Captain Beefheart biography
The White Stripes in 2000 released a 7" tribute single, ''Party of Special Things to Do'', containing covers of that Beefheart song plus "China Pig" and "Ashtray Heart". The Kills included a cover of "Dropout Boogie" on their debut ''Black Rooster EP'' (2002). The Black Keys in 2008 released a free cover of Beefheart's "I'm Glad" from ''Safe as Milk''. In 2005 Genus Records produced a 20-track tribute to Captain Beefheart titled ''Mama Kangaroos'' - ''Philly Women Sing Captain Beefheart.'' Beck included "Safe as Milk" and "Ella Guru" in a playlist of songs as part of his website's ''Planned Obsolescence'' series of mashups of songs by the musicians that influenced him. Franz Ferdinand cited Beefheart's ''Doc At The Radar Station'' as a strong influence on their second LP, ''You Could Have It So Much Better.'' PJ Harvey and John Parish discussed Beefheart's influence in an interview together. Harvey's first experience of Beefheart's music was as a child. Her parents had all of his albums; listening to them made her "feel ill". Harvey was reintroduced to Beefheart's music by Parish, who lent her a cassette copy of ''Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)'' at the age of 16. She cited him as one of her greatest influences since. Parish described Beefheart's music as a "combination of raw blues and abstract jazz. There was humour in there, but you could tell that it wasn't intended as a joke. I felt that there was a depth to what he did that very few other rock artists have managed to achieve." Ty Segall covered "Drop Out Boogie" on his 2009 album, Lemons.
Further reading
- Courtier, Kevin (2007). ''Trout Mask Replica''. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-2781-2
- Delville, Michel & Norris, Andrew (2005). ''Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism''. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. ISBN 1-84471-059-9.
- Harkleroad, Bill (1998). ''Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience''. Interlink Publishing. ISBN 0-946719-21-7.
- Bamberger, W.C. (1999). ''Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts Of Don Van Vliet''. ISBN 978-0-917453-35-9
- Beaugrand, Andreas and various (1994). ''Stand Up to Be Discontinued''. (Paperback) ISBN 3-9801320-2-1.
- Van Vliet, Don (Captain Beefheart) (1987). ''Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush''. (All poems in English, preface in German and English). Bern-Berlin: Gachnang & Springer. ISBN 978-3-906127-15-6
- Zappa, Frank & Occhiogrosso, Peter; ''The Real Frank Zappa Book'', Poseidon Press (1989), ISBN 0-671-63870-X
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