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The official, award winning video from 1982 directed by Daniel Perle. From Beefheart's last album with the same name. You gotta love it....
Thanks to the one and only definitive Captain Beefheart Site: www.beefheart.com
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The banned advertisement for Beefhearts' album "Lick my decals off, baby". The advertisement is great fun. The album itself is a work of genius.
More info about the refusal of this clip on the ultimate Beefheart website: http://www.beefheart .com/datharp/lickban .htm
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Ah, the cult favorite: Beefheart.
Is he really a genius? Was it all a ploy? Hm....
Anyway, this is probably one of his most accessible songs, and maybe the closest to normality off the infamous Trout Mask Replica ...
but I'd say start with this one:
http://search.eba y.com/search/search. dll?from=R40&satitle =safe+as+milk
Seriously.
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Gary Lucas on Captain Beefheart - Magic Band guitar virtuoso Gary Lucas discusses working with music visionary Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), filmed at the Swiss Cottage Hotel, London, Sept. 2005