Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in Paris, 1980

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - 7 NOV 1980 - Théatre De L’Empire, Paris
Don Van Vliet - vocals, harmonica, sax
Jeff Moris Tepper - guitar
Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder - guitar
Eric Drew Feldman - bass, synthesizer, mellotron, piano
Robert Arthur Williams - drums
Gary Lucas - guitar*
Intro 0:00
Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 0:18
Best Batch Yet 3:43
Dirty Blue Gene 8:47
Safe as Milk 12:42
Flavor Bud Living* 16:33
Bat Chain Puller 17:47
Big Eyed Beans From Venus 22:58

[@donk4304]

Probably one of the greatest concerts ever. There's nothing today that comes close to this. It's weird, and most importantly, it's original.

[@stefke48]

And I love it! ❤😜

[@donk4304]

@@stefke48 I love it too! :)

[@MushroomsMythologyandMedicine]

Sun City Girls..they are not together anymore, but check em out.

[@gplunk]

I'm still trying to come up with a term to describe their 'style' of music....

[@lawrenceehrbar8667]

Weird and original doesn't mean it's good.

[@jeffdawson2786]

Blues, avant-garde jazz, country, fusion, spoken word, punk, acid, rockabilly. I think the Captain absorbed any style he heard.

[@d_lt5643]

Well said !

[@Mantra514]

yes bro

[@mikefelix6338]

Grand papa Punk from the desert of Los Angeles.

[@TheSixfinger1]

Every single musician is playing completely individual parts! Genius!

[@kendallevans4079]

You call that genius?

[@hhonig4781]

@@kendallevans4079 And then end together at exactly the same point!

[@michaelellingson9282]

YES ! .. the Captain wrote ALL of the instrument parts !@@kendallevans4079

[@liselottefrejdig1112]

Listen to Trout Mask Replics!! It's the same thing there! Miss you, Captain Beefheart!! R.I.P. Oh Captain, my Captain!!

[@Damaraja]

So good. Here’s to people around the 🌎 🌍 🌏 who dig this stuff 🍻

[@DMGregAdventure]

The rhythm section alone is a blessing..how did a man make people play drums guitar and bass like this?..Jesus christ it is incredible music.

[@worksrider6812]

he knew how to find good musicians and inspired great tolerance from them for his eccentricities and relative poverty

[@plrndl]

"Whips" (as he said in Letterman (I think)).

[@reginaldside4575]

I saw them when Lick My Decals Off was out. I was amazed that the music could be played live, let alone played with such power and precision.

[@napomania]

agree. incredible music

[@Sortedman23]

DVV is genius! Surrounded himself with the necessary talents to deliver his musical vision at every level that he couldn’t himself as was too busy delivering the vocals , harp, clarinet ! Etc etc , Yet he was involved in every single note of their performance it was that intense!

[@robst247]

The line between madness and genius is thin ... and it ran through the minds of the Captain and his magic men, whose unique music, to the uninitiated, might at first listening seem chaotic. Yet it is precisely organised, rhythmically complex and terrifically funky art.

[@starpimp42]

Dang right it is High Art.

[@aakkoin]

beefheart is one of the greatest artists i know, don't you wish you never met her

[@lawrencewolfe-xavier5951]

Sure is.

[@robertklouse3868]

Zoot Horn Rollo, & The Mascara Snake are two of The Captains Men..as I re-call He's like to music that a Dada or Dali were to art.

[@lawrencewolfe-xavier5951]

@@robertklouse3868 They sure were - Zoot & The Snake.

[@malcolmbeckett9802]

Captain beefheart, he was the guy who never had the recognition, even though he made the most extraordinary music

[@craigmurdock4740]

What is absolutely AWESOME is that these songs are so tightly composed that they sound exactly like on the record live. Absolutely fascinating, infinitely impressive and fucking GENIUS

[@Creed_fan_69]

Agreed it’s wild to me how well it all translates live! So tight.

[@neilg8009]

To call this madness is total disrespectful and to call it horrible is sacrilege..those that have typed these words have obviously spent most of their lives listening to the top 40. Captain Beefheart pure genius

[@steves1588]

I wish I didnt have to listen alone. So brilliant

[@SleepoverBeethoven]

You're not alone.

[@lo0ksik]

i had to like both comments

[@pikeywyatt]

you are never alone with acaptin,,

[@zacharydetrick7428]

listen to beefheart with me!

[@tomn9094]

I'm in my dairy barn it's 3:30 am cold November morning in Illinois, listening with the Holsteins cup of coffee and wake and bake. Come join the party

[@ronwood7029]

Absolutely one of the most inventive creative talented People that were mostly Misunderstood What a writer what a singer , what amazingly brilliant musicians

[@brendamarsden9925]

Brilliant 😊X

[@BobCratchit-773]

The Magic Band. Saw and experienced them doing a sound check at Cardiff Uni with Captain B. As musicians no one compares!

[@aakkoin]

It's like The Talking Heads, but 10x better

[@davebartholome2924]

I was late to the party with Captain Beefheart. Oh, I’d heard “Willie the Pimp” on “Hot Rats” (Zappa), but had never delved into anything else. On summer break in college, stuck in Janesville, Wisconsin where I didn’t know a soul, I got “Shiny Beast” and “Doc at the Radar Station” from the public library. More than once as I listened to those albums, I found myself laughing out loud. (“Tropical Hot Dog Night” was one that got me going.) In the subsequent years, I’ve gone back and listened to his earlier stuff. I don’t love all of it, but at his best, when the planets are properly aligned, he’s a force of nature.

[@gontierfrancois8115]

A force of nature

[@peterrothfuss6042]

The drummer is just killing it!

[@plrndl]

They all are.

[@Honeysucklebommie]

Like Don; Robert Williams is a top artist as well as a top drummer, he is on face book, look him up and send a friend request to see what he gets up to ;-).

[@gontierfrancois8115]

Un batteur "aux articulations montées à l'envers". Je l'ai lu dans une chronique de disque

[@gontierfrancois8115]

Doc at The Radar Station !

[@grahamcarver4527]

Yep 👍🏼

[@scottbookman]

this gets better every time i watch it...which is quite often.

[@carltaylor4942]

scott b - This takes me right back to the 70s and lots of acid...

[@pikeywyatt]

it could be the last thing i see ..thats ok

[@vollsticks]

No shit, I would've LOVED to see this iteration of TMB (and the post TMR/Decals line-up), they are absolutely fire. Apparently the famed rock writer Lester Bngs asked Gary Lucas (about Flavour Bud Living) "Gary, is that you playing the top or bottom part?". To which he replied: "no Lester it's all me, performed live". Lucas said it's the highest compliment he ever received as a guitarist. Fancy starting out as CBATMB's manager and then pulling THAT (and the Ice Cream material) out of his instrument...talk about hiding your light under a bushel!

[@michaelellingson9282]

he takes time to grow on you .. but dammit .. he grows ! .. GENIUS !!

[@lawrencewolfe-xavier5951]

@@vollsticks True Story!

[@Lumby1]

One of the hardest working bands ever.

[@DGdescendant22]

Vliet was a true artist. If it wasn't sounding right he'd know immediately. Probably why he seemed so harsh on his band, because there was no room for imperfections in his mind.

[@bent2]

@@DGdescendant22 Harsh? He was brutal against the members, especially in the early days. Read John "Drumbo" French's book Through the Eyes of Magic. But yes, he was an painter and a sculptor. So his art had to be 100 % perfect. Taking aside his infantile ego. Being a result of his parents taking him out of school to be a sculptor, he was seen as a prodigy child. That boosted his ego beyond measurement. He never really learned to care for other people and co-exist with others in a normal way, sadly. His wife being the sole exemption however. Frank Zappa handled him very well though. Making fun of him, "Donnie".

[@adderon7476]

Magical

[@adamkastin6586]

@@bent2 He was not actually pulled out of school to be a sculptor, that was a total lie lol. A lot of his persona was an act to make the art more interesting.

[@robertolesen5782]

@@bent2 ❤

[@barbellbuddiezz]

Their music was like watching a painting being made. Chaotic and beautiful.

[@kurtkish6970]

“Women sweat young girls glisten.” Easy there Cap. Love it!

[@jamied1969]

Absolutely incredible stuff from Don and the band. Mark E Smith must surely have studied this video

[@outtathyme5679]

Right!

[@bwanna23]

The Captain always sang with such deep emotion. Never disappoints.

[@martythefrazz4775]

Low YoYo stuff

[@volpeverde6441]

'tropical hot dog night.... two flamingos in a fruit fight....' captain was just wired up differently....

[@JustinMiller-ix7ec]

I'm playing this outside and my uncle just can't stop talking when I'm playing this great amazing concert

[@tredwmiche3442]

We need more rock and roll like this, it's a little wacky but it's supposed to make you think a little.

[@Phoebedumplings]

A Little whacky !, master of understatement ! You can fool most of the people most of the time...here’s the proof,,,,he was taking the piss, and you all never noticed....beautiful

[@chuckabbate5924]

@@Phoebedumplings high plains grifter

[@mikegburnside]

@@chuckabbate5924 grifter? check out the man's catalog. He blows all the early rockers out of the water. Almost all of today's' music vibrates on his frequency.IMO, of course

[@jameskennedy721]

He was just as powerful in 1980 as in 1970 . Impressive .

[@mikefelix6338]

More like 65 to 85 but yeah he was a beast his whole career

[@anthonyfelker1712]

This band is phenomenal, absolutely fantastic!!!!

[@groovefretboard]

That’s my uncle Gary Lucas! True legend. Travis picking master. Check my fretboard invention 🎸🙌🏼 it’s fully issued patent. I cut vertical scallops into the fretboard allowing FretCorner bends on ALL strings. Many guitarist such as Kirk Hammett or dream theatre to bass like Wojtek have done this trick on the high string so my invention evolved this style. It adds new x notes to pulloffs and new vibrato plus bends to create new rhythms not possible on a standard fretboard. Takes proper technique and tone to achieve

[@vicente8705]

I appreciate your uncle’s work on Ice Cream for Crow and being so great to Don. It would be great if he could share a memory of the Captain 🙂

[@thedelta72]

Gary Lucas! Man I love how he cuts that first solo plus everything else he does w/the captain. Amaze-BALLZ!

[@marceltiel7919]

Im 44, listen to all kinds of music including Zappa for Years.....somehow still skipped Beefheart and just delving into it fow past few weeks.... Always nice to find some rare gems after all these years. And boy some experimental stuff they made, truly ahead of their time....I can hear Beefheart connections in a lot of my favourite music

[@zappas10]

Zappa and Beefheart were schoolboy friends up in the high desert of Lancaster California. They listened to the blues musicians like Howlin’ Wolf for hours. Frank produced the Beefheart’s best album, “Trout Mask Replica.”

[@RegisWilkins]

As a buddy of mine used to say that was a big Zappa nut, i Frank was musically a walk around the park on Sunday compared to the Captain.

[@roybatty2030]

Lucky to have lived in times with such originality, we miss the Captain.

[@klausrain111]

Fantastic to see the Captain almost kind of happy! He seemed so moody sometimes, it was sad. He made me, however, very happy! I heard him first in '68, saw him in London at Middle Earth that year. He and the band always astounded me.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Don really liked this band. He was generally a very upbeat guy but definitely a perfectionist. Great sense of humour. This magic band were cooking. The captain is getting off on their energy.

[@robertolesen5782]

@@AnthonyMonaghan lbs am am❤

[@bdpeters]

I saw them the month before in Glasgow Apollo and it blew my 20 year old mind. It remains blown. One of my 2 best ever gigs and most eternally influential.

[@andreaprodan5616]

Had the Eighties gone THIS way...I'd have faith in mankind.....

[@cristianborsetti]

En los ochentas, en Argentina, hubo un pelado que sí fue en este sentido...

[@markrago5024]

The 80s never could've handled it. Fortunately artists like Zappa, Bowie, King Crimson, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, and a few others kept things relatively weird. They represented avant garde rock fairly well, but I concur that nothing was quite like Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (in all of its permetations). I would also recommend Max Webster, a unique prog rock/hard rock band from Canada. Unfortunately, they only released 5 studio albums from 1976-80 before breaking up in 82. They were fairly obscure outside of Canada, but were very popular there and sold alot of albums. They were deemed an eccentric Rush knockoff by their record label and only ever toured internationally as an opening act. They did open for the likes of Rush, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, REO Speedwagon, and a few other iconic bands. Vocalist/Kim Mitchell achieved international fame and commercial success in the 80s, but he played much more conventional pop/rock (Go for a Soda, Patio Lanterns,etc), but his band Max Webster were one of a kind. Hints of Yes, Rush, Van Halen, Zappa, Blue Oyster Cult, and other bands. Check it out.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

They could've they could've... : _)

[@cosmogallaro4609]

it kinda did, lotta really great music came after this !

[@stevegillespie9746]

You bethcha

[@rogerdalben7506]

Don Van Vliet was a Genius... Rest in Peace my Dear.

[@liselottefrejdig1112]

A mad genius, like Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd. Let them both rest in peace very missed.

[@kanacubana827]

Criminally underrated, to this day

[@jaykay6387]

Not sure about 'underrated", but the "criminal" part, yeah, I'll go along with that!

[@gontierfrancois8115]

The greatest performer of all times

[@stuartmaxwell6772]

So many amazing Magic Bands. They don't talk enough about how incredible and important Jeff Morris Tepper was / is to Don and TMBs resurgence and turnaround, he really did a lot to get Don back in the saddle.

[@davidgo8874]

This seems way more coherent than some of their earlier material. It's awesome really.

[@alexbowie6316]

The band were driven like an oil rig drill crew. Cant question the playing. I just love it and Captain's vocal.

[@laurencebondmiller4298]

Incredible that these youngin's learned all of The Captain's parts, and played so well. Don Van Vliet forever, I say.

[@camboman13]

This is their best performance of "Big eyed beans". It gives me goosebumps! If I ever get a time machine, I'll make sure I'm there at this show!

[@scottbookman]

i'll go along !!!

[@tjancijr]

It's downright haunting

[@drbulloch1]

Saw him live touring The Clear Spot album. Awesome.

[@feltongailey8987]

What a cacophony of beauty.

[@JeffreyMarshall-oo3yf]

Captain Beefheart was cool way before the rappers times the magic band was on point jam and rapping very cool❤❤❤❤😎

[@RegisWilkins]

It would have been interesting if the Cap'n had ventured into total funk for an album he would have blown people away. He was so ahead of his time.

[@timhancock6626]

Truly one of a kind. I first heard Safe as Milk in 1967. He was slightly unhinged, but hinged enough to produce words and music with insight and originality that are unlikely to be copied. He has his very own niche in modern music and not that many can say that.

[@kohlemainen]

I hope there are young creative musicians who in 2022 will listen to this and take it as a starting point. And end up with something sounding totally different.

[@jonnyb2532]

Gee, I just got turned onto Beefhart only 50 years after the fact! Amazing!

[@skinnydoggyz]

love this footage. doc at the radar station is a great “comeback” album, and this performance is stellar. NOT a bar band. this is probably my favorite stuff next to the earlier recordings during jeff cottons stint. jeff moris tepper and richard snyder are like the answer to jeff cotton and bill harkleroad before them. good shit.

[@AndyTomaselli]

such an amazing version of Big Eyed Beans From Venus still grounded note for note of Studio version, blowing the roof off. All periods of Beefheart’s musical legacy has much to admire

[@aakkoin]

This gray tube

[@jonathanwilliams4079]

Any footage of CB is a treasure. He is past his best here, and looking as he has been through recovery from drugs or mental problems, and doesn't has lost bit of "snarl" he had 10 years before. Always had great bands. No one had that much originality, no one else had that voice. R. I.P.

[@Jack-vy6uo]

He was ill.No drugs involved.I knew him. he liked Cigars....

[@michaelkamensky6230]

SUBLIME, blistering, art-damaged blues-rock.

[@stevearle]

Don't know how Gary Lucas pulled off such a great, perfect "Flavor Bud"... it sounds painful and beautiful, an unearthed, wholly untapped vein of guitar music.

[@elig2714]

really does

[@barriewatts127]

This band were unbelievably fantastic.

[@gontierfrancois8115]

Don, best performer ever

[@mikefelix6338]

THE BEST BATCH YET!!

[@johnkimball4778]

Gary Lucas... Always outstanding ✨😎✨

[@zenbabaloo1931]

A shout out to Richard Snyder of the band and good old Poo Bah Records in Pasadena. Richard worked there after Don retired and he was always a joy. A cool dude.

[@tonyd8041]

I read it on another video and i confirm what the guy said... Van Vliet was only visiting this planet...

[@bent2]

Doc at the Radar Station rocks! The Captains own Post-Punk record :)

[@harrybutts9925]

that is ROBERT WILLIAMS on drums!!!!!!!!!! man i fucking love that guy!!!!!!! he also did two solo albums great stuff. Played with Zoogz Rift too

[@beefheart1410]

Harry Butts Yes! Plus an amazing album with Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers called "Nosferatu" which is absolutely fantastic. If you've not heard it already and are a fan of Williams playing then you should check this album out.

[@alexandergedeon409]

Shit I thought it was Cliff Martinez

[@adrianclinch9553]

I still dig him after all these years zappa and beefheart were the best!

[@michaeldeignan7922]

Adrian clinch:I'm addicted to "Willie the pimp"

[@paulcross149]

This a great line up, Morris Tepper is a fantastic guitar player.

[@jiggersotoole7823]

This is real Dance music, i swear.

[@philgatt3069]

Says a dude whose name is jiggers. 🕺💃🕺💃

[@sbyrne1]

Fast Setlist - 0:17 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 3:43 Best Batch Yet 8:46 Dirty Blue Gene 12:42 Safe As Milk 16:33 Flavor Bud Interruption 17:46 Bat Chain Puller 22:58 Big Eyed Beans From Venus (23:38 Man You're Lazy, 24:21 Gig's nearly over - where's the damn car keys!?) Bulbous Goodbye

[@BrainiacFingers]

Awesome drumming! And funny to watch .

[@davidgo8874]

In a way this is so much better than the contemporary rock music with its pop leanings. It's refreshing, creative and not constrained. This guy is the Eric Satie of his time.

[@kevinmckay6005]

Saw this tour at Rotters in Liverpool and it was magic .

[@Notecrusher]

I saw this band in 1980 at the Public Theater in NYC. James Blood Ulmer opened. One of the best concerts I've ever witnessed.

[@jabu003]

holly shit who was with ulmer ? wish i was there !!! ulmer and beef

[@donnicholas7552]

I didn't know this existed. I'm glad I found this!

[@dlwseattle]

i have listened to him and followed him closely since about 1974 - he is a brilliant monster

[@j.t.7068]

"Dirty Blue Gene", unbelievably tight! Damn, this incarnation of the Magic Band was good!

[@oo0O08]

fuck man how does he always get such energetic players

[@abdalmalikrezeski4666]

Beefheart and the MB are actually producing art.... It was the epitome of the avant garde. For those of you that do not like this music, just realize that it is art and may take some getting used to. He was never a big commercial success. However, had a large following, and still does.

[@abdalmalikrezeski4666]

Also, I was lucky to see him around 1972 in concert in Phoenix. One of the best concerts ever.

[@crazybunkum]

'If you've got ears..you've gotta listen!' - Awesome!

[@bzfgt1]

That is one of his 5 best songs...

[@miserable.day1969]

It's almost note for note, beat for beat, lyric for lyric as recorded. Amazing. Thank you for posting this concert.

[@volpeverde6441]

I thought it was all a once only avant garde racket....bang....done....UNTIL I HEARD THEM PLAY IT LIVE....fucking hell....gives old frank zappa a run for his money....

[@mikel5582]

Bat Chain Puller is the most intriguing song I've ever heard.

[@enkibumbu]

I tripped to Moonlight On Vermont in the woods of Vermont, in the moonlight. What more can I say? He was a legitimate mystic to me.

[@franciscleary6544]

Whoa! All great musicians are able to purely put out the sounds that they hear in their head, I love this! It's like the Fall meets karlheinz stockhausen!

[@Captain_Millet]

Thanks for posting this concert !! I was there. A memorable concert. The only CB concert I attended. But so great !!

[@eggtool54]

My hero ,the jagged edge of reality plays no part in convention,but sensitivity abounded on clear spot ,but related to the probability that no-one near me liked the Captain ,funking brilliant XXXXX

[@metaphormixmaster]

I love how the French-speaking presenter at very beginning states that Don Van Vliet "spent several years in the American Navy as a cabin-boy" [in French "mousse" can mean that, or just "very junior rank"] "until he worked his way up to [the rank of] Captain." I've got to think that there's been a translation gap or a put-on or both somewhere in this misapprehension on the part of the French presenter, so charming in his enthusiasm and willingness to believe that Don would pass muster in Navy whites for years and years until finally attaining the rank of Captain! Otherwise, how to explain it!

[@Tindersticks34]

Antoine de Caunes the french presenter speaks very well English and obviously knows that Don never been in the navy. It's french humour, a way to notice that Don was no t a beginner and deserve his title

[@reginaldside4575]

@@Tindersticks34 ...and he erected a monument to his humour for the English-speaking world in the form of Eurotrash, on British and Irish TV in the 1990s.

[@gontierfrancois8115]

Antoine de Caunes

[@metaphormixmaster]

@@Tindersticks34 . . . I get the joke. In my original comment I noted ". . . or a put-on," which signifies in. English " . . . or a straight-faced joke." Whether or not it's a good joke is probably what's lost in translation.

[@c.chelseathedog7987]

Great’s !!!Really...!!! Thanks for the post ! From Deep South of France. 🌧💨 today! C.&Chelsea the Dog limited Edition.🐉🐲🔭

[@philippeauffray1179]

Merci Capitaine pour nous avoir fait si souvent voguer sur ton gros coeur de boeuf...

[@rockettebob]

i was very lucky to see this tour in s.f.... you got to waite for your woman... this is GREAT !!!! thank you....rockettebob in reno

[@villaparis2]

Poor Captain Beefheart he was a genius but his albums were beyond the attention span of the average listener

[@robertklouse3868]

villaparis2 Hahaha.They sure were! I remember sitting at a picnic table at the woods in the 70’s listening to Capt on a boom-box.People would sometimes make rude remarks passing by,like call me a Satan worshiper!! Hahaha.

[@elvergalarga4461]

@@robertklouse3868I can relate lmfao. idk what it is with people thinking this is devil's music lol

[@reginaldside4575]

It was ok for me. It was the straighter stuff I wasn't too keen on.

[@canobenitez]

no need to listen all the material in a straight forward fashion.

[@maxwilliams6872]

Poor Don looks so old here, but is only 39. What a singular genius.

[@jlouis4407]

Ikr he looks 55 or 60

[@geffcassuto]

MS will do that

[@Jack-nu4un]

You have no idea what he went through. The record company shenanigans. The general misconception of who he was or even his name. Thankfullyhe was recognized as a Fine painter.I knew him.I know what I am talking about

[@geffcassuto]

@@Jack-nu4un ive read all about it but sadly i feel though it could be karma for what he put the band members through especially during trout mask. i will forever be a fan and laud his genius but wow. And he had MS.

[@bobburroughs6241]

Simply magic Beefy. Never seen before, just wonderful. The later band and he got it back together - drumming with a jacket on!

[@thomaslampkins8799]

Captain Beefheart , I've listened to to him since 1970 always a favorite.

[@darrellminx5459]

Big eyed beans from Venus is so complex but makes total sense. Alot to digest even for the lifelong Beefhart wayward follower.

[@MrTimeXTime]

As a bass player I moved from Pomona to Lancaster in 1967, within a few months I met and was friended by the original members of the Magic Band, Alex St. Claire, Mark Boston, Bill Harkleroad, Jeff Cotton, and John French. As a Beefheart Fan Boy It was quite a Life

[@delhidelirium9091]

I like to believe that Don Vliet was perfectly aware that this was music for another age .

[@reginaldside4575]

All things considered over many years, I'd say this is definitely music for the age in which it appeared.

[@quicksilver238]

"Music from the other side of the fence...!"

[@tommotd]

In "Best Batch Yet" the bass player is the glue.

[@sharonbodea7677]

And on "Dirty Blue Gene"!

[@goodkawz]

Amazing. I'd be concerned if I understood it. Just know we're looking at genius. Heard him back in the day but it's great to see him here for 1st time. What a voice. Would like to have heard Yma Sumac, Nina Hagen and Captain together. They say he was sober or else on some internal secret high. Thanks hugely for the post.

[@johnluzi3539]

goodkawz OMG, Iv'e thought about that line up of the 3 of them too. GrEaT miNds!.....

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

@@johnluzi3539 Hmm : )

[@glynnwadeson5605]

He was mad as a box of frogs. I’m 71 now and have never got tired of listening ( and thanks to You tube)watching. Thanks for posting this up too

[@sudodrive]

I spent 30 years in the wilderness where Beefheart were concerned it was no during 60s, 70s 80s, then I picked up a copy of Puller Man in my local library in the late 90s, and it was if a light bulb had been switched on.

[@martinarthur2597]

Great concert, brilliant musicians bringing out the genius of the Captain.Offers a fresh appreciation of the two albums released in this period. Thank you so much for uploading.

[@NatSatFat]

I only wish there was somebody out there NOW who could be far out of the NORM like CB, and be excellent like this

[@miked4377]

i love this man don van vliet.....better known as the captain beefheart.... brilliant .....genius.and his magic band

[@Pflyn]

Stunning quality, excellent performance.

[@Sakeroz]

how can you not love this

[@cosmicdepot2278]

Any skilled musician knows how hard to change time signature over thirty times in one song live.

[@sharonbodea7677]

To think how Jeff and Bill changed the key signatures on TMR is even more mind-boggling.

[@FreneticZetetic]

That middle section at 19:47 of Bat Chain Puller always gets me.

[@jaex9617]

Hell yes.

[@neddanison9202]

Great video, great performance, great choice of songs. The long leanin' note really floats!

[@petestern6400]

What can I say that already has been said...fantastic!

[@tonyvegas13]

Great bass sound!

[@michaeldbicari4446]

Absolutely mind blowing I listen to a lot of Beef heart and I never get disappointed

[@steveN111333]

17:50 Bat chain puller !!!! AWESOME !!!!