Captain Beefheart - Tropical Hot Dog Night (LIVE)

Some folks have said "AI art" is not real art its fake phony blah blah. i made that video, it wasn't AI Push A Button. If i was not a real artist then you could be offended. But I am a REAL artist, and i could have made all those pictures, i am a Photoshop Jedi [25 years] and my style is Salvador Dali -Surrealism. I made that video in 2 hours. If i had created all those images from scratch and i could (i would make them exactly the same) if i created those it would take me 2 weeks -and not be worth it, and it would not exist. Frank Zappa said something similar when they told him he can't use "digital" he has to use analog becuz it's best quality.
AI doesn't jus automatically make stuff. It's all in the query and how you talk ["play"] the instrument. AI is like any other instrument. Early days Frank Zappa said to his "Analog" critics ok yer "analog sound" it sounds excellent -but your music sucks. Your music sucks, or maybe it doesn't suck, who or what are ya gonna blame?
Peter Gabriel said AI is just another tool and we should use it accordingly. If you are a drummer you got more work to do than the other fellas in the band.
They told Frank Zappa analog is god and YOU CAN'T USE DIGITAL. Frank said "the tradeoff was worth it." Should we be mad at Frank for using the (digital) Synclavier and firing all his analog musicians? If Frank was here now he would be using AI to do insanely creative wild shit.
This LIVE version of Tropical Hot Dog Night comes from the "I’m Going to Do What I Wanna Do" live album Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. In support of the US release of his album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), Beefheart and the band undertook a promotional club tour.
On Saturday 18 November 1978 they performed at My Father's Place in Roslyn, New York. My Father's Place was located under a motorway bridge, held about 200 people and the patrons sat at long tables and could dine whilst listening if they wished. The show was recorded and mixed directly to two-track tape. The tape was used for a radio broadcast on WLIR-FM on 11 December 1978. Rhino Records made the album available for download, after a limited release on CD.
Released by Rhino on 4/22/23 on 2 vinyl LP's, limited to 5000, for Record Store Day.The show featured ten of the twelve songs from Captain Beefheart's then-current release, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), three songs from Safe as Milk (1967), four songs from Trout Mask Replica (1969), and two songs from Clear Spot (1972). There was a time in Long Island's cultural history when the whole world looked here for the next big trend in rock 'n' roll.
Between 1971 and 1987, My Father’s Place presented more than 6,000 shows from over 3,000 diverse artists. It was the premier venue for original local talent and an essential tour stop for established national acts. During its prolific era, the club presented an unmatched and unforgettable range of talent in rock, jazz, fusion, country, punk, soul, reggae, folk, and comedy.
Don Van Vliet said that he never attended public school, alleging "half a day of kindergarten" to be the extent of his formal education and saying that "if you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school". His associates said that he only dropped out during his senior year of high school to help support the family after his father's heart attack.
His graduation picture appears in the school's yearbook. His statements that he never attended school - and his general disavowals of education - may have been related to his experience of dyslexia which, although never officially diagnosed, was obvious to sidemen such as John French and Denny Walley, who observed his difficulty reading cue-cards on stage, and his frequent need to be read aloud to.
While attending Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager Frank Zappa, the pair bonding through their interest in Chicago blues and R&B. Van Vliet is portrayed in both The Real Frank Zappa Book and Barry Miles' biography Zappa as fairly spoiled at this stage of his life, the center of attention as an only child. He spent most of his time locked in his room listening to records, often with Zappa, into the early hours in the morning, eating leftover food from his father's Helms bread truck and demanding that his mother bring him a Pepsi.
His parents tolerated such behavior under the belief that their child was truly gifted. Vliet's "Pepsi-moods" were ever a source of amusement to band members, leading Zappa to later write the wry tune "Why Doesn't Someone Give Him a Pepsi?", that featured on the Bongo Fury tour.