Colour Television is for Corn Flakes! - Captain Beefheart interviewed (prior to Bluecoat Gallery show in Liverpool 1972)

Don outside the Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool 1972

Photo: Don Valentine, copyright Bluecoat Gallery.

Note he mentions a book Old Fart at Play, a collection of poetry Singing Ink and a new album  Brown Star . . . . .  . . . . . . 

 

After "The Artist Formerly know as Captain Beefheart" was aired, BBC Producer Elaine Shepherd sent me a bunch of footage on VCR tape. This was one of the pieces sent to me. My ex-girlfriend can be seen in the very end with her friend Pat ( last name forgotten). This is NOT shot in Liverpool, but in L.A. on Wilshire Blvd. My ex lived just down the street. And there's no way that she could have been in Liverpool. People have argued with me about this, but I'm absolutely positive it was footage shot in L.A. because she told me about going to this exhibit” 

John ‘Drumbo’ French

Personally I’ll take John’s word any and every day!

visitors at the Bluecoat Gallery ’72 photo George Tate

Captain Beefheart - Michael Tearson WMMR Interview (February 1972)

Michael Tearson of WMMR in Philadephia, Pennsylvania interviews Don van Vliet sometime in February, 1972. The topic is mostly about his new album at the time, the Spotlight Kid.  

Picture is of Don at the time.

"Never read a book in my life . . but my wife reads to me . . . . . . “ the crow and the wolf . . .”

etc etc . . . . 

Don at the BluecoatGallery 1972 copyright The Bluecoat Gallery