Bandleader   Options Frank Zappa, The Lost Episodes    0:31:26 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Big Eyed Beans Form Venus   Options Clear Spot    0:32:36 ()
Sonic Youth  Electricity   Options V/a, Fast 'n' Bulbous: trib to Captain Beefheart  cover: Captain Beefheart  0:37:00 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Skeleton Makes Good   Options Ice Cream for Crow    0:39:44 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles   Options Clear Spot    0:41:56 ()
 
Alex Chilton  Hey! Little Child   Options Like Flies on Sherbert    0:57:06 ()
Alex Chilton  Take Me Home and Make Me Like It (version 2)   Options Bach's Bottom    1:00:31 ()
Big Star  Way Out West   Options Radio City  by Andy Hummel, also R.I.P. 2010  1:07:18 ()
Big Star  O, Dana   Options Third/Sister Lovers    1:10:00 ()
Big Star  The Ballad of El Goodo   Options Live    1:12:32 ()
Elliot Smith  13   Options   yerterb  1:16:06 ()
Chris Forysyth / Shawn Edward Hansen  Broke Down And Busted   Options Dirty Pool  title from Big Star's "Ballad of El Goodo"  1:18:53 ()
Ducktails  Beach Point Pleasant   Options Live on WFMU  Marty McSorley's show, 12/2008  1:27:38 ()
 
Simply Saucer  Bullet Proof Nothing   Options Cyborgs Revisited    1:48:45 ()
Debris'  Boyfriend   Options Static Disposal    1:51:27 ()
Alice Cooper  Elected   Options Billion Dollar Babies    1:53:37 ()
Pylon  Dub   Options Gyrate Plus    1:57:36 ()
Gonjasufi  tr 5   Options The Caliph's Tea Party    2:02:02 ()
Nels Cline  Dirty Baby Part VI   Options Dirty Baby    2:05:14 ()
Mekons  Killer Ken   Options Mekons (1980)    2:10:45 ()
The Monochrome Set  Inside Your Heart   Options Early Recordings: 1975-1977 "White Noise"    2:15:05 ()
Franco Battiato  Stranizza Dammuri   Options La Convenzione    2:17:25 ()
 
Moon Unit  The Solar Skull   Options Hell Horse and Heady Stratus    2:27:05 ()
The Clean  Drawing to a Hole   Options Anthology    2:39:15 ()
Jad Fair with Daisy Cooper  Too Much Time   Options V/a, Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish:Tribute to Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band  cover: Captain Beefheart  2:41:21 ()
GTOs  The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes   Options Permanent Damage    2:44:24 ()
Frank Zappa with Captain Beefheart  Willie the Pimp   Options Hot Rats    2:46:15 ()
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band  Yellow Brick Road   Options Safe as Milk  R.I.P. CB  2:54:57 ()

Listener comments!

  Mon. 12/20/10 3:02pm Dead Corporate Eyes:

just got through listening to a two-hour tribute to the good Captain on my local college station.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:08pm BSI:

dammit, the tightness of sure 'nuff blows my cortex every time.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:09pm Nate in Detroit:

Scott, do you have a full tribute lined up for today, or just kicking off the show with some Beefheart?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:10pm don:

the beef plays a mean strawberry. yo scott.
someone sent me this email this morning -
Capt. Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

1. Listen to the birds.
That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.

3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen't shake, eat another piece of bread.

4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.

5. If you're guilty of thinking, you're out
If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.

6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.

7. Always carry a church key
That's your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He's one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song "I Need a Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he's doing it.

8. Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.

9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.

10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:10pm Scott:

just scratching the surface Nate, but gonna do what I can. Chilton too, don't feel I gave him proper trib last March. Bad year for heroes!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:11pm jeremy:

happy monday to all involved.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:12pm jason:

yo don, that's from wfmu's blog: http://bit.ly/fzS1qf
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:13pm Scott:

yo don! yeah man, it's hard work following that advice but it's so right on
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:14pm Don - (UK Don):

My favourtie commandment is number 9.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:16pm don:

needin me more multi grain bread!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:20pm ben drinken:

I actually have a beefheart in my freezer I got form a local organic highland beef farm. when i heard that he had died i thought about that beefheart in the freezer. but i haven't cooked it yet.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:21pm Davice:

I've got a live in my freezer but I do not feel compelled to take it out.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:22pm Davice:

liver
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:22pm BuzzBuzz:

I always heard it as "Bee Fart." As in, "It was so quiet you could hear a bee fart."
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:23pm Davice:

Do bees fart? I thought they buzzed.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:23pm some kind of unusual skull sleigh:

what terrible news. I had not heard. RIP indeed.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:24pm ben drinken:

when bees fart you can smell them and you say "wew that stings!"
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:25pm Davice:

What does it sound like?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:26pm BuzzBuzz:

Similar to the sound of one hand clapping, I hear.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:26pm Cecile:

Finally got a chance to tune in. Scott, could you play big eyed beans from venus?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:27pm BSI:

GOPHERS RUMBLIN'!!!!!!!!!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:27pm Davice:

Is that what causes earth quakes?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:29pm Don - (UK Don):

This is certainly one of the greatest songs ever made!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:29pm Davice:

Ella Guru, I love you!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:30pm ben drinken:

do bees get pollen from bean flowers? we had several beans growing in our garden this year. and i saw many bees about them. bees bees the magical insect. the more they bean pollen they get the more they toot.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:31pm Davice:

Do bees toot? I thought trains tooted. Maybe you mean pooted?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:31pm BuzzBuzz:

Ella Guru, mon choux, mon loup garou !
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:31pm Hamilton:

Beefheart all night please! Fast and Bulbous!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:31pm steve:

Raiding that BBC doc on the Capt, eh? Had some interesting insights it did. -s
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:33pm Cecile:

We were talking about sports guys, and one friend of mine goes "You should only reture once." I said, "well Captain Beefheart retired once and we never heard from him again. I'd give my right eye to have him retire and unretire every week. Everyone should retire and unretire as much as they want!"

And I stand by that.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:33pm ben drinken:

I checked in the freezer and i was mistaken. the beefheart i had already cooked. it was a beef tongue i got recently at a farmer's market. i think i might have some deer heart in there, though. I'll need to check. no beehearts found.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:34pm Dead Corporate Eyes:

gross dude
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:34pm Cecile:

THANK YOU.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:35pm BuzzBuzz:

Not a beef heart, but a French Kiss.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:35pm Cecile:

YEAH. And Mr. Zoot Horn Rollo does it perfectly. EVERY TIME!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:36pm Don - (UK Don):

Van Vliet implemented his vision by asserting complete artistic and emotional domination of his musicians. At various times one or another of the group members was put "in the barrel," with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission to Van Vliet --- ahhah, brilliant!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:37pm nicholas:

dang, this one's got me seeing heat waves in the dead of winter
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:39pm ?:

Sublime!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:49pm Robert:

Just what a whale needs to feel renewed: a fresh coat of paint.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:50pm Cecile:

Clear Spot is so fricking brilliant that when I first heard it I said, "I am so happy to be living on the same Earth as these people."
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:50pm Cecile:

And produced by Ted Templeman!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:51pm ben drinken:

what happened to Scott's voice. either i have been drinking or his voice sounds different. higher. almost like it has a hint of helium.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:52pm bryce:

Don,
may i have a cracker please?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:52pm ted:

Scott, in the spirit of the Captain, do you have Mary Margaret O'Hara's 'Not Be Alright'...very Beefheart...impossible to find!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:53pm Don:

Bryce, I can see your house from here!
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:54pm Don - (UK Don):

Bryce - Yr only supposed to put one drop on them.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:55pm don:

ted - http://www.mediafire.com/?fz4y3qqmmgz -- thanks for pointing the direction.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:55pm BuzzBuzz:

Do these crackers have a pretty iridescent unicorn logo on top?
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:56pm Don - (UK Don):

Nah, they're like saw dust, and make you thirsty.
  Mon. 12/20/10 3:57pm BuzzBuzz:

Ah the *conventional" communion wafer. Not my cup of tea.
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:07pm frenchee:

this is a great version of "take me home..."
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:11pm Dead Corporate Eyes:

this day has burned me out
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:12pm BSI:

What DCE said. That.
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:18pm mike:

dont know much about the good capt but seen him 3 times 69 71 73 we memorized lines from trout mask just like we did from the honeymooners. he was a big part of our life with the circle of pals we hung with. to this day when we get togethet we recite the dust blows forward and the dust blows back. loved thedon
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:24pm Dead Corporate Eyes:

this languid guitar piece goes well with my chai tea and I'm starting to feel human again
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:31pm BSI:

ok, not what DCE said. No tea = not feelin' human.
It's gotta be naptime somewhere.
Gophers rumblin'...
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:35pm Dead Corporate Eyes:

BSI needs a temple massage
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:38pm don:

great track. wonder if that beach is on scrooge mcduck's ocean of swimming cash
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:40pm BSI:

need more tequila before i go throwing my temples around...
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:41pm frenchee:

Ithink it was 1975
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:43pm frenchee:

nope, just looked it up and it's as you said, Scott: 1974
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:46pm Todd 76%:

We lost Fred Anderson and Marion Brown too...RIP Bingo!
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:51pm Chris from DC:

Oh, and Noah Howard.
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:52pm frenchee:

Jim Carroll
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:54pm Dead Corporate Eyes:

oooh, I want a guitar that goes like THAT!
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:56pm Cecile:

Gotta go. Trying to beat the storm. Thanks for the wonderful tribute. Later!
  Mon. 12/20/10 4:57pm Scott:

Thanks Cecile! Laters...
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:06pm Wendy Del Formaggio:

hi Scott! I'm listening, in-between talking to customers on the telephone. As usual, I LOVE THE SHOW! wheeeee!
happy solstice to everyone.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:10pm Scott:

Alllloo Wendy!
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:10pm glenn:

that wendy. she's soooooooo cheesy!
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:13pm Wendy Del Formaggio:

Hi Scott! Hi Glenn!
I cannot deny. I am cheesy :-)
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:14pm BSI:

gophers rumblin' outta here.
be thou groovy, y'all.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:16pm blacktooth:

Hey brother, digging the punk rock/new wave dub-out session, here. Most excellent.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:26pm marq:

Scott's voice is sounding a little better. usually so smoooov! still sounds smoooov but strained.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:27pm marq:

Scott has the smoooovest voice on wfmu.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:39pm nigel:

Glad to hear of a grammatical pet peeve! Mine is the use of " off of "
the album. It's been bugging me for years! No such thing ...it's just
off or from, as in " please take your feet off the table " !
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:47pm frenchee:

featuring Pamela Des Barres?
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:51pm Scott:

Hey frenchee, yup.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:54pm Sandy in Houston:

we're going to miss you next week Mr. Scott W! can you get toddophonic todd to do more fill ins?
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:54pm Bad Ronald:

Sweet Beefy Heartiness, thanks for the tribute Scott! Got Bongo Fury handy? Thanks again.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:55pm mark:

Bongo fury bongo fury! Love this song!
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:56pm ben drinken:

either i have been drinking or this was a good show.
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:56pm Scott:

Thanks Sandy! HA! Todd doesn't need my encouragement - guessing (and hoping) we'll hear more from him over the next coupla weeks
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:57pm nigel:

perhaps the most blissful solo, ever! Thanks !
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:57pm don:

it seems it's both, ben drinkin
  Mon. 12/20/10 5:58pm ben drinken:

yes, i can keep drinken after the show. but the show will still live on.
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