Captain Beefheart – erindret
18. december 2010Et par citater i anledning af Beefhearts bortgang:
“I don’t see how you can listen to it and not come away with some sense of being changed, if you allow it in [..] You can’t really get it yourself — figuring out Don’s music is like trying to figure out the choreography of a bee. But it’s there to behold and to wonder about, and to hopefully take some sort of the light of it away wth you. He’s a mighty kind.” (Tom Waits til Spin, 1999)
“If there has ever been such a thing as a genius in the history of popular music, it’s Beefheart,” (John Peel, 1997)
18. december 2010 kl. 11:50
Der er en vis vægt bag ordene når de kommer fra en herre som John Peel, der må have lyttet til tusindvis af bands igennem tiden.
Nu har jeg også armeret mig med Trout Mask Replica og Bongo Fury, og lader dagen stå i Beefhearts tegn. :)
18. december 2010 kl. 12:48
ja, bøfhjerte dansede med bier … det er vist det nærmeste vi kan komme …
18. december 2010 kl. 13:17
@Isak: Ja, Trout Mask spiller endnu her, dog i cd-udgaven. Der er dømt Store Beefheart-dag her.
@klaus: jeg kunne ikke stå for sammenligningen med biens koreografi, derfor citatet.
20. december 2010 kl. 00:54
Et par citater til:
Lester Bangs:
Captain Beefheart is the most important musician to rise in the Sixties, far more significant and far-reaching than the Beatles, who only made pretty collages with material from the public domain, when you get right down to it; as important, as I said, for all music as Ornette Coleman was for jazz ten years ago and Charlie Parker 15 years before that, as important as Leadbelly was for the blues Cap teethed on. His music is a harbinger of tomorrow, but his messages are universal and warm as the heart of the America we once dreamed of. That’s a combination that’s hard to beat.
Piero Scaruffi:
The distance between Captain Beefheart and the rest of rock music is the same distance that there was between Beethoven and the symphonists of his time.
Endnu enl Scaruffi:
Don Van Vliet is the rock equivalent of Vincent Van Gogh: to claim that Captain Beefheart is a blues man would be like claiming that Van Gogh is an impressionist, a taxonomic fact that says nothing about Van Gogh’s art, at most indicating in which section of the museum Van Gogh’s paintings are hung.
20. december 2010 kl. 09:53
@boeufhjerte: tak, tak!