Fan Request: Captain Beefheart's Last Appearance With Dave | Letterman
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- Fan Friday Request:"
"Hi Letterman TH-cam
can you please post the interview Captain Beefheart did with Dave? The second one where he was wearing black. It's probably one of the last appearances of the man on camera!
Thanks for all this amazing work on the channel - it is more than appreciated!
-- Nicholas"
(From "Late Night," air date: 8/17/83)
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Thanks Dave for being cool enough to get this particular art turtle out of his shell. This is great.
Dave showed total respect. A wonderful interview, with a multi level mind. Text book tough interview.
I am so grateful that Dave was so fascinated by the Captain. He is a genius musician and quite a character. I can tell through my own interactions with similar folks that he is very high on the autistic spectrum...one of the keys is to watch when he asked a question...he seems puzzled and then offers an answer which may be germane but often he will find an "item" which in his mind is relevant but will not appear to be, to everyone else. I love that Dave is able to roll with him as that is something most interviewers would not be able to handle...even going along with his fanciful tale of his upbringing. He went to high school.
It's both an oversimplification and a misunderstanding to talk about levels of autism and many object to the term spectrum. Many creative folks are autistic it's true. It's way past time that non auts tried to listen and comprehend what autistic people say rather than continuing to force erroneous and harmful theories which are decades out of date.
"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter." - Cpt. Beefheart
+@lorip. 1110: "Everybody's colored or else you wouldn't be able to see them."
"There are only forty people in the world, and five of them are hamburgers."
Except it does matter. Oh, well, still kinda clever and quirky.
I got to meet Don and Jan at one of his concerts and interview him in his hotel room. When I ask for his autograph he draw a sketch of Rockette Morton which I framed. I was so blessed.
Oh but it really does matter ….. me
A multi level mind. We should all be so free. Dave showed respect, great interview.
The woman who laughs at 8:20 in this video....I love you. I think it's heartfelt for a genuinely nice person, Don Van Vliet. I love this clip and he's a unique guy, eccentric, and I'd have loved to have met him.
I would hope to see all the existing footage of this man Peter Jackson style, 9 hours of him doing his magic in great quality. This man is truly fascinating.
He left us with SO MUCH to enjoy ...Music , Art , poetry etc ...I still feel I WANT MORE !!! Very cool guy
Captain Beefheart is a Legend’s Legend
This man deserves to be in the ROCK &ROLL HALL of FAME a.s.a.p!!!!
The only hall of fame that matters is yours. The "Hall" is just politics and who you know. That is why Mary J Blige is in and, l don't know...Styx isn't. It's a farce.
@@geoffreylogsdon162 Absolutely! "The Hall" is not important. The best artists are the ones that you like.
Poor old Don. Shafted by Frank. Shafted by Gail. His music was great. His paintings were great. His poetry/lyrics were great. In the UK he'd have been given a knighthood. Here, he rotted away in the Mojave. I'd like to see an interview with his wife, Jan. Whatever happened to her?
The most original human being in the history of mankind
I've never seen him being interviewed before. I like him even more. He's as mercurial as I'd expect him to be, but cheerful and friendly.
Don was so ahead of his time, he’s like Andy Kauffman except he was 100% the real deal !!
Van Vliet! Awesome. I wish he hadn't retired from music in the early eighties.
Great, great post! Thank you! ❤
As Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention), Zappa was great but Captain Beefheart was the real deal.
I met mr Black in the Netherlands.
He toured with the MuffinMan.
Talked with him about a our and thats what he also told me with a big smile on his face😊
I like the Closed Captions :"Captain Beefart". An apt name which describes his music to a T.
Nobody slays the Captain. Even now, Captain Beefheart is well ahead of his time.
Hes the type of artist that doesnt take a time into account. Ever timeless.
@@craigmurdock4740He was well rooted in the blues, and the great painters from the Netherlands and stuff, he was rooted in tradition and history, unlike all other post-modern artists who make just random garbage and think they are unique
You got it.😻
It is still difficult to tell how much of Don's innocence was real or deliberate. I do suspect he was playing at this point.
Want to really know Beefheart's music? Check out tunes like:
Odd Jobs
Floppy Boot Stomp
Owed T'Alex
Dirty Blue Gene
Harry Irene
Golden Birdies
Bat Chain Puller
Ashtray Heart
1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole
Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Sun Zoom Spark
Click Clack
Grow Fins
Love Lies
Tropical Hot Dog Night
Abba Zabba
When Big Joan Sets Up
Well
China Pig
When I See Mommy
That's 20 great tunes that are pretty accessible, he's got another 20 that are in the same realm, then the more avant-garde and odd stuff which can take more time to appreciate (or not ;) )
Great artist who forged his own path and never strayed
R.I.P. Don
If it's ok, I would like to add - "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" and "25th Century Quaker". Go Captain!
@@trevor991725’th Quaker for sure
Thanks for this list!
You cant leave the BONGO FURY sessions out ...Beefheart and Zappa had a great groove ...And I didnt see ZIG ZAG WANDERER on yer list , but I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW ya wantedta...SUE EGYPT and ELLA GURU are lookin for you !
ZIG ZAG WANDERER
A truly uncomfortable interview done without shopping bags.
In my book, Beefheart was the most important musical figure in the United States in the 20th century. Trout Mask Replica is possibly the greatest rock album of all time, but Mirror Man is up there as well for me and it is very underrated. He had the blues in his bones but as a true artist he was able to transcend it even further. Mad, but genius.
Ice Cream for Crow! And Bongo Fury 😏
I love Trout Mask Replica. Safe As Milk was also the first and only time I listened to an album 10 times within the first week of getting a copy.
Loved Safe As Milk. I really like the Shiny Beast album as well.@@jakechat2716
mirror man is crazy underrated due to it being released 4 years later and being terribly mixed until 1999. but mirror man and tmr stand far above the rest of his work, which is all good
Clear Spot
The guy is in another f’cking planet. I love it.
"How did you come up with the name Captain Beefheart?" - Society
"Because society has a beef with the heart" - Captain Beefheart
Interesting fellow, thanks Dave!
You can't get stuff like this anywhere else anymore, can you?
Imagine living with this guy and he makes you play guitar for 13 hours a day.
Disnt he keep them from leaving the rehearsal room and threatened them from leaving if they didn't get the music right
Look at that Beefheart.
Don's artistic audience was in Europe, where he knew he would be taken seriously. 'This is a song from.... Doc at the Radar Station...' - he didn't always know. His paintings were about the inside coming out. And that's why he remains an inspiration.
what does he say after "This a song from... Doc at the Radar Station?" I can't understand .
great! thanks!
wow thanks for the upload
0:27 - I recognize that hand!
Thanks for posting that.
I miss you Dave
THANK YOU!!!!!!
He was brilliant. Nowadays it’s the tyranny of the talentless
Chew mustache wetly, pound cane! Too bad that you lost interest for living.
His eyes are super glassy lol
That is because he sees things differently. And l am not being flip.
@@geoffreylogsdon162 he was a Zig-Zag Wanderer
I saw Captain Beefheart with Frank Zappa sometime in the mid 1970's. I saw him again around 1981 at a place called Center Stage in East Providence Rhode Island (where I'm origin]ally from). I think it was the tour for The Shiny Beast Album. The music was great. His music is very creative and a bit strange but very cool. The band played great and it was a different experience hearing them play his music live and also his voice was perfect.
THIS MAN COULD SING THE BIRDS FROM THE TREES !
What a facsinating guy.
Don Van Vliet in HQ
(Don Van Vliet caught in 4K)
Please give him back to us. We need The Captain back. 😢
Don is a genius... Trout Mask Replica
You know, I'd seen him on Letterman as a teenager, but didn't know who the hell he was. Then one day when I was about 22, I was out shoplifting at Kmart and saw Trout Mask among the CDs. I didn't know anything about it, but I saw "Produced by Frank Zappa" on the back and I knew I had to have it. I think most people would have recoiled on first hearing that album, but when I played it, I knew, I KNEW, this was exactly what I needed. And the cover! The front, the back, the pictures of the band inside. Reminded me of the pictures included in Hot Rats. That picture of Don holding the space age vacuum cleaner. Some have made the claim that Don was a bigger influence on Frank than the other way around and I think that's true. I think Frank had these artistic/aesthetic leanings, but he didn't know how far you could push it until he met Don. But Frank had a head for business and Don didn't.
If Daniel Plainview from There will be Blood was played by Norm McDonald, he would sound like this.
He's quite sane. Artists are the true leaders.
bulbous…also tapered
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART'S GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BARDZO
Notice how real geniuses get laughed at but they rarely flinch. Dali, lynch, beefheart etc
What an interesting man.
We used to put paintings on TV in this country… what happened………..
Well, I think that difference of today is that It's hard to keep paintings from falling over when you put them on flat-screen TV's! 😅
Hey David
I am the biggest fan of the Late Show with Dave. Went twice. Greatest broadcaster of the last 30 years.
Captain Beefheart the man from the dessert hot sun full moon
What does that mean exactly?
Don: exactly? I dont know, i had fun doing it though.
👌
Beef❤ a true legend
Excellent. Captain Beefheart was a true original. We have Frank Zappa to thank for pulling him out of obscurity.
Fast and bulbous.
That's right, The Mascara Snake
@@tylerrae2018 Bulbous also tapered?
@@BrettBorovic Also, a tin teardrop.
+@sayeager5559: Electric black shadow run cross the sun
Man Van.
Seems like a very nice guy.
I’m still allergic to chapstick 😢
I still don't know what the war is a pimple on the pope's pet dragon means
Did he do a lot of acid?
---------------------- fully functional eccentricity .....thanks4sharing
It's wild this interview happened
That musta been some good acid :D
He stopped doing acid around ‘74-‘75
Beefheart & Zappa is what inspired the band PHISH the most.
This is exactly why nobody understands PHISH.
BEEF❤ > Zappa
Don van Vliet the best the Dutch has to offer to America.
10th minute 😊
That guy was nuts.
The Parkinson's disease is already apparent.
I noticed that too. I think it's because we are looking for it, but if you are you can definitely see it.
Yes, at the time I wouldn't have thought of it, but in hindsight we can see it.
It was Multiple Sclerosis
He had multiple sclerosis, not Parkinson's.
Nope. Autism. MS has nothing to do with the mind.
He is lying about his voice folks.
Oh dear. Flop.
How could anyone have watched this late at night? 😴
I watched this show every night it was on.I even watched when he was on daytime TV. I love Dave so much.
I was implying that this particular guest/interview was exceedingly boring - although Dave was doing everything that he could.
Oh, my dear, you just don't understand...
Because it was awesome.
Awful.. Being extrinsic isn't art.
learn english before writing in english now get the funk out of my face
But being intrinsic is?
Alcohol is the Devil
Don was not drunk here. He was beginning to show the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. It was this illness that forced him to retire from music.
“Oriental Americans”? Canceled.
What the hell was Frank doing with this clown???
Zappa's music was to Beefheart's as a novel by Harold Robbins was to Melville.
Lmao. 😂😂 if BEEF was a clown then I don't know what Zappa was
@@MENFUSSMIKE Zappa gave FART that nickname. When Zappa had him sing on the,"Bongo Fury" Album, FART sang so out of key that Frank purposely have to over sing to drown him out....look it up. FART was so overrated... it's pathetic.
...said all the clowns who don't get the complexity in his music. Try again.
what, not enough clever, sexual innuendo, high school lyrics for ya?
Captain Bee Fart was a pain in the ears.
Boo.
Why did you watch it? Are you embarrassed you don't get it?
He always comes across a quite a shy man - it's like he wants his performances to do all the talking so he doesn't have to.