CAPTAIN BEEFHEART NEWS!

This just in from Beefheart.com
I found clips from these newly discovered outtakes from the Beat Club DVD on Facebook and of course they come from the wonderful Captain Beefheart at The Radar Station [formerly Doc at The Radar Station]

One of the great pieces of footage showing the band at full throttle is their performance of I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby on the German TV music programme Beat Club back in 1972.

Then in 2012 The Lost Broadcasts DVD revealed footage form the complete studio session – a couple more run throughs of Booglarize plus versions of Click Clack (twice), Golden Birdies, Steal Softly Thru Snow and Rockette Morton’s Bass Solo. Amazing picture and sound quality! Another missing 65 minutes of wondrous mayhem  . . . . .. . tight as a gnat's chuff! Click Clack Click Clack . . .

Now, the Beat Club YouTube channel has revealed even more footage from that session. Sadly there are no more songs. But what we do have here is the footage from the different cameras which gives a slightly different perspective than the DVD version.

There are four different videos uploaded, ranging in length from a couple of minutes up to 29 minutes.

Ed Marimba seems to be the centre of the camera’s attentions for some reason … presumably because he doesn’t move around too much! But you get to see (and hear if you crank the volume up) Don getting into discussions with the sound guys about a monitor feedbacking through his microphones, trying to put on a hat and worrying about his throat then getting some medicine for it. There’s also the full “Mascara Snake … Mascara Fake … Mascara for God’s Sake” routine complete with Ed trying to show up his trouser Snake. Winged Eel Fingerling gets to noodle on his guitar for bit and there’s generally a bit of pre-session banter.

Quite how they unearthed another batch of clips shot from a completely different camera angle is anyone's guess but seems extraordinary and must have come from someone over at the TV station who broadcast Beat Club in the first place . . . . . . enjoy! I know I certainly did . . . . . . 

Take one . . . . 

Introductions . . . . 

Soundcheck




Don Van Vliet, Ed Marimba, Bill Harkleroad, Roy Estrada, Art Trip III and rarely seen Don's cousin Victor Hayden . . . . . . 

The Mascara Snake - Victor Hayden