Captain Beefheart - Glider

[@olmalone]

Glider imagery, poetry , and very true. Hard hitting , moaning air, and very straight voice. Love this.

[@TFJoos]

I've known this song for sixty-two years minus fourteen. My... how it struck me. I'm old now and it strikes me still, the same way. Many songs have loved me. This is my dying song.

[@tomasvanecek8626]

I´m 62 now .. minus zero 🙃 .. and I dont like to think about dying songs, but I´m with you here

[@BostonHollyAndSnoop]

My best friend and I spoke Beefheart for 40 years. We spoke in lyric(s). only we knew howagical it wss..I lost him my friend, to cancer in 2013. When he was on The Patch we still spoke Beefheart. His wife just shook her head, walked off , and let us go on

[@BostonHollyAndSnoop]

I'm 68+ and will never ever tire of all things Beefheart. He "got" me.

[@spaceclown7650]

Holy shit I love this album. Every song on it kills. * And Glider is the best of them all in my book.

[@libamason9987]

Booglarise is great in a different way. Glider is exceptionally unique though definitely.

[@spaceclown7650]

@@libamason9987 I agree, They're all probably equally great in different ways. Glider is just my favorite for some reason. I'm not even sure why.

[@tomasvanecek8626]

@@spaceclown7650 Same here.. hard to explain ;) but I love to play Booglarize, cos Glider is so much more complex.. just a guitar players point of view.. listening to Glider gives me something more.. you understand - I cant play it.. but it speaks to me so much

[@tomasvanecek8626]

@@libamason9987 Exactly how I feel it.. couldnt have said it better. These two are the best numbers on the album .. and to think of it - there are 3hrs of SK outtakes, with early versions of what would later appear on Clear Spot, Bat Chain Puller, Doc at the Radar Station, and Ice Cream for Crow.. just mindblowing !

[@jehavelock]

They bookend the album don’t they? Glider is something else though. It’s such a mood piece it’s almost an album in itself, as if they’d interrupted themselves and their “cool tomfoolery” with their own mic drop. I feel slightly disloyal to Drumbo by enjoying the drums so much, so I was heartened to read elsewhere that this is his favourite Magic Band track. If that’s true. Shall I ask him??

[@michaelemory552]

Of the number of pieces by these fellows, this one I listen to the most frequently. Hard hitting with imagery of soaring curves. His poetry is so visual. “A bluejay’s beak open an inch above a creek”

[@Home-cy2ww]

@michealemory552 Don was an artist in more mediums than just music. A very fine painter as you well know.Using language as deftly as his oils. would you say that many of his lyrics qualify as :"haiku"?Had a friend who was schizphrenic .She would get hung up on puns , making similar plays on words -streching context and meaning endlessly for amusement.have to say -I dig his brand of crazy.

[@spaceclown7650]

"And an oriole sang like an orange his breast full of worms and his tail clawed the evenin' like a hammer"

[@mikeandre9052]

There are many amazing things about the Captain, not the least of which is the simpler a melody his magic band plays the more he rises up to show his genius.

[@stevef9530]

Love the opening to this. And the rest too, for sure....Long live the Captain.

[@rightweaponry908]

Always listen to this when im on a plane looking out the window👌🏽

[@ronolin8448]

In my top 10 of all time. I want to loop it so I can listen for hours.

[@johnosman3550]

I know exactly how you feel.

[@ronolin8448]

Love Lies and Gimme Dat Harp, Boy are almost at that level, too.

[@tracyporter5471]

Yeah!

[@tracyporter5471]

I saw this dude, he is amazing!!

[@libamason9987]

Rockette Morton, bass extraordinaire!

[@tomasvanecek8626]

His playing on Booglarize is out of this world

[@Honeysucklebommie]

From 2 minutes on this turns into the most Stomping blues number there is all the way home to that last magic cymbal choke.

[@TFJoos]

...the bird that i am is the black red wing...the tree that i am is birch in white...the song that i am is Glider...

[@stephenarcher8929]

First listened to this more years ago than I care to remember but ITS MAGIC, totally gripping colourful and makes me want to go back there. ok sentimental old git bit over

[@libamason9987]

Were you tripping?👍

[@stephenarcher8929]

don't think so 🙃@@libamason9987

[@suginami123]

What a voice. Simply incredible. No one else comparable crept Howling Wolf or Joe cocker.

[@johneves6575]

Aint nobody like The Captain. "tellin' you boys there... aint no noise.... aint no noise"

[@dantean]

If you say Joe Cocker you have to include Ray Charles.

[@carlrylander3804]

And Tom Waits.

[@dantean]

The suit's what kills me. Oh, and the genius music.

[@colinlax5094]

Wonderful stuff

[@TheTralfaz]

could'nt agree with you more...many a time the good captain has come to my rescue

[@conradmason87]

Complex playing.

[@artemiasalina1860]

Beefheart's music makes people want to respond in poetry.

[@Offmedication]

I 've been listening To beefheart for 30 years. This Song really Makes me Sad for some reason.

[@colinm3134]

I guess that's why they call it the blues.

[@goodyfarigoodyfari1495]

It's probably because it is the most frightening song about his Depression and inability to mix well with people, the Shadow is his depression lurking around every corner. This song was so personal that there is no record of him ever playing it live.

[@tomasvanecek8626]

@@goodyfarigoodyfari1495 Could well be so.. but there are so many he never played live, at least we dont know ?

[@Home-cy2ww]

On it's surface,childlike it would seem .But only in the best way.Innocently inquiring , totally honest assesment of what they survey.The way Captain Beefheart would get inside a phrase , stretching it until it almosts bursts , like a balloon -you just wonder how much more air it would take for the thing to pop.

[@richardmacewan2385]

Never gonna bring my glider down

[@mcbillygoat]

Oh my god. Such flavor.

[@MBBerard1]

"tell ya boys its gettin' pretty frighten' "

[@BostonHollyAndSnoop]

One of the sexiest songs ever written.

[@PIPEHEAD]

White Jam ........................

[@ramjamfull5]

man that is good

[@flipotronic1]

Up and Down through the Blues..

[@thejrm420]

Psychedelic blues masterpiece

[@johnellickson8340]

Could you imagine Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band on America's Got Talent?

[@Home-cy2ww]

the real musicians would understand what he's doing.

[@TheBiggusdee]

Fantastic guitar break

[@Offmedication]

One Of My Favorite Songs it reminds me Iof FRrank Gehery Architecture. I Broke up With My Girl, and this song wants to make my cry. A glider that can't reach the sky. I feel like an outsider.

[@mikehill7587]

Heartbreaks broken 💔 relationships take their toll God bless you 🙏❤️

[@wepsychoit2002]

I could totally c Jim Morrison and the doors doing this live

[@jehavelock]

Funny you should say that. This was recorded in the same year Jim died and LA Woman was released. I really can’t imagine “The TMR guy” slotting into a band like The Doors on a functional level, but musically… That voice, those lyrics, that blues harp…. I wonder if they ever considered him?

[@TheMeanJellyBean911]

i love this album so much too bad magic band hated it

[@tomasvanecek8626]

I never understood it too... In fact, I think it was only Bill Harkleroad who hated it.. but why he had more command on Lick My Decals maybe.. but he did stellar work on Spotlight Kid.. maybe Mark Boston played more guitar on this one and we will never know ? Just a jealousy from Bill ?

[@eddieherold3882]

Be careful trying to drive while listening to this, things start looking like they are moving in slow motion!

[@tomn9094]

I saw a bigfoot. No shit. It was dancing, l think.

[@ManFacingSoutheast]

As usual, John French (Drumbo)'s drumming is something else.

[@DieGroteske]

Actually it's somewhere else, as it's not him playing on this track.

[@TomDjll]

@@DieGroteske Wikipedia says "Session drummer Rhys Clark substituted for French on one track, "Glider".

[@tomasvanecek8626]

@@TomDjll And I wonder- why it happened ? But he did a decent job, so let´s cut him some slack :) but he was no Drumbo.. no way in hell

[@libamason9987]

It's Rhys Clark drumming on Glider.👍

[@TFJoos]

Yes, it it wasn't John French. Rhys Clark allegedly did the drumming in one take. Whoever he is/was... Perfect to me... The Magic Band hated this album entirely. Don Van Vliet described this album as being "slow and bulbous". On the other hand he thought of Trout Mask Replica as being "fast and bulbous". Never the less. I'll reiterate that this is my dieing song.

[@bodkin1]

@ManFacingSoutheast It was Billy Joel's original drummer, Rhys Clark that played on this track.

[@markhillband7635]

i was gonna say myley cyrus has 120 million view and this work of genious art has only 5000. im so sad the world is so stupid and closed minded. im surprised we have come this far. oh and offmedication its meant to make you sad that means its the real blues

[@mileswilson3026]

Is this Howlin' Wolf?!

[@tonywright8302]

Great, sad,funny, different and vastly underrated we need more musicians who dare,instead of people posing and bowing down to the music industry and all its pretentious crap

[@pariaheep]

Yeah baby! Yess!

[@bobxka]

this is really really nifty if you play the vinyl at 45 instead of 33/3 no seriously very punchy and the surly dwarf on vocals is just the icing on the cake

[@spaceclown7650]

This message brought to you by LSD. LSD. It's what's for dinner.

[@tomasvanecek8626]

LOL.. my bass player in 70s used to play 33s albums on 16 (we had the option here, believe it or not.. 🤣)... to count all the notes there were :)) And he did a great job - it worked just perfect...

[@nigelwiseman2262]

Look Look at the suit ,tells you all , total confidence, him and Zappa recreated yank music

[@fractuss]

What's not to love?

[@beefnbread]

awesome right here

[@jonnyastro]

Feel like an outsider

[@chrismelia3005]

Till the sun shows through

[@MBBerard1]

Right on cue

[@andragg]

And I back my statements up with my own music. Look me up on KZbin, my two albums are here to listen to.

[@JohnWilliams-xq7ib]

I'm gonna grow fins and go back in the water again.

[@TFJoos]

Slow and Bulbous...

[@ManFacingSoutheast]

Woops - it wasn't Drumbo on that rack after all. Anyway, I like it.

[@andragg]

Music like this is not for anyone except the minority of people who understand something that's great. Most people are idiots, that's why Beefheart never became a huge success. It's only for the privileged few who have sophisticated taste in music and were fortunate to have a mind. 99% of the music that's published and released is sophomoric noise. I'm 63 and I'm not nice anymore and I'll tell it like it is and don't give a fuck if you disagree. Go back to listening to top 40 radio and turn it down so I don't hear it.

[@lucjoannette2764]

yo chill man. high tier pussy shit, just enjoy the music and suggest it to others.

[@tomasvanecek8626]

I´m 62 .. but even when I was 14.. this music wasnt for my pals anyway... it is not about the age at all..it is about the idiots ;) and the privileged ones - even if I never felt like one One who cant sit for hours, days to watch a great painting.. is just a zombie

[@libamason9987]

Not forgetting TroutMask!🤣😎

[@tomasvanecek8626]

Despite the hired drummer trying hard not to ruin it (where the hell was Drumbo???) .. on several (many) occasions he did botch it .. you can even hear Mark trying hard to cue him in... if he wasnt so tied down.. this would fly - like a glider ;) or, even more so.. The harmonica is out of this world... the most powerful number from Spotlight Kid, bar Booglarize..

[@libamason9987]

Completely disagree. The playing is tasteful and the timing impeccable.

[@tomasvanecek8626]

@@libamason9987 Magic Band never was about "tasteful" drumming, my gosh :) Like, it never was a tasteful band it the first place 😂 but OK, Clark did a decent job for a hired gun, yes..

[@troyagane8220]

Drumming is fantastic.Rhys Clarke did a great job.Drumbo's favourite Beefheart tune,fact fans.

[@rightweaponry908]

Some of the most interesting timing, it's rhythmic and yet punctuated, i think it's part of what makes this song stand out, it has a different feeling than a lot of other Beefheart songs

[@mando3b]

Ahh--the perfect way to cleanse your aural palate after it's been polluted by a Taylor Swift or Britney Spears . . . !

[@pariaheep]

YESSS!