Captain Beefheart.

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I seem to have a knack in creating topics that would be visited by flies... in a million and one years. Ah, the vagaries of masochism...

 

But anyway, I think this particular thread of mine would appeal to anyone who hates the dreck handed to them these days (seriously, Justeen Flibber?!), and whose minds want a challenge, want something invigorating to work on, such that they could mine in its riches for several lifetimes (if they could live several lifetimes). So, although some of ye might have met him and his work, I introduce ye to a real artist, if "artist" means one that strives to polish and perfect whatever he has chosen as his life's work, putting money to the backburner, even for a moment.

 

Obviously, I'm talking about Captain Beefheart here, he with the soaring vocal range and equally overwhelming vision, the one who mined from seemingly discrepant sources - post-Coleman jazz, 20th-century atonal classical music by such luminaries as Stravinsky and Bartok, blues, folk, and whatever else caught his attention - and melded them together in a RAWWWWW, still-BEATING!-whole, in some of the most experimental and RAWEST albums in the history of rock music.

 

He retired from music in 1982 to focus on painting, and is now a wheelchair-bound recluse, living out his days in obscurity.

 

But, to quote him from one of his songs, "I may be hungry, but I sure ain't weird".

 

So. gimme yer claws. Now ye can go - and discuss him in earnest - maybe raise some funds fer this Grand Canyon of an artist? Sure sure. Just to push ye:

 

 

 

 

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