Special fast and bulbous obit watch.

Don Van Vliet, aka “Captain Beefheart”, has passed away.

A long, long time ago, the actor we’ve hired to play my good friend Karl gave me a mixtape with parts of Trout Mask Replica on it. (I want to say this same mixtape had the legendary “Get That Screaming B—h Out of My Ear!” on it, but I’m not sure, and I don’t know where that tape is now.) I was always rather struck by “Well“.

Oddly, neither Amazon nor iTunes seem to have Trout Mask Replica, and what Beefheart they have is limited (mostly later works). I’ve also never been able to find the legendary “Lick My Decals Off, Baby” video; it doesn’t turn up on YouTube.

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One Response to “Special fast and bulbous obit watch.”

  1. Joe D says:
    December 20, 2010 at 10:26 am

    I do not endorse law breaking of any kind.

    http://thepiratebay.org/search/Captain%20Beefheart/0/99/0