Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe As Milk 1967 (USA, Psychedelic Blues-Rock)
Captain Beefheart (Captain Beefheart) - this is Don Van Vliet (Don Van Vliet, real name - Don Glen Vliet) - American (Glendale, State of California) musician and artist-experimenter, who worked in 1965-1982 with the group's The Magic Band (12 studio albums) ... Added "van" to the name to indicate its Dutch roots and his love for the Dutch artists. The group was fronted by vocalist and played the harmonica, and sometimes the saxophone and its music klavishnyh.V mixed rock, blues and psychedelia to free jazz, avant-garde ... But in fact, the group created a Magic Band guitarist Alex St. Clair Snouffer (Alexis Clair Snouffer), nicknamed "Butch". At the end of 1964 Snouffer returned to his native California desert town of Lancaster, after working at the club at Lake Casino in Tahoe. During his stay in Tahoe, he worked with Motorhead Sherwood and met with Frank Zappa & Paul Buff. On his return Snouffer reunited with old school friends from Antelope Valley, to form a blues band. The composition was - Snouffer on lead guitar, Jerry Handley on bass, PG Blakely on drums and Doug Moon on guitar. It was obvious that the singer was needed, and Snuffer invites Don Vliet (Captain Beefheart) to join them ... Commercial success of Captain Beefheart never had. But to assume that the proportion of its influence on later musical styles emerged (punk, new wave, post-rock) and the next generation of musicians incalculable ... After releasing two singles, the group turned to Jerry Moss (A & M) for help in recording the first longpleya Safe As Milk. But Jerry Moss called it a new direction their music was "too negative" and removed the group from the label ... Then the group took the "under the wing," the producers of RCA Records - Richard Perry and Bob Krasnow and recorded the album in a Hollywood studio label. In the demo recording of the album played on guitar, Doug Moon, but he left the band for "musical differences". In his place, took a 20-year-old Paradise Kudera (Ry Cooder), who had previously worked with the Taj Mahal, Ed Cassidy and The Ceyleib People ... All the songs of the album were written by Don Van Vliet (music and text), and many texts (in collaboration) - his friend, writer, Herb Berman, who befriended Van Vliet has a bar in Lancaster in 1966 ... And arranging music Ry Cooder, but this does not say it often and do not believe a member of this group. This is - the only album Magic Band, where he participated Cooder.
Tracks: All tracks written by Don Van Vliet except where noted. 01. Sure 'Nuff' N Yes I Do (Don Van Vliet / Herb Bermann) - 2:13 02. Zig Zag Wanderer (Van Vliet / Bermann) - 2:37 03. Call On Me - 2:34 04. Dropout Boogie (Van Vliet / Bermann) - 2:29 05. I'm Glad - 3:28 06. Electricity (Van Vliet / Bermann) - 3:05 07. Yellow Brick Road (Van Vliet / Bermann) - 2:26 08. Abba Zaba - 2:42 09. Plastic Factory (Van Vliet / Bermann / Jerry Handley) - 3:05 10.
